Pyra

Professor of Creative Writing and Rhetoric, hippie-gypsy, Jesus-lovin', MAGA patriot living in her RV with her puppers, a few suncatchers, & a ukulele

[Mark Changizi @MarkChangizi]

One of the most important morals of Covid was that most people wouldn’t recognize the arrival of tyranny even if it

1/ banned church services

2/ shut down their business

3/ forced them to stay home

4/ stopped schooling their kids

5/ lost them their job cuz “inessential”

6/ kept sick family from seeing their loved ones

7/ prevented their doctors from making their own medical decisions

8/ demanded they cover their identity and ability to express themselves in public

9/ coordinated which speech and viewpoints would be allowed in the public square

10/ jabbed them in the arm with a rushed medication, and refusal to submit meant being fired and banished

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A 28-year-old confirms he has spent the last 10 YEARS of his life interviewing World War II combat veterans to keep their stories alive...

...in fact, for the last 10 years, he has interviewed World War 2 veterans EVERY SINGLE DAY

He started as a teenager, ditching school to ride his BIKE to the local retirement home, walking up to the front desk and asking to, "meet some World War II heroes."

His name is Rishi Sharma.

He's crossed all 50 states and half the world.

He's slept in his car and lived on gas-station food to afford it.

He asks these men for hours of their memories, and then he hands the entire recording to their families...

...FOR FREE

So that 200 years from now, a great-great-grandchild will know not just their hero's name, but how he laughed, how he cried, and what he sacrificed.

Rishi has no military family, his parents immigrated here from India.

He does it out of pure gratitude.

In his words:

"My parents were given the opportunity to immigrate and raise a family because of veterans like these. It's a debt of love I'll spend my entire life trying to repay..."

As one 100-year-old Marine who stormed Iwo Jima told him, remembering the flag going up:

"The hair on my arms still stands up when I think about how beautiful it was."

THAT is America.

250 years of ordinary people doing extraordinary things...

God bless our veterans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

We need to normalize the idea that in terms of the degree of evil involved, "Democrat Socialists of America" is identical to "Democrat Nazis of America," "Democrat Pedophiles of America," "Democrat Cannibals of America" or "Democrat Satanists of America."

Marxism has induced more poverty and mass murdered more of humanity than all other political ideologies in world history combined.

This fact needs to be normalized. Marxists need to be viewed with the exact same contempt with which we view actual, genuine Nazis.

[Brenden Dilley @WarlordDilley]

🇺🇸America 250🇺🇸

This Independence Day is more meaningful than the rest. We damn near lost our nation...

We can not allow the communist insurrection of America to take one more inch of our culture, politics or law.

IT'S TIME TO TAKE IT ALL BACK!

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

I want every foreigner visiting America for the World Cup to realize this is 100% legal.

And every town in the USA is filled with patriots who have armories like this. Every block, actually.

This is why we will never be conquered and are awesome 🇺🇸

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

The approval of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on the 4th of July, 1776 represented the ultimate political gamble.

The American revolutionaries were fighting against the world’s most powerful country, and the vast majority of colonists in America either opposed or were indifferent to independence.

While the odds were slim, the consequences for failure were severe. All 56 men who later signed the Declaration faced an assured death by hanging were the Revolution to fail.

And they had a lot to lose. The leaders of the Revolution were generally wealthy and influential in the colonies.

But they had suffered what Jefferson called a “long train of abuses” over the previous decade, and believed that failure to take a stand would lead to the destruction of their liberty.

So when they pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor, they meant it.

The Declaration was the ultimate political line in the sand: rights are God-given, not government-granted; government is legitimate only upon the consent of the governed; and government’s purpose is to safeguard the natural rights of the people.

What began as a conservative rebellion seeking the preservation of traditional English rights evolved into a political revolution that laid the foundation for the rise of the greatest republic in history — and that produced transformational consequences around the world.

We as Americans in 2026 are inheritors of this legacy of liberty and the beneficiaries of the courage, wisdom and dedication of the Founding Fathers.

We can acknowledge that our society and nation face a lot of problems. Whether there will be an America 500 celebration may very well depend on how this generation of Americans tackle these challenges.

But there can be no doubt that we are fortunate to be citizens of this republic. And we have a small group of patriots, who took a risky stand 250 years ago, to thank for that.

Happy America 250!

[Orson Scott Card @orsonscottcard]

Our current Civil War:

I must point out that in 2016 a President was elected who was immediately rejected by a certain portion of the population and by state and local governments. They brought criminal legal action against Trump and impeached him before he'd even had a chance to do anything, and accused him of being a dictator and the death of democracy — though it was they who rejected a lawful election and threw the Constitution out the window. Sanctuary laws in defiance of federal authority are in every case the equivalent of besieging and firing on Ft. Sumter. 

When Trump won reelection in 2024, the rebels doubled down on their secession from the Union by passing laws against federal officers enforcing federal law within their sanctuary purview, all the time claiming that Trump was oppressing THEM by taking completely proper actions. So by rejecting the results of the election, they are in open rebellion.

And if you say “Trump is no Lincoln” you'd be right. Trump has not arrested and charged with treason the deniers and rejectors of federal authority, including mayors and governors who threaten to prosecute federal officers for enforcing the law. Trump has been far more restrained than Lincoln ever was — though the defiance of the Constitution is no less egregious. Sanctuary laws are exactly the same as secession — a declaration that the federal government has no authority here. They have declared war against the President and openly abused him as has not been done to a President since Lincoln. But the President has not sent federal troops to arrest those publicly guilty of sedition and treason, and take over the defiant government bodies and throw them in jail. They claim to fear Trump's officers — while they are the ones who suppress free speech and try to adjust campaign laws so as to prevent the candidates they oppose from being on the ballot. California doesn't even pretend to be a democracy anymore … but Trump stays his hand.

So, true — he is no Lincoln. He has been infinitely lenient in dealing with people and governments that are in open rebellion against the federal government because the wrong guy made it into the White House.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Trump might be the most unserious president the world has ever seen!

One of his latest Truth Social drops is pure hilarity!

Your boy is wearing a lab coat and straight-up pushing a cure for Trump Derangement Syndrome with testimonials from AI Whoopi, Rosie O’Donnell, and more!

Who showed him how to use Grok Imagine and why? Next thing you know, he’ll be riding a horse bareback like Putin!

Source: realDonaldTrump (Truth Social) / Writer: Jamie

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

250 years ago, on July 2nd, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain.

John Adams wrote to his wife the next day:

“The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.—I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”

Well, not quite.

On July 4th, the delegates adopted the Declaration of Independence — and that has been the day for celebrations ever since.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

“I do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding in any case upon the parties to a suit as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government. And while it is obviously possible that such decision may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be overruled and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice. At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.“

—Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (1861)

[state secession @state_secession]

There is a politically-realistic path to dividing up the Union into 2 unions: peacefully-initiated unilateral state secession

Most Texans polled in favor. Help @TexasNatMov or @FreeLouisiana64 get it on the ballot. Red states will follow their lead, just to avoid being stuck w the blue states

[Pyra @Pyra_Lightsword]

Is anyone else tired of seeing articles about Ai replacing the workforce?

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The Fourth Amendment was written for a reason. The founders lived under a government that searched homes, seized papers, and invaded private life without justification. They built a wall against it. Washington has spent decades quietly tearing that wall down, one surveillance program, one secret court order, and one warrantless data purchase at a time.

My Fourth Amendment Restoration and Protection Act rebuilds it. Government exists to protect your rights, not trade them away to the highest bidder or the most powerful agency.

[The Matt Walsh Show @MattWalshShow]

The land acknowledgment crowd doesn't want to hear this

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Oh look, another Democrat who thinks shouting “PERIOD.” makes their open borders fan fiction magically true. 😂

Birthright citizenship was written for freed slaves after the Civil War, not for illegal aliens to sneak across the border, pop out an “anchor baby,” and claim a constitutional gold card.

The clause says “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Illegals are subject to the jurisdiction of Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela, etc. not the United States.

Nice try though, Congresswoman. Keep coping while the rest of us actually read the 14th Amendment.

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

Nothing screams TRUE SOCIALIST like:

-A millionaire who owns 3 homes
-Arriving in a huge SUV
-To his private jet
-To fly out and give a paid speech
-On the evils of capitalism and fossil fuels

Am I right?

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨TIME TO INVOKE ARTICLE II, SECTION 3!

The Constitution gives President Trump the power on “extraordinary occasions” to convene the Senate (or both Houses) back into session.

The SAVE America Act, proof of citizenship, voter ID, and real election integrity, is exactly that kind of national emergency.

Democrats and RINOs are blocking it while our elections hang in the balance.

Bring the Senate back and force them to work.

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

MAGA will still be here after Trump leaves office.

That's what liberals don't understand.

MAGA means Make America Great Again and we don't see it as a tag line. This is what we've always wanted and what we found in Trump was someone with the balls to take on the establishment and make it happen!!

AND WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED!!!

[Mr. Pool @MrPoolQ1]

Eric Trump just flipped the script on Chris Cuomo live on-air, leaving him shocked.

Cuomo accused President Trump of going after his political opponents the moment he took office…

Eric sounded off:

“Did we, did we try and bankrupt Biden? Did we raid Biden's home? Did we try and bankrupt Biden?”

“Did we weaponize every AG and DA against Biden? Do we do that against Hunter Biden who had a laptop from hell, pictures of cocaine, illicit drug use, prostitution?”

“Did we make up a dirty dossier? About Biden, did they try and destroy Biden's marriage? Did we make up stories that Biden had secret servers in the basement of his home communicating with the Kremlin in Russia?”

“Did we strip Biden off the ballot of multiple states? Did we take Biden off of Twitter and Instagram and Facebook and try and silence his voice so he couldn't communicate?”

“Did we put Biden in a courtroom every single day for nonsense to try and keep him off of a campaign trail to try and destroy his life?”

Well done @MrPoolQ1

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

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