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[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

This is magic.

How did they do this? Projector? AI? Drones?

Magic.

I love seeing George Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriot]

Englishman SLAMS liberals in America who constantly bash the country.

“You all literally live in heaven on earth. I would give my left leg and cut off a hand to move to America. You have no idea how lucky you are.”

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

No red card.
No penalty.
No yellow card.
No foul.
No review.

FREE FOLARIN BALOGUN.

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

In 1947, a young shepherd threw a stone into a cave near the Dead Sea and heard pottery shatter. Inside those clay jars, sealed for nearly two thousand years, were the oldest copies of the Hebrew Scriptures ever found.

Before this discovery, the earliest complete Hebrew text of the Old Testament dated to around 1,000 years after Christ. Skeptics argued that over so many centuries, scribes copying by hand must have changed, corrupted, and rewritten the text beyond recognition. Then the scrolls were dated. Some went back to the second and third centuries before Christ. Among them was a complete scroll of Isaiah, more than a thousand years older than any copy previously known.

So scholars laid them side by side. The ancient Isaiah scroll against the medieval text, a millennium younger. And what they found astonished them. The two were virtually identical. Word for word, line for line, across a thousand years of copying, the message had not changed. The few differences were spelling variations and slips of the pen that altered nothing of meaning.

Think about what that means. The prophecies of Isaiah, written centuries before Jesus was born, describing a suffering servant pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities, were preserved exactly as they are read today. No one tampered with them after the fact. No one inserted the predictions later. They were already ancient, already settled, already waiting, when Jesus walked to the cross and fulfilled them.

To the world, the Bible is just a book passed through too many hands to trust. They assume it must have drifted from its source. But God said His Word would stand forever, and He preserved it in a sealed jar in a desert cave for two thousand years to prove it.

The same Word that has not failed across millennia will not fail in your life either. It is living. It is true. It endures. Hold fast to it. Build your life on it. Heaven and earth will pass away, but His words never will.

Jesus is the Word made flesh.

[Anand Lalaji MD (Dr A) @MDANANDLALAJI]

“No options left” is often just exhaustion talking. When we’re tired, disappointed, or stuck, it’s easy to give up. But the next possibility appears only after we take a breath, ask for help, change the angle, or try the thing that feels too simple to matter.

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

Every civilization falls the moment it decides it knows better than human nature:

“We do not want a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world. The great marches of civilization have not come from the clever, the adaptable, or the fashionable. They have come from men who stood still while the rest of the world rushed past them, and who held fast to certain moral truths as to a rock. Progress itself depends upon the retention of permanent things. A civilization is not destroyed by wicked men; it is destroyed by weak men who cannot defend what is good.”

— G. K. Chesterton

[American Nightmare 🇺🇸 @thewakeninq]

A German fan said it best:

“If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive through it.”

Over 3.6 million fans packed stadiums for the World Cup, breaking attendance records. Millions came from every corner of the globe and experienced what the headlines never show: welcoming people, incredible hospitality, and a country unlike any other.

The media sells outrage. America sells itself.

[RogerThat @RogerWilliamsRI]

@Brycen2047 @Patriots @NFL Troy Brown’s returns the punt for a TD in the 2001 AFC Championship game after the Steelers elected to have a rekick from the penalty on the original return.

[A Man Of Memes @RickyDoggin]

RULES FOR SONS:

1. Never shake a man’s hand sitting down.
2. Don’t enter a pool by the stairs.
3. The man at the BBQ Grill is the closest thing to a king.
4. In a negotiation, never make the first offer.
5. Request the late check-out.
6. When entrusted with a secret, keep it.
7. Hold your heroes to a higher standard.
8. Return a borrowed car with a full tank of gas.
9. Play with passion or not at all…
10. When shaking hands, grip firmly and look them in the eye.
11. Don’t let a wishbone grow where a backbone should be.
12. If you need music on the beach, you’re missing the point.
13. Carry two handkerchiefs. The one in your back pocket is for you. The one in your breast pocket is for her.
14. You marry the girl, you marry her family.
15. Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like crazy underneath.
16. Experience the serenity of traveling alone.
17. Never be afraid to ask out the best looking girl in the room.
18. Never turn down a breath mint.
19. A sport coat is worth 1000 words.
20. Try writing your own eulogy. Never stop revising.
21. Thank a veteran. Then make it up to him.
22. Eat lunch with the new kid.
23. After writing an angry email, read it carefully. Then delete it.
24. Ask your mom to play. She won’t let you win.
25. Manners maketh the man.
26. Give credit. Take the blame.
27. Stand up to Bullies. Protect those bullied.
28. Write down your dreams.
29. Always protect your siblings (and teammates).
30. Be confident and humble at the same time.
31. Call and visit your parents often. They miss you.
32. The healthiest relationships are those where you’re a team; where you respect, protect, and stand up for each other.

[Emanuel Quiñones @EQuinones6310]

The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.

And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.

Here is what they are discovering:

Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.

Then they found the grocery stores.

Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.

The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.

They finally understand why we do not have trains.

We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.

Why would we need trains.

The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.

Welcome to America!
The greatest country on earth.

[Mountain Cabins @cabinsmountain]

Normalize buying land with your siblings and closest friends and building a place where your families can grow together.

Modern isolation isn't how people were meant to live. A few generations ago, extended families often lived just down the road from one another. Meals were shared, support was always nearby, and childcare wasn't a constant concern.

Bring back the village.

[Trumps Nephew @ForgiatoBlow47]

JUST IN: A Pennsylvania Minor League Baseball Team has been issued a loss after all the players REFUSED to wear Pride Themed Jerseys! Let's make these guys famous for being TOTAL Patriots!

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

We don’t have 60 votes for the House-passed SAVE America Act

But we do have a simple majority

Given the bill’s widespread bipartisan popularity, we could pass it with a simple majority—by debating it until it passes

I explain how in this clip

Share if you want this to happen

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Most people have never heard of Founding Father John Hart. That's a crime. Here's the story.

Picture a guy with no college, no money handed to him, no famous name. Just a farmer in Hopewell, New Jersey working the dirt his father left him. People trusted him so much they just called him "Honest John Hart." He kept getting elected to office year after year, not because he was slick, but because he wasn't.

He had thirteen kids.

Then 1776 comes. He's around 63 years old, which back then was basically ancient. He could have stayed home, kept his head down, and lived out his life quiet and safe.

Instead he rode to Philadelphia and signed the Declaration of Independence. Put his real name on a piece of paper the most powerful empire on Earth treated as a death warrant.

The bill came fast.

That October his wife Deborah died. He barely had time to grieve.

Weeks later British and Hessian troops poured into New Jersey, and they knew exactly who he was. Soldiers came hunting for him. They tore up his farm and his fields. He ran.

So here's a man in his sixties, just buried his wife, kids scattered, being chased across his own home county. The story handed down says he slept rough, hid in forests and caves, moved at night, never the same spot twice, just trying to stay alive long enough to outlast them.

He made it. The British eventually pulled back and he came home.

But home was wrecked. His health was broken. He never really recovered, and he died in 1779, still in the middle of the war, never living to see the country he bet everything on actually win.

No statue you can name. No face on your money. Just a farmer who had every reason to stay quiet and signed his name anyway.

Honest John Hart. Remember him.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this day in 1777, the United States chose its flag in one sentence, and the men who voted on it had no idea what they had just done.

The timing could not have been worse. The country was barely a year removed from declaring independence and it was losing. The British had taken New York. Washington's army was battered and short on everything. Congress was drowning in crises: no money, restless officers, a war that might collapse at any moment. Survival, not symbolism, was the daily business.

Yet on June 14, 1777, in the middle of all that, the Marine Committee tucked a brief resolution into the day's work. The full text was almost absurdly simple. "Resolved, that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation."

That was the entire thing. No record of debate. No designer credited. The popular story that Betsy Ross sewed the first one is a charming legend that appeared a full century later, told by her grandson, with no solid evidence behind it. The resolution did not even specify how the stars should be arranged, which is why early American flags came in wild variety, stars in circles, rows, and scattered patterns, each maker improvising.

These exhausted men, fighting for their lives, voting between a dozen other emergencies, accidentally created one of the most recognized symbols on the planet. That flag would go on to survive a civil war, fly through two world wars, get planted on the summit of Mount Everest, and be driven into the gray dust of the moon, where it still stands today.

249 years ago it was a single afterthought in the minutes of a desperate Congress. That sentence is why we celebrate Flag Day. Happy Flag Day.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this day in 1943, FDR signed a law that permanently changed your relationship with your own paycheck. You just never noticed, which was entirely the point.

Before the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943, Americans paid their income taxes in one lump sum. Every year, you calculated what you owed and wrote a single check to the government. You felt every dollar. You knew exactly how much the government was taking.

The 1942 wartime revenue act suddenly expanded the income tax to cover millions of working-class Americans who had never paid it before. The government desperately needed revenue. But they had a problem: how do you get people to pay a new, much larger tax without causing a revolt?

A Macy's executive named Beardsley Ruml came up with the answer. Withhold it before workers ever see it. Take it out of the paycheck automatically. Make the number on the check the only number that feels real.

It worked. The psychology was perfect. People don't grieve money they never held. The government went from collecting taxes from 7 million Americans to 60 million, almost overnight, with barely any public resistance.

They also quietly canceled 75% of what was owed from the prior year to smooth the transition. A one-time tax amnesty that almost no one remembers happened.

Economists and historians have noted for decades that withholding is a primary reason Americans never developed the visceral anti-tax anger common in countries where people write the check themselves.

You were supposed to notice. They made sure you wouldn't.

[Byron Donalds @ByronDonalds]

To you, it's just a Cracker Barrel parking lot. To me, it's where I gave my life to Jesus Christ.

I was 21 years old. I was working at the Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee after some of the worst years of my life. I'd made mistakes. Real ones.

I grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, raised by a mom who worked hard and didn't accept excuses. But I made decisions that should have ended my story before it ever really started. By the grace of God, they didn't. But every day, I was carrying them.

One afternoon, a church group came into the restaurant, just back from a revival. I served them their meals like I served any other table. But something happened while I was serving them. I can't fully explain it to you. The Lord spoke to me. He said, “Stop running from Me.”

It knocked me back.

I went to find the table, and they were all gone. I could see through their windows that they were getting on their bus, and I knew deep down that if I let them drive away, I was going to keep running. So I went outside. The last woman, just as she was stepping onto the bus, turned to me and asked, “Are you okay?”

I told her, “No ma’am, I’m not okay.” I told her the Lord was telling me to stop running.

That whole bus emptied out, stood with me in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee, Florida, and prayed over me right there.

I gave my life to Christ that day. Right there.

I still get emotional about it. Because I know what I was before that moment, and I know what He's done since. He gave me a wife who shares my faith. He gave me three sons. He gave me a career, a community, a calling I never would have dared to ask for. He took a kid from Crown Heights who’d run out of chances and gave him a life that doesn't make sense apart from grace.

People ask me sometimes why I talk about it. Why I bring up the parking lot. Why I don't just keep that part private and let folks see the polished version.

I'll tell you why.

Because there's a young man out there right now — maybe in Tallahassee, maybe in Tampa, maybe in Miami, maybe in a small town in the Panhandle — who thinks his story is already over. Who thinks the mistakes he's made disqualify him from the life he could have had. Who thinks God doesn't want anything to do with somebody like him.

I'm here to tell him: that's a lie.

In life, you're not who you are at the lowest point. You're who you choose to become after.

The Lord met me in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. He'll meet you wherever you are.

You just have to stop running.

[RogerThat @RogerWilliamsRI]

@elonmusk Illness will get abused. Toss that one out

[RogerThat @RogerWilliamsRI]

@Seekay9 @VinnysCorner1 Or Pedro Martinez?