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[Garrett Exner @Exner_Garrett]

Ray’s Rock - Omaha Beach

On the morning of June 6, 1944, 23 year old Staff Sergeant Arnold “Ray” Lambert came ashore with the first wave of the 1st Infantry Division on the eastern side of Omaha Beach. At this small patch of concrete he saved nearly 20 lives:

The division came under intense fire from several German bunkers surrounding the entrance to the Colville Draw (one of two exits off Omaha Beach). Ray, a medic, immediately went to work.

He was shot in the arm. Moments later he was hit by shrapnel in the leg, but Ray kept pulling men to safety. He pulled nearly 20 wounded soldiers to cover behind this 8ft wide obstacle, treating each soldier before going out in search of others.

After several hours under fire, while pulling a wounded soldier from the ocean, he was struck by a landing craft. It dropped its ramp on top of him, breaking his back. He fell face down in the water, drowning. The craft backed up and nearby soldiers pulled an unconscious Ray to safety, eventually evacuating him off the beach.

Remarkably, Ray had already earned two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts in Sicily and North Africa, prior to landing in France. But here in Normandy his war would end.

He awoke in a hospital back in England a day later. In the next bed over was his brother, who had also been wounded at Omaha.

When asked about his work on D-Day, Ray simply said, “I did what I was called to do.”

Ray Lambert passed in 2021 at 100 years old. He exemplified the best of American grit and why remembering this day is so important.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

82 years ago today, eight American sailors jumped onto a sinking Nazi submarine in the middle of the Atlantic.

What they pulled out of it changed the war. And the Navy buried the whole story for years.

First, you need to know that U-505 was already cursed. German sailors called her the unluckiest boat in the fleet. In October 1943, during a brutal British depth-charge attack, her own captain shot himself in the head in the control room, in front of his crew. He remains the only submarine commander in history known to have killed himself underwater in combat. His second-in-command calmly took over, rode out the attack, and sailed her home.

Eight months later, her luck ran out completely.

June 4, 1944. Two days before D-Day. Captain Daniel Gallery's hunter-killer group, built around the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal, had been stalking U-boats off West Africa. Gallery had an idea his superiors considered borderline insane: don't sink the next one. Capture it. No US Navy crew had boarded and taken an enemy warship on the high seas since 1815.

The destroyer escort USS Chatelain caught U-505 on sonar and fired a salvo of hedgehog bombs. The U-boat broke the surface 700 yards away. Gunfire raked the conning tower, wounding her captain. He gave the order to abandon ship.

The Germans rushed out so fast they botched the scuttling. The sub was flooding, but her engines were still running. She was circling the battle at six knots, empty, sinking, and very possibly rigged with demolition charges.

So Lt. Albert David and eight men from USS Pillsbury chased her down in a whaleboat, leaped aboard, and climbed down the hatch into a dark, flooding submarine that could explode or go under at any second. They shut the scuttling valves, disarmed the charges, and stopped the flooding.

Down there they found the prize: Enigma cipher machines and roughly 900 pounds of codebooks and charts. Current settings. The keys to the German navy's secret communications.

But here's the catch. The treasure was only valuable if Germany never found out. One leak and Berlin changes every code overnight.

So the Navy ran one of the great cover-ups of the war. The sub was towed 1,700 miles to Bermuda and given a fake American name: USS Nemo. Around 3,000 sailors were sworn to total silence. The 58 captured German crewmen vanished into a POW camp in rural Louisiana, hidden even from the Red Cross. Germany declared U-505 lost with all hands and notified the families. The dead men were alive in Louisiana, and their boat was working for the US Navy.

The secret held until the war ended.

Lt. David received the Medal of Honor, the only one awarded in the Atlantic Fleet in all of WWII.

And the submarine? In 1954, Chicagoans raised $250,000 to bring her home. She was towed across Lake Michigan and dragged through the streets of Chicago to the Museum of Science and Industry.

She's still sitting there right now. You can walk through her.

[TraderMike @mikel_trader]

@shellenberger

[Jum @JesterJum]

How do I know the media is brainwashing people?

Obama's ICE Chief received the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service for removing over 900,000 illegal aliens.

Trump's ICE Chief is called a Nazi.

It is the same person.....Tom Homan....

The only difference? The narrative.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Since the 1980s, the Sahara has shrunk by roughly 8%. Satellite data show widespread greening, a pattern that is playing out across the planet.

Around 50% of Earth's vegetated land has become significantly greener, an area roughly three times the size of the United States.

The dominant driver is not rainfall or land use change, it is rising atmospheric CO2.

Higher CO2 lets plants photosynthesize more efficiently, they lose less water, they tolerate heat and dryness better.

The effect is strongest along desert margins, across the Sahel, the Middle East, Australia's interior and the southern edge of the Sahara.

Rising CO2 is making the deserts, and the planet as a whole, greener.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

WOW 🚨 California Democrats put in the Stop Nick Shirley Act that they can actually PUT JOURNALISTS IN JAIL for investigating fraud

It’s not just video takedown requests, fines and legal fees, you can go to jail

I looked into this and they can actually file criminal charges against journalists

They can file these charges for what they consider “aggressive tactics”

This would fall under

- Repeated visits to private property
- Confronting staff
- Filming in ways that disrupt operations
- Doxxing addresses (Meaning literally just mentioning the facility)

You could face civil suits, restraining orders, fines, or CRIMINAL HARASSMENT CHARGES if prosecutors stretch the law

@Brookerteejones “This bill says that if anyone investigates fraud taking place in immigrant communities and state-funded NGOs, they actually can go to jail, be fined up to $10,000, spend a lot of money defending themselves, And if they post a video about it, well, the video will have to come down.”

Democrats are the real criminals for criminalizing the exposing fraud

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

This is:

Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor:

@StephenM: “What we’ve found since President Trump took office is that Democrats have set up a system to funnel hundreds of billions — ultimately trillions — of dollars to migrants in our country, effectively with the sole intent of overthrowing the Constitutional Republic of the United States.”

[Dries Van Langenhove @DVanLangenhove]

"White males are disproportionately committing rape."
❌ Not true
✅ Legal statement in Belgium

"Non-European migrants are disproportionately committing rape."
✅ True
❌ Illegal statement punished by prison

This is because our Anti-Racism Law criminalizes any statement that could increase "disapproval of a protected group", such as asylum seekers or migrants. White males are, of course, the only non-protected group.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

WOAH 🚨

Former Director of the CIA John Brennan “issued the Visas to 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers”

AGAIN: 15 out of the 19 Visas issued to the 9/11 hijackers were issued by the man who would become Director of the CIA

- John Brennan was the CIA daily intelligence briefer for President Bill Clinton
- In 1996, he was CIA station chief in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- John Brennan issued passports to 9/11 hijackers
- John Brennan becomes Director of the CIA

What are the odds???

You can verify that he was in a position to influence all of this

In 1996, Brennan was the CIA Station Chief in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Visas for the hijackers were issued by US State Department consular officers at US embassies and consulates in Saudi Arabia

The CIA worked hand in hand with the state department

But the “coincidences” don’t stop there

As Station Chief, Brennan managed the CIA’s close and criticized relationship with Saudi intelligence services during a period when al-Qaeda was rising

Many people and even former officials have alleged that the US intelligence community, including Brennan’s station, downplayed warnings about Osama bin Laden and Islamist extremism in the late 1990s

Inside job

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Yovana Mendoza was, in 2019, the most successful raw vegan influencer in the Spanish-speaking world.

1.3 million followers on Instagram. Two YouTube channels with nearly 2.5 million combined subscribers. A 21-day raw challenge selling on her website for up to $99. Her brand, "Rawvana," was a complete lifestyle package: raw fruit, no animal products, no compromise. She had built her career on the claim that this way of eating had saved her from health problems, alcoholism, and nicotine. Her business depended on her followers believing it had saved her.

Mendoza flew to Bali in March. She called it, on Instagram, "a plant-based paradise."

What had not been disclosed to her followers was that, two months earlier, she had quietly started eating eggs and fish on doctor's orders. The list of diagnoses behind that decision: small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, near-anemia, a non-functioning thyroid, hormone levels her doctor described as pre-menopausal, and a menstrual cycle that had been absent for two years following a 25-day water fast.

In Bali, she went to dinner with a fellow YouTuber named Paula Galindo. Galindo was vlogging. The camera panned across the table. Mendoza, sensing the lens approaching her plate, moved to cover it.

She was too slow.

What the camera caught, for approximately five seconds, was a piece of fish.

The internet, with the forensic precision it reserves for moments like these, freeze-framed it within hours. The 33-minute apology video went up the following weekend. In it, Mendoza walked through the diagnoses, the recovery, the fear of telling anyone. She said her body, after six years of raw veganism, had simply stopped working.

The followers were not interested in the diagnoses. They were interested in the timeline. She had launched her raw ebook in February. She had captioned a gym photo "VEGAN BOOTY GAINS." She had replied to a fan calling her body proof of plant power with a heart emoji. All of it after January. All of it while privately eating fish.

They renamed her "Fishvana." They filled her comments with fish emoji. They calculated the dates.

The body had told her the truth in 2018. She kept selling the lie through March. The fish was what the body wanted. The ebook was what the brand required.

The body won. It usually does. The brand just takes longer to catch up.

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

Dear younger generations,

You have to understand that late Generation Jones and early Gen X were basically raised in the great transitional period between “traditional America” and the modern hyperconnected world.

Our parents often both worked. Many of us were latchkey kids before that even had a name. We came home to empty houses, made our own snacks, rode our bikes until the streetlights came on, and learned independence very early because there often wasn’t another option.

And honestly? We loved a lot of it.

We learned risk assessment by doing stupid things and surviving them. We learned conflict resolution without an HR department. We learned mechanical skills because things actually broke and had to be fixed. We learned how to navigate the world without GPS, how to socialize without screens, and how to entertain ourselves without algorithms feeding us dopamine every 14 seconds.

Were there downsides? Absolutely. Some kids were neglected. Some carried trauma quietly. Some had far too much responsibility far too young.

But there is also a reason many of us became fiercely independent, adaptable adults who can function under pressure without melting down because nobody was hovering over us every second of the day.

And yes, the movies exaggerated it for entertainment. We were not all out fighting ghosts and hacking NORAD from our bedrooms. Most of us were just trying not to get caught jumping ramps on BMX bikes while somebody’s mom yelled from a porch three streets away.

It was chaos.
But it was our chaos.

Life was better before helicopter moms and cell phones. Trust me.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 NOW: EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT state Attorney General has REFUSED to show up for JD Vance's anti-fraud roundtable at the White House

Republicans showed up, but Vance specifically sent out an olive branch and invited Dems.

THEY SAID NO.

They're pro-fraud.

Nearly 2 dozen Democrat AGs cited time constraints as the reason they can't show up. Yeah, sure.

Democrats = PARTY OF FRAUD

[Senator Ron Johnson @SenRonJohnson]

Thank you, @MajorCBS, for being one of the first voices in the legacy media willing to discuss this massive government scandal.

The numbers alone explain why people are demanding answers.

Reported deaths per million doses in 2023:
- COVID injection: 25.5

- Flu vaccine: 0.46

That’s a 55x higher reported death rate for the COVID injection.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 Stephen Miller says the scale of welfare fraud is SO MASSIVE that eliminating it alone could balance the ENTIRE federal budget

"The amount that has been fleeced from us is in the HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars."

"We could balance the federal budget if the only dollars that went out of the treasury went to individuals who were properly, lawfully, correctly eligible to receive them."

This should infuriate EVERY taxpayer.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇧🇪 Belgium just convicted Dries Van Langenhove for “hate speech” because he linked mass migration to crime and social decline during a university lecture using statistics and scientific sources.

The judge openly admitted the facts themselves were not false.

That’s the terrifying part.

The ruling basically says you can still be punished even when what you say is true, if the government decides your framing is politically unacceptable.

He’s already spent over €420,000 fighting these cases and says more prosecutions are coming.

Welcome to Europe

Source: @DVanLangenhove

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

“I’m here for my money and my free house. It’s my dream.”

Notice the entitlement. MY money and MY free house.

So this is your reminder that mass immigration at this scale is impossible without heavy government funding.

They are not coming to the West to work.

They are coming for the subsidized lifestyle you pay for.
Their net contribution is not zero, it is negative.

This would never have happened at this level without a massive public trough funding it. Your tax dollars are the incentive.

You work hard, the government takes your money, and funnels it to them.

You are funding this reality. Take it up with your government.
They are the ones confiscating your earnings to incentivize mass immigration.

[John @market_sleuth]

“Look mom what I can do! 🤣”. She doesn’t even flinch. ☺️

[Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland]

By 1900, the United States had achieved a 90% literacy rate largely by using McGuffey Readers in one-room schoolhouses.  But, yeah, NYC’s problem is it’s not spending enough money.

[Johnny Woker @JohnnyDonie]

@RealJamesWoods @Chantalxox10 We’ve been warned over and over, but we refuse to see it.

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

🚨 THE ENTIRE AI BOOM MIGHT BE BUILT ON FAKE REVENUE.

Latest corporate filings show that OpenAI and Anthropic alone make up over half of the entire $2 trillion future cloud backlog held by Microsoft, Oracle, Google, and Amazon.

This massive pipeline is actually being created through a circular accounting trick called a round trip revenue loop.

But how it works ?

A tech giant gives billions of dollars to an AI startup as an "investment". But hidden in the contract is a strict rule forcing the startup to hand that exact same money straight back to the tech giant to rent their computer servers.

Look at the documented case of Microsoft and OpenAI.

When Microsoft invested $13 billion into OpenAI, it didn't just give them cash; it gave them "cloud credits" to use Microsoft servers. OpenAI used those exact credits to train its AI models, and Microsoft then turned around and recorded that server usage as brand new "cloud revenue" from a customer.

The tech giant is literally paying itself with its own money and calling it a sale.

This is why OpenAI’s annual cloud bill has ballooned to over $60 billion, double its actual revenue of $25 billion, kept alive solely by this recycled funding loop.

Anthropic runs the exact same play, spending $2.66 billion on Amazon Web Services in just nine months, which was basically 100% of all the money it earned at the time.

This manufactured demand triggers a second accounting trick where tech giants book massive paper profits. Every time a startup gets a higher value from a new funding round, the tech giant updates the value of its investment on its books and counts that unearned paper gain as direct profit.

In Q1 2026, Alphabet reported a record $62.6 billion profit, but $28.7 billion nearly half, was just a paper markup on its Anthropic investment. In the same quarter, Amazon reported $30.3 billion in profit, but $16.8 billion of it was just an Anthropic paper gain.

While Amazon reported record profits, its actual free cash flow collapsed 95% to just $1.2 billion because it had to spend $44.2 billion in real cash to build physical data centers.

This has created a massive danger where these giant companies rely heavily on just one or two unstable startups. Microsoft has 49% of its $627 billion future backlog tied to OpenAI, while Oracle has an incredible 54% of its entire $553 billion pipeline relying on OpenAI alone.

This perfectly mirrors the 2001 dot-com crash when Global Crossing and Qwest Communications swapped identical fiber-optic network capacity with each other just to book fake sales.

Qwest had to erase $1.4 billion in fake income, and Global Crossing went completely bankrupt.

The only difference is that the dot-com swaps were illegal, but today's AI loop is fully legal under current accounting rules.

This legal loop inflates tech company stock prices, forcing automatic retirement accounts and index funds to buy even more of these tech stocks. It is a self feeding loop where investments, sales, and stock prices all go up on paper without the AI technology ever making real cash profits.