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[Mark Berman @MarkBerman_]

Terrific time for the rookie Raynel Delgado to hit his first home run in the big leagues.

[TheRealCherokeeOwl 🦉 @CherokeeOwl]

1931: British pilot Douglas Bader crashes horrifically. Both legs amputated. The RAF says his flying career is finished.

But Bader refuses to stay grounded. He straps on tin legs, masters walking, driving, dancing — and fighting.

By 1940, he’s back in the cockpit during the Battle of Britain. Leading squadrons, downing enemy planes, becoming one of the RAF’s top aces with 22 victories — all while flying with no legs.
Shot down over France, he spends years as a POW, repeatedly trying to escape and driving the Germans mad.

Sir Douglas Bader: Warrior, leader, legend. Proof that true courage isn’t about what you have — it’s about what you refuse to lose.

Reach for the sky. 🇬🇧✈️🦉
#WWII #RAF

[Jonathan Turley @Real_Turley]

Thune is again using pro-forma sessions to make pretend the Senate is still in session, to block Trumps recess appts

Join me in calling on Trump to use the power vested in him, under (Art- II- Sec,3) to call the Senate back into session... until they Pass the Save America Act

[Bozwy 🕊️ @bozwy]

Ein junger SpaceX-Mitarbeiter fragte Elon, was passiert, wenn sie den Mars zu seinen Lebzeiten nicht erreichen. Der Raum war voller Ingenieure und die Frage landete schwerer, als irgendjemand erwartet hatte.

Es war eine einfache Frage, doch sie traf den Kern, wofür SpaceX existiert. Das gesamte Unternehmen, jede späte Nacht, jeder explodierte Prototyp, jeder Ingenieur, der den Geburtstag seines Kindes für ein Startfenster verpasst hat – alles zielt auf den Mars. Was, wenn es nicht rechtzeitig passiert?

Elon hielt inne.

Er sagte, das Ziel sei nie gewesen, persönlich auf dem Mars zu landen. Es gehe darum, die Infrastruktur aufzubauen, die unvermeidlich ist. Selbst wenn er stirbt, bevor die erste Besatzung landet, würde das System die Mission ohne ihn vorantreiben.

Die Raketen, die Fabriken, das Team, die Kultur – alles sei darauf ausgelegt, jede einzelne Person zu überdauern. Einschließlich ihm. Besonders ihn.

Dann sagte er etwas, das die Leute im Raum bewegte: Wenn er glaubte, der Erfolg hänge davon ab, dass er am Leben sei, hätte er bereits versagt. Der Punkt sei, etwas zu bauen, das seinen Gründer nicht braucht.

Er verglich es mit einer Kathedrale. Die Architekten mittelalterlicher Kathedralen wussten, dass sie sterben würden, bevor das Gebäude fertig wäre. Dennoch entwarfen sie es und gaben ihr Leben für etwas, das sie nie vollenden würden. Die Verpflichtung war der Punkt.

SpaceX ist seine Kathedrale. Er wird vielleicht nie einen Fuß auf den Mars setzen. Aber die Straße dorthin wird existieren, weil er sich weigerte zu akzeptieren, dass niemand sie baut.

Der ehrgeizigste Mann der Welt hat sich mit der Möglichkeit abgefunden, dass seine größte Leistung nach seinem Tod erfolgen könnte.

Das ist kein Misserfolg. Das ist der Glaube an etwas Größeres als sich selbst.

Happy Birthday Elon 🚀💪🔥

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

BREAKING: More Republican Congress members are starting to turn on John Thune. FIRE THUNE

HE IS A WORTHLESS RINO TRAITOR

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

Fifty years ago today, Air France Captain Michel Bacos showed the world what true moral courage looks like.

When Flight 139 was hijacked by Palestinian and German terrorists and flown to Entebbe, the non-Jewish passengers were eventually released. Bacos and his crew were also offered their freedom.

However, Bacos, who also served in the French army under DeGaulle, refused to leave his Jewish passengers. All his crew also refused, without exception.

Instead, they chose to remain alongside the 94 Jewish hostages, fully aware of the danger they faced. As Bacos later said, abandoning his passengers was simply "unimaginable."

Days later, they were freed in the legendary Israeli rescue mission, Operation Entebbe, led by Yoni Netanyahu, who would die in the battle.

For his extraordinary courage, Bacos was honoured by both France and Israel. Yet his greatest legacy was not the medals he received, but the example he set: that decency, duty and humanity must never yield to terror or antisemitism.

Michel Bacos was a true hero. May his life, his courage and his memory forever be a blessing and an inspiration.

[CRIXUS @CRIXUSwasHERE]

ABSOLUTELY!!👇🤨

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

In 1944, Lt. Clarence Coggins of the 45th Infantry Division was on a reconnaissance patrol northeast of Grenoble, France, when a German patrol captured him.

The 24-year-old company commander found himself a prisoner of war. But instead of silently accepting his fate, he struck up a conversation.

He calmly convinced the German major in charge that escape from the rapidly advancing Allied forces was impossible & that given how poorly the Germans had treated the local French population, surrendering to the Americans would be their best option.

The major listened. He then freed Coggins to arrange formal surrender terms with his own superiors.

On August 25, 1944, the terms were accepted. Nearly 1,000 German troops, 942 enlisted men & 17 officers, along with vast amounts of equipment, surrendered to the young American lieutenant in Grenoble.

This is Lt. Coggins shortly afterward, photographed in Grenoble on August 25, 1944. For his extraordinary initiative & courage while a prisoner, he was awarded the Silver Star and immediately promoted to Captain.

Tragically, Captain Coggins was killed in action just months later on January 7, 1945, during fighting in France.

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

That's a pretty good question isn't it?

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

250 years ago today, on June 28, 1776, a half-finished fort made of palm tree logs and sand did something it had no business doing: it beat the most powerful navy on earth and saved the American South. We just hit the 250th anniversary of one of the most improbable victories of the entire Revolution.

The setup looked hopeless. A massive British fleet under Admiral Sir Peter Parker sailed into Charleston harbor to crush the rebellion in the south before it could grow. Guarding the city was an unfinished little fort on Sullivan's Island, defended by Colonel William Moultrie and a few hundred men. The walls weren't even done. One British officer reportedly figured they'd flatten it in an hour.

Then the palmetto logs did the impossible. The fort was built from soft, spongy palmetto wood packed with sand, and instead of shattering when the British cannonballs hit, the logs just absorbed them. Iron sank into the mush and stuck. The fleet hammered that fort for hours and could not break it, while the American gunners coolly fired back and tore the British warships apart. Several ships ran aground. Admiral Parker himself got hit so hard that the blast literally ripped the seat out of his pants.

And then the moment that became legend. When a cannon blast knocked the fort's flag down, Sergeant William Jasper climbed out over the wall, in the middle of the bombardment, grabbed the fallen colors, and raised them back up so everyone could see the fort still stood.

By nightfall the British fleet limped away. They wouldn't seriously come back to the south for nearly three more years. South Carolina loved that fort so much it put the palmetto tree on its state flag, where it still flies today.

A quarter of a millennium later, the lesson still lands. Sometimes the thing everyone writes off as too soft and too unfinished to matter is the exact thing that refuses to break.

[᛭ Ian ᛭ @KnightspurHouse]

Molly Pitcher is one of the most celebrated heroines of the American Revolutionary War. Although her actual name was Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley, she became known by the nickname "Molly Pitcher" for her remarkable bravery on the battlefield.
Born around 1754 to a German immigrant family in New Jersey, she grew up in modest circumstances and later lived in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Her story has endured for generations as a powerful example of how ordinary women contributed to the fight for American independence.
Molly's path to fame began when she married John Hays, a young barber who enlisted in the Continental Army's artillery unit in 1777. Instead of remaining at home, Molly chose to follow her husband as a camp follower. In this role, she performed essential support work such as cooking, washing clothes, and caring for the soldiers.
By staying close to the army, she experienced the hardships of war firsthand and was prepared to take on greater responsibilities when the moment demanded it.
The most famous episode of Molly Pitcher's life occurred during the Battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778. Fighting took place under intense summer heat, and thirsty soldiers desperately needed water. Molly repeatedly carried pitchers of water from a nearby spring to the front lines, earning her well-known nickname in the process. When her husband was wounded or overcome by the heat while operating a cannon, Molly stepped forward without hesitation. She took his place at the gun, loading and firing it throughout the long battle. Her courage under fire impressed General George Washington, who reportedly commended her actions after the fighting ended.
After the war, Molly returned to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where she lived the rest of her life. Her first husband died in 1789, and she later married John McCauley. In recognition of her wartime service, the Pennsylvania legislature granted her a small annual pension in 1822. Molly Pitcher died in 1832 and is buried in Carlisle. Today, monuments, historical markers, and school lessons keep her memory alive. She stands as a lasting symbol of the strength, determination, and patriotism shown by women who supported the American Revolution.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

HOLY CRAP

Over a million people are on Obamacare with no Social Security Number

The thing that Democrats claim never happens is happening at massive scale

This is why Democrats hate DOGE

Their money laundering fraud ring was exposed

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Exactly. 👍🏻

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Scott Presler reveals that if the U.S. Senate doesn’t pass the SAVE America Act by August 8th, IT CAN’T TAKE EFFECT FOR THE MIDTERMS

“The Senate returns from vacation on July 13th. The Senate goes on vacation — again — beginning August 8th.”

“You should be calling & emailing your Senators every single day.” — @ScottPresler

This is why the Senate should’ve been FIGHTING for the past several months!

Call off recess!

[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

There was a small unit in World War II that operated deep behind Japanese lines more than a hundred times and never lost a single man.

They were called the Alamo Scouts.

Formed in late 1943 by General Walter Krueger, these men were hand-picked for one job: go where no one else could and come back with intelligence.

More than seven hundred volunteers tried out. He kept just 138. In teams of six or seven they slipped through the jungles of New Guinea and the Philippines, living for weeks inside enemy territory, mapping Japanese positions and sending back the intelligence that shaped entire invasions.

They did not just watch. On multiple missions they went in and brought people out. In New Guinea they freed dozens of captives the Japanese were holding.

Then came their most impressive mission:

American prisoners were starving in a camp at Cabanatuan, twenty-five miles inside Japanese-held Luzon. Before the Rangers could raid it, someone had to know exactly what was waiting. Two Alamo Scouts dressed as farm workers and set up a hidden observation post just a few hundred yards from the Japanese guards. For days they counted men and mapped the ground inch by inch.

The raid that followed freed more than five hundred Allied prisoners in a single night.

In total the Alamo Scouts ran 106 missions behind enemy lines across 1,482 days of sustained operations. Not one man was killed. Not one was captured.

The men who made it possible got almost none of the credit. Their work was secret, and secret men cannot be celebrated. When the war ended the Army no longer needed them, and the unit was quietly disbanded and forgotten.

The finest small-unit record of the war belonged to men most Americans have never heard of.

Now you have.

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

We are in Texas. Just filled up for $3.59. In L.A. on Monday it was $8.59.

Californians: It's not the Iran war. It's not "Trump." It's Democrat policies that have given us the highest gas prices in America.

You can have $3.00 gas but you have to VOTE for it in November.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Absolutely. This is a total lie.

All DOGE did was require contact with the aid recipients to confirm that funds were being used legitimately. Anything less than this is insane!

Multiple people from USAID have been charged by the Justice Department with stealing money.

Moreover, they pled GUILTY!!

https://t.co/uppiTi8CqC