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🇺🇸 July 5, 2026
America’s 250th Birthday celebrations were unforgettable. From coast to coast, we honored 250 years of freedom, courage, and the American spirit.
But the story doesn’t end today.
Today we proudly transition USA Day 250 into a permanent home for patriotism across America — for the next 250 years and beyond.
We will continue sharing the very best of our nation:
• Stories of everyday American pride
• Community traditions that keep liberty alive
• Heroes past and present who embody the values of 1776
• The enduring spirit that unites us from sea to shining sea
This is no longer just about one historic day.
This is about keeping the flame of American patriotism burning brightly for the next 250 years — all the way to 2276 and beyond.
Thank you for celebrating with us yesterday.
Now let’s keep building together.
What does patriotism look like to you in this new chapter? Share below 👇
#USA250 #America250 #Patriotism #Next250Years #AmericanPride #UnitedWeStand
TRENDING: People are saying that ABC, CBS, and NBC should lose their broadcast licenses for refusing to air President Trump's national address on election security.
They are calling on the @FCC to yank their licenses.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! President Trump just exposed that 278,000 THOUSAND NON-CITIZENS are registered to vote in federal elections.
Enough. PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT, NOW, SENATE GOP
"According to the DHS review, state voter rolls and public records, they identified approximately 278,000 non-citizens who are registered to vote in federal elections. Since Democrat states refuse to share their voter files, the real number is actually much higher than that."
"Yet, even this limited analysis found more than a quarter of a million foreigners illegally registered to vote."
"Put together, these disclosures reveal an election system so broken and so vulnerable that no one can possibly defend it. It is not defensible."
"Hundreds of millions of U.S. voter files are in the hands of foreign governments. Our machines and ballot counting systems are exposed to hacking and manipulation and corruption. China and other countries have been trying to meddle in our elections."
"Evidence of fraud has been buried. Hundreds of thousands of non-citizens and dead people are listed and active on the voter rolls, and yet we still have elections with no voter ID, no proof of citizenship, and tens of millions of ballots floating aimlessly through the mail."
🚨 NOW: President Trump demands the FCC broadcast licenses be REVOKED from the networks like ABC and NBC refusing to air his speech tonight
"Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses!" 🔥
"They use our public multi-billion dollar in value airways for absolutely no money. They pay nothing."
"In a rare move, NBC and ABC fake news have both said that they would not cover this speech. They knew what it was about because of the fact that they don't like the topic because they know how corrupt our system is and they don't want to reveal it. But they and others in the media are part of a plot!"
"They want to continue this fraud for whatever reason. They want to keep it going. They want to protect the radical left."
"They can't have a great country. And that's true. You can't have a great country without free and fair elections."
.@POTUS: To reveal just how vulnerable our elections continue to be, we are releasing the results of a stunning investigation by @DHSgov — which conducted a review of state voter rolls and public records and identified approximately 278,000 non-citizens who are registered to vote in federal elections.
Since Democrat states refuse to share their voter files, the real number is actually much higher than that — yet even this limited analysis found more than 250,000 foreigners illegally registered to vote.
Confirmations!
🚨 NOW: The US Senate in one fell swoop has just CONFIRMED 100% of President Trump's nominees to the U.S. International Trade Commission
Keep confirming every Trump nominee! 🇺🇸
250
A Capital City
July 16, 1790, the Residence Act, which stipulated that the president select a site on the Potomac River as the permanent capital of the United States following a ten-year temporary residence in Philadelphia, was signed into law. In a proclamation issued on January 24, 1791, President George Washington announced the permanent location of the new capital, an area of land at the confluence of the Potomac and Eastern Branch (Anacostia) rivers that would eventually become the District of Columbia. Soon after, Washington commissioned French engineer Pierre-Charles L’Enfant to create a plan for the city.
D you know of a great long-distance bike trail?
Know an incredible long-distance bike trail? We want to hear about it.
We're seeking public input to help identify America's next premier long-distance biking trails as part of the EXPLORE Act. 👇
Three-cent stamp honoring General George S. Patton, released in 1953 by the U.S. postal service. 🇺🇸
Absolutely amazing!
Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.
-Wilderness Whisper
250
Rev War Tales
Storming Little Gibraltar
15-16, July 1779, Stony Point, New York. Brigadier General “Mad Anthony” Wayne led about 1,500 Continental Light Infantry in a daring midnight bayonet assault on the British stronghold. Dubbed “Little Gibraltar” for its steep, rocky promontory rising 150 feet above the Hudson River, the position was reinforced with abatis and artillery, making it seem impregnable. Moving silently through marshland under cover of darkness, Wayne’s men stormed the works with unloaded muskets, relying solely on cold steel. In just 25 minutes, the fort fell. The British suffered 20 killed, 74 wounded, and more than 470 captured, while American losses totaled 15 killed and 83 wounded. This brilliant victory boosted Patriot morale and showcased the growing professionalism of Washington’s army. #RevWar #AmRev #History #RevWarTales
"That era has to end."
🚨 JUST IN: Sec. Marco Rubio just OBLITERATED left-wing American cities for letting Antifa and George Floyd rioters terrorize the nation — he says THOSE DAYS ARE OVER
"Left-wing violence was not just EXCUSED. It was treated as SACROSANCT, a protected class unto itself!" 🔥
"During those George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020, as criminals and extremists BURNED and LOOTED their way through America's great cities and nearly brought the country to its knees. City governments all across the country simply REFUSED to prosecute the people conducting these acts of violence and terror!"
"It is the reason for the now infamous image, maybe you all recall this, of a news anchor from a very prominent agency, a news anchor standing in a neighborhood consumed in flames. Meanwhile, the chyron on the bottom red that the protests were 'mostly peaceful.' This was something worse than a double standard."
"That era has to end."
Take time to read to children.
"They were his chief pride, his first obligation!"
On Lee’s troops loving him:
“All that can be said of Lee's dealings with his officers as one of the reasons for his success can be said in even warmer tones of his relations with the men in the ranks. They were his chief pride, his first obligation. Their distress was his deepest concern, their well-being his constant aim. His manner with them was said by his lieutenants to be perfect. Never ostentatious or consciously dramatic, his bearing, his record of victories, his manifest interest in the individual, and his conversation with the humblest private he met in the road combined to create in the minds of his troops a reverence, a confidence, and an affection that built up the morale of the army. And that morale was one of the elements that contributed most to his achievements. The men came to believe that whatever he did was right-that whatever he assigned them they could accomplish. Once that belief became fixed, the Army of Northern Virginia was well-nigh invincible. There is, perhaps, no more impressive example in modern war of the power of personality in creating morale. More than one writer has intimated that Lee's forbearance in dealing with Longstreet showed him too much of a gentleman to be a commander of the very first rank. It would be well for these critics to remember that the qualities of a gentleman, displayed to those in the ranks, contributed to far more victories than Longstreet ever cost Lee.”
-R.E. Lee, A Biography Vol.IV.
Douglas Southall Freeman
Roll out!
Good Thursday morning, roll out all you top-notch individuals...
Jesus told His followers shortly before His crucifixion, that they would face hardships.
That same truth still applies---following Jesus is no guarantee of an easy life.
Yet we can be encouraged to remember that He has overcome the world.
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.
In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
Blessings to you all.
"No one died. Every man came home.
This is how they did it. "
🧊 In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and 27 men set out on the Endurance to cross Antarctica. What followed became one of the most incredible tales of human endurance and leadership ever recorded.
No one died. Every man came home.
This is how they did it.
The ship Endurance got trapped in pack ice before they even reached the continent. For months they drifted helplessly as the ice slowly crushed their vessel.
Shackleton ordered the crew to abandon ship. They camped on the ice floes, salvaging supplies as the Endurance sank beneath the ice.
Temperatures dropped to -30°F. Food was limited. Hope was fading. But Shackleton kept morale alive with songs, stories, and constant optimism.
When the ice began to break up, they launched three tiny lifeboats. After a harrowing sail through stormy seas, they reached the desolate Elephant Island.
Shackleton knew rescue wasn’t coming. He took five men and set off in the 22-foot James Caird across 800 miles of the roughest ocean on Earth — the Southern Ocean — in winter.
They navigated by dead reckoning in hurricane-force winds and 50-foot waves. They landed on South Georgia Island… on the wrong side. They then had to climb an uncharted mountain range to reach the whaling station.
Shackleton immediately organized a rescue for the remaining 22 men stranded on Elephant Island. After multiple failed attempts, he succeeded.
Not a single life was lost.
Shackleton later wrote: ‘We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We reached the naked soul of man.”
His leadership principles are still taught today: optimism in the face of disaster, putting the team first, and never quitting.
Key Shackleton quotes that hit different:
• “Optimism is true moral courage.”
• “Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.”
• “If you’re a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you’ve got to keep going.”
• “Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.”
The lesson? When everything is against you, the right leader turns certain death into victory through grit, creativity, and care for his men.
Shackleton didn’t reach the original goal… but he achieved something far greater — he brought every man home.
Stories like this remind us what real leadership and resilience look like.
Have you read Endurance by Alfred Lansing or seen the documentaries? What’s your favorite survival story?
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption & restoring its lost principles."
American Heart!
🚨WOW!!!
A woman spotted a 64-year-old Navy veteran limping across an airport tarmac on hurting knees while caring for his 90-year-old mama in hospice
Then over 6,000 strangers raised $180,000 so he can finally retire, get knee surgery, and care for his 90-year-old mama.
That woman she flew back and hand-delivered the check to his door. ❤️
His name is James Blair.
He served in the United States Navy from 1980 to 1990.
He sat on a carrier with planes loaded, twenty minutes from launching against Iran during the hostage crisis, waiting on President Reagan's word.
He came home and never stopped working. LAX for 13 years and then John Wayne Airport for 20 more years.
He has been fueling planes, moving stairs, in rain or shine.
"I've been doing this job for 20 years... and I just didn't think anybody actually cared."
The work destroyed his knees, but he kept going.
His plan? "Work until I physically can't."
Because his 90-year-old mother is in hospice... and he takes care of her and pay the bills.
Then on May 21, a Utah woman named LaCinda Thackeray looked out the gate window and saw him limping on his hurt knees outside of her airplane window.
She was flying home from a funeral, carrying her own grief, but saw James limping and she filmed him and asked the internet: "Does anyone know this man?
"Watching him work so hard, he could barely move... I know there has to be a way we can help him retire."
MILLIONS watched the video and then 6,000 strangers from all over the world donated more than $180,000.
Then LaCinda flew BACK to California and knocked on his door with the check.
"I'm at a loss for words," he said.
His mama's hospice care is covered.
His knee surgery is coming.
And a veteran who thought nobody cared just found out SIX THOUSAND people do.
GOD BLESS James Blair and GOD BLESS LaCinda Thackeray.
THIS IS THE AMERICA I KNOW!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
250-Battles
The Battle of Stony Point took place on the night of July 15-16, 1779, during the American Revolutionary War. In the spring of that year, British forces under Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton captured and fortified Stony Point, a rocky promontory on the western bank of the Hudson River in New York, about 30 miles north of New York City. This strategic outpost controlled the vital Kings Ferry crossing and threatened the American defenses in the Hudson Highlands, including the key fortress at West Point. General George Washington responded by forming an elite Corps of Light Infantry and assigning Brigadier General Anthony Wayne to lead a bold counterattack aimed at recapturing the position and disrupting British plans in the region.
Wayne planned and executed a daring nighttime assault using approximately 1,300 hand-picked light infantrymen. To preserve the element of surprise, the troops advanced with unloaded muskets and fixed bayonets only, divided into two main columns that approached along the shores while a third force created a diversion from the front. The Americans overcame difficult terrain, deep water, and British defensive obstacles such as abatis (sharpened stakes) through stealth and rapid movement. Fierce hand-to-hand combat erupted as the attackers scaled the steep slopes under fire; Wayne himself was grazed by a musket ball but continued to lead his men forward. Within roughly 30 minutes, the fort was overrun. Lieutenant Colonel François de Fleury of the American forces famously pulled down the British flag and shouted, "The fort's our own!"
The battle ended in a swift American victory. The British garrison of about 750 men suffered 20 killed, 74 wounded, and 472 captured, including their commander, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Johnson. American losses were far lighter: 15 killed and 83 wounded. Although Washington ordered the fortifications dismantled shortly afterward because they were too difficult to defend long-term, the victory delivered a powerful morale boost to the Continental Army. It demonstrated the skill and bravery of American troops in close-quarters fighting, served as symbolic revenge for earlier British actions such as the Paoli massacre, and helped restore confidence in the Patriot cause during a difficult period of the war. The action at Stony Point remains celebrated as one of the most brilliant small-scale tactical successes of the American Revolution.
Good, Beautiful, American Morning!
GOOD MORNING PATRIOTS!
Happy Thursday Y’all! ☕️☀️🇺🇸
“The biggest mistake you can make is thinking you have more time. Be present. Be kind. Love more. Love now.”
I can see the weekend from here folks! Let’s get caffeinated and let’s roll! 😉
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