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[Cozy Bear 🏜️ @__boaz__]

@mtgreenee or we'll see you in the Presidential primaries. :D I suspect that is the plan. Best of luck with whatever you do.

[Cozy Bear 🏜️ @__boaz__]

@mtgreenee It would a real good time for a new crop of Independent candidates to take over dc. if you wanted to. :D

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Dave Grohl, from the Foo Fighters, brought this kid up on stage.

He asks him what song he knows how to play on guitar and he starts playing “Enter Sandman”.

The crowd goes wild.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Thomas Jefferson died on the 4th of July. Not just any 4th. The exact 50th anniversary of the Declaration he wrote. And on that same day, hundreds of miles away, his old friend and rival John Adams died too. You cannot make this up. Here's the story.

Everyone knows Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence at just 33 years old. Fewer people know the size of the mind behind it.

He was a relentless genius. He taught himself law, architecture, multiple languages, science, and farming. He designed his own home, Monticello, and kept refining it for forty years like he physically could not leave a good idea alone. He tinkered and invented constantly, including a better plow blade that he refused to patent because he believed useful ideas should belong to everyone, not be locked up for profit.

He was a book addict on a scale that's hard to picture today. He owned close to 10,000 books in his lifetime. And when the British burned the Capitol and destroyed the Library of Congress in 1814, Jefferson sold his personal collection of roughly 6,500 volumes to the nation to rebuild it. The Library of Congress today essentially grew back from his bookshelves.

He served as the nation's first Secretary of State, its second Vice President, and its third President. As President he pulled off the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the size of the country in a single stroke, and sent Lewis and Clark to map a continent.

He founded the University of Virginia, designed its buildings himself, and was so proud of it that he asked it to be carved on his tombstone, alongside writing the Declaration and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Not one word about being President. He wanted to be remembered for what he built and what he taught.

And then the ending almost no one learns. He died on July 4, 1826, fifty years to the day after the nation was born. Adams, dying the very same day, reportedly murmured "Thomas Jefferson still survives," not knowing Jefferson had already passed hours earlier.

Two founders, two old rivals turned friends, leaving the world together on the country's golden anniversary.

Thomas Jefferson. The mind that wrote a nation into existence.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Did you guys see this?? There are projected images popping all over D.C. adding to the swamp theme. 🤣

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars or humanoid robots. We want clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Instead of adding pink ribbons to their products every October maybe companies should just remove the cancer causing ingredients

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

On this day in 1954, the US backed a coup against Jacobo Árbenz, the progressive, democratically elected leader of Guatemala, because he sought to restore land to small farmers and Indigenous communities that had been dispossessed by US fruit companies.

[The Constitutionalist 🇺🇸 @WeWillBeFree24]

FISA 702 is lapsed. Don't worry, NSA is still spying on you.

[Divinely Designed @DivinelyDesined]

How your body repairs DNA.

How can anyone see this and think it wasn't designed?

This is God's Creation.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.

In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.

https://t.co/pLMD0krc69

[Teri Batts @battst76]

💥 HUGE WIN FOR THE 4TH AMENDMENT: The House just crushed the POTUS-backed FISA Section 702 extension in a 218-198 vote!

FISA is set to expire Friday. The establishment is panicked, weaponizing fear-mongering about "national security" to protect their warrantless spying on American citizens.

A coalition of liberty-minded Republicans and partisan Democrats (fuming over Trump’s DNI appointment of @Pulte) just dealt a massive blow to the surveillance state.

We are watching the deep state lose its grip in real-time. Keep the pressure on the Senate. No warrantless spying. Period. 🇺🇸

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@SpeakerJohnson 19 Republicans withheld our votes in order to preserve Constitutionally guaranteed rights.

By refusing to honor the Fourth Amendment, you’re jeopardizing the continuation of FISA.

Include a WARRANT requirement for US citizens if you want Republicans to pass this bill.

[Library of Congress @librarycongress]

The Committee of Five—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman—was appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago today.

Jefferson's draft of the document is here at the Library, and will be featured in a new exhibition opening July 3.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Peace Derangement Syndrome (PDS)

Primarily associated with chickenhawks who have never experienced a shot fired in anger & who would never, under any circumstances, go to war themselves.

[Cozy Bear 🏜️ @__boaz__]

@RepThomasMassie Thank you Congressman Massie! The roll call should be a litmus test for all voters to use.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Thank goodness. Clean reauthorization of the unconstitutional FISA 702 program failed in the House. I’ll post the roll call when it’s available.

[Phantom Pain @phantompain1984]

USS Liberty: Torpedoed, Sinking, and Denied Escape

Survivor Lloyd Painter said “the torpedo hit the hull and killed 25 American sailors instantly.”

Then, as he tried to move 20 or 30 wounded men to the life rafts, he saw an Isræli torpedo boat — plainly marked with the Star of David — machine-gunning those same rafts.

@RepThomasMassie said it plainly:
“The Isrælis machine-gunned the lifeboats. The Isrælis were intent on leaving no survivors.”

5:38 — leaked Isræli HQ recording confirms they knew it was American before the attack.

This was not a mistake.

This was an attempt to erase the ship, the crew, and the witnesses.

Thread 🧵
NSA/CSS records. CIA Dayan file. LBJ’s betrayal with his former Irgun mistress Mathilde Krim. The visible flag. The “whitewash.”

The evidence was buried.

Now it is in sequence. 1/8

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 WTF?! A USS Liberty survivor drops a massive bombshell.

He confirms they were threatened with prison or worse if they ever spoke about the Israeli attack.

Another veteran explicitly states "Israel owns us" after being ignored by Congress for 59 years. Total betrayal!

[Axiomatic Enemy of the State @DeTocqueville14]

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