🇺🇸 On the night of April 28, 1781, Colonel Abel Kolb walked out the front door of his plantation home on the east bank of the Great Pee Dee River in South Carolina. He was shot before he could speak as his wife and children watched. Then the Loyalists burned his house to the ground.
By the spring of 1781, the Revolution in the South was at a turning point. Cornwallis had moved his army into Virginia, and Patriot forces under Nathanael Greene were methodically dismantling British outposts across the Carolinas. The war was shifting in the Patriots' favor. But in the backcountry, the violence between neighbors had become something uglier and more personal than any formal battle. Loyalist raiders and Patriot militias settled scores with brutal efficiency, and no one was safe, even in their own homes.
Kolb had spent the previous day routing Tory forces along Drowning Creek and Catfish Creek. When he returned home, he dismissed his men, believing that the threat was over. He was wrong. Fifty North Carolina Loyalists under Captain Joseph Jones had gathered in retaliation. By the time they left, one of Francis Marion's most capable commanders in the Pee Dee was dead.
Kolb was no ordinary militia colonel. Born around 1750 into one of the founding families of the Welsh Neck Baptist community along the Pee Dee, he had served since 1775, survived the fall of Charleston, and built a regiment of more than 230 men to protect the Cheraws District from Loyalist raids. Historians described him as vigilant, active, and daring. Marion's own order book recorded his death simply: "Kolb killed."
He was buried here, in the old Welsh Neck Cemetery on the east bank of the Pee Dee River, where his family had farmed and worshipped. The church eventually moved, and the community scattered, but his story deserves to be remembered.
Axel Rudakubana’s parents should be deported for enabling terrorism. But they’re also massive drains on society.
His mother, Laetitia Muzayire, hasn’t worked since 2013. His father, Alphonse, only works as a part-time taxi driver. Both live off welfare handouts.
DEPORT. 🇬🇧
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@Bridgeport64427@CollinRugg He had no criminal record, but after his arrest for this crime, accusations from assaults on children from 2012-2013 were brought to police’s attention. So yes and no…
Virginia Tech's Diggeridoos Tunnel Digging Team are world champions!
They won first place at the Not-a-Boring Competition, run by Elon Musk's The Boring Company.
Over 8 days, their tunnel boring machine dug further than any other into wet Texas clay, in a downpour, against 7 university teams from 3 countries.
This win has been years in the making.
They took the fastest launch design award in 2021 and climbed from there: top 5, then 2nd, then the Innovation Award and 2nd again last year.
Each time refining and improving on a shoestring against better-funded international teams.
This year, in the worst conditions the competition’s ever seen, they brought the title home to Blacksburg.
I'll keep saying it: I don't care what grade you made in Differential Equations. I care about what you did on a team like this.
These students poured hundreds of hours into this because they wanted to help crack one of modern engineering’s hardest problems.
The bigger picture is why this competition matters so much.
@elonmusk started The Boring Company after one too many “soul-destroying” LA traffic jams.
He argues cities have maxed out their surface space and the only direction left is down. His vision is for vast underground networks that move people and freight around at superfast speeds, and reclaim the surface space back from cars and trucks.
But current tunnelling machines are notoriously slow and expensive, often moving slower than a garden snail once you factor in setup, maintenance, and muck removal (the competition is branded as "Beating the Snail”).
The student challenge exists to crowdsource the breakthroughs that will finally make tunneling 10x faster and cheaper, finding the next-generation of engineers who’ll crack it.
The Diggeridoos are those engineers.
My company @totalshield_llc sponsors this amazing team.
If you run a technical company and haven't looked at the competition teams at your local university, you're missing one of the best hiring pipelines in the country.
Career fairs don't show you who performs under pressure, but this sure does.
Congratulations, Diggeridoos. Go @virginia_tech Hokies!
The forbidden Instacart ads are back for a second week
This lines up exactly with PERM labor market test requirements
Be a shame if a bunch of qualified Americans applied for these jobs they don't want you to see! Might prevent them from sponsoring greencards for these jobs!
The kitten Rosy, who mobilized Italy 🇮🇹 and moved the web, is alive but recovering slowly ❤️🩹
Tortured and abu4ed near Rome by a group of “doctors and engineers from far away,” she highlights horrific acts against innocents that demand harsher penalties and stronger intervention!
Ashling Murphy was murdered by welfare migrant Josef Puska while she was going for a jog in January 2022.
He stabbed her 12 times in the neck and she bled to death as a result.
The media covered up the nature of the murder for 2 years, we were told he strangled Ashling.
Puska received a life sentence, meaning he will be eligible for parole after serving 12 years. 5 members of his family were also sentenced to prison for covering up the crime.
As difficult as it might be to understand, Ashling's partner Ryan Casey has become the subject of a harassment campaign this week. He has been widely targeted, even by people in the entertainment industry and politics.
Just because he spoke about wishing to make Ireland safer.
There's a deep sickness in Ireland and it has spread far and wide because good people are far too tolerant.
We have allowed Ireland to become a country where welfare migrants kill young women.
A country where the loved ones of the victims of migrant violence are publicly mocked and bullied by grown adults.
It is beyond time we all become a little less tolerant. Firstly with who is allowed into our country and communities because living around Irish people is a privilege, not a right.
Secondly, nobody should ever feel comfortable harassing someone like Ryan Casey, they should feel deep shame and fear of enormous public backlash. But this week we saw hundreds of people including several high profile individuals join a campaign of harassment against a man who lost the love of his life to a migrant killer.
That's too far. Unacceptable in a civilized society.
Our country needs a moral shift. The weirdos and freaks have held the moral high ground for too long.
It's time for all of us to take it back.
I stand with Ryan Casey.
Samuel Melia was sentenced to 2 years in jail over "IT'S OKAY TO BE WHITE" stickers. Hope Not Hate smeared him.
Liron Velleman received a suspended sentence over grooming a 13yo. He was a writer for Hope Not Hate.
It is a bigger crime for you to exist than paedophilia.
Politicians in Virginia are racing to pass an "assault weapons" ban that could take effect July 1st, and we're doing something about it. At Palmetto State Armory, we're not just building firearms, we're maximizing freedom. 🇺🇸
🚨 🚨WATCH: Parents tell me Fairfax County Public Schools told them the soon to be 19-year-old illegal immigrant charged for groping their daughters in between their legs in the school hallway would be allowed to return to school.
The parents tell me FCPS is downplaying what happened and is trying to sweep this under the rug.
More of my exclusive interviews with some of the parents ⬇️
VA Dem Senator Saddam Azlan Salim @salimforva just banned guns in Virginia
Classic immigrant story of fleeing a storm in Bangladesh & spending decades taking handouts from the US taxpayer… now he bans guns in Virginia as a thank you. Here’s his story:
He’s lived off the taxpayer dole since immigrating to America at ten. He was born in Bangladesh & witnessed a flood & drought in 1998, so his father brought his family to America in 2000. Only a year later, his family was evicted because the building they lived in was sold for condos. After a full year, he & his siblings still spoke no English so they did not understand what was happening.
His family lived in basements in Falls Church, VA for 2 years until they were eligible for Fairfax County’s low-income affordable housing program. Both his parents worked minimum wage jobs and relied on public transportation to get to work. Saddam’s father worked his way up from a dishwasher to the chef for Haandi Indian Cuisine. Saddam's family was able to use the community health centers so the family could get healthcare. Saddam attended Falls Church High School; his mother’s health issues required surgery. Since his parents relied on minimum wage jobs, with the help of community healthcare, his mother’s surgery was a success, but the medical bills were a struggle for the family
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