A two-week-old infant was stabbed to death in Modesto, California.
Two. Weeks. Old.
He had not yet learned to focus his eyes.
His mother, 23, was stabbed too.
His grandmother, 54, was stabbed too.
The man arrested for it had been deported once, returned illegally, and arrested four times for drunk driving in California.
After the fourth DUI, ICE asked the jail to hold him.
The state of California said no, by written law.
There is no debate here.
There is no policy disagreement.
There is no "both sides."
There is a two-week-old American baby in a coffin because a state government decided that the word "sanctuary" was more important than him.
He should be alive.
God bless every American who refuses to call this normal.
21 years ago today, on June 28, 2005, four Navy SEALs were inserted under cover of darkness into the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan, a place so high and so cold the clouds drift below your feet. Their mission was to find a Taliban commander hiding in the village of Sawtalo Sar. Their names were Michael Murphy, Danny Dietz, Matthew Axelson, and Marcus Luttrell.
By morning, fate walked right up the mountain to meet them. A goat herder and a boy wandered straight into their hidden position. The team had a choice no man should ever have to make: kill unarmed civilians, or let them go and risk everything. They let them go. Within an hour, the mountain came alive with rifle fire.
What happened next is almost too brutal to put into words. Dozens of fighters swarmed the high ground above them. The four men fought their way down a near vertical slope, throwing themselves off ledges and cliffs to escape the fire, breaking bones, tearing flesh, leaving blood on the rocks, and still turning to shoot. One by one they were hit. Still they fought. They would not stop. They would not surrender.
Their radios could not reach the base down in the valley. They were screaming for help into dead air. And so Lieutenant Michael Murphy did something that should never be forgotten. He stood up. He walked out of the rocks and into open ground, into the full teeth of the enemy, with bullets cracking past him on every side, just to get a clear signal. He was shot in the back while making that call. He dropped the radio, picked it back up, finished the call, and said thank you. Then he kept fighting until he could fight no more. That single act of courage is the only reason the world ever learned their names.
Help came screaming up the valley. An MH-47 Chinook, call sign Red Wings 11, packed with eight more SEALs and eight Army Night Stalkers of the legendary 160th SOAR, refused to wait for gunship cover. Their brothers were dying and they would not sit still for it. As the bird flared over the ridge, a single rocket propelled grenade flew through the open rear ramp. The explosion tore the aircraft apart in the sky. All sixteen men aboard were killed the instant it hit the mountain.
Three on the ground. Sixteen in the air. Nineteen American sons gone in a single afternoon. It remains the worst loss of life in Naval Special Warfare history since World War II.
Michael Murphy was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Danny Dietz and Matthew Axelson received the Navy Cross. Marcus Luttrell, blown off a cliff and shredded by shrapnel, was the only one to come home. He survived because a Pashtun villager named Mohammad Gulab found him broken in a ravine and, under an ancient code of honor older than the country these men died for, stood between him and the Taliban and refused to give him up.
Twenty one years later, do not let these be just names on a screen. They had mothers. They had wives. They had children who grew up with a flag folded into a triangle instead of a father. They chose each other over their own lives on a mountain most people will never even hear of.
So today, say their names out loud. All nineteen of them 🇺🇸
In remembrance:
Lt. Michael P. Murphy
Gunner's Mate 2nd Class Danny P. Dietz
Sonar Technician 2nd Class Matthew G. Axelson
Lt. Cmdr. Erik S. Kristensen
Senior Chief Daniel R. Healy
Petty Officer 2nd Class James E. Suh
Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric S. Patton
Chief Petty Officer Jacques J. Fontan
Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffery A. Lucas
Petty Officer 2nd Class Shane E. Patton
Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffrey S. Taylor
Maj. Stephen C. Reich
Chief Warrant Officer Corey J. Goodnature
Chief Warrant Officer Chris J. Scherkenbach
Master Sgt. James W. Ponder III
Sgt. 1st Class Marcus V. Muralles
Sgt. 1st Class Michael L. Russell
Staff Sgt. Shamus O. Goare
Sgt. Kip A. Jacoby
Operation Red Wings. June 28, 2005. Never forgotten.
Since our movement is trending right now, let me introduce myself:
My name is Scott Presler.
I’m an Eagle Scout & son of a retired Navy Captain.
I moved to Pennsylvania in 2024 & launched an organization for the sole purpose of helping to re-elect President Trump.
I’ve spent the last decade of my life registering tens of thousands of voters, electing Republicans to all levels of office, & helping to build up Republican structures from the county & state levels.
I’ve traveled to over 40 states to grow the Republican Party.
For the last 6 months, I’ve met with members of Congress to pass the SAVE America Act — which would require photo voter ID & proof of citizenship to vote.
What I’m advocating for has overwhelming support from the American people.
Yet I was not allowed entry to a dinner last night in Rapid City, South Dakota, because Senate Majority Leader Thune was present.
When they go after me, they are really coming for you.
I will not be bullied, pressured, intimidated & I won’t stop pushing for the country-saving SAVE America Act.
Thank you for having my back — peacefully.
WAIT WAIT WAIT…
The Senate Republicans just UNANIMOUSLY voted to give themselves a 19-DAY VACATION?!!!!!
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!!!!
WE CANNOT PASS THE SAVE ACT BUT THEY CAN ALL GIVE THEMSELVES 19 VACATION DAYS????
WHAT ARE WE EVEN DOING HERE?!!!!
TREASON 🚨
What kind of Majority leader goes to the floor and ignores the will of (85%) of Americans
Raise your hand ✋️ if you agree that Mike Lee needs to be put in as Majority leader
Remove John Thune 👇 install Mike Lee
This Uber driver, a Black woman Lamiyah Jabbar, age 30, picked up a White woman named Diane, who opened up to her about her financial struggles on the way to work at fast food chain Tim Hortons in Buffalo, New York.
Lamiyah dropped Diane at her job, and instead of picking up a new passenger, Lamiyah drove to a shopping mall to visit several stores and asked women who looked to be about Diane's size what clothes they liked to wear and bought those clothes for Diane along with a gift card.
I emphasized the race of the women in this video because that’s all I see on this platform now from both parties but only when the video makes either race look bad. We can also show the good in both sides.
🚨Hit & Run — We Need Your Help🚨
Jerald Wayne Skaines, 78, was struck and killed on Old Washington Rd in NW Harris County on May 23–24. The driver fled. Vehicle of interest: 1994–2001 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup.
📞@CrimeStopHOU: 713-222-8477
📞HCSO: 713-221-6000
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Europeans and American patriots!
Tomorrow, the courts of my country, France, may decide to send me to prison for daring to say on television that “the main danger to women in France is Black African and Arab immigrant men.”
Meanwhile, my own attacker, a Tunisian migrant, is still at large.
I need your help to generate media pressure and hope to be acquitted.
They cannot silence the truth!
Thank you for your support 💪🏻🇫🇷
NO LETTING UP 💥
The last open letter I wrote Thune got picked up by some website, so here's another one
Letter to Majority @LeaderJohnThune 🚨
Dear John Thune.;
This is on behalf of (77.3M) Americans
RESIGN....
Thank you for your attention to this matter
A life was lost. Another life is forever altered. Multiple families are now facing unimaginable pain.
Impaired driving is not an accident—it is a choice, and the consequences can be devastating.
Please plan ahead. Designate a sober driver, call a rideshare, or find another safe way home.
These tragedies are preventable. One responsible decision can save lives.
Hey Jasmine…
Black pilot here.
I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.
I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.
Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.
Nobody lowered the standards for me.
Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”
That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.
Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.
I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.
And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.
They care whether the pilot is qualified.
Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.
And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.
FACT 🚨
@JDVance can walk into the chamber, take the presiding officers chair as Senate President & enforce the rules that would enable a "talking filibuster"
If you want JD Vance to use the powers we vested in him, to do what Thune refuses to do.. let him know, he's tagged
Meet Brad Kalmanson, the Chief Clerk of the Office of System Safety for the @MTA, according to his Facebook page. He made an "8647" post online, which is used to call for the ass*ssination of President Trump.
The MTA is funded using our tax dollars.
Our taxes pay his salary.
You can reach the MTA here: 212-878-7000
Good Morning to all of my MAGA friends
If Brandon Gill was Speaker, Al Green would be removed from every committee, and would be censured for repeatedly calling MarkWayne Mullin a racist
(RP) if you want @SpeakerJohnson to hold Al Green to acct for his actions yesterday
My angel mother who gave me birth, gets one day to recognize her a year.
The heroes who died for our country get one day to recognize them.
The birth of Jesus gets one day a year to celebrate.
And you actually believe I’m gonna give an entire month for you because you’re gay?
NO !!!
Who else feels this way I’m sick of this shit?
At (3PM) today the Senate is back in session
First order of business must be to start the process of removing John Thune
House members say they're not passing any bills w-o the Save America Act attached
We ask 5 Senators to put country over party and
Remove John Thune 👇
The DNC "autopsy" has finally emerged revealing the cause of death of the 2024 Kamala Harris campaign.
You can sum up the nearly 200 pages in one sentence:
"Joe Biden sucked as President and Kamala Harris would have sucked even more."