brogliorose

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

The direction people flee is evidence, and the evidence is total. Men risk death to escape socialism and risk everything to reach freedom. No one has ever scaled a wall to get into a socialist paradise.

People run toward freedom because it's the only place a person gets to live for himself, by his own effort and his own choices.

But running only works while there's somewhere to run to. If we let it happen here, there's no America to escape to next. That's why we have to win the argument now, on principle, while freedom still has a home.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

He played a soldier who lost both legs.

The role earned him an Oscar nomination.

Then real wounded veterans started calling him “Lieutenant Dan.”

It changed his life forever.

After portraying Lt. Dan Taylor in Forrest Gump (1994), Gary Sinise became one of Hollywood’s most recognizable actors.

But after 9/11, something shifted.

As thousands of Americans returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with life-changing injuries, Sinise began visiting military hospitals.

The veterans didn’t see a movie star.

They saw someone who understood, even if only through a role.

So he kept showing up.

In 2003, he formed the Lt. Dan Band, performing free concerts for troops, veterans, and military families around the world.

Then, in 2011, he launched the Gary Sinise Foundation.

While still starring on CSI: NY, he spent his days filming and his nights raising money, visiting hospitals, and supporting military families.

Eventually, the mission became his full-time work.

One program became the heart of it all:

R.I.S.E. (Restoring Independence Supporting Empowerment).

The goal wasn’t simply to thank wounded veterans.

It was to give them their independence back.

The foundation builds specially adapted, mortgage-free smart homes for America’s most severely wounded veterans.

Wider doorways.

Roll-in showers.

Accessible kitchens.

Voice-activated technology.

Homes designed for people whose lives were permanently changed in combat.

Each one is given to the veteran free of charge.

Since its founding, the Gary Sinise Foundation has delivered more than 100 of these custom-built homes while also providing mobility equipment, mental health support, emergency relief, and millions of meals to service members, veterans, first responders, and their families.

Sinise once said:

“We can never do enough for our nation’s defenders, but we can always do a little more.”

He could have spent the last two decades chasing bigger movie roles.

Instead, he chose hospital hallways over red carpets.

A character he played for two hours became a mission he has lived for more than twenty years.

Sometimes the greatest role a person ever plays…

isn’t on a screen.

It’s in real life.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Harley. She's never rolled down a hill before, but she's super proud of her first attempt. 13/10 nailed it

[Senator Dave McCormick @SenMcCormickPA]

An American hero stopped by our PA booth at the Great American State Fair.

Bob Shumaker, born in New Castle, PA, is a U.S. Navy pilot who was shot down over North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. He endured eight years as a prisoner of war at the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” and, thankfully, came home.

Hearing him say PA still feels like home is something every Pennsylvanian can be proud of. Thank you for your service, Bob 🇺🇸

[Atelier Missor @AtelierMissor_]

Our first contribution to the rebeautification of the USA, here in Washington DC.

As Frenchmen, we are honored to serve the friendship between our two great nations.

[Japan Embassy DC🌸 @JapanEmbDC]

We went to the Tidal Basin to check out the cherry blossom trees Japan gifted to the people of the US in celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. 🇯🇵❤️🇺🇸
見に来てね！Come see the trees for yourself! 🌸

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism-by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide."

— Ayn Rand

[Viktyr @Viktyr79]

@Badhombre A few Molten Salt reactors could power all of NYC and let them chill at 68F no problem all summer long every year.

[Lord Vetinari @PvtMcAuslan]

@Badhombre @Hansy18 Simple - re-open Indian Point nuclear plant, and build a dozen more reactors. Then invest in grid build-out and maintenance. Presto - everything’s good. We actually know how to do this.

[Noodles Now @Noodles_Now]

@Badhombre Once you trade in your UC vehicle for EV and the grid cannot handle it, they will say that individuals should not own cars. They will be taxed into oblivion.

[brogliorose @brogliorose]

@Noodles_Now @CololelS @Badhombre I think colonel slanders is arguing above his weight class.

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

Help me out here, Kathy. You’re saying the electric grid can’t handle ACs in the summer, but you also want everyone to replace their gasoline cars with electric vehicles. How does that work?

[Overton @overton_news]

Victor Davis Hanson says he knows he’ll get in trouble for saying it, but many of the Democrats’ most radical voices are first or second-generation immigrants from FAILED nations.

Ilhan Omar, AOC, Mamdani, Chevalier.

Hanson argues they learned early that trashing America gets them protected and advanced by the left.

HANSON: “One of the things that's not being talked about and I know I'll get criticized for this but here it is...”

“If you look at the candidates, Chevalier, and AOC, and Rashida Tlaib, and Mamdani, and I could go on...”

“But the kingpins, they’re first or second generation...immigrants. And they come from areas that, to be candid and a little blunt, are failed miserable places, such as Ghana or the Caribbean, or many Latin American countries, or Mexico.”

“Almost 50-60% of them are.”

“So they come to this country either with their parents or their parents came and they were born. And they sense, they put their feelers up...and they learn very early on that if you trash this country, the left will protect you and advance you.”

“And no matter how much money you have — AOC’s parents were pretty affluent. Ilhan Omar claims she was worth $30 million. Mamdani’s a multimillionaire settler colonialist from Uganda.”

“And when you look at all of them, they have nothing but contempt.”

“Then don’t come! There’s no reason you have to come. You came here because it was prosperous and safe, and there was not inbred tribal racism as in all these countries.”

“Apparently, the people came with Ilhan Omar because they were on the side of the genocidal [Mohamed] Siad Barre.”

“They keep saying genocide, genocide! The only person that really is a genocidal maniac was Siad Barre, the head of the Somali government, of which a lot of these immigrants’ parents were part of, including Ilhan Omar.”

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

Ok, this pretty cool from the Las Vegas Sphere 🇺🇸

[Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza]

I haven’t seen this footage of the huge crowd for President Trump today in North Dakota anywhere on the news. I wonder why!

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🔥 HELL YEAH! A pilot just used his airplane to draw a USA 250th banner using his flight path

It took him over FIVE HOURS of flying time to do this.

What a PATRIOT! 🇺🇸

[Monica Crowley @MonicaCrowley]

The Washington Monument is illuminated every night with the Story of America.

It’s SPECTACULAR 🤩🇺🇸

[@amuse @amuse]

SCOTUS: The current ethics rules allow Supreme Court justices' spouses to accept millions from Democrat law firms without any disclosure. Chief Justice Roberts' wife has accepted millions from law firms with cases in front of her husband.
https://t.co/CFUh45GWXB

[Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew]

And you can prioritize the removal of women of child bearing age who are found in the country illegally.

That can be written into the regulations by DHS/DOJ.

These are the tools that Court has left the Executive with.