Casey Hoag

Insight 24/7. Redbird fan - #STL & #ilstu.

[🖤 Buy Physical Media 🖤 @VHSDVDBLURAY4K]

The odds of this happening are like 1 in 525M+

[Augie Nash @AugieNash]

The Cardinals finish with a 50-45 record at the All Star break.

Just 1 game out of a Wild Card spot.

If you expected more than that, I don't know what to tell ya.

This team has exceeded most reasonable fans expectations.

#STLCards

[Steve Cortes @CortesSteve]

Good morning. Today in 1804, Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr in Weehawken New Jersey.

Statue of Hamilton from the Treasury Department, which he founded.

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

In 1988, the Hawley family began excavating a Kansas cornfield after old river maps, survey records, and local accounts placed the steamboat Arabia beneath it.

About 45 feet down, they reached the wreck.

The Arabia had struck a submerged cottonwood snag and sunk in the Missouri River in 1856. The boat still lay where it went down, but by the time the excavation began, the active river channel was nearly half a mile away.

The Missouri had shifted across its floodplain. Repeated floods buried the abandoned channel beneath sand, silt, and mud until the wreck sat below working farmland.

What came out of that old riverbed was more than a shipwreck.

The cargo was a large commercial shipment from one precisely dated voyage. It had been packed in St. Louis for merchants farther upriver and sank before it could be divided among stores and customers.

The shipment included commercial quantities of footwear, hardware, ceramics, textiles, medicines, preserved foods, tools, and household goods. Archaeologists were looking at merchandise before use, breakage, repair, reuse, and disposal altered the assemblage.

That is rare.

Many nineteenth century sites are built from refuse, loss, demolition, and repeated occupation. The Arabia preserved a shipment before it entered any of those processes.

Waterlogged, low oxygen sediment slowed the decay of leather, wood, textiles, seeds, and food that normally survive poorly at dry sites. The result was an unusually large, tightly dated collection of mid nineteenth century goods from the Missouri River trade.

People remember the Arabia because someone found a steamboat beneath a cornfield.

I remember it because the field used to be the Missouri River.

[Derrick Goold @dgoold]

What a great idea @Cardinals and Mercy:

Bringing the Bell to Busch! Signaling the end of their cancer treatment, a #stlcards fan is getting to celebrate and ring the bell (vigorously) at the ballgame.

Incredible moment here.

[4nt1p4tt3rn 🏴‍☠ Appalachistan Wolf Lodge #47 @4nt1p4tt3rn]

when it was Carroll's turn to sign the Declaration of Independence, he rose, went to John Hancock's desk where the document rested, signed his name "Charles Carroll" and returned to his seat. At this point another member of the Continental Congress, who was prejudiced against Carroll because of his Catholicism, commented that Carroll risked nothing in signing the document, as there must be many men named Charles Carroll in the colonies, and so the King would be unlikely to order Carroll's arrest without clear proof that he was the same Charles Carroll who had signed the Declaration.

Carroll immediately returned to Hancock's desk, seized the pen again, and added "of Carrollton" to his name.

[David Carson @PDPJ]

Fireworks over downtown St. Louis and the Arch on July 3, 2026. Go to @Stltoday for full holiday coverage.

[Barbarian Herodotus @BBHerodotus]

Today, on the 250th birthday of The United States of America, a thread of the extant homes of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

1. Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee
- Stratford Hall

[Election Wizard @ElectionWiz]

WATCH: The Boston Pops performs Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture with perfectly choreographed cannon fire from the U.S. military.

As God, country, and the composer intended.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@POTUS welcomes U.S. Army Major Kyle Key, descendant of Francis Scott Key, onto the stage for his Independence Day remarks on the National Mall, where Major Key salutes the homemade American flag discovered in Nazi-occupied Belgium. 🇺🇸

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Remembering Thomas Jefferson and John Adams today!

Two dear friends and giants of American history, they both passed away today in 1826.

Their deaths were just hours apart and on America’s 50th anniversary.

[Tom Ackerman @Ackerman1120]

HELLO, FOURTH OF JULY! #stlcards 🇺🇸
📻: KMOXSports 🎙️: Mike Shannon

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

July 4, 1776 -- The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.

[Augie Nash @AugieNash]

#OTD 2003 - 👇🧨

"Swiiiiiiiing and hello 4th of July! Take a ride on that knockdown pitch big boy! Kerry Wood knocked him down, and NOW Albert looks at him as he goes around first, heeee gives him a glare, say take a little whiff of that big boy! And now Kerry Wood takes a look at Albert as he touches them all. Give it to him big boy! Give it to him! THAT'S how you play baseball. THAT'S when you're a professional like Albert is. You don't glare out there! You don't throw your bat! You don't charge the mound! You just take the next pitch and you hit into the a, seats!” - Mike Shannon

#STLCards

[Stu Smith @thestustustudio]

🇺🇸 One of my favorite pieces of American trivia is that Richard Nixon is the only U.S. president to perform at the Grand Ole Opry.

Come for Nixon playing “God Bless America.” Stay for his surprisingly erudite reflections on country music at 1:30

[MLB @MLB]

James Earl Jones performed an iconic rendition of the national anthem at the 1993 MLB All-Star Game 👏

The legendary actor memorably appeared in the baseball movies “Field of Dreams” and “The Sandlot.”

#July4th #MLB #USA

[Robert Irvine @RobertIrvine]

AMERICA 250

I think it's cool to be an American.

I think it's cool to love your country.

I think it's cool…

…that this country took a kid from England with nothing but a dream and gave him every shot to build a life he never could have imagined back home

…that I get to serve the men and women who wear the cloth of our nation through the Robert Irvine Foundation

...that in the picture above, a guy who came up in the British Royal Navy is becoming an Honorary Chief Petty Officer of the US Navy

…that after 250 years, the American idea is still the boldest bet on human freedom the world has ever seen

…that no matter where you start or what your name is, America still bets on the person willing to outwork everybody else

…that the right to fail, learn, and come back swinging is the greatest gifts this country offers

…that my daughters got to grow up in a place where their only limits are the ones they set for themselves

I think it's cool to love your country.

I think it's cool to be an American.

God bless this great nation of ours.

Happy Fourth to all who celebrate.

To everyone else, grab a plate and pull up a chair. There's so much more I'd love to tell you about this place, which turned out to be everything I dreamed of and so much more. This country belongs to all who are willing to show up and do the work of building it.

That's worth celebrating.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

Happy Independence Day!

There’s a story from the end of the Revolutionary War I want to tell as we celebrate America’s 250th Birthday, and it’s one everyone in the world can learn from.

George Washington, at that moment, after commanding the American forces to victory, was the most powerful man in the new country. Many people talked about making him King of America.

Across the ocean, King George was sitting with an American painter, and asked what he thought Washington would do now that the war was ending. The painter said he believed he would go back to his farm.

The King said, “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”

As the war officially ended, Washington came to speak to Congress and said, “Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theater of Action.” He returned his commission they’d given him in 1775 - after more than 8 years of leading the Americans to victory without pay, and he was home at Mount Vernon for Christmas.

Of course, he was elected as our first President a few years later, and after two terms, showed the same selflessness again when he willingly gave up his power and went back to Mount Vernon again.

That’s true greatness. He had all the power in the world. But power, alone, does not make you great.

Washington’s greatness came from being a true servant - to a cause much bigger than himself. His greatness was his complete lack of selfishness.

The whole story of American Independence is a story of selflessness. It’s a story of people who set their self-interest aside and worked for each other.

We’ve all heard the line about “We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

Apparently, Ben Franklin might have actually never said that.

But that’s fine, because the same mentality is right there in the last line of the Declaration of Independence, published on this day 250 years ago:

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

We mutually pledge to each other.

No one was in this alone. No one was in it for themselves. This was a group of people with different backgrounds who were in it for each other.

Today is a reminder: greatness comes from what we do for each other, never what we do for ourselves.

That’s a lesson that applies no matter what country you call home.

It’s a lesson that doesn’t require any law passed by a politician, because, let’s be honest, if you’re waiting for selfless politicians, I really hope you are not holding your breath.

All of us have the power to be there for the people around us. For our families and friends. For our neighbors. For everyone.

All of us can reach for greatness.

It’s as simple as looking beyond yourself, seeing past the mirror, picking your eyes up from your phone, and pledging to be there for each other.

Happy Fourth. May you all find your own version of greatness today by lifting each other up.

Lift up your neighborhood. Lift up America. Lift up the World.

[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! 🇺🇸

[US Department of the Interior @Interior]

Fireworks 🤝 Mount Rushmore

A tradition returns.

Happy 250th Birthday, America. 🇺🇸