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[Claire @clairedrain]

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[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence, Abraham Clark may have paid the highest personal price. Almost nobody knows his story. Buckle up.

He was a New Jersey farm kid considered too frail for farm work, so he taught himself math, then surveying, then law. He never got rich from it because he kept defending poor farmers who could not pay him. His neighbors called him "the Poor Man's Counselor."

In the early hours of July 4, 1776, while Congress debated independence in Philadelphia, Clark wrote a letter to a friend with one of the most chilling lines of the Revolution: "Perhaps our Congress will be exalted on a high gallows."

He signed anyway.

Then the British made it personal. Two of his sons were officers in the Continental Army, and both were captured. They were thrown onto the prison ship Jersey in New York Harbor, the deadliest place of the entire war. More Americans died on British prison ships than in every battle of the Revolution combined.

One son got it even worse. He was locked in the dungeon and given no food except what other starving prisoners could push through the keyhole of his cell.

The British reportedly offered Clark a deal: renounce the Declaration, switch sides, and your boys go free.

He refused.

Here is the part that breaks me. Clark sat in Congress through all of it and never once brought it up. No special pleading, no favors. Congress only found out through other channels and threatened retaliation against a British officer, which finally got his son out of the dungeon.

After the war, he kept choosing the little guy. He fought for debt relief for struggling farmers and refused to support the Constitution until he was assured a Bill of Rights would protect ordinary citizens.

In September 1794, at age 68, the self-taught surveyor who outlasted the British Empire died of sunstroke after a long day working on his own farm.

No statue on the National Mall. No musical. Just a small town in New Jersey called Clark, and most people who drive through it have no idea why.

Some men signed the Declaration with ink. Abraham Clark signed it with his sons.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Not even 1 story

[Luke Arcaini @ArcainiLuke]

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen somebody get a standing ovation for allowing a run.

Cristopher Sanchez smiles as his streak ends. What a moment for the lefty. He’s in baseball history forever.

[Dan El Captain @Mrstanleycup]

Missing After St. Patrick’s Day: What Happened to Patricia “Patty” DePunte? 📷📷
More than 35 years later, the disappearance of Patricia “Patty” DePunte remains one of South Jersey’s haunting unsolved mysteries.
Patty, a 32-year-old beautician from Pleasantville, vanished during the early morning hours of March 18, 1990 after a night out in Atlantic City.
Friends described Patty as outgoing, social, and well-liked. Although she occasionally drank heavily, those close to her said she was dependable, responsible at work, and always stayed in touch with family. Her sudden disappearance was completely out of character.
On the night of March 17, Patty went to the Irish Pub on St. James Place near the boardwalk to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Witnesses later reported seeing her arguing with two women while seated beside a white male believed to be in his early 30s. At some point during the night, Patty asked the man for a ride home.
She was last seen leaving the pub with him sometime between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m.
Investigators later identified the man, who was reportedly married at the time. His vehicle was impounded and examined for forensic evidence. According to his statement, he dropped Patty off in the pouring rain sometime around 3:00 to 4:00 a.m. However, reports differ on the exact location. Some accounts say she was left three blocks south of the pub, while others state she was dropped off only half a block from her apartment on South Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Patty reportedly mentioned wanting to visit a nearby casino before going home, but investigators were never able to determine whether she actually made it there.
After that night, she disappeared without a trace.
Patty was described as standing between 4’8” and 4’11” tall and weighing approximately 95 pounds. She had blonde hair, blue eyes, and was last seen wearing a white shirt, blue jeans, and high-heeled shoes. One source also stated she may have been wearing a jade ring.
Born on April 14, 1957, Patty grew up in Pleasantville and graduated from Pleasantville High School. She worked as a hairdresser at Jean’s Beauty Salon and was known by friends and family as caring and outgoing.
Despite the passage of time, her case remains unsolved. Dental records are available, and investigators continue hoping someone may finally come forward with information that could lead to answers.
Anyone with information about Patricia DePunte’s disappearance is urged to contact the Atlantic City Police Department at 609-347-5766.—

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

This is Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer, who died heroically while trying to retake United Flight 93 from Al Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. His final resting place, is in Cranbury, NJ — where he was living with his wife and children before his murder. Cranbury is located in NJ-12, where the new Democratic nominee for Congress is Adam Hamawy.

Hamawy was a close associate and translator to Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ an arch terrorist convicted of masterminding multiple plots against targets in NYC — including the World Trade Center. Hamawy testified at Adbel-Rahman’s trial, as a defense witness.

It has also been reported that Hamawy traveled to Bosnia to volunteer at an organization that was later unmasked as an Al Qaeda front group.

One of Hamawy’s loudest and most high-profile supporters and endorsers has openly declared that America deserved the 9/11 attacks.

Hamawy is now the prohibitive frontrunner to represent Todd Beamer’s district in the United States Congress.

[Sam Stoffel @sam_stoffel]

Founder of lululemon on what he'd tell every 25 year old:

"I'd tell them that every person in the world is an individual with a different genetic makeup and a different upbringing and the way that you're thinking is so radically different than every other person in the world and incomparable that if you have an idea and you want to move forward with it, don't worry so much about the competition because nobody will be able to replicate you and the way you think about it."

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

He’s the President of the United States — not your ex, not your personal villain, and not the cause of your misery. You don’t have to support him. That’s America.

But if someone is simply backing the sitting President and it makes you rage, cut people off, attack families, or act like garbage — you are the problem.

You’ve turned politics into a personality disorder: nonstop outrage and toddler meltdowns online. Grow up. He won. The sky didn’t fall. Pay your bills, care for your family, touch grass, and move on.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The richest man in America signed a document that could have gotten him hanged, and when someone sneered that he was safe because no one would know which Charles Carroll to come for, he picked up the pen and told the British exactly where to find him.

His name was Charles Carroll, and the colonies were crawling with men who shared it. His own father was Charles Carroll of Annapolis. So when the Declaration of Independence came to him for signing in 1776, a delegate made a cruel little joke. He said Carroll risked nothing by signing. There were so many Charles Carrolls that the King's men would never know which one to hang.

Carroll didn't argue. He leaned over the page and added three words to his signature: "of Carrollton." The name of his estate. His address. He was the only signer in the entire room who wrote down where he lived, and he did it on purpose, so that if the British wanted to come hang the traitor, they would know exactly which door to knock on.

That is who Charles Carroll of Carrollton was.

Here is what makes the moment even sharper. He was not a man with little to lose. He was the single wealthiest man in the thirteen colonies and the largest private landowner among them. While George Washington and John Hancock get talked about as rich men, it was Carroll who topped them all. When he signed, he was wagering the biggest personal fortune in America against a noose.

And he was the last man anyone would have expected to be there at all. Carroll was Catholic. In colonial Maryland, a colony founded as a Catholic refuge that had since turned on its own, Catholics could not vote. They could not hold public office. They could not worship in public. The most educated, wealthiest man in America was, in the eyes of the law, a second-class subject barred from the very government he was helping to create. He had spent seventeen years being educated by Jesuits in France and spoke five languages fluently, and back home he still could not legally cast a ballot.

So he became the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, putting his name on a revolution that he hoped would build a country with room for men like him. That was its own enormous bet, made by a man the existing system had already shut out.

Then he simply outlived everyone.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same astonishing day, July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the Declaration. When they were gone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the last living signer left on earth. For six more years he was the final human link to that room in Philadelphia, the last hand that had signed, a living relic of the founding that ordinary Americans traveled to see and shake.

He finally died in November 1832 at the age of ninety-five, fifty-six years after he wrote his address on a treason document and dared the empire to come find him.

The richest man in America. The only Catholic. The last one standing. He had more to lose than any of them, every legal reason to stay quiet, and he signed his full address anyway.

We remember the names we were handed in school. We forget the man who made sure his couldn't be mistaken for anyone else's.

Which Founding Father do you think history shortchanged the most?

[Claire @clairedrain]

@kevinnbass 💯

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

I think many of the radical leftists from half a century ago were motivated by a sense of injustice. I think they would be on the Right today. The moral justification for the Left has completely broken down; the idealists who want a better world have all moved to the Right.

[Rowan Baseball @RowanBaseball_]

𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐊 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐒!

To everyone who supported Rowan Baseball this year from the beginning to the end, thank you!

[JAMA @JAMA_current]

💬 Editorial: Engagement of management consultants by nonprofit hospitals was not associated with meaningful changes in finances, operations, or patient outcomes across aggregate data. https://t.co/rFKRP76A0q

[Coach Matthews @Coach1Matthews]

Defensive Impact Player of the game at the first @D2SportsNetwork SJ All-Star Game! Cole had two INTs in the game! @ColeDessicino @OCHS_Football

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Whoopi Goldberg’s comments reveal everything wrong with identity politics.

I didn’t marry my wife because she’s white.

She didn’t marry me because I’m Black.

We got married because we share the same values, the same faith, and the same vision for raising a family.

At no point did marrying a white woman make me less Black.

At no point did marrying a Black man make my wife less white.

What it made us was a family.

The people obsessed with race can’t understand that most Americans don’t choose friends, spouses, or family based on skin color. We choose them based on character, values, and love.

The civil rights movement wasn’t about putting race at the center of everything. It was about moving beyond it.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Bill Cowher shares the 3 things he told his 3 daughters - and his 53 players.

"Number one - choices and consequences."

"You can control your choice. But once you make a choice, it controls you...Just understand - with every decision you make, there's a consequence that goes with that."

Your choices and actions matter.

"Number two - it's about the people you surround yourself with."

"Are they people that are purpose-driven? Or are they people that are just trying to feed off of who you are?"

"I want people around me that are purpose-driven. People focused on doing something impactful and meaningful."

"And the third thing - nothing good happens after midnight. Nothing."

Three rules. A lifetime of wisdom.

Your choices control you. Your circle defines you. Your habits protect you.
(🎥Ray Lewis Show: @raylewis)

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

And this is:

The President of the United States:

— Just signed an order revoking Chris Krebs’s security clearance and directed @DOJ to investigate him for his role in the overthrow of the U.S. government on November 3, 2020.

Krebs was the head of CISA, who weaponized his position and conspired with the FBI and Big Tech to censor truth, evidence, proof, and testimony during and after the overthrow on November 3, 2020—and who designated the 2020 election as the most “secure election in American history.”

———————

Freedom of Information Act:

Documents obtained by investigative journalist @yehuda_miller through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal:

— A secret meeting organized on Election Day, November 3, 2020, by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), involving Dominion officials, the FBI, and Antifa, to discuss the overthrow of the United States government with private left-leaning companies and Democratic groups.

The list includes over 200 names of individuals, government entities, private businesses, media outlets, and tech giants. It includes members from Dominion, ES&S, ERIC Systems, Amazon, Runbeck, Microsoft, Scytl, several Secretary of State offices, the Associated Press, and leftist groups.

Several high-profile individuals included Jennifer Morrell with the Elections Group (wife of CIA Mike Morell—who conspired with the 51 intelligence officials), Ryan Macias with The Lafayette Group, Antifa member Eric Coomer with Dominion, and Jocelyn Benson, the Michigan Secretary of State, and the Serbian intermediary—whom I am certain brought her NGO along. Not a single conservative was invited. Not one.

[Rowan Baseball @RowanBaseball_]

𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐤𝐞.

The Rowan Profs fall short in Ohio and finish the season with a record of 37-8

[Rowan Baseball @RowanBaseball_]

Watch The Profs Live From Anywhere - https://t.co/GZEMLMYgcX

[Rowan Baseball @RowanBaseball_]

𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐬 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐎𝐧𝐞☝️

[Rowan Baseball @RowanBaseball_]

𝐃𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐀 𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐎 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐓💣

Brayden Davis homers to put the Profs up 3-1