Dame Gray 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇮🇸

American, attorney, oenophile, art enthusiast, and world traveler.

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

@Complex Petit disque orange (rotated), by František Kupka, 1932

[Boo @IzaBooboo]

Ok, but

[Tiffany Fong @TiffanyFong]

SpaceX is now worth more than Canada

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨NEWS: Rupert Lowe has written to the prime minister demanding the public be told the full details of the attacker last night in Belfast.

Inc: Nationality, immigration status, religion.

[Noah Taylor @ByNoahTaylor]

June 5, 1944 —

“Tonight is the night of nights.

Tomorrow throughout the whole of our homeland and the Allied world the bells will ring out the tidings that you have arrived, and the invasion for liberation has begun.”

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On the morning of June 4, 1942, a US Navy pilot strapped into his dive bomber, took a breath from his oxygen canister, and inhaled caustic soda fumes.

The canister was defective. His lungs were already burning.

He flew the mission anyway.

By sunset, Dick Best had done something no pilot in history has done before or since. And he paid for it with everything.

Best was 31, commander of Bombing Squadron Six aboard USS Enterprise. Six months after Pearl Harbor, America was losing the Pacific. Four Japanese carriers, the same fleet that had attacked Hawaii, were steaming toward Midway to finish the US Navy for good.

His air group launched that morning and found nothing but empty ocean. Fuel running low, the formation was minutes from turning back when group commander Wade McClusky spotted a lone Japanese destroyer racing north at full speed. He made a gut call: follow it.

The destroyer led them straight to the entire Japanese fleet.

Then came the mistake that almost ruined everything. Doctrine said McClusky's group should take the far carrier and Best's squadron the near one. Instead, nearly all 30 dive bombers poured down on the same ship, Kaga.

Best watched his own squadron dive past him onto the wrong target. So he pulled out, signaled his two wingmen, and went after the other carrier with 3 planes instead of 15.

That carrier was Akagi. The flagship. The ship that had launched the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Best rolled into his dive through anti-aircraft fire and put a 1,000 lb bomb through the flight deck near the midship elevator. It exploded in the hangar below, packed with fueled and armed torpedo planes. The blast set off a chain reaction that no one aboard could stop.

One bomb. One hit. Akagi was finished.

In roughly five minutes that morning, three of Japan's four carriers were burning wrecks. Historians call it the most decisive five minutes of the entire war.

But one carrier was left. That afternoon, coughing and getting worse, Best climbed back into his cockpit and flew again. His squadron found Hiryu at dusk and sent her to the bottom too.

Two carriers in one day. The only pilot ever to do it.

That night, Best was coughing blood. The caustic fumes had activated latent tuberculosis in his ruined lungs. He spent 32 months in hospitals and never flew again.

June 4, 1942 was his last flight.

Japan never recovered. The empire that had been undefeated for centuries lost the initiative in a single morning and spent the rest of the war in retreat.

And the most consequential single bomb dropped before Hiroshima was delivered by a man who was slowly suffocating as he aimed it.

84 years ago today.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt just unleashed this MIC DROP

"The number one question everybody has for me when they hear my plan is, how can we do that Spencer? We don't have the money.' WE HAVE THE MONEY. IT'S JUST BEING STOLEN."

Elect this man! 🔥🔥

"You pay countless tax dollars. You're taxed on your income. You're taxed on your gas. You're taxed on your property. You're taxed out the every single expensive transaction you endure is taxed."

Potholes, public safety, homeless? "WE DO HAVE THE MONEY, IT'S JUST BEING STOLEN"

"Karen Bass and Nithya Raman have sunk billions of dollars into the homeless problem, but it's all being wasted on dubious NGOs that increase drug use, hand out needles, and crack pipes, and actually give drugs to the addicts on the streets of LA."

"A developer bought a property for homeless housing, had $11 million. Days later, the city paid him $27.3 million, a $16 million flip. No new carpets, no pool addition, just straight up fraud."

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Of course, you probably haven’t heard about this on mainstream media in the United States, so here it is

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

Jason Miyares calls out the sanctuary policies of Fairfax County and the victims who have been harmed and killed as a result of them while Fairfax DA Steve Descano sits next to him visibly uncomfortable and shaking his head.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

The mayor of Charlotte, NC asks that we not post about this lady murdered on a Charlotte train by a repeat offender with 14 prior arrests!
I say in Iryna’s memory please share and make this go viral! A repeat offender with 14 prior arrests should not be roaming the streets of ANY city! They should be locked up!! Epic failure in the justice system!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP! UK PM Keir Starmer has LOST over 1,303 Council seats

His Labour Party has lost WALES for the first time in 100 years

Nigel Farage's Reform SURGED over +1,400 seats! 🤯

THE PEOPLE ARE FURIOUS!

Take your country back! 🇺🇸🇬🇧

[Rob Schmitt @SchmittNYC]

This is amazing

[CeCe @cecegkh]

This is hilarious! Gen X, running the world since 1965 😂😂

How many of the new hires were in tears by the end of this?

[Dame Gray 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇮🇸 @damegray]

Stop eating in the cardigan- lots of mid-level staining

[Lester @Chen]

the best 3 minutes of video I've watched this year

[Tironianae 🍊🍊 Z. - Ultra Verbum Vincet @Tironianae]

🚨 BREAKING: Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, who Biden FIRED for exposing rampant DEI in the Pentagon, has just been confirmed by the Senate as Under Secretary of the Air Force

WHAT A COMEBACK! 🔥

Well deserved, @matthewlohmeier! 👏

[Roseanne Barr @therealroseanne]

Remember when you and your wife called Bob Iger to have me fired?

[First Lady Melania Trump @FLOTUS]

Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.

People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.

A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.

Enough is enough.  It is time for ABC to take a stand.  How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Exposing California's corrupt "Stop Nick Shirley Act", instead of going after the fraudsters California is now going after the people exposing the fraud.

This bill AB 2624 will:
- Criminalize journalists with misdemeanors, $10,000 fines, imprisonment, and content takedown
- Let immigrant based NGOs' funding be confidential
- Take away freedom of the press from journalists
- Protect any "immigration support services" information from being public (healthcare, legal services, etc)

This bill was created by the Attorney General's WIFE Mia Bonta to stop fraud from being exposed. Please like and share this video everywhere! By trying to silence and intimidate journalists, they are trying to hide the truth from you. EXPOSE ALL THE FRAUD.