Shrug Atlas, Shrug

If you love Communism now, just wait until you see the meal plan!

[Shrug Atlas, Shrug @ffejimus]

@SecScottBessent @usmint The Dear Leader Complex continues

[Shrug Atlas, Shrug @ffejimus]

@IngrahamAngle The only thing he fought for was more war and more spending.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

In 1945 the USS Indianapolis secretly delivered the parts for the atomic bomb that would hit Hiroshima.

Days later, mission done, a Japanese submarine put two torpedoes into her. She sank in 12 minutes.

Nearly 900 men made it off the ship alive and into the open ocean. Then it got worse.

No one knew they were missing. Three separate Navy stations picked up the distress signals and every one of them ignored it. One officer thought it was a Japanese trap. Another had ordered not to be disturbed.

So the men floated. For almost five days. No food, no fresh water, burning by day and freezing at night. Some drank seawater and went insane. And the whole time, the sharks were circling and feeding. It is considered the worst shark attack in human history.

When rescue finally came by accident, only 316 of the nearly 1,200 crew were still alive.

The Navy needed someone to blame for the disaster. They chose Captain Charles McVay, one of the men who survived it. He became the only U.S. captain in the entire war to be court-martialed for losing his ship to the enemy.

At his trial the Navy did something almost unheard of. They brought in the Japanese commander who sank the ship to testify against him. Instead, the enemy captain told the court that zigzagging would have made no difference and that McVay did nothing wrong.

They convicted him anyway.

For years afterward McVay got hate mail from the families of the dead. Some sent letters every Christmas telling him he murdered their sons. In 1968 he walked onto his front lawn and shot himself, holding a toy sailor he had kept since he was a boy.

Case closed. For fifty years.

Then in 1996 an 11-year-old named Hunter Scott watched Jaws with his dad and got hooked on the 30 second speech about the Indianapolis. He made it his sixth grade history project.

He tracked down and interviewed nearly 150 survivors. He dug through more than 800 documents. And buried in there he found what the Navy had left out, including that they knew enemy subs were operating right on the ship's route and never warned McVay.

A kid's school project turned into a national story. It reached Congress. In 2000 lawmakers passed a resolution clearing McVay's name and President Clinton signed it. The Navy officially cleared his record in 2001.

The captain the Navy spent decades blaming was finally exonerated by a sixth grader.

Hunter Scott grew up and became a naval flight officer.

[Sam E. Antar @SamAntar]

.@RoKhanna, the public deserves answers—not carefully worded talking points.

The alleged incident occurred on July 8. You gave an interview to Reuters on July 9. The story was published on July 11, followed by your social media campaign and national TV appearances.

A few straightforward questions:

Why wasn’t this trip publicized in advance? For a politician as media-focused as you, the silence before the trip—and the publicity afterward—deserves an explanation.

You say this was a serious 90-minute detention. Why did you say nothing about it on your own X account for approximately three days, even though you had already given Reuters an interview the next day? What changed between July 9 and July 11?

When reports emerged that you allegedly declined requests to meet with former hostages and hostage families during this trip, you responded, “I have met with Israeli hostages.” That does not answer whether you met with any of them during this visit. Which hostages were you referring to? When and where did those meetings occur? Did you meet with any hostages or hostage families during this trip? If not, why didn’t you answer the actual allegation directly?

You have publicly said you were detained by armed settlers and the IDF. What specific actions by the IDF constituted your detention? Who physically blocked the road? Did Israeli soldiers order you to remain, or otherwise prevent you from leaving? The IDF disputes that account. Will you release the complete, unedited video so the public can see the sequence for itself?

Your delegation reportedly remained at the scene for roughly 90 minutes. How much contemporaneous video and photographic evidence was recorded? Will you release all of it—not selected clips, but the complete record?

Who paid for this trip: your congressional office, your campaign, another organization, or someone else? Will you release the travel and funding disclosures so the public can verify the answer?

Finally, will you release the contemporaneous text messages, emails, photographs and videos generated by your delegation during those 90 minutes? If your account is accurate, full transparency should only strengthen your credibility.

These aren’t partisan questions. They’re the questions any member of Congress should be prepared to answer after making serious public allegations involving a foreign government.

Transparency shouldn’t require this many questions.

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

Never forget when Senator Lindsey Graham dismissed hurricane victims to talk about israel

Holy shit… they’ll never be able to replace him!

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

Here is a picture of @RoKhanna in Hebron.

The mayor of Hebron is a Palestinian named Tayseer Abu Sneineh. In 1980, he murdered 6 people, including 2 Americans.

I wonder if Ro ever brought that up.

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

Let me get this straight: Ro Khanna was taking a lot of heat at home because he was propping up a Nazi-sympathizing rapist (Graham Platner).

So in order to take the heat off of the fact that he had propped up a Nazi rapist, he flew to Israel to fabricate a diplomatic incident with an ally on behalf of a different group of Nazi-sympathizing rapists (Arab-Islamic supremacists).

And all of this could have been avoided if he had simply coordinated his visit with Israeli authorities instead of having a tour guide sneak him into a military-protected zone.

Do I have that right?

[AG @AGHamilton29]

This isn’t a few people. Ro Khanna has gone around for several years telling everyone whatever he thought they wanted to hear.

His whole political career is built around being an attention-seeking fraud with no actual beliefs.

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Ro Khanna backed a Nazi tattooed rapist after he was credibly accused of domestic abuse.

To distract from that, he ran to Israel to enter a government restricted area and stage a PR stunt.

If you’re falling for this, you’re an idiot. And apparently, lots of idiots exist.

[Shrug Atlas, Shrug @ffejimus]

@jalle51 AI slop image

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

In 1943, the Gestapo finally caught Raymond Aubrac, one of France’s most wanted Resistance leaders.

The German secret police sentenced him to death, and his execution was only days away.

At that very moment, his wife Lucie was six months pregnant with their second child.

Most people would have hidden, mourned quietly, and hoped for a miracle.

Lucie Aubrac chose a different path.

Using forged identity papers and a carefully crafted story, she walked directly into the office of Klaus Barbie, the man history would remember as the Butcher of Lyon.

She looked him in the eye and persuaded him to allow one final visit with her condemned husband.

But she wasn't there to say goodbye.

Inside the prison, Lucie studied everything.

She memorized the guards' positions, counted the time between patrols, and traced the exact route the prison truck would follow.

Every detail became part of a carefully planned mission.

On October 21, 1943, the prison truck carried Raymond and other prisoners through the streets of Lyon toward what should have been their final destination.

What the German guards didn't know was that Lucie had spent weeks assembling a Resistance team and planning an ambush with extraordinary precision.

When the truck reached the chosen location, her team struck without hesitation.

Gunfire erupted.

Amid the chaos, Raymond Aubrac was pulled from the truck and set free.

The operation had been organized by a woman who was visibly pregnant.

After the rescue, the couple disappeared into hiding.

Weeks later, Lucie gave birth to their daughter in a secret safe house while German forces searched across France.

They remained free until the w@r finally ended.

When peace returned, they chose to rebuild rather than retreat.

Raymond became an engineer and helped rebuild France's infrastructure.

Lucie became a respected historian, dedicating her life to ensuring the women of the French Resistance were never forgotten.

Together they raised three children, shared decades of life, and grew old side by side.

When asked why she risked everything, Lucie answered without hesitation.

"He was my husband. What else would I do?"

Their story proved that love is strongest when it refuses to surrender, even in history's darkest moments.

[Early Riders @Early_Riders]

Since 1971, US home prices are up 17x while the M2 money supply is up 36x. Case-Shiller is a repeat-sales index, so this is the same houses.

The unit of account shrinking. Houses did not get better, money got worse.

[DSA Watch @DSA_Watch]

DSA Members: "The most important thing we can do is take America down from within"

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

Plotting the overthrow of the country isn't constitutionally protected activity.

Speaking academically about how the country could be taken down is protected, but that's not what the DSA is doing. These aren't academic theories being debated in a classroom.

This is a heavily funded and highly active political party actively strategizing about how to execute plans to take the country down, while electing members to office and infiltrating American institutions.

None of this is protected by the constitution, and we have every right to dissolve the DSA and throw these people into prison for sedition.

These people aren't kidding around here. And we need to get a LOT more ruthless with them.

[Shrug Atlas, Shrug @ffejimus]

@ScottJenningsKY Dude, you literally spoke to a vegetable today and said he’s fine. I can’t wait to the truth comes out and your ass gets fired.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

This is the 2026 equivalent of people asserting that Biden was "sharp as a tack" in private conversations

[Theo Wold @RealTheoWold]

Graham Platner is a Democrat political consultant's idea of what a working class American looks like. The political left has become so separated from working Americans that only they would think a certified basket case who harvests oysters as a hobby would be able to relate to the concerns of blue collar America.

[Shrug Atlas, Shrug @ffejimus]

They knew about this guy’s history but pushed him anyways.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I have spoken with Graham Platner about the best path forward for Maine. In light of these very serious allegations, I have recommended that he step aside.

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

I have now read this highlighted sentence seventeen times because I assumed I wan't actually reading what was written. Surely my eyes didn't actually read this. Maybe someone accidentally pasted in dialogue from "The Onion." back when it was funny. But no.

She is saying that she delayed reporting a rape because she agreed with the accused, politically.

This is one of those moments where, if your IQ is over 85, your brain quietly excuses itself from the room.

We have apparently reached a point where politics has become the emotional-support animal for basic human survival instincts. "Yes, this person committed one of the worst crimes imaginable against me, but we both liked the same tax policy. Awkward."

If your political identity has become so central that it can outweigh reporting your own rape, congratulations: you hve joined a cult. Cults are famous for making people subordinate reality, morality, and self-preservation to the interests of the group.

I hate cults. I hate them a lot.
They don't ask you to ignore facts all at once: they ask for one tiny compromise after another until one day you discover you're explaining away things that should be absolutely indefensible.

What's sad isnt just that people end up there. It's that many of them don't even realize it. They sincerely believe they're making a principled decision when, from the outside, everyone else is wondering why the obvious isn't obvious anymore.

At least religious cults usually promise enlightenment, salvation, eternal life, or an alien spaceship hiding behind a comet. Political cults dont even offer that. They ask you to sacrifice your judgment, your relationships, sometimes even your own well-being in exchange for cable-news talking points, in favor of a politician who will sell you out for a pack of gum.

That's a spectacularly bad trade.

At some point, "my team" has to lose to "the person who committed a violent felony against me." That's not supposed to be a close game.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Democrats waited until after the July 4th holiday to code red Platner. They did it with a full week left to force him out of the race. It’s diabolical how they are fine with erasing primaries & hand picking new “nominees” all while claiming Republicans will destroy democracy.