Johnny Appleseed 🇺🇸

[America @america]

Happy 250th Birthday, America 🇺🇸

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

The Declaration of Independence is the greatest document ever produced by man. It’s no coincidence that it was the founding document of our nation and we went on to be the most prosperous civilization in human history. Any country founded on that document is worth loving and fighting to save.

It is also, undeniably, a radically libertarian document that clearly states the validity of natural God given rights and that the only legitimate role for government is the protection of liberty.

We have serious problems in our country today and we will be much better off if we follow the spirit of our founding document than the brain dead varying socialisms being promoted by both political parties.

[Still Boneless @still_boneless]

Remember. You are America.

Here’s to 250 more.

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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Congress just passed a bill that could force you to upload your ID or scan your face to use the internet.

It is called the KIDS Act, and almost nobody wants to vote against protecting children online.

That is exactly the problem.

Last week the House passed it 267 to 117. It bundles 14 digital safety bills together, anchored by a revised version of the Kids Online Safety Act.

The bill says it does not require age verification. It even includes a disclaimer saying so.

The catch is one clause away. Platforms get held liable if they "knew or should have known" a user was a minor.

That is a low bar. It means a regulator decides after the fact whether a company should have figured out someone was 15. No platform wants to gamble on that, so the safe move is to just verify everyone.

Here is where "protect the kids" quietly flips. To prove you are not a minor, you have to prove you are an adult. Driver's licenses, passports, or a facial scan to log on.

The net does not catch children. It catches all of us.

Then there is the security problem. Force millions of people to upload IDs everywhere, and somebody ends up sitting on a giant pile of passport scans and face data.

The Tea app showed how it goes. It required a selfie and a government ID, promised to delete them right after, and did not. In July 2025, about 13,000 of those IDs and selfies leaked onto 4chan, some still carrying GPS data that let someone map where users lived.

The KIDS Act would mandate that exact collection across the whole internet.

Kids do run into real harm online, and wanting to fix that is fair. But this fix builds a surveillance system that touches every adult. Rep. Thomas Massie called it a Trojan horse bill.

It now heads to the Senate. The real question is simple. Is protecting kids online worth building an internet where everyone has to prove who they are just to log on?

Source: EFF, ACLU, R Street Institute, NBC News, The Hill / Writer: Julie

[Natalie F Danelishen @Chesschick01]

Yup

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

After working for 40 years, the average Social Security recipient gets $1850/month.

After being in America for 40 minutes, the average illegal “refugee” gets $3874/month.

And red or blue, that should PISS EVERYONE OFF.

[Election Wizard @ElectionWiz]

JUSTICE THOMAS: “Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe that they are.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

For a US official to fly the flag of another country after having sworn an oath of citizenship that requires sole loyalty to America is nothing but treason!

[Angela McArdle @RealAngelaMc]

Gross, but entirely predictable. Anyway, deport everyone and secure the border.

[Matt Morse @MattMorseTV]

I am a 14th generation Heritage American.

My family showed up in 1635 and built this nation out of nothing but blood, sweat, and sacrifice.

Still, I’ve been taught my entire life that I’m on “stolen land” — that I’ve got no right to be here.

However, the children of illegal alien gang members from Venezuela, or of Chinese communist birth tourists?

This nation is their “birth right.”

Americans — you should be enraged.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

Your block. Your privacy. Your country.

[Election Wizard @ElectionWiz]

“The customer is always right” was a marketing slogan to sell more stuff, not a moral law. Sometimes the customer is an entitled, unhinged lunatic who needs a firm dose of reality and no for an answer.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@HouseGOP Simultaneously, nearly every Republican voted to increase spending by hundreds of billions with no plan to pay for it, which is why Americans are suffering rampant inflation today.

[The Dank Knight 🦇 @capeandcowell]

It’s hilarious how communism died on the vine in South America the very second USAID was dismantled. Just like the huge caravans of illegals continually marching towards our border.

The left was literally the only thing keeping them alive.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Today is a great day to ban Islamic immigration

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

What happened?

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

Reject modernity.

Embrace tradition. 🎯