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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.

The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.

Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.

Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.

Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.

These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.

So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.

114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.

[Haru 🇺🇸 @HaruhiismOtaku]

Actually insane that this isn't the case already

[yosoymario @yosoymario91]

Viking raider chasing a panicked Muslim defender through the streets of Seville, 844 AD al-Andalus

[Austin Plaza #74 @AustinPlaza74]

After a great conversation with Coach @Coach_Entz i’m blessed to receive my first offer from Fresno State university!!! #AGTG
@spencerpetras @CoachKHensley @jakerasmussen_ @JacksonMoore247 @BrandonHuffman

[SleeperMLB @SleeperMLB]

In the last 30 days - the San Francisco Giants rank:

1st in Batting Average
1st in SLG
1st in OPS
1st in Hits

They went 11-17 during that stretch… 😬

[JamesPoJo @JamesPoJo1]

@Rightanglenews a jeet with a hot dog in a spray bottle threating to spray a paki Muslim is just fucking peak.

[Garrett Exner @Exner_Garrett]

Ray’s Rock - Omaha Beach

On the morning of June 6, 1944, 23 year old Staff Sergeant Arnold “Ray” Lambert came ashore with the first wave of the 1st Infantry Division on the eastern side of Omaha Beach. At this small patch of concrete he saved nearly 20 lives:

The division came under intense fire from several German bunkers surrounding the entrance to the Colville Draw (one of two exits off Omaha Beach). Ray, a medic, immediately went to work.

He was shot in the arm. Moments later he was hit by shrapnel in the leg, but Ray kept pulling men to safety. He pulled nearly 20 wounded soldiers to cover behind this 8ft wide obstacle, treating each soldier before going out in search of others.

After several hours under fire, while pulling a wounded soldier from the ocean, he was struck by a landing craft. It dropped its ramp on top of him, breaking his back. He fell face down in the water, drowning. The craft backed up and nearby soldiers pulled an unconscious Ray to safety, eventually evacuating him off the beach.

Remarkably, Ray had already earned two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts in Sicily and North Africa, prior to landing in France. But here in Normandy his war would end.

He awoke in a hospital back in England a day later. In the next bed over was his brother, who had also been wounded at Omaha.

When asked about his work on D-Day, Ray simply said, “I did what I was called to do.”

Ray Lambert passed in 2021 at 100 years old. He exemplified the best of American grit and why remembering this day is so important.

[Common Sense Extremists @crushmarxismnow]

The things a nation can invest in when they’re not importing hordes of third world migrants they then have to babysit

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A permit to demolish a residential home and build a 3,000 square foot mosque just outside of Charlotte NC, has been DENIED by the County Council.

"Arafath Mohammad" did not inform any neighbors of his plan to build a mosque when he purchased the home.

Residents stormed the council hearing saying:

“Islam is not a religion, it’s a takeover,” said a Lancaster County resident opposed to the project.

“We do not want Sharia law in this area,” said another Lancaster County resident.

After 2 HOURS of residents voicing their opposition, the council unanimously denied the permit.

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

This chick was born in a country where public defecation and bathing in a feces-polluted river are considered sacred, immigrates here, and wants to tell Americans they can’t have a July 4th BBQ. Anyone else tired of these people?

[Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza]

Thousands of Japanese citizens have rallied together to stop the building of the first mosque in Fujisawa.

[Prometheus @CaribbeanRythms]

They do this on purpose to mock the things that could inspire young men.

[Giant Hot Takes @GiantHotTakes]

“Sit the fuck down. Fuck you” -Erik Miller to Sal Stewart. That is the moment that gets this season back on track.

[Baseball Quotes @BaseballQuotes1]

The umpire handing Daniel Susac the lineup cards after he made his MLB debut is beyond cool

[Tone Digs @ToneDigz]

I-right wiggle 34 switchblade. For the state championship. I love all y’all baby, I love all y’all.

[m. stanfield @resetbasis]

Just so I’m tracking.

Japan loves
- steak
- motorcycles
- dogs
- bacon
- chicks in stars & stripes bikinis
- trucks
- country music
- freedom
- respect
- swords
- sushi
- classic cars

Japan hates
- crime
- islam
- communism

Am I part Japanese?

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Jim Leyland gained a ton respect for cursing out Barry Bonds when he needed it during Spring Training ⚾️

[Alli Girl 💁🏼‍♀️ @AlliAlliG]

Hot take: baseball is only boring to people who don’t understand the game and refuse to take the time to. Baseball is a sport for people who like thinking about sports.

[SULLY @SULLY10X]

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Here is the full 40 minutes of my crew and I exposing California fraud, Minnesota was big but California is even bigger... We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences. Like it and share it, the fraud must STOP.

We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening. These fraudsters have been able to defraud American taxpayers for years without any pushback from the public and politicians.

It is time to EXPOSE IT ALL and end America's fraud crisis.