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[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

A German fighter sliced through the tail of this bomber and left it hanging by little more than twisted metal and torn skin.

Any hard turn would tear it off. Any sudden movement would tear it off.

He had 300 miles to fly.

This is the story of the All American..🧵1/5

[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

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He fought them for more than half an hour.

He attacked again and again, breaking up their runs before they could line up on the bombers. Three of his four guns went out of action. His fuel was becoming dangerously low. And he kept diving at them anyway, sometimes with almost nothing left to shoot with, because a Mustang coming down out of the sky was enough on its own to make a German pilot break off.

He was officially credited with three destroyed, with others probably destroyed or damaged. The men in the bombers watching the whole thing believed he had got as many as six.

When they landed, those crews told anyone who would listen. Within days it was in Stars and Stripes, written up by a young correspondent named Andy Rooney, under a headline calling him a one-man air force.

For what he did that morning, James Howard was awarded the Medal of Honor. He finished the war an ace in two theatres, six victories with the Flying Tigers and another six in Europe, and retired as a brigadier general. He died in 1995 and lies at Arlington.

Asked about it in an interview nearly fifty years afterwards, he did not have much to say. It was up to me to do it.

This was the story of James Howard.

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On 24 October 1944, at the opening of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, radar picked up a large Japanese formation heading for the American carriers. McCampbell launched in a hurry, and only once he was airborne realised he had taken off without a full load of fuel.

He and his wingman, Ensign Roy Rushing, found the enemy formation. His Medal of Honor citation puts it at around sixty aircraft.

There were two of them.

They climbed above the Japanese and worked them over from above, diving through the formation, coming back round, and diving through it again. McCampbell's action report recorded an hour and thirty-five minutes of combat. He was credited with nine confirmed, with two more probables. Rushing got six. Fifteen aircraft between two Hellcats.

Getting home was almost as difficult. They were fired on by their own fleet, and dropped to wave-top height jinking to avoid it. Then American fighters dived on them, mistaking them for the enemy, and only broke off at the last moment. Essex's deck was fouled, so McCampbell put down on the light carrier Langley, and the engine gave out on the deck.

His actions that day, along with those of 19 June, earned him the Medal of Honor. The very next day he led another strike as target coordinator, and earned the Navy Cross for it. Two consecutive days of fighting, and the two highest decorations the Navy can give.

He finished the war with 34 victories, the highest-scoring ace the United States Navy has ever produced, and the highest-scoring American ace to survive the war.

This was the story of David McCampbell.

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[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

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Then he went home and had one of the strangest lives of any American of his generation.

He became a brigadier general in the Air National Guard. At 39 he was elected governor of South Dakota, the youngest in the state's history at the time. He was appointed the first commissioner of the American Football League, the rival league whose competition with the NFL eventually produced the Super Bowl. He hosted television programmes about hunting and the outdoors. He served as president of the National Rifle Association. His daughter was born with cerebral palsy and his son contracted polio, and he helped establish a school and hospital in Sioux Falls for children with disabilities.

And then, on 11 January 2002, he was stopped at Phoenix airport on his way to speaking engagements that included West Point. A pacemaker meant he could not go through the metal detector, so he was searched by hand. In his jacket they found a nail file, a key ring made from a dummy bullet, and the Medal of Honor.

By his own account he was held for 45 minutes and almost missed his flight, while the medal was handed from one screener to the next and they went back and forth over what to do with it. He kept explaining that it was the highest award his country could give. Nobody listened.

Afterwards he put it plainly. He was not upset for himself. He was upset for the Medal of Honor, because they did not know what it even was. It represents all of the guys who lost their lives, he said. The guys who never came back.

He died on New Year's Day 2003 and was buried at Arlington.

This was the story of Joe Foss.

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[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

In 2002, a man of 86 was pulled aside at airport security in Phoenix.

They found something in his pocket shaped like a star and passed it between them, trying to decide whether it was safe to bring on board.

It was the Medal of Honor. Franklin Roosevelt had put it around his neck in 1943.

This is the story of Joe Foss..🧵1/4

[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

By 1942 American pilots were flying fighter planes their own bodies could not survive.

P-51s pulling out of high speed dives so violently that gravity drained the blood from pilots' brains.

They lost consciousness at the controls. They crashed.

Then a Canadian doctor invented a suit that saved them.

This is the story of the WW2 G-suit..🧵1/4

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY: 107 years ago today, a 21 year old shipping clerk talked his boss into giving him $500 for football uniforms.

That meat company went out of business two years later.

Its name is still on the field every Sunday.

August 11, 1919. Green Bay, Wisconsin. Population around 15,000.

A group of local athletes crowd into the editorial room of the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Most of them are former high school players from Green Bay East and West.

Two men called the meeting.

Earl "Curly" Lambeau was 21. He'd been a standout at Green Bay East, then went to Notre Dame and made Knute Rockne's varsity team as a freshman, before a brutal case of tonsillitis ended it and sent him home.

He needed a job, so he took one as a shipping clerk at the Indian Packing Company, a canned meat outfit.

But he still wanted to play football.

The other man was George Whitney Calhoun, the city editor at the Press-Gazette. A newspaperman who could put anything he wanted in front of the entire town.

They'd been talking about it all summer. Calhoun started running ads in his own paper inviting players to show up.

Then Lambeau went to his boss and asked for money.

The Indian Packing Company gave him $500 for uniforms and equipment, plus use of the company athletic field. There was one condition.

The team had to carry the company's name.

Two days later, the Press-Gazette referred to them in print as the Packers for the first time.

That's it. That's the whole origin. A canned meat sponsorship agreement.

They played home games at Hagemeister Park, which had no real seating. Fans stood along the sidelines and passed a hat around to pay the players.

They went 10-1 that first season.

In 1921 they joined the league that would become the NFL. They immediately went broke and forfeited the franchise, and Lambeau had to scramble to find new backers to get it back.

Meanwhile the Indian Packing Company was already gone. Sold to Acme Packing, and out of existence by 1921.

The sponsor lasted about two years. The name has lasted 107.

And the rest of it is the most improbable story in American sports.

Green Bay is the smallest market in the entire NFL, by an enormous margin, in a league where every other small market team folded or moved decades ago. The Duluth Eskimos. The Pottsville Maroons. The Canton Bulldogs. All gone.

The Packers survived because in 1923 they did something no other team has ever done. They sold shares to the public and became a community owned, non profit corporation.

No billionaire owner. No threat to relocate. The fans literally own the team.

That's why they're still there.

Thirteen NFL championships, more than any franchise in history. Four Super Bowls. Curly Lambeau won six titles as coach before he resigned in 1949, and the stadium carries his name. Vince Lombardi won five in seven years, and the Super Bowl trophy carries his.

Don Hutson. Bart Starr. Reggie White. Brett Favre. Aaron Rodgers.

All of it traces back to a 21 year old with tonsillitis asking a meatpacking plant for uniform money on this day in 1919.

The oldest team name still in use in the NFL belongs to a company that has not existed since Woodrow Wilson was president.

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[Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋 @SharylAttkisson]

You were taught in med school by a system rife with conflicts of interest.

The Merck Manual is literally written by Merck. And as I documented in Follow the Science, it contains false information on numerous fronts including vaccine safety.

You belong to medical associations that have become little more than fronts for the pharmaceutical industry.

Your Continuing Medical Education classes are largely sponsored and taught by professionals being paid by the pharmaceutical companies their classes defend. They often contain incomplete, misleading, and false information.

You serve in a political body largely funded by, ruled by, and conflicted by vaccine industry donations. As both D and R members have stepped forward to admit (reported on Full Measure), your party leaders have been working for two decades to stop vaccine-autism hearings and inquiries.

You've surrendered your scientific curiosity and public health responsibilities to a conflicted dogma pushed out by propagandists with financial interests.

Vaccines are not a monolithic group that can be spoken of as "safe and effective." It's as silly and unscientific as saying "all medicine is safe and effective." There are different calculations for different vaccines and different people.

There is no study that has ever proven "vaccines do NOT cause autism." You're reciting false propaganda rather than medical science.

(Obviously, the vaccines that have been pulled from the market after widespread use were not safe and effective, after all.)

The government's chief pro-vaccine medical expert in court changed his mind and concluded vaccines can cause autism after all, but the govt. covered it up.

The government has been paying vaccine-autism injuries in vaccine court for decades while falsely telling the public the link is debunked.

A top CDC scientist recounted in detail multiple coverups at the agency regarding scientific studies linking vaccines and autism.

Autism appeared as a possible risk on the warning label for a vaccine that was later pulled from the market.

Thousands of scientific studies link vaccines to hundreds of disorders, including immune disorders such as diabetes, and neurological disorders such as autism.

The "experts" have proven wrong on nearly every major public health controversy in recent years.

I don't think the majority of people are buying what you're selling anymore.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 JUST NOW: Anthony Fauci's successor, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, BLASTS Fauci for COVERING UP the alleged 82% MISCARRIAGE RATE for pregnant women taking the COVID vaccine

"Tony Fauci was OUT OF HIS LANE, and used that power to tell America one thing when he really thought another."

"I'm glad his words now can be heard by the American people... it's SHOCKING to me that he was sharing private thoughts and that, when he was out in public—and he was out in the public A LOT—he didn't share those private thoughts with the American public."

"I mean, and Tony Fauci was MAJOR figure in trying to get those COVID shots past the finish line. He owed the American public some transparency."

[David Mansdoerfer @Dpmansdo]

Thoughts on the new childhood immunization order - and what it means practically / procedurally for HHS. (Thread)

[RodK @TruthWins52]

@SenBillCassidy Remove financial incentives for doctors to inject children and the poisons will go away on their own.

[Frogify @0xFrogify]

🚨THIS IS EXACTLY WHY SPACEX WILL RETIRE US ALL

Elon just confirmed the Starlink constellation will pass 100K satellites

And future ones carry 50X the throughput of today's.

People scrolled right past it.

They have no idea he just handed them the blueprint for the backbone of the entire AI internet.

The whole planet's bandwidth today - every cable, every fiber line on earth - is ~2-8 Pbps.

100K V3 Starlinks alone = ~100 Pbps.

Thats 10 to 50 TIMES the world's entire current capacity. sitting in orbit.

And he's saying the NEXT sats do 50x more than that.

Now connect it to whats coming:

AI agents are about to need 1,000x more bandwidth than humans ever have.

Those pipes cannot exist on earth. physics won't allow it.

So they get built above it. one Starship launch at a time.

This is not a trade, this is a hold situation.

Follow me, you will not regret it.

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk's personal assistant once revealed how his daily schedule is structured.

In 5 minute intervals. The richest man alive accounts for every 300 seconds of his working day like a factory floor accounts for raw materials.

She said the calendar looks like a war room operations board. Colored blocks. No gaps. No buffer time. The transition between "reviewing Starship heat shield data" and "Tesla earnings call" is not a 10 minute break. It's a 5 minute walk during which he's already reading the briefing document for the next meeting on his phone.

She said the most unsettling part isn't the density. It's the switching. A normal executive needs 15 to 20 minutes to mentally transition between topics. Elon switches between orbital mechanics and car manufacturing and brain computer interfaces and social media strategy in 5 minute rotations as if each topic lives in a separate partition of his mind that can be activated and deactivated like browser tabs.

His executives described presenting to a man who was clearly thinking about something else 30 seconds ago and is now asking questions so specific that it's obvious he's fully present. Not performing attention. Actually present. As if the previous topic was saved to a file and closed and the current topic was opened fresh.

The people who work with him say the 5 minute blocks aren't a productivity hack. They're the natural output of a brain that processes information faster than a normal schedule can deliver it. Longer blocks would mean dead time. Dead time is wasted capacity. Wasted capacity is the only thing that makes him visibly uncomfortable.

The man who is simultaneously CEO of the most valuable car company, the most advanced rocket company, and the most controversial social media platform on earth schedules his days in units smaller than most people spend deciding what to eat for lunch. The schedule isn't ambitious.

It's the minimum structure required to keep up with a mind that idles faster than most people sprint.

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk sold every house he owned and moved into a $37,000 prefabricated tiny house next to the SpaceX facility in Boca Chica, Texas.

The richest man on earth chose to live in a box smaller than most studio apartments.

The house was a Boxabl Casita. 375 square feet. One room. A bathroom. A kitchenette. The kind of housing marketed to people who can't afford a real house being used by a man who could buy every real house in the zip code.

He announced it publicly. Not quietly. Not through a leaked real estate record. He told the world that he had sold his mansions in Bel Air and was living in a prefab box in a Texas rocket facility town. The internet didn't know whether to admire it or diagnose it.

People close to him said the move wasn't a stunt. It was practical. He was spending 18-hour days at the Starship facility. Driving to a house felt like wasted time. The box was 2 minutes from the launch pad. Every minute not spent driving was a minute spent on Starship. The optimization wasn't philosophical. It was logistical.

But underneath the logistics was something his biographer noted. Elon doesn't attach to physical spaces. Not to houses. Not to cities. Not to possessions. The only things he attaches to are the companies. The rockets. The mission. Everything else is overhead to be minimized.

The man who could live in any building on earth chose the smallest one available because the only square footage he values is the factory floor. The mansions were distractions from the work. The box removed the distraction. And somehow the image of the richest man alive sleeping in a 375-square-foot box next to a rocket factory is the most honest portrait of his priorities that any interview or biography has ever produced.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW. This brave Christian migrant from Iran walked up and WENT BERSERK on the proposed Islamic Center in McKinney, TX — straight to the council's face

The whole building ERUPTED after his dire warning:

"I'm a Sharia law survivor from Iran."

"I'm TELLING YOU, this is a BAD idea and you're going to REGRET not listening to people like us who lived under Sharia law!"

"I'm here to tell you this is a DANGEROUS ideology you're allowing in your country. Every country that is Islamic now, it used to be a Christian country and we were soft Christians."

"And we allowed these people to come in, bring their Sharia law into our countries and slowly k*ll us off left and right!"

"Let me make it very clear to you. Christianity is a personal relationship with God...Islam is Sharia law. Religion and state, which is not even compatible with the American thing and when these people will lie to you, to manipulate you."

"Because whenever Islam is little, they will lie to you and tell you they come in peace. This is level one!"

"Level two is what's happening in UK right now, where you have two-tier policing, where you have the blasphemy laws, Islamophobia, racism, all this nonsense that they talk about."

"Any time you criticize Islam, they will use the race card, but every country has this disgusting ideology inside their country, including my own country, Iran, Russia, Islamophobia is another made up bullsh*t because they don't want you to criticize their death cult!"

"If you question that disgusting book, they're get k*lled over it, just like my friends were apostates imprisoned or dead right now in Iran!"

HE NAILED IT!!!

[Jason Holman @Jaserpantz]

@ThomasSowell Astute. The French Revolution was not a peasant uprising against the ruling class.

It was an uprising of the educated, underemployed class against the ruling elite class.

Sound familiar?

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

The intellectual case against Marxism was won more than a century ago. The most rigorous and devastating blows came from the Austrian School of economics – but the strange part is that hardly anyone is taught the winning arguments.

Carl Menger’s subjective theory of value, developed in the 1870s, undermined the labour theory of value on which Marx built his entire system. Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk then delivered a systematic demolition of Marx’s economics, exposing the contradictions in the theory of surplus value and the so-called transformation problem. Ludwig von Mises went further still, demonstrating that rational economic calculation is impossible under socialism because without private property and market prices there is no way to allocate resources efficiently. Friedrich Hayek later extended this into the knowledge problem: the information required to run a complex economy is dispersed and cannot be centralised. And Murray Rothbard showed how Marx misunderstood the nature of capitalism by replacing voluntary exchange and entrepreneurial creation with a false theory of exploitation based on labour value and class conflict.

These were not minor objections. They struck at the theoretical foundations of Marxism and, in the case of Mises and Hayek, correctly predicted the chronic waste, shortages, and eventual collapse of socialist economies. History confirmed their arguments on a civilisational scale.

Yet in universities, media and political debate, these critiques remain marginal. Marx is still widely taught as a serious economist and social theorist. His errors are softened, historicised, or treated as interesting starting points. The Austrian responses are rarely given equal weight. Students can pass through entire programmes in the social sciences without encountering Böhm-Bawerk’s critique or Mises’s calculation argument in any depth.

This neglect is not accidental. It reflects a deeper intellectual preference for theories that pathologise markets and legitimise expanded state power. The result is a public discourse that continues to recycle Marxist categories long after their economic foundations were shown to be unsound. The cost of that selective memory is still being paid.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Absolutely incredible…

University of California professors are now asking the school to reinstate the SAT for admissions because their new students are unable to do high school-level work.

They stopped using standardized tests for admissions in 2020 to promote "equity".

[Dr. Dawn Michael @DawnsMission]

While the public conversation focuses on how Fauci pushed the COVID vaccines, we cannot overlook what he did with the hospital treatment protocols.

He took remdesivir—a drug that Dr. David E. Martin states was declared too deadly and unethical for use in the African Ebola trials because it carried a 53% mortality rate overall (and 85% in patients with high viral loads)—and elevated it to the standard hospital protocol for COVID.

In practice, it became the primary (and essentially only) antiviral Fauci allowed for hospitalized patients. Families whose loved ones died under these protocols call the drug “Run-Death-Is-Near.” Remdesivir destroys kidney function—linked to a 2.81 times higher risk of kidney failure and permanent damage—and when combined with ventilators, it triggers pulmonary edema, filling the lungs with fluid so patients drown.

It also causes severe, often irreversible liver injury, multi-organ shutdown, and heart damage including fatal arrhythmias, cardiac arrest, and bradycardia.
This is the medication that killed my husband and countless others. Fauci claimed remdesivir would stop COVID; instead, it stopped kidney function and blasted the liver and other organs. He helped create the system of financial incentives that rewarded doctors and hospitals for administering it.

Shockingly, it is now FDA-approved even for newborns weighing as little as 3 pounds—based on testing in just 58 infants for only 10 days.

We need to question Fauci thoroughly and publicly about his full involvement in making remdesivir the default treatment.

[David j Harris Jr. @Davidjharris17]

Make it make sense!