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[Vanguard WWII - by Cadet @Vanguard_WW2]

They tied him to a tree, tortured him for hours, repeatedly bayoneted him, and left him to die.

But Jacob chewed through his ropes, and dragged himself through miles of jungle to warn the U.S. Marines.

Jacob Vouza was a retired sergeant major of the Solomon Islands Protectorate Armed Constabulary who had volunteered to scout behind Japanese lines on Guadalcanal in 1942.

According to coastwatcher Martin Clemens, men of Ichiki’s force captured Vouza on August 20, 1942. They found a small American flag hidden in his clothing and demanded information about the Marine defenses.

He refused to speak.

Bayoneted in the arms, throat, shoulder, face, and stomach, Vouza was abandoned as a dead man. After freeing himself, he reached the lines of Lt. Col. Edwin Pollock’s 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines.

Before accepting treatment, he reportedly warned that hundreds of Japanese soldiers were approaching. Soon afterward, the Battle of the Tenaru began.

Vouza survived, returned to duty, and later served alongside Carlson’s Raiders. He received the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, and Britain’s George Medal.

Guadalcanal was not merely a battlefield to him. It was his home, and he refused to surrender it!

Historical note: Vouza’s official Silver Star citation dates his capture to August 27, six days after Tenaru. The details of his ordeal are well documented, but its precise chronology remains disputed.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Shot 27 times.
16 bullets in his body.
11 stopped by body armor that was only meant to take one.

Navy SEAL Senior Chief Mike Day was the first man through the door on a raid against an al-Qaeda cell in Iraq’s Anbar Province on April 6, 2007.

The moment he stepped inside, they opened fire at point-blank range. His rifle was shot out of his hands. He transitioned to his pistol and kept fighting.

A grenade detonated near him, knocking him unconscious and filling him with shrapnel. When he came to, he finished the fight. killing the remaining enemy in the room.

Then he walked himself to the medevac helicopter.

No assistance. Just pure will and training.

For that night he was awarded the Silver Star.

Mike Day survived the unimaginable. He later wrote about resilience in his book Perfectly Wounded. But the invisible wounds of war followed him, and he died by suicide in 2023.

True American warrior. Never forget what these men carry and what some of them never put down.

Rest in peace soldier. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 President Trump just DROPPED this line on data centers:

"What it means for a community is jobs and lots of money and lowers taxes!"

"And the data centers now are mandated by me that they build their own electricity, so they're not taking it from the grid!"

"It's going to lower the electricals because they're building electricity, and the extra, as an example, we talked about this one, I'm very proud of it. It was my idea."

"They're going to build their own electric producing facility. And that electricity that they have left over is going to the grid. It's going to lower the cost of electricity."

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption & restoring its lost principles."

[Dan Bongino @dbongino]

Today is August 22, 2026 - the streets are SAFE, the border is CLOSED, we’re BUILDING things in America again, and Donald J. Trump is the President of the United States of America. 🇺🇸

[Tech with Mak @techNmak]

In 1948, a 32-year-old at Bell Labs published a paper nobody fully understood.

Engineers found it too mathematical. Mathematicians found it too engineering-focused. One prominent mathematician reviewed it negatively.

That paper - "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", became the founding document of the digital age.

The man was Claude Shannon. Father of Information Theory.

At 21, he wrote the most important master's thesis of the 20th century.

Working at MIT on an early mechanical computer, Shannon noticed its relay switches had exactly two states - open or closed. He had just taken a philosophy course introducing Boolean algebra, which also operated on two values: true and false.

Nobody had ever connected these two things.

His 1937 thesis proved that Boolean algebra and electrical circuits are mathematically identical, and that any logical operation could be built from simple switches.

Howard Gardner called it "possibly the most important, and also the most famous, master's thesis of the century."

Every digital computer ever built traces back to this insight.

At 29, he proved that perfect encryption exists.

During WWII, Shannon worked on classified cryptography at Bell Labs. His work contributed to SIGSALY, the secure voice system used for confidential communications between Roosevelt and Churchill.

In a classified 1945 memorandum, he mathematically proved the one-time pad provides perfect secrecy, unbreakable not just computationally, but provably, permanently, against an adversary with infinite power.

When declassified in 1949, it transformed cryptography from an art into a science. It laid the foundations for DES, AES, and every modern encryption standard.

At 32, he defined what information is.

His 1948 paper introduced one equation:
H = −Σ p(x) log p(x)

Shannon entropy. The average uncertainty in a probability distribution. The minimum bits required to encode a message.

Three things followed:

> He defined the bit - the fundamental unit of all information. His colleague John Tukey coined the name.

> He proved the channel capacity theorem, every communication channel has a maximum rate of reliable transmission. You can approach it. You can never exceed it.

> He unified telegraph, telephone, and radio into a single mathematical framework for the first time.

Robert Lucky of Bell Labs called it the greatest work "in the annals of technological thought."

Where his equation lives in AI today:

Cross-entropy loss - the function training every classifier and language model, is derived directly from H. Decision tree splits use information gain, which is H applied to data. Perplexity, the standard LLM evaluation metric, is an exponentiation of cross-entropy.

Every time a neural network trains, Shannon's formula runs inside it.

He also built the first AI learning device.

In 1950, Shannon built Theseus, a mechanical mouse that navigated a maze through trial and error, learned the correct path, and repeated it perfectly. Mazin Gilbert of Bell Labs said: "Theseus inspired the whole field of AI."

That same year he published the first paper on programming a computer to play chess. He co-organized the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop, the founding event of AI as a field.

The man:
He rode a unicycle through Bell Labs hallways while juggling. He built a flame-throwing trumpet, a rocket-powered Frisbee, and Styrofoam shoes to walk on the lake behind his house.

He called his home Entropy House.

When asked what motivated him: "I was motivated by curiosity. Never by the desire for financial gain. I just wondered how things were put together."

In 1985, he appeared unexpectedly at a conference in Brighton. The crowd mobbed him for autographs. Persuaded to speak at the banquet, he talked briefly, then pulled three balls from his pockets and juggled instead.

One engineer said: "It was as if Newton had showed up at a physics conference."

He died in 2001 after a decade with Alzheimer's, the cruel irony of information slowly leaving the mind of the man who defined what information was.

Claude, the AI model, is named after Claude Shannon, the mathematician who laid the foundation for the digital world we rely on today.

[A Soldier's Whisper @SoldiersWhisper]

Please honor and remember Pfc. Lawrence Brooks, who passed away at 112 years old. 🕊️
He was our oldest surviving WWII U.S. Army Veteran in the country.
🇺🇸 https://t.co/Bl2gg9Qawi
#Military #RIP #Veteran
#WWII

[Tiffany Savage 🇺🇸 @patriot_savvy]

President Trump in 1995 on the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII. New York was broke and guess who footed the bill?

That’s right, none other than DONALD J. TRUMP 🇺🇸

[MR. Q-17 @Mr_Q_Q17]

BREAKING: TRUMP DECLARES ENOUGH IS ENOUGH-20,000 U.S. TROOPS PULLED FROM EUROPE IN HISTORIC POWER MOVE! President Donald J. Trump drops the hammer: 20,000 U.S. troops are leaving Europe in what's being called a historic shift in global power. This isn't just foreign policy-it's a wake-up call to NATO and every ally who's freeloaded off American defense for decades. Trump's message? No more free rides. For too long, the United States has been the backbone of European security, spending billions while Europe refuses to pull its weight. Now, Trump has made it clear: America First means no more blank checks for NATO. NATO's Broken Promises NATO members pledged to spend 2% of their GDP on defense, but most fall shamefully short. For decades, they've let American taxpayers foot the bill while they enjoyed the benefits of peace. Trump's decision isn't a retreat-it's a demand for accountability. If Europe wants security, they need to step up or stand alone. Billions Wasted While America Struggles Why should Americans sacrifice their hard-earned dollars for nations that won't meet basic defense commitments? Billions are poured into European bases and joint exercises while our infrastructure crumbles and inflation rises. Trump's bold move redirects those resources back home, proving he's not just a president-he's a protector of the American people. A Wake-Up Call to Europe This troop withdrawal is a slap in the face to NATO's complacency. Trump warned them for years to increase defense spending, and they ignored him. Now, the consequences are here. Europe must decide: will they finally invest in their own defense, or will they crumble under the weight of their neglect? Critics Cry Wolf, But the Truth Is Clear The usual critics are in a frenzy, claiming this move will embolden adversaries. But if Russia or China pose a threat, it's because NATO failed to build strong defenses, not because America is finally demanding fairness. Trump's Leadership: America First, Always This isn't just a foreign policy shift-it's a declaration that the U.S. will no longer play global babysitter. By pulling troops out of Europe, Trump saves billions, strengthens America's position in other regions, and forces NATO to prove its worth. Today marks the start of a new era. Under Trump's leadership, America is stronger, more focused, and unapologetically putting America First. The storm is here.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Why would the US hand out $47,300,000,000 a year in foreign aid when we're $40 Trillion in debt? 🤔

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

Two MASSIVE COVID shot studies involving 8.7 MILLION people confirm Fauci and Gates injected the world with CANCER:

BREAST CANCER: +54%
PROSTATE CANCER: +69%
LUNG CANCER: +53%
BLADDER CANCER: +62%
COLON CANCER: +35%
STOMACH CANCER: +34%
THYROID CANCER: +35%

[CONSTITUTION X 🇺🇸 @ConstitustionX]

🚨🚨 AMERICA IS BEING ROBBED BLIND 🚨🚨
President Trump is ABSOLUTELY FURIOUS… and so should YOU be.
While American families struggle under CRUSHING 3.5%+ interest rates…
60+ countries are LIVING OFF OUR BACKS — paying a pathetic fraction of what we pay.
Switzerland? Half a percent.
HALF. A. PERCENT.
While we get fleeced.
Trump just dropped the nuclear truth:
“In the old days we paid the LOWEST rates on Earth… because WE generate the entire world’s economy.”
“I have the absolute right to cut off ALL business with countries like Switzerland. Why are THEY considered elite when I can shut them down overnight and they collapse?!”
“They LIVE off the United States… so WHY THE HELL are we paying higher rates than them?!”
This is national SUICIDE.
The Fed has turned America into the world’s ATM while foreign nations laugh all the way to the bank.
Share this BEFORE they try to bury it.
The American people deserve the lowest rates on the planet — not the highest.
RETWEET if you’re done being the world’s piggy bank. 🇺🇸🔥

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

162 years ago today the fight for the Weldon Railroad ended the way Grant needed it to, with a Confederate attack marching into a trap and getting torn apart from three sides at once.

For four days both armies had bled over this railroad south of Petersburg. On August 21 the weather finally cleared, and A.P. Hill's Confederates made one last effort to drive the Union off the tracks. The plan was for Mahone to pin the Federals in front while a South Carolina brigade under Johnson Hagood swung around what everyone believed was the exposed Union flank.

It was a fatal mistake. What looked like an open flank was actually a sharp bend in the Union trenches, a salient. When Hagood's men advanced, thinking they were rolling up the enemy, they instead marched into a pocket and were suddenly taking fire from the front, the left, and the rear all at once. His brigade was shredded, losing something like two thirds of its strength, and only Hagood's own desperate action kept the rest from being captured outright.

The assault collapsed and Hill pulled back. The Union kept the Weldon Railroad for good.

That was the whole point. Grant had permanently severed one of the two rail lines feeding Petersburg, forcing the Confederacy to haul supplies 30 miles by wagon around his lines. It was the first solid Union victory of the Petersburg campaign, and another loop of the noose tightening on Lee's army and the city.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

After traveling 9 years and covering 3 billion miles, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got this shot.

The icy mountains of Pluto.

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

2/3rds of the Christian world was conquered by Islam before we launched the Crusades to take our land back.

We waited way too long, if you ask me, and we didn't go nearly far enough.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 FLORIDA IS DOING WHAT THE REST OF AMERICA WON’T 

Starting this semester, every public school student in Florida is REQUIRED by law to learn the real history of communism.

Soviet Union. Mao’s China. North Korea. Castro’s Cuba.
Not the sanitized, “it’s never been tried” version. The actual body count version.

DeSantis signed the anti-communist education bill in 2024 for a reason. Socialism is on the march in American politics, and Florida decided kids should know where that road ends.

DSA just praised Fidel Castro online last week. DeSantis didn’t flinch: Florida students know better.

Even the Democratic Socialist running for Senate is suddenly trying to pretend the label doesn’t mean anything.

Meanwhile, kids whose families actually fled these regimes are sitting in class understanding exactly what’s at stake:

Freedom isn’t the default. It’s the exception.
Florida is teaching the truth. The rest of the country is still pretending the 100 million dead were just a “flawed implementation.”

America First starts in the classroom.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 President Trump confirms ZERO taxpayer dollars going to the White House ballroom

"We're spending hundreds of dollars on the ballroom, and it's ALL from people like me and great companies that are putting it up."

"It's going to be close to $400 million. And it's all paid for by PATRIOTS and patriotic companies, big companies."

"No taxpayer money for the ballroom at all"

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

ZZ Top will continue touring following the death of Frank Beard.

“The band will carry on, just as he would have wanted” — Billy Gibbons

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

China is now closing mosques and converting them into barns for raising chickens as a way to fight radicalism. China officially considers Islam a ‘mental illness.’ Do you like this idea?

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

THOMAS PAINE: "We shall have no real hope to survive the enemies arranged against us until we deal with the traitors among us."