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[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

@LeaderJohnThune This is day 210 of asking @LeaderJohnThune to pass the SAVE America Act.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

@JayUSA102 We’re up to 10!

[Rep. Keith Self @RepKeithSelf]

Here are the seven senators calling for the Senate to remain in session until the SAVE America Act passes:

Senator Mike Lee
Senator Rick Scott
Senator Tommy Tuberville
Senator Jim Banks
Senator Ashley Moody
Senator Darline Graham
Senator Bill Hagerty

THANK YOU, PATRIOTS! 🇺🇸

[Just Cuz @observantPprWgt]

Where is WY senators?? @SenJohnBarrasso @SenLummis

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

The following Republican Senators are on board with NO RECESS until the SAVE America Act is passed:

✅ Senator Mike Lee
✅ Senator Rick Scott
✅ Senator Jim Banks
✅ Senator Ashley Moody
✅ Senator Darline Graham
✅ Senator Tommy Tuberville
✅ Senator Bill Hagerty
✅ Senator Katie Britt
✅ Senator Todd Young

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

South Dakota,

Tomorrow is the gubernatorial runoff — the first in SD history.

I ask for your votes for Toby Doeden.

⏰ 7 a.m. - 7 p.m.

🗓️ Tuesday, July 28th

@TobyForSD

[Just Cuz @observantPprWgt]

@SenJohnBarrasso @SenLummis ??!

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Only 5 out of 53 Republican Senators are on board with NO RECESS until the SAVE America Act is passed:

✅ Senator Mike Lee
✅ Senator Rick Scott
✅ Senator Jim Banks
✅ Senator Ashley Moody
✅ Senator Darline Graham

If your Senators aren’t listed, ask them why?

5 / 53 = 9.4%

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

BREAKING

It appears Senator Darline Graham is our 5th Senator to support no recess until the SAVE America Act is passed.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

The Senate should stay in session continuously until the SAVE America Act is passed.

Share if you agree.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

If the Senate passes the SAVE America Act,

I will cut my hair.

[AirG8tor @AirG8tor]

Technology is wild 🤣.

Aided hearing loss, but hyped the PTSD.

[Just Cuz @observantPprWgt]

@Hoang_HQ You can watch the vocal scarring realtime

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

A Roman emperor ate his meals in a sea cave, a few feet from a massive marble sculpture of the moment Odysseus blinds the Cyclops.

Eventually it lay shattered in thousands of pieces on the floor of that cave, and stayed there until 1957...

The emperor was Tiberius, who ruled Rome after Augustus, and the cave is at Sperlonga, on the coast between Rome and Naples. It was a natural grotto opening onto the sea, and he turned it into a private dining hall, with pools of water reaching into the mouth of the cave and a platform where he and his guests reclined to eat, the waves echoing off the rock around them... Definitely not a bad place to host dinner.

The sculpture stood at the deepest point of the cave and it showed the most terrifying scene in Homer's poem, when Odysseus and his men are trapped inside the cave of Polyphemus, a one-eyed man-eating giant who has sealed them in with a boulder too heavy to move and is eating the crew alive, one by one.

Odysseus cannot simply kill him in his sleep, or they will be entombed with the corpse forever. So he gets the giant drunk, waits for him to pass out, hardens the tip of an olive-wood stake in the fire, and drives it into the Cyclops's single eye.

The sculptors depicted the instant just before the stake goes in...

The colossal figure of Polyphemus sprawls backward, drunk and unaware. Odysseus, the one closest to the Cyclops, and three of his men strain upward with the spike. It was carved larger than life and set in shadow at the back of the grotto, so that as the lamplight shifted, the whole scene seemed to move over the emperor's dinner.

The Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius both record that in the year 26 AD, while Tiberius was dining there, rocks fell from the roof of the grotto, crushing several of his attendants and nearly killing the emperor, who was shielded and dragged out. In that collapse, or in a later one, the great marble scenes were smashed into thousands of fragments.

There they lay, at the bottom of the cave, until 1957, when workers building a coastal road cut into the ground and found them. Among the rubble they pulled out the colossal head of the giant himself, and slowly, piece by piece, the scene was put back together.

The cave gave up two more secrets: the first was an inscription, ten lines of Latin verse, praising the grotto and saying that only a new Virgil could do justice to its statues of Scylla and the blinding of the monster by the man from Ithaca. It told the archaeologists exactly what they had found. The second was carved into the base of the neighbouring ship: three names, Athenodoros, Agesander, and Polydorus, the same sculptors the Roman writer Pliny had named as the creators of the Laocoön, the statue I wrote about yesterday.

Homer's Odyssey is one of the oldest stories in the world, and it has outlived the emperor, the civilization that first told it, and every person who has ever loved it. Nearly three thousand years later, we are still telling the story of a man lost far from home, because some part of us always is...

I started my newsletter because the past is full of stories like this one, and so few people ever stop to tell us why they matter. Every week I try to. If that is something you'd like to be part of, you can join through the link in my bio, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

Thanks for reading.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

After tonight, it’s even clearer that the Senate should take the SAVE America Act and continue debating it until it passes

Repost if you agree

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

PASS. THE. SAVE. ACT. NOW.

Pass it on.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

I promise to help defeat ANY Republican Senator that blocks the SAVE America Act.

If Senate Majority Leader Thune DOES not do his job to caucus his Republican majority to pass the SAVE America Act,

he will have a Texas-sized primary in 2028.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

If you know any voters in Alaska,

please get them to commit to voting YES to Ballot Measure 2 this November.

A YES vote repeals Ranked Choice Voting.

Then, we work to defeat Senator Murkowski in 2028 (unless she votes for the SAVE America Act).

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

This is day 196 of asking @LeaderJohnThune to pass the SAVE America Act.

[Just Cuz @observantPprWgt]

@IfindRetards Not this one. When bulls get aggressive, no one is safe.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

This is day 193 of asking @LeaderJohnThune to pass the SAVE America Act.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

If Republicans do not demand full transparency from the Senate & our gov’t on the state of Senator McConnell’s health, then we are no better than when the democrats covered up Biden’s cognitive decline for years.

I mean this with the utmost respect & wish Senator McConnell well.