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[RaptorBroz @RaptorBroz]

The point of a Raptor isn’t just ripping through the desert.

It’s having an excuse to make memories like this. Just a chill sunset, tailgate down, wife & my boys digging in the dirt. 🤘

This will always feel like home.

What’s your go-to chill spot with the crew? 👇🌅

#Readysetford #FordRaptor #offroading #BuiltNotGiven

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Starlink V3 satellites

Bandwidth per Satellite:
• V2: 96 Gbps
• V3: 1,024 Gbps

Bandwidth per Launch:
V2: 2,600 Gbps
V3: 61,000 Gbps

Deployment per Launch:
• V2: 27 satellites (on Falcon 9)
• V3: 60 (on Starship)

Starlink V3 satellites will begin to be deployed in late 2026 on Starship.

[RaptorBroz @RaptorBroz]

Have the off-road wars begun..?

[RaptorBroz @RaptorBroz]

🦖 Raptor Rally tickets are live. 🦖

Last year I drove 2,300 miles to Lake Havasu solo.

This year, we’re building the road there.

Raptor Rally 003 is shaping up to be the biggest one yet:

trails, Baja Loop, jump sessions, pro hot laps, truck show, vendors, and a full weekend built around Raptor owners actually using these trucks.

If you’re going, don’t just show up.

Join our caravan 👇

https://t.co/MtA7J20fas

Follow along for the road to Raptor Rally.
👊🤘

@FordRacing

#readysetford #Fordraptor #RaptorRally

[RaptorBroz @RaptorBroz]

Wife’s DCT codes won’t clear… 😅

[RaptorBroz @RaptorBroz]

Wife stole the new Hanna Race & Design Carhartt hoodie and she’s not giving it back 😂

Not only do they build some of the sickest Raptors out there, their merch is pretty dope too.

At this point my whole closet looks like it’s sponsored by the pits at KOH.

Who else’s wardrobe is mostly race truck merch?

#FordRaptor #RaptorNation #HannaRaceAndDesign

[RaptorBroz @RaptorBroz]

Missed y’all! 🚀

Been deep in the Raptor life with the family these past months. Here’s what we’ve been up to:

• Ford swept the factory Stock classes at the 2025 Baja 1000 🔥
• Hit the 2026 Ford Racing season launch
• Went hard at King of the Hammers
• Ripped my Raptor on track at Sebring
• Joined Ford Racing at NASCAR all-star weekend.
• Did Raptors on the Rocks in Moab + several local runs

TRX is officially coming back and Toyota TRD Hammer rumors are heating up 👀

What did I miss in the Raptor/off-road world? Drop your stories, builds, or hot takes below 👇

#FordRaptor #RaptorNation #Baja100

[Dale Earnhardt Jr. @DaleJr]

Happy birthday to the biggest badass that ever drove a racecar. 🐐

[Carson Hocevar @CarsonHocevar]

just woke up. tears in my eyes watching the footage and edits and reactions. genuinely unbelievable. so thankful that this feeling is exactly what i dreamt it would feel like.

thank you, everyone.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Why does the term “war crimes” only get thrown at Western countries?

Iran has been exclusively launching cluster munitions at civilians in Israel and no media outlet seems to be saying “war crime.”

Weird.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets.

The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural.

Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them.

That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it.
After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble.

The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first.
Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon.

American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life.
Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake.

Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs.

We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating.

So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving.
We were manufacturing jealousy.

And it worked. The Wall came down.

But here’s what no one accounted for.

When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs.

And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle.

An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas.

And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized.

So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening.

Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude.

Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated.

Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass.

Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar.

Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity.

What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle.

For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked.

Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid.

Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.”

We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries.

Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit.

You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators.

What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization.

It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine.

That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report.

Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us”

Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

[Sarah Adams @sarahadams]

The WSO from the downed F-15E has been recovered from inside Iran. That regime just got reminded the hard way who we are.

Thank you to everyone who stayed patient, refused to spread enemy propaganda, kept the faith, and took a moment to pray. This is what it looks like when we mean it when we say we don’t leave our people behind.

Bravo. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[sgilbert8277 @sgilbert8277]

@RealSamRogers @KurtSchlichter Not to mention the NDA they make you sign on your out brief!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇮🇷🇺🇲 CENTCOM didn't correct Iran's F-35 mistake. That may not have been an accident. And they may also be lying about the rescued pilot (although unlikely)

When Iran announced it downed a U.S. jet, they said F-35. CENTCOM called it a false claim. What they didn't say: it was actually an F-15E: a two-seat aircraft.

That distinction matters enormously.

An F-35 carries one pilot. An F-15E carries two. If Iran believes they shot down an F-35, they mobilize a search for one survivor. In reality, there are two crew members on the ground.

CENTCOM let that misidentification breathe. While Iran hunted for a single pilot, the U.S. was running a CSAR operation for two.

Now the "one crew member rescued" announcement... take that with the same lens. In an active evasion scenario, publicly confirming a rescue could be factual.

It could also be designed to redirect Iranian search efforts away from a crew member still evading.

You don't have to lie to conduct information warfare. You just have to control what you confirm and when.

This is the other battlefield. Not bombs and SAMs; it's what each side knows, believes, and acts on. And right now, the U.S. appears to be playing it carefully.

NOTE: I am sharing this now as it's already been established it's an F-15, and I'm almost certain a crew member has been rescued based on the information we have

[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

I'm trying to imagine the alternative history of WW2 if it looked like this war, and what the coverage might look like

"It's January 11th, 1942, one month after Hitler declared war on the United States. Hitler, Goering, Bohrmann, and Himmler were all killed in an allied bombing attack on Hitler's headquarters, along with fifty other members of the German High Command. 95% of entire German navy is resting at the bottom of the North Sea. The Luftwaffe is no more. Allied aircraft achieved complete air superiority over Germany within 48 hours of the war's start. Still, many sophisticated commentators are saying that the Third Reich has the upper hand, because they have shut down travel through the Danish straits."

[sgilbert8277 @sgilbert8277]

@maverickisabot @guccigoy69 @thomasbsauer When was going through my Level 2 syllabus at HM-15 I worked in Tactics, we had a Mineman transfer from surface side & it was quite crazy how similar MCM & AMCM were treated by big navy. Haha

[sgilbert8277 @sgilbert8277]

@Gwensluny @TomcatJunkie Nawww shipmate, I’m coming with “just trust me bro!”

[sgilbert8277 @sgilbert8277]

@Tr0nSwans0n @TomcatJunkie 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[sgilbert8277 @sgilbert8277]

@TomcatJunkie The F-14 is what sparked my love for aviation! 🤘

[sgilbert8277 @sgilbert8277]

@maverickisabot @thomasbsauer Idk brother, I think 10-15 years of the navy neglected mcm & amcm over failed acquisitions programs is going to present some problems if we haven’t neutralized Iran’s mine laying capabilities, but I hope I’m wrong. #RampSkidCrew