Stephanie B Smith

Navy wife, mom of two beautiful girls and huge Alabama fan

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

William Hooper's own father disowned him for signing the Declaration of Independence. And that was just the beginning of what it cost him. Here's the story.

He was born in Boston in 1742, the son of a strict Anglican minister. He did everything right by his father's standards. Boston Latin School, then Harvard, then he studied law. The path was set. Be respectable, be loyal, inherit the approval.

Then he made the mistake, in his father's eyes, of thinking for himself. He studied under James Otis, one of the loudest radicals in the colonies, the man tied to the phrase "taxation without representation is tyranny." Those ideas got into Hooper's blood and never left.

He moved south to Wilmington, North Carolina, built a law career, and when the break with Britain came, he picked the rebels. His Loyalist father was so disgusted he cut him off. Disowned his own son over it.

Hooper signed the Declaration anyway, adding his name in August 1776. Then he did something most people never mention. He poured his money and his future law earnings into the cause until he had wrecked his own finances for it.

The British made him pay in full. When they swept into North Carolina, they came for the signer. They shelled his estate on the sound. They burned his home in Wilmington to the ground. Two of his houses, gone.

So he ran. He became a fugitive in his own state, moving from friend's house to friend's house around Windsor and Edenton, hiding, while he was kept apart from his wife and children for months. A Harvard-trained lawyer reduced to a man with no home, slipping from door to door to avoid capture.

He survived the war, but it broke him down. His health and his fortune never fully came back. He died in 1790 at just 48 years old.

A man whose own father turned his back on him, who burned his money, lost his homes, and hid like a hunted animal, all for a country he barely got to see grow up.

William Hooper. He gave up everything, including his own family's blessing.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Born this day in 1925 in a Texas sharecropper's shack, one of twelve kids. His dad walked out, his mom died young, and Audie Murphy quit school in fifth grade to pick cotton and hunt rabbits to feed his brothers and sisters. He got deadly accurate with a rifle for one reason: the family couldn't afford a wasted bullet.

After Pearl Harbor he tried to enlist and got laughed off. The Marines rejected him. The Navy rejected him. The paratroopers rejected him. He was 5'5" and barely 110 pounds, and they all said he was too small to fight. His sister had to fudge his paperwork just to get the Army to take a 17 year old.

Then he went to war and became something out of a legend.

January 26, 1945, near Holtzwihr, France. His company was down to a handful of men facing six tanks and 250 German infantry. Murphy sent his men back, then climbed onto a burning American tank destroyer that could have exploded under him at any second, grabbed the .50 caliber machine gun, and held off the entire assault alone for nearly an hour. He was wounded in the leg and kept firing. When a buddy asked over the field phone how close the Germans were, he reportedly said hold on and let me ask them.

He came home the most decorated American soldier of the entire war. Every valor award the Army could give, some of them more than once, plus French and Belgian honors on top.

Life magazine put his baby face on the cover, James Cagney saw it and invited him to Hollywood, and the cotton picker who couldn't pass a physical became a movie star. He made over 40 films. In 1955 he played himself in To Hell and Back, the movie of his own memoir, and it was Universal's biggest hit until Jaws came along twenty years later.

But the war never let go. He had what we now call PTSD, slept with a loaded pistol under his pillow, and got hooked on sleeping pills trying to outrun the nightmares. He kicked the addiction by locking himself alone in a motel room for a week. Then he did something almost no famous man did back then: he went public, told the country that combat had wrecked his nerves, and pushed the government to study and treat what war does to a soldier's mind.

He died in a plane crash in 1971 at just 45 years old. They buried him at Arlington, where his simple headstone is the most visited grave in the cemetery after John F. Kennedy's.

Every branch told him he was too small to fight. He outfought all of them, then spent the rest of his life trying to help the men who came home broken like he did.

[Kaye @KayeSteinsapir]

This should be widely read. I’ve been trying to explain to some of my non-Jewish friends why @NYCMayor is dangerous for American Jews. Many of us saw it from the beginning, and it will only become more apparent.

How does anyone who cares about social justice and equal rights under the law think it’s ok for Mamdani to suggest American Jews are “monsters” for exercising the same rights to lobby the US government that every other American has?

Mamdani is “othering” American Jews, questioning our patriotism, and blatantly dehumanizing us.

Why is a US city mayor constantly speaking about about a tiny foreign country that’s over 5k miles away 🤨? The US city with the largest Jewish population. Whom he pretends to support, along with a phony smile, if they’re “the right kind” of Jew.

It echoes back to a dark chapter in history. The Jews have always been the canary in the coal mine, signaling a sick society that devalues individual rights and oppresses minorities. It never ends with us. It won’t this time. @KathyHochul

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Operatives - not journalists.

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

New declassified records confirm the evidence ALWAYS supported the lab leak theory: the virus was engineered in Wuhan with US taxpayer dollars.

https://t.co/lINv89zm9R

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

.@NYCMayor Mamdani’s hateful rhetoric is extremely dangerous. He knows precisely what he is doing and saying.

Imagine if he said this about any other ethnic group. How would people react?

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

For years, I raised alarms about dangerous gain-of-function research being farmed out to foreign countries, and I was told it was a conspiracy theory. Now, declassified documents show that the U.S. funded over 120 biolabs across more than 30 countries. Some of this research was conducted overseas precisely because scientists knew it would face scrutiny on American soil.

I'm calling for a presidential commission of scientists to review all gain-of-function research going forward. We're going lab by lab and pathogen by pathogen until the American people know the full truth.

https://t.co/gtv6sZ7viR

[Pat Adams @PatAdams96]

The lunatic in the ‘Team Algae’ t-shirt wearing a mask is Nadine Seiler — a BLM activist and professional protestor who helped organize protests outside the private family homes of Supreme Court Justices Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh.

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Tartan Army 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @TartanArmyGroup]

🚨 Missing Wheelchair

At the Scotland v Morocco game at @GilletteStadium Mary and John were in section 303 for wheelchair users.

John’s wheelchair was stowed for the game and unfortunately someone removed it from the storage area insisting he needed it for his father.

We can only presume he thought John's wheelchair belonged to the stadium.

If it was you, can you DM us to let us know where exactly you left it so it can be located and returned to John.

#TartanArmy

[Paul Mauro @PaulDMauro]

DC Parks Police. An under-appreciated agency in DC. They catch all sorts of nonsense on a daily basis. Good for them.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP. Sen. Chuck Schumer just sounded the alarm that the SAVE America Act will REMOVE "25 MILLION PEOPLE" from the voter rolls

Keep in mind, the bill is for voter ID and proof of citizenship

If true, that means 25 MILLION people are illegals or not eligible citizens without ID! 🤯

Chuck is either making crap up or HE KNOWS THERE ARE 25 MILLION ILLEGALS VOTING

Which is it, Chuck? PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!

[ConfirmBias @Fulcrumbs44]

@TulsiGabbard @All_United_ @MichaelBiundo The two largest stories in a decade, the report on Fauci and the report on the Rape Gangs.

Silence from the media.

Absolute silence.

Anyone by now must see that this is a manipulation of the public.

These are not journalists, these outlets are in marketing.

[Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard]

@MichaelBiundo Seeing who is choosing NOT to report on it tells the story.

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

She borrowed $49,548.74 in student loans.

120 payments later, she’s paid $25,558 — and now owes $50,121.

She’s paid on it for years and still owes more than what she originally borrowed.

The entire thing is a SCAM to enslave the young people.

[Theo Wold @RealTheoWold]

If you live in Idaho, your tax dollars are allowing large corporations like Micron and Chobani to build federally subsidized housing projects specifically for an H-1B/ refugee/illegal alien workforce.

Not only do these projects result in Idaho workers being displaced by foreigners, but these corporations take over our land and water, eliminating our ability to grow our own food and feed ourselves.

We are losing the rural, open ranching heritage that shapes our culture and makes for a unique type of American man, woman, and family.

The pioneering spirit that so many associate with the American West isn’t shaped and cultivated in a lifestyle mall or corporate parking lot.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

Tulsi Gabbard didn’t just release 1,600 pages of documents on her last day in office. She exposed something far uglier: the intelligence community didn’t investigate the lab leak. They built a protective cocoon around Anthony Fauci and called it national security.

They had the evidence early. A May 2020 report from Lawrence Livermore laid it out plainly ... all the conditions for an accidental release of a lab-modified coronavirus were already present at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Precursor viruses. Reverse genetics work. ACE2 receptor testing. Biosafety failures. It was all there.

Instead of following that evidence, they let the man who approved the funding for that research steer the entire origins discussion across 18 intelligence agencies.

Fauci didn’t just offer opinions. He shaped the narrative, suppressed dissent, and later lied to Congress about his involvement. And the agencies went along with it.

Whistleblowers who tried to push back were retaliated against. The institutions that were supposed to protect the country chose to protect one well-connected bureaucrat instead. This wasn’t a mistake. It was a decision.

Corporate media is pretending this never happened. They won’t even touch it. That silence tells you exactly whose side they were on.

This is bigger than Fauci. This is proof that when the truth threatened powerful people inside the system, the system circled the wagons and buried the evidence. Tulsi just ripped the cocoon open. Now we’ll see who tries to sew it back shut.
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[T_p_tio 🎈 @Txp_RBI_Xctuxl]

Kinda wild how Haiti has a World Cup team but not a functional government.

[SLC Fatigue @MarinasHammer]

Utah is invaded.

3,000 Colombians voting in a Colombian election within the United States.

They need to all go back.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

So Tulsi released even more definitive evidence that Dr. Fauci funded gain of function research in Chinese labs with our tax dollars, which helped create covid, & then when covid leaked from a Chinese lab he created a vast conspiracy to cover up what he did & attack anyone who pointed it out.

[Bob @Shariakill]

Dearborn Michigan 🇺🇸

This Video is from this Friday , this is the Imam of the biggest Shia community in Michigan, and he has Islamic schools.

“We teaching our kids to wish to die in Jihad against the infidels, the enemies of Allah”.

(Following by video with the same Hadith verse from Sunni scholar in NYC ).