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That sounds like a terrible idea. Count me in.

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@OmarFatehMN I mean. Just stop stealing.

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@jefftimmer Fun fact: Jeff is an idiot

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@ZacksJerryRig You’re so fucking stupid bro. And I don’t think you’re smart enough to understand why. That’s what makes it so awesome.

Enjoy the crash out 😎

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@keithellison @BernieSanders @peggyflanagan @IlhanMN Why did you help pardon a child rapist?

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@SaraHermanw0 Thanks, Sanjeep

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@NHL_Muse . @grok name a hundred random nhl players from any year

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@johnnyweakhands @JesseKellyDC I have 75 employees. 75. I don’t think that’s an issue

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@criscarter80 @BarstoolBigCat Chris needs you

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@DonKofiAdM1n @Bmbempower You live in Africa.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

It's OK to love America.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Happy 250th birthday to the greatest country that’s ever existed 🇺🇸

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

Take pride in the greatest nation in history.

Embrace Patriotism. Fight for America.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

One of the richest men in all of America signed the Declaration of Independence knowing it could cost him everything. Then he left home to serve, died far away in a borrowed town, and never came back. Meet Philip Livingston.

This guy was not a scrappy underdog. Just the opposite. He was born in 1716 into the Livingston family, one of the wealthiest, most powerful dynasties in colonial New York. Manor lands, a Yale education, and a shipping empire he built into one of the biggest merchant fortunes in New York City. He had everything the British system was designed to reward.

And he spent that fortune building things that still exist. He helped found King's College, which you know today as Columbia University. He helped start the New York Society Library. He helped create the New York Chamber of Commerce. The man was basically constructing the civic backbone of New York with his own money and time.

Here's the thing though. He was not some hothead revolutionary. He actually feared independence. He worried it would bring chaos and disorder, and he was cautious about the whole idea for a long time. This wasn't a man itching to burn it all down.

But when New York finally gave its delegates the go-ahead, Livingston signed. He put the name of one of the great fortunes in America onto a document the crown treated as treason. A rich man betting his wealth against the empire that made him rich.

And the war came straight for him. When the British took New York, they seized and used his properties. He started selling off his holdings to help fund the fight, watching the empire he'd defied pick apart the life he'd built.

Then comes the ending that gets me. His health was failing, and he knew it. Congress had been driven out of Philadelphia and was meeting in the small town of York, Pennsylvania. Livingston could have gone home to rest. Instead he told his family he probably wouldn't see them again, and he went to York to keep serving anyway.

He died there in June 1778, in the middle of a session of Congress, far from home. He's buried in York, Pennsylvania to this day. He never made it back to the New York he spent his whole life building.

A man who had every reason to stay comfortable and loyal, who gave his fortune and his final months to a country he wasn't even sure would work.

Philip Livingston. He died at his post, a long way from home.

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

America has no equal.

[Pardon My Take @PardonMyTake]

USA ADVANCES PLAY COUNTRY ROADS

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

Me to Bosnia-Herzegovina right now despite multiple consecutive decades of not caring about soccer:

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Great American Summer

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism... Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.” - Theodore Roosevelt

[US Department of the Interior @Interior]

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds made a stop at Hoover Dam on their way to Washington D.C. for @Freedom250 celebrations.

We couldn't be more excited to spend the week celebrating 250 years of the greatest nation on Earth! 🇺🇸