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[BLABBERMOUTH.NET @BLABBERMOUTHNET]

JOURNEY's JONATHAN CAIN Releases America's 250th-Anniversary Anthem 'The Winds Of Freedom' https://t.co/yzi1bjrODB

[PJ Ace @PJaccetturo]

Everything they taught you about July 4th, 1776 is a lie.

The Redcoats weren't soldiers. They were something else.

We recovered the real footage using Utopai 🧵👇

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

It is now July! ⛱️☀️

Here are some fun facts about July high temperature extremes in the U.S.

• 40 states set their “all-time” July high temperature records before 1955.

• 11 states set theirs in 1936 with two additional states (Maryland and Nebraska) tying theirs.

• Five states set their July monthly high temperature records in 1930, with two other states (Florida and Louisiana) tying their records set initially in 1901.

• Four New England states set their July records in 1911.

• Alaska’s monthly record high of 99°F in July 1915 occurred shorty after they set their June (and “all-time”) record of 100°F a few weeks prior in Fort Yukon.

• California's 134°F reading in Death Valley remains the statewide, national, and worldwide “all-time” record high temperature for any month, although its authenticity has been questioned.

• North Dakota set both their statewide high (121°F) AND low (–60°F) temperature records in 1936.

[Riftopia @PlayRiftopia]

We have a dev stream! Save the date, June 27th @ 11am PDT / 1pm CDT / 2pm EDT / 7pm GMT

We are going to be talking about some updates to what the devs have been working on!
https://t.co/8zrZlcFgm7

Join us in the Discord at https://t.co/dR57wypgJH

#playRiftopia #twitch #indydev

[txGreg @txGreg]

@Fluex_Artworks Sorry to hear that - I kept hoping to see some of your work pop up. My own liveries are grade-school stuff compared to yours, but yeah... that "import" process is a real pain in the rear.

[HitboTC @HitboTC]

After a lot of thought, I’ve decided to step down from the @SeaOfThieves Partner Program.

I love Sea of Thieves and I’ll always be thankful for the opportunities, friendships, and memories that came from it. But seeing the recent news surrounding someone who was elevated and promoted by members of the CM team has honestly been disgusting. Especially hearing that some people may have known about certain behavior and it was still pushed forward anyway.

As a Christian, I have to stand on what I believe is right. Between this and years of harassment that creators have dealt with while little was done about it, I just can’t continue representing the program in good faith anymore.

This wasn’t an easy decision because I truly love this game and the community we built around it. But I feel like it’s the right decision for me, my family, and my community moving forward.

Thank you to everyone who supported me through all of it.

[Old Salty Marine @BamaSaltyMarine]

know I probably shouldn't have done this... but I'm 79 years old, and patience only goes so far.

This morning, I was at the grocery store, standing in a long checkout line.

The young guy behind me started sighing loudly,
checking his watch, and muttering, Come on, how long can this take?"

I didn't say a word.

When it was finally my turn, I told the cashier, I'll pay for my groceries... and his too."

The cashier smiled, and the young man immediately changed his attitude.

He looked embarrassed and said, Wow, thank you, sir. I really appreciate that.

I'just nodded politely.

Then I picked up my grocery bags... and his too.

Now he's still standing there at the register, confused... and has to go back and shop all over again.

Moral of the story: Don't rush old people... we've been around long enough to get creative!

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Rear Admiral Isaac C Kidd was the first flag officer to die in World War Two. When the bombs started falling on December 7, 1941, he rushed to the bridge of the USS Arizona to take command of his battleship division. He was still giving orders when a magazine exploded and instantly vaporized the bridge. All searchers ever found of him was his Naval Academy ring fused to the bulkhead. When a new Fletcher class destroyer named the USS Kidd was commissioned in 1943, her first crew wanted to honour him. Playing off his famous surname, they adopted the legendary pirate Captain William Kidd as their mascot.

They painted a pirate figure on the forward smokestack and decided to fly the Jolly Roger. This was not just frowned upon. Flying the skull and crossbones is strictly prohibited for a commissioned US Navy surface vessel. But the fierce reputation of the crew and a formal intervention from Admiral Kidd's widow made it official. They became known across the fleet as the Pirate of the Pacific, rescuing downed pilots and fighting brutally at Tarawa and Okinawa.

The tradition did not die with the original ship. When the current USS Kidd was commissioned in 2007, the right to fly the Jolly Roger transferred with the name. While British and US submarines sometimes fly the pirate flag returning from successful wartime patrols, the USS Kidd remains entirely unique. No other surface ship in the US Navy holds this permission.

If you ever see this warship pulling into port or conducting a line crossing ceremony today, look up at the mainmast. Amidst the radar arrays and state of the art weapons systems of a modern billion dollar warship, you will see the black skull and crossbones snapping in the wind. It stands as a direct line back to a fighting admiral who refused to leave his burning ship in 1941.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Senator Thune,

Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation."

You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process.

Here's how we know:

Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you.

Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work:

Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill.

Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results.

Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess.

Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate.

You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months.

Now let's talk donors:

• Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user
• Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify
• Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration
• Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants

Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail."

Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable.

We see the loop.

You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed.

What we want:

1. Force a real talking filibuster.
2. Stop hiding behind process.
3. Pass the SAVE America Act.

YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents.

You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time.

Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

The popular video game Minecraft is promoting a DLC called "Good Trouble," which pushes political activism and protesting on kids.

This is how they indoctrinate your children.

Parents beware.

[txGreg @txGreg]

@Matt_Pinner Not only can I tick off all 20, you forgot "looked up information in your own Encyclopedia."

[Ilan Wurman @ilan_wurman]

What if I told you that federal welfare programs are actually unconstitutional? Buckle up:

First, where does the federal government get the power to spend money on welfare? It's not in any of the enumerated powers in Article I, Section 8.

Congress can, of course, spend money under the Necessary and Proper Clause in furtherance of its own enumerated powers. So it can pay government salaries, pay for postal roads, pay for an army and navy, etc.

But where does it say, "create a welfare program," the spending for which would be necessary and proper?

The *modern-day* answer, given to us by the New Deal Supreme Court, is the first clause in Article I, Section 8: Congress, it is often said, has the power to "spend for the general welfare," and that covers welfare programs.

But that's not what the clause actually says!

Here it is:

"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; . . . "

Although this clause is commonly believed today to be two powers--a taxing power ("Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes...") and a spending power ("to pay the Debts and provide for...the general Welfare")--read it again.

It's actually only a SINGLE POWER: the power to tax for national purposes.

Think about it. The power to pay the debts would be unnecessary to specify because Congress has the power to borrow, which necessarily includes the power (indeed obligation) to repay.

The final clause (uniformity of taxes) is a modification of the taxing power. It would be strange if that came after an entirely different power.

There's also no reason why "provide for" would be limited to "spending" if it really were a separate power. Yet no one took that view at the Founding.

Albert Gallatin famously said that Gouverneur Morris at the Constitutional Convention tried to change the comma before the words "to pay" to a semi-colon, to create a separate, independent power to provide for the general welfare. (A near-final draft of the Constitution actually included the semi-colon.)

The ever watchful Roger Sherman caught him in the act and had it reverted to a comma--to indicate, as he did all along, that it was merely a power to tax for national purposes.

For many years, Congress acted on the view that it was only a power to tax. There is some contrary evidence: Hamilton famously took the view it was an independent power to spend.

Eventually Congress thought it had the power to fund "internal improvements," but many of those could be justified under other powers (post roads, military routes, removing obstructions to or facilitating commerce).

It wasn't until 1936 that the Supreme Court held there was an independent power to spend for the "general welfare."

There is a lot more to say about this. So are federal welfare programs unconstitutional? Probably yes, under the best original meaning of the Constitution. Is the alternative plausible? Perhaps.

But given the constitutionally dubious foundation for such federal programs, maybe we should take the opportunity of this crazy and endemic welfare fraud to rethink the federal government's role altogether.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

JUST IN: Kenyan man Cholo Abdi Abdullah sentence to two consecutive life terms for plotting 9/11 style attack on behalf of the al-Shabaab Somalian t*rror group.

He received military-style training in Somalia then trained how to fly a commercial aircraft.

He planned to target the 55 story Bank of America Plaza in Atlanta.

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

How did Nancy Pelosi get so good at trading stocks that she vastly outperformed the S&P 500 and Warren Buffett? 🤔

[Puppies & Positivity @Puppieslover]

Dog hilarious reaction after seeing Darth Vader for the first time in TV 😂

[txGreg @txGreg]

Check out #MyXboxStory at @TrueAchievement https://t.co/tC3QGHcUR0

[txGreg @txGreg]

@SenFettermanPA @giselefetterman @UPMC My best to you for a speedy recovery.

[txGreg @txGreg]

LOL

[Margo Martin @MargoMartin47]

The Presidential Walk of Fame has arrived on the West Wing Colonnade

Wait for it… 🖊️👀