Mella @LoPassFilter28

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.

250 years ago, on July 2nd, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. John Adams wrote to his wife the next day: “The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.—I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.” Well, not quite. On July 4th, the delegates adopted the Declaration of Independence — and that has been the day for celebrations ever since.

@Jelitics for the love of all that is holy CASH TF OUT

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The Associated Press @AP

a day ago

BREAKING: The Vatican excommunicates bishops from a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics that consecrated them without Pope Leo's consent. apnews.com/article/vatica…

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maybe more americans would be interested in football/soccer if refs let players like Haaland play the game instead of rewarding floppers

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Tim @trouble_man90

2 days ago

Voters: if you be normal we’ll give you the senate Democrats:

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@NYCMayor Yes, Kommissar. I will set my thermostat to Mud Hut settings for the sake of our glorious revolution. (Any idea what the temperature will be for me in the Gulag?)

Venezuelans on the ground are telling us that huge amounts of cash were stored in some of the apartments that collapsed. Some accounts report that vast sums of money (that im assuming couldn’t be laundered) were hidden and buried in unconventional ways, some of it stashed in vehicles that were buried underground, or inside apartments like the ones that collapsed in La Guaira after the Earthquake

Jonathan Jakubowicz @JoJakubowicz

2 days ago

Mucha gente impresionada por la cantidad de dólares que aparecen entre los escombros de Vargas, pero ya Pantera lo explicó hace años en La Venganza de Juan Planchard.

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“Bad Crusady” 🤣

Cuñado Medieval @siervo_gleba

4 weeks ago

La señora marquesa me dice que debo respetar la igualdad entre siervos y siervas. La misma que fue a un recital del juglar "Bad Crusady" y se puso a cruzadear con otras damas de alta alcurnia mientras escuchaba cantigas como "dale baphomet por atrás a la templaria". Hipócrita 🤮

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The Supreme Court’s job is not to make new laws but to ensure that existing laws are enforced. By disregarding the original intent of the 14th Amendment, it has effectively rewritten the law. The only answer to this overreach is nullification.

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Alejandro Entrambasaguas @entrammbasaguas

2 days ago

#INVESTIGACIÓN Estos son los documentos que acreditan que Bono y su socio recibieron dos viviendas de lujo en Dominicana. Fue un pago por intermediar en favor de un macroparque solar. Se trata de dos inmuebles cuyo valor supera el medio millón de euros. eldebate.com/espana/2026063…

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Un corrupto del socialismo español tiene dos apartamentos de lujo en la Calle Alberto Larancuent, cerca del drinks2go de la Tiradentes La prensa española alega que Abinader le otorgó la ciudadanía dominicano a través de un decreto, y que los apartamentos parecen ser recompensas gracias a negociaciones que conllevaron a contratos multimillonarios para proyectos de energía fotovoltaica Que película eldebate.com/espana/2026063…

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El Debate @eldebate_com

3 days ago

👉 Tal y como ha podido saber este periódico, Bono acordó que uno de los pisos se lo iba a quedar él y el otro su socio, Juan Segovia, que fue durante dos legislaturas diputado del PSOE en la Asamblea de Madrid Puedes seguir leyendo aquí ⬇️ eldebate.com/espana/2026063…

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¿Con qué gente, con qué equipaje y con qué mercancia ha viajado Begoña Gomez con el Falcon para sus asuntos privados a la República Dominicana y a cuántos sitios más? Moncloa confiesa que Begoña Gómez usa el Falcon sin ningún tipo de registro y alimenta las sospechas sobre sus misteriosos viajes eldebate.com/espana/2026063… a través de @eldebate_com

Like many others, I have been alarmed by the success of certain politicians in our country who identify as extreme socialists or communists. This is not a matter of classical liberals triumphing over standard-issue conservatives; this is the victory of people who stand athwart the fundamental principles that undergird our country. There are many reasons why I detest Communism, but I want to draw attention to just one issue of supreme importance. Karl Marx said that the first critique is the critique of religion. He meant that, before a complete re-working of the politics and economics of a society can take place, religion has to be taken down. This is because religion, as he saw it, is the “opium of the masses,” a drug taken to dull our sensitivity to the suffering caused by economic exploitation. As long as the suffering populace is lured into complacency by fantasies about God's providence and the promise of eternal life, they will never rise up and throw off their chains. But there is a second reason why the elimination of religion is of paramount significance for Marx. Communism aspires to be a totalizing system, involving the government's control over education, entertainment, communication, politics, and especially economics. What stands resolutely athwart this ambition is religion, which declares that all of these societal expressions are finally under the judgment of God. So, if you want Communism to succeed, religion has to be stamped out. If you doubt me on any of this, I would encourage you to read the recent histories of China, Russia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Venezuela. Revisit those histories and tell me I'm wrong about the attack on religion. Might I encourage my fellow believers in God not to be complacent in the face of this very troubling development in the American body politic?

If you keep telling yourself you're a failure or inadequate it will become true. If you forgive yourself and tell yourself you are a winner, it will come true. Now that you know the outcome of both, the choice should be simple. Don't overcomplicate it. NEVER DOOM.

“Migration without the intention of assimilation is an act of war”

Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost @Ne_pas_couvrir

3 days ago

“So migration was war and war was migration.” –Martin van Crevald

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footnote from Clarence Thomas, quoting Thomas Aquinas from Summa Theologica: “foreigners were not at once admitted to citizenship" because "if foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they settled down in its midst, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners not yet having the common good firmly at heart might attempt something hurtful to the people”

@Pashhy Hay algo raro ahí, sin duda

A 15 term incumbent in Colorado, Diana Degette, has lost the Democrat primary to a 29 year old socialist, Melat Kiros. That’s four incumbents losing primaries to socialists in a week. Every state now has a Mamdani, the Democrat party is on a rapid descent to communism.