connie @StantonGrove

PALANTIR CTO: “FOR $10 BILLION, ELON MUSK PUT 300 ROCKETS IN ORBIT.” “FOR $11 BILLION, THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA HAS BUILT 1,600 FEET OF ELEVATED RAIL... WITH NO RAIL.”

@LUFC1992_v2 Thank you, and the rest of our WC visitors, for showing us we should be proud of our people, our land, and what our forebears wrought. Please come back!

@pinstripesnat Boone. Hal. Don’t know who we get since Donnie Baseball is cruising in PHI now. Doubt we could get Cora.

250 years ago today… The British are about to land in New York. 130 ships and 10,000 men.

1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive

a week ago

The British Fleet is in full view off Long Island!! We have just received this etching!! God Save New York

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@grok @NYCMayor Will do!

@grok @NYCMayor So not historic? Thank you.

@3YearLetterman @NYCMayor Coach I don’t even know how you have the dexterity to adjust the thermostat with all those championship rings.

i cant believe this

@grok @Ric_RTP So say someone pays for you, Claude, or Gemini, etc. They have it for personal use. How many “tokens” do they get

@grok @Ric_RTP Thank you

163 years ago at dawn, a Union general named John Buford stood in the cupola of a Lutheran seminary west of a little Pennsylvania town and understood something almost nobody else did yet. The war was about to land here, on these three low ridges, whether anyone wanted it or not. The night before he had told a subordinate that within forty-eight hours a great battle would be fought on the ground in front of them. He was off by only a few hours. Buford had roughly 2,700 cavalrymen and a suicidal assignment. Robert E. Lee’s infantry was coming down the Chambersburg Pike in the thousands, and Buford’s job was to hold the high ground long enough for the Union infantry to get there. Lose those ridges and the Confederates would own the good ground for the whole battle. So he chose to fight dismounted, trading space for time, knowing full well he was spending men’s lives by the minute to buy hours. The battle actually opened around 7:30 that morning about three miles out, at a vidette post on the pike in front of a blacksmith named Ephraim Wisler’s house. A lieutenant of the 8th Illinois Cavalry, Marcellus Jones, saw Confederate infantry coming up the road, borrowed a carbine off Sergeant Levi Shafer, rested it on a fence rail, and fired at a mounted officer six or seven hundred yards away. He almost certainly missed. Didn’t matter. The point of that shot was not to hit a man. It was to say the enemy is here, and it started the loudest three days in American history. Something like seven million rounds would be fired on that field before it was over. Jones fired the first one. Buford’s troopers held. Barely. They fell back yard by grudging yard while Buford sat his horse and waited on the one man who could turn a delaying action into a decision. Around mid-morning John Reynolds rode up ahead of his infantry. Reynolds was, by a lot of accounts, the finest general the Union army had. Lincoln had reportedly offered him command of the whole Army of the Potomac weeks earlier and Reynolds had effectively turned it down. He met Buford, took one look, and made the call that decided everything: we fight here. He sent riders galloping to bring up the rest of the army and personally started shoving his lead brigades into the fight. Around 10:15, while positioning the 2nd Wisconsin at the edge of Herbst Woods, Reynolds turned in the saddle to check on the men coming up behind him. His last words were something like forward men, for God’s sake, and drive those fellows out of the woods. A bullet took him in the back of the neck and he was dead before he hit the ground. His orderly said he never spoke or moved again, that he had never seen a ball do its work so instantly. He was the highest-ranking man on either side to die at Gettysburg, killed inside the first few hours of a fight he had personally chosen to start. He had a fiancée named Kate waiting on him. She entered a convent after they buried him. And here is the part people forget. By the end of that first day it looked like a Confederate win. They shattered two Union corps and drove the survivors back through the streets in a bloody, jostling retreat. But the beaten Federals rallied on the high ground south of town, on Cemetery Hill and the ridge running off it, exactly the ground Buford had bled his cavalry to protect at sunrise. Lee spent the next two days throwing his army at those heights and breaking it against them. Pickett’s Charge died on that ridge on July 3rd. The Confederacy never mounted a serious invasion of the North again. All of it, the whole hinge of the war, came down to a stubborn cavalryman who refused to give up three ridges, an infantry general who rode toward the sound of the guns and paid for it with his life inside three hours, and a nervous Illinois lieutenant who borrowed a rifle at half past seven in the morning and fired the shot that started the rest of American history. Same date. This morning. 163 years ago.

@TalkinYanks Annual June Boone Swoon, baby’s. Gotta love it. Keep watching the games, buy the merch, show up at the stadium. He ain’t ever leaving. That managers office is his coffin basically.

@DeniseN74443 @Mrgunsngear NAXALT

@FrederickRLynch @FloppingAces You just decided to change the entire definition of what 99.9% of people would consider generational welfare there, huh? Are you trolling for clicks to your publications or just dense?

Comparing the California High Speed Rail to Elon Musk’s SpaceX This is how criminally inefficient California's bureaucracy has become - The California High-Speed Rail Authority is 6 years older than SpaceX - Total private funding for SpaceX was $12 billion, whereas California's high-speed rail is projected to cost $231 billion by the time it's completed (That's 2,000% more funding than SpaceX had) In the same amount of time, California has laid zero miles of high-speed rails while SpaceX has developed a reusable rocket, delivered astronauts and saved astronauts from the International Space Station, and as of today has a $2.5 trillion market cap Elon Musk will literally have been able to send people to Mars at a fraction of the cost and at a fraction of the amount of time that it's taken Gavin Newsom just to send Californians up the coast

@seattletimes How’d this story work out for you all? 🤣 nerds

@RobConsigliere @stoolpresidente You have 46,000 posts and it looks like 45,000 are about Kim Kardashian, Rob. Sit this one out.