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Touring a young United States in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville marveled at Americans’ boundless appetite for commerce, industry and wealth. “Nothing checks the spirit of enterprise,” the 25-year-old Frenchman later recounted in “Democracy in America.” As to the reason: “I have no doubt that the democratic institutions of the United States…are the cause…of the prodigious commercial activity of the inhabitants.” The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence finds the U.S. the biggest and most dynamic economy in the world and among its richest. As Tocqueville intuited long ago, Americans owe much of that to the democracy the founders built....

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer proudly boasts having the "gayest" parliament in the world. To celebrate Pride Month, Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosted a reception at 10 Downing Street for LGBTQ+ community leaders. A social media video from the event posted on Tuesday, local time, showed Starmer talking with attendees while a speaker jokingly referred to him as a "lesbian style icon".

MJTruthUltra@MJTruthUltraSomebody asked… so here ya go.Yes, President Trump posted this yesterday… it’s an AI generated image of an 11 Star (not 13) Golden Eagle… with the caption “A Golden Gift to the White House for its 250th Birthday Year!”Also, there is real historical American tradition tied to a plaque looking eagle on the front of the White House..After World War II, homeowners (especially veterans) hung brass or metal eagle plaques above their front doors or garages once they paid off their mortgage. It symbolized being “free from debt” — hence the nickname “freedom flyer.” It was a proud, patriotic way...

CQ Brown, who was fired as Trump’s top general, questioned the president’s handling of the armed forces CQ Brown, the retired general forced out of his post as the nation’s top military officer last year, has provided his most direct critique of the Trump administration’s handling of the U.S. military, questioning the deployment of troops in U.S. cities and warning against tainting the armed forces’ service with politics.In an essay published Friday with two co-authors, Brown cautioned that sending the military into American cities for “politically contentious missions” like fighting crime risked compromising its traditionally apolitical role and diverting it...

These elite schools once trained the statesmen of the American republic. Now they produce its most ardent critics.When William Pallan arrived at the University of Pennsylvania his freshman year, he was set on studying the humanities. He wanted to engage with the great thinkers of the Western canon, from Plato and Aristotle to Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill. But as he searched through Penn’s online course catalog and sat in on classes, he felt that the options on offer focused less on the great texts themselves and more on postmodernist interpretations of them. He recalls leaving the first...

In the time leading up to and during the American Revolution (1765-1783), Loyalist preachers defended their stance on remaining loyal to Great Britain utilizing Bible themes and specific verses. Oftentimes, as with the Patriots, these Loyalist preachers took these themes and verses out of context or misquoted them. Despite violent opposition, these men and women stood firm in their conviction and remained loyal to Great Britain and to God. They believed they were to honor and submit to the governing authority. They believed this so abundantly that they would have remained loyal even to a tyrannical government. They reminded others...

🇺🇸 𝗧 𝗢 𝗠 𝗠 𝗬 ✦ 𝗧 𝗔 𝗧 𝗨 𝗠 ✦ 𝗡 𝗘 𝗪 𝗦@BenKaxton·21hhttps://x.com/BenKaxton/status/1898841128478408915/video/1 The FBI had Google send me an email to me saying they scanned my drive folder and determined a very rare J6 video I had was “mis info” after I posted a portion of it and it went viral. (It has DHS assets in it) They are trying to save their assets on the way out the door. Here is that viral video. If you know what you are seeing it vindicates ANY level of violence witnessed in or around the tunnel that...

If you want to keep your house naturally cooler this summer, the most important thing you can do happens before the day heats up: Close your blinds and windows by about 9 a.m., or before direct sunlight reaches that side of your home. That’s the core idea behind an old-school home-cooling technique some call the “caveman method,” inspired by the naturally cool conditions found in caves. To understand how it works, Country Living talked to Joseph Holman, a door and window specialist at Green Door based in the U.K., where June temperatures have surpassed record highs this year. While it...

Explanation: Some 190 million light-years away, far beyond the bright stars and nebulae of the Milky Way, these three galaxies are drawn together by gravity in a mesmerizing cosmic dance. Clearly distorted by galactic-scale gravitational interactions, large spiral galaxies NGC 6769 and NGC 6770 are seen face-on, with luminous galactic disks scarred by obscuring interstellar dust lanes. Their young blue star clusters along drawn out spiral arms are spawned in star forming regions that resulted from collisions of massive molecular clouds. Below, spiral NGC 6771 presents a more edge-on perspective, its boxy central bulge due to tidal star streams. Of...

Prince William didn't hesitate when he was asked a question about America's milestone 250th birthday during a surprise appearance on Jason Kelce and Travis Kelce's podcast. "America is turning 250 years this year," Jason said. "Be honest. Are you surprised we made it?" William didn't miss a beat. "There were times," he joked with a laugh. "There were times. Yeah." "But I'd like to think the U.K. and the U.S. would be together for those 250 years...It's a good brotherhood."

https://x.com/TGLetter/status/2072932821144903907 The Global Letter@TGLetter·15hNobody is telling you how INSANE America's 250th birthday flyover schedule actually is.Everyone's talking about "fireworks" and "a parade."Nobody is talking about the fact that DC is about to run SEVEN STRAIGHT HOURS of military airpower starting 1:15 PM ET.Not a flyover. A full-day aerial campaign.→ VC-25B — the NEW Air Force One — leading the formation→ Air Force tri-bomber wave — three bombers in one pass→ Stealth airpower slot — B-21 speculation is real 👀→ Blue Angels AND Thunderbirds — same day, same skyEvery single branch is flying. Not one. ALL of them.→ F-22 / F-35...

You may have read the article from the New York Post about the FBI enlisting a close insider to California Governor Gavin Newsom to wear a wire and record conversations within Newsom’s circle. However, did you overlay the timeline? Remember, there is no possibility this FBI wired surveillance of Gavin Newsom would take place without the DOJ being completely aware of the operation. The person in the DOJ who would be responsible for both authorizing the operation and conducting the surveillance would have been Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. A sensitive FBI operation carrying this political consequence would never take...

Wow! I'm Excommunicated By My Papa...or Am I?This photo says it all. My mom always said, "Birds of a feather flock together." So here we have the scandalous porn-writing head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith sharing an intimate moment with the pope, il papa, my daddy in the spiritual life. I'm heartbroken and shaking my head after reading the explanatory note from Fernandez. [Published at the end.]Will I stop going to the SSPX? No. My conscience tells me that in order to be in "full Communion" with Rome these days, I must accept those things I...

WASHINGTON -- Three-time U.S. Olympian David Hearn has been indicted in Washington, D.C., for allegedly "maliciously" destroying the lining at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Hearn was indicted in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on a single count of destruction of property worth $1,000 or more, a felony charge that carries up to 10 years in prison. U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced the charges at a press conference on Thursday, saying Hearn will face "accountability." "The indictment is in response to an incident that occurred on June 19 of 2026 in which...

Summary: Researchers have shown that ultracold atoms can be driven into a strange new quantum state called a fractional Fermi sea, where particles organize themselves in unexpected ways. The discovery points to a new phase of matter that goes beyond established quantum theories and could expand the possibilities of quantum simulation...The newly created state displays several unusual characteristics. Mathematical correlations between particles reveal pronounced ripples, known as Friedel oscillations, along with distinctive decay behavior across all levels of repulsive interactions.Perhaps most importantly, the state exhibits properties that differ from those expected for Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids, which have long served as the...

"As NBC News reports, the account is called "ZnotluvuiSamez," and features the Ukrainian flag as its profile picture. The account made multiple big bets surrounding the Russo-Ukrainian war, including $409,000 on a contract that asks if "Putin out as President of Russia by December 31, 2026?" According to users' overall bets, there's currently a "11 percent chance" that Putin will be out by the end of the year. Of course, a massive bet is far from a guarantee that Putin will no longer be president, whether through an ouster or a decision to step down. For one, Putin isn't up...

This week, the French National Assembly adopted for the third time a bill to legalize a right to “assisted dying” and rejected a conscience clause that would have protected private healthcare institutions from being forced to assist in suicide or euthanasia services. The bill now goes to the Senate, which will likely strike it down once more, before returning to the National Assembly for a final, decisive vote on July 15. Key Takeaways: The National Assembly approved the text twice, in May 2025 and February 2026, but the Senate struck it down. It will now return to the Senate, and...

Welcome to the spectacular America250 Celebration in New York City, commemorating the 250th Anniversary of American Independence with an unforgettable Grand Military Parade & Independence Celebration. Experience a breathtaking patriotic event as New York hosts an extraordinary celebration honoring 250 years of American history, freedom, and national unity. Watch magnificent military formations, ceremonial honor guards, precision drill teams, military bands, veterans, first responders, patriotic parade floats, and cultural performances representing the diversity and spirit of the United States. Enjoy an impressive display of modern military vehicles, historic equipment, mounted honor guards, marching bands, giant American flags, and inspiring patriotic ceremonies...

The power didn't go out...they turned it off!! Mamdani says turn AC to 78... City hall's inside temperature is 72. NYC has over 500 electric buses... Some cell towers are out, and traffic lights are out.

Largest U.S. power grid operator PJM ​said on Friday ​it was ​under a federal alert to cut electricity consumption across its territory as ⁠it ‌battled generator outages, massive overloading ⁠on its transmission lines and a surge in air conditioning use from prolonged sweltering ‌heat. PJM said it told utilities to reduce electricity to customers ​who are under contract to reduce consumption during emergencies. PJM serves 67 million people ⁠in the Mid-Atlantic, South and Washington, D.C., area. Spot ‌wholesale electricity prices ‌in northern Virginia, home to the largest collection of data centers in the ⁠world, have surged beyond $2,000 per megawatt...