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He won the Civil War, broke the Klan, went bankrupt at 62, got terminal throat cancer, and wrote one of the greatest books in American literature in the final year of his life. He finished it 5 days before he died. Ulysses S. Grant was born 204 years ago today. His name wasn't even Ulysses S. Grant. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27, 1822. The congressman who nominated him to West Point wrote down the wrong name. Grant kept it. The "S." stands for nothing. He hated his father's tannery and loved horses. Graduated 21st of 39 at West Point. Fought in the Mexican-American War, then came home convinced it was an unjust war designed to expand slavery. He later said he believed the Civil War was divine punishment for it. He married Julia Dent in 1848, into a slave-owning Missouri family. His abolitionist father refused to attend the wedding. In 1859, broke and desperate, Grant freed the one enslaved man he'd briefly owned instead of selling him. He could have gotten a year's wages. In the Civil War he became what no other Union general was: relentless. Vicksburg (July 4, 1863) split the Confederacy in half. Lincoln then gave him every Union army. His Appomattox surrender terms: officers kept sidearms, men kept horses for spring planting, no one prosecuted. As president (1869 to 1877) he did something no president would do again until LBJ: used federal troops to crush the Ku Klux Klan. He suspended habeas corpus in 9 South Carolina counties, prosecuted Klansmen before predominantly Black juries, and broke the first Klan. His presidency was also rocked by scandal: Black Friday 1869. Crédit Mobilier. The Whiskey Ring. Belknap. Grant himself never took a dime. He was just disastrously loyal to corrupt friends. The pattern damaged his reputation for a century. After the White House, he toured the world for 2 years. Dined with Queen Victoria. Met the emperor of Japan. Then in 1884, a Wall Street partner named Ferdinand Ward ran what we'd now call a Ponzi scheme. Grant was wiped out. 62 years old. Penniless. Weeks later he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. Mark Twain offered to publish his memoirs. Grant wrote in agony, sometimes 50 pages a day, racing the disease to leave Julia an inheritance. He finished the manuscript July 18, 1885. He died July 23. The book made Julia $450,000, about $14M today. It's now considered one of the finest memoirs in the English language. For decades historians ranked Grant a failure. Since 2000 he's jumped 13 spots in the C-SPAN survey, the biggest rise of any president. Happy birthday, General 🇺🇸

Once again for educational purposes: In federal court a "Criminal Complaint" is not a "charging document." Under the Constitution, all felony charges in federal cases come from a Grand Jury - NOT DOJ. A Criminal Complaint has 3 purposes: 1. The issuance of an arrest warrant from a judge that allows the defendant to be arrested and detained. 2. It brings the person named under the jurisdiction of the court to determine whether he should be detained or released pending the outcome of the matter. 3. At the "Initial Appearance" before a Magistrate, the defendant is advised of the reasons for his arrest, and asked if he needs an attorney to be appointed. The fact that certain expected charges are set forth or not set forth in the Complaint is irrelevant. Complaints are almost never comprehensive -- the best practice is to say the minimum necessary to accomplish the purposes they serve. What matters are what charges are voted on by the Grand Jury to include in the Indictment.

America's second sexiest man alive. He only comes in 2nd because he isn't alive.

No it didn't and your failure to take down this post shows you to be a lying hack. The RFP was public. But a qualifying factor was security clearance to work on restricted grounds. Only 4 contractors qualified. Only 1 of the 4 submitted a big that met the stated completion date before July 4 -- that company has workers and equipment in place so it didn't need additional time to mobilize as did the other 3. The US Park Service put out the RFP with the deadline -- no Comms with the WH on the subject. All of this has come out today.

The Hilton donated the ~2600 dinners that went unserved at WHCD. They freeze dried the steak and lobster for longer shelf life before giving them to 2 shelters for abused women and children. HUGE thank you to the staff that worked through the night under terrible circumstances.

HOLY CRAP! Karoline Leavitt is calling out Democrats BY NAME who SPARKED the rhetoric leading to Saturday's attempt on President Trump's life 🔵 "Rep Hakeem Jeffrey just THIS MONTH said, 'we are in an era of maximum warfare everywhere all the time.'" 🔵 "Governor Josh Shapiro said heads need to roll within the administration." 🔵 "Senator Alex Padilla said people are DYING because of fear and terror caused by the Trump administration." 🔵 "Senator Elizabeth Warren: President Trump is making the country look like a 'FASCIST STATE'" 🔵 "Senator Adam Schiff saying President Trump using a dictator playbook" Senator Ed Markey calling President Trump a dictator, saying that this administration's actions are authoritarism on STEROIDS" 🔵 "Governor JB Pritzker: 'Never before in my life have I called for mass protest disruptions. These Republicans cannot know a MOMENT of peace.'" 🔵 "Rep. Pressley saying we'll see you in the streets." 🔵 Monica M McIver, a Democrat representative on Capitol Hill, we will "not take this sh*t from Donald Trump. He thinks he's a DICTATOR. We are at WAR!" "These are Democrat elected officials calling for WAR against the president of the United States and his supporters."

I have far more federal court trial experience than Weissmann, lost only 2 of 65+ jury trials as a AUSA--none reversed on appeal, much less losing 9-0 in SCOTUS on an argument I championed. Dismantling here his criticism of the SPLC indictment. First of 2 parts. Link below.

Exposing the hypocrisy, racism and colonialist mindset of the woke left. The audacity for a German politician to say that Iranians are not ready for democracy. But guess what? Iran was a democracy 12 years before Germany. And during WWII thousands of Jews escaped Europe and Nazi Germany and sought refuge in IRAN. Don't judge Iran or Iranians based on the actions of a foreign 7th century Islamic occupation. This is why we Iranians are fighting to free ourselves from this backwards, foreign ideology. Here's a brief lesson on the history of democracy in Iran.

URGENT Question: Is there a defense lawyer that can represent a Marine at Pendleton that an E3 can afford? Kind of emergency situation.. DM me.

Elon Musk just casually reposting old Trump prayers from two years ago at 1am 🙏

Happy birthday to our wonderful and beautiful First Lady, Melania Trump! ❤️🇺🇲

My wife @Sugar_Tits_Bear got hit in the 'inauthentic content' demonetization purge MY WIFES CHANNEL IS UNDER ATTACK 💥🤣 She's doing an appeal today, but we'd appreciate it if @TeamYouTube could look into this. She's been on YouTube 10 yrs. She's def authentic. Pls share!! 🙏

There are two Texel ewes that share Keith's field in summer. They are not Keith's ewes. They are not part of any active breeding plan. They are two retired ewes that the farmer's wife took on from a flock dispersal in 2023, and that have been living on the bottom pasture of Dave's farm because the bottom pasture is, after Keith has worked it, in better condition for grazing than it has been in any of the previous tenancies the farm has known. The ewes' names are Pat and Margaret. Keith's relationship with Pat and Margaret is the following. He ignores them. Specifically, he ignores them in the way that a goat ignores sheep, which is not the way that, for example, a sheep ignores another sheep, or that a horse ignores a sheep, or that any other animal on this farm ignores any other animal. Keith's ignoring is structural. It is not absent-minded. He is aware of where Pat and Margaret are at all times. He simply does not allow this awareness to influence his behaviour. Pat and Margaret are also aware of where Keith is at all times. They have, however, learned to follow Keith. Not closely. Not in any way that Keith has acknowledged. But when Keith opens a gate, Pat and Margaret are, on average, through it within four minutes. When Keith identifies a section of bramble that is going to be addressed, Pat and Margaret are nearby within ten. When Keith is on the barn roof, Pat and Margaret are usually in the shade of the barn, looking up at him with the specific patient expression of two old sheep who have decided that whatever the goat is doing is, on balance, probably worth being near. Dave has noticed. Dave has not mentioned it to Keith, because Keith would deny it. Dave has also noticed that Pat and Margaret have, in their last two years on this farm, lambed at a rate that the previous flock-keeper would have considered impossible for ewes their age, eaten weeds they had not previously touched, and produced fleece that the local mill paid more for than any of their previous fleeces. The ewes have got better. The ewes have got better because they have been doing what the goat does. The goat does not know they have been doing what the goat does. This is, in agricultural terms, a mixed grazing system. It is one of the oldest systems known to British farming. Cattle, sheep, and goats together, sharing pasture, each handling the vegetation the others won't touch, parasites broken up by interspecies grazing, the field improving over years rather than declining over months. The system was lost when farms specialised after the war. Dave did not set out to recreate it. Dave bought a goat for the knotweed. The system has reassembled itself. Pat and Margaret are at the gate. Keith is on the roof. The pasture is the best it has ever been.

Melania Trump is a woman of extraordinary grace, kindness, and compassion—qualities she showed again last night in a moment of fear, chaos, and uncertainty. After yet another attempt on her husband‘s life, she provided aid and comfort to those who were ushered backstage, including my fiancée, Jacqui. Even in a moment of profound personal anguish, her instinct was to steady others—calm, gracious, and thoughtful. That quiet strength is who she is. I have seen that same heart in our work together on the Take it Down Act and her critical humanitarian efforts to reunite Ukrainian children with their families—work that stands testament to the power of compassion to unite and overcome even the most formidable barriers. She is a class act and a special person, and I’m wishing our amazing @FLOTUS a peaceful and fulfilling birthday today, with her nearest and dearest by her side 🙏🏻🇺🇸

This has instantly become my favorite Trump clip. I think I’ll just have it on loop for a while.

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@MeganFoxWriter No, It's "That's Funny" (Just ask @lordbuckly ) And it is. Funny

This is funny

In 1981, Ronald Reagan was shot by an assassin's bullet near the heart. As he was prepped for emergency surgery. he quipped to the surgeons "I hope you're all Republicans" The lead surgeon didn't miss a beat: "Today, Mr. President, we're all Republicans"

@TheBrancaShow No, that was Twitter that he quit. THIS is X. C'mon Branca, get with the program!

Could have sworn that you quit this platform.