Phil Prange

Went to the Army Navy game for the first time. This is worth the watch.

Emptying out camera roll from yesterday 📸 Congrats again our the Army Volleyball Class of 2026 on joining the Long Gray Line! #GoArmy

@Ryanmatta @jamiemcintyre21 @IanMalcolm84 @Truthtellerftm 🙄

This is the best explanation as to why I believe Israel is hell bent on turning America into the AI data center capital of the world.

I’m going to daughter brag. Kid is studying criminal justice at University of Cincy, almost a 4.0, studied Chinese, went on a ridealong with Cincinnati PD, and handed out crime prevention flyers on campus for the student criminal justice club. Plus, she’s a solid kid and former high school athlete with a great work ethic and a big heart! Super proud!!! My only real accomplishment!

@wisconsin_now It's good to brag about daughters! Can I brag about mine?

@bgcts @scratchyjohnson Important fact: Captain John Smith was not a fan of slavery. Smith was an escaped slave. He'd been enslaved by the Turks in 1602 after being defeated in combat. Sold in Istanbul for agricultural labor, he eventually killed his master & escaped. He got back to England in 1604.

This morning @scratchyjohnson tweeted an important factoid. Squanto, the Indian who spoke English and helped the pilgrims survive, was sold by John Smith to a Spaniards and the deed exists in the city we're in for Excursion. Rather than rolling our eyes, Alan, Gavin & I went to the state archives in Málaga to see if we can find said recorded deed of 20 Indians sold by John Smith to Juan Bautista Reales. We get to the Archives (see Alan's picture below), and a small genial white lab coat wearing gentleman who speaks no English says this is impossible to find. His new boss, the head archivist, Carmen, comes in and says it certainly exists but may be difficult to find. If you only had the year. We tell her it was 1614. She pulls up a list of the books from 29 notaries whose work they have from 1614. She asks who the notary was. We have no idea. They say they can't go through 29 archives to look for it. Also it's all in old Spanish which nobody speaks and it'll be hard to locate even if they know the Notary. So Alan and Gavin get to work. Gavin finds an article in the internet archive that seems to have a partial picture of the document. Carmen and the other archivist decipher the name after 15 min. They find that name in their cross reference. Carmen goes to the vault to look while the lab coat gentleman asks for my life history, driver's licence number and a lien on my grandchildren. Totally worth it. Carmen comes back to say she found the volume. It is tremendously delicate. Opening it may break some pages. Does it have to be today because if so the answer will be no. We ask her if this is interesting to them. Both very seriously nod their heads. We tell them this is very important to the United States and many of our friends. Carmen tells us she will find it but that it takes time. White linen gloves and patience. We tell her to take her time. She says she will take a picture and email it to me. So here's why all this is important: after Squanto was sold by an Englishman to a Spaniard names Reales, said Spaniard brought Squanto and 19 other "inios" to Málaga. He recorded the deed in the state archives. Then a Franciscan priest ransomed Squanto. Squanto became Catholic. Was baptized and confirmed in Málaga. He then made his way to England where he worked and learned English. He paid his passage back across the ocean and found his Wampanoag tribesmen. Then when the Pilgrims landed they found a Catholic English-speaking native who helped them survive their first winter. It is entirely possible that but for a Franciscan priest who ransomed Squanto, the Pilgrims may not have survived their first winter in New England. That's history. American history. And the record of it is in Málaga. In a book. One of 29 books kept by notaries in Málaga in 1614. That are still searchable. This image, when it comes, belongs in the US National Archive. This is Cultural Debris. x.com/i/status/20349… cc: @alancornett @gwbled @Gonnassaurius_ @wrathofgnon

@bgcts @scratchyjohnson He was not "sold by John Smith". Smith was already back in England when Squanto was captured and enslaved by Thomas Hunt. The written record of Smith's complaints about Hunt's misdeeds still exists.

@OakfieldSzn @LokiJulianus Captain Thomas Hunt was a villain. He was not a fisherman. He was a soldier who had been one of the subordinates of John Smith at the Virginia colony. When Smith went back England he left Hunt one of the expedition's ships. Against orders he began slaving for his own profit.

@LokiJulianus Yeah bro his name was Squanto. He spoke English because English fishermen kidnapped him, sold him into slavery in Spain, and he escaped back to Massachusetts years before the Pilgrims showed up. "Sounds fake but is true" is just "I didn't know the guy was trafficked."

One of the first Indians the Pilgrims ran into spoke English.

@OakfieldSzn @LokiJulianus He was not Wampanoag. He was the last survivor of the Patuxet tribe.

@LokiJulianus Sounds fake because you were taught Pilgrims landed and met natives who just happened to be bilingual for fun. He spoke English because Europeans were already kidnapping Wampanoag people before 1620. Read a book that isn't a coloring sheet.

@CaptainCons @DrunkOldGrad Yes

Is this satire?

@JAYDED247 @RepJackKimble @BlameItOnRyen

Just a friendly warning. We don’t even make $200k per year in Congress despite working nearly 140 days. If we aren’t properly compensated, a lot of us will go to the private sector and you will be left with some real idiots in Congress.

Forcing Jews to argue the anatomical likelihood of a dog penis penetrating a human anus is the most humiliating “watch them turn out their pockets” moment in the history of antisemitism. Nick Kristof will rot in hell.

Rwandans killed 800,000 people in 3 months with oversized knives. Cambodians killed 2 million people in 3 years with gardening tools. Israelis failed to kill 100,000 Palestinians in 78 years with one of the most advanced militaries in the world. Israel really sucks at genocide.

@steve_hanke Words. Mere words.

With each passing day, Iran expands its zone of influence. x.com/javierblas/sta…

@Havoc_Six @JamesSurowiecki My point was that, James said that no one swears an oath to obey the president. That's incorrect. The oath of enlistment contains such an oath. (The commissioning oath does not.) Your point is irrelevant and off topic.

@PhilPrange @JamesSurowiecki The point is in that last part you don't want to acknowledge :) highlight it and explain what it means.

No officer in the U.S. military takes an oath to serve the Commander-in-Chief.

@Havoc_Six @JamesSurowiecki What point are you trying to make?

@PhilPrange @JamesSurowiecki According to.... what? Highlight the last part!

@flyerfazz @JamesSurowiecki Who are you speaking to? I merely posted the enlistment oath from the army website. I made no arguments about orders, legal or otherwise. If the OP was a mustang, he would have 1st made the enlistment oath. If not, yes, the commissioning oath doesn't mention the President.

@PhilPrange @JamesSurowiecki Did you serve? My guess is not since you seem to not be able to differentiate between enlistment and commissioning. BTW, the UCMJ does not allow for following illegal orders regardless of who orders them.

@SeanTrende Also, let's stop pretending that there is any one standard for these things. It's all partisan advantage, all the time, in only one direction.

@steve_hanke Who said he was "distinguished"?

Distinguished UChicago Prof. John Mearsheimer on Muhammad Ali's ROPE-A-DOPE strategy: “People can talk about bombing Iran and inflicting punishment on them, but the problem is that the Iranians will absorb the punishment. They’re not going to quit.”

@sunnyright Hard Pass

What’s your Kentucky Derby horse name? I’ll start: Slippery Slope

When a self-proclaimed civil rights organization puts Ayaan Hirsi Ali, of all people, on a "hate watch" list, you know it has been twisted into a grotesque hate group itself. But this was only a sample of its perversions. Ayaan: The SPLC Targeted Me. Now Its Reckoning Has Come. thefp.com/p/ayaan-hirsi-…