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In 1945 the USS Indianapolis secretly delivered the parts for the atomic bomb that would hit Hiroshima. Days later, mission done, a Japanese submarine put two torpedoes into her. She sank in 12 minutes. Nearly 900 men made it off the ship alive and into the open ocean. Then it got worse. No one knew they were missing. Three separate Navy stations picked up the distress signals and every one of them ignored it. One officer thought it was a Japanese trap. Another had ordered not to be disturbed. So the men floated. For almost five days. No food, no fresh water, burning by day and freezing at night. Some drank seawater and went insane. And the whole time, the sharks were circling and feeding. It is considered the worst shark attack in human history. When rescue finally came by accident, only 316 of the nearly 1,200 crew were still alive. The Navy needed someone to blame for the disaster. They chose Captain Charles McVay, one of the men who survived it. He became the only U.S. captain in the entire war to be court-martialed for losing his ship to the enemy. At his trial the Navy did something almost unheard of. They brought in the Japanese commander who sank the ship to testify against him. Instead, the enemy captain told the court that zigzagging would have made no difference and that McVay did nothing wrong. They convicted him anyway. For years afterward McVay got hate mail from the families of the dead. Some sent letters every Christmas telling him he murdered their sons. In 1968 he walked onto his front lawn and shot himself, holding a toy sailor he had kept since he was a boy. Case closed. For fifty years. Then in 1996 an 11-year-old named Hunter Scott watched Jaws with his dad and got hooked on the 30 second speech about the Indianapolis. He made it his sixth grade history project. He tracked down and interviewed nearly 150 survivors. He dug through more than 800 documents. And buried in there he found what the Navy had left out, including that they knew enemy subs were operating right on the ship's route and never warned McVay. A kid's school project turned into a national story. It reached Congress. In 2000 lawmakers passed a resolution clearing McVay's name and President Clinton signed it. The Navy officially cleared his record in 2001. The captain the Navy spent decades blaming was finally exonerated by a sixth grader. Hunter Scott grew up and became a naval flight officer.

🇺🇸 Trump: ​"I am not speaking with Spain, they are a waste of time. I want them to leave NATO, let's cut all ties and impose sanctions..." ​🇪🇸 Sánchez: "Stay away from us. Instead of picking a fight with us, explain your own relationship with Epstein."

🚨BREAKING: Democrats announce wrongfully dismissed Justice Department attorney Liz Oyer and Epstein survivor Dani Bensky to testify in opposition to Todd Blanche’s attorney general nomination.

Monsters. All this does is radicalize people against us. It only helps the Iranian regime make the case that we are the Great Satan. Every war crime is a thousand more terrorists. Every thirsty child will never forget it. This is immoral, illegal & strategically incompetent.

Harry Litman on Jeanine Pirro's comments on the Reflecting Pool vandalism case: "If she can't prove those statements in court, to me, that is an absolutely overwhelming case for ethics violation. A U.S. attorney to stand up, talk beyond the record, say all these prejudicial things, and they're lies, man oh man."

ALL AMERICAN politicians should be thinking this way. How about we take care of OUR American vets, homeless, housing and healthcare with our tax dollars

All who vote for this should be charged with treason.

Hilarious that he cited Mamdani as the most serious threat today in America to a free press while Trump sues, threatens, subpoenas, yells at, and tries to intimidate reporters on a daily basis. But Mamdani is the problem. What a clown.

As part of the One Year To Go milestone for #InvictusGames Birmingham 2027, our Founding Patron, Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex and JJ Chalmers joined a special episode of Joe Marler Will See You Now, exploring recovery, friendship, mental fitness and the power of finding purpose after adversity. This conversation explores many of the themes that sit at the heart of the Invictus Movement alongside some other questionable topics! youtube.com/watch?v=Sub5TW…

Keith Richards is 11 years older than Lindsey Graham, 2 years older than Donald Trump, and 2 years younger than Mitch McConnell. He’s proof that sex, drugs, and rock and roll is a lot better for you than fascism!

Pete Hegseth just blocked the promotions of seven senior Navy officers — five of whom are women or people of color — to two-star admiral rank. For the first time in more than a decade, no female active-duty naval officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year. nytimes.com/2026/07/14/us/…

Every day it’s becoming more clear that surviving the next 2 1/2 years of this fucking insanity may not be possible Trump and his cronies are burning this entire country to the ground, one regulation at a time

If you want to know what it’s like in a fascist regime, you’re living in it we no longer have checks and balances, which is what made us a democracy Todd Blanche is just flaunting the law. There is no Congress.

Trump admits he plans to commit a war crime by hitting civilian infrastructure: "I'll save the energy targets for last, but ultimately we will hit energy targets... Next week comes the power plants, next week comes the bridges. We're gonna knock out all their power plants, we're gonna knock out all their bridges"

I couldn't understand why the FBI was investigating Lindsey Graham's death—in the absence of any suspicious toxicology report in the autopsy—until I realized it gave Trump and his lawyer Kash Patel an excuse to enter Graham's house and remove potentially incriminating documents

Lavrov on the tankers in the Sea of Azov: “This is not piracy. Pirates take things for themselves. Here, they simply destroy tankers. This is terrorism.” Interesting. So what does he call Russia wiping entire Ukrainian cities off the map?

Our taxpayers fund healthcare for the people of Israel and now their government wants control over our military to be able to draft our children to fight their wars. Mark Levin is fully bought off by Israel and is an enemy to America and should be locked up for treason.

@Acyn Those frozen a-holes should never feel comfortable again!

Homan: The officers involved in these shootings are well trained, I wouldn’t even call this a bump in the road. This will be a short term review, so ICE feels comfortable….

Lindsey Graham died Friday & his sister has already been sworn in. Remember when Mike Johnson refused to seat Adelita Grijalva for 50 days after she was elected? That is what we are fighting for in the midterms, a return to democracy & fairness and to remove fascist Republicans.

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