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Today’s social media content and influence highlight two of the greatest threats to the stability of Republican Society, Institutions and Governance: 1. Factions 2. Potential dangers of direct democracy

@80sBoxing @dougiefischer The most “exciting” fighter (Gatti a close 2nd, but not elite like Matt was) of my life time….

We lost Matthew Saad Muhammad #OnThisDay in 2014 #RIP

@Movies_analyst “Take some shooting lessons asshole….”

Before Falling Down (1993), Michael Douglas planned to take a break after shooting 2 films back to back until Joel Schumacher told him to read the script, which Douglas liked the script so much that he even accepted a lower salary and still considers it his favorite performance.

@EchoesofWarYT King’s Mountain…. Oriskany….

248 years ago tonight, somewhere on the north end of Aquidneck Island, 500 British and Hessian soldiers were loading themselves into whaleboats in the dark. It was May 24, 1778. The man in charge was Lieutenant Colonel John Campbell of His Majesty's 22nd Regiment. The order had come down from General Robert Pigot, commanding the British garrison effectively trapped inside Newport. Pigot had a problem. His scouts had heard, from a helpful local Loyalist, that the Americans were preparing something. Across Mount Hope Bay, in the quiet farm towns of Warren and Bristol, the Continental Army was stockpiling everything it would need to come kick him out of Newport. Boats. Powder. Food. Timber for pontoon bridges. Seventy small craft hidden along the Kickemuit River. Pigot decided to burn it all before it could be used against him. The crossing took hours. The whaleboats moved without lanterns. By the small hours of May 25, Campbell's men were ashore between Warren and Bristol, splitting into two columns. One column turned south toward Warren itself. The other moved up the Kickemuit River, looking for the cache. What happened next is the part of the Revolutionary War that never makes the textbooks. On the river, the British found the 70 hidden boats exactly where the Loyalist said they would be. They destroyed 58 of them. They set fire to a sloop tied up at the bank. They burned a corn mill that had been grinding flour for the army. They dropped the timber bridge into the water behind them so it could not be used in pursuit. In Warren, Campbell's men torched the town's powder magazine. The explosion was so violent it took six houses and the town meetinghouse with it. The blast was heard for miles. Families who had been asleep at 2 a.m. were standing in their nightclothes in the road, watching their church burn. There was an ugly running skirmish as the British marched back to their whaleboats with the dawn coming up. Colonel William Barton, the same Barton who had personally rowed across this same bay in 1777 to kidnap British General Richard Prescott out of his bed (a stunt that made him a Continental celebrity), took a musket ball through the body. He fought through the rest of that day. He never fully recovered. The raid effectively ended his military career. By nightfall on May 25, Campbell was back inside Newport, dripping seawater, soot on his hands, very pleased with himself. The Continental plan to retake Newport that summer never recovered from one night of fire. Six days later, the British came back across Mount Hope Bay and burned Freetown, Massachusetts, for good measure. We remember Lexington. We remember Bunker Hill. We remember Yorktown. We have somehow forgotten that for the men on the ground, most of the Revolution looked exactly like the night of May 24, 1778. Whaleboats in the dark. A gristmill on fire. A neighbor who turned out to be a Loyalist informant. A meetinghouse blown to splinters before the cows were milked. A war fought one corn crib at a time. What is the most consequential battle of the American Revolution that almost nobody can name?

@VinnysCorner1 The Juice….

The starting Running back for your favorite NFL team when you were 12 was __________

@SteveKim323 @dougiefischer IMO, in his Prime, SRL (with a hat tip to Roy) was the finest P4P fighter of my lifetime….

Today is the 70th birthday of the great Sugar Ray Leonard. When he fought, it was truly a big event - transcending boxing and sports - he made the sport bigger. One of the last true boxers who I believe the general public knew -- and still knows. Truly an all-time great #boxing

@TrentTelenko @johnkonrad His Successes were Spectacular…. Genius… His Misses were Abysmal…. Borderline Incompetent….. None that I’ve studied had such a range of “high’s” and “low’s…” A historic paradox (if there ever was one)….

This post is a good example of people believing the institutional propaganda of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's bureaucratic enemies and not looking at primary source documents. MacArthur was the best theater command in the history of the republic on special forces operations, electronic warfare 1/

@SteveKim323 Bill Walton too…

Gale Sayers

@Dr_TheHistories Still an entertaining flick….

Eisenhower came out of retirement to hold a press conference to denounce the 1965 film “Battle of the Bulge” because it was so inaccurate.... In 1965, former U.S. President and World War II commander Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly criticized the Hollywood film Battle of the Bulge for its historical inaccuracies. Having served as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, Eisenhower was closely connected to the real Battle of the Bulge, the last major German offensive on the Western Front. The film drew criticism from many historians and veterans because it was filmed in Spain rather than the snowy forests of Belgium and Luxembourg, and it portrayed American forces using equipment that had not even existed during the battle. Tanks used in the film resembled postwar models instead of the German Panthers and Tigers that fought in the actual campaign. Eisenhower reportedly objected strongly to these distortions, arguing that the sacrifices and realities of the battle deserved a more accurate portrayal. The real Battle of the Bulge involved over one million troops and became the largest and bloodiest battle ever fought by the United States Army, with more than 80,000 American casualties. © Reddit #drthehistories

@Hotshot_Movie Paying bureaucrats…… Atop all the other grift and Gov’t largesse…..

In TN, we have no income tax, property tax is 1/6th of what we paid in LA County, and gas is half the cost...yet we magically have roads, sanitation, police, EMS, and our local high school looks like the White House. You’re being lied to about where your tax dollars go, CA.

@TheCinesthetic American Graffiti

Name a movie where the soundtrack elevated the entire experience.

@VinnysCorner1 Are you serious????

Prime Muhammad Ali Or Prime Mike Tyson, Who Wins & How?

@shaunmmaguire And Ant-Trust….

Young people are rightfully pissed off, especially about housing This drives them towards socialism But what they don’t appreciate is that we got here by overregulation—a socialist policy Instead, they should be demanding capitalism, which was obstructed in half of America

@NFL_DovKleiman Dave Caspar….

Age yourself by naming an NFL tight end you grew up watching. I'll start, Chris Cooley.

@td_nash Ali…..

Who do you think was the most “famous” athlete of the 20th century?🧐

@Hot_Pepper76 Judy Garland….

Best female vocalist who every lived? One Name. (1) Hey everyone, I will start sharing music when I get out of the algo's pit. Please comment, like, whatever you feel like doing. Thanks so much, Dar

@VoxVirtutis To defeat a Whale, become a Whale…. Some Elephants learn (Rome, Sparta), some (Germany, France) don’t…..

Rome basically had no navy, gets wrecked by Carthage, finds a shipwrecked Carthaginian quinquereme, reverse-engineers it plank by plank, and within a few years builds a fleet that dominates the Mediterranean. That level of “learn it overnight and beat the experts at their own game” is absurd and totally underrated.

@HawkEmDownChris Dooooraaaan……

Who’s your favorite boxer of all time? 🥊 A) Muhammad Ali B) Mike Tyson C) Floyd Mayweather D) Manny Pacquiao E) Roy Jones Jr. F) Sugar Ray Leonard G) Joe Louis H) Joe Frazier I) George Foreman J) Evander Holyfield K) Julio César Chávez L) Comment other boxer ✍️

@NoDMsPerfavore Pink Floyd…..

Mount Rushmore of Rock! Who’s your 4th pick?

@adamhousley 43…..

40

@CinemaTweets1 Used Cars is an underrated classic….

Kurt Russell’s performances in films like Tombstone, Miracle, or Big Trouble in Little China were inseparable parts of my childhood. Growing up, you could not turn on TBS or TNT on a Saturday or Sunday without running into a Russell rerun. I’m a massive, lifelong fan of Russell.