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@TulsiGabbard @DoryBeutel @ODNIgov Praying for you and your family, Madame. The power of God surrounds you!

I am deeply grateful for the trust President Trump placed in me and for the opportunity to lead @ODNIgov for the last year and a half. Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026. My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. He faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months. At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle.

@LeaderJohnThune The party is already moving past you, Leader. You’ve lost credibility with everyone around you, and you’ve let your country down big time. What a total disappointment you are to this movement.

500 days ago, Republicans had a long to-do list. We’ve checked a lot of things off, but we still have more to do. And we’re not about to take our foot off the gas.

@JackPosobiec Bell bottom American flag dungarees

What do you remember about the 1976 Bicentennial?

@JesterJum Post of the day

If we can't be taxed on unrealized gains, why the fuck are we being taxed on the new increased valuation of our home without selling it? THAT'S UNREALIZED GAINS!

@HeidiBriones Simple: butterfly cut the breasts, mix with avocado oil, garlic salt and fresh pepper. Cover and sit in the cold box for at least two hours, preferably a whole day. Cook on avocado oil medium heat cast iron. Sit for 5 minutes before slicing.

I wish chicken breast tasted better. I have no idea how you're all cooking it without it getting dry or chewy. Tips? I tend to skip it and cook thighs instead, but I need to up my protein.

@RandyRRQuaid It looks like you’re in heaven. Literally!

@johnkonrad Post of the day

Stopped at a small auto parts store yesterday. For the last few years they had migrant workers behind the counter. Nice guys. Competent at pulling parts from the warehouse and would go out of their way to help you loading heavy stuff like batteries into your car. But ask a question and you got a blank look. ICE cleared them out. The store hired stoners. The place became a dump, and I started driving an hour to AutoZone whenever I needed something. Yesterday I just needed a battery. As I pulled up I noticed the parking lot was unusually full. Inside, they had a young American kid right out of high school. I had to load my own battery, but this kid was a whiz. He flew through the inventory, explaining the lead-acid surface area in each option and why it mattered. I stuck around while he helped another customer diagnose a carburetor problem. I learned more in five minutes than I would have spending two hour on youtube. Then he started figuring out which replacement air filter the customer needed using basic geometry. I don’t know how much additional revenue this kid brought into the store, but it has to be substantial. And he wasn’t alone. They had an older Black gentleman working with him who, I’m told, had run a warehouse for a large repair shop or something in New York City before he got laid off. Slow but methodical and oozed competence. The store recruited him out of retirement, brought him up to our rural area part-time to organize inventory, fix the shelves, and scout local talent. I felt like I was watching a dynamic duo at work. Then nostalgia hit me hard. THIS is what it was like going to an auto parts store with my dad in the late 80s and early 90s. Everything well organized. People who knew cars cold. To be honest, the guys back then weren’t exactly nice, at least not in New York. They roasted you. But they helped. And it wasn’t just auto parts stores back then. Plumbing stores. Boating stores. Stereo shops. I remember going into Manhattan as a kid to a block of nautical shops, stores that sold charts and sextants, where a retired ship captain like I am now explained to me how a chronometer works. I want that job! The nation is healing! (but we still have a long way to go​​​​​)

@MoroniusE I could add that Grant’s failures and successes in the civilian world before the war shaped his mindset as well. A true leader gains from failure.

Redemption is the story arc of being an American.

@StephenKarlson @RodDMartin Had Bragg’s cannons won the day, and the center line in the nasty peach orchard collapsed, now that could be a time one could speculate that the CSA actually had a chance to win the whole thing. As Grant closed on Vicksburg they had to know the end was near.

@TShackton @RodDMartin Indeed, I'll sometimes remark at Gettysburg that the thing was settled a thousand miles away about the same time Armistead reached that copse of trees. Almost always that elicits puzzlement.

Everyone loves asking: “If Grant was such a great general, how come he lost nearly every battle to Lee and suffered way more casualties?” Robert E. Lee himself had a very different answer. “I have carefully searched the military records of both ancient and modern history, and have never found Grant’s superior as a general. I doubt his superior can be found in all history.” — Robert E. Lee The entire question is built on two flat-out falsehoods. First: Grant didn’t “lose nearly every battle.” There was essentially ONE continuous campaign — from the Wilderness in May 1864 straight through to Appomattox in April 1865. Grant seized the initiative in the very first clash and never gave it back. Lee spent the rest of the war reacting to Grant’s moves. When Lee attacked in the Wilderness hoping the old forests and bogs would save him (like they always had), Grant didn’t retreat north like every previous Union commander. He simply disengaged, slid south, and flanked Lee again. Lee never dictated the terms of battle after that day. James Longstreet had tried to warn the Army of Northern Virginia: “We’ve never faced anyone like this man.” They didn’t listen. They learned fast. Second: The casualty comparison ignores that Lee was almost always the defender. Context matters. But the deeper truth is bigger than any single clash. Lee still fought war the old way — disconnected battles, win-loss record like a sports season. Grant fought the next war: coordinated campaigns across multiple theaters, using railroads, telegraph, navy, and engineers to keep relentless pressure until the enemy simply could not continue. Grant didn’t win by accident. He made contact and maintained it until victory was inevitable. Lee fought the last war. Grant wrote the blueprint for the next one. That’s why he was great. That's why he won. Change your mind yet? Drop your hottest take on Grant vs. Lee below. 🔥

@shaby78 @RodDMartin Shiloh was the high water mark early in the war for the Confederacy. It all comes down to that nasty peach orchard and a few well timed gunboats. The whole war would have been incredibly different had the center line not held.

@TShackton @RodDMartin Those won the war before Gettysburg.

Thank God for those men holding the center. Seymour Pugh Snyder, my great grandfather was there with the 45th Indiana. Repelled several charges in the woods on fire. He lost both of his brothers in law that day, was wounded himself. Horrible day for our family, indeed. I visited the marker a few years ago and left a challenge coin. Respect and sacrifice go for both sides. We must honor the legacy and never forget.

@TShackton @JerryDunleavy Grant made himself vulnerable and but for the Peach Orchard stand might have been obliterated before Buell arrived.

Ulysses S. Grant > Robert E. Lee As a man, obviously, but also as a general.

I hear excuses for Grant’s victories, but no acknowledgment that he succeeded tactically and strategically. Confederates were tough and smart, indeed, but when Union soldiers were trained and led well they gave as good as they got. Evidence of my claim lies in almost every battlefield of the war. My great grandfather lost both of his brothers in law at Shiloh and was wounded himself. Imagine telling your sisters that their husbands were dead. Tragic on both sides, respect for both sides.

@TShackton @JerryDunleavy Ha! Braxton Bragg mismanaged Shiloh after Johnston died. Ft Donnelson showed you only if he had overwhelming forces could he win, same for Shiloh where the bulk of his forces reinforced him on day 2. Grant could win if he had at minimum 2-1 odds same for Sherman.

@Albxplorer1 @JerryDunleavy Grant was loyal, too, and he do what needed to be done to achieve victory.

@JerryDunleavy Lee gets the prize because he had enough balls to win battles against an enemy with more manpower, more industrial capacity, all because he had to remain loyal to his state.

@ImperaAmerica @JerryDunleavy If Grant took McClellans place I believe he would’ve done much better, although McClellan always gets an unfair bad rap.

@JerryDunleavy Lee was Lincoln's first choice lol. Grant would have imploded in Lee's place.

@LoftinpaulPaul @JerryDunleavy Grants taking of Fort Donelson and survival and eventual victory at Shiloh in the face of being overrun, outnumbered and backed against a river is a perfect case study in battlefield management. There are no easy choices.

@JerryDunleavy Grant was a drunk who because of numbers always chose to do sieges and throw bodies at the problem, by doing this his men were always slaughtered and in ridiculous numbers. He sucked as a general and many examples exist, I mean the crater? And many more. Actually study wars

@nye_paulie @JerryDunleavy You didn’t have to be the best cadet at West Point to be outstanding in the field. Custer comes to mind.

@JerryDunleavy Lee was the best soldier West Point has ever produced. 0 demerits. Probably not the best general though. Grant tactically was nothing to write home about however he fought which is something his predecessors didn’t like to do much

@LTG_Veers @JerryDunleavy I’d argue that Shiloh was a pinnacle moment of victory, and Grant managed the battle space magnificently and took great risks, otherwise his entire army would surely have been destroyed by Bragg’s cannons the second day. There were no easy choices.

@JerryDunleavy Grant had an excellent track record minus Shiloh. But he never faced the desperate situations Lee did successfully. Surely we have a lot to learn from the dude consistently whooping armies twice the size of his own.

Look to the first day of Shiloh. Surrounded by hundreds of Bragg’s cannons and pushed up against the river. My great grandfather repulsed several charges in a wooded area next to the peach orchard. Grant recaptured his retreating army and rode many miles personally managing the battle space to ultimate victory. At a cost, of course.

@JerryDunleavy Did grant ever fight a campaign where he didn’t have numerical and equipment superiority?

@History_Globs Maybe not the most legendary but my favorite: The USS Indianapolis.

If you could only pick one, what is the most legendary ship in American history? 🇺🇸⚓️ Drop her in the comments 👇

@EchoesofWarYT Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg

What American Civil War battles were your ancestors in??