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@JackPosobiec @DataRepublican History. Not being taught any more.

Not many people know about the head of the USSR's secret police under Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria One of the most brutal men in history, he ordered massacres of Poles, torture of dissdents, and millions of murders of Christians Beria was known to drive around Moscow and point at women and young girls on the street. They were then brought to him by his secret police to be raped, no matter their ages. This even included famous actresses. If they refused, they were tortured in his basement After Stalin's death, Beria was arrested by Marshall Zhukov and executed as Khrushchev took power After the fall of the USSR, workers discovered skeletons of young girls in his backyard that had been buried naked, their bodies doused with chemicals. This discovery included the skulls of children

@LangmanVince That wasn't beer

Travis Kelce is a 36-year-old man, why is he acting like a 19-year-old at a frat party?

@Sassafrass_84 @PigWar Samsung

Guys... my friend @PigWar is trying to convince me to change my phone from Samsung to an iPhone. I have been a LOYAL customer of Samsung for years. She says it's better. A heck of a lot better. What say you? Team Samsung or Iphone?!?

@Whataburger @305sportsbabe Bring to Fredericksburg VA

@305sportsbabe For the first time? Welcome to the family, @305sportsbabe! 🧡

Ohh my just had Whataburger for the first time and even with Crohn’s disease - I don’t care if i now flare up the next 5 days straight omggg it was soooooooo good!!!

@awstar11 @CyborgPeds I retired 20 years ago but still work with th AF. My brain can not comprehend what my eyes see everyday. I miss the old days

@CyborgPeds Thank you for saying this. Agree. I also miss the formality.

The uniform and the ranks.

@Whataburger @onkkno97 Bring them to Fredericksburg Va.

@onkkno97 We can relate, @onkkno97! Those cravings are real! 💯

I’m craving a @Whataburger cinnamon roll

@TulsiGabbard @ODNIgov Prayers for your family and 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.

Almost no one knows the full story of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. In 1847, during the Mexican War, a young Lieutenant Grant served as an obscure regimental quartermaster. Robert E. Lee, already famous, served on General Winfield Scott's elite staff. They crossed paths once. Lee did not remember it. Eighteen years later, they met again. April 9, 1865. Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Lee arrived first, in an immaculate gray dress uniform, red sash, embroidered gauntlets, and a presentation sword with a jeweled hilt. He looked like an emperor walking to his coronation. Grant rode up an hour later, alone, splattered head to boot in Virginia mud, wearing a private's field blouse with no sword, no sash, and no insignia except the dirty shoulder straps of a lieutenant general. The first thing he did was apologize to Lee for his appearance. The surrender happened in the parlor of a farmer named Wilmer McLean. McLean had fled his old home near Manassas because the first major battle of the war had literally been fought across his front yard in 1861. Four years later the war followed him 120 miles and ended in his front parlor. He later said he could have wallpapered his house with the war. Before any terms were discussed, Grant tried small talk. He asked Lee if he remembered him from Mexico. Lee politely said he did not. Grant said he had remembered Lee perfectly for almost twenty years. Then came the terms, and they stunned everyone present. Officers could keep their sidearms and personal horses. Enlisted men who owned their mounts could take them home for the spring plowing. No prison. No trials. Every Confederate soldier would be paroled and allowed to walk home, on his honor, unmolested by U.S. authority for as long as he kept his parole. Lincoln had asked for leniency. Grant gave him more than he asked for. When Lee mentioned, almost in passing, that his men had not eaten in days, Grant ordered 25,000 rations sent across the lines from his own supply trains that same afternoon. The Union army fed the army it had just defeated. As Lee rode back to his lines on his old gray horse Traveller, Union batteries began firing celebratory salutes and Grant's men started to cheer. Grant rode out himself and shut it down on the spot. "The war is over," he said. "The rebels are our countrymen again, and the best sign of rejoicing after the victory will be to abstain from all such demonstrations." He later wrote that he felt "sad and depressed" the rest of that day, not triumphant. He could not bring himself to rejoice over the downfall of a foe who had fought so long, so well, and had suffered so much for his cause. Then came the chapter history almost forgot. Two months after Appomattox, a federal grand jury in Norfolk indicted Robert E. Lee for treason. The penalty on the books was death by hanging. Lee wrote a single letter to Grant, citing the parole he had been given. Grant was furious. He went directly to President Andrew Johnson and told him plainly that if the indictment moved forward, he would resign his commission as commanding general of the entire United States Army. He had pledged his personal word to Lee at Appomattox, and no civilian politician was going to break that word while Grant still wore the uniform. Johnson backed down. The indictment was quietly killed. The man who beat Lee in war saved him from the gallows in peace. Twenty years later, Grant was dying of throat cancer in a cottage on Mount McGregor, racing in agony to finish his memoirs before bankruptcy and death caught up with his family. He won by four days. The book sold 300,000 copies and made his widow rich. At Grant's funeral procession in New York in August 1885, his pallbearers walked side by side: Union generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip Sheridan, and Confederate generals Joseph E. Johnston and Simon Bolivar Buckner. The same men who had spent four years trying to kill each other carried the coffin together through a million and a half mourners lining the streets. Six years later, when Sherman himself died, the old Confederate Johnston traveled to New York again to serve as a pallbearer for his former enemy. It was a freezing February day with cold rain. Johnston, 84 years old, stood through the entire outdoor ceremony with his hat held over his heart. A friend pleaded with him to put his hat back on. Johnston refused. "If I were in his place," he said, "and he were standing in mine, he would not put on his hat." Johnston caught pneumonia that day. He died a few weeks later. That is the real ending of the American Civil War. Not at Appomattox. In the rain, at a funeral, with an old Confederate refusing to cover his head out of respect for the Union general he had spent his youth trying to destroy.

@PolitiBunny When I started working in 1980, minimum wage was $3.10

Minimum wage was $5.15 an hour 20 years ago. It’s all relative.

@akafaceUS 6-1, 12 hrs shift. You get used to it. But I was much younger then

Out of curiosity, has anyone ever worked more than 60 hours in a week?

@WallStreetApes They did that during covid too

Costco Toilet Paper Shrinkflation The robbery in America never ends We need to federally regulate Shrinkflation with mandatory label requirements Require companies to clearly label downsized products. Labels like “Now 15% less” for a set period of time after the change This isn’t even controversial, it’s mandatory in other countries France: Since July 2024, large retailers must flag reduced-size products that haven’t had a price cut. Hungary: Large stores must display notices at entrances and next to products (from 2024). Brazil: Mandatory declaration on labels for 6 months. South Korea: Fines up to $7,300 for failing to notify consumers of size changes. Austria, Italy, Romania: Similar specific anti-shrinkflation laws with labeling obligations.

@CatchUpFeed What a fucking tard

Taylor Lorenz would be proud. Some people who are still living in 2021 are feeling vindicated in wearing a mask every day with the news of a tiny Hantavirus outbreak aboard a ship.

@BreannaMorello That knife is older than you are. 29

Testing out recipes for the carnivore cookbook! Tri-tip is on the menu for today! Yes, I still use an electric knife!

@senatorshoshana Roll? Soup? Halushski?

Girl dinner is cabbage and reading NIH papers on DXM psychosis

@PrayTheRosary 0730

What time are you going to Mass tomorrow?

@catturd2 I and my family loved our time stationed in Germany. Two tours. Wheels up last in 2005. Sad to see what it is now

I was stationed in Germany in the army starting in 1983. Was so nice then. You couldn’t pay me to go now.

@FarmGirlCarrie @Sassafrass_84 Boss

What do you think about President Trump, having ‘Revolutionary War soldiers’ waiting for King Charles? 👑

@senatorshoshana @ChatGPTapp @Publix has great cakes

grocery stores do not have enough cakes i like to buy a cake a week - a layer cake - and have a slice a day. cake is amazing. but i need new cakes. @ChatGPTapp what are you doing to solve this

@historigins @sscjusa I love this

Wife helps her paralyzed husband stand to see the view

@HARRISFAULKNER Beautiful people

Began as a big, beautiful date night… the memories that we made before the shooting. Thankfully as we said 23 years ago— the best is yet to be. 🙏 #WHCD