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It’s up to us Gen X (& older Millennials) to oppose Digital ID. The generations that followed were brought up with computers, the internet - and the habit of sharing data freely - and they simply do not understand the concept of privacy like we do. The silver lining is that they are trying to introduce digital ID while there are still enough of us around who are totally aware of the risks and what it means for future generations.

Under the pretext of banning under-16s from social media to “protect the children,” Keir Starmer has snuck in some small print that should make Americans really glad that all the tea was dumped into the Boston harbour back in 1773. Adults will still be “allowed” to use the platforms… once they’ve handed over facial recognition, digital ID, passport, or credit card details to prove they’re not a child. So it was never really about the kids. It was about making sure every single person who wants to speak online has to first tell the government exactly who they are. Step 1: Link your real identity to your speech Step 2: police have a lovely searchable database of every spicy take, meme, or complaint you’ve ever posted Step 3: bring in the consequences - arrests, travel ban, debunking, for out-of-bounds speech The UK is in a free fall.

You don’t see stuff like this during other World Cups. There’s a whole generation discovering America for the first time right now without the news and the BS and they freaking LOVE it.

In case you thought this was just another flag. Happy Flag Day 🇺🇸

𝟏𝟎𝟎-𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑-𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐀𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐑 𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝟒 𝐒𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐓 𝐉𝐄𝐓𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟐 𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐋𝐄𝐑’𝐒 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐊 Most fighters who competed at UFC Freedom 250 came with rankings, highlight reels, and social media followings. One man in the building had something else entirely: a classified engagement that the United States government kept secret for more than 70 years. Royce Williams is 100 years old. During the Korean War, on November 18, 1952, the Navy pilot engaged a formation of Soviet MiG-15 fighters in a 35-minute dogfight over the Korean peninsula. He 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐣𝐞𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐫 with battle damage. Because Soviet and American pilots were not supposed to be fighting each other directly, the U.S. government classified the engagement. Williams kept his silence for more than seven decades. He received the Medal of Honor for that flight in February 2026 — some 74 years after the dogfight. At UFC Freedom 250, Williams flanked UFC lightweight veteran Michael Chandler for his ceremonial walk to the White House octagon. Also at Chandler’s side: Arlington first responder Captain David Jenkinson. Chandler had been enthusiastic all week about his D.C. appearance — the broadcast call captured what everyone in the crowd was thinking when Williams walked out: “𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘰𝘺𝘤𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘺, 𝘩𝘶𝘩?” A fighter entering a cage beside a man who once won a 𝐨𝐧𝐞-𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭-𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐊𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐚 and never breathed a word about it for seven decades. 𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐜𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝟕𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝. 𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 — 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐢𝐭.

The President paid to get the epic flyover UFC photo, and it was well worth whatever it cost. But stop to consider that he got this picture for free.

Four Republicans, Tillis, McConnell, Collins, and Murkowski have done more damage to this country from the inside than most Democrats have managed from the outside.

And more info why so many politicians are giving $ to Ukraine. Hang them all. Both parties.

Ok, done with ufc….. great spectacle but looked like this guy might get a broken neck and I’m cringing… I don’t like boxing or wrestling either. I just don’t appreciate the nuances.

License plate readers in towns surrounding Nashville. Be warned tourists, Nashville politicians have blocked LPR cause “illegals”, so they’ve given up on solving crimes…. This guy probably wouldn’t have been found in Nashville

The Tartan Army are a credit to Scotland. Here they are in full voice singing ‘Loch Lomond’ in Boston Stadium last night for the World Cup match between Scotland and Haiti. Absolutely glorious.

Disgusting. Deny all HB1, L1 , F1 and the green cards. We don’t need Indians or other foreigners getting the American jobs!! Stop the biggest scam in immigration history @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @SecretaryLCD @SecMullinDHS @DHSgov @USCIS @SecRubio @IngrahamAngle @GovRonDeSantis

Good Evening @IntlPaperCo We, the people of Tennessee would greatly prefer that you focused on hiring US citizens for these roles. Please make sure you are training Americans to fill these positions when the visas expire. Thanks to @VBierschwale and his data at guestworkervisas.com , we now know you are hiring people who are foreign workers when there are US citizens with the skills to do these jobs.

Good Evening @TNedu Why do we need foreign workers in our school system teaching kids? Do we not have enough teachers graduating from our own universities? Thanks to @VBierschwale and his data at guestworkervisas.com , we now know you are hiring people who are foreign workers when there are US citizens with the skills to do these jobs.

Waiting to board our flight in Washington and there are 3 Scotland fans in kilts walking past. An American lady says" I love your skirts" "They're nae skirts lassie they're kilts , We're Scots not Trannies" I genuinely Lol #tartanarmy #fifaworldcup @jk_rowling

Theodore Roosevelt spent much of his life out under open sky — in the Maine woods as a sickly boy learning to push his body, in the North Dakota Badlands mending a broken heart on horseback, and later on the rims of canyons and the floors of forests he would fight to protect for the rest of us. What he learned in those wild places he carried into the presidency. He believed the land was not ours to use up. It was held in trust — borrowed from the people not yet born. Standing before the Grand Canyon, he put it plainly: "Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it. What you can do is to keep it for your children, your children's children, and for all who come after you, as one of the great sights which every American if he can travel at all should see." That idea — that we are caretakers, not owners — is the heart of his conservation legacy: roughly 230 million acres set aside during his presidency, a gift still unfolding more than a century later. Take a walk somewhere green this week. He would have told you it was the most American thing you could do. #OTD #OnThisDay #TheodoreRoosevelt #Conservation #PublicLands #GrandCanyon #DareGreatly

Ok, no way to sit thru mindless sports bros yammering to see USA soccer at 9pm…. Ugh.

Medicare fraud is a trillion dollar industry. Notice not one Democrat is trying to end this fraud and reallocate the money to serving the poor. That’s because they and their staff and friends and family are all in on it. Skimming and scamming.

Everyone understands that this outcome was always intentional, right?

Ignorance of the Yankee. You think people lived in sweltering houses in the South in the 19th century? They have tall windows and high ceilings and transom windows above doors and central hallways and staircases to take hot air up and out of the house. The lower windows were opened to allow cool air in. Called the stack effect. Trees around the house provided shade.