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Terry Applegate @CharliesWhiskey - On 3 December 1775, six months after Lexington and Concord, and amid the halting, improvisational birth of a Continental Navy—the newly commissioned USS Alfred unfurled a banner no American warship had ever carried. It was not yet the “Stars and Stripes,” nor anything immediately recognizable as the national emblem that would soon circle the globe, but forcontemporaries it was a quiet, unmistakable assertion: the colonies were no longer merely petitioners. They were a people preparing to defend themselves on the open sea.
The moment belonged to a young naval officer named John Paul Jones, then a newly minted first lieutenant, whose name would soon become synonymous with American seapower. When Jones stepped forward to raise the Continental Union Flag—sometimes called the “Grand Union Flag”—he was not simply performing a ceremonial gesture. He was announcing that the Congress now claimed a navy of its own, however small, and that its vessels sailed under a unified political authority rather than the disparate colonial flags that had marked earlier privateers.
https://thisdayofhistory.com/2025/12/03/december-3-1775-americans-fly-their-own-flag/
Continental ship Alfred (1775–78). Painting in oils by W. Nowland Van Powell, depicting Lieutenant John Paul Jones raising the Grand Union flag as Alfred was placed in commission at Philadelphia, 3 December 1775. Commanded by Captain Dudley Saltonstall, Alfred was flagship of Commodore Esek Hopkins' Continental Navy flotilla during the remainder of 1775 and the first four months of 1776 (NH 85212-KN).
https://history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/heritage/origins-of-the-navy/birth-of-the-us-navy.html
https://x.com/CharliesWhiskey/status/1996217055528329581
Texas Scorecard @TexasScorecard - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating fast fashion giant Shein for potential violations of Texas law involving unethical labor practices, unsafe products, and privacy concerns.
https://texasscorecard.com/state/ag-paxton-investigates-china-owned-fashion-brand-retailer/
https://x.com/TexasScorecard/status/1995916528068235445
Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie - Pass the PRIME Act to bypass the meat processing oligopoly that prevents regenerative grass farmers from marketing their beef to local consumers. Good for farmers, good for the environment, good for you.
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Cary Kelly @CaryKelly11
Cows aren’t carbon makers. They are carbon recyclers. The people who insist otherwise are either fools or liars.
Source: paulsaladinoMD (IG)
https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1996567481855377807
Tim Burchett @timburchett - He really was Brother. You all were cut from the same cloth.
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John Rich @johnrich
Replying to @timburchett and @OfficialCropper
Oh no!! He was a giant talent and a great human.
https://x.com/timburchett/status/1996385944514306528
Timcast News @TimcastNews - “She is a fucking scumbag and she is getting worse everyday.”
We’re going to lose the midterms and 2028 because Candace Owens and her army of ‘influencers’ who want to burn TPUSA to the ground and divide and break the MAGA coalition.
https://x.com/TimcastNews/status/1996411445895143760
Tim Pool @Timcast - Drunk Raccoon Becomes Top US Story After Getting Plastered, Passing Out In Bathroom | Timcast IRL
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1lDxLBanwvZGm
https://x.com/Timcast/status/1996384003369345245
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