Janice Blake

.@SecDuffy on modernizing our archaic air traffic control systems: "This is not going to get done overnight, you're right. But when do you want to start it? America, when do you want to start building a brand new system?... We don't have full funding!"

SECRETARY RUBIO: When our predecessors first arrived in North America, there were no factories, no railroads, no skyscrapers. These things exist because we built them.

SECRETARY RUBIO: The ultimate question of our time is whether Americans have a moral right to exist as a distinct nation and a distinct people, and thus to demand a government that defends and pursues our interests above all else.

🇺🇸 TODAY, WE REMEMBER. Five brothers from Iowa. They asked to serve together. None came home. November 13, 1942. Before dawn off Guadalcanal, American and Japanese warships collide in a chaotic night battle at nearly point-blank range. Searchlights cut through the darkness. Shells tear into bridges and gun positions. Ships struggle to distinguish friend from enemy. Rear Admirals Daniel Callaghan and Norman Scott are killed. The light cruiser USS Juneau (CL-52) takes a torpedo but manages to withdraw. Badly damaged, she joins other battered American ships heading away from the battlefield. Aboard are five brothers from Waterloo, Iowa: George, Francis, Joseph, Madison, and Albert Sullivan. They had asked to serve together. The Navy had agreed. At approximately 11 AM, the Japanese submarine I-26 fires torpedoes toward USS San Francisco (CA-38). One misses that heavy cruiser and strikes Juneau near the damage she has already sustained. The explosion is immense. In roughly twenty seconds, Juneau is gone. To men watching from nearby ships, survival seems impossible. With an enemy submarine still threatening the formation, the remaining vessels continue on. But there are survivors. Around a hundred men have escaped into the sea. Rescue is delayed for days. Wounds, exposure, thirst, and shark attacks claim men who survived the explosion. Only ten ultimately return alive. None is a Sullivan. George survives the sinking, only to die before rescue arrives. The brothers’ story does not end in a single flash of fire; part of it unfolds in the terrible wait afterward. Back in Iowa, their parents, Thomas and Alleta, eventually learn that all five sons are gone. Their loss reinforced the Navy’s efforts to keep brothers from serving aboard the same ship, but the often-repeated story of a blanket "Sullivan Law" banning it is a myth. Today, remember the Sullivans, and the hundreds of other Juneau sailors whose families waited for men who never returned. 🇺🇸🕯️ Follow @Vanguard_WW2 for the lives behind the history.

How Israeli media is covering Israel's murder of at least 4 Palestinian children in the past few days due to freezing cold rainstorms & landslides. They are mocking the genocide victims they are murdering. I added the translated captions myself. Truly astonishing stuff:

13 November 1942. 5 American brothers (left to right: Joe, Frank, Al, Matt, and George Sullivan) died in the aftermath of the sinking of the light cruiser USS Juneau by the Japanese Navy. It was the largest loss of life by a single American family serving during WW2.

Israeli military officials laid out their basic assumptions for governing the newly occupied Gaza Strip in a 1970 document. They write: 1. The Government of Israel aspires — should a suitable constellation arise — to turn the Gaza Strip area (including Northern Sinai) into an integral part of the State of Israel. 2. In order to advance the emergence of said constellation, the Government of Israel would be prepared to establish a policy aimed at solving the "refugee problem" in the Gaza Strip area — while liquidating the refugee camps and thinning out the area's population. Israel has been trying to "liquidate" Gaza since they took over Gaza. Source: Yad Tabenkin Archives, file 15-37-10-3 2

Trump and his cronies are mocking Muslims and Arabs at his private resort, while his sons are literally cashing checks from Gulf investment funds You have to laugh at the Gulf states. They have trillions of dollars, but zero dignity. They will let Trump insult them, mock their religion, and treat them like ATMs

Interviewer: "Sorry to interrupt.. the Israeli military says it was targeting Hamas terrorists.." British surgeon Dr Gopher Rahbour says he hasn't seen any Hamas at Nasser hospital but he does see the horrendous conditions people are living in Interviewer: "We're short of time"

From driving down crime, to securing our southern border, to dismantling the cartels, to combating drug trafficking and criminal organizations in Venezuela and across the Western Hemisphere, @SecWar and @StephenM efforts are delivering results.