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🇺🇸 Let's take a journey through the #HistoryofUSA! From the early Native American civilizations to the modern-day superpower, this fascinating thread will explore key moments in the development of the United States of America. 🗽🦅 
Before the arrival of Europeans, numerous Indigenous tribes thrived across the land. From the Iroquois Confederacy in the northeast to the Pueblo peoples in the southwest, their rich cultures and societies laid the groundwork for America's story. #NativeAmericanHistory
In 1492, Christopher Columbus' voyage marked the beginning of European colonization in the Americas. The Spanish, French, Dutch, and English all established settlements, profoundly impacting Indigenous peoples and the land. #Columbus #ColonialAmerica
A thread on our great Republic: I spent yesterday @TJMonticello the author of the #DeclarationOfIndependence our 3rd president #ThomasJefferson and standing in his study, his bedroom, reading his words, touching his papers, I found myself reflecting on the state of our nation. 1/
Jefferson was no doubt a complicated, conflicted man. He wrote "all men are created equal" and yet, he owned African slaves. He fathered 4 living children with his 15 year old slave #SallyHemings and kept her as his concubine until his death. A period of over 35 years. 2/
The Jefferson I admire, Is the one who believes passionately in #ReligiousFreedom and who wrote it into Virginia's fabric as a commonwealth. He understood that every generation must renew its founding ideals & documents. He believed it should happen every 19 years. 3/
@NPR is doing its annual reading and tweeting of the #DeclarationOfIndependence. 246 years ago a group of men felt it so important that they risked everything to defy a King & start a path for a democratic republic. Today we’re seeing those values attacked by the stolen #SCOTUS
The #AntiDemocraticParty of the GOP passing laws & ideas to circumnavigate the will of #Americans. On this #IndependenceDay2022, it is time to not celebrate what happened 246 years ago, but to honor it by standing up for our #FellowAmericans ensuring that #Rights and #Freedoms
Are actually for all of us. #Autonomy is a #Right. Not being shot because you look dangerous or are frightened or just went to school #Right. Loving yourself & having your ability to have your own family is a #Right. #Healthcare is a #HumanRight (#AbortionIsHealthcare)
From a Navajo man re: #FourthofJuly:
"While the #DeclarationOfIndependence may initially assert that 'All men are created equal,' thirty lines below that assertion, indigenous people are referred to as #mercilessIndianSavages.
(first 4 tweets are from #UnsettlingTruths Ch6)
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"While the #DeclarationOfIndependence may initially assert that 'All men are created equal,' thirty lines below that assertion, indigenous people are referred to as #mercilessIndianSavages.
(first 4 tweets are from #UnsettlingTruths Ch6)
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"The Founding Fathers could use the seemingly inclusive term 'all men' because they had a worldview informed by the Doctrine of Discovery that gave them a very narrow definition of who was actually human.
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"The Declaration of Independence reflects the theological imagination of its time. The Doctrine of Discovery and the myth of Anglo-Saxon superiority girds the imagination that elevates the white body, mind, language and culture.
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1. Unfortunately, the statue of #ThomasJefferson that celebrates him for the #DeclarationOfIndependence & religious liberty will be removed from #NewYork #CityHall.
Here's why it should stay (or at least be displayed prominently elsewhere)
nytimes.com/2021/10/18/nyr…
Here's why it should stay (or at least be displayed prominently elsewhere)
nytimes.com/2021/10/18/nyr…
2. Historical context matters. This is not like Confederate statues put up to celebrate the Lost Cause, racism, or slavery.
It is to commemorate the equality of the Declaration of Independence.
While not perfect equality, it was a tremendous step forward in world history.
It is to commemorate the equality of the Declaration of Independence.
While not perfect equality, it was a tremendous step forward in world history.
Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 07/04/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/07/04/dai…
COVID-19 changes the structure of blood cells, may explain ‘long hauler’ symptoms
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#COVID19 #consequences #BloodCells #LongHaulers
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#COVID19 #consequences #BloodCells #LongHaulers
The Myth of Self-Correcting Science
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#SocialPsychology #DataFalsification #AcademicFraud #reputation #recovery
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
#SocialPsychology #DataFalsification #AcademicFraud #reputation #recovery
To be at liberty is the intended design for mankind, at least as comprehended in #Jefferson's fundamental statement of #politicalphilosophy, the #DeclarationofIndependence.
archives.gov/founding-docs/…
archives.gov/founding-docs/…
Remember, America's political philosophy is that we are created with rights ... to life, to liberty, and to the pursuit of happiness ... that are inalienable.
In the nature of things, these are #politicalrights, that is, they continue to exist and they continue to be affects of our intended design.
#DeclarationOfIndependence Draft 1: The King has "waged cruel War against human Nature itself, violating its most sacred Rights of Life & Liberty in the Persons of a distant People" by kidnapping & enslaving them.
Spoiler: #Slavery got cut in round 2. /thread #HappyFourthOfJuly
Spoiler: #Slavery got cut in round 2. /thread #HappyFourthOfJuly
I'm not making this up. Here's more on the passage about #slavery that #ThomasJefferson put in the 1st draft of the #Declaration & took out of later drafts. #BlackLivesMatter blackpast.org/african-americ…
More on why #ThomasJefferson removed his fiery indictment of #slavery from later drafts of the Declaration. Fact that he was enslaving people as he wrote it was NOT the reason! #1619 #1776 history.com/news/declarati…
Everything created by people is imperfect, including America. But because something cannot be perfected does not mean we should not cherish it and strive together to make it better. #independenceday2020 @TPPF 1/5
The miracle of #IndependenceDay is that a group of people, many of them slaveholders, were able to agree upon this universal statement: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal... 2/5
...that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." These words, from the #DeclarationOfIndependence allowed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to powerfully claim: 3/5
So it started with this comment to a post on the #righttokeepandbeararms:
"People, our rights were given us by the #Constitution. Those rights you are talking about were NOT given by #God!"
"People, our rights were given us by the #Constitution. Those rights you are talking about were NOT given by #God!"
There are folks who believe this claim to be true. For example, @ChrisCuomo, who famously declared on his news program, "our rights do not come from God." (He offered no explanation of why #ThomasJefferson was wrong to claim that they do, in the #DeclarationofIndependence.)
But the assertion that our rights come from the Constitution would be #foreign to those that drafted, debated, and ratified the #BillofRights:
@EricHolder has asked an important question:
#When was #America #ever #great?
I realize that there is a nearly unavoidable tendency to snort and spew one's coffee when they hear or read his question for the first time. But, honestly, isn't it worth the exercise to answer it?
#When was #America #ever #great?
I realize that there is a nearly unavoidable tendency to snort and spew one's coffee when they hear or read his question for the first time. But, honestly, isn't it worth the exercise to answer it?
So, @EricHolder, I'm going to do just that, and I'm going to ask my ragtag bag of followers and detractors to contribute as well.
I'm going to offer my evidence of moments of American greatness. And I'm going to ask those that read this thread to do the same.
I'm going to offer my evidence of moments of American greatness. And I'm going to ask those that read this thread to do the same.
But wait!
There's more!
I'm going to ask my detractors and antagonists (are you seeing this @fedupaton) to contribute as well, and will welcome from them both moments of greatness and moments of shame.
There's more!
I'm going to ask my detractors and antagonists (are you seeing this @fedupaton) to contribute as well, and will welcome from them both moments of greatness and moments of shame.
I don't know if people realize this, but this country wouldn't be here if it weren't for nationalists.
na·tion·al·ist
noun
a person who advocates political independence for a country.
#JFK #Nationalist #IndependenceDay #DeclarationOfIndependence
na·tion·al·ist
noun
a person who advocates political independence for a country.
#JFK #Nationalist #IndependenceDay #DeclarationOfIndependence
Yes that's right our country was founded by Nationalists and Patriots.
pa·tri·ot
noun
A person who vigorously supports their country and defends it against enemies or detractors.
#JFK reading the #DeclarationofIndepence in above tweet found at MAGA1776.com
pa·tri·ot
noun
A person who vigorously supports their country and defends it against enemies or detractors.
#JFK reading the #DeclarationofIndepence in above tweet found at MAGA1776.com
Most people Don't know that another mysterious organization was founded just 2 months before the #DeclationOfIndependence was signed. That organization was the #Illuminati. This occulted organization persisted in one form or another til #JFK and up to now.
conspiracyarchive.com/PROOFS_OF_A_CO…
conspiracyarchive.com/PROOFS_OF_A_CO…
Here is your #IndependenceDay homework:
- The United States Code (USC) in printed form is in excess of 36 volumes.
- The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) in printed form is in excess of 200 volumes.
Assignment 1: read some of both the USC and CFR.
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- The United States Code (USC) in printed form is in excess of 36 volumes.
- The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) in printed form is in excess of 200 volumes.
Assignment 1: read some of both the USC and CFR.
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#IndependenceDay homework, con’t:
Assignment 2: read the #DeclarationOfIndependence; note the 10th specific grievance vs. the Crown:
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
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Assignment 2: read the #DeclarationOfIndependence; note the 10th specific grievance vs. the Crown:
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
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#IndependenceDay homework, completion:
Assignment 3: Now compare the text of the #DeclarationOfIndependence to the USC and CFR. With respect to law and regulations, if you don’t react like the attached pic, repeat these assignments until you do. 👊🏼
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Assignment 3: Now compare the text of the #DeclarationOfIndependence to the USC and CFR. With respect to law and regulations, if you don’t react like the attached pic, repeat these assignments until you do. 👊🏼
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