Rob Naro @RobNaro

@ConLawWarrior @USPS This happens to us often.

Nobody in Walton County knew who was buying up the Panhandle. Timber companies sold him tract after tract. Sod farms. Played-out peanut fields. Pine that had been cut and cut again. The buyer was a timber and oil commodities trader, and he never told a single seller what he wanted it for. He was buying it so it could NEVER be developed again. Marion Clifton Davis grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in the Florida Panhandle. He summed up the whole childhood in one sentence: "I grew up with five other people in 300 square feet in a wore-out trailer on a dirt road." He gambled his way out, hustling pool and poker from the time he was 16 until he was 30. It paid for a political science degree and then a law degree. He moved the winnings into land and mineral rights, and they turned into hundreds of millions of dollars. He had spent his entire life climbing out of that trailer, and he got all the way to the top of it. Then he said this: "I finally made some money and it wasn't what it was advertised to be." What changed him was a traffic jam. Stuck in a line of cars going nowhere, he read a high school marquee advertising a presentation on the Florida black bear. He pulled out of the line and walked in. "I hate to confess to this. I didn't know Florida even had black bears at the time." He gave the two women running the presentation enough money to keep going for another two years, then asked them for a reading list and spent the next year working through Thoreau, John Muir, and a Harvard biologist named E.O. Wilson. In 2000, he started buying. He spent roughly $90 million assembling more than 50,000 acres along the Choctawhatchee River, tract by tract, never tipping his hand until each deal closed. He named it Nokuse. It is the Muscogee word for black bear. Then he did the thing no land man does. He took it apart. His crews thinned 22,000 acres of pulpwood pine and hand-planted EIGHT MILLION longleaf seedlings across 24,000 acres, scattered in deliberately random patterns so the forest would never come back in rows. They burned about 10,000 acres a year on purpose, because longleaf needs fire. He told people it was a 300-year project. In 2009 he spent $12 million of his own money on a 28,000-square-foot science center for Panhandle schoolkids. He named it for E.O. Wilson. Not for himself. In November 2014, doctors found stage 4 lung cancer. He kept working. That June he sat down with a national radio crew and said it plainly: "I'm dying, as we all are. It's well advanced." He got 15 years of the 300. M.C. Davis died on July 11, 2015, eight months after the diagnosis. Not one tree he planted had grown tall enough to matter yet. He spent thirty years learning how to take. He spent the rest putting it back. Around here, thousands of Panhandle fourth graders get loaded onto a school bus and driven out to that center. Almost none of them ever find out who paid for the trip. Then the bears came back. They cross under US 331 now, through three wildlife underpasses finished in 2012, funneled in by a mile and a half of fence on both sides of the four-lane highway. The man who did not know Florida had black bears built them a way under the road. They den on land named after them. Nokuse Preserve is 56,258 acres today, endowed and permanently protected, the largest private conservation project east of the Mississippi River. More than 3,800 gopher tortoises pulled off Florida development sites have been released there since 2006. In 2025 the E.O. Wilson Biophilia Center took in 5,500 students from 56 schools, and it charged none of them a dollar. A longleaf pine can live 400 years. The seedlings put in the ground in 2004 are barely out of childhood, and the forest he was actually aiming at will not stand until sometime around the year 2300. He knew that when he wrote the checks. M.C. Davis, a poor kid from a dirt road, spent everything he ever won on a forest he would never walk through.

Never forget when the Yankees players pranked Chan Ho Park into saying “I had a lot of diarrhea.” You can see Mariano Rivera cracking up in the background.

Catturd ™ @catturd2

3 weeks ago

Does anyone have the explosive diarrhea parasite? 😂

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Hoover: Since October 7th, the overwhelming majority of Israelis are all deeply concerned. In a one-state solution, what concrete institutions would protect Jews if they no longer control the government or the military and find themselves in a minority? Kiros: “The concern is valid, but the concern doesn’t justify allowing the status quo to continue, right? There are people whose lives are being lost right now and children whose limbs are being blown off. We have a responsibility to … to secure equal rights and equal dignity to any human being that’s living in what is supposedly a democratic state.” Watch the full Israel-Palestine section of Kiros’s interview on Firing Line with Margaret Hoover below. @MelatKirosCO, the Democratic nominee for the congressional district covering Denver, said she supports Palestinian self-determination, the right of return, the right to resist occupation, and ending all U.S. military and economic aid to Israel.

JUST NOW — Schumer Interrupted: “What could be more corrupt than backing genocide? How dare you talk about corruption. It’s amazing you can show your genocidal face in public!”

🚨 Ohio By request here is the full 14 minutes that Vivek Ramaswamy lasted on the stage at Young Americans of Liberty Conference, at Xavier University yesterday. It's very important that you watch, and hear for yourself the revisionist history he has and still is selling Ohioans. How you, notably the younger generations, should accept your own demise as Americans while foreigners steal your wealth. He doubles down on devaluing heritage Americans, calling it tribalism. Listen, and then show this to everyone you know especially the 50 + voters. Keep showing it until they understand what is at stake.

In this Commando (1985) featurette called "Let Off Some Steam" every bit of Rae Dawn Chong's interview is drop dead hilarious so I cut up some of her best bits for your enjoyment.

@ThorBjornsson_ @GregTompsett

Jay Leno says a widow tried to sell him a Ferrari for $350,000, so he helped her turn it into $3,750,000 instead. ​“I get enough free stuff like that, that’s right, that’s very nice. You don’t need to start screwing people over.” ​“I said, ‘If I can get you close to 4 million for that car, will you bake me some cookies?’ And she said, ‘Why? It’s not worth that much.’ I go, ‘It’s worth that much.’” ​“I don’t like it when I hear people tell me a story how they screwed some old guy out of a car. I hate those kind of stories. I like these kind of stories.”

@GeriatricStdMfn @FrankBr05713205 2006? Do you mean 1986?

Rep. Adam Smith argues that allowing Palestinian refugees to return would cause Israel to "cease to exist as a country." "It would cease to exist as a Jewish ethnostate," Breaking Points' Krystal Ball responds. @krystalball | @RepAdamSmith

The IRS is threatening to seize a Tennessee man's farm after charging him interest on a $20,000 refund it accidentally sent him, which he immediately tried to return. Wilson Perry Kirby, 76, says he was accidentally sent $20,000 by the IRS in 2022. Kirby immediately tried returning the money and even hired an accountant to fix the issue. Instead, the IRS is now charging him interest on the money he tried returning and is withholding his 2025 tax refund. "I've tried the president, governor, mayor. They don't mind asking you to vote for them, but when you need help you can't get ahold of nobody," Kirby said. Despite trying to fix the problem, the IRS is still sending letters, demanding he pay interest on the money they accidentally sent him that he tried to return. He never spent it. The IRS is now threatening to seize his farm if he doesn't pay the up to $4300 (and growing) interest. Infuriating. Source: News Channel 5 Nashville / Hannah McDonald

@Rainmaker1973 I want to build one

Dr. Erica Komisar said what many parents whisper but few say out loud: Modern schools are built for girls, not boys—and we’re paying a steep price. Little boys (ages 3–6) surge with testosterone. They need to run, jump, play, burn energy. Instead, we sit them in circle time, demand emotional regulation, and label normal boy behavior as ADHD or “behavioral problems.” Result? Marginalized, stressed, diagnosed early, and tracked that way through school. Her fix if she ran the world: Separate boys and girls in the early years. Boys get multiple recess periods, short focused bursts, and space to move. Girls get a calmer environment where they feel safe taking STEM/math risks. Both thrive when not forced into the opposite gender’s learning style. Single-gender early education: Boys try art/music without teasing. Girls try science without self-consciousness. Evidence already shows it works. Parents/teachers: Do you see boys struggling more in today’s classrooms—or is this overblown? What’s one change you’d make to education for boys right now?

Theo Von presses Sen. John Kennedy on Gaza and says it feels like Israel is the “terrorist organization.” Kennedy acknowledges “a lot of people believe that” but points out that “Hamas attacked Israel.” Theo then reads the death toll of Palestinian children since October 7. Kennedy fires back and says there’s a problem with his source: THEO: “It feels like [Israel] are the bullies of the area. It feels like they’re the terrorist organization.” KENNEDY: “A lot of people believe that. Hamas attacked Israel and the Israelis fight back, and they took over the Gaza Strip. And yes, a lot of Palestinians got hurt.” THEO: “Not got hurt, got killed.” KENNEDY: “Got killed and hurt. But Hamas would hold the Gazans hostage. They would put them out front.” THEO: “But how do we even know that? They killed 220-something journalists that went there to document what was going on.” KENNEDY: “There’s no question there’s been civilian deaths.” THEO: “They wouldn’t let journalists in to even document what was happening there.” KENNEDY: “There have been civilian deaths, but it is primarily the fault—I’m not saying Israel is blameless. Look, war is ugly.” THEO: “But is this war?” KENNEDY: “It is war.” THEO: “You think it’s war? They just had an article yesterday that came out from the UN… Here are some findings of the commission. Israel has killed 20,000 children and injured 44,000 more since October 7, 2023. Palestinian children have been arrested and subjected to torture and other severe forms of mistreatment in Israeli prisons. This is all part of… United Nations.” KENNEDY: “Well, first, I wouldn’t believe it if it came from the UN.” THEO: “Oh, really? Do you feel like they’re not reliable?” KENNEDY: “They’re not reliable. They’re not objective. And I know children got killed, and it breaks your heart. Hamas kills children, too. So does Hezbollah. So does Iran.”

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@BillAckman I want to believe in a judgement day so bad.

@NaithanJones @cptdankkk Seems like even before 16. Coaches and programs have been doing this in every sport since the beginning. I'm pretty sure Cus D'amato wasn't scouting the prep schools

HE DID IT THE FUCKING MADMAN ACTUALLY DID IT

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2 months ago

Only a German mind could cook up such a niche

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UFC fighter Sean Strickland showed up to the UFC 250 Fan Fest today and was subsequently escorted out by U.S. Marshals and other law enforcement to chants of “USA, USA, USA.” Strickland, the UFC Middleweight Champion, was not invited to the event, amidst speculation that his comments on U.S. foreign policy, specifically Israel, may be the impetus for him being disinvited.