Opossums live short, difficult lives, yet they spend their nights doing work many people never see.
Most only live about one to two years in the wild. They move through backyards, forests, roadsides, and neighborhoods after dark, searching for food while avoiding cars, dogs, predators, and harsh weather. Their lives are brief, but their role in nature is meaningful.
Opossums help clean the world around you. They eat pests, insects, carrion, and sometimes even venomous snakes. They also help reduce ticks, which can carry disease. In their quiet way, they support the balance of the places they pass through.
Still, many people fear them because of how they look or because they appear at night. But opossums are usually shy, gentle animals. When scared, they often freeze, hiss, drool, or play dead because they want to survive, not attack.
Kindness can be simple. Give them space. Do not harm them. Slow down when you see one near the road. Let them keep doing the work nature gave them.
Opossums may not live long, but they leave the world cleaner than they found it.
Not the finish we wanted, but much to celebrate this season. In the end, we earned the 59th top-five NCAA showing in program history.
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You need to be teaching your children to be proud to be American
You must never allow anyone to tell them they should apologize for being American
From Christopher Columbus to Neil Armstrong and beyond
America is the land of adventurers, explorers, and heroes
The WNBA wants to bury Caitlin Clark.
Refs are getting her in foul trouble on purpose.
Her own coach is against her and sitting her late game.
Imagine having a star that makes your league RELEVANT for the first time and you treat her like this? 🤦🏻♂️😂
Seven properties, a Mercedes G-Wagon, sneakers worn by Kobe Bryant and a Mickey Mantle rookie card worth $1.5 million. All of these things were bought with taxpayer money.
Paul Randall pleaded guilty in one of the largest Medicaid fraud schemes in the California history – diverting more than $270 million in tax dollars.
"You can't be better in a loss than Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was on Saturday night... can't play better, can't be a better example, can't lead better... Shai acted like a grown ass man before during and after."
@notthefakeSVP on SGA's performance in game 7 and actions afterward
"Whenever you get to etch your name into our program's history, it's pretty special." 🗣️
Live with the 2026 NCAA Individual National Champion 🎙️
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🔥🚨 JUST IN — Vanilla Ice RIPS CNN and the artists who decided to pull out of performances for America’s 250th anniversary celebration in Washington, DC.
CNN: Why are you still planning on performing?
VANILLA ICE: "I'm PROUD to be an American! I don't like ANYBODY telling me I can't be proud of it."
"We're celebrating the birthday of our country, WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL HERE?"
"I think this is a huge honor." 🔥
"This whole world is like a snow globe, but it shouldn't be that, and music is here to bring people together, man. And, you know, it shouldn't be that this music is dragged into politics."
Boom! #OKState picks up a commitment from Arizona three-star tight end @TalanScott9 after an official visit this weekend. Caught 45 passes for 468 yards eight touchdowns last season. https://t.co/BENZwBpLwk
Don't move a box turtle. Box turtles spend their entire lives within a few-acre home range, memorized down to specific logs, water sources, and winter burrows. A relocated turtle will spend the rest of its life trying to walk home, crossing roads, exhausting itself, and usually dying long before it gets there.
Coastal cities are replacing concrete seawalls with oyster reefs. The oysters are better at the job.
Seawalls start degrading the day they're installed. Waves chew them up, storms crack them, and the repairs never stop.
An oyster reef, on the other hand, doesn't break down. It actually grows. The oysters stack, reproduce, and fuse into living rock that gets stronger every year. A mature reef can cut incoming wave height by up to 83%, trap sediment, rebuild the shoreline behind it, and shelter fish, crabs, and shrimp while it does the work.
A hectare of reef provides up to $85,000 a year in shoreline protection. Concrete costs over a million dollars a hectare to build and only weakens.
Once again, working with nature instead of against it is the answer.
THIS: Jameis Winston just gave a masterclass on unity after Jaxson Dart faced backlash for introducing President Trump. 🔥
“Everything doesn't have to be viewed in this perfect little snow globe, and everything doesn't have to be perfect. But we have to support each other. We have to promote love, because love is a stronger feeling than hate.”
A message America needs right now.
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