James D. Hunter 🇺🇸

[United by Nature @unitedbynature_]

A heartbroken cowboy became America's greatest conservationist.

Before he was president, Theodore Roosevelt was a grieving 25-year-old who came to the North Dakota Badlands to disappear.

His wife and his mother died on the same day. He wrote a single line in his diary that day: "The light has gone out of my life." Then he left politics, bought two cattle ranches along the Little Missouri River, and spent the better part of two years as a rancher in wild country most Americans back east had never seen.

He later said it was where the romance of his life began. He said he never would have been president without it.

The landscape did something to him. He watched overgrazing strip the grass and market hunters empty the plains of game. He saw how fast a place could be used up.

By the time he reached the White House, he had taken those lessons to heart and made them policy.

Roosevelt put roughly 230 million acres under public protection.

150 national forests.
51 wildlife refuges.
5 national parks.
18 national monuments.

He signed the Antiquities Act in 1906 and used it to protect the Grand Canyon when Congress wouldn't.

This week, a presidential library opened in Medora, on the edge of the Badlands he ranched. It's built into a butte above the Little Missouri, facing the same country he looked out on while he was trying to put his life back together. It gathers his whole story in one place for the first time, and it carries his conservation legacy forward.

Roosevelt's story is a testament to the resilience of the American spirit and the healing power of our land. Our landscapes have shaped and inspired some of our greatest heroes, and will continue to do so, but only if we make it a priority to protect them.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

i’d argue you’re too easily moved by the choice words. “privilege” and “equality” are selected because they confuse the notion of fairness. another way to frame his statement “if you’re accustomed to succeeding due to hard work, ingenuity, risk/sacrifice, and, sure, some amount of luck, having the outcomes reset so that everyone is rewarded more equally feels unfair.”

is succeeding after making good choices, sacrificing personally, and working hard really “privilege”?

is it oppressive that everyone doesn’t get to the same place?

perhaps the real oppression is the loss of individual liberties when naively egalitarian philosophies mutate into marxism, denying opportunities for individual sacrifice, effort, and achievement to be rewarded.

framed as privilege v equality misses the mark.. equality of opportunity and equality of outcome are v different things. silicon valley’s most successful are the immigrants who found america as one of the only places on earth where an individual with zero baseline privilege can struggle and sacrifice and effortfully succeed. calling them privileged after the fact seems hardly the point. but an easy one to make.

[James D. Hunter 🇺🇸 @JamesDHunter]

@WellBuiltStyle Where is the Polo from?

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Here are 10 hard truths that Wall Street doesn't want people to know:

1. The efficient market hypothesis was wrong.

2. There is no such thing as intrinsic value. All value is subjective and relative.

3. Stock market growth is based on currency debasement, not earnings growth.

4. Saving lots of cash is a guaranteed way to lose money.

5. Bonds destroy your investment returns.

6. Investing in basic indexes outperforms almost every hedge fund over the long run.

7. The more you look at your portfolio, the less likely you are to generate attractive returns.

8. Owning a home is almost always more expensive than renting. You should buy a primary home for non-economic reasons.

9. A financial advisors job is to accumulate assets and a stock brokers job is to drive trading volume. Follow their incentive.

10. Bitcoin is the new benchmark for a portfolio. If you can't beat it, you have to buy it.

[Second Tier podcast @secondtierpod]

Leeds face Sheffield Wednesday at Elland Road this weekend!

Will never forget this absolute worldie by Marco Matias in this fixture 10 years ago… 🤯🦉

#SWFC

[ELM22.0 @ELMAGAIN]

😂🤣❤️🐕

[James D. Hunter 🇺🇸 @JamesDHunter]

@soccerjohn1 and there ya have it

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

It is every Dad's duty to teach their children about taxes tonight using Halloween candy as the example.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

SpaceX has released some new footage from the tower of the first Super Heavy booster catch yesterday. Absolutely epic shot.

(Interstellar music added by me lol)

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Elon Musk and Tesla showcased the latest version of their Optimus humanoid bot last night.

He expects these to cost around $30,000 and be desired by every human on earth.

The future is going to be insane.

[James D. Hunter 🇺🇸 @JamesDHunter]

@soccerjohn1 Tix are cheap! Best minor league ballpark in the country!

[Michael Morelli @morellifit]

I found a guy who goes around Miami asking insanely fit people over 40:

• What they eat
• What workouts they do
• What supplements they take

They all have really surprising answers...

Here are my top 8:

[James D. Hunter 🇺🇸 @JamesDHunter]

cc @soccerjohn1

[FIFA World Cup 26 Kansas City @FWC26KansasCity]

History will be made in KC in 2026 with the first World Cup quarterfinal ever played in the Midwest, 1️⃣ of 6️⃣ #FIFAWorldCup 26™ matches in the Heart of America. 🫶

🗓️ July 11, 2026
🌎 Kansas City
🏟️ #FIFAWorldCup
🆚 Quarterfinal

#KansasCity26 | #WeAreKansasCity | #WeAre26

[James D. Hunter 🇺🇸 @JamesDHunter]

@ArrowheadPride Also, Taylor Swift is being paid by Bill Belicheck to distract our superstar TE and ruin our premier offensive weapon

[James D. Hunter 🇺🇸 @JamesDHunter]

@ArrowheadPride Winning two super bowls in a row is extremely difficult in the salary cap era and some of us Chiefs fans need to chill out a bit. We’re still 8-4, Mahomes is still our QB, and our defense is actually good.

[James D. Hunter 🇺🇸 @JamesDHunter]

@swfc

[James D. Hunter 🇺🇸 @JamesDHunter]

@soccerjohn1 yikes

[Sheffield Wednesday @swfc]

Dejphon Chansiri club statement

#swfc

[Discover Magazine @DiscoverMag]

A gruesome discovery in the Benjamin Franklin House has us wondering if Ben Franklin was a serial killer. Get the scientific context behind the findings. https://t.co/JhaOknUfF4

[Rare Stories @rarestorees]

Dogor was found in the permafrost near the Indigirka River in eastern Siberia during summer 2018.

It is the body of a two-month-old male canine puppy. The body is remarkably well preserved, and its fur, whiskers, nose and teeth remain intact.

The animal has been determined to be 18,000 years old.

At first, DNA sequencing was unable to identify the animal as either a dog or a wolf. But it was later identified as an ancient wolf.

[Dr Tess Lawrie @lawrie_dr]

The hug that saved a life In 1995, the twins, Kyrie and Brielle Jackson, were born 12 weeks premature, each weighing only about 2 pounds. They were placed in separate incubators. One twin was not expected to survive. She went into critical condition. Her heart rate was rising while her oxygen level was dropping significantly. They were about to lose her. It was then that one nurse, Gale Kasparian, went against the hospital rules and standard procedure, putting the healthy twin next to her struggling sister in the same incubator. This decision turned out to be life-saving. Once the twins were close to each other, the struggling sister (Brielle) snuggled up to the healthy sister (Kyrie) who put her arms around Brielle. Almost immediately after, Brielle's vital signs started stabilizing. Her heart rate and oxygen levels normalized. Both twin sisters eventually survived and grew into strong young women. The picture below came to be known as the rescuing hug and would change a part of our understanding of medicine.

Hugging that is coming from the heart is proven to have calming and healing effects. Maybe there is someone in your life that can use a warm and heartfelt hug right now.