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[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

-Cicero

[Mike Kobe 🪶 @Lawton_Braves]

“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.” — Cherokee saying

[Richard Seiler @richardseiler]

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦

Jeremy Clarkson has never pretended to be anything other than exactly what he is

Brutally honest. No oil painting. A pot belly, a lifelong smoker, a drinker. Not exactly the modern alpha male or is he?

And somehow that is the whole point

I have watched him for most of my life
First as a motoring journalist who could make you want a car you would never own and never need
Then as something bigger
The loudest, funniest, most unfiltered mouthpiece the ordinary person ever had
A man who said the thing everyone was thinking while the rest of television tiptoed around it

From Top Gear he built something that should not have worked
Three middle aged men, The Stig, a track and a chemistry you cannot manufacture
James May the patient one
Richard Hammond the brave one
And Clarkson the force of nature dragging both of them into chaos and somehow back out again

When it all fell apart at the BBC he could have disappeared
The fracas was not his finest hour and he never pretended it was
He owned it, apologized and carried on
No reinvention, no groveling tour, no carefully managed comeback
He just kept being himself and let the work speak

The move to Amazon and The Grand Tour proved something I think a lot of people missed
The format was never the magic
The men were
You can take three friends out of a studio and drop them anywhere on earth and the loyalty between them travels with them

But it is Clarkson's Farm where the whole picture finally comes into focus

Here is a man with nothing left to prove walking into a field he barely understands and refusing to fake competence he does not have
He has run that farm at break even and then at an outright loss in full public view
No editing it into a success story
No pretending the numbers work when they do not
His farm manager hands him one brutal truth after another and he sits there and takes it

A whole season swallowed by drought even after he leaned into robotics and the most advanced farming money could buy
Technology was supposed to be the answer and the weather did not care
He showed that too
Most people would have cut it

And through all of it he has done something quietly remarkable
He has dragged the plight of the British farmer into the light
The paperwork, the council, the margins that vanish, the weather that ruins a year of work in a week
People who had never thought about where their food comes from suddenly cared because he made them care

And then there is the part nobody warned me about
Men who raise animals for meat and still love them
Who name them, worry about them, sit with them
Who treat them with respect and dignity right up to the moment they cannot keep them
And feel the full weight of sending them off

He does not hide that
He lets the camera sit in the discomfort of it
The grief of a man who knows the deal he made and still finds it hard

That is not weakness
That is honesty most people are far too afraid to show

We live in an age that rewards the polished, the curated, the carefully built personal brand
And here is a scruffy, swearing, chain smoking farmer who has done the opposite of all of it and won
He stayed exactly who he was while the world begged him to become a product

That is the whole secret
There is no act
There never was

And that is exactly why we keep watching

Praying for a full recovery mate, looking forward to another season of Clarkson's Farms!

[Jort 🇸🇴🇵🇱 @TXCedarWhacker]

@curraheevet Something going on we should know about??

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Recent events forced us Japanese to look at ourselves again.

I was born long after the war. I used to pity the kamikaze pilots who threw their young lives away in pointless suicide attacks.

It seemed so meaningless.

But if real enemies came to slaughter our wives and daughters, every Japanese man would be consumed by rage and fight to pilot the suicide torpedoes themselves.

Japanese conversation almost never uses subjects. No 'I'. No 'you'.

We live packed together like ants or bees. The collective — our society, our families — is sacred. We would gladly die as one to protect our children.

Yet Western leftists and socialists don't just tolerate it when immigrants rape and violate 250,000 of their own daughters. They celebrate it. They demand more.

They turned the Paris Olympics opening into a grotesque monster festival.

I feel zero shared humanity with them.

No understanding. No empathy.

They are not like us.

They are aliens wearing human skin.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Alexander Dumas, how to become a Man

[RodeoProfessor @RodeoProfessor]

Next America 250 Conservation poast is the story of the Gila Wilderness, the first federally designated "capital W" Wilderness in America. It’s still one of the most remote wilderness areas in the U.S. within our Wilderness network, which is the first of its kind and the largest and best preserved in the world. The Gila is a magnificent system because it's where the Rocky Mountains meet the Chihuahuan Desert. You can find the Gila Trout, one of the rarest in North America, and some of the best Gould's turkey habitat in the U.S. which is actually the largest North American turkey.

Aldo Leopold, the father of the field of wildlife biology, was working as forest service employee in New Mexico. He proposed setting aside the Gila River headwaters and denying any building of roads or development to preserve it for what he called “primitive recreation.” He published his ideas in a scholarly journal in the field of Forestry, saying there should be a continuous stretch of our country preserved in its natural state. He spoke to Arthur Carhart about Trappers Lake in the Flattops where he first got the idea.

The Gila Wilderness was the first of its kind in the world, and would be the model for the 1964 Wilderness Act 40 years later. So while Trappers Lake in the previous post was the cradle of Wilderness, the Gila Wilderness was the first legal and administrative protection of a wild place "untrammeled by man".

The ideas of Aldo Leopold would go on to form the foundation for American conservation, and not strictly as a preservationist, he famously noted American conservation involves the axe, plow, cow, and gun. From the single pioneering Gila Wilderness designation in 1924 we now have a National Wilderness Preservation System with around 100 million acres across 44 states. The Gila is the cornerstone, it built the philosophical and political foundation for the broader Wilderness system.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Harvesting just one kidney from 20% of America’s politicians would give a new kidney to EVERY SINGLE PERSON currently on the transplant waiting list.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

G.K. Chesterton, what a line

[Jort 🇸🇴🇵🇱 @TXCedarWhacker]

@SecondAmendment That definition of feeder sounds urban. Say feeder in the Hill Country and one thinks of

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

We don’t have 60 votes for the House-passed SAVE America Act

But we do have a simple majority

Given the bill’s widespread bipartisan popularity, we could pass it with a simple majority—by debating it until it passes

I explain how in this clip

Share if you want this to happen

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

A man photographed the Sun every day for three years from the same spot and at the same time.
He then combined all the images to reveal the Sun’s movement across the sky throughout the year.

[Science Magazine @ScienceExpand]

The Physics trick for perfect pouring

[Mister Daniel @FiloFoomp]

@ClarksonsFarm1 I hope to God you allow yourself to be AI in the future.

Ask Apple to make you a driving companion for gps.

[Harvey's Pistol & Pawn @harveyspistols]

Rascal is still out there and radios in when he can, or when he decides to, rather 😉. This week he thought a handy @ShadowSysUSA in tiger stripe my do the trick. Sometimes you have to wander back into town to resupply camp and you don't always need a big bore. Thanks, as always, to @SummRidge for helping foot the bill for this week's piece!

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I wish each and everyone of you the best of luck and thank you all for helping us spread the word of our small family business!

[Cherie Currie @CherieCurrie3]

The most insane lightning strikes I’ve ever seen! 😳

[Jort 🇸🇴🇵🇱 @TXCedarWhacker]

@Derpisback @japan_nobunaga Haven't been to Cabela's or Bass Pro in years. Are their prices competitive with buying online (PSA, Buds, etc) with shipping and FFL fees added on?

[Angela Stanton King @theAuntieAngie]

Y’all told me a 13-year-old boy was a woman.

Now y’all want me outraged because somebody said Michelle Obama is a man.

Pick a lane.

If we’re playing Guess Who with biology, everybody gets a turn.

I’m not saying Michelle Obama is a man.

I’m saying after the last few years, apparently facts are negotiable.

I’m just ASKing. 🥷⚔️🇺🇸

[Jort 🇸🇴🇵🇱 @TXCedarWhacker]

@GuntherEagleman Hell Yes!

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Gavin Newsom tweete sa rage. Le FT le compare à un méchant de James Bond. Le Globe and Mail publie un guide pour le détester. Tout ça le même jour.

Vous voulez comprendre pourquoi la fourmilière s'agite à ce point ? Suivez-moi, c'est fascinant.

Ce matin, Elon Musk est devenu le premier trillionnaire de l'histoire. Pas en héritant. Pas en taxant. Pas en régulant. En construisant des fusées réutilisables, des voitures électriques et un réseau de satellites qui connecte la planète.

Et regardez bien qui panique : ce ne sont jamais les ingénieurs, les artisans, les entrepreneurs, les soignants, les agriculteurs. Ce sont les politiciens, les éditorialistes, les bureaucrates, les activistes professionnels.

Bref, tous ceux dont le métier consiste à commenter, taxer ou redistribuer la valeur créée par les autres.

Leur terreur n'est pas morale. Elle est existentielle. Consciemment ou inconsciemment, ils savent une chose qu'ils ne peuvent avouer à personne, pas même à eux-mêmes : leur action publique ne crée strictement aucune valeur nette.

Tout leur statut repose sur un mensonge confortable, celui du socialiste bureaucrate : "la richesse existe par magie, le problème c'est juste de la répartir, et il faut des gens comme nous pour le faire."

Ce mensonge tenait tant que la création de richesse restait abstraite. Mais Elon est un contre-exemple vivant à l'échelle planétaire. Mille milliards de dollars créés à partir de rien, sous les yeux de tout le monde, en temps réel.

Chaque lancement de Starship est une réfutation publique de leur vision du monde. C'est insupportable. D'où la rage.

"Le système est truqué", dit Newsom. Non Gavin. Le système truqué, c'est celui où l'on devient puissant en distribuant l'argent des autres. Le système d'Elon, c'est celui où l'on devient riche en rendant le lancement spatial 100 fois moins cher.

Et voilà ce qui les terrifie vraiment : dans le monde qu'Elon est en train de construire, le statut ne s'obtient plus par la posture, le diplôme ou la tribune. Il s'obtient en créant quelque chose. Ils vont devoir apprendre un métier. Développer des compétences. Produire.

L'agitation que vous observez, ce n'est pas de l'indignation. C'est le bruit d'une classe sociale entière qui réalise que sa rente touche à sa fin.

Mais je vais finir sur un truc rassurant, parce qu'au fond je les aime bien.

Ne vous inquiétez pas. Dans le monde d'Elon, le gâteau grossit. C'est toute la différence avec votre monde à somme nulle : il y aura de la place pour tout le monde, y compris pour vous.

Vous êtes l'enfant qui pleure parce qu'il a peur de ne pas avoir de Kinder Bueno.

Respirez. Il y aura des Kinder Bueno pour tout le monde.