FireManDan

[FireManDan @coachingfire]

@ChipJohnson01 😄 60 with a bogey

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Walter smiling

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@steverb10 @OWU_WBB @GeneseoKnights @WASHUBears @DSUBulldogs Nice job on the call tonight guys! Loud and clear in Jax.

[FireManDan @coachingfire]

@malletcncworks Cool truck 👍

[FireManDan @coachingfire]

8k

[Malletcncworks-From Our Woods to Your Home @malletcncworks]

Im curious of opinions here.
1981 K5 Blazer runs and drive 60 miles a day. Every thing but the air works. No rust or holes decent paint clean interior.
Unknown mileage but let's guess at around 150k
What do you think its worth?

[FireManDan @coachingfire]

@malletcncworks 86 with 98k on the clock. Just tested all 8 with 180 psi. Needs some paint, but super clean.

[FireManDan @coachingfire]

@malletcncworks Yes sir

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

"They came for religious freedom."

Right. Yes. Some of them. Partly.

Read the actual letters they sent back home. Not the ones that got turned into school textbooks. The ones written in the first winter, by people who'd survived the crossing and were now looking at a landscape so alien and so abundant that they didn't have the vocabulary for it.

They wrote about the meat.

Passenger pigeon flocks so vast that early settlers described the sky turning dark at midday. Not briefly. For three days. One flock. Continuous. The sound compared to thunder that refused to stop. Estimated population: three to five billion birds. A single hunter in a single afternoon could kill five hundred. No licence. No lord. No penalty. Just birds, endlessly, for the taking.

Deer walking into camp. Salmon running so thick in the Pacific Northwest rivers that witnesses said the water appeared to boil. Bison herds that took four hours to cross a ford. Oysters the size of dinner plates, piled in reefs along the Atlantic coast that you could harvest by reaching over the side of a boat.

Now understand what these people had come from.
England under the Forest Laws. Norman law. The forests, a third of England, legally defined as the king's personal hunting ground: where killing a deer carried the death penalty, and maiming one carried blinding and castration. Where a peasant could live on the edge of a wood teeming with game and starve legally while watching the lord's gamekeeper patrol past.

The Enclosure Acts were already beginning. Common land, the land that ordinary people had grazed animals on for generations, being fenced off and handed to private landlords one parliamentary act at a time. Six million acres would go this way eventually, and with it went the pig in the back garden, the cow on the common, the ability to keep yourself in protein without paying someone's rent for the privilege.

In the meantime: pottage. Bread. Turnips when you were lucky. A bit of lard if the week had gone well. Meat on feast days if the harvest hadn't failed and the price hadn't climbed and your teeth were still functional enough to manage it.

These were not people who had decided, in a detached philosophical way, that liberty was preferable to tyranny.

These were people who were hungry. Specifically for meat. Who had heard from sailors and merchants and adventurers that there was a place across the water where the game belonged to no one, where the forests had no keeper, where you could shoot a deer because you wanted to eat it and face no consequence beyond the satisfaction of having eaten it.

The New World wasn't a political idea to the average emigrant. It was a place where you could eat like a lord without owing a lord anything.

They crossed an ocean for a steak that didn't require someone else's permission.

And they ate it.

And not one of them, in all the letters, ever suggested they'd made the wrong call.

[FireManDan @coachingfire]

This thread. Is gold.

[Caroline Di Russo @CaroDiRusso]

As I said earlier, regime change - in Venezuela or elsewhere - is a very serious and consequential thing.

No doubt.

But the satirical commentary following the fall of Maduro has been sensational. The irony. The sizzle. The absolute bangers.

Here are my faves so far.

[jackwindsor @jackwindsor]

Ohio is now on the world stage. All our governor has to offer is “it’s the price of doing business.” Well, maybe under your feckless leadership @GovMikeDeWine but I - and 11.6 million other Ohioans - aren’t going to stand by idly and applaud your attempt to justify waste, fraud and abuse. We work too hard to waste another penny of our hard-earned money on payments to institutions run by squishes like you. #Ohio #News #SomaliScandal #BreakingNews

[Amazing Maps @amazingmap]

Ohio elevation map

[FireManDan @coachingfire]

They spelled learing incorrectly.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Advanced Learning Center.

A daycare listed as operating only on weekends, in a location that previously housed a smoke shop.

Owner: Abukar Hassan

Receives public funding.

[FireManDan @coachingfire]

We need a Nick Shirley in every state in the Union, not just Minnesota. @X journalism is the way.

[FireManDan @coachingfire]

There are weapons all over home depot. Catch me in the tool section. 😄

[Fenix Ammunition @FenixAmmunition]

At my BJJ gym we often have wild discussions like "how many people at your average Home Depot do you think you could fight before you became physically exhausted"?

It's a fun thought experiment.

You know most of them will be completely untrained and incapable of offering much resistance at all - but some of them will, at the very least, be really strong or physically large and difficult to subdue.

Pic unrelated.

[FireManDan @coachingfire]

@rossmacleodputt

[Elephant Signal 🐘🇺🇸 @ElephantSignal]

Name a doctor you trust more than Dr. Jill Biden.

[Chad Harrison 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @Texas_jeep_guy]

He gives the best comparison between the USDA food stamp program and the NPS rules about not feeding the animals. This is the problem we have now the ones getting food stamps have become dependent.

[FireManDan @coachingfire]

Heated in the skillet

[Firefighter Nation @firenation]

Who mentored you when you started in the fire service—and are you doing the same for someone else? Mentorship builds our future leaders. 👨‍🚒🔥
Read more: https://t.co/tvZPeXI2Wu

[Arlington National Cemetery @ArlingtonNatl]

On June 2, 2025, Sergeant of the Guard Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Jay took his final walk as a Tomb Guard at Arlington National Cemetery. In a powerful farewell, he laid roses at each crypt of the Unknown Soldiers, then walked off the plaza hand in hand with his 8-year-old son, Finn.