Glenn Wortel

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

We often deal with very complex situations and probably none more so than today. About 15 minutes walk deep into the Thai jungle up a mountain we’d been told about some dogs chained up. The story is very murky but we had to act.

We brought our vet and animal care team from @wearehappydoggo up today and tried to assess the situation. We can’t go into it all yet but one boy was especially bad. We had to act and take him away for urgent medical care are we saw him peeing blood, being incredibly thin and some other worrying signs.

What blew my mind was how his fear and initial barking turned to gentle love for us. He couldn’t get close enough and it was as if he was asking us to be saver. I called him Spartacus because he has been freed from his chains and although he is very sick we can hopefully grow him up big and strong.

There are 2 more dogs there who we are working on and who got full medical care today. The biggest challenge was being so so deep in the jungle that we can’t even get a moped there. I’ll share more about them in the future when I can. That’s ongoing.

Little Spartacus only weighs 12kg or 28lbs which is under 50% of what he should be. He is so frail and weak I don’t know how he did the whole walk back with us. I do know that his tail didn’t stop wagging once.

Let’s see what more we can do but it’s a good start for day 1 ❤️

[Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk]

Absolutely insane stat: The U.S. has added $450 billion to the national debt since July 1. That’s over $15 billion a day.
“There are two ways to enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.” – John Adams

[Non-Hyphenated American @NHAunleashed]

Don Jr. and Eric Trump used a shell company to quietly buy into a construction firm called Skyline Builders in August 2025.

The very next month, Kazakhstan’s president privately told their dad he was planning to award the world’s largest undeveloped tungsten deposit to a US-backed company called Cove Kaz Capital. The second the brothers got that news, they doubled down and increased their stake. 6 days later, Skyline paid $20 million for a 20% cut of the project. 6 days after that, their father announced the deal at a White House summit. None of it was disclosed. Then the US Export-Import Bank and the Development Finance Corporation committed $1.6 billion in taxpayer money to backstop the whole thing.

The Trump boys take the profit. You eat the risk. The New York Times found they have financial ties to at least 14 companies currently receiving federal support. At least 14 companies that the president and his sons are using to personally enrich themselves while they influence or control it all behind the scenes, ahead of time.

[Woz @accordingtowoz]

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[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

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.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

The most uplifting architectural revival happening today is in Budapest.

Budapest is erasing the brutalist blight from its communist past. This building at Kossuth Square has been restored according to its original plans from the 1920s. Many such examples around the city.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Same water. Same tank. But the one on the right has oysters.

A single oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day. Oyster reefs in the Chesapeake Bay once filtered the entire Bay, 19 trillion gallons, in under a week. Today, with less than 1% of the original oyster population remaining, it takes over a year.

We ate them. We dredged their reefs. We dumped nitrogen into their water until the algae blooms choked what was left.

The Billion Oyster Project is working to restore oyster reefs in New York Harbor. Restored reefs in Maryland's Harris Creek can now filter the entire creek in under 10 days and remove nitrogen equivalent to 20,000 bags of fertilizer every year.

Nature had this figured out. We just have to restore the oysters and get out of the way.

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

https://t.co/Dq1Lt2FaLG

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

If you enter the EU legally, your belt gets removed, your shoes come off, and your jacket is taken. You get interrogated like a criminal suspect over 101ml of shampoo. Authorities demand six months of bank statements, extensive background checks, and even your family history

But if you arrive illegally by boat, you receive express entry with zero ID checks. Absolutely no questions are asked. Processing is fast-tracked with no hassle at all. It does not matter if you are a terrorist, a murderer, or a career criminal

𝕏-ray machines for tourists, red carpets for chaos 🇪🇺🤡

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

10% of all the debt accumulated in the 250 year history of this country will be incurred in the first half of Trump’s second term, with Mike Johnson and John Thune leading Congress.

I’m unashamed to have been kicked off “team debt” for not going along with this.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

"Climate change" boils down to exporting your entire industrial base to Asia, where the emissions don't count.

NGO's get billions to promote the imaginary crisis. Blue-collars get unemployment.

[Darcie @Darcie1387]

Why Modern Concrete Can't Match Roman Concrete

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Americans are realizing Dental Insurance is also a scam

This American has been paying his dental insurance. He needed 2 teeth worked on, a crown and implant. Both were denied

He paid out of pocket. He did the math and found what he’s paid out of pocket for all his dental work was only 1/3 of the price with cash-pay than how much he’s spent paying his monthly premiums

“I done the math — I figured up my monthly payment at the end of the year for paying for my dental insurance, I could have paid for those things out of pocket and paid less than what I paid into my insurance”

“Look, I'm starting to really get pissed off about this game of insurance. It's a scam from the get-go. It's an absolute Ponzi scheme, and these fricking insurance companies, guess who owns them all? BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard”

He’s right,

BlackRock, Vanguard and State are the largest institutional shareholders in most major US health insurance companies

He says he had to pay over $4,000 out of pocket for his dental implant. His crown was over $2,200 out of pocket. All while paying monthly health insurance….

This is a scam

Having a big hole in your mouth where a tooth uses to be is not “cosmetic” in American society. It’s a necessity to get fixed

[Toby Rogers @uTobian]

iatroslavery (n.) — the condition of medically induced bondage: a state in which a person, injured or made chronically ill by the medical system, is bound for life to that same system for management of the harms it caused, while the cost of maintaining that dependency is extracted from individuals, families, and taxpayers and redistributed to pharmaceutical and hospital executives, shareholders, and the owners of patents.

[Toby Rogers @uTobian]

Every step was designed to inflict maximum harm:
• Splicing HIV into a coronavirus.
• Blocking access to hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.
• Removing NAC from Amazon and supermarket shelves.
• No early treatment.
• Respirators that killed 90% of patients.
• Seeding nursing homes with Covid+ patients.
• Blanket DNR orders for the disabled.
• "15 days to flatten the curve" that slowed the rate of natural immunity.
• Closing schools for two years.
• Masks that reduced oxygen.
• Shutting down gyms.
• Keeping liquor stores open.
• Closing hiking trails and parks thus preventing people from getting vitamin D.
• Remdesivir and Paxlovid that are expensive, useless, and deadly.
• The most toxic and deadly vaccines in history on a new platform that will never work.
• Billions of dollars spent on propaganda to convince people to accept every step of this nefarious plan.
• Firings, censorship, and blacklisting of critical thinkers.

Covid is a world war, launched by the ruling class, against humanity.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

Gatekeeping + Hindsight = Red Pill

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

July 2025: Trump announces a $200 million White House ballroom. Promises it “won’t interfere with the current building.”

October 2025: He demolishes the entire East Wing. Built 1902. Backhoes on the White House lawn became a tourist attraction. Melania’s offices — gone. Public tours — suspended.

The donors: Meta. Apple. Google. Amazon. Blackstone’s CEO. The Winklevoss twins. The Commerce Secretary’s family. 37 in all, every one of them regulated by, contracting with, or under investigation by his government.

March 2026: Cost hits $400M. Trump: “This is taxpayer-free. We have no taxpayer putting up 10 cents.”

June 2026: Records show the real estimate is $600 million, and half of it is coming from taxpayers.

He knocked down part of the White House, let corporations with business before him buy the replacement, lied about who’s paying, and stuck you with $300 million of it.

For a ballroom.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Every time you hear legacy media defend Fauci, remember that this is who these people are

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

Checkout Michigan’s lawmakers singing and dancing to “Long Live Israel”.

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

WOW! Tucker Carlson went off and said "every American needs to watch this." He was right.

Trump just said Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are too expensive—the same programs he swore he'd protect. Meanwhile he's piled $4 trillion onto the debt, defense contractors are getting rich off his wars, and Elon Musk is laughing all the way to the bank.

But here's the kicker: Democrats have been screaming this for years. Trump built a bogeyman and Republicans lost their minds.

The government "can't afford" your healthcare or retirement—but it can always find money for trillions tax cuts, wars, stock market gambling, and insider trading.

They'll vote against their own future as long as they think it hurts us.

Open your eyes. The only people fighting for your Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare are the ones they've trained you to hate.