JCB

Saved by grace. Love my wife @les3bsc . Do a little turkey hunting. Watch a lot of AU football and Braves baseball. Blessed beyond words.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

That mud nest on your porch wall is not a threat. It's not even occupied.

Mud daubers are solitary wasps, meaning they have no colony, no workers, nothing to defend. A female builds the nest alone, hunts spiders, paralyzes them with a single sting, stacks them into each mud cell as food for one larva, lays an egg on top, seals the cell, and leaves. She does not come back.

The nest is finished. Whatever is inside is a developing larva and a pile of paralyzed spiders, sealed in clay, doing nothing.

The spiders she's hunting are often black widows. Mud daubers are documented as one of the primary predators of black widows across the South and Southwest.

Mud daubers can technically sting if grabbed, but without a colony to defend there's essentially no trigger for aggression. Thousands of people walk past active mud dauber nests every day without incident because the wasp has no reason to engage.

The nest looks alarming. It isn't. Leave it through the season. By fall the adult is long gone, the larvae have pupated, and the structure is inert. Knock it down then if you want the wall back.

Or leave it. She might use the mud again next year, which means more black widows getting paralyzed and stored in your eaves, which is not the worst outcome.

[JCB @jcbatts187]

@macandcube Dansby for me. Was a menace on the field.

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝗩𝗗𝗛: 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗣𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡.

Victor Davis Hanson has spent fifty years studying how wars end. When he says the tide is turning, it's worth listening to why.

His argument isn't based on what the Pentagon is saying. It's based on how everyone else is behaving.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀. VDH's rule: Europeans never agree to go anywhere near a conflict unless they think the winning side has already been determined. They didn't help in the early days. Now they're starting to move. That movement is not idealism. It's a calculation. They've looked at the battlefield and decided which way this ends.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝗹𝗳 𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼-𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. The Saudis, the Emiratis, the Qataris — these governments have survived for generations by reading the regional climate with precision. When they expel Iranian military attachés, when they intercept Iranian missiles over their own capitals and say nothing about American strikes, when the UAE reaffirms its $1.4 trillion investment commitment to the United States mid-war — they are not making ideological statements. They are placing bets. And they are betting on the United States.

𝗔𝗹 𝗝𝗮𝘇𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗮. This is the one that should stop you cold. Al Jazeera — the Qatari state media network, historically critical of American military action, the network Tucker Carlson and the anti-war right love to cite against Israel — is now calling the U.S. bombing campaign brilliant and effective, and saying it has been underestimated. When the media outlet of a nation that hosts both the largest American air base in the Middle East and a Hamas political office starts praising American military effectiveness, the message is unmistakable: 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘯.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗹. A-10 Warthogs and Apache helicopter gunships are now flying strike missions in Iranian airspace at will. VDH's point: you only deploy those aircraft when there is effectively no air defense left to threaten them. They are slow, low-flying, close-support platforms. Their presence confirms what the Pentagon has been claiming — Iran has no meaningful air defense remaining.

Iran's strategy now is rope-a-dope. Run out the clock. Wait for American public opinion to shift. Hope the midterms create political pressure on Trump to stop. It is the only play they have left.

VDH's conclusion: if Trump sees it through — and he believes he will — the regime falls. Not in years. 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻.

𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝗮𝘆. 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮.

[JCB @jcbatts187]

@ClayTravis Don’t let the Sexton propaganda cloud your vision.

[Tyler Winfrey 🦅 @Tylerwinfrey25]

Sandra Bullock tried telling us about Hugh back in 2009, but we didn’t listen.

[Bunkie Perkins @BunkiePerkins]

Birmingham friend just sent me the end of the Mountainbrook game tonight. Going for 2 in OT and the win…

[JCB @jcbatts187]

@les3bsc @FDSportsbook 😂😂

[SEC Numbers Guy @secnumbersguy]

Jackson Arnold has over 100 yards passing and rushing tonight against Baylor.

The last Auburn quarterback to have 100 yards passing and 100 yards rushing in their Auburn debut: Cam Newton

Jackson Arnold for Heisman?

[Justin Hokanson @_JHokanson]

I asked Tahaad about Tre’s gesture.

“Yea, I remembered that.”

“We’ll just say those were his last points.”

[JCB @jcbatts187]

@JeremyRoberts12 Please share a picture of the full space so these gumps don’t think we stick visiting teams in a closet.

[JCB @jcbatts187]

@JamisonWDE @BabysitterBari @JLeeAULive I’ve seen at least 2 others lurking around. They just can’t help themselves.

[JCB @jcbatts187]

@RegularDude007 If you need help with any of the song lyrics, my 4 year old has you covered

[JCB @jcbatts187]

@RedditCFB @JamisonWDE

[JCB @jcbatts187]

@JamisonWDE Both

[Brian Stultz @brianjstultz]

Give yourself a large round of applause, Auburn fans.

You have a Duke athletic director mad about how many Tiger fans were in Cameron Indoor on Wednesday.

[JCB @jcbatts187]

@bucees what is your policy on providing a plastic grocery bag to a sick patron? My aunt was denied one at your Athens store today while she was trying not to 🤮 in your parking lot! Maybe allow your employees to think a little bit. @JamisonWDE @JBridgesAU

[JCB @jcbatts187]

@JBB1980 Thanks for clearing some bench space

[AL.com Birmingham @ALcomBirmingham]

Iconic Auburn quarterback recalls his country music song about Bo Jackson https://t.co/2piayFGOWF

[JCB @jcbatts187]

@_BlakeHabyan @elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy Here’s a good start…

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

In honor of Elon and Vivek being picked as the heads of Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), here some of the dumbest uses of your tax dollars.

5. $20,000 to drag shows in Ecuador.

4. $30,000 to study the secret language of butchers in Paris.

3. $750,000 for the New York Metropolitan Opera fire alarm.

2. $350,000 to develop AI smart toilets.

1. $660,000 to study the impact that COVID had on Russian women.

[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

Horsed around and got the W

@AuburnMBB with a BIG road win! 🔥