JD Baggett

Former Naval Flight Officer sub hunter and I-banker.

[John Mark Huckabee @jmhuckabee]

Thirty years ago today, Arkansas witnessed one of the most extraordinary constitutional dramas in its history.

Governor Jim Guy Tucker, having been convicted in the Whitewater scandal, was expected to resign from office. Lieutenant Governor Mike Huckabee stood ready to take the oath and become Arkansas' next governor.

Then everything changed.

Just moments before the scheduled transfer of power, Tucker made a single phone call and withdrew his resignation.

What followed was a day of unprecedented confusion inside the Arkansas State Capitol. Attorneys rushed to interpret the Constitution, elected officials scrambled behind closed doors, reporters raced to keep up with events, and for several tense hours, no one seemed certain who was actually in charge of the State of Arkansas.

This video contains never-before-released footage captured during that historic day. Preserved for three decades, these moments are now being made public on the 30th anniversary of the events.

This teaser is only the beginning.

In the coming weeks, we'll release the complete story, featuring the raw footage, the key players, and the behind-the-scenes events that unfolded during one of the most remarkable political crises in Arkansas history.

If you enjoy political history, constitutional drama, and rare archival footage, subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss the full documentary.

July 15, 1996 – July 15, 2026

History happened. The cameras were rolling.

#Arkansas #MikeHuckabee #JimGuyTucker #Whitewater #PoliticalHistory #ArkansasHistory #Documentary #Constitution #Government #History

[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

Before the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant was a light smoker. Then Fort Donelson changed his life.

Just before the fighting, Admiral Foote handed him a cigar. Grant lit it and rode off to rally his troops.

In the chaos, the cigar went out, but he never relit it. He just kept the dead stub between his fingers for the rest of the battle.

The newspapers saw a general calmly riding through enemy fire with a cigar in his hand and turned it into a legend overnight.

The people loved it. They sent cigars to Grant's headquarters by the thousands. He later wrote that “as many as ten thousand were soon received.”

He tried to give most of them away. But with that many boxes piled up, he started smoking them in earnest and kept the habit for the rest of his life.

[Sunil Gurjar, CFTe @sunilgurjar01]

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[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

July 14, 1881. Sheriff Pat Garrett shot Billy the Kid dead in a pitch black bedroom in New Mexico, and turned a 21 year old into the most famous outlaw America has ever produced. Here is the whole story.

He was not born a cowboy. He was born Henry McCarty, most likely in New York City, to a poor Irish immigrant family. His mother dragged him west chasing a healthier life and died of tuberculosis when he was about 14, leaving him an orphan drifting around mining towns with no money and no one. His very first arrest was for stealing clothes out of a laundry, and he escaped that jail by shimmying up the chimney. He was a fugitive before he could grow a beard.

By 17 he had killed his first man, a bully of a blacksmith who kept shoving him around in an Arizona saloon. He ran to New Mexico, picked up the name William Bonney, and rode straight into the middle of a war. Lincoln County was being torn apart by two rival business factions fighting over money, cattle, and control, and Billy hired on with a young English rancher named John Tunstall who actually treated him decently.

Then they murdered Tunstall. That killing broke something loose in Billy. He joined a posse called the Regulators and went hunting for revenge, gunning down the county sheriff in an ambush and shooting his way out of a five day siege while the house he was in burned down around him. He was a teenager in the middle of a private war.

Here is the part people forget. Billy was charming as hell. He spoke fluent Spanish, was genuinely loved by the Mexican families around Fort Sumner, loved to dance, and was known for laughing and joking constantly. The territorial governor, who was busy writing the novel Ben Hur at the time, secretly met with him and offered him a pardon. The deal collapsed, and Billy slipped away.

That is when Pat Garrett came for him. Garrett caught him, a jury sentenced him to hang, and Billy responded by pulling off maybe the greatest jailbreak in western history. Still in shackles, he somehow got a pistol, killed both of his guards, blew one of them away with the man's own shotgun from a courthouse window, then calmly had someone free his legs and rode out of town singing while the whole city watched. Nobody lifted a finger to stop him.

Three months later Garrett tracked him to Fort Sumner. Late that night Garrett sat in the dark bedroom of a man named Pete Maxwell, quietly asking about Billy's whereabouts. Billy walked in barefoot, carrying a knife, having just gone out to cut some meat. He sensed a shape in the blackness and asked in Spanish, quien es, quien es. Who is it. Garrett answered with two shots. Billy went down without ever knowing who killed him.

The legend detonated instantly. Garrett rushed out a book cashing in on the story and helped sell the myth that Billy had killed 21 men, one for every year of his life. The truth is closer to a handful. But it never mattered. Dime novels, then Hollywood, then a hundred years of American imagination took a scrawny orphan from the New York slums and made him immortal. People refused to even believe he was dead, and imposters claiming to be him popped up for decades. As for Garrett, the man who ended him was himself shot in the back and killed years later, and that case was never really solved.

[Mastering Life Path @Mastering_life_]

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[AskLivermore @asklivermore]

This will make you millions in the stock market. Save this so you ALWAYS know what will happen.

One of my secrets is always monitoring HEAVY truck sales.

When the economy turns weak, companies are the first to react by lowering spending and procurement, causing heavy logistics to decrease. Conversely, when economic conditions improves, the purchase of trucks would rebound. It's that simple.

When truck sales are above 0.47M (top quartile):
1. economy is running hot
2. start playing a bit more defensive
3. raise quality in your portfolio

When truck sales are between 0.25M and 0.47M:
1. normal range
2. stay the course
3. hold your winners

When truck sales crash below 0.25M:
1. the economy is bottoming
2. get aggressive
3. this is where generational wealth is built

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Truck sales are at 0.43M. 73rd percentile. Not in the danger zone yet.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just proved every sighted person on Earth is blind.

Your eye captures 0.0035% of the electromagnetic spectrum.

You are not seeing the universe. You are seeing the sliver your biology decided was enough to keep you alive.

That was never vision. That was a survival filter bolted onto your perception four hundred million years ago.

No one has ever removed it.

Musk: “Blindsight will enable those who have total loss of vision to be able to see again. Including if they have lost their eyes, or the optic nerve.”

No eyes. No nerve. The entire optical system physically absent from the skull.

Neuralink does not rebuild what broke.

It routes around biology entirely. It streams synthetic signal straight into the visual cortex.

Your eye never saw anything.

Your brain did.

Your brain sits in total darkness inside a vault of bone.

It has never seen the sun. It has never seen anything.

It builds reality out of whatever electrical signal the eye allows through.

The eye is the bottleneck between your mind and the universe.

Neuralink removes the bottleneck.

Musk: “Maybe have never seen, were even blind from birth.”

A human who has never perceived a single photon of light.

Given sight for the first time.

Not through medicine. Through engineering.

Musk: “You can see in radar, you can see in infrared, ultraviolet.”

Infrared is pouring off every surface in the room around you.

Radio waves are passing through your body right now.

Ultraviolet is painting patterns across everything you have ever looked at.

You cannot see any of it.

Your biology locked you out before you were born.

Musk: “Superhuman capabilities.”

The person born blind would not be restored to human sight.

They would see more of the universe than any sighted person who has ever lived.

The blind would out-see the sighted.

You will not pity them.

You will envy them.

Musk: “Cybernetic enhancement.”

Every human sense is a sensor converting the world into electrical signal.

Replace the sensor and the brain does not care where the signal came from.

It just processes.

Your senses were never built to show you reality. They were built to show you just enough of it to survive.

Evolution built a keyhole. We called it sight.

Elon Musk is not fixing blindness.

He is fixing sight.

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫 @ThePreserverofU]

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[Aleix Roig @astrocatinfo]

This is our home for several nights under the pristine skies of Namibia.

We’ve rented the incredible Stella Observatory at Tivoli Astrofarm to capture deep-sky images from one of the best astronomical sites on Earth. Spending night after night beneath these dark skies gives us the opportunity to collect hours of data and reveal the faint beauty of the Universe.

This single frame also captures the observatory itself beneath the spectacular Milky Way—a place where unforgettable astrophotography begins.

📍 Stella Observatory, Tivoli Astrofarm, Namibia
📅 July 2026

📷 Image details:
• Single 30” exposure
• ISO 12,800
• TTArtisan 11mm f/2.8
• Sony A7S III

Very little processing.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

YouTuber Dan Schaeffer says he “completely cleared” his sinuses by combining DMSO, purified water, and colloidal silver into a nasal spray.

One squirt up each nose twice a day, and the results were “amazing.”

“No pressure, no nothing.”

Dan’s experience is not an isolated one.

In 1992, Russian researchers found that treating children with sinusitis using a 10% DMSO solution followed by local oxygenation provided complete relief in 49 of 52 cases.

DMSO is a cheap substance you can typically find online for under $30.

Turns out it can do much more for your respiratory system than just clear your sinuses. 🧵

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[AskLivermore @asklivermore]

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The put/call ratio tells you when everyone is panicking and when everyone is too comfortable.

Every single time the put/call ratio spiked above 1.0 since 2000, it marked a generational buying opportunity:
- Dot-com bottom (2002)
- GFC bottom (2009)
- COVID bottom (2020)
- Tariff crash (2025)

Every single time it collapsed below 0.70, a pullback followed:
- Pre-GFC top (2007)
- Pre-COVID top (2020)
- 2022 top
- Pre-tariff top (2025)

Right now? The put/call ratio just hit 0.61, the lowest since December 2020. That means options traders are the most bullish they've been in nearly 6 years.

Does that mean sell everything? No.

But it means this is the time to stay balanced, not all-in into one sector. The best buying opportunities will come soon, stay patient.

When everyone is greedy, be cautious.
When everyone is fearful, be aggressive.

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

David Kessler: "The U.S. has been exposed to something that our biology was never intended to handle… Ultra-processed foods have altered our metabolism and resulted in the greatest increase in chronic disease in our history."

[André Rieu @superrieu]

Die ersten 30 Minuten 👇 Vorlesungsgesprächs zu Einsteins Relativitätstheorie sind didaktisch wirklich brillant und man kann sie nur jedem empfehlen, der die Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie eher intuitiv verstehen will. 1/10

[power of books @Powerofbooks3]

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[Aleix Roig @astrocatinfo]

Almost straight out of the camera. ✨🌌

This image required very little processing—proof of just how extraordinary the night sky is over the Kalahari Desert in Namibia.

A single 30-second exposure was enough to reveal the breathtaking richness of one of the darkest places on Earth.

📍 Kalahari Desert, Namibia
📅 July 12, 2026

Image details:
📷 Sony A7S III
🔭 TTArtisan 11mm f/2.8 Fisheye
⏱️ Single exposure: 30 s
📈 ISO 20,000

🎥 The final timelapse from this unforgettable night will be available very soon... Stay tuned!

The fifth PHOTOTRIP NAMIBIA with @parcastroprades continues under pristine Bortle 1 skies, where the Milky Way shines so brightly that it almost feels unreal.

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[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

One of the most dangerous ideas in politics is that good intentions create prosperous societies.

Bernard Mandeville, in one of the most scandalous and important books in intellectual history, argued almost exactly the opposite.

In his 1714 book The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits, Bernard Mandeville told the story of a prosperous beehive where every bee was driven by vanity, greed, luxury and self-interest. The hive flourished with industry, trade, innovation and wealth precisely because of these private vices. Then, one day, the bees suddenly became virtuous and frugal. Demand collapsed, workers lost their jobs, and the once-thriving society descended into poverty and stagnation.

Mandeville’s provocative thesis was that what was often thought of as private vices often produce public benefits. Self-interested behaviour - when channelled through markets - creates far more prosperity and social cooperation than deliberate attempts at collective virtue or moral perfection.

This insight was revolutionary. It showed that the pursuit of personal gain does not lead to chaos, but to order and abundance. People working to satisfy their own desires end up producing goods and services that benefit others. Greed for profit drives innovation. Vanity fuels demand for quality and beauty. Self-interest, not altruism, powers the division of labour and economic progress.

Adam Smith would later refine this idea into the famous “invisible hand”. But Mandeville stated the uncomfortable truth more boldly: a society that tries to suppress self-interest in the name of virtue usually ends up poorer and less civilised.

The Fable of the Bees is a powerful defence of commercial society which reminds us that what left-wing moralists condemn as vice is frequently the engine of human flourishing.