J.D. Recor

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

You're looking at a drone shot of Byron, New York, where thousands of acres of solar panels have swallowed up a county that boasts the MOST amount of productive agricultural land in the entire state.

This is only a portion of the panels that have been anchored into Byron for Excelsior Solar.

With the newly announced Brusselville Solar on the ORES docket, this aerial view will only encompass a fraction of the total solar footprint.

Those responsible for this must be held accountable. This video should be on NATIONAL news.

We are going to lose our state and the land that feeds us very quickly if there is not immediate intervention.

This is dystopian, anti-human, catastrophic to wildlife, a direct threat to our future food autonomy, and the largest land grab of our American lifetimes from generational landowners to foreign corporations.

And it's all on purpose.

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

What a sad ending to prime farmland, animal habitat, and viewsheds at the base of the gorgeous Adirondack Mountains.

The town of Kingsbury tried to do the right thing and fight this, too. But they were no match for the legal power and money behind the multinational corporate conglomerate of AES.

When residents in Kingsbury, New York sounded the alarm and informed the town they had not been made aware of this incoming complex, the town listened to its residents and tried to do the right thing.

Kingsbury's Code Enforcement Officer concluded there were material misrepresentations regarding neighborhood outreach and public awareness during the approval process.

The town attempted to annul the prior approvals.

This is common with all commercial solar salesmen. They lie to American landowners and tell them their "neighbor already said yes, so they should, too." In Kingsbury, it came out that the solar company had done just that, misleading landowners.

Well AES didn't like that very much.

AES responded by suing the Town of Kingsbury, the Planning Board, and the Code Enforcement Officer.

Obviously, the multi-billion dollar renewable company won, and this is the view on Vaughn Road in Kingsbury, New York today.

Who owns AES?

A Google search will show you:
"The buyers in this consortium include U.S.-based Global Infrastructure Partners (a subsidiary of BlackRock), Sweden's EQT, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), and the Qatar Investment Authority."

That's who strong-armed, bullied, and legally flattened a small New York town to force a commercial solar complex into one of the prettiest regions of the state.

This is foreign intervention in the form of swallowing our home rule whole.

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

Horseshoe Solar, located in Rush and Caledonia, New York, where Invenergy's third-party contractors punctured their aquifer this past winter, contains a significant amount of prime farmland.

In fact, our state's own Department of Ag + Markets went on the record in 2019 with being "concerned with the amount of prime farmland" being considered in this project.

Below you can read quotes directly from the Department of Public Service docket that were filed as a response to Invenergy's Preliminary Scoping statement.

Particularly interesting is this quote, which everyone needs to read today:

"Notably absent are any indication that other suitable sites were evaluated. A majority of the land is comprised of farmland and constitutes some of the most productive agricultural land in both counties. The Department recommends other alternative sites, which are not flat, productive, well-drained farmland comprised of Prime Farmland soil or Farmland of Statewide Importance."

That same year, the 2019 Climate Act was passed, creating a solar panel and wind turbine religion that started to trump all other agencies in our state.

One year later, ORES was created inside a budget bill. The state began siting solar and wind complexes using its own Mineral Soil Groups (MSGs) classification system, going against the USDA soil classification system that the rest of the country uses. The NYS Dept. of Ag + Markets helped rollout the MSG system that downgrades what's considered prime farmland by USDA standards.

As you can see, pre-2020, the Dept. of Ag + Markets was not yet compromised. That's why they went on record expressing their grave concern with the siting of Horseshoe Solar. Not even 2 years later and the department was involved in downgrading statewide soils of importance.

It was all made possible with the 2019 Climate Act.

Horseshoe Solar is currently being built on prime farmland. They drilled under the Genesee River 7 times with a 42.8% failure rate (Horizontal Directional Drilling).

ALL New York agencies, from the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation to the Dept. of Ag + Markets have been told to stand down, from the governor's office, to make way for solar and wind complexes.

Our state is being held hostage by foreign renewable corporations.

Please read the quotes, directly from the Dept. of Ag + Markets in 2019, below.

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

What an awful ending to prime farmland.

Here’s just a fraction of the panels that have been installed in Genesee County, NY. This is part of the ORES project: Cider Solar.

They give these projects mocking agricultural names to try and trick locals into thinking this was good for rural Upstate NY.

Another complex in Montgomery County carries the name “Cow Bell Solar.”

This is one huge money-laundering operation in the form of green energy subsidies and credits. It’s going on between our state and foreign renewable corporations.

Along the way, we’re losing the land that feeds us, forever. Wildlife is displaced in every direction. The soil will never be farmable again. And local pastoral culture and history is destroyed.

Video submitted by: @JenniferSitter2

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

Today I turn 55.

I’m the fittest, sharpest, and happiest I’ve ever been.

If I’m an outlier, it’s not because I’m built different or discovered a secret formula. The truth is far less glamorous:

It’s a million tiny choices, compounded over decades.

Here are 55 of them:

1. Walk 15+ miles a week, even if you do other exercise. Humans are uniquely made to move slowly over long distances—it’s critical to longevity.

2. Develop a writing practice. It’s the single best way to sharpen your mind. And remember, you don’t have to be a good writer to write. Start with 10 minutes a day.

3. Swap out your toothpaste, deodorant, lotions, soap, shampoo, and other personal care products for natural versions. Here’s a rule of thumb: Don’t put anything on your skin that you couldn’t safely eat.

4. If you have a positive thought about someone, don’t keep it to yourself—share it immediately. Encouragement defies the laws of physics: When you give energy, you also receive it.

5. Wear shoes with a wide forefoot (I like Topo Athletic) and wear toe spreaders around the house (search “yoga toes” on Amazon). Spine health begins with the feet.

6. Get sunlight regularly. Moderate sun exposure (without sunscreen) is hugely important for overall health.

7. Do a 3-minute deep (“ass to grass”) squat every morning. Deep squats are often called the anti-aging exercise. It’s been said that, “It’s not that you can’t do deep squats because you’re old, it’s that you’re old because you can’t do deep squats.”

8. Explore minimalism (it’s not what you think it is).

9. Set boundaries on toxic relationships. We tend to cling to relationships past their expiration date, and it takes a bigger toll on our health than we recognize.

10. Eat real food. Not too much. Don’t eat garbage. Binge occasionally. Fast occasionally. That’s the diet.

11. Learn about FIRE. It’s a great framework for financial success.

12. Don’t take antibiotics except in emergency situations. They’re massively over-prescribed and aren’t needed in most cases. Antibiotics have done untold damage to our guts, which is where health begins. Great natural alternatives are out there.

13. Get 8 hours of quality sleep each night. To optimize sleep:
—Don’t eat after 6pm
—Get blackout shades and cover LEDs with black tape
—No screens 2 hours before bed
—Try ashwagandha (an herb) to calm the nervous system

14. Stop drinking, even in moderation. People find all sorts of ways to justify drinking, but there’s no escaping the simple fact that alcohol is a toxin and it limits your potential.

15. Travel as much as possible. Nothing expands the mind like seeing the world. And travel doesn’t have to be expensive—the best experiences happen outside of fancy resorts, when you live like a local.

16. Let go of resentment. When you forgive someone, you release the prisoner, and the prisoner isn’t them… it’s you.

17. Show up on time, every time. Poor time management limits success more than most people realize. If you struggle with punctuality, stop everything else and fix that first.

18. Spend lots of time in nature and touch the earth. Humans evolved over 300k years to live in harmony with nature, and only recently have we retreated indoors. If you don’t spend time outside, you’re fighting biology (hint: You won’t win.)

19. Stop doing dumb things. As Leo Tolstoy said, “People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing—refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.”

20. Find your happy place and (eventually) move there. Most people live where they live because... that's where they live. We are products of our environment—choose yours carefully.

21. Find a hobby and pursue mastery. You can’t have a happy life without a passionate pursuit that isn’t your vocation. Your work—even if you enjoy it—isn’t enough.

22. Avoid mainstream medicine except as a last resort. The results are in—our healthcare (or more appropriately, sick care) system is badly broken and only makes people sicker.

23. Have a mindset of abundance. There is no advantage to being a pessimist—even if you’re right, it’s a miserable way to live. In a very real way… whatever you believe, you’re right!

24. Do hard things. Choose courage over comfort. Everything you want is on the other side of fear and hard work. As Jerzy Gregorik said, “Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.”

25. Ignore haters. Hurt people hurt people. Negative/toxic people live in a prison of their own design. Don’t join them!

26. Say no. Protect your time and energy like it’s your most precious asset… because it is.

27. Become a water snob. As an alien said on Star Trek, humans are “ugly bags of mostly water.” You are what you drink—literally! We have Mountain Valley Spring water delivered in glass 5-gallon jugs and also have whole-house water filter (Aquasana Rhino).

28. Stop drinking sodas and sugary energy drinks. After a few weeks you won’t miss them, and a few months later they’ll seem disgusting. Refined sugar causes inflammation, which is the root of most disease.

29. If you’re over 35, find a good functional/longevity medicine doctor and start tracking your hormones. Modern life is hell on the endocrine system and restoring healthy hormone levels can change your life. As we get older, we either accept a slow decline in performance or we do something about it—choose the latter!

30. Develop a morning routine and follow it faithfully. Win the morning, win the day!

31. Invest in experiences, not things. People frequently regret buying things, but rarely regret investing in great experiences (especially when shared with loved ones). Remember, there’s nothing you can buy in a mall that you’ll remember in ten years.

32. Explore spirituality. It’s arrogant and small-minded to believe there’s nothing going on in our universe that is beyond our comprehension. We know less about our universe than an ant meandering on a sidewalk understands about this planet.

33. Have a strong bias toward action—doing rather than talking. If you ask a bunch of old people about their regrets, they’ll talk about the things they *didn't* do—the shots they didn’t take—more than the things they did do (even if it went wrong). As Wayne Gretzky famously said, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Most people don’t take enough shots.

34. Stay lean. Men in particular are obsessed with muscle mass these days, but bulk doesn’t age well. The goal is to be strong but lean. The fittest guys in their 50s and beyond aren’t meatheads, they’re lean guys who are serious about a sport.

35. Curate your inner circle carefully. Surround yourself with people you admire and who challenge you to grow. Remember, we’re the average of our 5 closest relationships.

36. Be the fittest version of yourself. Your body is your only vessel for experiencing life—so treat it as such. Fitness isn’t working out a few times a week, it’s a lifestyle. The older you get, the more time you need to devote to your health.

37. Take the time to appreciate art and beauty in all its forms.

38. Think globally, but act locally. Too many people put their energy into far-away problems they don’t understand and can’t impact, while ignoring problems right under their nose. Want to change the world? Start at home.

39. Try psychedelics. It’s one of those things everyone should do at least once, and it might be the breakthrough you’ve been looking for.

40. Limit bad habits, including unhealthy thought patterns. We all have them—practice avoidance and find substitutes. Get professional help if needed.

41. Be a lifelong learner. Your brain is just like a muscle—if you don’t feed and flex it regularly, it will atrophy.

42. Find your purpose. People with a strong sense of purpose are happier and live longer. Lack of purpose sucks energy and magnifies depression.

43. Only take advice from people who embody the traits you want to have. Talk is cheap—emulate those who have DONE it.

44. The goal is not to retire and do nothing, it’s to build a great day-to-day life that you don’t need to escape. A life of leisure is a slow death. Happiness isn’t possible without a little struggle, uncertainty, and skin in the game.

45. Have fun! Do frivolous and silly things that make you smile. As George Bernard Shaw famously said, “We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

46. Whatever you want to do or achieve in life, start NOW. Don’t fall victim to “someday thinking” because someday never comes.

47. Accumulate assets—things that grow in value over time. It’s the #1 habit of rich people, and it can be done in tiny chunks. Instead of spending $100 on an impulse purchase that has no lasting value, put that money into an index fund or Bitcoin. It becomes addictive (in a good way).

48. Don’t ignore the big 3 canaries in the coal mine for health:
—Low libido (and ED)
—Frequent sinus & respiratory issues
—Depression
These usually aren’t medical conditions in themselves, they’re symptoms of an underlying problem. Find a good doc (outside of the mainstream) and figure out the root cause.

49. Have a clear vision for your future. How can you decide which direction to go if you haven’t clearly defined the destination? It sounds obvious, but 95% of people haven’t defined their “Ideal End State” in detail and in writing. (Check out my thread on this topic.)

50. Make your own decisions. We live in an era where most of what society tells us is wrong. Don’t be afraid to break from societal norms—if people say you’re crazy, it’s a sign that you’re doing something right.

51. Get hardcore about mobility exercise. As you age, it’s usually the knees, hips, and lower back that limit physical performance. 30 min a couple times a week can spare you a lifetime of pain. YouTube is a great resource.

52. Go all in on family. Get married, stay married, have kids. Burn the boats. In the end, family is all that matters.

53. Be ruthless with your time. Money comes and goes. Time only goes. Audit your calendar ruthlessly—cut the trivial, double down on the meaningful, and spend your hours like your life depends on it. (Because it does.)

54. Have a strong bias toward action. Be curious, try things, meet people—it’s how you increase your surface area for serendipity, the most powerful unseen force in our lives.

55. Reinvent yourself every decade. Over time, we slowly drift off course from our priorities, values, and true identity. Take stock and don’t be afraid to hit the reset button. Bold, calculated moves made for the right reasons almost always pay off—usually even more than you can imagine.

🎁 P.S. If you enjoyed this post, would you give me a birthday gift? Repost or comment with the item number(s) you liked best?

[J.D. Recor @jrec3]

@fytnas YT

[TLN 🥍 @LacrosseNetwork]

Why does an undrafted rookie have the top-selling PLL jersey in 2025? 🧐

Josh Balcarcel is a rookie out of @Marist_MensLax, who was signed by @PLLRedwoods after the draft.

In 2024, Balcarcel was selected to wear the honorary No. 34 jersey at Marist. This number is special because it was worn by a player named Eddie Coombs, who tragically passed away in a car accident in 2011.

Balcarcel wore 34 for two seasons at Marist and is now carrying on the tradition in @PremierLacrosse. After scoring a goal last weekend and having his story told on the ESPN broadcast, fans have been showing their love by purchasing his jersey ❤️

[Noah Ryan @NoahRyanCo]

The worst thing about the internet is that it exposes you to the most deplorable sides of humanity on a daily basis

Only fans, guru charlatans, gambling degenerates. People otherwise banished to circuses and street corners now algorithmically shoved in your face

Relentlessly refine your information diet or you risk going insane

[West Wrestling @wswgrappling]

State Bound! Congratulations to West Seneca’s Nate Tirado- Section VI Champion at 215 lbs.!

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Dr. Casey Means: America Is Racing Toward a Genocidal Health Collapse

Big Food and Big Pharma are literally poisoning us, and you won’t believe how bad it is until you see these stats:

• "Metabolic dysfunction now affects 93.2% of American adults."

• "Americans live eight fewer years compared to people in Japan or Switzerland, and life expectancy is going down."

• "For each additional serving of ultra-processed food we eat, early mortality increases by 18%. This now makes up 67% of the foods our kids are eating."

• "82% of independently funded studies show harm from processed food, while 93% of industry-sponsored studies reflect no harm."

• "95% of the people who created the recent USDA food guidelines for America had significant conflicts of interest with the food industry."

• "1 billion pounds of synthetic pesticides are being sprayed on our food every single year."

• "99% of the farmland in the United States is sprayed with synthetic pesticides."

• "Recent research from just the past couple of months tells us that now about 0.5% of our brains, by weight, are now plastic."

@CaseyMeansMD

[Marist Athletics @MaristAthletics]

The late great Eddie Coombs was more than just a Marist athlete, he was the embodiment of a student-athlete. Now his legacy can live on beyond just on the field, as the Edward Taylor Coombs Classroom was unveiled on Friday with the opening of the new Dyson Center!

#EC34

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

Brothers Johnny Gaudreau and Matthew Gaudreau have tragically passed away.

Johnny was 31 and Matthew was 29.

[Marist Lacrosse @Marist_MensLax]

17 Seasons
13 as Head Coach
Program’s All-Time Wins Leader
Three MAAC Championships

A lifetime of memories. Thank you for everything @Coach_Wilks

[David Furones @DavidFurones_]

“The overwhelming talent and natural ability of Josh Allen were on display — and Tua’s clear limitations were.”

-Colin Cowherd on @TheHerd after Bills took AFC East from the Dolphins

Agree or disagree?

[Michael F. Florio @MichaelFFlorio]

It sounds like a Bills home game

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

HUGE hit by Rutger McGroarty 😳

#WorldJuniors

[Pay The Bills | A Trainwreck Sports Production @PayTheBillsPod]

What better way to celebrate 17 days until #BillsMafia SZN…

Josh Allen’s runs against Miami, but each time they get longer. 🚂

[J.D. Recor @jrec3]

@bruterlax @TimonLax @Marist_MensLax Appreciate it coach!

[TLN 🥍 @LacrosseNetwork]

.@Marist_MensLax is RUNNING WILD in the MAAC Championship Game 💨

This coast-to-coast goal by Josh Barcarcel was 🔥🔥🔥

(via ESPNU)

[Ad Age @adage]

The NFL has hired Horizon Media as its global media agency of record for strategy, planning, activation and measurement. https://t.co/CFCs4GC5p0