James Ferguson 🇳🇱🚜

Husband, father and enthusiastic observer of beer and ice cream season.

[James Ferguson 🇳🇱🚜 @jvferg72]

@StevieG4freedom @Jared_Carrabis Bring back fastballs to the ribs for showing pitchers up!

[James Ferguson 🇳🇱🚜 @jvferg72]

@RepAngieCraig Maybe teachers will be able to better educate the rest of the kids now?

[1970s Baseball @70sBaseball]

Tied for worst with the Washington Redskins rebrand

[Cincinnati Reds @Reds]

Happy birthday to one of the most exciting players to ever put on a jersey, Eric Davis‼️

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

DOGE found the waste, but Big Spenders in both parties put it right back in.

Zero of it became law. Zero. The debt is still climbing, interest payments are approaching $2 trillion a year, and both parties are to blame.

[Shawnee Gregorio @ShawneeMG2]

Anthropology class? Nope. Just kids at school experiencing what the 1990s were like. Honestly, it's funny watching them treat these items like absolute relics. My personal favorite is the Rolodex!

Anywho, I wish this was integrated in classrooms everywhere. I think lot of parents would agree this generation has a fascination with how we used to live.

[Tracy Beanz @tracybeanz]

Sorry, but this is absolutely INSANE. I’ve seen a few of these now. Share this and raise more awareness. Someone needs to help these people.

[James Ferguson 🇳🇱🚜 @jvferg72]

Not all heroes wear capes! 👏

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Meet the “Squatter Hunter.”

His real name is Flash Shelton, and he’s gained national attention for an unconventional, and highly effective, method of dealing with squatters: he moves into the occupied homes himself and makes the squatters’ lives so miserable that they eventually leave.

It all started when squatters took over his mother’s house in Northern California. Tired of waiting for the slow legal eviction process, Shelton decided to move in and turn the tables. His strategy worked.

To protect himself legally, property owners sign a lease granting him the right to occupy the home. Once inside, he uses simple but relentless tactics, blasting music, taking over shared spaces, eating their food, and generally disrupting their daily comfort. He also wears tactical gear and carries non-lethal self-defense tools like pepper spray and a stun gun for protection.

Thanks to his bold approach, Shelton has successfully helped return multiple properties to their rightful owners.

[Plus EV Analytics @PlusEVAnalytics]

You know that thing where a cop visits a middle school classroom and drops a bunch of scary truths about drugs? Why doesn't that exist for gambling? @roundrobin42

[James Ferguson 🇳🇱🚜 @jvferg72]

https://t.co/lGJLL8ci21

[KC NoDak Brim 🇺🇸 @brim006]

What radicalized you?

For me, it happened back in my freshman year of high school in the early 2000s. The head coach of our hockey team believed in getting the team home to our own beds after road games no matter what instead of staying in hotels. Hotels were a distraction. With no hotel costs, he wanted to use the money to upgrade our road meals. Nothing fancy, just basic meat and potatoes type places like Cracker Barrel or Perkins instead of cold Little Caesars on a dark January bus ride home across rural North Dakota. The athletic director and superintendent shut the idea down and basically just absorbed the savings from his no hotel policy into the athletics budget.

So after that our coach, the other assistants, the parents, and us players started fundraising in the off‑season in hopes to get better meals on the road. The first year went great. We raised a ton and were easily able to have nicer sit down meals on every single trip. We all sat together at big tables, had actual food choices, ate healthier and built even more camaraderie. It was fantastic all around.

But then other sports teams and parents caught wind. It was seen as unfair. The AD, principal, and superintendent demanded we stop, in order to keep things “equal” across all sports at our public school. They even tried to force our coach to hand over the privately raised money so it could be redistributed. Thankfully, our coach was an old‑school Canadian ex‑pro hockey player who didn’t take shit from anyone, and told them to F off, and we continued with our meatloaf road meals as planned. The principal and AD eventually backed off, but the superintendent had a vendetta against our team and probably mostly just our coach so he never stopped. He even went as low as instructing bus drivers not to take us to the restaurants we’d planned for on the road. Our coach always overrode it, once even driving the bus himself since he had the license from coaching cross‑country.

Over the next few years we continued the fundraising for better meals. Some of the other teams, and other parents continued to badger the supt., our coach and even sometime us players about it instead of just joining us in fundraising.

Watching peers and especially some of our own “leaders” work so hard to sabotage a positive thing for us was eye opening and really stuck with us. It gave us an early look at how petty and nefarious and systems and people can be, even at the local level.

And honestly, in the end, all it did was radicalize about 30 teenage hockey players for the rest of their lives who walked away believing “equality” was the dirtiest word in the English language. 😂

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

CA numbers are mind boggling

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Warren Buffett, in his first sit-down since stepping down as Berkshire CEO, gave the cleanest indictment of legalized gambling in a decade. He called it a tax cut for the wealthy. The math proves him exactly right.

Americans wagered $165 billion at legal sportsbooks in 2025. They lost $16 billion of that. FanDuel pulled $6 billion of the losses. DraftKings pulled $5.3 billion. Every state with legal mobile sports betting collected a tax on the bettor side. New York alone took in over $1.2 billion in 2025 sports betting tax revenue.

Layer the lottery on top. State lotteries generate over $90 billion a year. The bottom half of income earners account for roughly 70% of total spend. The average lottery player makes $38,000. A household earning $20,000 spends three times more on tickets than one earning $30,000. The implicit tax rate, meaning whatever the state keeps after prizes, runs 30 to 50% depending on the game. No other revenue source in America has that base and that rate.

The structural design is the engine. A single straight sports bet carries a hold of 4 to 5%. A four-leg parlay carries a hold above 30%. FanDuel and DraftKings spent five years rebuilding their apps to make parlays the default product. FanDuel's blended hold rate hit 11.4% in 2025, up from roughly 7% in 2022. The product got worse for the customer and the customer wagered more anyway.

Now look at the substitution. Nine US states have no state income tax. Seven of those nine run state lotteries. Seven of those nine have legalized sports betting. The states most committed to never taxing wealth are the same states running the largest extraction machines on people who cannot afford to lose. Read it as policy.

Here is what Buffett is actually pointing at. The state needs revenue. It can raise income tax on the top decile, or it can run a lottery plus a sports betting tax. The second option raises the money from the people who can least afford it. The first option becomes politically optional. New York's $1.2 billion in 2025 sports betting tax is $1.2 billion the state did not have to ask of someone earning $5 million.

DraftKings and FanDuel sell a privatized collection mechanism for a regressive tax that the state never has to defend at the ballot box again. Voters approve legalization once. Collection runs forever. The state takes a cut. The wealthy get a quieter top bracket. The bettor's cut shrinks every quarter as the parlay menu gets pushed harder.

The function of a government, Buffett said, is not to play its people for suckers.

Thirty-nine state governments now do.

[The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub]

One reason America led the world for so long was our relative lack of corruption. Sure we had some, but not on the level of, say, Latin America or the Soviet Union.

These days that distinction is less clear, as we see politicians of both parties shamelessly flaunt their wealth while the rest of us, like schmucks, play by the rules.

If we don’t root this shit out yesterday we are doomed, just like all those other countries we once looked down on.

[James Ferguson 🇳🇱🚜 @jvferg72]

@Devon_Eriksen_ @MaryMoriarty read this

[Liv Boeree @Liv_Boeree]

This is so so so good read it

[Heart & Soil @heartandsoilHQ]

*No more EBT for Soda or Candy*

*7-Eleven begins aggressively closing stores*

*Realize 7-Eleven was subsidized*

[hdretrovision @HDRetrovision]

happy tax day! in 1913, only about 1% of people owed income tax when it was introduced. the top marginal rate was around 7% on income above $500,000. adjusting for inflation that is roughly $10–15 million in today's dollars

[James Ferguson 🇳🇱🚜 @jvferg72]

@CoachDavidKlein @MitchShemon I think the kids would like this game!