Murray Beard

Realtor to Super Cool People focused on assisting friends and neighbors living in the beaches communities of Northeast Florida!

[Murray Beard @MurrayDavis]

@UFCheer Parker is only 2 but we are working on her being in the class of 2036 Cheerleaders at UF!! #GoGators

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@Mike_kim714 Booyah!! Go celebrate!!

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@TomFornelli At least we get to see the start words for many other people. I’ve used ROAST for the last couple of years!!

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@TomFornelli Get over it!

[Tyler Roney @TylerJRoney]

Dear New York Times,

Today’s Wordle was awful.

Sincerely,
Everyone

P.S. Is that even a real word?

[Murray Beard @MurrayDavis]

@GatorsGolf Go Gators!!

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Crazy situation during the recent Ironman Triathlon in Jacksonville. Some crazy people out there!!

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@Maxbeard931 Been there, done that!!😂😂

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Insane jet blast at St. Martin Airport: a tourists get blown away by MD80 aircraft taking off.

[GatorScope @GatorScope]

Florida had more KICKERS get drafted (2) then FSU had PLAYERS get drafted (1) 😭😭😭😭

We own you little brother 💀💀

[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.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This might be the most Florida Man video on the internet. Barefoot on asphalt, casually wrestling an alligator with his bare hands, picking it up, and walks off while carrying it. Incredible

[Murray Beard @MurrayDavis]

@TheGolfDivoTee While his game has deteriorated, he also banked $50MM in LIV earnings over the last 4 years!

[Tammi Reiss @CoachReiss32]

Nothing better than being #1Go Gators🧡🐊

[SEC Unfiltered @SECUnfiltered]

Florida putting BELT TO ASS in Athens.

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Wow! Such vintage Robert Plant!!

[Guitar Gods Unleashed @gguworld]

"Ramble On" is 56 years old and Robert Plant just walked onto The Late Show and made it sound like he wrote it this morning.

[Brent Martineau @BrentASJax]

Death. Taxes. Florida beats FSU In baseball.

[Florida Gators Baseball @GatorsBB]

Our State ☀️

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It’s great to be a Florida Gator!!

[College Baseball Reference @CBsBReference]

National Championships (Since 2000) | 🏈🏀⚾️

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@kylesockwell Nice!

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@kylesockwell Great story here!

[Yanyan Li @yyanyanli1]

Virginia freshman Maximus Williamson tied with his teammate, David King, for the final spot in the 200 free final during prelims. King decided to not to do a swim-off and gave his spot to Williamson.

In the final, Williamson went on to win the NCAA title. Storyline of the meet.

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@GeneFrenette Del Rio’s “chopping wood” disaster!!