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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Bison are leading one of the most remarkable ecological comebacks in North American history.

For more than a century, the great herds of the American bison were fragmented, broken into isolated groups by roads, fences, and human development across the Great Plains and Yellowstone region.

Now, in a powerful wildlife success story, those artificial barriers are being overcome. On their own, bison are instinctively reuniting and reopening ancient migration corridors that had been lost for over 100 years.

This isn’t just movement: it’s a profound return to ancestral memory. Large, unified herds are once again flowing across the landscape as they did in centuries past.

As they travel, these iconic animals act as masterful ecosystem engineers. Their powerful hooves aerate compacted soil, their selective grazing encourages the growth of diverse native plants, and their dust wallows create seasonal watering holes that benefit countless other species. In doing so, they spread nutrients and help restore the health of the grasslands.

By simply allowing bison to roam freely across their historic ranges, nature is showing us that wild ecosystems recover best when their original architects are given the freedom to lead.

[Texas A&M University. After 120 Years of Conservation, Yellowstone Bison Are Now a Single Breeding Population. Journal of Heredity]

[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

Then she clearly didn’t watch it because it wasn’t Trump focused. The focus was on Medal of Honor recipients, the fighters, the U.S. military and the fans.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: SpaceX announces it will use 𝕏 as an official disclosure channel for company news, bypassing traditional newswires.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The Coast Guard hopping on a runaway boat is the most badass thing you’ll see today 🇺🇸

[Ron DeSantis @GovRonDeSantis]

Today, I signed legislation to crack down on dangerous drugs, strengthen oversight of repeat offenders, disrupt criminal gangs, support law enforcement, and ensure that violent criminals face serious consequences.

Florida is the law and order state. Our commitment to holding criminals accountable and keeping our streets safe forms the foundation for our state’s continued success.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

It’s not constitutional to nullify the electoral college through the back door.

Even so, imagine if presidential elections were purely a popular vote — we’d be waiting for a month for California to count the votes!

No thank you.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Nashville getting drilled

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

President Donald J. Trump has invoked the Defense Production Act to allow the Secretary of War shore up munitions supply chains for critical parts such as motors, igniters and guidance systems.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Stanley Kubrick demanded 70 takes from actors. He let this medically discharged Marine improvise.
In 1985, R. Lee Ermey stood on a film set in England with nothing but memories and a voice that could cut through steel. He was not supposed to be there. Not as an actor, anyway.
Stanley Kubrick had hired him as a technical advisor for Full Metal Jacket. The role of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman was already cast with a trained professional. Ermey's job was to teach actors how drill instructors actually behaved.
But Ermey had spent years watching Hollywood get it wrong. He approached Kubrick with a request that bordered on audacity.
"Let me show you what a real drill instructor sounds like."
Kubrick was skeptical. This was a director who shot scenes 40, 50, sometimes 70 times until they were perfect. He controlled every word. Every gesture. Every breath.
But he agreed to watch.
Ermey positioned actors in formation. The cameras rolled. And he began screaming.
For two hours, he unleashed a torrent of creative, devastating verbal assault. Stagehands pelted him with tennis balls and oranges to simulate chaos. He never flinched. Never broke rhythm. Never repeated himself.
Because he wasn't acting.
He was remembering.
Ronald Lee Ermey had enlisted in the Marines at seventeen after a Kansas judge gave him a choice: jail or the military. He chose the Corps. From 1965 to 1967, he served as a drill instructor at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, breaking down civilians and rebuilding them as Marines.
In 1968, he deployed to Vietnam for fourteen months.
Then injuries ended his career. Medical discharge. Twenty-seven years old. No college degree. No plan.
He drifted to the Philippines, enrolled in university using his GI Bill, and stumbled into film work as a technical advisor. Small roles followed. A helicopter pilot in Apocalypse Now. A drill instructor in The Boys in Company C.
But nothing that changed his life.
Until Kubrick watched those tapes.
The director saw something no acting class could manufacture: authenticity so complete it became art. Ermey had produced 150 pages of original insults. His intensity never wavered. His knowledge was absolute.
Kubrick made a decision almost unheard of in his career.
He fired the original actor. He gave Ermey the role. And he allowed him to improvise more than half of his own dialogue.
Stanley Kubrick, the perfectionist who demanded endless takes from every performer, needed only two or three takes from a former drill instructor with no formal training.
Because you cannot fake what is real.
When Full Metal Jacket premiered in 1987, Ermey's performance became instantly iconic. Real drill instructors said it was the most accurate portrayal ever filmed. Veterans said it triggered memories they had buried for decades.
Ermey earned a Golden Globe nomination. He went on to appear in over sixty films. He voiced Sarge in Toy Story. He hosted military programs on the History Channel.
But he never forgot his brothers and sisters in uniform.
In 2002, the Marine Corps awarded him an honorary promotion to Gunnery Sergeant, making him the only retiree in Corps history to receive that recognition. He spent years visiting troops overseas, supporting veterans, and keeping the military spirit alive.
R. Lee Ermey passed away on April 15, 2018. The Marine Corps called him a great American and an even greater Marine.
Think about that journey.
A troubled teenager from Kansas. A drill instructor. A combat veteran. A medical discharge. Odd jobs in foreign countries. And then, at forty-three, convincing one of cinema's most demanding directors to trust him with creative freedom.
He did not succeed because he pretended to be something he wasn't.
He succeeded because he refused to be anything else.
That is not a Hollywood story.
That is a Marine who improvised, adapted, and overcame, all the way to immortality.

[FBI Los Angeles @FBILosAngeles]

Bryan Omar Roa, 24, of Calimesa, California, and Michael Alan Thomas, 32, of Pinon Hills, California, are among five men charged for their roles in an alleged plot to carry out an attack to kill government officials and others attending the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Freedom 250 event held at the White House last Sunday. The FBI and partners launched an investigation into the plot and identified a group of conspirators who procured weapons and made plans to carry out the attack. The FBI made arrests over the weekend in Ohio, Missouri, Nebraska, and California. Details here: https://t.co/cbTpddfG2G

[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

For political reasons, Newsom really really wanted it to be under Trump.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 ROB SCHNEIDER JUST NOW: "MLB screwed up! [For] Christians standing up for their beliefs is not OK? I am TIRED of Christianity being the doormat for everybody else's beliefs to step on us!"

🔥🔥🔥

[Attorney General Catherine L. Hanaway @AGCHanaway]

Missouri law prohibits discrimination based on religious beliefs.

My office is demanding that @MLB not discriminate against players for their faith. If MLB refuses to comply, we will take action.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: The Attorney General of Florida is now launching an investigation into the MLB after they WARNED 3 Giants pitchers simply because they wore BIBLE VERSES on their "Pride Night" caps

GOOD!

JD VANCE: "Trump won we don’t have to do this anymore."

AG UTHMEIER: "Do you practice religious discrimination in Florida, MLB? You’ll be hearing from my office soon."

The verse says that the rainbow is a symbol of a covenant between God and all living creatures.

WHY would they discipline that? Cut the BS! Christians can be Christians!

[MLB2NC @MLBRaleigh]

Norway’s biggest Caniac just scored a World Cup goal. Raleigh’s winning vibes don’t wear off. #SoundTheSiren #RaleighOnDeck @Canes

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Rare “mutualistic feline behavior” has local college experts in a whirlwind.

A farmer said he first knew something was wrong when his barn cat stopped coming home for milk. The cat had followed the same routine for years, but suddenly he was hunting at strange hours and slipping into the same patch of woods over and over. When the farmer checked his trail cameras, he saw the reason. His cat was carrying mice to a thin, injured mountain lion that looked too weak to hunt on its own.

Wildlife officers were called, and the mountain lion was safely taken in for treatment. Local college animal behavior experts later weighed in, saying the footage was extremely unusual because the cat appeared to return repeatedly, keep a careful distance, and still leave food close enough for the mountain lion to eat. One professor said, “That kind of repeated behavior is hard to ignore. It makes you wonder how much animals notice when another animal is struggling.”

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

I will pay the fines for any @MLB Christian player who wears a Bible verse on their uniform.
@MLB is ANTI-CHRISTIAN

[0HOUR1 @__0HOUR1_]

I hope they release all 12 names of the terrorists who planned to mass murder people at the DC event.

Make examples out of every last one of them.

Parade them in front of the cameras.

[Senator Ted Cruz @SenTedCruz]

The B-52 crash near Edwards Air Force Base that claimed the lives of eight American servicemembers is tragic.

The aircraft, known as the “Spirit of Aggieland,” was familiar to generations of Aggies through flyovers above Kyle Field and its longstanding ties to Texas A&M.

Heidi and I are praying for the families of those lost and all who are grieving this tragedy.