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@TheIlliniFN But Blackwell says he ‘is 6-4 and a natural PG!’ Someone’s going to be unhappy

Duke has their PG! Back up PGs will be Rippey and Boozer. Good collection of ball-handlers

@BuzzPatterson What do you want to bet SPLC was coordinating with the FBI on all of it

What do you want to bet the SPLC was behind J6?

@Dcasto128 @michaeljlewis75 I predict a lot of dysfunction with Duke’s lineup. Blackwell was a SG at Wisconsin. But according to Blackwell ‘I’m 6’4” and natural PG’ and going to Duke to make the most of that opportunity A lot of players wanting the ball and they’re going to be pissed

@michaeljlewis75 @Robinernst5 The #1 PG in the country is starting. He isnt coming to sit

Potential preseason No. 1

Alex Jones predicted 9 years ago that the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally was a staged false flag run by Southern Poverty Law Center assets using paid actors dressed as Nazis. He nailed it. Credit where credit is due. A number of his predictions are uncannily accurate.

@michaeljlewis75 Not according to Blackwell

@Robinernst5 He’s not going to be the PG. boozer or Foster will be the PG, Blackwell will be off ball.

@Al_B_Lawson @MericaCulture War is hell

@MericaCulture That is retarded. In reality, the North had to resort to burning cities, towns and farms because they were too cowardly to win on the battlefield.

“The North fought that war with one hand behind its back. If the Confederacy ever had come close to winning on the battlefield—if there had been more Southern victories, and a lot more—the North simply would have brought that other arm out from behind its back" -Shelby Foote

The school textbooks tell you the settlers crossed the Atlantic for religious freedom. Some of them did, partly. What the textbooks leave out is the thing that sits in the actual letters, in the sailors' accounts, in the merchant pamphlets circulating in English ports from the 1580s onwards: a major reason people came to America was the wild game. Meat you could take. Meat nobody owned. Meat that walked into camp. For a population legally separated from the animal for five hundred years, this was the whole pitch. Consider what they were leaving. A family in a Devon cottage in 1618 eats pottage. Oats, barley, an onion, whatever greens grew near the back door. No meat in it this week. No meat in it last week. There will be meat in it on Christmas Day, God willing, if the chicken is still alive by then. The deer in the forest at the end of the lane have been the king's property under the Forest Laws since 1066. Taking one is a hanging offence. The father has never taken one. His father never took one. The institutional memory of not taking one goes back five hundred and fifty-two years. Then the stories arrive. From sailors. From ship's captains. From merchants returning through Bristol and Plymouth. The birds come in flocks that darken the sky for three days. Not an afternoon. Three days. Passenger pigeons in numbers later estimated at three to five billion in a single flock, making a sound early settlers compared to the roar of a river that refused to stop. A man with a net could take five hundred in an afternoon. The king of England had no claim on the sky over Massachusetts. The rivers, the captains said, ran so thick with salmon that the water appeared to boil. The deer walked into camp, looked at the fire, and were shot. The oysters on the Atlantic shore came the size of dinner plates, piled in reefs you could lean over the side of a boat to harvest. Turkeys weighing thirty pounds stood in clearings with the fearlessness of an animal that had never been hunted by anything on two legs. Bison herds on the plains took four hours to cross a ford. And nobody, crucially, owned any of it. The father in Devon lies awake that night thinking about the sky going dark for three days. He is also thinking about religious freedom. Theological persecution was real. The Mayflower passenger list included genuine dissenters. That was part of it. It was not, for most of them, the biggest part. The biggest part was that the animals in the captain's story belonged to nobody, and the family had been watching animals that belonged to somebody else walk past their cottage for twenty generations. Between 1620 and 1640, roughly 20,000 people made the crossing. By 1700, 250,000. By 1900, fifty million Europeans had crossed, most of them peasants from cultures where meat had been restricted for centuries, most of them arriving within the first generation at a standard of eating their grandparents would not have believed. A labourer in Pennsylvania in 1750 was eating more meat per week than an English nobleman had eaten in 1450. An Irish emigrant's grandchild in Boston in 1900, whose great-grandmother had starved in 1847 while Irish cattle were shipped past the coffin ships to English markets, was eating steak on a Tuesday and not thinking about it. At the centre of the great migration was hunger. Specifically, hunger for meat. Enforced since 1066, reinforced by Enclosure for another four hundred years, reinforced by the quiet understanding that the venison belonged to the lord and the pottage belonged to you. They crossed an ocean because, finally, you could go somewhere the deer walked into camp and the pigeons blocked out the sun and nobody had a legal claim on any of it. You could eat like a lord without owing a lord anything. They crossed an ocean for that. And having got to it, they did not give it back.

I’d rather drag my balls through a pile of broken glass than watch the NBA Playoffs.

@SharylAttkisson Broccoli

Name something you used to eat because you thought it was healthy. But it wasn't.

@SharylAttkisson One of the few nIck cage movies i liked great flick

Who saw the Nicholas Cage film "Dream Scenario"? If you saw it, what do you think?

"This was never a genuine complaint. And it wasn’t an opportunistic hit job either. It was something far more deliberate, a coordinated effort involving NSC staff, Adam Schiff and his allies in Congress, and a compromised Inspector General, all working in concert to target Trump. It served a dual purpose. It damaged Trump while insulating Biden from scrutiny over Ukraine-related issues that were already widely known." thefederalist.com/2026/04/15/new…

@FOOL_NELSON Great flick. Except for the combining of green corn

Interstellar's conception of timespace, the inverse of spacetime, is worth it alone.

@adamtaggart Good luck, Adam. I had similar cough and congestion last winter. Lasted 3 months. An inhaler helps

I'm about 11 days into this dang head/chest cold & just can't seem to shake it Anyone here know how long it takes to lick this thing? It's not terrible, but man is it lingering Hope everyone else successfully avoids it Have a great weekend!

@ick_real Rowan Atkinnson

Your job is to pick the worst possible actor to play James bond. Go!

Those 64,000 turtles in the footage swam up to 1,700 miles to get here, some taking weeks across open ocean. Every one of them hatched on that same strip of beach, and came back decades later to lay her own eggs on it. They've been doing this for over 1,000 years. This is Raine Island. A tiny spit of sand on the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef, 390 miles from the nearest city. The beach is just over a mile long. About 90% of the green turtles in Australia's northern reef trace back to this one strip. For decades, scientists counted the turtles by sending people out in boats with clipboards. It was a slog. In December 2019, researchers flew drones over the island for the first time and realized the boat counts had been missing close to half the turtles. Observers were accidentally spotting the ones marked with white paint more often than the unmarked ones. The real population was nearly double the old estimate. On a busy night, 20,000 turtles try to nest on that same narrow strip. They dig up each other's eggs. They fall off the small cliffs around the island and die flipped on their backs. Up to 2,000 adults died every nesting season from heat exhaustion, cliff falls, and rocks they couldn't pry themselves out of. And between 2011 and 2015, only 12 to 36 percent of eggs hatched, compared to roughly 80 percent everywhere else. Seawater was flooding the low-lying nests and drowning the babies inside. The bigger problem is underneath the sand. Turtle sex is set by temperature. Warmer eggs produce female hatchlings. Cooler eggs produce males. The tipping point for the Raine Island population is about 85°F. A degree or two warmer and 80% of hatchlings come out female. The sand there has warmed enough that 99.1% of young turtles are now female. In some recent groups, males are outnumbered 116 to 1. Scientists call it a "population time bomb": adult females are still showing up in record numbers, but the next generation is almost all sisters. Which is why Australia spent ten years and $7.95 million reshaping the island. The Raine Island Recovery Project wrapped up in December 2025. Crews moved 40,000 cubic meters of sand (about 16 Olympic pools' worth) to raise the nesting beach above the tide line. They built fencing around the cliffs so adults can't fall off. They moved 100 nests to a shaded beach on a nearby island, where hatching rates climbed to 70%. So far, 640,000 extra baby turtles have made it into the water. Those 64,000 turtles are still showing up. Another 4.6 million baby turtles will hit the water over the next decade, all because someone moved enough sand to save their beach.

Bill Madlock poses after winning the National League batting title for the second straight year, 1976. Photo by UPI

@OleTimeHardball Ted Williams

Game 7 of the World Series. Bottom of the 9th, bases loaded, 2 outs, and your team is down by 1 Bob Gibson is on the mound…a raised mound. You have your choice of any hitter, of any era. Who gets the call?

@RaphealDavis3 @roblot31playa @notrobbyboose Mirk is a freshman. Morez is a sophomore

@roblot31playa @notrobbyboose Morez is a 1st round draft pick. Mirk returned to college to try again.

You’re only as good as your point guard play.

@RaphealDavis3 @notrobbyboose @roblot31playa I wish Morez would have stayed at Illinois but he had injuries at Illinois that reduced his pt. That’s no one’s fault but Morez seemed to blame Illinois.

@notrobbyboose @roblot31playa Morez is a better basketball player.