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In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse. An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of: They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field. His name was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. He had once been a senator, then lost his fortune paying his son's bail. Now he worked his own four-acre plot just to feed his family. When the Senate's envoys arrived, they found him sweating behind a plow. They asked him to put on his toga so they could deliver an official message. The message: Rome was making him dictator. Absolute power. Total command of the army. No checks. No oversight. No term limit. He accepted. Within 16 days, Cincinnatus had raised an army, marched out, surrounded the enemy, and forced their surrender. The republic was saved. He had legal authority to rule for six months. He could have stayed. He could have expanded his power. He could have done what every other ruler in human history did when handed unlimited control. Instead, he resigned on day 16. He took off the toga, walked back to his farm, and finished plowing the field he'd left half-done. Twenty years later, when Rome faced another crisis, they called him back. He was 80 years old. He took command, crushed the conspiracy, and resigned again, this time after just 21 days. He died poor. On his farm. 2,200 years later, when George Washington was offered a kingship after winning the American Revolution, he refused and went home to Mount Vernon. The reason he was hailed as "the American Cincinnatus" is because Europeans literally could not believe a man who had won would willingly give up power. King George III, on hearing Washington would resign rather than rule, said: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world." The lesson isn't that Cincinnatus was humble. The lesson is that for most of human history, the people most qualified to lead were the ones who didn't want to. And the moment a society starts rewarding those who chase power instead of those who flee from it is the moment the republic begins to die. Cincinnati, Ohio is named after him. Most people who live there have no idea why.

@michaelbell75 @BNOFeed Also, the Jewish space lasers placed that Kennedy worm in your brain.

@BNOFeed Hantavirus rarely spreads from human to human. They have only been small isolated pieces of it decades ago. If this is really Hantavirus, you can be sure that it was genetic modified in a lab by Democrats to make it spread easier human to human like they did with corona

BREAKING: Flight attendant hospitalized with mild symptoms in the Netherlands; had contact with woman who died of hantavirus in Johannesburg - RTL

@DailyHiveVan Lululemon idiot? Jim Pattison? What other billionaires live here?

New 'serious' bidder wants to buy Whitecaps and keep them in Vancouver ⚽️🤯 dailyhive.com/vancouver/new-…

@JohnGeorge19799 @HalfwayPost So it's perfectly OK to lie. What a society!

@HalfwayPost No reporter should ever talk like that to Trump. How fucking disgusting

BREAKING: For the first time a journalist has reportedly told Donald Trump on a phone call, “Every single claim you have made about this war has been proven a lie within hours, and I will not be publishing anything you’ve told me today.”

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine. > Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla. > The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks. > In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway. Investors went wild. > What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind. > Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll. > He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media. > Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't. > In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford. > Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight. > A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time. > In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days. > A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year. > He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal. > He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign. > In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders. > Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing. The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

JetBlue just pulled the ultimate power move. Hours after Spirit Airlines went dark, JetBlue swooped into South Florida with a full-blown rescue mission—and they're not playing small. Here's the breakdown: $99 rescue fares for anyone holding a valid Spirit ticket. Same route, same dates, just call 1-800-JETBLUE. Flying Fort Lauderdale to San Juan? Blue Basic is capped at $299 through May 8. But that's just the warm-up. JetBlue is exploding at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International—adding 11 brand new cities, extra flights on existing routes, and pushing nearly 130 daily departures this summer. That's a 75%+ jump from last year and their biggest FLL operation EVER. CEO Joanna Geraghty put it plainly: "South Florida is a key market... we're stepping up, adding service, and keeping fares competitive." (Translation: we're taking over.) Fun fact? Fort Lauderdale was JetBlue's very first destination back in 2000. Now they're reclaiming it after Spirit held 27% of that market. Oh, and they're not leaving Spirit's crew behind either—jumpseat access for two weeks and job interviews for qualified staff. This is how you turn a market collapse into a masterclass. 👇

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up. He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour. Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself. Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it. Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows. Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result. Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing. The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

@Neurofluoresce Great author. Kind of a nutjob about trans people which does not jibe well with Israel's respected reputation of openness towards everyone (well, except HamASSholes, etc.).

Jk Rowling is officially posting pro Israel and pro Jewish stuff. YESSSS. It's not her usual topic area so I'm so excited to see it.

Did you know between 1957 and 1976, there was a regular bus service between London and Calcutta, India.The 32,000km, 50 day, 2-way bus route is the longest in the world. The bus had sleeping bunks and even a kitchen! For just £145, you get to travel with food & accomodation. The bus would stop at attractions and for shopping in Vienna, Istanbul & Iran The bus ride took passengers from England to Belgium, West Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Northern India.

On a Japanese Shinkansen, the driver's cab has a small slot for a pocket watch. Not a digital clock. A pocket watch. Even in 2026, with GPS and AI everywhere, every driver still winds a mechanical watch before each shift. They set it to the exact second and place it where they can see the tracks and the time at the same glance. Why this obsession with time? Because in Japan, a train that arrives 60 seconds late is officially recorded as "delayed." The Tokaido Shinkansen carries 161 million passengers a year between Tokyo and Osaka. Last year, the average delay per train was just 1.6 minutes. Behind the scenes, a system called COSMOS coordinates everything in real time — schedules, train movements, maintenance, and power across the entire network. But here's the part that's hard to copy: In 60 years and over 6 billion passengers, no Shinkansen has ever had a fatal collision or derailment. That's not luck. It's design: → Automatic Train Control keeps trains safely apart. Collisions aren't just rare — they're physically impossible. → The tracks are dedicated. No freight trains, no local trains, no level crossings. Anywhere on the network. → Every night, from midnight to 6am, the entire system shuts down — not for rest, but for inspection. The technology isn't what makes the difference. The standard does. In Japan, 60 seconds isn't a logistics problem. It's a moral one.

Video from Surrey, BC shows South Asian men dumping broken concrete from a demolition job into a rural ditch. Neighbours/farmers came together and blocked the road with trucks so they couldn't leave and made them clean the mess.

@2ndRaymondBall @NHLPR Where's his Saints' mask?

The NHL mourns the passing of John Garrett, whose astute analysis took fans – particularly in Western Canada – inside our game for the last four decades. Read full statement from Commissioner Gary Bettman: media.nhl.com/public/news/19…

@JimmyKimmelLive At this point even though I DVR your show to catch the monologue, the constant Trump jokes have been overkill. Maybe for us burnt out the craziness, you have one night a week be a “No Trump” zone.

@VinnysCorner1 Boots Day

Without saying Tim Raines, Andre Dawson, Vladimir Guerrero, Gary Carter or Steve Rogers, name an Expo….

The Orioles hit so many home runs off the Red Sox tonight that they ran out of fireworks in Baltimore. This is a real tweet.

I can't believe I have never seen this historical film before!

@mariana057 You should have told her to bring a sex toy and told her to film the reaction.

My 77-year-old mother just informed me that she is going to her first "sex party" and doesn't know what to bring. After some awkward questions, I said, "Gender reveal. You're going to a gender reveal."

This is a thing of beauty 🤩

Nearly 600,000 people put a deposit on the golden Trump cell phone. Not a single one has been delivered. NOT ONE.