Bobby Smart

I will vote for which presidential candidate promises to bring us the USS Dale Earnhardt and we will call it the Intimidator class.

@russp Every empty crude oil tanker over 150k+ tons.

You share 98.8% of your DNA with chimpanzees. A group of 200 of them just tore itself apart in a Ugandan rainforest, and researchers have been watching it happen for a decade. A study came out yesterday in Science, one of the top research journals in the world. For 30 years, scientists tracked the Ngogo chimps in Uganda's Kibale National Park. This was the largest known chimp group on the planet, around 200 animals all living, hunting, and raising families together. Then around 2015, the group started splitting down the middle. Two clusters, one on the west side of the territory and one in the center, stopped spending time together. Males stopped mating with females from the other side. By 2018, they'd drawn a line through the forest and refused to cross it. The Western chimps started raiding. Between 2018 and 2024, they killed 7 adult males and 17 babies from the Central group. They ripped infants straight off their mothers' chests. Fourteen more Central males vanished during that stretch, bodies never found, while Western's population climbed from 76 to 108. John Mitani, a University of Michigan researcher who spent over 20 years with these chimps, told NBC he believes the Central group is "doomed." He used the phrase "extinction event." This almost never happens. DNA evidence suggests chimp communities fracture like this roughly once every 500 years. The only other time anyone saw it was in the 1970s with Jane Goodall's chimps in Tanzania, but researchers questioned that case because Goodall's team had been feeding bananas to the animals for years, which may have warped their natural behavior. Ngogo is the first split observed with zero human interference. The cause dates back to 2014. Five males died that year, likely from disease. These weren't random chimps. They had close bonds on both sides of the group, the kind of friendships that kept 200 animals functioning as one unit. Once they were gone, a new top male seized control in 2015, a disease swept through and killed 25 more in 2017, and the two sides just kept drifting until there was nothing connecting them anymore. One part of the paper sat with me. These chimps have no ethnicity. No religion. No political parties. The war started because friendships broke down, cliques solidified, and new group identities replaced years of cooperation. Aaron Sandel, the lead researcher from UT Austin, argued that keeping relationships alive across group lines may be the actual recipe for preventing this kind of collapse. In a species 98.8% identical to us, that recipe failed in under ten years.

BREAKING: A leaked internal email reveals the Trump administration is planning a national draft beginning in December 2026

@BankerBeaver @CollinRugg The power to make life should not be offered to children. The power to take life must folllw the same. Children should not be preyed upon by adults, ready or not.

@bsmartforonce @CollinRugg I lost it at 14 and knew exactly what I was doing

NEW: New Jersey high school chemistry teacher arrested and charged for s*xual assault against a student at Sterling High School. 26-year-old Jason D. Howe also coached boys and girls cross country, freshman boys basketball, and was an assistant coach for girls' track. According to local police, the girl who was allegedly assaulted was at least 16 years old but less than 18. "During the investigation, detectives determined Howe and the victim engaged in s*xual intercourse at his apartment," the prosecutor’s office said. Howe was taken into custody. He was charged with second-degree s*xual assault and second-degree endangering the welfare of a child. He faces 10 years in prison.

@BankerBeaver @CollinRugg Gross

@CollinRugg Age of consent should be 16

Almost unbelievable actually. Almost.

Sal’s summary of the last 24 hours is very good:

@EndGameWW3 Then he can’t isolate the leakers and continue the grifting.

Trump should make the points public...

Transportation infrastructure targets all over Iran got pounded today. Will make it very difficult for the regime to move troops and equipment to suppress a rebellion.

So: The regime is still in power. They still have their uranium They still have missiles. They are charging ships for strait of hormuz. This is EMBARRASSING for Trump

“The defense department can’t play God, but we can.”

I know Bill Maher is not a lot of people's favorites. But here he is making sense once again. Israel is not going anywhere.

@gbrew24 Is this really Breaking? I mean, we have been talking about it since Feb 28.

@mercoglianos @citrini They just don't know about the Professor, but Sal is the man when it comes to all problems shipping.

@citrini I am just saying that @citrini could have saved the Cuban cigars and Zyn, and just subscribe to What's Going on With Shipping to get this information. @wgowshipping" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@wgowshipping

Strait of Hormuz: A CitriniResearch Field Trip The Field Report from Analyst #3 is live. citriniresearch.com/p/strait-of-ho…

I do my best to think rationally. I would say this idea has legs if you look at the whole picture. Although I would say it becomes even more impressive if we had no US loss of life.

@TheRabbitHole 7 yr olds can decide their gender, adults can't get id to vote.

Which way western woke?

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