Rob Higdon

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The 2026 edition of "One Shining Moment" has arrived 🙏 🎥 @MarchMadnessMBB

One year ago today, Alex Ovechkin broke Wayne Gretzky's all-time goals record with his 895th career goal! 🤯

@RileyGreenMusic my retired Army veteran girlfriend is disappointed she won’t be seeing you at jbphh on Sunday. Any plans to reschedule?

CBS News said Friday it is shutting down its storied radio news service after nearly 100 years of operation as part of a round of layoffs, citing a shift in radio station programming strategies and challenging economic times. apnews.com/article/cbs-ra…

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize. Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness. Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding. He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history. The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future. A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite. That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

A federal judge has permanently barred the release of a report by special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation into President Donald Trump's hoarding of classified documents. apnews.com/article/trump-…

Pitchers and catchers report for spring training tomorrow. And so do I. Welcome to Nats Journal. Hope you'll join me on this new endeavor, and hope you'll help spread the word! natsjournal.com/p/welcome-to-n…

Also, we're closing in on 1,000 subscribers (wow) for DC Backcheck, so plugging it again. If you want Caps content all the time, including news, features, analysis, etc., consider subscribing. A lot of exciting stuff coming during the break and beyond. dcbackcheck.com

BREAKING: President Trump's racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash. The White House had defended it but now blames staffer. apnews.com/article/trump-…

I sure wish I could read about this breaking #Wizards trade on @washingtonpost, but given today’s firings, that’s not going to happen 😢

@PMT703 Always

Sewage in basements. Flooded streets. No help coming. AP found that wastewater aid cuts under Trump hurt poor communities the most — just when help was most needed. buff.ly/tFaeCBb #BestofAP

Trump just pardoned a banker implicated in a bribery scheme after his daughter donated $3.5M to Trump's campaign. Trump pardoned a guy who faced felony bribery charges, after accepting a bribe. The most corrupt presidency ever — and it’s not even close. nytimes.com/2026/01/16/us/…

@reddusfoximus Yep, I am too

Anyone else having issues with their cell phones that are on Verizon? On SOS only and working off of Wifi.

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@its_carol31 Burrow

Burrow or Josh Allen today

"National Guard leaders are recruiting for a smaller full-time unit that will include military police deployed to DC as part of a 2-year plan, according to a federal military official." - reporting from @ikhurshudyan/@halbritz, @NickyGRobertson/@jeffzeleny cnn.com/2025/12/12/pol…

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I don’t know who needs to see this, but you can practice being thankful and grateful every day.