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"Her sides are made of iron!" a sailor shouted as British cannonballs bounced off the USS Constitution in 1812. They weren't. They were made of Georgia live oak, and getting that wood nearly killed the men who cut it.
When Congress ordered six new frigates built in 1794, designer Joshua Humphreys wanted them bigger and tougher than any frigate in the world. That meant one tree: the southern live oak.
Live oak is a strange tree. It doesn't grow tall and straight. It grows low and wide, with massive limbs that twist out sideways. That's exactly what shipbuilders wanted. A warship's skeleton is full of curves, the ribs and the braces that hold the decks to the hull. Cut those curves from straight lumber and you slice across the grain and weaken the wood. With live oak, you could find a limb that had already grown into the shape you needed, grain and all. It's also one of the densest, hardest, most rot-resistant woods in North America.
The best stands were on the Georgia coast. So starting in 1794, the government sent crews of New England axmen and shipwrights to St. Simons Island to cut it.
It was brutal. The trees grew in swampy coastal ground. The heat was crushing, it rained constantly, and the mosquitoes carried fever. Men got sick by the dozen and some died. The work fell far behind schedule.
And they couldn't just cut any tree. Shipwrights went into the woods carrying wooden patterns, templates of each rib and brace in the ship, and searched tree by tree for limbs that matched the shapes. The rough timbers were hacked out, hauled to the water, and shipped north to Boston.
There, they were combined with white oak from New England for the keel and planking, and tall white pine for the masts. The finished hull was around two feet thick at the waterline, with live oak ribs packed close together. She launched on Oct 21, 1797.
Fifteen years later, in August 1812, she fought the British frigate HMS Guerriere off Nova Scotia. Sailors watched enemy shot hit her side and drop into the sea. She tore the Guerriere apart in about half an hour, and she's been Old Ironsides ever since.
The Navy understood what it had. In 1828 it set aside a live oak forest near Pensacola, Florida, as a timber reserve for future warships, often called the first federal tree farm. And in 1976 it set aside a grove of white oaks in southern Indiana, named Constitution Grove, for one purpose: repairing her.
She's still afloat in Boston today, the oldest commissioned warship in the world still able to sail. Not because of iron. Because of trees.
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🚨 Here is the full 33 minutes from inside yesterdays historic White House fraud announcement: For the first time ever there is an incentive for everyday citizens to expose fraud. Prior it could take years and many attorneys to be able to claim the money exposed from fraudsters now you can receive the funds much faster.
Now you can claim 1% of the fraud that you expose. For example, if you expose $100 million you receive $1 million, if you expose $1 billion you receive $10 million. Plain and simple.
The tables have completely turned on the fraudsters, now they have nowhere to hide if someone knows they are committing fraud and wants to report them and receive cash they can now do so 💰 good luck learers 💀
For far too long fraudsters were able to use your tax dollars as an infinite piggy bank to enrich themselves as you pay for their luxurious lifestyles. Now YOU can report and stop the fraud and be rewarded.
START LOOKING. EXPOSE IT ALL.
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That's in billions with a b, folks. Twenty-five of them to be precise.
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JUST IN: Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion Penalty for Misleading Facebook Users About Data Privacy
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DELETE. DELETE. DELETE.
The FCC has now removed over 2,200 rules or requirements from our books. 🗑️
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TAKE IT DOWN ACT: At a cybercrime roundtable today, President Trump recognized @FLOTUS leadership in protecting children from online exploitation through the passage of the TAKE IT DOWN Act in 2025.
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Apples and onions with your pork chops. Miranda’s favorite on the grill. Easy recipe #chiassonsmoke #cookingoutside #husbandandwife #grilling
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Many of the things we take for granted here in the United States come from a shared history that we need to rediscover and embrace.
We're doing that here under @POTUS
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Alaska is one of our greatest energy frontiers, and @POTUS is committed to unlocking its extraordinary potential.
This assessment helps underscore the importance of understanding the vast resources beneath the North Slope and using world-class American science to turn that potential into opportunity!
World-class science. Extraordinary energy potential.
@USGS estimates 96 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered natural gas on Alaska’s North Slope. Interior science is helping reveal the resources that could power America’s future. doi.gov/pressreleases/usgs-r…
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American taxpayers are being RIPPED. OFF.
Over half of managed long-term care plans responsible for the compliance of these centers reported ZERO fraud last year — that's not possible!
15/15 were found to be fraudulent yesterday — that didn't happen overnight.
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Promises Made. Promises Kept.
🇺🇸 On Sept. 4, President Trump President Trump launched a whole-of-government effort to protect & fully support America’s ranchers with two Executive Orders including:
✅ Comprehensive review & upgrade of federal policy
✅ Prep legislative recommendations to delist gray wolves & Mexican wolves
✅ Interior & USDA to update compensation for predator losses
✅ USDA to review country-of-origin labeling for beef
✅ Ensure lower prices for American consumers
These EOs coincided with the introduction of the USDA's Ranchers First Initiative, which focused on:
✅ New Tools to Support Heifer Retention
✅ ECP and Grassland CRP Maximization
✅ Continuing to Revitalize American Local Processing
✅ Prioritizing American Beef in Federal Spending
✅ Supporting Veteran & Beginning Farmers & Ranchers
🇺🇸 These actions are historic, and I'm encouraged by the progress being made in these efforts.
However, as an independent cattle rancher, the rallying cry I've taken repeatedly taken to Washington, D.C. is until we address the elephant in the room, where the Big Four Packers (two foreign owned) controls 82% of the beef supply in a blatant monopoly, the American cattle rancher doesn't stand a fighting chance of surviving, nor do we have the certainty and stability to move forward, rebuilding the nation's cow herd to meet the rising demand for our USA Beef.
So how do we tackle that issue? Ask 100 ranchers, and you'll get 100 different answers.
For me, the solution MUST ALWAYS be through limited government, decreased regulations & burdensome red tape, promoting free market capitalism, increasing true competition, and demanding honest price transparency and discovery in our beef cattle markets.
Along those lines, I am pleased to see this Administration answering the cries of the family beef cattle farms and ranches across the country with this announcement to:
BRING GREATER TRANSPARENCY TO CATTLE MARKET CASH REPORTING
“President Trump tasked our agency with bringing clarity and consistency to cattle markets and protecting rancher viability, and today's action is one of several steps we are taking to deliver on that promise,” said Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins. “Maintaining reliable and transparent price information is critical to a well-functioning cattle market. We are making these changes to address those challenges and make the best use possible of the market information that AMS gathers.”
There is more work to be done, but this is the beginning to Making Cattle Ranching Great Again! Thank you @POTUS and @SecRollins ! 🇺🇸🥩🔥
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President @realDonaldTrump does a flyover of the new ballroom construction and @WhiteHouse in Marine One, on his way to Joint Base Andrews, where he boarded Air Force One for the Great State of South Carolina…
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.@SecScottBessent as @POTUS arrives at Clemson: "It is good to be back in South Carolina and it is especially good— oh, I think the President is landing!"
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The Cessna O-1 Bird Dog FAC aircraft was unmarked when flown by Raven Forward Air Controllers.
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In 1976, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) became law, setting important standards for responsible solid waste management and creating safeguards for hazardous waste. Now, 50 YEARS later, the Trump EPA is announcing a NEW initiative to modernize RCRA in a way that uses emerging technologies to CUT permitting burdens, LOWER COSTS for Americans, and ACCELERATE cleanups. Read more here: tampafp.com/turning-trash-in…
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.@SecScottBessent in SC: "President Trump's policies are reaching the very people they were designed to serve. He signed the largest tax cuts in American history, rebalanced global trade for our great American workers, and reclaimed our position as the world's energy superpower."
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11 C@NCER PREVENTION TIPS YOU SHOULD KNOW 🌿
1. Exercise regularly to support overall health
2. Increase magnesium to support mitochondrial function
3. Avoid refined sugar and starches
4. Drink green tea for its antioxidant compounds
5. Avoid unnecessary CT scans and X-rays
6. Add garlic, onion, and herbs to grilled meat
7. Get enough vitamin D for healthy immune function
8. Use a water filter when needed
9. Increase omega-3 fatty acids to support a healthy inflammatory response
10. Avoid excess iron supplementation
11. Be mindful of EMF exposure
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.@AGToddBlanche at @POTUS's roundtable on cybercrime: "Because of the magnitude of this issue, it demands a nationwide response. We have evolved from delegating these cases to single U.S. Attorneys’ Offices to leveraging our newly established cyber-enabled scam initiative, which is led by @DOJCrimDiv and deploys dozens of prosecutors across all 94 U.S. Attorneys’ Offices to continue driving prosecutions and helping victims."
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Another Faker asks the exact same question that @POTUS already answered.
@POTUS: "Are you a stupid person? Who do you work for?"
FAKER: "ABC News."
@POTUS: "You're a stupid person — and by the way, your network is the worst of all." 😂
.@POTUS on Stephen Hubbard: "If you would've put those [Russian] sanctions on or whatever you want to call them, you could forget about him. You'd never see him again. He'd be back in jail for 25 years." 🎯
