Sunday, May 31, 2026
Wanna see a lighthouse? Florida's your best shot...
Florida has more lighthouses per mile of coastline than almost any state in America, and the reason is written in the geography itself: Florida is a peninsula jutting 500 miles into the sea, surrounded on three sides by water - the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the west, and the Florida Straits to the south—with over 1,350 miles of coastline, more than any state except Alaska.
Florida's coast is not a single continuous shoreline but a maze of barrier islands, sandbars, coral reefs, shallow bays, and the Florida Keys - a 120-mile island chain that required more lighthouses than any comparable stretch of American coastline because it sat directly in the path of every ship traveling between the Atlantic and the Gulf, and because the reefs that line the Keys destroyed ships by the hundreds before the lights went up.
The reason Florida needed so many lighthouses is the same reason Florida mattered so much in American maritime history. The Florida Straits and the Gulf Stream current made Florida's coast unavoidable for any vessel sailing from the Caribbean to the Atlantic seaboard or from the Gulf ports to the open ocean. Spanish treasure fleets, merchant ships, Navy vessels, passenger steamers—all of them had to navigate Florida's waters, and all of them faced the same dangers: shallow water that could ground a ship miles from shore, coral reefs invisible beneath the surface, hurricanes that struck without warning, and currents so strong they could push a vessel off course by miles in a single night. Before lighthouses, the Florida Keys alone claimed over 200 documented shipwrecks, and the actual number was almost certainly higher.
The federal government recognized that Florida's economic future depended on whether ships could safely transit these waters, and beginning in the 1820s, it built lighthouse after lighthouse at every reef, every inlet, every rocky point where ships had already died.
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Another tourist has made a mockery of Rome's Trevi Fountain by filming herself going for a swim at the historic monument for social media. The woman has been labelled as 'disrespectful' after she was seen taking off her shoes before entering the water. While onlookers appeared visibly frustrated, it wasn't long before security staff came over in a rage and demanded she get out.
Footage taken by another tourist shows a guard pointing to the woman to remove herself from the water and shouting 'no' multiple times while waving his arms in a crossing motion. She was reportedly fined €500 ($587) by Rome's police for the stunt.
Despite the confrontation, the trespasser continued to smirk and later took to social media to show off her antics.
She later shared a video on TikTok doing laps in the water and recalled that police told her: 'Do you realise that you have just thrown yourself into the most famous monument in the world?' The woman said in the post that it was 'for that very reason' she had entered the fountain.
Seattle's Mayor doesn't care that Starbucks dumped Seattle and moved 2,000 high-paying jobs to Red State Tennessee...
Starbucks just announced a major $100 million investment and a brand-new headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee — bringing 2,000 new jobs with an average salary of $125,000.
The move is a direct response to Washington state’s crushing business taxes, including the hated B&O tax that taxes revenue even when a company isn’t profitable. Tennessee has no state income tax and a much friendlier business climate.
Seattle’s far-left Mayor responded by calling for a boycott of Starbucks. Now questions are mounting - is this the beginning of Starbucks slowly abandoning its birthplace? Will Seattle’s leadership finally wake up, or will more iconic companies follow Starbucks out the door?
It's estimated that a full 1/3 of all commercial properties in Seattle are now vacant. That estimate is actually spot-on for the office sector. Downtown Seattle’s office vacancy rate sits between 32% and 35%, making it one of the highest commercial vacancy rates in the United States. The surge in empty office space has wiped out billions in real estate value. Seattle’s top skyscrapers have lost about $3.7 billion in value since 2022, with major tech and financial hubs experiencing massive drops.
The vacancy crisis is uneven. While the downtown central business district is nearing 35% empty, certain submarkets like Pioneer Square are grappling with vacancies exceeding 50%.
The staggering amount of empty "Ghost Towers" has severely cut into city tax revenues. Local leaders, including Mayor Katie Wilson, have floated the idea of a commercial vacancy tax and incentives for office-to-residential conversions to revitalize the downtown core.
Massive corporate employers in the area have re-evaluated their footprints. Companies like Amazon, Meta, and Expedia have shed or subleased over a million square feet of space as they cut back on pandemic-era office expansions.
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This Pennsyltucky Man sure looks like a Florida Man to me...
This looks like something straight outof the 'Florida Man Handbook'.
A marital dispute in Pennsylvania took an extreme turn, resulting in the destruction of a large chunk of their house. According to local reports, 48-year-old Eric Pierwsza used an excavator to rip apart the rear of his family home in Butler County after a big night of drinking prompted an argument with his wife.
The damage to the house was so severe that investigators believe it has compromised the entire building’s structural integrity. The incident unfolded when Pierwsza’s wife reportedly told him their marriage was over, to which Pierwsza responded by saying: “If it’s over, I’ll tear the house down.” He then followed through. Local authorities allege Pierwsza climbed into the heavy machinery and began tearing into the house while his wife and two daughters were still inside.
The sound of the excavator tearing through the walls could reportedly be heard during his wife’s frantic 911 call. After the destruction stopped, investigators say Pierwsza went back inside, grabbed a gym bag, and went into town, before eventually located and taken into custody by police.
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He called himself "Prince of Joy." She went by "Sweetie." For weeks, they poured out their hearts online, complaining about their miserable marriages - unaware they were married to each other.
When they finally agreed to meet, each carried a rose so they'd recognize their soulmate. They found each other - and their marriage.
"He wrote things I'd never heard in years," Sana said. "She never said a nice word to me," Adnan said.
Instead of laughing at the bizarre twist, they both accused each other of betrayal and filed for divorce. The only couple who cheated on each other - with each other.
Sounds like something I might do. In another life, I mean...
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Texas bound and down...
This is what electing a leftie loonie like her gets you, ya morons. A company that started before the invention of the modern car. A corporation that survived world wars, economic crashes, and a century of American history. ExxonMobil - originally Standard Oil of New Jersey - has officially voted to move its legal home to Texas.
But this isn’t just about one company leaving. It’s about a massive shift happening across the entire United States economy. For decades, Exxon was deeply tied to New Jersey. But over time, the headquarters drifted, jobs moved, research centers shut down, and now nearly 75% of its workforce is already in Texas. The final vote just made official what was happening in slow motion for years.
And Exxon is not alone. Tesla. SpaceX. Coinbase. Chevron. Hundreds of major companies have already relocated to Texas - chasing lower taxes, fewer regulations, and a more business-friendly environment.
Meanwhile, New Jersey ranks near the bottom of every major business competitiveness index, with the highest corporate tax rate in America and one of the heaviest regulatory systems in the country.
The question is no longer “why did Exxon leave?” The real question is: who’s next? Because somewhere right now, in boardrooms across America, more companies are running the same calculations.
Why won't they stop these people?
'Freedom of speech' my ass. These people aren't protestors.
They know it and we all know it...
The mayor of Newark has ordered a mandatory curfew around the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility after protesters clashed with New Jersey State Police officers there for a second night. 
Newark police officers in riot gear gather outside the Delaney Hall
In a statement, Mayor Ras Baraka cited the "escalating situation" and "the increasing need for police intervention" in ordering the curfew for the half-mile around Delaney Hall, starting at 12 a.m. Sunday and remaining in effect nightly from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. "Multiple individuals have already been arrested and found in possession of weapons, underscoring the seriousness of the threat," he said in the statement.
detention center in Newark, New Jersey, May 30, 2026.
Following days of protests, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill ordered state police to set up a perimeter outside of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainment center. Instead of honoring our fallen heroes, she spent Memorial Day marching with the protestors. That is who NJ elected.
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A federal judge on Friday blocked the Kennedy Center from temporarily closing its doors for a yearslong renovation and said its board violated the law when it added President Donald Trump’s name to the historic performing arts venue.
US District Judge Casey Cooper concluded that the law establishing the center “makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the Board’s unilateral say-so.”
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station's weatherman Friday night:
"Be mindful if you are going to Brevard and Volusia beaches especially this weekend. Blue Origin rocket debris could wash up in the water, especially near Cocoa Beach and Playalinda Beach if it does. In some time, current may drift some of it too north towards Flagler and Duval County Beaches."
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Took me a minute because I couldn't believe I'd agree with a Dodgers fan...
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In the late 1960s, Northern Ireland became the unlikely setting for one of the most extreme drinking feats ever recorded. In 1969, a 23‑year‑old named Jack Keyes reportedly consumed 36 pints of beer in a single hour, a number so staggering that it instantly became legend in local pubs. At the time, Guinness World Records still tracked competitive alcohol‑consumption categories, and Keyes’ performance stood out as one of the most outrageous examples of human excess ever submitted.
For years, the record remained untouched, not because no one tried, but because the feat itself bordered on physically impossible. As public attitudes toward dangerous stunts shifted, Guinness began reevaluating categories that encouraged self‑harm. By the 1980s, the organization was phasing out records involving extreme drinking, binge eating, or anything that posed a serious health risk. In 1989, Guinness officially discontinued the “most beer drunk in one hour” category altogether, effectively freezing Keyes’ achievement in time.
With the category retired, Jack Keyes became the final and permanent record holder, his 36‑pint hour preserved as a relic of a very different era. Today, the story survives mostly through pub folklore, online threads, and the occasional resurfaced newspaper clipping.
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Strikes me, when I see guys who look like this running for office, that the Dumocrat talent pool seems to be getting pretty friggin' shallow...
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In 1740, Gabrielle‑Suzanne de Villeneuve wrote 'La Belle et la Bêtz' in a France where arranged marriages were routine and girls as young as thirteen were paired with much older men. Her story wasn’t a romance, it was a social critique wrapped in fantasy, exposing how young brides were expected to accept fear, uncertainty, and power imbalance as part of their “duty.” The Beast symbolized the adult husband: frightening, unknown, and chosen for her, not by her.
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This historic photograph shows paratroopers from the 101st Airborne Division holding a captured Nazi flag. The photo was taken on June 6, 1944, at Marmion Farm near Utah Beach in France, shortly after the D-Day landings. The soldier in the center holding the flag has been identified as James Flanagan of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment. This image became one of the most widely distributed newspaper photographs documenting the events of D-Day. I think it's important to note the ages of these guys. Doesn't look like anyone there was over 22 or 23 years old.
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Another hidden gem...
Most Floridians have never heard of it. The ones who have don't always tell you where it is. Ichetucknee Springs State Park sits in Columbia County, about 75 miles west of Gainesville, and it runs nine distinct spring vents feeding a 6-mile river that has been flowing at the same rate for thousands of years. The Timucua people lived along these banks for centuries. Spanish missionaries built missions nearby in the 1600s. The water temperature holds at 68 degrees year-round, regardless of what's happening above ground.
Today, the park limits daily tubing capacity to protect the ecosystem. On a weekday morning in the off-season, you can have the entire upper run nearly to yourself. No jet skis. No beach bars. No resort fees. Just one of the clearest, most biologically rich rivers in North America, sitting quietly in a part of Florida most tourists never reach.
This is the Florida that doesn't need a marketing budget. It just needs people willing to look past the coastline.
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Saturday, May 30, 2026
They make how much for a show that's not even on anymore? Jeez...
Lisa Kudrow left fans stunned after revealing the eye-watering sums she and her Friends co-stars still pocket every year in residuals. Kudrow, who played the eccentric Phoebe Buffay throughout the show’s ten-season run from 1994 to 2004, starred alongside Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and the late Matthew Perry.
The cast famously negotiated their salaries together, skyrocketing from $22,500 per episode in the first season to a staggering $1million each by the final two seasons. They later reunited for a one-off special on HBO Max in 2021, reportedly earning a cool $2.5million apiece for the nostalgic return.
But according to Kudrow, even those astonishing paydays pale in comparison to the steady stream of income the cast continues to receive from the show's global syndication. Speaking to The Times, the actress, 62, who is currently starring in a new season of The Comeback, revealed the cast still rake in an astonishing $20million a year in residuals.
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