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[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Rat poison sales need to drop to zero.

A 2020 study at the Tufts Wildlife Clinic tested red-tailed hawks for anticoagulant rodenticides. Every single bird came back positive. A follow-up looking at 46 hawks, owls, foxes and coyotes from a Massachusetts rehab center between 2022 and 2024 found the same thing.

Anticoagulant bait doesn't kill quickly, by cruel design. It stops blood from clotting, and the rodent bleeds internally for days. During those days it gets slow, disoriented, and easy to catch. It wanders out into the open in daylight.

A poisoned rat is the most attractive rat in the neighborhood. You haven't just set a trap for rodents, you've set one for everything that hunts them too.

The poison is in the gut, the liver, and the carcass after death. An owl. A hawk. A fox. A bobcat. A barn owl family eats around 1,000 rodents a year, and every one of them is a chance.

Your cat too, if it's outside. Cats get poisoned eating poisoned prey.

The ecology runs backwards on you too. Rodents breed fast and their predators breed slowly. Kill the owls and foxes, and theoretically the mice come back harder with nothing left to hold them down. Every poisoning program has the potential to make your rodent problem worse.

What actually works:

- Seal the entry points. A mouse fits through a gap the width of a pencil.

- Put the food away. Bird seed, pet food, garbage. That's usually the whole reason they're there.

- Traps indoors, out of reach of pets and kids.

Then put up an owl box and let something else do the work for free.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Getting this one in a little early: ditch the fake spider webs this Halloween. They snare wildlife and spread microplastics everywhere.

Wildlife rehabbers pull animals out of this stuff every October. WildCare in California has treated web-caught birds ranging from hummingbirds to owls.

San Diego Humane Society's wildlife program sees birds and opossums come in with fibers wrapped around necks and toes tight enough to cut off circulation.

Nebraska Wildlife Rehab has documented juvenile squirrels getting entangled after parent squirrels hauled the webbing into a nest as bedding.

Birds that get free often don't fly right afterward, because the fibers wreck the feather structure they need.

October decorating lands squarely on peak fall migration, when the birds moving through your yard are exhausted, unfamiliar with the ground, and traveling at night.

And the webbing is polyester or nylon. It doesn't break down. Wind pulls it off the bushes and scatters it into the neighborhood and the woods behind it, where it stays for decades shedding microplastic. The stuff on your hedge in October is still in the environment when your kids are grown.

Outside, use things that don't grab: carved pumpkins, spooky lights on a timer, or hard props.

Skip the fake webs, loose netting, and anything with a loop in it. Same rule as six-pack rings, just for the spooky scary season.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Commerce quietly deleted its own rules against political interference in federal statistics.⁣
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Now Census and BEA data can legally be delayed, reworded, or manipulated.⁣
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https://t.co/Y1auxHAL7Y

[Pastor Ben @BenjaminPDixon]

Is this supposed to be a "gotcha?"

we killed a million Iraqis after 9-11 and they literally had NOTHING to do with 9-11.

[King Roy @RoyIsThaTruth]

Nolan Wells’ story is fading from the timeline. Every like, comment, share, and repost helps keep his name — and the fight for answers — alive.
Please don’t let his story disappear.

[Plunderbund @plunderbund]

Reminder that @BrianStewartOH got a provision in the state budget to block local referendum efforts against "megaprojects" like Anduril that also extends to large data centers

[Mr Global @MrGlobal2025]

Venezuela no longer has the upgrading capacity to make their oil compatible for the SPR.

So, yes you can put Venezuelan oil in but it MUST be upgraded. They can’t do that right now.

For them to build a new upgrader you are conservatively looking at 10-12 Billion dollars and 5-7 years.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Time to wake up and inform others who may not follow politics. In a nutshell, democracies are enemies; dictatorships that live off of cybercrime and starve and kill their people are friends.

[Katy Shanahan @KatyAShanahan]

in 2025 *alone*, the Dem-led @cbuscitycouncil’s approved tax abatements cost our local school district $84 million.

you can absolutely chide the GOP statehouse for gutting public ed spending, but don’t let Dems off the hook for making shit worse for our schools all on their own!

[Crystal Heath DVM @drcrystalheath]

"The horses were packed into echoing metal trailers and trucked 1,800 miles east to the pens of a hard-luck livestock trader in Ohio named Brandon Jones, who bought them for $25 each.

A day later, two double-decker cattle trucks pulled up at midnight, loaded the mustangs and quickly drove off into the night.

From there the mustangs disappeared. They never appeared at a public auction. The trader won’t say where they went. Wild horse advocates suspect the horses were shipped to slaughter."

#wildhorses #horsegirls #mustangs

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Not only will he spend the money, more importantly, he will rig this website to target people geographically, psychographically & demographically to induce them to vote for Republicans—through divisive, traumatic content.

He is the reason we committed suicide (again) in 2024.

[Roberto Shenanigans @Rob_Shenanigans]

Jimmy and Sweet Ass Dee are throwing another fundraiser at their home for Vivek Ramaswamy. Tickets start at $1,000 per person and go up to $100,000.

Grifters stick together.

[Katy Shanahan @KatyAShanahan]

Cbus Dems pulling the same move as the GOP did across the country to force an unnecessary mid-decade redraw of council districts to undermine a ppl-led effort to toss out a racist at-large structure bc they don't want to give up their grips on power.

Truly astonishing to watch!

[Dr. Annie Andrews @AnnieAndrewsMD]

Good morning, South Carolina!

Today would be a great day to visit https://t.co/a4QLuwMqAc.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The Democratic Party has an opportunity to once again become the party of working Americans, rather than the party of corporate America. It is more urgent than at any time since the Great Depression that Democrats act on this opportunity. https://t.co/0yEiGfcSBL

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The Trump administration moved today to remove federal roadless protections from more than 44 million acres of national forest, a change that would open them to future road building and logging.

The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule prohibits most new road construction and timber harvest in designated roadless areas. The Forest Service filed a proposal today to rescind the national rule entirely.

The stated reason is wildfire. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins argues that the rule has kept millions of acres off-limits to treatments that could reduce fire risk, and that those decisions should be made by local forest managers. Timber groups make a similar case, arguing that the rule unnecessarily restricts thinning, timber harvest and access needed to manage overgrown forests.

But there's another side to the wildfire argument. Most U.S. wildfires are human-caused, and a 2026 study of Forest Service lands found wildfire ignition density within 50 meters of roads was about 4x higher than in roadless areas. Roads can give crews access for forest management and firefighting, but they also bring people, and with them more opportunities for fires to start.

Critics argue that this is about more than fire. Environmental groups see the repeal as part of a broader push to expand logging and other development on national forest land, and warn that new roads can fragment habitat and degrade streams.

Hunting and fishing groups have opposed the repeal because roadless areas include large blocks of remote elk, deer, trout and salmon habitat, along with some of the country's best backcountry hunting and fishing. Their argument is that forests can still be actively managed for wildfire without giving up the roadless protections altogether.

Clean drinking water is part of this too. A 2026 study estimated that rivers originating in roadless areas support drinking-water supplies for about 25 million Americans. Roads can also increase erosion and sediment entering forest streams.

The rule dates to the Clinton administration in 2001, and its history since then has been messy. The Bush administration replaced it with a state-petition system in 2005, but a federal court set that rule aside and reinstated the 2001 protections in 2006. The first Trump administration later removed Roadless Rule protections from Alaska's Tongass National Forest, a decision the Biden administration reversed.

The new proposal would go much further and rescind the national rule altogether.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

The top 10 health insurance companies donated over $8M to candidates in this year's midterms.

Reminder: The reason we don't have universal healthcare with Medicare for All is because of Citizens United — not because it would cost too much, be too complicated, or isn't popular.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

EMERGENCY EPISODE: Harmeet Dhillon just announced DOJ will deploy 1,000 election observers for the midterms. DOJ wants you to think this is business as usual, but I break down why this deployment is laying the groundwork for what comes after Election Day. https://t.co/asLR2fC2Fj

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

The bottom line here is they want to privatize currency and are doing it slowly and in stages. “Becoming a bank” and “ending the Fed” go hand in hand and it’s happening across multiple fronts: Musk, Trump, stablecoins, Massie, Tucker, etc…

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Democratic Party leadership is out of step with Democratic voters on healthcare because they take money from the insurance industry while we get price gouged by them.