Spanish Lit Prof

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[Spanish Lit Prof @IllinoisProf]

@Magstoritches @JPLindsley It's helpful to know what kind of clumsy propaganda the enemies of my country pay for to dupe cognitively limited people

[Spanish Lit Prof @IllinoisProf]

@tobiaschneider All of my students work. The only students who don't work are actively looking for jobs.

[Spanish Lit Prof @IllinoisProf]

Listen to real experts and don't be a dupe for dishonest journalists and sleazy alarmists.

[RodeoProfessor @RodeoProfessor]

Articles like this are meant to you blackpill because we are “chopping down trees in Yellowstone.” But don’t worry this is completely fake.

First, it’s meant to panic you about timber extraction when the National Forests were created in the 1890s for timber and watersheds. The Multiple Use mandate (a law passed in the 1960s) requires we manage American national forests for co-equal purposes: outdoor recreation, timber, grazing, watersheds, fish and wildlife. This means one “use” under the multiple use framework cannot, by law, preclude the others.

Timber harvest under multiple use should be a source of American pride in conservation. Multiple use is a uniquely American innovation that gives many different types of people and businesses real skin-in-the-game in public land conservation. The 2026 Forest Service is pretty great at balancing conservation science, outdoor recreation, and extraction based livelihoods.

Funny enough, despite what the article is trying to mislead you into thinking, the planned clearcut isn’t really even for timber, it’s mainly to remove dead down trees caused by insects/disease to prevent wildfire. The Biden era emergency declaration they’re using to speed this fire mitigation up is to prevent endless lawsuits from crazy NGOs that make management next to impossible.

The proposed Bear Palmer project is less than 1 percent of the 3 million acre Custer Gallatin National Forest. It’s a tiny, localized vegetation removal project. The type of clearcut proposed here *sounds* bad to people who know nothing of Mountain West forests, but it’s well within the Custer Gallatin’s own Biden-era 2022 management plan. Forest management plans are documents that take years of science, manager, and public input to establish a sustainable management strategy including vegetation and timber plans.

The management plan itself says a clearcut like this is the ideal path to regeneration for species like lodegpole pine because these trees are shade intolerant, meaning they need sunlight. So regeneration is best after what’s called a “stand replacing disturbance” or a clearcut.

Bear Palmer is a prioritized stand because there is a lot of deadfall due to insect issues or big wildfire risks. Beyond all that, no clearcut happens without an additional NEPA and special assessments of wildlife, old growth, listed species like griz, and so on, beyond the requirements of their own plan. You can read hundreds of pages of these assessments on their website today. Clearcutting is literally *the* preferred regeneration method for lodegpole to reduce wildfire risk and disease within the forest’s own plan and meet ecological objectives for regrowth!

It’s just crazy to me that supposedly environment focused publications can miss the mark so egregiously. Whose interests are served by making the American people think the Forest Service is bad at managing trees/wildlife?! It’s actually, in terms of its science and management plans, really good at that.

I was so astounded by how terrible this article was that I had to look into the author, who is an “award winning Bangladeshi journalist” who recently moved here to do a degree in journalism at the University of Montana. Maybe before writing an article so strangely out of touch with the way we manage national forests like the Custer Gallatin this guy should probably learn a little more about the American system?

Who funds the demoralization propaganda website Inside Climate News? Of course it’s the same opaque network of foundations (Ford, MacArthur, Rockefeller) pushing climate extremist degrowth nonsense everywhere else. Only in America do massive foundations push panic agitprop to undermine our own public land agencies/demoralize Americans about our national forest system written by people who got here 5 minutes ago.

[Spanish Lit Prof @IllinoisProf]

That the judge is allowing a political litmus test which is entirely unrelated to the actual court case under consideration is a very bad sign.

[MaryAnn Martinez @MaryAnnreports]

Karmelo Anthony attorney Mike Howard is now asking the jury pool about current immigration policies in the US and whether they agree with them or not.

[Miss Jo @therealmissjo]

@CottageVirginia @HouseofElon Horrific.

Socialism is bad news for those who want to do the right thing

[Spanish Lit Prof @IllinoisProf]

@duolius @Newsweek Have you tried reading the article?

[DetroitOtaku 🇺🇸 @detroitotaku]

The Cold War never ended. Russia is just as intent on destroying America as it was in Soviet times. The KGB/FSB is far more dangerous now than they ever were in the 20th century.

Russia still funds Communist front groups in the West, and regularly holds the world’s largest Communist youth festival.

[Spanish Lit Prof @IllinoisProf]

@detroitotaku @mattforney Absolutely! That's exactly it. But it's nearly impossible to get people to notice this.

[Spanish Lit Prof @IllinoisProf]

@SouthernMB82 I will never stop being shocked by this woman's shamelessness. @Southern_Living disgraced itself... over this?

[Spanish Lit Prof @IllinoisProf]

@DrewPavlou Weirdo doesn't understand that being compared to Charlie Kirk is a massive compliment.

[Spanish Lit Prof @IllinoisProf]

@duolius @Newsweek Fir what purpose are you publishing this fake screenshot?

[Spanish Lit Prof @IllinoisProf]

@addddumb @Newsweek The only senile person here is the doofus who publishes a fake screenshot without even trying to read the actual article.

[Spanish Lit Prof @IllinoisProf]

That's exactly what happened. Finally, it's being discussed openly in the West.

[Matt Forney @mattforney]

Putin initiated the biggest white genocide in modern history when he started a war that was intentionally planned to kill as many young Russians and Ukrainians as possible.

The Retard Right thinks this is fine because Ukraine is run by JOOOOOOOS, ignoring that the principal financier of the Russophilic Ukrainian opposition is an Israeli dual citizen who fled Ukraine when the war began because he knew he'd wind up in a gulag. (The government subsequently expelled him from parliament and stripped him of Ukrainian citizenship.)

And nobody wants to talk about how one of the biggest triggers of Euromaidan in 2013 was Putin convincing Yanukovych to resettle Chechens in Ukraine. Understandably, Ukrainians did not want to live around the Slavic world's equivalent of Spirit-Americans.

I'm skeptical of Ukraine, but Putin is basically mirror universe Obama. Russia and BRICS are the source of this third worldist crap and I'm tired of it.

[Spanish Lit Prof @IllinoisProf]

@captive_dreamer Serves them right for being such incredible morons.

[Spanish Lit Prof @IllinoisProf]

@formerlyed It's just as fresh in your refrigerator as it is in the refrigerator at the store.

[Spanish Lit Prof @IllinoisProf]

@ilovetzd Такі речі зараз відбуваються в усіх західних країнах. Не потрібно до цього прагнути, хто б що не казав.

[Spanish Lit Prof @IllinoisProf]

@BohuslavskaKate Every day is a wrong day to visit that disgusting cesspool.

[Spanish Lit Prof @IllinoisProf]

@bonchieredstate The whole thing is nauseating. Disgusting, pathetic people.