Rep. Rick Hansen

MN State Representative 53B; South St Paul; Newport, St Paul Park, Inver Grove, Cottage Grove & Grey Cloud Island. 🐝. prepared & paid for by People for Hansen

[Nathan Donley @Nathan_Donley]

Not only did the floodgates open, they completely broke off!

These proposed pesticide approvals are being done BECAUSE OF Trump's EO on Regenerative Ag 🤨

Isoxaflutole is a PFAS, already a MAJOR groundwater contaminant and EPA has classified it as LIKELY to cause cancer

[Steve N @KINGS1973]

The non big 4 packing companies are huge companies. Mostly part of larger companies. Give them $$ is a waste of taxpayer dollars. Corporate Welfare of the worst kind. This is the influence of idiots on morons. USDA has given away now up to 2 Billion in giveaways that done zero !!

[Grant Stoll @grantonsoil]

Scientists Reveal We're Losing Soil 10 to 40 Times Faster Than It Can Form…

The world loses 24 billion tons of fertile topsoil every single year, the equivalent of 30 football fields disappearing every single minute

It takes nature anywhere from 200 to 1,000 years to naturally form just one inch of topsoil, while industrial tilling can strip that same inch away in a single season

Heavy tillage, chemical inputs, and monoculture farming are stripping organic matter and microbial life faster than any ecosystem on earth can rebuild it

Some of the most intensively farmed regions in the world now have less than 100 years of productive soil left at current rates

[Rep. Rick Hansen @reprickhansen]

@thenewledenews @EPA Delaying tactic.

[The Twins Almanac @TwinsAlmanac]

Outnumbered at least 6 to 1, the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry suffered 82% casualties when they heroically charged headlong into enemy forces to shore up a gap in Union lines during the Battle of Gettysburg on this date in 1863.

The role these brave Minnesotans played in preserving the United States of America cannot be overstated.

General Winfield Scott Hancock said that "no soldiers on any field, in this or any other country ever displayed grander heroism," and insisted that "there is no more gallant deed recorded in history."

In a speech in Cannon Falls, MN on the Fourth of July 1928, President Calvin Coolidge said these men's heroism that day entitled them to the rank of "saviors of their country."

The next day, the survivors from the 1st Minnesota helped repel Pickett's Charge and lost another 17 killed and wounded.

Minnesota is in possession of a blood-stained, bullet-pierced Virginia battle flag captured July 3rd.

Virginia has been asking for it back for over 100 years.

Governor Jesse Ventura's response at the White House in 2000: “Why? I mean, we won. … We took it. That makes it our heritage.”

[Nathan Donley @Nathan_Donley]

These pesticide approvals will outlast anything else that Trump has done because they are forever decisions

Releasing forever chemicals is a forever decision because there’s no going back

The lasting damage is cemented once that pesticide is applied

https://t.co/2PDQwzpDZx

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

Cal-Maine reported roughly $1.2 billion in profits during the egg price spike.

Now it will pay just $1.5 million to settle the government's egg price-fixing allegations.

That is not enough.

The DOJ and 17 state attorneys general say Cal-Maine, Versova, and Hickman's Egg Ranch unlawfully coordinated for years to influence a key egg price index.

That index is used in egg supply contracts across the country.

When it went up, retailers and consumers paid more.

At the same time, many farmers raising the eggs did not share in the windfall.

Farm Action documented one Cal-Maine contract farming family that was paid just 26.75 cents per dozen while shoppers were paying as much as $8 or $10.

Consumers paid record grocery prices.

Taxpayers funded avian flu bailouts.

Local food system programs lost funding.

Big Egg made huge profits.

A settlement this small will not stop it from happening again.

We need real accountability for corporate price manipulation in our food system.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Coincidence? I don't think so.

For nearly 500 years, hundreds of millions of people looked at the most famous painting of God ever made, and none of them noticed what was hiding in plain sight.

Then, in 1990, a doctor looked up at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and realized that God is wrapped inside a human brain...

The painting is Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, finished around 1512. You know the image even if you don't know its name: God reaching out from the heavens, His finger almost touching Adam's, the spark of life about to leap across the gap.

But look at the shape around God, the swirling red cloak that holds Him and the angels aloft. For five centuries it was seen as just a billowing robe... but in 1990, a physician named Frank Lynn Meshberger published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association arguing that the red shroud is something else entirely: an anatomically precise cross-section of the human brain.

Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.

The outline of the cloak traces the outer curve of the brain. A fold in the fabric forms the Sylvian fissure, the deep groove that separates the brain's major lobes. The angel curled beneath God is positioned exactly where the brainstem would be, and the green scarf trailing down becomes the vertebral artery. Even the pituitary gland and the optic chiasm, where the nerves from the eyes cross, fall precisely into place.

This was not a man likely to invent such a thing by accident. Michelangelo had spent his youth secretly dissecting human corpses in a monastery in Florence, studying the body from the inside with an obsessiveness that, by one early account, exceeded that of professional anatomists...

So what did he mean by it?

Meshberger argued that the painting has been misnamed. He suggested it should be called not the Creation of Adam, but the Endowment of Adam. In the Bible, God gives Adam life. But in Michelangelo's fresco, Adam is already alive, his eyes open, his body lifted. What God is reaching across that famous gap to give him is not life. It is intellect. The divine spark of human thought itself, delivered, fittingly, from inside the very organ that produces it.

One of the most looked-at images in the history of the world may contain a message that took half a millennium to be read, hidden by a man who understood both the human body and the human soul better than almost anyone who has ever lived, and who seems to have decided to bury his deepest idea about us where only the most careful eye would ever find it...

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

"When you come to power, will you abolish the constitution of the German Republic?" It was 1931, and American journalist Dorothy Thompson was permitted only three questions during a rare interview with Adolf Hitler that many considered impossible to secure. The leader of Germany's rapidly ascending far-right Nazi party gave her a chillingly candid reply.

"I will get into power legally," Hitler told her. "I will abolish this parliament and the Weimar constitution afterward. I will found an authority-state, from the lowest cell to the highest instance; everywhere there will be responsibility and authority above, discipline and obedience below."

Thompson believed he was telling the truth about his dictatorial ambitions, yet she couldn't fathom that he would be successful. The very idea struck her as absurd: "Imagine a would-be dictator setting out to persuade a sovereign people to vote away their rights."

As one of America’s most respected foreign correspondents and the first American woman to head a foreign news bureau, Thompson had been tracking the Nazi movement since 1923. At the time of the interview, she was deeply familiar with Hitler, having watched his speeches, read Mein Kampf, and interviewed numerous German politicians and Nazi supporters.

"When I walked into Adolph Hitler's salon in the Kaiserhof hotel, I was convinced that I was meeting the future dictator of Germany," Thompson later reflected. "In something like fifty seconds I was quite sure that I was not. It took just about that time to measure the startling insignificance of this man who has set the world agog."

She recognized that Hitler was a masterful propagandist and orator in front of a crowd but she wasn't prepared for how pathetic he appeared one on one. "He is inconsequent and voluble, ill-poised, insecure. He is the very prototype of the Little Man," she wrote after their meeting. Thompson found the interview nearly impossible to conduct: "One cannot carry on a conversation with Adolph Hitler... In every question, he seeks for a theme that will set him off. Then his eyes focus in some far corner of the room; a hysterical note creeps into his voice, which rises sometimes almost to a scream. He gives the impression of a man in a trance. He bangs the table."

Following the interview, in numerous articles and her book "I Saw Hitler," she warned about the threat Hitler represented to democracy and highlighted Hitler's embrace of racial prejudice, noting that persecution of the Jewish people was among the first planks in his program. But ultimately, she viewed an outright Nazi victory in the upcoming election as "unlikely," not believing that German citizens would embrace such an extremist demagogue in an election.

Within a year, Thompson learned the devastating lesson of how easily democratic citizens could be persuaded to relinquish their rights to a would-be dictator who channeled their anxieties into hatred of a demonized 'other' while promising national greatness. After he came to power in 1933, Hitler began to crush his political opponents, rapidly militarize German society, and persecute targeted groups. Thompson quickly became one of the most vocal chroniclers of Hitler's growing brutality, warning a world that was largely oblivious. “It must be said, it must be re-iterated,” she wrote, “that there has been and still is a widespread terror, which extends throughout the whole of Germany.”

Hitler was sufficiently threatened by Thompson's work that he reportedly demanded the creation of a "Dorothy Thompson Emergency Squad" to rush translations of her articles to him. In August 1934, Nazi government expelled Thompson from the country, making her the first American journalist banned from Nazi Germany.

© A Mighty Girl

#archaeohistories

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Video: Bicentennial--July 4, 1976--ABC live coverage, one hour:
https://t.co/7bJP8oGCC8

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

The Supreme Court just opened the floodgates for MORE big money in our elections.

And they overruled Congress to do it.

This court has been captured by partisan actors and extremists.

[314 Action @314action]

🎉 Congratulations to @MannyRutinel on his victory in the #CO08 primary!

Voters are looking for fighters and that’s who Manny is—they know he’ll take that same fight to Congress.

Time to take on @GabeforColorado and flip the district! 🔥

[Grant Stoll @grantonsoil]

The Two Most Shocking Near-Monopolies Controlling Our Food:

Big Carrot: Grimmway and Bolthouse, both owned by private equity, control up to 80% of all carrots sold in America

Big Beef: Four meatpacking corporations, Tyson, JBS, Cargill, and National Beef, control roughly 82% of US beef processing

[Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @chelliepingree]

🚨NEWS🚨

In wake of SCOTUS's terrible ruling last week in favor of Bayer/Monsanto, @RepThomasMassie and I just introduced the People Over Poison Act to protect Americans’ right to hold pesticide manufacturers accountable under state law when they fail to warn consumers about the risks of their products.

Federal pesticide law was never supposed to be a liability waiver for corporations, and not a permission slip to hide behind insufficient labels while people get sick.

Enough with the empty slogans and broken promises. If this Administration won’t put people’s health over corporate profits, Congress must.

The right to seek justice in court is one of our most foundational freedoms. We must ensure that every American has a fair chance to be heard and hold powerful interests accountable.

📰read about our bill 👇 @careygillam/@thenewledenews

https://t.co/O2kPQINrPo

[MyRadar Weather @MyRadarWX]

CONGRATULATIONS Iowa and Illinois – you're more humid than the Amazon Rainforest.

Blame the corn. A single acre of mature corn this time of year can evapotranspirate, or "sweat," between 2,000 and 4,000 gallons of water per day. That moisture festers in the lower atmosphere, making the heat index values unbearable.

Dew points could reach 80 DEGREES. LUCKY US! Every cubic meter of air is holding more than half a shot glass' worth of water.

For comparison, the highest dew point I could find in the Amazon was 79º. So parts of Iowa and Illinois... yep. More humid. Enjoy. :/

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

It’s important to understand that the Court is now just an arm of the oligarchy.

This decision strips the people of the right to limit the role of money in politics. It gives billionaires special rights to buy our elections. A precondition of oligarchy.

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Vast crowd celebrates Bicentennial Day on National Mall, Washington DC, 1976:

[Rep. Rick Hansen @reprickhansen]

@thenewledenews @EPA Stakeholder roundtables prop up the status quo…the pesticide industry will prevail

[Nathan Donley @Nathan_Donley]

🚨 Today is one of the worst days of pesticide approvals in this administration

EPA just approved MULTIPLE new PFAS pesticides on foods like wheat, broccoli, kale, peas and coffee

And the 1st food uses of chlormequat (same chemical class as paraquat)

https://t.co/crcvPgHmUE

[Rep. Rick Hansen @reprickhansen]

🟪Purple Prairie Clover🟪Dalea purpurea. In Conservation Reserve Program #CRP in Fillmore County, Minnesota. 6/30/26🌾🌾🌾

@pheasants4ever @NWF @NWTF_official

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