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The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.
Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.
Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.
The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.
Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."
They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.
If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.
My son is in Coach Pitch All-Stars and the amount of drama has been wild. The idea of Coach Pitch All-Stars is already silly because 75% of this game is whether or not Calvin from accounting can throw a strike from a little league mound (he can't).
A PARENT’S JOURNEY THROUGH YOUTH SPORTS:
Age 5: “He’s got a cannon.”
Age 6: “He’s the fastest kid out there. Coach said so.”
Age 7: “Rec ball isn’t challenging him anymore.”
Age 8: “We tried out for select. Obviously made it.”
Age 9: “$2,800 for the season. Plus uniforms. Plus tournaments. Plus hotels.”
Age 10: “Cooperstown is basically a family vacation, right?”
Age 11: “He needs a hitting guy. And a pitching guy. And probably a mental performance coach.”
Age 12: “I’m not a crazy sports parent. The OTHER parents are crazy.”
Age 13: “We changed schools. For academics. (And also baseball.)”
Age 14: “Showcases are a requirement at this age.”
Age 15: “Ya his ranking just ticked up. We’re cooking.”
Age 16: “He just needs to get seen by the right school.”
Age 17: “The D1 schools want him to walk on. He’ll earn a spot by sophomore year.”
Age 18: “Okay, D2 is actually really competitive.”
Age 19: “He’s redshirting. Strategic.”
Age 20: “He’s focusing on school now.”
Age 21: “You know what? He’s so much happier.”
Roughly 7% of high schoolers play in college.
About 1.5% of those get drafted.
Less than half of draftees ever play one day in the big leagues.
The odds of our kids going pro are somewhere between “struck by lightning” and “find a $100 in old shorts.”
I love youth sports (all my kids play a bunch of them) just keep a good perspective my friends. ✌️
The Big Beautiful Bill contains a provision banning state & local governments from regulating AI.
It’s worse than you think.
It would make it easier for corporations to get zoning variances, so massive AI data centers could be built in close proximity to residential areas.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act will expire soon.
FBI Directors Mueller, Comey, Wray, and even Patel have used this law to unconstitutionally snoop on Americans without getting a warrant.
It’s easily fixed if/when reauthorized by Congress.
Add 3 words: Get a Warrant!
Thomas Massie's opponent in the Kentucky 4th GOP primary ran a Biden 2020 campaign - from his basement.
No debates, no rallies, no interviews.
So how did he achieve an historic number of votes from the district?
People are talking...
Watch @RonPaul & @DanielLMcAdams below:
Twenty years ago, my dad was battling cancer when Mexico handed him a treatment the U.S. had outright banned:
Laetrile—aka Vitamin B17—extracted straight from apricot seeds. Back then it was impossible to get here. Now you can buy the seeds online in seconds… but only take one or two a day.
It’s wild how this lines up with the Gubba Homestead video. She’s cracking open peaches and straight-up says “they don’t want the public to know about it.” She breaks down the studies—including one from about 10 years ago on B-complex vitamins—showing how certain elements target cancer cells within 16 hours… and now Johns Hopkins is picking up the research.
Makes you wonder about all the natural remedies that have been around for thousands of years before modern medicine pushed them aside.
💥BANG!
Former BlackRock fund manager Ed Dowd NAILS what we're going through:
"WEF told us... three years ago in a paper called Polycrisis [this would happen]"
"You got war, you got a hantavirus, and let's just toss in aliens"
"You need people begging for money printing"
This clip of Dowd (@DowdEdward), a former BlackRock fund manager and co-founder of Phinance Technologies, is taken from a discussion with Michael Farris (@CoffeeandaMike) and Dave Collum (@DavidBCollum) posted to Rumble on May 10, 2026.
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"Well, let's go back to what the WEF told us two, three years ago in a paper called Polycrisis. So, you know, first of all, none of us knew who the WEF was before COVID. They had a coming out party with like, you know, Bond-like villains, Harari and Schwab—
"So these Bond villains come out and tell us about the Great Reset. Then they start talking about the next problem is the Polycrisis. And they said cyber attacks, another pandemic, and war. What do we have now? We got Bessent talking about A.I. could steal your money from the bank. You got war, you got a hantavirus, and let's just toss in aliens as a distraction on top of that.
"Yeah, you need people begging for money printing. So that's where— So you cannot just print money out— and say we're going to print a bunch of money. You need an excuse and Covid was a perfect excuse."
🚨 DAVE CHAPPELLE: “Every day the news cycling is more appalling than the last day, and this doesn't seem like it's ever going to end. Every week I learn some new word, like Strait of Hormuz … This is intolerable. It's insufferable what's happening right now.”
RFK Jr. talks about why gluten allergies have skyrocketed since 2006:
"We discovered that Roundup was a desiccant. And what that means, if you spray it on a crop, it will actually dry out the crop. And one of the big enemies of the farmer is that if there's rain around the time of harvest, their crops can get wet, and they get moldy, and then it ruins the entire silo."
"What Monsanto did is they began telling farmers, spray this on the crop, on your wheat, right before harvest or at the time of harvest. And it was so popular that about 85 % of the Roundup that has been used in history has been used since 2006. A large part of that is as a desiccant. And what that meant, is for the first time they're spraying it on food right at harvest."
"Not early in the season when they have a chance to wash off, but actually just before you're going to eat it. And they're spraying it for the first time on wheat because there was no such thing as Roundup Ready Wheat. They started spraying it on wheat as a desiccant. And so 2006 marks the day when suddenly these gluten allergies began exploding. The celiac disease and all these kind of wheat problems that we started seeing in this country."