AlrightyThen

[Arun S. Chopra CFA CMT🧐 @FusionptCapital]

girl whatever

[Lawrence | SwolLyfe @_TrueVoodoo]

His grocery bill has doubled in the last 4 years. Let’s gaslight him and tell him inflation is 3%.

[Frustrating @cdsdob]

@SoveyX 1995: The Internet will grant mankind access to the sum total of human knowledge. We will all have instant access to the greatest art, the most beautiful literature, and the most inspired music. A new age of progress is upon us!

2026: this.

[Irena Buzarewicz @IrenaBuzarewicz]

Sunday

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

BRO I’M FUCKING DEAD

[Chris DeMuth Jr @ChrisDeMuthJr]

Rest in peace, Murray Stahl

[morty rivers @chocolatedingo]

@LibertyCappy

[LJ 𝕏 @LORDLJS]

@LibertyCappy

[Max Crypto @MaxCrypto]

Day 59 of 2026:

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Thomas Massie just declared: “This government is under siege.”

And he exposed Susie Wiles and Pam Bondi for taking “millions of dollars from Bayer.”

“All three branches of this government are under siege by lobbyists and lawyers from a German company named Bayer.”

“They spent over $9 million lobbying … so that they don’t have to be liable for any damages their herbicide Roundup causes.”

“The Constitution guarantees people a trial if they’ve been harmed.”

“Why are we contemplating going against the Constitution?”

“The Attorney General has opined favorably for this German company in front of the Supreme Court about getting rid of any liability that they should have for any damages.”

“By the way, the President’s Chief of Staff and the President’s Attorney General worked for one of the biggest lobbying firms that’s received millions of dollars from Bayer.”

“Maybe that’s why we’ve seen an executive order that says that the production of this chemical from this German company is a national defense priority.”

“And we know why they’re doing that.”

“It’s to keep them from having any liability.”

“This is wrong.”

“We shouldn’t succumb to the lobbyists, not in the executive branch, not in the judicial branch, and certainly not here in Congress.”

@RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY

[The Deseret Stone @DeseretStone]

If the worst happens and we end up attacking Iran I hope they don’t leave their F-14s on the ground

The Tomcats should go out with their boots on. In the air. One last blaze of glory.

Not in some ground strike.

[daz @MetamateDaz]

I just saw a comment that said X is the smoking area of the internet and I’ve never read anything more accurate in my life.

[DJ @djstweets]

Truth circle. I’m looking forward to next Sunday’s Knight of the Seven Kingdoms more than the Super Bowl.

[Sam Knowlton @samdknowlton]

One of the most pressing issue facing agriculture in the US is the rapid and continued depletion of ground water in our most important food producing regions.

But even more concerning is the degradation of farmland's ability to capture, store and cycle rainwater.

The Ogallala Aquifer supports 30% of US irrigation and has lost 286 million acre-feet, or 93.2 trillion gallons, since agricultural development.

Portions of Kansas and Texas are on pace for complete depletion in 20-50 years. Natural recharge occurs at less than one inch annually and full replenishment would take 6,000 years.

California's Central Valley, producing 25% of national food supply, pumps groundwater 5x faster than its rate of recharge.

The land has subsided up to 28 feet, permanently destroying aquifer storage capacity. As alarming as this may be, the long-term – and in some cases permanent – damage caused to aquifers pales in comparison to the disruption of the small water cycle.

The small water cycle depends on vegetation recycling moisture through evapotranspiration, which generates over 50% of precipitation in most river basins. This "green water" accounts for 4-5x more agricultural water use than the "blue water" drawn from aquifers and rivers.

When soil is disturbed and left bare, this pump fails. Further disrupting this cycle, bare agricultural soil reaches surface temperatures up to 24°C higher than vegetated areas, creating heat islands that repel rainfall while eliminating evaporative cooling entirely.

US agricultural soils have lost 50% of original organic matter over that last century.

Each 1% increase in organic matter allows soil to hold 20,000 additional gallons of water per acre.

The widespread loss of 3-4 percentage points of organic matter means farmland now stores tens of thousands fewer gallons per acre than it once did, reducing natural drought resilience and increasing runoff.

Conventional agriculture compounds this by collapsing soil aggregates through excessive tillage, leaving fields bare, applying synthetic fertilizers that accelerate organic matter decomposition, disrupting soil microbiology with pesticide applications and compacting soil with heavy machinery.

The good news is, unlike aquifer depletion, the small water cycle can be repaired rapidly and in ways that offer a cascade of positive benefits to farms.

Continuous living roots maintain the pore structure for infiltration. Growing roots open channels, decaying roots leave voids, and root exudates feed aggregate-building microorganisms.

A functional and diverse soil microbiome produces biological glues that create water-stable aggregates. These networks increase hydraulic conductivity while enhancing water storage.

Permanent soil cover reduces evaporation, prevents raindrop impact from sealing surfaces, and maintains biological activity. Five years of cover cropping can improve infiltration up to 200%.

Integrated biological diversity drives the feedback loops between soil carbon, water retention, and climate regulation. Diverse rotations, livestock integration, and perennial crops restore landscape-scale water cycling.

Aquifer depletion, in large part, cannot be undone. But restoring the small water cycle offers an immediate opportunity to rebuild and maintain agricultural water security.