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[ProPublica @propublica]

Reporter Max Blau spent a year documenting mistreatment of farmworkers across the country.

It left him wondering where the produce in his own fridge comes from.

Finding the answer wouldn’t be easy.
https://t.co/xPlKiurLds

[ProPublica @propublica]

Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances:

“I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”
https://t.co/tQ18vW7ak5

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

One of the easiest places to add wildlife habitat is along the boundary you currently mow and trim the hardest.

A defined strip of taller vegetation along a fence line, hedge or low-traffic boundary can provide cover, seeds, insects and overwintering habitat that closely clipped turf doesn't.

Ground beetles shelter in the thatch. Birds hunt where lawn meets longer grass because that's where insects concentrate. The structural diversity alone adds value that flat turf can't provide.

Start by mowing less in one strip. But don't assume a thriving native meadow will appear on its own. An unmowed strip in many suburban yards will be colonized by whatever is already in the seed bank: often turfgrass, nonnative weeds or invasives.

Watch what comes up, remove invasive plants early, and consider adding native grasses and wildflowers suited to your region and soil.

Keep a narrow mowed border around the planting. That small design choice makes the area read as intentional habitat rather than an abandoned patch of lawn. If the neighbors ask, "I'm growing it for the beetles" is a complete sentence.

The unmowed fence line won't solve everything. But it costs almost nothing, requires only that you put the trimmer down, and adds something that the rest of the yard, no matter how well planted, can't quite replicate: an edge where things move, hunt, and hide.

[ProPublica @propublica]

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners.

Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.
https://t.co/epzidHuvW5

[Maryam @hell_line0]

Did you know that Islamic law prevents pregnant women from divorcing their husbands?

Oh wait. I meant Missouri. Missouri law.

Typo, guys.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

15 homes. 6 fraudulent votes. 0 questions answered.

[Irlandarra @irlandarra2019]

Native Americans are protesting after ICE detained 4 Oglala Sioux tribal members in Minneapolis.

The original Americans are getting treated like “illegal aliens” by masked federal agents.

[ProPublica @propublica]

We’ve learned from experience that it’s difficult to piece together a complete picture of any school, especially since some states have stronger transparency laws and provide better information than others.

Here's how to do that research.
https://t.co/nZPS5FuhKm

[ProPublica @propublica]

Reporter Max Blau spent a year reporting on the mistreatment of farmworkers.

After some digging, he found that the blueberries in his grocery store came from a farm with documented problems.
https://t.co/2chMZJ9moK

[Covie @covie_93]

.....unless you are an ICE agent.

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him wondering: Is there any way to find out whether the produce he buys at the grocery store comes from farms with a record of mistreating workers? https://t.co/i0O1QP0bAZ

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

Hey MAGA Texans.

Let me reintroduce you to Adam Hoffman. He raped his son’s best friend from the age of six years old to nine years old. For three years this man raped a little boy.

Paxton made sure his buddy only got a 60 day sentence. Oh wait it gets better, he didn't even serve the full sixty days.

Wait wait, it's gets even better. He doesn't have to register as a sex offender and his record has been wiped clean.

MAGA maniacs want women to go to prison for miscarriages but are cool with pedophiles going free.

Ken Paxton is a disgusting criminal, that's why Trump endorsed him.

Make sure you have a plan to vote. @jamestalarico is what Texas needs. Not more of the Epstein Class.
#DemsUnited

[Snowden Bishop🌻💚🤍❤️✌️🇺🇦🆘🔄🌍 @SnowdenBishop]

Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’

It’s our duty to know.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

It looks like someone put plastic in your tea. 👀

Most commercial tea bags, including ones that look like paper, are sealed with polypropylene, a petroleum-based plastic.

When you pour boiling water over your tea, the heat causes those plastic fibers to shed directly into your drink.

A McGill University study found that a single plastic tea bag releases approximately 11.6 billion microplastic particles and 3.1 billion nanoplastic particles into one cup of tea. Not over a lifetime of drinking tea. Per cup.

Researchers at the University of Barcelona confirmed those particles are absorbed by human intestinal cells and can enter the cell nucleus.

The long-term health effects aren't fully understood yet. What is understood: you're drinking billions of plastic particles every time you make a cup.

The fix costs about $12 and takes 30 seconds to learn. Loose leaf tea. Stainless steel infuser. Done. The tea tastes better anyway.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Bark is like a tree's skin. It exists to keep bacteria, fungi, and pests out of the living tissue underneath. Carving it breaks the barrier and the tree spends the rest of its life with a potentially fatal wound.

Deeper cuts can hit the phloem and xylem, the layers that move water and sugar through the tree. Trees with enough carving damage can starve to death.

Does anyone care where Mark was hiking in 2006? Put your hands in your pockets and keep walking, folks.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The bird bath you put up to help birds could be killing them if you don't clean it.

Standing water in a basin grows pathogens fast. Salmonellosis, avian conjunctivitis, and trichomoniasis all spread through contaminated bird baths.

Every two weeks, wash your bird bath with mild soap and water. Refresh the water every two to three days even between cleanings.

If you see a sick bird near your bird bath (think: lethargic, fluffed up, crusty eyes, not flying away when approached), take the bath down for two weeks and disinfect it thoroughly before putting it back up.

[ProPublica @propublica]

As part of President Trump’s continued push to discredit the results of the 2020 election, his administration has considered using AI technology to scrutinize tens of thousands of ballots seized in Fulton County, Georgia, ProPublica has learned.
https://t.co/UCt2zmyaek

[ProPublica @propublica]

A superintendent misspent public funds in Ohio for years.

Indicted on multiple felony counts of theft, she permanently lost her educator license in the state.

Then she moved to Florida, changed her name and opened a private school.
https://t.co/WCFAkn7yYm

[ProPublica @propublica]

When asked about the Microsoft arrangement ProPublica uncovered — which allowed China-based engineers to maintain the Pentagon’s computer systems — national security experts saw a major vulnerability for the U.S.

Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/NeuQf2FO6S

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Pests reproduce fast. Their predators reproduce slowly. That's why, if you spray chemicals in your yard, you'll always have pests.

After a broad pesticide application, aphids can rebuild a full population in a week, but the ladybugs that were keeping them in check will take a season to return, if they return at all.

A yard that gets sprayed regularly is always one warm week away from a pest outbreak.