U.S. farmers are intentionally flooding their fields to revive ancient "prairie potholes," creating temporary "pop-up" wetlands that deliver a huge boost to migratory birds while improving soil health.
In regions like California's Central Valley and the Mississippi Delta, innovative programs—most notably BirdReturns (launched by The Nature Conservancy in 2014)—pay farmers to strategically flood low-lying or post-harvest fields at precise times during bird migrations. These short-term wetlands mimic the natural prairie potholes and seasonal marshes that once dotted the landscape but were largely drained for agriculture.
By timing floods to align with peak migration periods (e.g., spring and fall for shorebirds, waterfowl, and sandhill cranes), farmers provide essential stopover habitat: shallow water, mudflats, and abundant food for millions of birds traveling along flyways like the Pacific Flyway. The approach has transformed tens of thousands of acres of working farmland into critical refueling stations, with studies showing dramatic increases in bird use and numbers—sometimes 3.5 times higher in these managed pop-up wetlands compared to standard fields.
Farmers also gain practical benefits. Seasonal flooding enhances soil structure, boosts nutrient cycling (as bird activity and water help break down residues), recharges groundwater, reduces erosion, and supports long-term land productivity—often without hurting crop yields in subsequent seasons.
This win-win model proves that modern agriculture and wildlife conservation can reinforce each other, turning productive farmland into flexible ecological assets that sustain both birds and resilient farming systems.
[The Nature Conservancy. BirdReturns: Creating Dynamic Habitat for Migratory Birds. The Nature Conservancy California]
Trump has ruined the world’s economy, given Iran control over the Middle East, and provided them and Oman billions of dollars in ongoing annual revenue via fees to traverse the Straits because…Obama and Epstein.
HOLY CRAP Trump actually accomplished a miracle. Here is what he got out of Iran:
- Reduce its stockpile of enriched uranium by about 98%
- Limit uranium enrichment to 3.67% purity (far below weapons-grade)
- Cut the number of installed centrifuges by roughly two-thirds
- Only enrich uranium at one declared site (Natanz)
- Stop enrichment activities at Fordow and convert it into a research facility
- Redesign the Arak heavy-water reactor so it could not easily produce weapons-grade plutonium
- Ship out or dilute excess enriched uranium
Allow extensive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Permit continuous monitoring of nuclear facilities and supply chains
- Accept “snap” inspections under expanded monitoring rules
- Avoid building new heavy-water reactors for years
- Stay within strict limits on uranium stockpile size and centrifuge development for set periods ranging from 10–25 years
Ooops, sorry!
That was the JCPOA that Obama signed with Iran, only to have him tear it up, kill 140 kids, get hundreds of Americans injured, 13 killed, and gas prices to surge 50%.
@cyrilXBT I have a visionary friend who is in his seventies. He founded a cybersecurity company decades ago. He’s retired and now looking at starting a new company made up of himself and AI agents/bots. Thought he was being a bit naive. Now I’m realizing I was the naive one.
When Donald Trump heard Robert Mueller had died he posted “Good, I’m glad he’s dead”
When Donald Trump heard Robert Reiner had been brutally murdered along with his wife in his own home…
Trump said “I bet he died because he had Trump Derangement Syndrome”
When Donald Trump heard Paul Pelosi had been savagely attacked with a hammer, his skull fractured and almost died…
Trump got on stage, mocked the attack and everyone laughed.
Donald Trump accused 5 Congressional Democrats of Treason…
Trump said they should be “Put to Dearth”
Donald Trump accused his hand picked Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Mark Milley of treason…
Trump said General Milley should be executed.
Trump encouraged his followers to attack the Capitol on January 6th and overturn the election results.
His supporters attacked the Capitol, built a Gallow and looked to execute Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi.
Trump stood by for 186 Minutes and let the violence ensue.
Hundreds of Capitol Police Officers were injured.
4 Capitol Police Officers Died.
Trump has encouraged his supporters to “Knock the hell out of them” referencing protestors at his rallies.
Trump even stated he pay their legal fees.
This is the same motherfucker calling for the firing of Jimmy Kimmel because of a comedy skit.
The same motherfucker who just had James Comey arrested for posting a meme on Twitter.
If anyone needs to tone down the rhetoric.
It’s this piece of shit.
Anthropic pays engineers $750,000 a year to understand how AI models actually work.
Stanford just put the same knowledge on YouTube.
2 hours. Completely free.
This is the lecture that teaches you what most AI courses skip entirely.
Not how to use the tools.
Why they work the way they do.
The engineers who understand the why build things the people who only know the how cannot even conceive of.
The gap between those two groups is $750,000 a year.
You can close most of it in an afternoon.
Bookmark this before you scroll past it.
Watch it this weekend.
Not eventually.
This weekend.
BREAKING: Trump punishes Pope Leo for criticizing his Iran War by stripping $11 million from Catholic Charities in Florida that was supposed to help shelter and care for children who enter the country alone.
Trump is terrorizing kids in America while killing them overseas...
“The U.S. government has abruptly decided to end more than 60 years of relationship with Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Miami,” said Archbishop Thomas Wenski. “The Archdiocese of Miami’s services for unaccompanied minors have been recognized for their excellence and have served as a model for other agencies throughout the country.”
"Our track record in serving this vulnerable population is unmatched. Yet, the Archdiocese of Miami’s Catholic Charities’ services for unaccompanied minors has been stripped of funding and will be forced to shut down within three months," he added.
The Department of Homeland Security, through its Office of Refugee Resettlement, has paid Catholic Charities in Miami for years to help house children who enter the country without accompanying adults. The Miami Herald describes the program as essentially a "federally funded foster care system."
Bishop Wenski said that despite there being a recent decrease in unaccompanied minors “it is baffling that the U.S. government would shut down a program that it would be hard-pressed to replicate at the level of competence."
Robert Latham, associate director of the University of Miami Law School’s Children and Youth Law Clinic, said that the gutting of funding and possible need to move the children elsewhere could inflict serious damage on their developing psyches.
"It’s incredibly psychologically harmful to be moved,” he said. “For little kids, moving repeatedly creates bonding issues and destroys the sense of both self and community. They don’t know who they are and where they will be."
“This should only be done with a lot of emotional support that you normally would find within a family. Unfortunately, that is not there in a group home setting,” Latham added.
Of course, Donald Trump couldn't care less about the suffering of children. This man was friends with Jeffrey Epstein for years and been accused of sexual abuse himself. He started his Iran War by blowing up a school full of little girls and his administration has worked around the clock to strip funding from programs that feed, educate, and house children.
While the administration has not admitted that these funding cuts are payback against Pope Leo, the point A to point B is apparent. Trump is the most vindictive man to ever hold the presidency. He has been relentlessly attacking Leo for criticizing his Iran War. This is him using financial leverage in an effort to beat the Pope into submission. It will not work.
Please ❤️ and share to demand that the funding be doubled when Democrats take back control!
President Trump has posted this picture on social media of himself as Christ healing the sick. I’ve long given up saying how hard it is to think of any previous US president who behaved like Donald Trump, but comparing himself to Jesus puts him on another level altogether.
You left off “spineless” from your description of the losers in congress, as well as “war crimes” from your description of what DonOLD has done and is threatening to do again.
It’s just bonkers that we’ve been bombing a foreign country for a month now, our president is threatening to bomb it “back to the stone age”, and preparing for a ground invasion while our Congress remains on vacation, never bothering to even have a vote on this war.
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.
No Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment needed.
Here's how it works.
@247WallSt your author, David Beren, just posted an article that is generally VERY useful…if correct. Unfortunately, he uses one wrong assumption. He states several times that a surviving retired spouse would still receive the same SSI. there is only a 1% situation that’s true.
So posts a cartoon profile. A literal cartoon. Like this bot loser has any opinion. He doesn’t. He’s to afraid to even post under his real name or picture.
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🇺🇸 🔥 Brian Krassenstein and the radical left are spinning Irans Supreme Leader refusing to negotiate as some huge Trump failure but its actually proof the regime is collapsing and desperate after President Trump hit them hard where it hurts. These America hating traitors hate seeing us win but the truth is clear the bad guys are on the ropes. Patriots call out this fake spin to everyone you know demand we keep the pressure on until total victory and stand strong with President Trump to protect America and Israel from these evil regimes once and for all
#IranDesperationExposed
Director of the FBI, Kash Petel's account hacked. Video leaked online.
What does that say about the ability of the current FBI director to not click on phishing emails.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 “¿Por qué no capturamos el barco? ¿Podríamos usarlo? Me dijeron que no, que era más divertido hundirlo”.
La banalidad del mal en estado puro. Trump se burla de las más de 140 víctimas del IRIS Dena y decenas de periodistas le ríen la gracia.
Eran jóvenes cadetes que apenas superaban los 20 años. Regresaban de una feria de exhibición en la India. El buque estaba desarmado. Y a pesar de todo fue hundido sin previo aviso por el torpedo de un submarino de guerra estadounidense. Es un crimen de guerra que solo puede ser contado como un chiste por un psicópata.
I accidentally discovered how to compress a semester of learning into 48 hours.
A grad student at MIT showed me his NotebookLM setup. I thought he was just organized. Then I watched him pass a qualifying exam on a subject he'd never studied before.
Here's exactly what he did:
First: he didn't upload a textbook.
He uploaded 6 textbooks, 15 research papers, and every lecture transcript he could find on the subject.
Then he asked NotebookLM one question:
"What are the 5 core mental models that every expert in this field shares?"
Not "summarize this." Not "explain this topic."
Mental models. The stuff that takes professors years to develop.
But the next part is what broke my brain.
He followed up with:
"Now show me the 3 places where experts in this field fundamentally disagree, and what each side's strongest argument is."
In 20 minutes he had a map of the entire intellectual landscape of the field:
the debates, the consensus, the open questions.
Most students spend a full semester just figuring out what those debates even are.
Then he did something I've never seen before.
He asked:
"Generate 10 questions that would expose whether someone deeply understands this subject versus someone who just memorized facts."
He spent the next 6 hours answering those questions using the source material. Every wrong answer triggered a follow-up:
"Explain why this is wrong and what I'm missing."
By hour 48, he could hold a conversation with his thesis advisor without getting destroyed.
The tool didn't change. The questions did.
Most people treat NotebookLM like a fancy highlighter.
These students are using it like a private tutor who has read everything ever written on the subject.
The difference between a semester and 48 hours isn't the amount of content.
It's knowing which questions to ask.
British fighter jets flying over Cyprus, by far the most outstanding camera work I have ever seen. If carlsberg made cameraman he would probably be the best cameraman in the world