Jeff Vanderlaan

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

Alright everyone can pack it up for this year’s graduation commencement speeches because Eric Church gave the best one I’ve ever heard. 🔥

[Michigan Athletics 〽️ @UMichAthletics]

HAIL TO THE VICTORS!

[Jeff Vanderlaan @dutchblitz]

Anybody know what Kenny Smith's issue with Michigan is?

[Jeff Vanderlaan @dutchblitz]

"Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet."

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Each almond requires 3.2 gallons of actual irrigation water to grow. Not rainfall. Actual tap water pumped from aquifers.

One gallon of almond milk requires 162 gallons of irrigation water. Compare that to dairy milk at 8 gallons of tap water per gallon, with the rest being rainfall that falls on pasture anyway.

But here's where it gets properly grim. Almonds bloom for exactly three weeks in February. During those three weeks, California needs every pollinating bee in North America transported to the Central Valley or the crop fails entirely.

Commercial beekeepers truck in 31 billion honeybees. That's two-thirds of America's entire managed bee population, all concentrated in one valley for three weeks. The bees are packed into trucks, driven across the country, dumped into almond groves drenched in pesticides, worked to exhaustion, then packed up and shipped to the next crop.

The mortality rate is catastrophic. Beekeepers report losing 30 to 50% of their hives annually. That's billions of bees dead. Not from natural causes. From being used as disposable pollination machines for your almond milk.

The pesticides don't help. Almond groves are sprayed with neonicotinoids which scramble bee navigation systems, fungicides which weaken their immune systems, and herbicides which eliminate the wildflowers they'd normally forage on between almond blooms.

Meanwhile the aquifer depletion is permanent. The Central Valley has sunk 28 feet in some areas from groundwater extraction. That water took 10,000 years to accumulate. It's being drained in decades for almond milk.

Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet.

[Jeff Vanderlaan @dutchblitz]

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[Jeff Vanderlaan @dutchblitz]

@dpshow @brentmusburger Congrats @brentmusburger! An overdue honor! You were THE voice of the NFL and March Madness for me growing up!

Great job @dpshow for doing your part to make this happen!

[The Free Press @TheFP]

“Wherever children have smartphones in their pockets and social media on those smartphones, family life turns into an eternal struggle over screen time.” @JonHaidt’s book roused an army of parents tired of kids hypnotized by iPads at Italian restaurants. https://t.co/FFrKvZ1oej

[ᗩᑎT ᗯᖇIGᕼT @itsAntWright]

Michigan as a 5 seed means yesterday and today did not matter

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Jeffrey Sachs discusses the deeper reasons he believes are behind the Russia-Ukraine war.

[Jeff Vanderlaan @dutchblitz]

@coookwithchris Made this last night for Christmas Eve Dinner! So incredibly delicious! Thanks for sharing the recipe!

[Michigan Football @UMichFootball]

'TIS THE SEASON! 〽️

[Jeff Vanderlaan @dutchblitz]

@coookwithchris unroll @threadreaderapp

[TheTaylorStrand @TaylorStrandini]

I’m seeing a lot of people, even friends of mine, who are Kamala supporters, reference us Trump supporters today as sexists, racists, and white supremists. This is exactly why your candidate lost. Instead of seeing us as humans who truly struggled with the inflation, crime, foreign wars, child trafficking and fentanyl from open borders, and general divisiveness from being called names and gaslit for pointing it out these struggles, you’ve doubled down.

You’ve instead read the headlines and out of context quotes from a completely propoghandized media and believed it - while calling us names for watching, listening, and reading everything in its entirety. You believed the lies about Trump’s stance on abortion and IVF. You’ve believed the lies about Project 25 which he’s denounced several times. You’ve believe extremely out of context clipped sentences about women and Liz Cheney - refusing to see the entire clip. You’ve believed lies about Trump with blacks, Latinos, LGBT, and women - when in reality, Trump promoted advances for them before the leaders of your party did.

I can understand and even commiserate with you for the feeling of loss of an election, but I will never understand you completely villainizing us, MOST of America. It’s easier than thinking and understanding I guess.

I invite you to connect with us to learn where we’re coming from. I pray for unity and understanding moving forward.

[Rich G @richgoingstrong]

Was the cheating that democrats do in elections always this blatant or is it they are so desperate this year they are trying to stop Trump at all costs? This thread will continue to grow as more cheating (voter suppression, mass ballot harvesting, fraud) is discovered.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.

[Olivia Rondeau 🇺🇸 @rondeaulivia]

This should be playing on every news channel.

Private helicopter pilots are flying in supplies to areas of eastern Tennessee that are only accessible by air. The original poster Evie Kyker/cayotecowgirl said government aid is “nowhere to be found.”

Devastating.

[Jeff Vanderlaan @dutchblitz]

WOMEN'S SWIM AND DIVE EARNS FOUR CSC ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT HONORS https://t.co/nrYLy9b0Y6

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Many Americans still have no idea this happened

[ᗩᑎT ᗯᖇIGᕼT @itsAntWright]

#FreeSanderson

[Jeff Vanderlaan @dutchblitz]

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