@donie@jaketapper@PeterHamby@JonahPlatt@TheLeadCNN Absolutely disgusting hit job, CNN should be ashamed of itself. Israel just green lit the mass murder of 10,000 Palestinian hostages and this is what you talk about.
A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone.
In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery.
In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years.
A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years.
Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply.
Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story.
One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.
If Bernie's 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires had been enacted in 2012, Elon Musk would be worth less than $365 billion instead of the $834 billion that he's worth today. He'd still be the wealthiest man alive & every senior would have dental, vision & hearing under Medicare.
How capitalism destroys the world and limits innovation, rather than the reverse.
Capitalism can never be relied on for basic needs such as food security or even healthcare, it only serves to accumulate and maximize profit.
What an accurate take from him.
“White pieces of shit like leftist Ryan Grim…” and then Hasan Piker catches a stray.
Anyway, one day Fuentes will learn that the enemy of normal working people is not to be found in any particular ethnicity or religion, but in the barons who control the world’s wealth and use age-old resentments to pit people against each other so they can’t unite and take on those barons. Until that day, he is only doing the bidding, knowingly or not, of the very people he thinks he’s pitted against. It’s a shame because he has talent and charisma but has been fooled into thinking his problems will be solved by some race purity.
But racial supremacy only ever benefits the very rich, not even everyone of that race. Go look at Mississippi in the 1850s. By some measures it had more wealth than anywhere else in the world yet all but a few white people there lived miserable lives of abject poverty. Their only solace was that they weren’t slaves and there was a class just below them. What kind of vision is that? Wake up, man, Ilhan Omar is not your problem, she’s trying to liberate you.
Most of the right wing folks claiming to be non-interventionist were actually only opposed to the U.S. losing and embarrassing itself. But they are very much on board for the idea of dominance of other people through violence if they think they can pull it off. Theyre also the people who talk about being Christian all the damn time.
i was told this kind of stuff only happened in countries that are foreign adversaries who don't have free speech? (ofc the israel protests, the response & the media coverage legitimizing the apprehensions played a role in normalizing this clear violation of 1A)
Israel has issued a demolition notice for the Aida camp football pitch near Bethlehem, a vital space for some 500 children to train and play, and one of the few open spaces in this crowded refugee camp.
Kids found the notice at the gate in December, threatening the pitch’s removal. Voices including Ms Rachel, the high-profile children’s educator, are amplifying this crisis, urging athletes, including FIFA soccer players, and journalists to spotlight the demolition threat and stand with the Palestinian youth.
Local leaders and former Bethlehem officials say the land was legally leased and the pitch built with community support, Al Monitor reported.
Oh mi God!! Listen to this
“They steal land even when they don’t need to steal land just because they can”
U know exactly who he’s talking about, right?