Jonathan Williams

he/him

[dr. hell @trevorcrumbo]

what if we cooked and ate this guy

[Berwyn Choobs @sabatonfan69]

What could go wrong? Why not take a walk with your best friend in the woods, boy? We’re the freest country in the world. Take a sip from the stream, hear the mournful call of the last bird. There’s no better place to die young than here

[Shane @McClellandShane]

“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

[kyle @Kylypso]

Only in America can a Canadian billionaire waltz into a drought-ridden state on the verge of ecological collapse and get a massive data center campus rubber-stamped with huge tax breaks. Zero local input. But made possible by the bought and paid for government!

[robert @rfhirschfeld]

You gotta work hard to turn a once wet tallgrass prairie into a dustbowl!

It requires dedication, government intervention through mandates and multiple bailouts, and a pathological unwillingness to try anything else.

[Sam Richards @MinneapoliSam]

He tweeted this out right before his bill to allow mining outside the Boundary Waters passed.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

If you have a bug zapper up, it's time to take it down.

A University of Delaware study analyzed nearly 14,000 insects killed by bug zappers over a single summer.

Mosquitoes accounted for 0.22% of them. Less than one quarter of one percent.

The other 99.78%? Moths, beetles, midges, fireflies, and other beneficial insects doing exactly what your yard needs them to do.

Here's why it's even worse than it sounds: mosquitoes don't find you by light. They find you by carbon dioxide, body heat, and skin chemistry. Your bug zapper is completely invisible to them.

Meanwhile it's running all night massacring the pollination night shift.

Moths are among the most important nocturnal pollinators alive, and they're flying straight into your zapper because they navigate by light.

Bug zappers kill over 70 billion insects annually in the US. Harvard Medical School's Zika page specifically warns against them, noting they may actually increase mosquito populations by eliminating the beneficial insects that prey on mosquitoes.

What actually works: eliminate standing water within 100 feet of where you spend time outside.

That's your best bet.

It's time to break up with the bug zapper.

[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

The threat to the Boundary Waters isn’t just about Minnesota — the legislative gymnastics being thrust upon us to allow copper-nickel mining in this watershed would mean no public lands are ever truly protected.

We would be opening Pandora’s box… for what? The profits and shareholders of a foreign mining company?

Not this mine. Not this place.

[Danielle Langlois @DanielleLangWa]

➡️ "Once the science is gone, there’s nobody left to flag the damage. Nobody left to say “this will destroy this stream” or “this species can’t survive this level of harvest.” The unprecedented mandatory logging quotas from the reconciliation bill can proceed without anyone left who has the data, the authority, or the institutional standing to object. The timber industry gets its clearcuts. The mining companies get their access roads. And the next time someone asks “what will this do to the forest?” the answer will be silence, because the people who knew are gone and the studies that would have told us were terminated by press release on a Tuesday in March."

[Jeremiah @suspirant]

Don't you stupid liberal crybabies know that logged forests grow back? 🙄 Just come back to them in 1,000 years and the trees will look the same 🤣

[brian @brianovak]

national forests are for us all. politicians elected to serve the people have become corrupt beyond redemption. these morally bankrupt ghouls will destroy what makes this country beautiful because it will enrich them personally. a better world is possible, but only if we make it

[Hemant Mehta @hemantmehta]

"One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests. An area larger than Texas. The largest public land agency in the country. Just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.

And they did it with a press release on a Tuesday."

https://t.co/9Hi2v9md4X

[BillBowBaggins @baggins_bow]

We live in a staggeringly beautiful world and all these violent halfwits are like "we gotta bomb this." I heard three Louisiana Waterthrushes singing today. Fuck war.

[neon (unserious) @neon_heartbeat]

i miss florida so much i miss the scrub pines and the sand and the fire ants i miss the armadillos and the gators and the carpenter bees i miss the swamps and the mists at sunrise i miss the springs and spanish moss i wish every developer could be terrorized out of the state

[Eric Geller @ericgeller]

"The U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states under a reorganization plan announced this week, threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests." https://t.co/HEMJFiU4op

[Dan Baldassarre @evornithology]

I’d happily bulldoze 8,000 tech entrepreneur houses to save one Florida Scrub-Jay

[Tommy Stella @tommy_stella]

It’s kind of insane that we’re all lucky enough to live on this insignificant blue ball floating in an endless void that can somehow keep us alive indefinitely and yet a huge chunk of people want to ruin it forever in the name of an economic concept that we made up ourselves

[Slightly Biased @BiasedSlightly]

look at how beautiful this is

pictures like this really make me feel we should bomb each other and charge thousands of dollars for life saving medication and sit in our car all day and work endless hours to eat jalapeño poppers and pay rent to Blackstone