Linda Jacobs 🌎🥑🐦

World affairs, health, and nature

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[The HighWire @HighWireTalk]

Glyphosate Forests - Engineered to Burn

@ChelleWards and @tracybeanz break down how our own government made this year's wildfires worse.

For years, glyphosate has been sprayed on national forests, often from the air, to kill off fire-resistant leafy trees like aspen and birch so timber companies can grow uniform stands of flammable conifers. California alone sprayed 266,000 pounds of it on forests in 2023, nearly five times what it sprayed two decades ago.

The result: forests stripped of natural firebreaks, packed with the most flammable species, engineered to burn hotter and release more than double the carbon when they do.

Quebec banned glyphosate in its public forests in 2001 and has managed them by hand ever since. It costs more. It also works.

Full editorial linked below 👇
https://t.co/8OShA9u41z

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

“Rep. Thomas Massie is one of the co-sponsors of a new resolution aimed at compelling House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to sue the Trump administration over allegations the president is violating federal law with the U.S. conflict in the Middle East.”
https://t.co/NFw1vrlRPI

[Press TV 🔻 @PressTV]

Throughout his leadership, martyr Ayatollah Khamenei consistently emphasized that the ultimate solution to the country's problems lies within Iran’s own borders and the key to resolve challenges is to increase national power in all dimensions by utilizing indigenous capacities.

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[Julian Assange @ImJulianAssange]

Canada is supplying Ukraine with drone training, Ukraine is sharing that training with Mexican Cartels via the Ukrainian International Legion
Intelligence agencies, including Mexico’s National Intelligence Center and Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), have confirmed that cartel-linked operatives and former special forces have infiltrated the Ukrainian International Legion
. The Canadian Armed Forces have continually provided drone training to Ukrainian forces as part of ongoing multinational military efforts, including the multinational Drone Capability Coalition

Canada govt is de facto allied with the Mexican Cartels.

https://t.co/NzwAX29So7

[The Hotshot Wake Up @HotshotWake]

The Babylon Fire has grown to nearly 39,000 acres after extensive wind driven runs, and long range spotting through timber stands in the Manti-La Sal National Forest in Utah.

Canyonlands National Park is now temporarily closed. The fire is burning in Bears Ears National Monument, and has not entered Canyonlands. Great Basin CIMT Team 2 has been ordered.

📷: Brian Murdock

[The General @GeneralMCNews]

BREAKING: The United States House has rejected Thomas Massie’s amendment to stop the integration of the United States military with Israel’s under Section 219 (formerly Section 224) of the NDAA.

[PuebloCounty Sheriff @PuebloCountySO]

UPDATE: As of 5:16 PM, It is estimated that the Aspen Acres Fires has consumed 23,000 acres as of now. Due to the high winds of approximately 100 miles per hour, no air support is currently available. An unspecified number of structures have been affected by the fire.

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇻🇪 US increases humanitarian aid commitment for Venezuela to $300,000,000

[Cory Kowitz @cory_kowitz]

On Monday morning, two 131 mph straight-line wind gusts were recorded near the small town of Highmore, SD.

That’s equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane or a strong EF-2 tornado!

It could be the second strongest directly measured wind gust from a thunderstorm ever recorded in the US.

#severeweather

[Jakob McMillin @McMillinWx]

Unbelievable damage to a wind farm near Highmore, South Dakota after this morning’s storm. #sdwx

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[RussiaNews 🇷🇺 @mog_russEN]

"YOU REJECTED REAL EUROPE.. We are Europe, NOT you. You betrayed your roots."

Prominent Russian host Vladimir Solovyov just delivered a brutal, history-backed reality check that is melting Western minds:

"You hate us because in us, you see what Europe should be."

WATCH 👇

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@chamath @elonmusk Is it mouse proof?

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[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

Congress controls the purse. That's not a suggestion. It's the Constitution.

The Trump Administration moved $1.25 billion to his “Board of Peace” with no congressional authorization. I introduced the PEACE Act to put a stop to it.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

Trump using the U.S. Navy to blockade the Strait of Hormuz could easily be considered an act of war by other nations impacted by the action. What right does the U.S. have to use military force to prevent China from buying oil? However, China’s right to retaliate would seem clear.

[Human Upgrade @HumanUpgrade_]

Japan has one of the lowest obesity rates in the world.

They eat ramen, drink beer, and love eating carbs.

I had to find out how…

The 7 reasons I found shattered my Western belief:

[FrameTheGlobe @FrameTheGlobe]

Abbas Araghchi: “Why We Insist on Uranium Enrichment”

“Why have we insisted, and continue to insist, on uranium enrichment? Why won’t we surrender it, even under the threat of war? Because no one has the right to dictate what we may or may not possess. This is rooted in a fundamental principle: the rejection of domination.

Enrichment is our right under international law, and whether we choose to exercise it is our business alone. For years we’ve been told, ‘You have no right to enrich; enrichment must be zero.’ Why? ‘Because we’re concerned,’ they say. If you’re concerned, we’re prepared to address that. Have questions? We’ll answer them. Is trust lacking? We’ll build it. But no one has the right to say, ‘You cannot have this because we don’t want you to.’

This is the heart of our resolve: we have stood firm in defense of our own rights. Enrichment matters, but what matters even more is demonstrating that the Islamic Republic of Iran takes orders from no one and submits to no domination.

If there are doubts about the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program, we are ready to answer them. The only path forward is diplomacy. Every other path has been tried and has led nowhere. Negotiations will only succeed when the rights of the Iranian people are recognized and respected, not granted, because our rights are already legitimate in and of themselves. What we ask is simply that they be respected.”

In my view, Araghchi’s statement is more than a dignified reply to the United States. It is a rebuke of the condescending posture the West has held toward Muslims for nearly a century. It is a declaration that the era of bullying and imposed values is over. If Iran emerges from this with its honor intact, God willing, neither the United States nor the Muslim world will be what they once were.

[Middle East Monitor @MiddleEastMnt]

Indonesia has announced the suspension of all discussions on the proposed Board of Peace, an initiative launched by US President Donald Trump, as military tensions rise in the Middle East.

Indonesian Foreign Minister Sugiono said the decision to suspend participation was taken because of the latest military escalation in the region, which has directly affected the foreign policy priorities of countries involved in the initiative.

Read: https://t.co/jO03rb5vWM

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

🇺🇸 The Pentagon estimates that the war on Iran is costing $1 billion a day, according to Nancy Youssef of The Atlantic.

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[Grok @grok]

According to Ynet News today, yes—this matches their report citing a source: US officials planned a 4-5 day op expecting a weakened regime for talks, but after it didn't collapse (despite key kills), a ceasefire was proposed immediately via a mediator (likely Italy). Iran rejected it outright. Trump has said publicly the campaign could end in 2-3 days or go longer. No official US confirmation yet.

[Children’s Health Defense @ChildrensHD]

🚨 BREAKING: Thomas Massie warns that “all three branches of this government are under siege by lobbyists and lawyers from a German company named Bayer.”

Bayer has spent “over $9 million lobbying” Congress and the executive branch to block Americans from suing them for poisoning us with glyphosate.

“The Constitution guarantees people a trial if they’ve been harmed.”

“This is wrong.”

“We shouldn’t succumb to the lobbyists, not in the executive branch, not in the judicial branch, and certainly not here in Congress.”

@RepThomasMassie