The U.S. Forest Service is spraying glyphosate (Roundup) across tens of thousands of acres of national forests this spring to support commercial timber production.
Following wildfires, forests naturally regenerate with diverse shrubs, wildflowers, and wildlife. However, a recent investigation reveals that the Forest Service and private logging companies are routinely applying the herbicide to eliminate competing native vegetation, favoring commercially valuable species such as Douglas fir and sugar pine.
This practice has created large areas with significantly reduced biodiversity, often described as "dead zones", where insect, bird, and plant populations have sharply declined. Glyphosate, classified by the World Health Organization as a probable human carcinogen, has seen its use in California national forests quintuple over the past two decades, reaching a record 266,000 pounds in 2023.
Local communities, environmental groups, and residents are raising concerns about potential impacts on water quality, endangered species (including salmon and rare foxes), and public health. Critics argue that prioritizing industrial timber production over ecological diversity conflicts with the broader mission of national forests as public lands.
The issue has intensified debates over forest management, balancing economic interests with long-term environmental and community health.
A few dozen parents and educators are outside Sip and Savor at 53rd and Hyde Park Blvd for a “parent take over” in response to a “teen takeover” that’s been rumored to be happening in the neighborhood later. Most of these people are wearing shirts from Kenwood Academy.
🚨 Ben-Gvir celebrates with champagne as the Knesset advances the death penalty law for Palestinian prisoners.
Many of these prisoners have no fair trial, no real legal access, just endless detention.
This is not justice.
This is a depraved regime legalising state murder & calling it victory.
When Israeli officials pop champagne over executing Palestinians while denying them basic due process, it reveals exactly how wicked & dehumanising their system has become.
Israel is openly embracing barbarism.
THE HORMUZ TRAP IS SPRUNG
https://t.co/Lcq0XHRAhB
@VanessaBeeley and @KitKlarenberg & @DrMHaidar expose how 47 years of Iranian preparation have left the US war strategy in ruins. The Hormuz shutdown threatens global oil markets and leaves Trump in a check mate scenario.
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The California Governors Debate is being rigged! They’re excluding every person of color who’s running ( No kidding) & excluding every independent candidate.
Independent candidate Elaine Culotti aka @lipstickfarmer is holding a press conference tomorrow (tuesday march 24) at 11am in the Palisades with the excluded candidates to protest.
If you’re part of the press & want to attend email [email protected]
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
one of the most revealing Oscars moments, when Hollywood liberals booed Michael Moore and cut short his speech calling out the propaganda to launch the war on Iraq. Now aside from a brief mention by Javier Bardem no one even dared oppose the murderous war on Iran. Cowardly scum
In memory of the martyred children of Minab, protesters in Vienna set up school desks on the street and placed pictures of the school girls on them.
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Won't it be fun with "X Money" launches next month, and then they can cancel your account and steal your money after you criticize war crimes that Big Tech is complicit in?
Please be smarter and keep your finances off of Musk's would-be "everything app" as much as you possibly can.
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 AIPAC GOT CAUGHT
Max Blumenthal obtained leaked audio of AIPAC's CEO admitting they groomed Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz from the beginning.
"They are now our lifelines inside the administration."
That's an unregistered foreign lobbyist describing Trump's national security team.
"This does not serve American interests. Trump did it for one reason. Israeli influence."
@MaxBlumenthal
As many as 140 servicemembers injured. 7 killed. Thousands of Americans stranded in the region with a target on their backs and no escape.
All for a war that a draft dodger cannot even articulate a coherent and consistent justification for.
How. Is. This. America. First.
Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.