Shell @shellkturner - Twitter Profile

3 days ago

Bulldozers sent by Trump have begun tearing up Big Bend National Park to build a border wall through the protected public land. The Trump administration waived dozens of environmental laws to permit the construction.

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FactPost

@factpostnews

10 days ago

The Trump administration has granted SpaceX permission to build a new launch site on the federally protected habitat of the endangered Ocelot.

factpostnews's tweet photo. The Trump administration has granted SpaceX permission to build a new launch site on the federally protected habitat of the endangered Ocelot. https://t.co/fDm68fIbTC

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Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl

13 days ago

BREAKING: DHS contractors are demolishing ancient cottonwoods in Lochiel, Arizona for the border wall. These trees are 200-plus years old—older than the border itself. Protestors are on site. I’m told there has been an arrest. Limited cell service there, awaiting more info.

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Merriam-Webster

@MerriamWebster

about 1 month ago

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘semiquincentennial.’ https://t.co/rHmHTEpr7q

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Who to follow

Adam Ide

@adamide

Northern Colorado Journalism Class of 2018 #ForTheLou #ForTheShoe| Dad 1957-2012

Cardinals Dude

@Turn2Dude

⚾️ stathead ▪︎ I watch an unhealthy amount of Major League Baseball, especially Cardinals baseball.

Aaron Wolter

@aaronwolter

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too. - Yogi Berra

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Give A Shit About Nature

@giveashitnature

2 months ago

The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign. Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately. Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s. The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants. Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept." They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans. If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.

giveashitnature's tweet photo. The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.

Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.

Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.

The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.

Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."

They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.

If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.

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𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰

@politicsusa46

5 months ago

For those at the back with the red hats who are rejoicing at spending a billion dollars a day to commit war crimes. Please be aware that the last week has been the most expensive week in American military history. And that’s after deducting the billions Hegseth spend on king crab, strip steak and a iPad or 6, while SNAP payments are being denied to hungry American children. If that wasn’t enough to cheer about, there’s always the study from The Lancet Journal about how many deaths the U.S. is responsible for between 1971 and 2021. So that’s before the estimate 600,000 Trump has chalked up since he returned to the White House after gutting USAID. America sure is a Godly nation. I’ll let Professor John Mearsheimer explain. 🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/UyRrBGjWjo

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Financelot

@FinanceLancelot

6 months ago

Here's Howard Lutnick saying the insurance agreed to double the payout for his victims of the 2001 attack. In the end, the bulk of the $135 million settlement was split up between himself and the other senior executives of Cantor Fitzgerald. He was the largest benefactor.