When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.

They tried this. It failed miserably. www.npr.org/sections/the...

Helpful measles tracker. Americans will need independent sources like this to stay current on preventable disease outbreaks.

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Protecting the Minority of the Opulent James Madison’s blueprint for billionaires still runs the show, from part-time gigs at the sandwich shop to Trump’s NATO shrug and Elon Musk’s calls for dissolution of Parliament.

Protecting the Minority of the Opulent
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The Floods Kept Coming. He Needed To Grow a Crop That Would Thrive in Water — or To Quit. One Illinois man’s decadeslong fight to convert his fields into rice paddies demonstrates how it’s possible to bring diversity to the Corn Belt, but improbable so long as federal farm policy remains.....

It took decades for Blake Gerard to convert his fields into rice paddies. His story shows the innovation in farming is possible despite the lack of federal support.

Molly Parker, Julia Rendelman, & Lylee Gibbs report for @propublica.org and @capitolnewsil.bsky.social.
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Trump administration cuts funding to Oregon disability programs Organizations across Oregon received notice from the U.S. Department of Education that they’d lose hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The U.S. Department of Education is ending grants to programs across Oregon that support students with disabilities, citing practices related to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Los Angeles child dies from rare measles complication years after recovery The health department said the death is a "painful reminder" of how dangerous measles can be in unvaccinated people.

A school-age child in Los Angeles has died of a rare complication from measles, years after being infected with the virus.

Key Things to Know about the Garnet Fire Steep Sierra terrain, drought-stressed forests, and the fight to protect giant sequoias are shaping the outcome of California’s latest…

🔥 Key Things to Know about the #GarnetFire:
Steep Sierra terrain, drought-stressed forests, and the fight to protect ancient sequoias are shaping California’s latest wildfire.
Read more: medium.com/@alanworldvi... #Wildfire #CAwx #Drought

How Africa’s Great Green Wall is Fighting Desertification — A Blueprint for Global Resilience What Africa’s Green Wall Can Teach us About Reversing Land Degradation and Drought

A living wall of trees is slowing the Sahara’s advance — and teaching the world how to fight drought with nature. 🌍🌱
What lessons can the U.S. Southwest learn from Africa’s Great Green Wall?
Read: medium.com/@alanworldvi... #ClimateResilience #Drought #Africa #Geography

Flooding now strikes where communities least expect it. 2 million U.S. homes, collectively worth almost $1 trillion, face severe or extreme flood risk despite being outside FEMA’s designated high-risk flood zones (Xu, 2025).

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#flood #flooding #floodrisk

Wasting food is fueling climate change... 🥘

If food waste were a country, it would be the third-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions after the U.S. and China. 🌍

The good news? Cutting food waste could slash global emissions by up to 10%—a simple step with a huge impact. 🧪

and make no mistake - trying to move the line on adulthood is about denying rights broadly. talk to disabled people and/or wards of the state/folks under conservatorship, etc.

gavin newsom is not to be trusted. he's potentially useful right this second but he cannot ascend to the presidency

Interior of a slave-ship - engraving published in the Pictorial Times, 1843, p. 178

🧵: In late August 1619, the first documented ship carrying enslaved Africans docked in Point Comfort, VA. While this is the first documented, slavery has existed as long as civilization. Slavery is not "woke." It is not something you can erase just because it makes you uncomfortable. (1/3)

Posted @withregram • @mollyburkeofficial More of this, please! 🙏🏻

Why inclusion is necessary in mapping/signage/wayfinding.

#GeoSky #GISchat

I go among the old trees and sit still.
All my stirring becomes quiet
around me like circles of water.
My tasks lie in their places
where I left them, asleep like cattle.
For in the stillness of these trees
I am at home. ~Wendell Berry #ForestFriday

"The charms of these ancient trees are beyond all common reason, unexplainable and mysterious as life itself -- towering columns of sunshine, made tangible and terrestrialized!" ~John Muir (1919) #thicktrunktuesday

Tree rings reveal persistent Western Apache (Ndee) fire stewardship and niche construction in the American Southwest | PNAS Identifying the influence of low-density Indigenous populations in paleofire records has been methodologically challenging. In the Southwest United...

Fine work that both extends our knowledge of the past and has implications for today. Ndee (Western Apache) land management did a remarkable job controlling forest fires, even in drought-heavy eras like ours. It defies belief to think today's fire-torn SW has nothing to learn from those guys.

Verbal abuse in childhood has devastating impact on adult brain A major new study has found that verbal abuse in childhood may be just as damaging to long-term mental well-being as physical abuse, if not more so. This groundbreaking research highlights the need to...

Feel like nowhere near enough people understand just how bad receiving verbal abuse as a child is for long term outcomes. Even within the mental health profession.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but... names can scar forever.

Today is International Owl Awareness Day and I had a hoot putting together this thread of international owl phrases, starting with this one…

A colloquial way of telling someone to mind their own business in Punjabi is apna ooloo sidha rukh. It means “keep your own owl straight.”

why i laugh

Astronomer Louise Elizabeth du PIerry was born 279 years ago today. She computed atmospheric refraction effects that affected astronomical observation, and calculated night/day lengths and eclipse occurrences, publishing her work regularly.

#WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #HistSci🔭

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Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”

We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.

➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

New global study shows freshwater is disappearing at alarming rates New Arizona State University-led research findings from studying over two decades of satellite observations reveal that the Earth’s continents have experienced unprecedented freshwater loss...

New global study shows freshwater is disappearing at alarming rates

Unprecedented continental drying driven by severe droughts and groundwater overuse are reducing freshwater and contributing to sea level rise.

#freshwater #drought 🧪

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Butterfly wings and grizzly bear jaws
are both successful pathways to survival.

There is no single, best way to thrive.

I think one challenge in living among so much uncertainty and tragedy is the way capitalism has taught us that our quiet, domestic moments don’t count for anything. (1/6)

Sex at birth is not always random — mum’s age and genetics can play a part Nature - Families with three or more boys, for example, are more likely to have another boy than a girl as the next child.

Sex at birth is not always random — mum’s age and genetics can play a part

Families with three or more boys, for example, are more likely to have another boy than a girl as the next child.

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Founder of Crop Swap LA, Jamiah Hargins, transforms yards into urban gardens to create sustainable farms that provide food security to the community and those in need.

🌾 Learn more: oneearth.org/agricultural-hero-jamiah-hargins

#ClimateHero #UrbanGardening #RegenerativeAgriculture

Senator Raises Climate Warning Amid Texas Floods and Trump’s Tax Bill Sheldon Whitehouse will give his 300th floor speech on climate on Wednesday, less than a week after Congress rolled back clean energy incentives.

Beautiful Spending Bill That Makes Climate Change Worse Protects Chickens From Climate Change
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NOAA was developing a tool to help communities prepare for future rainfall. Trump officials stopped it. The tool would have projected how climate change could affect rainfall frequency and intensity in communities across the nation.

Does that make sense to anyone? In the aftermath of a flash flood that led to 120+ fatalities?

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