IA wetland restoration: share.google/YnELi5Vrb7oG...

Grasslands and Wetlands Are Being Gobbled Up By Agriculture, Mostly Livestock - Inside Climate News A new study takes a first-of-its kind look at how farming converts non-forested areas and major carbon sinks into cropland and pasture.

Ethanol and animal feed.
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Opinion | What Can’t Trump Wreck?

#GOPDeathCult obviously fascist, just one measure
On USAID: The study developed forecasting models that predicted the Trump administration’s steep funding cuts “could result in more than 14.05 million additional all-age deaths, including 4.54 million in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030.”

On the road in search of northwest Iowa's prairie cemeteries James Enright explored several prairie cemeteries, in order to compare and contrast the spring and summer wildflowers at each site.

Happy Iowa wildflower Wednesday!

James Enright explored several northwest Iowa prairie cemeteries, in order to compare and contrast the spring and summer wildflowers at each site. Great photo diary:
#Iowa #wildflowers #prairie #nativeplants
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Social Strike for Social Self-Defense: The Last Recourse Against Tyranny By Jeremy Brecher, Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder

general strike, mass strike

How the Democrats Became the Party That Brings Pencils to a Knife Fight

“Progressives and Democrats are uncomfortable with the acquisition and the use of power in ways that Republicans are not,” Mr. Holder said. “And that time has got to be over. We need to be unabashed in our desire to acquire power, and then to use power.”

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

Corrupt Trump has turned the presidency into a protection racket.

Socialist Zohran Mamdani could be New York’s next mayor. This is what the western left could learn from him | Owen Jones He has used clear messaging to redirect anger from the disenfranchised to the economic elites. That the wealthy are worried shows it’s working, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

So what’s the universal lesson? Three Ms are key: messaging, medium and movement. Key to his success are core, endlessly repeated commitments focused on a cost of living crisis triggered by a broken economic system. Anger is redirected from the disenfranchised to thriving economic elites.

Protecting American Energy From State Overreach By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.

Ranking Member Angie Craig Marks Trump’s First 100 Days with 100 Headlines

"Family farmers are struggling right now. The instability, poor communication and threats to allies make it tough to regain the market access we’ve lost. We don’t need reckless trade wars. We need to pass a bipartisan farm bill to give farm country the certainty it needs,” said Ranking Member Craig.

A silent majority of the world’s people wants stronger climate action. It’s time to wake up | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope About 89% of the public want their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis – but don’t know they’re the majority

The people want to live.

Trump Administration Draft Order Calls for Drastic Overhaul of State Department The draft executive order would eliminate Africa operations and shut down bureaus working on democracy, human rights and refugee issues.

Who benefits?

Elon Musk’s DOGE Isn’t Stopping Fraud. It’s Making It Easier. A scathing whistleblower report suggests that DOGE coders may have pilfered troves of personal data that would be extremely valuable to business leaders.

Far from meeting its mandate to reduce fraud and abuse, DOGE is best understood as an effort to defraud Americans themselves. Now there’s evidence that the group has stolen sensitive personal information.

The rise of end times fascism The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

This is a belief system that is genocidal at its core and treasonous to the wonder and beauty of this world. The more people understand that the right has succumbed to the Armageddon complex, the more they will be willing to fight back, realizing that absolutely everything is now on the line.

Good morning.

Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.

It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

How Are Trump’s Tariff Rates Calculated? The answer appears to begin with the total trade deficit America runs with its trading partners.

Trump not understand world trade. Trump crash global economy.

Barley growing on ground suffering from drought, with cracks in the soil. Credit: Wayne Hutchinson / Alamy Stock Photo

NEW – Global soil moisture in ‘irreversible’ decline due to climate change, study says | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org

Read here: buff.ly/rFU8bL3

DOGE Is Going to Kill a Lot of Americans The Democratic Party could spell this out clearly and consistently for voters.

"These agencies are being unlawfully defunded in a bid to justify privatization. Before Musk and other rentiers seize public assets, they’re deliberately breaking them to “prove” the right-wing myth of public-sector ineptitude. That’s the kind of thing a fighting Democratic Party could politicize."

Trump’s EPA aims to cut pollution rules projected to save nearly 200,000 lives: ‘People will be hurt’ Moves to roll back 31 pollution regulations risk public health and big annual healthcare savings, Guardian analysis shows

“For every million dollars of favors that Trump’s EPA is handing out to corporate polluters, the public suffers $6m in public health costs through asthma attacks, cancers and heart and lung disease. That’s a great deal for corporate polluters, but it's a bad deal for anyone else who breathes.”

The video of Trump’s deportees arriving in El Salvador is horrific.

This is 21st century Nazism.

Identities concealed, trafficked to a foreign labour camp. No due process, no evidence of crime. Dehumanised.

Where is the global outrage?

The crime is historic; the normalisation catastrophic.

Republicans Introduce Bill To Ban All Federal Labor Unions The GOP escalated its war on workers with the introduction of a bill to end federal labor unions. The Center Square reports: “Labor unions representing federal workers are facing another challenge to…

Republican bosses and scabs are the enemy of unions and workers.

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Check out the Kernza perennial eco beer at Big Grove.

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

Collaborators with the fascists.

Ocasio-Cortez mobilizes Democrats against Schumer plan as colleagues privately urge her to consider primary challenge | CNN Politics Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that she plans to mobilize her massive base of followers to oppose what she described as an “acquiesce” by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to accept th...

“I think there is a deep sense of outrage and betrayal,” Ocasio-Cortez told reporters. She said she and her fellow Democrats are “texting, calling, sending carrier pigeons,” to mobilize the Democratic base against Schumer’s plan to allow the GOP funding bill to advance.