There is a lot of talk about how the SAVE act would disenfranchise voters of color. Here is what it could mean for Native voters:

An impressive ratio Klobuchar (pro ethanol skeet) has going there...

Not as fast as China is bringing down the price of solar, but who cares about that anyway.

I find it interesting they advertise in the times - not exactly the paper I would expect farmers or people making planting decisions to read.

Screenshot of the NYT on my phone, with random articles in the upper portion (“4 things ophthalmologists wish you knew about your eyes” and in the bottom a Syngenta stacked GMO ad saying “outmaneuver corn rootworm”.

Syngenta advertising GMO corn 🌽 to me as I read the NYT on my phone is really pretty random

Growing up in 1970s Italy in a family that had opposed fascism and paid a price for it, patriotism was an abhorrent concept.
Hailing from an island that had been used as a colony, whose language & cultural traditions had been marginalized in favor of some fake “Italian” traditions also didn’t help.

All creatures large and small are welcome at the water bowl. 👍
🦝 🕷️
I like how the spider uses its silk string to leave the water bowl. I zoom in to the bowl so we can see the spider a bit better as it was really small.

Well it looks like our juneberry is taking this weather as a sign it’s time to get growing. It’s a native plant - I hope 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞 it can take the cold we are going to get.

Screenshot of the daily temperatures in Iowa City from today (high 91 low 51) to tomorrow (high 56 low 21) till Wednesday (high 74 low49).

It’s 74 degrees at the moment in Iowa City - down from a high of 91. Tomorrow night we will go down to 21. We are nowhere close to the epicenter of the heat wave but the temperature swings are still really huge.

How are Dublin's flowers ahead of Virginia?! What a winter.

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

The “marvel” of the industrial food system is really a story of input dependence.

screenshot of the article heading at https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/geopolitics/2026/03/the-world-energy-shock-is-coming

The economic fallout from the Strait of Hormuz isn't a hypothetical — it's already there. Most people in Europe and the US just can't feel it yet. A threat on our new @newstatesman1913.bsky.social article: what's heading our way, and why the burden won't be shared equally. 1/

It’s absolutely infuriating

The Wolverine at the Ann Arbor station 🚉

Early morning train ride - days like this really make you realize how great it would be in so many ways to have better railroad infrastructure in the US.

I've lived a couple miles from the Pacific Ocean for over a decade now. In a typical year we've turned on the air conditioner for a few days-weeks in late summer and early fall.

It is running right now

The US is squandering its hegemonic power but hey no worries the Amurikan farm lobby is working really hard to play the very last notes on the US Titanic. With taxpayer subsidized violins, of course.

This crisis is worse than one caused by the Ukrainian war, b/c it is completely self inflicted and infrastructure is being destroyed in the whole region. Regardless, just like then, to waste land and fertilizer to produce corn for ethanol in the US is, again, a terrible waste. People will go hungry.

How the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin got their land back - Chicago Reader Unsettling Territory by Douglas Kiel chronicles the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin’s resilience during the 20th and 21st centuries.

The first review of my book is in from @chicagoreader.com!

Publication day for Unsettling Territory is less than a week away!!

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One of the most stark things about the Cesar Chavez allegations coming to light is witnessing how swiftly people move to remove his name, legacy and influence.

Meanwhile, every white man credibly accused of sexual abuse is given endless obfuscation and excuses to preserve his image.

I am literally here taking a break from using some of these very USDA data that are being cut. This will be very very bad for research on environmental problems and consolidation (what I am working on), plus, as IATP notes, labor.

There was already a trend to privatize data access in agriculture, w/ a bunch of middlemen essentially repackaging or supplementing USDA data. This will make things much worse and middlemen (selling an inferior product) richer.
Data like this is essentially information and thus a public good.

Iowa water policy

The Cesar Chavez statue is encased in a plywood box on the campus of Fresno State University in Fresno on Wednesday. (Tomas Ovalle / For The LA Times)

Considering that Minnesota is the second largest hog 🐖 producing state in the country, my first reaction was, as in “Leave a (💩 for the) Future”…

Amazing that people get paid for this. By students, parents such as me (literally, my Gopher kid graduated in 2025) and taxpayers.

fuck it, we're posting frolicking content.

Snowy plover edition.

Ok, maybe less frolicking and more scootering. sadly, not completely in focus, but hey, they're little guys!

🪶

This whole thread on Paul Ehrlich by Dr. Thierry is excellent.
Unfortunately it's still all too common to see these attitudes in social science university departments. Truly disgraceful & one of the many pieces of evidence that many (too many) academics aren't as radical as they are made out to be.

Cloud of words in various colors and sizes based on a Google Scholar profile. Some of the largest words include corn agricultural change climate conservation water watershed assessment energy iowa belt illinois river agriculture analysis floodplain impact impacts lower modeling program scenarios tillage alternative basin bioenergy cellulosic crop economic ecosystem

Here is my word cloud from scholargoggler.com!
(It has its own alt text tab which I love)

Paraphrasing Upton Sinclair, It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his profit and ability to continue to do business as usual depend on his not understanding it.

Oh hey and I didn't even mention the massive negative environmental impacts of 🌽 production and the opportunity costs of using 40% of US cropland to grow it. Nothing new, just a bunch of people making bank over the rotting corpse of the Heartland, once more, with gusto and the help of small science.