born again hippie and prairie conservationist. C4 graminoid in a C3 dominated world.

Joined August 2021
The Asteraceae family is one of my favorites.
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Ben the Botanist retweeted
What’s happening in France is a wake-up call to the entire world. 🌍 The cost of living keeps rising while everyday people struggle to survive. People are tired of working hard just to barely get by. Governments need to start listening to the people before frustration turns into chaos. 💯🙏🏽
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Hasan Piker's rant about the Republican Party. Not one lie was told: "I'm just so goddamn annoyed that they get away with everything. They get away with everything, dude. They can be so incompetent. They can just do heinous crimes all the time. It makes me annoyed that right-wingers can get away with everything, meanwhile James Talarico can't even have the fucking flu for a week without people being like, 'Oh, he's a homosexual demon, who's having gay sex at the mental health facility where he's also getting bottom surgery. Why didn't you address it fast enough? Were you getting top surgery as well?' It's just so fucking annoying. We are being bullied endlessly by some of the dumbest, most hateful fucking individuals of all time. They just run the show. They dominate discourse. We have to constantly be in a panicked state that they're going to come after us. It's so imbalanced. The asymmetry is unbelievable. We're at their mercy all the time. We're held hostage by some of the stupidest fucking people on the planet."
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Any Democrat using language that legitimizes Trump's persecution of Rep. Omar is complicit in his effort to denaturalize an elected official and silence her criticisms of him. It's not an "investigation." It's a racist, lawless vendetta against a Black, Muslim, immigrant woman.
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Peanuts Nov. 11, 1953
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I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Ben the Botanist retweeted
Bouteloua gracilis (Poaceae) #botany #grasses #taxonomy #plants #boutelouagracilis
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Every fucking word of this. OMG share this with everyone—crying my eyes out…
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OPINION: Following decades of expanding and protecting the wild lands that hold the ecosystem together, the Trump administration is working to fragment them, Writers on the Range contributor Andrew Hansen writes. #wyomingnews #yellowstone #publiclands wyofile.com/what-makes-yello…
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Ben the Botanist retweeted
He had bladder cancer. I think it’s good he’s not ashamed. We all have bodies people.
Deion “Piss the Bed” Sanders
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Deion Sanders had his bladder removed due to bladder cancer forbes.com/sites/briancas…
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Ben the Botanist retweeted
Genuine question: Did we have this many recalls before and it wasn't being covered? Or are we really this awful with food now?
The FDA has announced a recall of pepperoncini after a dead mouse was found floating in a jar.
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Ben the Botanist retweeted
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Hasan Piker's full speech at UT Austin's @UDems event. Despite the death threats, despite the suggestions from conservative, pro-Israel politicians who tried to get the university to cancel the event, Hasan still showed up and refused to be silenced. 🤍
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Ben the Botanist retweeted
I want Cornell to publish the essays they made those rapists write
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Ben the Botanist retweeted
Google Maps alone cannot show you the full scale of the destruction in Gaza. I took this video a short while ago in Gaza City.
Google Maps has been updated to show Zionist-holocausted Gaza. This is part of Rafah.
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Jennifer Welch: “Google Maps updates their satellite images of Gaza. These were homes. These were schools. These were hospitals. We paid to flatten it. Israel has done this with the United States as their partner with impunity. It’s disgusting, it’s immoral, it is a genocide and any politician who says we should still continue to give money to Israel right now to me is just unelectable”
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What are Republicans even about bro
🚨 Minnesota passes bill requiring lunch breaks for workers. 64 Republicans voted no.
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Obama is a smart guy, and has obviously read global history. Fascism finds fertile soil in declining living conditions. When he bailed out banks rather than homeowners, when he ensured insurance profits rather than healthcare, he was watering and fertilizing these fields.
🔥🚨BREAKING: President Obama is stressed out about the division in America and announced at Kamala Harris rally in Wisconsin that he wants to understand how America became so divided Obama: "I don't understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter."
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Ben the Botanist retweeted
it's genocide ( @amnesty ) it's genocide ( @hrw ) it's genocide ( @btselem ) it's genocide ( @MSF ) it's genocide (IAGS) it's genocide ( @alhaq_org ) it's genocide ( @UNHumanRights ) it's genocide ( @UN_HRC ) it's genocide ( @pchrgaza ) it's genocide ( @AlMezanCenter ) it's genocide ( @WarOnWant ) it's genocide ( @PHRIsrael ) it's genocide ( @fidh_en ) it's genocide (PHROC) it's genocide ( @LemkinInstitute ) it's genocide ( @theCCR ) it's genocide ( @ECCHRBerlin ) it's genocide ( @unitedforrights ) it's genocide ( @JURDIasso ) it's genocide ( @TheElders ) it's genocide ( @Oxfam ) it's not genocide based on the definition of genocide I invented literally right now ( @jkirchick )
Genocide or not?
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Ben the Botanist retweeted
Hasan Piker reacts to Stavros getting baited into defending him. You can literally see Stavvy struggle to say something really harsh about Hasan. Hasan explained that whenever his haters see clips of Stavros roasting him, they take it seriously. 😭
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Ben the Botanist retweeted
judge me by my enemies
Benjamin Netanyahu mentions Hasan Piker when attacking Zohran Mamdani "It's no wonder you praise criminals convicted of supporting Hamas, you count as friends people like Hasan Piker"
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