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Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers. When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it. They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long. In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it. The flowers attract a standing army to our fields. We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

What a fucking joke this has all become

@BDisgusting Does Scully peg Mulder?

The biggest story that's flying under the radar this week? Chris Carter's brand new Director's Cut of THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE, representing the scarier version of the 2008 movie he had originally wanted to make, is coming to Disney+: bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3952442/…

The only guy to truly raise hell about the Epstein files, and a recent critic of Israel, and instantly loses after 14 years of near uncontested elections. Makes you fucking think

@tedcruz I proudly stood in the way of your AI-data center amendment to the Big Beautiful Bill that would have given those companies immunity from the law. In fact, @mtgreenee and I got it stripped from the bill. Did your big tech cronies still let you cash their checks after you failed?

Massie won voters under 45 by 30 points. The boomers continue to destroy this country.

>win re-election consistently for the last 14 years >mildly criticize Israel once >instantly lose Interesting.

Schlitz beer discontinued after 177 years wgntv.com/news/chicago-n…

The Thomas Massie primary is truly insane. We are looking at the most expensive U.S. House primary in history, with spending pushing toward $35 million. Massie's opponent, Ed Gallrein, has raised just $2 million on his own. The rest of the money, over $14 million, is coming from outside Super PACs who desperately want Massie gone. On top of that, Pete Hegseth is being deployed to Kentucky to campaign against him. Stephen Miller & Con Inc. have been on massive Twitter tirades attacking him. And there was a highly coordinated smear campaign of unfounded allegations launched this week by Con Inc. influencers. When the establishment is willing to spend $35M+ and go to these lengths to take one man down, it really makes you wonder why. Whether you like Massie or not, this election will determine whether or not we as voters actually have a voice anymore. If outside special-interest money can successfully buy a seat and sway an election like this, we have a serious, serious problem.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Anthony Fauci accused under oath by CIA whistleblower of helping cover up the origins of COVID-19.

BREAKING: NVIDIA is now worth more than the GDP of every country in the world except the USA and China.

@Polymarket He will win reelection.

JUST IN: Thomas Massie's reelection odds are tanking amid hush money allegations from an ex-girlfriend. He's now projected to be unseated.

I don't think enough people realize we're about five years out from people going to rehab for phones

Anthony bourdain used to shoot heroin on break at brasserie les halles but starbucks cant hire me without a drug test

I’ll admit, when I was a kid in the 90s I definitely thought that Kid Rock would have less direct involvement with military operations

Do you have any idea the absolute hellscape we are entering?

Piers Morgan asked Russell Brand which passages were relevant to him when he brought a Bible into court.

This is what people mean when they say that poverty is systemic and a class issue, and not because of personal choices.