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Sama Hoole @SamaHoole - California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Each almond requires 3.2 gallons of actual irrigation water to grow. Not rainfall. Actual tap water pumped from aquifers.
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One gallon of almond milk requires 162 gallons of irrigation water. Compare that to dairy milk at 8 gallons of tap water per gallon, with the rest being rainfall that falls on pasture anyway.
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But here's where it gets properly grim. Almonds bloom for exactly three weeks in February. During those three weeks, California needs every pollinating bee in North America transported to the Central Valley or the crop fails entirely.
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Commercial beekeepers truck in 31 billion honeybees. That's two-thirds of America's entire managed bee population, all concentrated in one valley for three weeks. The bees are packed into trucks, driven across the country, dumped into almond groves drenched in pesticides, worked to exhaustion, then packed up and shipped to the next crop.
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The mortality rate is catastrophic. Beekeepers report losing 30 to 50% of their hives annually. That's billions of bees dead. Not from natural causes. From being used as disposable pollination machines for your almond milk.
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The pesticides don't help. Almond groves are sprayed with neonicotinoids which scramble bee navigation systems, fungicides which weaken their immune systems, and herbicides which eliminate the wildflowers they'd normally forage on between almond blooms.
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Meanwhile the aquifer depletion is permanent. The Central Valley has sunk 28 feet in some areas from groundwater extraction. That water took 10,000 years to accumulate. It's being drained in decades for almond milk.
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Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet.
https://x.com/SamaHoole/status/2015647929172680922
Sandy Petersen @SandyofCthulhu - Joe Medicine Crow was the last Indian to become a war chief. This was in World War 2. He served with the 103rd infantry (the same one my father-in-law was in!). He fulfilled the four necessary war deeds"
1) touching a living enemy. He disarmed a German soldier in hand-to-hand fighting.
2) disarming an enemy. In the same encounter, he took the German's rifle.
3) leading a war party. He led a team to secure a forward position on an observation hill.
4) stealing horses. He captured 50 SS horses (used for towing wagons) from a corral, and sang a Crow war song during it.
He got the Bronze Star and Legion d'honneur. He died in 2016, the last War Chief to earn this rank.
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The chief of the Yamaka tribe visiting his son, Bill Yallup, while he was serving in a tank unit in the US army (1954)
https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2015487711252299846
Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins - Video: God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1 ๐
As a major winter storm moves across America, we pray for protection, safety, and peace over every family, every traveler, and every community. Even in the storm, Godโs hand is steady.
Thank you @epaleezeldin for this incredible video! ๐ฆ
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https://x.com/SecRollins/status/2015452104283013270
Secretary Chris Wright @SecretaryWright - Video: Think of how cold it is on the East Coast right nowโBidenโs energy policies sought to remove 17GW of firm reliable coal capacity from the grid, increasing the risk of blackouts and outages when Americans need reliable and secure energy most.
That nonsense stops with this administration.
https://x.com/SecretaryWright/status/2015894222415556839
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