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Journalist, food & agriculture. Editing @OffrangeAg [email protected]
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Joined February 2011
"Hey, I know what the kids want more of right now: Alan Dershowitz!"
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It’s harmful and disingenuous for American media to continue the charade that there’s a ceasefire in place.
BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say.
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NEWS: European advocates launch "Wikipedia of ICE agents" to expose enforcement network
migrantinsider.com
The Europe-based volunteer-built database links raids, agents, vehicles, and legal structures, aiming to break the cycle of official secrecy.
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‘Worst of the Worst’? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record
commondreams.org
Of 614 people on list who may have been unlawfully arrested and detained by federal officials, only 16 had a criminal record of any kind.
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Facing unprecedented tariffs on foreign agriculture products, should the U.S. produce more of its own tea? A burgeoning cohort of growers thinks so! New from @DanielWWalton: https://t.co/6OdfoCn0jc
ambrook.com
Tea production has never had a stronghold in the U.S. — but demand for tea is rising, and climate change has handicapped foreign producers. Now, domestic growers may finally get their shot.
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During droughts, farmers are starting to "farm their own moisture." @MoiraDonovan looks into the next frontier in water procurement for agriculture, pulling water out of thin air: https://t.co/VTj4ZCeYdi
ambrook.com
Can farmers pull a solution to the water crisis out of thin air?
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Last night, cake didn't exist. My girlfriend saw a shooting star and wished it into existence. I'm the only one that remembers what it was like before. When we had to eat the birthday hog
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The U.S. will soon start mining more of its own potash, a fertilizer staple. But is this a good thing? Lela Nargi asks the real questions. https://t.co/1IOYgjVMee
ambrook.com
As the Trump administration fast-tracks mining for this potent fertilizer, advocacy groups sue over lack of environmental oversight.
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It's such an indictment of the status quo that two literal CHILDREN built a searchable database of affordable housing because the grownups who run the government didn't think to do it https://t.co/hIX7T76Y3B
nytimes.com
Two “children of the pandemic” did something the grown-ups who run the city have never managed to do.
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New research shows that antibiotic-resistant bacteria is increasingly linked to livestock manure. From @pragathi_r24: https://t.co/h3WsJGXNFy
ambrook.com
Manure management on cattle farms is key to stemming antibiotic resistance, new research finds.
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Roadtripped to California's Imperial Valley with @thxcarina back in August
Much of the our winter produce is grown in one economically depressed desert county, where a multi-billion dollar lithium mining industry looms on the horizon. Will Imperial Valley agriculture survive? Beautiful words: @thxcarina Photos: Christina Yergat https://t.co/7llYv3U0CI
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magazine articles are basically the only thing that go through this type of exhuastive process, books certainly do not
A look inside NYMAG's fact-checking process — very lengthy list of questions submitted by @AlexYablon to Epstein to fact-check a writer's 2015 profile of him. (The article didn't end up being published.)
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In our ongoing series of "Why not grow it here?," Offrange looks into North Carolina researchers who are trying to make ginger a lucrative domestic crop in the U.S. From Jonathan Feakins: https://t.co/j8fVF1z5vo
ambrook.com
We import almost all of this common kitchen ingredient, but a team of North Carolina researchers is asking: Why not grow it here?
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Really good at cracking buckets
9-year-old was working B.C. carnival ride when drunk patron fell out, breaking bones: regulator
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I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
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Much of the our winter produce is grown in one economically depressed desert county, where a multi-billion dollar lithium mining industry looms on the horizon. Will Imperial Valley agriculture survive? Beautiful words: @thxcarina Photos: Christina Yergat https://t.co/7llYv3U0CI
ambrook.com
Much of the United States’ winter produce is grown in one economically depressed desert county in California with a century-long agricultural history, where a multi-billion dollar lithium mining...
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I somehow managed to get sick AND to visit a desert for 48 hours on the hottest day of the year (118 deg). I did it all for you......dear reader........
Much of the our winter produce is grown in one economically depressed desert county, where a multi-billion dollar lithium mining industry looms on the horizon. Will Imperial Valley agriculture survive? Beautiful words: @thxcarina Photos: Christina Yergat https://t.co/7llYv3U0CI
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