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"I just blinked and you were gone," ancient universe speaking rhetorically about the human race.
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If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.
The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.
A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.
Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."
One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.
If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you.
The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.
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Ignoring Veterans is shameful. Service men and women are not small potatoes.
BREAKING: The Trump administration is now refusing payouts for US soldiers who died in the US-Israeli war against Iran "because it isn't a war," per Telegraph.
Libby Klinner, widow of 33-year-old Major Alex Klinner, says the US Air Force deemed her ineligible for additional benefits following her husband's death because Congress has not officially declared war. She says "my husband lost his life because we're in a war, and then I was told that because it's not technically a war, we lose out on something. It all comes down to principle."
Trump responded that US strikes on Iran were "intermittent" and said "a lot of people don't call it a war. I call it a military conflict, because it's small potatoes for us."
Families of US service members are now accusing the Pentagon of downplaying the extent of injuries sustained and saying they are not being treated by the US military as combat casualties.
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This view is held by many of us.
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday, that the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee a right to clean drinking water or truthful statements from government officials. I don’t say this lightly, but we’ve reached the point where there is no other option left except revolution.
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Driver with a guillotine in pickup truck arrested outside U.S. Capitol share.google/Y4ykWdz05BQed8a…
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Every day, millions of Americans wake up wondering how they'll pay the rent, afford groceries, fill up the gas tank or cover a medical bill.
Meanwhile, the people on top are doing better than ever.
My message to the ruling class is simple: You cannot have it all.
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Reminder.
Elon told us he bought the election for Trump.
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Can we get a class action started against Pfizer?
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Sorry @DannyDeVito but this is pretty funny and true.
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