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robert

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robert

@rfhirschfeld

A link in a chain. If I say something mean about farmers, rest assured I’m talking about those other guys, not you, I’m sure you are a true steward.

Joined February 2011

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robert
@rfhirschfeld
Feb 17, 2025
With songs referencing Palestine, Greenland, Mexico, western fires & water wars, and an overarching theme of disintegrating American empire, some enterprising young conspiracy theorist should look into why Common Loon's Long Dream of Birds is the Rosetta Stone of the 21st century
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robert
@rfhirschfeld
Jun 20, 2025
“How much space do wild things need” is one of the saddest, most impoverished understandings of life, common to many now.
Richard Hanania
@RichardHanania
Jun 20, 2025
Does the federal government really need all this land? I like beavers and elk, but how much space do they need?
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robert
@rfhirschfeld
Oct 22, 2025
This is a bigger story than the tattoo. You are being watched. Everything you do is going in the Permanent Record just in case they need it.
Maine State Press
@MaineStatePress
Oct 21, 2025
New details are emerging about the recent Politico article on Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner. The report highlighted a deleted Reddit account allegedly tied to Platner — but notably did not explain how that account was located or verified. Multiple political
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robert
@rfhirschfeld
Aug 29, 2024
Yeah I’m a RETVRN guy RETVRN the Midwest to tallgrass prairie
Patrick Heizer
@PatrickHeizer
Aug 29, 2024
How very sad we took American Prairie, one of the most unique, diverse, and productive ecosystems on the planet, and turned it into chemical-drenched, fossil-fuel burning, mindless-monocrop corn/soy rotation.
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robert
@rfhirschfeld
Jun 20, 2025
Replying to @rfhirschfeld
In Illinois, this is the space we give wildlife: a tiny sliver of drainage ditch in the vast expanse of corn and soy. It's not habitat so much as conduit for farm pollution where animals try, against odds, to survive. IL ranks in the bottom 5 states for % of public land, btw.
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robert
@rfhirschfeld
Aug 1, 2025
“Testing of 10 of the insects revealed an average of seven pesticides in each, and at levels that researchers suspect were lethal”
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robert
@rfhirschfeld
Mar 7, 2025
“In 20 years, the fleeting time it takes for a human baby to grow into a young adult, the country has lost 22 percent of its butterflies, researchers found.”
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robert
@rfhirschfeld
Sep 7, 2024
FIFY, @washingtonpost
robert
@rfhirschfeld
Sep 7, 2024
Headline malpractice, @washingtonpost. Just Terrible. A bat disease meant more insects so farmers used more pesticides, and a study found increased pesticide use led to more infant deaths. This headline is engineered to get people to freak out about bats, not pesticides.
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robert
@rfhirschfeld
Apr 9, 2025
The other thing about the dire wolves that disturbs me: This can be used as a permission slip to go 19th century on what little wildlife remains. “Don’t worry about it, if we kill off [X], we’ll just bring em back!”
Dave Peasant, Aspiring Lorax
@aspiringpeasant
Apr 7, 2025
These aren’t Dire Wolves. They’re lying to get you hyped and to raise money that *could* be spent protecting the wolves we *have* Fuck these clowns.
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robert
@rfhirschfeld
Oct 22, 2025
Replying to @rfhirschfeld
What do you think, is it "dramatic histrionics" that Palantir is building a master database to keep track of all Americans for the Trump Administration?
flatlinecon
@flconstruct
Oct 22, 2025
Replying to @rfhirschfeld
His Twitter account used to link to it No need for these dramatic histrionics
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robert
@rfhirschfeld
Jun 11, 2025
I know the official name of the Gulf is a controversial topic, so I'd like to propose my compromise solution that has the benefit of brutal honesty.
robert
@rfhirschfeld
Jun 11, 2025
"Average Summer Dead Zone" is my new album that will be dropping later this year. A 5,500 sq mile (roughly the size of Connecticut) dead zone in the Gulf of Whatever is expected this summer. Just an average dead zone in over-fertilized middle America. Good job farmers!
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robert
@rfhirschfeld
Jun 14, 2024
"Ethanol is just comically inefficient solar energy." - @tomphilpott thefern.org/2024/01/ethano…
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robert
@rfhirschfeld
Aug 28, 2024
60% of stream miles assessed by Illinois EPA are too polluted to support indigenous aquatic life 80% of streams are too polluted to support human contact 100% of streams are too polluted to support fish consumption 75% of IL is in agriculture This is not a coincidence
Alex Miller
@alexlmiller
Aug 27, 2024
Spend any time in a rural area and you will find they care far more (and more genuinely) about most environmental issues than folks in cities.
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robert
@rfhirschfeld
May 31, 2024
Tomorrow is National Prairie Day so it's a good time to remind everyone that Illinois calls itself "The Prairie State." But a more honest name would be "The No More Prairie State." (original image by @BOUCUR, I believe)
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