“Investigate Midwest notes that 314 American farmers filed for Chapter 12 bankruptcies in 2025, up from 216 in 2024, a nearly 46% increase. Farmers in the Midwest and Southeast were hit particularly hard.”

“The full impact of rising energy costs on food likely has not hit retail grocery prices yet in the U.S., according to Purdue University economists Ken Foster and Bernhard Dalheimer. Higher costs to produce, process, store and transport food can take three to six months to show up…”

Did you hear my segment about how we need Dems who are not part of the problem, who don't put the Republican Party and their authoritarian agenda ahead of their own party? Dear F-ing Lord Amy! But I bet you have your stern wagging finger ready to go. www.startribune.com/klobuchar-pi...

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A 10-year-old wrote MAGA Congresswoman Virginia Foxx for a school project. He chose to write about an electric vehicle tax credit. He thought it was good for the environment. Virginia responded by attacking him and his teacher for being propagandized. These people have power over your life.

This is so bad. Who else is sick and tired of Donald Trump’s waste, fraud, and abuse? He doesn’t give a shit about anybody except himself and his rich buddies. The federal budget and our tax dollars are just his personal burn pile.

Today, I offered an amendment to the Energy Omnibus bill that would institute a statewide moratorium on data centers until we can better understand their impact on our communities.

A.I. encourages adults to offload and outsource their cognitive tasks, leading to atrophy of thought. The consequences for children with still-developing brains may be more dire,  Jessica Winter writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

The Trump regime actually let two guys with zero government experience use ChatGPT to cancel $100M in grants—including Holocaust education. A federal judge just humiliated them, called it unconstitutional, and reversed every single cut. Read how she did it: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-federal-...

It's great to see these Republicans literally running away, and then Raphael Warnock gets the question and stops, knocks the dirt off his cleats, brings the bat back and ...

There's been so much over 5 days, quick recap: —TN: GOP passed new map, erase Dem seat —VA: State SC struck down Dem referendum —AL: SCOTUS blessed GOP move to cancel ongoing elections, erase Dem seat —MO: State SC stalled veto referendum, allows GOP to end Dem seat —SC: Rushed GOP redraw derails

Wow. Sad news. RIP

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

Straight up Klan talk from the 1920s. The reference to Islam is the only thing that would mark this as something from our own era.

I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

It is essential to condemn those who believe they have the right to exploit and harm our natural environment.

Rod Stewart to King Charles on his visit with Trump: “Hello, sir. May I say well done in the Americas. You were superb. Absolutely superb. You put that little rat bag in his place.”

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Can confirm

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

The one who stays is the HERO.. .

· #AcademicSky · If students rely on AI summaries as starting points – or substitutes for enquiry – they risk bypassing the processes higher education is designed to cultivate: comparison, evaluation and critical analysis. Cayce Myers offers solutions via @timeshighered.bsky.social.

Since Klobuchar got in, Lisa Demuth is running for second place in the guv‘s race, and while I never discount DFL divisions messing things up, this ought to pretty much doom her. www.startribune.com/parents-of-s...

Chicago teen battling terminal cancer dies hours after reuniting with parents An 18-year-old Chicago resident battling terminal cancer has died, just one day after being reunited with his parents following their release from U.S. immigration custody.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

“Alexa, show us an interview you couldn’t pay us any amount of money to watch”

A lot has happened, but not much has changed.

Wow. Officials “discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

Caitlin Clark is currently hanging out with a notoriously racist singer in case you were wondering who she is as a person

I’m with her!!

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

The profits are up. The CEO pay is up. What about the workers?

"[W]hen we were stripped and shorn of our hair, Magda asked me, ‘How do I look?’ She looked like a mangy dog, but I told her: ‘Your eyes are so beautiful. I never noticed when you had all that hair.’” www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Justice Alito relied on misleading data to support his claim that “Black voters now participate in elections at similar rates as the rest of the electorate." Using the DOJ’s data, Alito omitted the fact that the racial voter gap is actually widening. trib.al/QIDuIYb

The Fix is In

Somali leaders: Hateful rhetoric is leading to widespread harassment minnesotareformer.com/briefs/somal...

In the 1970s, the KKK realized they couldn't win with sheets and burning crosses. They created a money slush fund and started buying influence. They were more successful than they ever dreamed. They now own the GOP and the Supreme Court. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Gas prices don't move randomly. There's a pattern. Global conflict spikes, prices spike. We were promised costs would come down on day one. We were promised no new wars. The facts are the facts: Nevadans are paying over $5 at the pump. And they deserve answers.

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so

There's a word missing from this awful story of hundreds of thousands of trees destroyed due to DelMonte's bankruptcy: tariffs, which greatly increased the cost of canning. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...?

SEN. SARA KYLE: “This is the most important vote we will ever take. We know where we stand - we stand on the right side of history. This IS about race.” #Memphis #JimCrow @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn @SenJohnson