"Washington's a historic city, and if you try to change your door or your front yard in a lot of different parts of the city, you would have to go through a whole big bureaucratic process," said @peterbakernyt.bsky.social. "Not if you're President of the United States, it turns out."

@washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social please let ppl know that the big ugly bill cut SNAP funding, set to happen after the midterms. The loss of the program due to shutdown will show how bad it will be

I know you have a paper on this topic, waiting to be published ….https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/72652/food-system-planning-governance-democratization-across-scales-pathways-toward-achieving-the-un-sustainable-development-goals-through-food-system-transformationundefined

#HandsOff Madison WI est 20k

Hands Off Madison Wisconsin - 10k?

Mexico’s President Sheinbaum knows how to handle Trump. What is her secret??

We commend the court’s decision to uphold the integrity and independence of the NLRB by ordering Gwynne Wilcox to be returned to her seat. A president cannot undermine an independent agency by removing a member of the board because they disagree with them. aflcio.org/press/releas...

I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

A trans Atlantic break. We have a gangster for President and Europe realized we need a new world leader.

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From: HLPE-FSN High Level Panel of Expert on Food Security and Nutrition 16 January. 🌍 Peace is the cornerstone of food security and nutrition, and upholding the #RightToFood is fundamental to human dignity. 🕊️ The HLPE-FSN welcomes the ceasefire in #Gaza

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. -- Rumi

120+ Indigenous tribal leaders have sent a letter asking for Executive Clemency for Leonard Peltier “A survivor of the federally funded boarding school system where he endured years of physical, emotional, and spiritual abuse” ndncollective.org/120-tribal-l... @ndncollective.bsky.social

Check out this video on REAP - started by a few people in a church basement circa 2001. www.linkedin.com/posts/clouds...

@Governor Evers pls support distribution services for independent food supply networks!

Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state, @mccrummen.bsky.social reports. Now their war begins.

I feel like the Icelandic Yule Cat, Jólakötturinn, is pretty well known at this point, but just in case you haven't heard... icelandicfolklore.is/the-yule-cat/

The flow state of cooperation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The impact of diesel emissions on transportation core nodes is understudied. Here is one: resphealth.org/wp-content/u...

Check out OECDs report on subsidies. www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

A federal judge just blocked Kroger's $24.6B acquisition of Albertsons. Four corporations control 70% of retail grocery sales in America. Kroger and Albertsons are two of those corporations. Less competition means more opportunity to price gouge. This deal was a rotten egg.

CAFOs and the factory farm gas industry are the latest climate-solution grifters with their greenwashing of "renewable" natural gas. Get the latest from the @iatp.bsky.social on how this bad #climate policy is entrenching CAFOs in our #rural communities www.iatp.org/bad-climate-policy-factory-farms

This week, alongside 40+ organizations in the EU Food Policy Coalition, we sent an open letter to the new EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Food, Christophe Hansen, calling for a just transition for European farming. Read it here: foodpolicycoalition.eu/wp-content/u...

👏👏👏 to DOJ/FTC (this is why political appointees matter) In food, you really did see the worst and best of Biden's political appointments: Khan/Kanter on one hand and Vilsack on the other.

The EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, says Russia has learned how to influence elections through new technologies.

If you want to understand why healthcare pricing is horrific, the first thing to know is that our system puts 100% of the credit risk for deductibles, copays and co-insurance on hospitals and doctors. That's insane. We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵

Kroger Albertsons merger blocked!

This program has had a major impact on Wisconsin foodsystems content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USD...

I had a convo w/ a Fox-watching neighbor who said they left the stock market when Biden won, against advice of their financial adviser. LOL She showed disdain for produce from Mexico, obviously not knowing they supplied 69% of our veggies & 51% of fresh fruits in 2022. www.yahoo.com/news/fruits-...

Exactly Sarah. Enough knee jerk-we can handle nuanced information. These are complex systems and deserve science based consideration.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James

The Biden-Harris Administration today announced that the USDA supported more than 23,000 climate-focused conservation contracts funded by the Inflation Reduction Act.

Going to be honest, I don't really care about diversity statements (don't want to start an argument though) for faculty applicants. What I do care about is preemptive mollification of Trump from people in (local) power, which will play out in the worst way possible if it's a general strategy.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. -- Carl Jung

One of my favorite things in the bird app was #ThrowbackThursday so I'm bringing it back! Today: contemporaneous evidence that soil erosion and deforestation were seen as problems in Iowa early on due to unsustainable practices & farming on marginal land (an issue that goes back to land sales) 1/

Farm Aid mourns the passing of our dear friend, Corky Jones, who passed yesterday at the age of 92. A lifelong farmer in Brownsville, Nebraska, Corky was a leader of the American Agriculture Movement and one of the leaders of the 1979 Tractorcade.

South Koreans went to offices, businesses and schools as usual with scarcely any visible signs in the capital Seoul that six hours of surprise martial law and high political drama overnight had spilled into everyday life reut.rs/3ZnvlAi 1/7

In three countries now suffering severe food crises, Reuters found that governments or rebels have blocked or falsified the flow of data to the world’s primary hunger monitor or have tried to suppress its findings reut.rs/3ODhXTJ 1/5

December 3, 2024 What just happened in South Korea ? HCR: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Call for Papers: Indigenous Heritage and Climate Activism – Global Indigenous Responses to Environmental Crisis. Chapters must be Indigenous-led and first authored. Send a title and short abstract, to [email protected] and [email protected] by 2/1/2025.

“Obviously Gableman was incapable of conducting a credible investigation. Vos hired him anyway, and gave the bumbling former justice a blank check. After months of secretive schemes & embarrassments, Gableman produced an error-ridden report “rife with misleading claims.” captimes.com/opinion/edit...

No more marches, but I have faith in women to stand up to Trump | Natasha Walter

Wake up and smell the coffee: rising food prices show destabilising impact of climate crisis | Heather Stewart

“The key takeaway from our comparative research is this: There are indeed choppy waters ahead for American democracy. But we are confident that the United States is a strong ship that even an unhinged captain cannot run aground.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -- Nietzsche

When an 8-year-old Nicaraguan boy was run over on a Wisconsin dairy farm, authorities blamed his father and closed the case. Meanwhile, the community of immigrant workers knows a completely different story. By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social and @maryamjameel.bsky.social (Published Feb. 2023)

Hi #immunosky @rafrancescone.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc candidate interested in immunology, with experience in flow cytometry, to run projects exploring mechanisms of immunosuppression in pancreatic cancer. Come to beautiful Michigan! Official announcement soon. DM us

Movement in the wrong direction…https://www.state.gov/statement-on-georgias-suspension-of-european-union-accession/