"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack Wins the BAFTA." www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZT6...

NPR asks: "Is the U.S. slipping into 'Competitive Authoritarianism?’”https://npr.org/2026/05/13/nx-s1-5816313/word-of-week-competitive-authoritarianism Yes, with Republicans in power.

Much is needed to fix the moral and legal corruption that has come to us from the Republican MAGA, and its Supreme Court. How about a code of ethics? Everyone else has one. For the other assaults on democracy, how about Nuremberg-style accountability trials? www.youtube.com/watch?v=r93w...

One of these days I'll make a bibliography of all of my reviews of what Michael Pollan has done on farm bill issues. Here's a review of a very important piece. Strangly, Pollan sort of knows better, and sort of doesn't. znetwork.org/zblogs/natio...

Farmers need to keep talking about the need for being included in discussions, as few non-farmers know what has really gone wrong with the farm bill, and how farmers, mostly alone, tried to stop it. If you don’t even know that the policy ever existed you’re stuck. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

NFFC Vice Pres Tiffany Bellfield El-Amin of Kentucky Black Farmers Association was interviewed about the USDA's decision to end race- or sex-based criteria in decision-making for its programs. The loss of inclusivity is her top concern.

I finally got my copy of “When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the age of Reagan, 1978-1992,” by @coryhaala.bsky.social. Great coverage for #Iowa, #Minnesota, #SouthDakota, #Wisconsin, #Illinois. No other recent Iowa author book comes close to the references here. Candidates!

Here's a new piece I found and re-worked to post online. It was originally part of my overture for the Presbyterian Church, where I listed "12 Arguments." Brad Wilson, "The Many Arguments for Restoring New Deal Farm Programs," Family Farm Justice, 3/4/26, familyfarmjustice.me/2026/03/04/t....

On LinkedIn a guy was warning about how agriculture across the country might start to look more like California. So I made him this chart, to show how profitability, measured as a simple Return on Equity compares.

Farm subsidies are often shown as a proportion of Net Farm Income but should really be shown in relation to Gross Receipts of Farms (& similar). I’ve started a series where I’m doing that for major #farm states. Here’s Minnesota.

Here’s my new slide show on The Rise and Fall of Farming in Iowa. I am making similar slide shows on 20 or more other states of the Midwest and beyond. It explains what’s behind the recent rise in farm foreclosures. drive.google.com/file/d/1VIHt...

Has @ceja-action.org been able to avoid submitting to the dozens of farm subsidy myths that have diverted so many organizations and activists away from the needed farm policy solutions? drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Is @ceja-action.org looking in to the ways that the reducing and ending of the New Deal farm programs has hurt the rural environment in California? It's been a huge factor here in Iowa. familyfarmjustice.me/2022/07/31/y...

Republicans have been asking me why Democrats are not congratulating Trump for his supposed pause in the genocide and ethnic cleansing, (where Israel quickly continued it). "The Israeli-US plan is coercive, colonial, and patently illegal.” znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

Murder on the High Seas: Trump Orders Killings of Venezuelans in International Waters youtu.be/ns8av0r475c?...

Talk about a rising farm crisis due to high input costs and cheap prices is going viral. @nfudc.bsky.social must use this teachable moment to inform people of it's #FarmBill proposal. (Did they prioritize this on the Fly In?)Save $100 billion while helping farmers. ‪@mnfarmersunion.bsky.social‬

Talk about a rising farm crisis is going viral. It's essential that @familyfarmco.bsky.social teach people about their farm bill proposal in this teachable moment, (we're way behind on teaching it. Food/Enviro advocates don't know the issue, support agbiz). www.inmotionmagazine.com/ra08/FFFA200...

Republicans haven't been good for farmers and rural Iowa. www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ru...

Let’s remember what Trump 1.0 did to farmers. www.slideshare.net/slideshow/tr...

My primer on the Food Poverty Crisis, though not updated for a while, shows organizations and academics who understand the core farm justice and trade justice farm policies and programs. znetwork.org/zblogs/food-... See also my Farm Justice Primer, which is linked there as well.

The #FarmBill has global impacts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQyx...

The newer farm bill advocates have lived in a world of myth for too long, (as have the older conservatives). The issues at stake are huge. We need to get better. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_ty...

@lewismumford.bsky.social "The most precious collective invention of civilization, the city, second only to language itself in the transmission of culture, became from the outset the container of disruptive internal forces, directed toward ceaseless destruction and extermination." LM City in History

The newer #FarmBill advocates seem to have forgotten how agribusiness has lobbied to reduce and end #FarmJustice farm programs, such as with a goal of running 1/3 of farmers out of business within five years. In misunderstanding it they follow an agribusiness narrative. znetwork.org/zblogs/are-f...

@lewismumford.bsky.social "...People used to sum up [a] strange conviction by saying: You cannot turn the hands of the clock backward. But as a matter of demonstrable fact, that is neither practically nor metaphorically true.” L.M., In the Name of Sanity

@lewismumford.bsky.social ‪“The machine itself makes no demands and holds out no promises: it is the human spirit that makes demands and keeps promises.” L.M., Technics and Civilization

@lewismumford.bsky.social "Ritual, art, poetry, drama, music, dance, philosophy, science, myth, religion are all as essential to man as his daily bread:..." L.M. The Condition of Man

There's much discussion lately about Iowa's water quality, in relation to corn and soybeans. Does no one remember that, for decades, farm programs called for reducing corn/soybean acres? That farmers called for greatly increasing the reductions, (end farm-to-CAFO subsidies)? & Tom Harkin?

@lewismumford.bsky.social "The Capacity for growth... [continued] to stir his imagination and encourage him in further acts of expression both in the mind and in his daily performances of life-sustaining work and human nurture.” L.M. The Myth of the Machine: The Pentagon of Power

@lewismumford.bsky.social "For those of us who have thrown off the myth of the machine, the next move is ours: for the gates of the technocratic prison will open automatically, despite their rusty ancient hinges, as soon as we choose to walk out." L.M. The Myth of the Machine, v2, last line.

@lewismumford.bsky.social "“The capacity for growth, exuberant expression and transcendence, symbolized esthetically... by the flowering plants--this is the primal gift of life; and in man it flourishes best when living creatures and equally living symbols are constantly present,..."

@lewismumford.bsky.social "“Whereas the mark of the machine age was the dehumanization of man, the new age will give primacy to the person, so that ethics and the humane arts will dominate politics and technics." L.M. The Conduct of Life

@lewismumford.bsky.social “Great cities might be leveled to the ground, their temples ransacked, their libraries and records burned: but the village at least would spring up again, like fireweed, in the ruins.” LM The Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human Development

Written during the Trump administration. familyfarmjustice.me/2018/04/27/1... Farmers are asking about why there is little memory of the 1980s #FarmCrisis today.

Here's Jesse Jackson's take on the #FarmBill. from one of his 1980s Presidential campaigns. He started his campaign in a rural Iowa town, with Family Farm Leaders on board, John Norris campaign director, Jay Howe Iowa director, Merle Hansen, Farm advisor. familyfarmjustice.me/2022/08/11/j...

@lewismumford.bsky.social Here's a piece I wrote about Lewis Mumford and agriculture, starting with ideas from Technics and Civilization, (the basic bit about mining,) and going on from there. znetwork.org/zblogs/the-c...

@lewismumford.bsky.social I once had a dream in which I met Lewis Mumford coming down he stairs, and woke up in tears. And look! Here he is, still down the stairs!

Anyone out there teaching about the #FarmBill? Writing about it? Advocating on it? What's your literacy about the history of advocacy for 1950-2000, about the Family Farm (Farm Justice) Movement, (the lead advocates & reformers from back then). Try my test. familyfarmjustice.me/2022/09/15/f...

The DC Bar recommends Jeffrey Clark - an architect of the insurrection - be disbarred.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the crown jewel of knowledge about jobs and the economy. Trump has destroyed the credibility of this extraordinarily important source of information. This should alarm everyone. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-destroys-our-source-of-information

Looks like we are a unified nation after all.

COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to? HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

BREAKING: We're suing ICE for unlawfully targeting and arresting people who show up to court for their immigration hearings.

Almost everyone misunderstands Black farm losses. Here I review an ‪@ewgofficial.bsky.social‬ timeline on the question, correcting myths & filling in omissions. This relates to the work of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, the lead Black Farmer org. familyfarmjustice.me/2023/02/18/e...

Here's a video review I made that works quite well to show how most people get the farm subsidy issue wrong, because they don't now how to "follow the [MEGA] money." They don't know what a real #FarmBill was, and needs to be. & corollaries follow from that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQke...

No-Till farming, besides using lots of pesticides and fertilizers, can lead to a loss of crop residue, when no-till soybean planters cut up corn stalks into small, floating pieces, and you get a heavy rain.

@anneschech.bsky.social I've been doing a lot of data work on how increasingly Republican farm policies have hurt various states. You might find my sneak preview of impacts on Michigan farmers interesting. Here. drive.google.com/file/d/1A3uM...

@jimhightower.com spoke at the introduction of the Family Farm Act in 1987. Great speech. It starts at about 20 minute mark. www.c-span.org/program/news...!