A bill moving through the Wisconsin Legislature would offer low-interest loans to small dairy farmers to boost efficiency as the state’s dairy industry rapidly consolidates into larger industrial operations. @jmcjmc.bsky.social reports for @investigatemidwest.bsky.social:

@nancylacore.bsky.social I just looked at your priorities page on your website. Really? Just cliche platitudes but not a single policy proposal telling SC-1 voters how you would go about addressing and solving the problems/challenges they are living with each day. You ain't ready for prime time.

@jeromiewhalen.bsky.social Neal takes campaign cash from the three PBMs - Caremark, OptumRx, and Express Scripts - that control 80% of the market, but your pathetic campaign never hits RubberRichie on it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_khH...

KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?” @pkrugman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Buffalo Bills are chokers and losers: www.yahoo.com/sports/nfl/a...

This photograph says it all

@wallachlori.bsky.social Happy Birthday Lori and many, many more!

Our latest audit identified violations of state regulations at the Holyoke & Chelsea Veterans Homes, calling for better oversight & emergency preparedness. We’re pursuing legal action to access records the Governor unlawfully withheld. Our veterans deserve transparency. #mapoli

Ah, elections have consequences don't they: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/u...

@mszafranski.bsky.social Now hearing from a top Franklin Co. Dem that Merrigan is angling to get his daughter Brady to run for 1st Franklin seat. This makes more sense given his age and the commute.

The Fall of Mariano sounds like a movie about a dictatorial speaker being toppled from power www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/14/m...

Not bad, but Affleck fucked up Leyden. He called it layden when it's pronounced lie-den. Fallon also whiffed on a few. Damon was perfect! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/14/a...

@andybeshearky.bsky.social Lets hope the DGA doesn't make a stupid mistake like this.

Another horrible FR quarter for @jeromiewhalen.bsky.social with less than $43,000 raised (and now less than $100K for the campaign) docquery.fec.gov/pdf/889/2026...

The @electdemocrats.bsky.social just hired a guy as their "rural engagement manager" who has worked for two House members from Chicago (hint, it ain't the boondocks) and is a greenhorn just three years out of college. This sadly is just more tokenism and identity politics from the D-trip.

@warren.senate.gov Oh Granny, you're such a hypocrite. You blast billionaire donors - the same corporate special interests that fund Rep. Richie Neal - who you called "the best partner in the world" on 7/22/18 in Great Barrington.

A party that was able to absorb the lesson of why these candidates have been successful, though, could be a truly national party again. It would be in a position to see not just why it has become so culturally off-putting to so many Americans, www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...

I know where to start

Can someone give rural America some love? www.hometownsource.com/morrison_cou...

Therefore, the 1st response of Dems to instances like the MN fraud findings should not be to criticize the other side for attacking them & wave the bloody shirt of racism against Trump but rather to stress the seriousness of the problem & how it will not be tolerated www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/o...

Can't say I blame @klobuchar.senate.gov for looking at the governor's office. It's hard to see her becoming chair of Senate Ag Committee until sometime in her 70s given how tough it will be for Dems to flip the Senate in '26, '28 and '30.

@drmariahlancaster.bsky.social Didn't your clueless consultants tell you that your priorities page should include specific policy solutions you would pursue as a legislator instead of insulting MA-6 voters by just listing the problems they are already dealing with in their daily lives?

I made a Bluefish Chowder with lobster stock base. Really yummy!

Morse ran on Medicare for All in 2020 and was crushed into a fine powder by Neal and blown away.

Some narcissistic self-serving USFWS higher ups refused to ESA list the greater sage grouse bc they wanted political points for being“team players”w/BLM, drillers etc,not caring it guaranteed the bird‘s status would continue to significantly deteriorate www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/blm-wea...

@charliesaito22.bsky.social Hot off the press: www.republic.land/the-last-ref...

@trenni.bsky.social 🚨 Sunday I was praising Diggs and tonight NBC News is reporting he could possibly be suspended for playoff game action. WTF!

The books—old and new—that our readers and staff enjoyed this year barnraisingmedia.com/our-readers-...

@peggyflanagan.bsky.social As you watch this, take note of all the BigAg corporate special interests who are funding Rep. Craig's campaign.

The BigAg companies in this video are some of the same ones who have bought & paid for @repangiecraig.bsky.social and are funding her US Senate race.

We asked Barn Raiser readers to tell us the best books they read this year. Here is what they said. barnraisingmedia.com/our-readers-...

@andybeshearky.bsky.social As you look to 2028, how about a New Year's resolution to dump Lucas Johnson. He may have been an asset to you in KY, but he's a huge liability to you nationally as you eye a White House bid.

This caption should be: Democrats still in the wilderness.

@trenni.bsky.social Wow, what about Diggs! All that pre-season speculation on how he would perform and he's at 970 yards with a chance to go over 1,000 next week at home!

She's a show horse not a work horse. She's abusive to her staff.

Such a waste of time and human capital. Go into Holyoke, Springfield and other Hampden Co. cities and register folks to vote who have long stopped voting in Dem primaries. Or get on the phone a dial for dollars before the end of the fundraising quarter on Wednesday.

I read 38 books this year and I loved them all!

Another huge weakness with this piece www.politico.com/news/2025/12... is that the authors equate rural with ag, when today, farmers are less than 1% of the population.

@sambbenson.bsky.social I wish just once reporters would talk w/local candidates who run in tough districts to get a flavor for what's going on at ground level. Just can't take seriously anything from folks like Libby Schneider (did nothing as DNC Rural Advisor) & Anthony Flaccavento (2-time loser)

@marciabrown.bsky.social I wish just once reporters would talk w/local candidates who run in tough districts to get a flavor for what's going on at ground level. Just can't take seriously anything from folks like Libby Schneider (did nothing as DNC Rural Advisor) & Anthony Flaccavento (2-time loser)

Tariff-ravaged farmers exhausted with Trump using them as 'pawns': report www.rawstory.com/trump-farmer...

@sethmoulton.bsky.social Here's a New Year's resolution for ya: You need to step up your Senate campaign game - bigly. Not seeing fire in the belly for this candidacy so far. You've got a warchest but supporters can't even get a bumper sticker yet & we're 8 months from the primary.

Packers back into the playoffs which means Packers haters like me get to watch them trip over their own dicks in the playoffs (like every year) while their fans blame the refs and injuries for it.