I feel so seen.

A new Food Bytes post on The Food Archive of "nibbles" on all things climate, food, nutrition, policy and culture. Up this month? Sushi! Pizza! Food environments! Meat lobbying! NCDs! Check it out: shorturl.at/2TNJX

1. The Trump Administration has disqualified thousands of rural communities from receiving expected funding to build broadband networks. "There’s going to be a lot of frustration with these changes and the way it walked back from what was going to be a very promising outcome.”

⬇️⬇️⬇️🤦‍♀️ such an important point!

It’s a sad state of affairs when this becomes a concern.

@mattcrf.bsky.social “As I consider all of the disruptions we’re encountering in Iowa, in the United States, and globally, I’m challenged to lean into my belief in the possibility of a hopeful and abundant future.” We need to re-envision democracy from the ground up. substack.com/@mattrussell...

Farmworkers keep America’s food system alive, but immigration raids & stalled reforms are reshaping their lives and our supply chains. Join Investigate Midwest tomorrow, Sept. 18 at noon CST for a free virtual panel on the future of farm labor. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/immigratio...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

www.cnn.com/2025/09/14/u...?

This loos fascinating! Thanks for posting @tressiemcphd.bsky.social!

The comments are even better!

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

President Trump’s immediate family is making a dizzying sum of money that would be unimaginable without his Presidencies, including profits from overseas deals and at least five different crypto ventures. How much does it all amount to?

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

At the Rural Sociological Society meeting in SLC. Discussion of indigenous relationships with land. This is powerful too: www.usu.edu/today/story/...

New research led by @umich.edu psychologist Ashley Gearhardt finds many ultra-processed foods meet the same criteria used to diagnose substance-use disorders. 👉 Hijack reward systems 👉 Mirror cocaine/alcohol addiction 👉 Largely unregulated Learn more: myumi.ch/MkJM4 #AddictionScience #FoodPolicy

Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.

Good morning 🫡

Written this morning. I once noted, "Dante had Beatrice. Orwell had Stalin." Negative muses are a thing. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-...

Dave Peters and I have a chapter here on Rural Communities: cepr.org/publications...

One week ago today, a lawmaker and her husband were shot and killed in an act of political violence. But you’d hardly know it based on today’s headlines. I can’t get over how quickly the country has gotten over it. That’s terrifying unto itself.

Our species built Stonehenge, Machu PIchu, and Chartres without large language models, wrote The Divine Comedy and Pride and Prejudice and The Book of the Tao without them, but could they make tuna melts without them?

Once again consolidation in the supply chain.

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

This really sucks for such a great scholar!

I was one of the semi-finalists who received this letter, telling me that the peer review committee recommended accepting my Fulbright proposal, but not giving me the fellowship. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... Fulbright Applicants Rejected Over “DEI” Research Proposals

Succinctly states where we are and what's happening. These three things, in addition to doing much else, are the sheet anchors of American wealth and power.

@pbump.com exactly how many people do the current Republican house members represent? With Senate, Repub members of Congress represent < half US pop. But do R House Members pushing through bad budget reconciliation bill represent a minority of Americans even though they are the majority?

@bsky.app I seem to only see a few people in my following feed even though many whom I follow have recent posts. Why?

More than 15,000 USDA staff - about 15% of the agency workforce - have taken Trump's financial incentive to quit, according to data shared with congress by the agency. And that number could rise. Who's leaving? Details in the chart below, and story here: www.reuters.com/world/us/mor...

Looks interesting!

On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n

BUFFALO: Join @ufw.bsky.social on Monday, May 5th for an emergency rally to demand the release of detained farm worker leaders.

Crazy - many importing firms are diverting shipments of goods from the US to Canada to store in warehouses, betting US tariffs will soon drop; If tariffs don't fall those goods will likely be sold in Canada at steep discounts, harming Canadian manufacturers. www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...

@basel.bsky.social and Farm Action have done good reporting on antitrust on eggs too…

#USDA gives DOGE approval power on high-level FSA loans, along with access to a lot of farmer financial info. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

What if the tariffs are a way to create a political patronage system here - bad for us and likely bad for the world.

Pastor Barber has a conscience.

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

Now that Walmart and Wall Street have weighed in, Trump says the China tariffs will come down. Meanwhile 1000s of small businesses are spinning out amid uncertainty and loss of supplies.

Meta stole my books as part of their AI training. They're saying the books they stole were essentially worthless. So. For the next four days, I'm running a reverse sale on my books on Itch. All my books cost more. Because fuck you, Meta, that's why. itch.io/s/151520/hey...

Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft are accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years<& what of taxes in other countries? theguardian.com/us-news/2025...?

I am following a number of accounts that never show up in my “following” feed. Why not? For instance: @matthewstoller.bsky.social @openmarkets.bsky.social @clairek.bsky.social

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

This 💯

1/ HOW TO TRIAGE AN IMMIGRATION EMERGENCY As someone who has been defending non-citizens in deportation proceedings since 2006, I am here to tell you that we know exactly who Trump's top targets will be, & how we can try to protect them NOW. NOT LEGAL ADVICE but here's what we know about priorities