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@jamesdecker2006Mayor of #StamfordTexas. #Westof98 essayist/podcaster. Alleged Methodist. Militant gardener. Revitalize our grasslands and rural America.
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Once a month, I publish The Prairie Panicle at #Westof98 with various updates and recs. This month: Texas high school football, coaching another type of football, recs from @Plough, @HaddenTurner, @DoomerOptimism, and @jayme_lozano/@TexasTribune, plus books! L I N K I N B I O
Beavers are infrastructure. (Cc: @aspiringpeasant)
Beavers: more effective than diesel-powered heavy machinery at reducing flooding & improving habitat. And unlike industrial equipment, beavers sequester tons of carbon, rather than releasing it If we were serious about our own survival, this is the approach we’d take to ecology
every liberal columnist, cable TV pundit and Substacker who convinced the Democratic Party to abandon economic populism and tout the neoliberalism that was resoundingly rejected by voters
It’s almost as if all these Cable News Libs and Resistance Historians™ who spent a decade cashing in on fascism panic while LARPing as the French resistance are ACTUALLY amoral grifters who believe in nothing but the wind’s direction and the health of their bank accounts!
NEW On MSNBC, @morningmika and @JoeNBC say that they went to Mar-a-Lago this weekend and met with President-elect Trump for the first time in seven years. Mika says that despite “profound disagreements,” they agreed with Trump to restart communications.
“To defend the real economy from further erosion, and ensure its advancement in our century, Trump needs Lighthizer at Treasury.” My column. compactmag.com/article/trump-…
There are no easy answers. Life is hypocrisy. As my wife had to point out to me a few years ago, "You didn't make the world the way it is, and you can't fix it by yourself, no matter how radical you get. You'll just sacrifice everything trying, and the world will move on."
Spitting out my coffee after reading this NYT "fact check" of RFK Jr.
For the first time as a D1 FCS program, @ACUFootball has won their conference! They have completed the trifecta. All 3 of #Abilene’s local colleges have won at least a share of their conference titles…but the book is still being written. @BCHsports | @ACUsports | #ScratchEm
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. Wendell Berry
Are they genuinely blind and deaf to the fact that land is being grabbed by corporations and wealthy businesses NOT ‘hoarded’ by farmers (WTF that even means)
Is it time for my periodic reminder that when you're wondering what people are thinking of you, it's best to save your time, cause they're not. Nobody cares. These guys are narcissists. He's probably checking that post every day to see impressions.
2A D1 AREA MATCHUP Stamford (11-0) vs. Panhandle (10-1) - Thursday, 7 p.m. - Lubbock Cooper Liberty
Once you start looking into the stuff RFK is talking about you quickly realize the federal government absolutely tips the scale *in favor* of very unhealthy corporate food
10% of food stamp money goes to sugary beverages That’s $12B/yr more than the entire budget of the NSF or 50% of NASA’s budget
“I’ve been a lifelong environmentalist. Climate change is a real problem and I’ve been speaking on it for 20 years…” Chris Wright will be an incredible Energy Secretary. He gave these remarks at @ACCAction’s summit in Salt Lake City last year.
Treasury secretary must handle and/or be deeply involved in tax, tariffs for CBP agency, trade, sanctions, export controls, USMCA review in 2026, CFIUS, across the board tariffs (for revenue and keeping other taxes reasonable). Its Not just a job overseeing the sale of US…
Wendell Berry on the mass migration of farmers to the city: People had begun to live lives of a purely theoretical reality, daydreams based on the economics of success. It was as if they had risen off the earth into the purely hypothetical air of ambition and greed. They were…
Jonathan Kanter has been the first chief of the DOJ Antitrust Division in six decades to believe—really believe—in protecting the heritage and livelihood of America’s family farmers. If Trump is serious about overthrowing the establishment that has bled rural America dry, he’d…
Tomorrow is 3 year anniversary of Jonathan Kanter being appointed AAG for Antitrust and he's won so many major cases and powerful substantive law on labor, interlocking directorates, and theories of harm where before it was all speculation and economic models. Incredible 3 years.
The real issue is the availability of capital, market access, and suitable technology for small farms. As we’ve consolidated the banking, the food retail and processing, and the farm input (seed, pesticide, fertilizer, and tractor) industries over the last five decades — we’ve…
We need to bury once and for all the myth that there *actual* economies of scale in farming. Simply farming more acres does not allow you to produce more crops with fewer inputs—even when mechanization is considered.
Well, the government could certainly make it more expensive. That’s what I mean by tendentious. But actually economies of scale exist in agriculture because it is the OG economy of scale.
So sure, follow the money and question the motives of Big Pharma. But stop believing RFK and other ambulance chasers don't have their own ulterior financial motives in this matter. Follow THAT money too.
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