aardvark

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What are you really trying to do?

He. Him. His.

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TFW every new social group has at least one credulous motherfucker all “well _to be fair to the Russians_ there are some Nazis in Ukraine, …”

buddy, you don't gotta be fair to the aggressor who is punching down, in any situation. they don't need your help and you just make yourself look like a fool at best and an abettor at worst.

EDIT: oops, there's the "also, CIA should’t have couped Ukraine in 2014, …" ah, there goes any benefit of the doubt. blocked! (if only slack had better blocking…)

INCREDIBLE

The ag lobby is begging for the USDA secretary to be put on the teams that are negotiating new trade deals.

And she's just.... not even in the room.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-agriculture/2025/04/28/farmers-plea-to-trump-00312065

Author David Joy speaks with clarity and conviction about why choosing to celebrate the confederacy is wrong.

"And then I grew up. And I read books."

This is why racists hate civil rights and equality being taught in school or anywhere else. Because most informed people, choose decency. ♥️👍🏿

https://www.tiktok.com/@babeeblews/video/7495594301901016351

TikTok - Make Your Day

ILLINOIS… Gov. Pritzker…

Not a great photo, light to harsh and subject to far away, but it's my first photo of an elusive Water Rail, so I decided to share it with you all the same.

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling

I do not know where the source is, but I wholly agree with this. #art #aiart #fuckai
@annaleen Based on your glowing recommendation I decided I would watch it, and I have to say, as far as pope action movies go, this one is probably the best I have seen yet.
Truly surprised that the Trump regime has not tried to ban Conclave, the ultimate DEI pope movie. To be fair, I don't know if there's already been a bunch of discourse about this. I randomly watched it last night, under the extremely weird and wrong impression that it was an action movie.

google is discontinuing support for first-generation nest thermostats.

it is time for lawmakers to implement a »support-or-open-source« regulation. it is ok to not want to support »obsolete« technologies forever, but it should be mandatory to make it open source when and if you stop the support.

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INCREDIBLE

The ag lobby is begging for the USDA secretary to be put on the teams that are negotiating new trade deals.

And she's just.... not even in the room.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-agriculture/2025/04/28/farmers-plea-to-trump-00312065

Oh also the House GOP wants to cut $230B in farm spending.

I cannot overstate how impossibly back-, front-, and side-stabbed the US farm sector is getting.

They're being frozen out of new trade deals. And not just Trump but the *entire GOP House caucus* is out to gut the USDA budget they already had.

This is what being on Team Trump gets you, folks 🤠

@sarahtaber This is basically 100% opposite what the GOP did for ag for basically forever, isn't it?

Well, they voted for the dude who thinks a spread of McDonalds is appropriate for celebrations, and eats his steak extra-well-done and covered with catsup. (and who explicitly said he was going to screw them) They got what they wanted, so... yay for them? I guess?

@wordshaper @sarahtaber It also depends on what side of ag you’re talking about. For decades small farms have been gobbled up my big ag.of the three farm families I grew up with in Illinois. One retired and sold out to another family, while the other got bought by some big conglomerate and now are employees on a farm they used to own.
@sarahtaber No loyalty goes unpunished.
@sarahtaber so, they blow up USAID which takes out tons of subsidies that also made up a good bit of the nation’s soft power, cancel our existing trade agreements zeroing out a bunch of their foreign buyers, now this?

@sarahtaber

They're helping to make Canada less dependent on US products and on the US as a market for our products.

Better for Canada politically, but not for the climate, as we ship things across oceans. At least until shipping becomes zero emission.

@sarahtaber
We've elected our own executioners.
@sarahtaber The great grandfathers who remember what FDR did are gone.
@sarahtaber she wasn't hired to be anyone's voice. She's there to take the fall.
Why Black Farmers Are Not Complaining?

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