Chris Jones is running for Secretary of Agriculture in Iowa. A Democrat who has spent more than 40 years advocating for clean water and sustainable agricultural practices across the state. He wrote a book, published in 2023 The Swine Republic: Struggles With the Truth About Agriculture and Water Quality, which was selected by the Library of Congress as Iowa’s representative at the 2024 National Book Festival. It details the damage that Big Ag, in particular, the pork and corn businesses, have cause in Iowa. The state is ranked number 2 in the nation for cancer per capita among the 50 states.
State repubs have let these corporations do what they want, with no regulation. Iowans are experiencing or witnessing the devastating effects that have been the result, and the blame is easy to place. I think that Chris Jones can win.
Christian nationalist Joel Webbon says hospitality is meant for other believers. If the social welfare state collapses, he says, the church will have to tell "feminist pagan women" on hard times, "You starve. Glory be to God. You starve."
Is anyone even remotely surprised that President Pedo would choose to lick the ass of the psychopath running North Korea while talking trash about our long time allies, South Korea? If Trump had been president during World War II he would've happily helped Hitler turn the entire planet into a gigantic concentration camp.
That's still the plan, from what I can tell. Or to kill off a bunch of "excess population" wholesale through cuts to all of these programs, no vaxxes, etc.
A South Carolina law that lets anyone 65 years old and above vote by mail but requires younger people to provide an excuse to cast absentee ballots violates the Constitution’s prohibition on abridging voting rights based on age, the Fourth Circuit ruled.
US sanctions international criminal court president and prosecutor; Marco Rubio targets ICC’s Tomoko Akane and Abdoulaye Seye, who was investigating Israeli war crimes in Gaza
"Polling firm shutters after admitting fake survey showing LA mayor leading rival by double digits was ‘experiment’......Median Strategies was created as a short-term social experiment examining how purported polling information could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification...”
NYT: "With the fate of his ballroom tied up in court, President Trump is racing against the clock. He has enlisted a team of 250 workers to push ahead with construction 20 hours a day, seven days a week to complete as much work as quickly as possible. This week, there are plans to install one million pounds of rebar and pour 3,000 cubic yards of concrete for a project that is now two-thirds complete, the administration said in a court filing. Now, with the matter pending before the Supreme Court, the Trump administration is making a practical appeal to the justices: The ballroom is simply too far along to be stopped now."
What I want from politicians expanded. I'd add total removal of Trump, the Trump family, and his cronies from government forever, and jail and restitution.
The Fulvous Fuckwad's war against education -- the only war he's won/winning
> "The Trump [sic] administration task force charged with investigating antisemitism on Ivy League campuses pressured universities into punitive settlements despite turning up little to no evidence of systemic abuse, according to a whistleblower complaint made public Tuesday.
The One Big Beautiful Blowjob for Billionaires Bill Act™ has made a college education for those not well-to-do pretty much out of reach through student loan caps:
For undergraduates see: Volume 8, Chapter 4, Table 1A: Dependent Undergraduate Annual Limits for Direct Subsidized Loans and Direct Unsubsidized Loans
Note that at the Grad level you can no longer borrow the full amount needed for tuition cuz the gubmint and not the student has decided on an acceptable ROI.
The New Yorker has a long thing about scientist Carleton Gajdusek, who spent decades employed by the N.I.H., doing research in Papua New Guinea and Micronesia. His work on the origins of kuru (a brain disease spread by cannibalism) earned him the Nobel Prize. However, besides bringing home brain and other tissues for research, he brought home children, including those orphaned when their parents died of kuru. He had a preference for pre-pubescent or barely pubescent boys. Well, you can see where this is going, and indeed the article gets around to mentioning the child sexual abuse. This went on for a long time, and Gajudsek was pretty open about it. He wrote about it in enough detail in his copious journals for the reader to get a good idea what was going on. So people in his lab knew, but they kept it quiet, until someone finally blew the whistle in the 90's. He was indicted on two counts (many of the children he had molested being unavailable or unwilling to testify), pled guilty, and did a year in prison. He wasn't fired, but was asked to leave the N.I.H. He apparently didn't have the slightest remorse. He continue to do research, go to conferences, etc. (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/24/the-scientist-who-lived-with-dozens-of-children-from-the-south-pacific). Grr. Being White, famous, and a Nobel scientist will sure let you get away with a lot of shit.
Chris Jones is running for Secretary of Agriculture in Iowa. A Democrat who has spent more than 40 years advocating for clean water and sustainable agricultural practices across the state. He wrote a book, published in 2023 The Swine Republic: Struggles With the Truth About Agriculture and Water Quality, which was selected by the Library of Congress as Iowa’s representative at the 2024 National Book Festival. It details the damage that Big Ag, in particular, the pork and corn businesses, have cause in Iowa. The state is ranked number 2 in the nation for cancer per capita among the 50 states.
State repubs have let these corporations do what they want, with no regulation. Iowans are experiencing or witnessing the devastating effects that have been the result, and the blame is easy to place. I think that Chris Jones can win.
Christian nationalist Joel Webbon says hospitality is meant for other believers. If the social welfare state collapses, he says, the church will have to tell "feminist pagan women" on hard times, "You starve. Glory be to God. You starve."
https://bsky.app/profile/rightwingwatch.bsky.social/post/3mtewbdjn422e
Sounds just like the assholes who blacklisted Grandma Bacon 100 years ago when she tried to feed dying people in the town poor house...
Assholes gonna asshole. And ass. And hole.
And how do you know the person at your door in need is or is not a believer?
That Pulpit Pimp will probably say "God helps those who help themselves"
Quiz them on the scriptures. If they know them, non-believer.
Is anyone even remotely surprised that President Pedo would choose to lick the ass of the psychopath running North Korea while talking trash about our long time allies, South Korea? If Trump had been president during World War II he would've happily helped Hitler turn the entire planet into a gigantic concentration camp.
That's still the plan, from what I can tell. Or to kill off a bunch of "excess population" wholesale through cuts to all of these programs, no vaxxes, etc.
Now Trump is posting a meme that says "New U.S. Territory" above a map of the Strait of Hormuz.
And if that doesn't solve his problems with Iran, nothing will.
I mean that literally. Nothing.
Interesting.
Marc Elias
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A South Carolina law that lets anyone 65 years old and above vote by mail but requires younger people to provide an excuse to cast absentee ballots violates the Constitution’s prohibition on abridging voting rights based on age, the Fourth Circuit ruled.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
https://bsky.app/profile/marcelias.bsky.social/post/3mteuqws4sk26
So voting by mail is a right? Good to know.
They may just as likely use this an excuse to not allow it at all.
Good.
Budgie ended her third day of phone-calling!
Birb Mom and I went to the liberry, too.
I got three books that were reserved for me.
Then we came home and I toasted a bagel. I just eated it.
:) :)
DID NOTSEE THIS COMING
US sanctions international criminal court president and prosecutor; Marco Rubio targets ICC’s Tomoko Akane and Abdoulaye Seye, who was investigating Israeli war crimes in Gaza
How did you not see this coming? They challenged a narcissist’s view of reality.
I make sacrifices for obvious puns, obviously, and happily.
OT
"Polling firm shutters after admitting fake survey showing LA mayor leading rival by double digits was ‘experiment’......Median Strategies was created as a short-term social experiment examining how purported polling information could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification...”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/polling-company-closes-fake-survey-b3035205.html
Or:
https://archive.ph/xnBk6
So election fraud, is what they are admitting.
NYT: "With the fate of his ballroom tied up in court, President Trump is racing against the clock. He has enlisted a team of 250 workers to push ahead with construction 20 hours a day, seven days a week to complete as much work as quickly as possible. This week, there are plans to install one million pounds of rebar and pour 3,000 cubic yards of concrete for a project that is now two-thirds complete, the administration said in a court filing. Now, with the matter pending before the Supreme Court, the Trump administration is making a practical appeal to the justices: The ballroom is simply too far along to be stopped now."
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/18/us/trump-news
Wrong link.
In other words, too big to fail
It is NOT 2/3 done if they are laying rebar and pouring concrete.
TOO BIG TO FAIL!
For your Antifa playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFu0o8NB5Io
What I want from politicians expanded. I'd add total removal of Trump, the Trump family, and his cronies from government forever, and jail and restitution.
https://bsky.app/profile/stantaknows.bsky.social/post/3mtf7rzmfxs2p
set adrift on an arctic ice floe
We can call it a special boat ride around Greenland. "Bring a parka Donnie"
That's my vote.
The piss poor state of higher education in the US:
On academic freedom:
> "The U.S. scores 0.40, placing it at a level similar to Bhutan and Thailand.
[...]
🇺🇸 United States 0.40 [score] -57% [change 2015-2025] [tied for 105th place]" https://www.voronoiapp.com/education/Mapped-Which-Countries-Have-the-Most-Academic-Freedom-8749
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The Fulvous Fuckwad's war against education -- the only war he's won/winning
> "The Trump [sic] administration task force charged with investigating antisemitism on Ivy League campuses pressured universities into punitive settlements despite turning up little to no evidence of systemic abuse, according to a whistleblower complaint made public Tuesday.
[...]
When career attorneys raised objections that the evidence did not support the administration’s position or the tactics it was pursuing, including targeting Muslim professors for interviews, they were overruled and ignored, she said." https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/08/18/politics-behind-probes-antisemitism-ivy-league-schools-whistleblower-says/
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The One Big Beautiful Blowjob for Billionaires Bill Act™ has made a college education for those not well-to-do pretty much out of reach through student loan caps:
For undergraduates see: Volume 8, Chapter 4, Table 1A: Dependent Undergraduate Annual Limits for Direct Subsidized Loans and Direct Unsubsidized Loans
and
Volume 8, Chapter 4, Table 1B: Independent Undergraduate Annual Limits for Direct Subsidized Loans and Direct Unsubsidized Loans https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-center/fsa-handbook/2025-2026/vol8/ch4-annual-and-aggregate-loan-limits
Suffice to say the caps aren't even close to what the costs come to for tuition, books, and room and board.
Beyond undergrad:
> "Beginning in July 2026, the [OBBBfBBA] caps annual loans for new borrowers at $20,500 for graduate students ($100,000 aggregate limit), and $50,000 for professional students ($200,000 aggregate limit) – a term the committee defined consistent with existing regulatory text. Previously, graduate students could borrow up to the cost of attendance, which led institutions to offer expensive graduate programs with a negative return on investment." https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-concludes-negotiated-rulemaking-session-implement-one-big-beautiful-bill-acts-loan-provisions
Note that at the Grad level you can no longer borrow the full amount needed for tuition cuz the gubmint and not the student has decided on an acceptable ROI.
🎵"We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control"🎵 Pink Floyd
fnord
Only the rich are entitled to grad-level edumacation.
The New Yorker has a long thing about scientist Carleton Gajdusek, who spent decades employed by the N.I.H., doing research in Papua New Guinea and Micronesia. His work on the origins of kuru (a brain disease spread by cannibalism) earned him the Nobel Prize. However, besides bringing home brain and other tissues for research, he brought home children, including those orphaned when their parents died of kuru. He had a preference for pre-pubescent or barely pubescent boys. Well, you can see where this is going, and indeed the article gets around to mentioning the child sexual abuse. This went on for a long time, and Gajudsek was pretty open about it. He wrote about it in enough detail in his copious journals for the reader to get a good idea what was going on. So people in his lab knew, but they kept it quiet, until someone finally blew the whistle in the 90's. He was indicted on two counts (many of the children he had molested being unavailable or unwilling to testify), pled guilty, and did a year in prison. He wasn't fired, but was asked to leave the N.I.H. He apparently didn't have the slightest remorse. He continue to do research, go to conferences, etc. (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/24/the-scientist-who-lived-with-dozens-of-children-from-the-south-pacific). Grr. Being White, famous, and a Nobel scientist will sure let you get away with a lot of shit.
That is tragic.
Abusers Hide in Plain Sight, Chapter 4,080.
I read that earlier today and it is an awful story. Abusers with power will find a way to their victims.
Hey! Don't discount the advantages of abusing children of color with no family to defend them.
Mike Johnson and Matt Gaetz know how that works.
Have US Navy sailors mutinied and scuttled their own ships yet?
'I LIED FOR TRUMP'
Battery-operated branding irons ready for preorder on Amazon.
Kudos for “Big Buggering Bill”!
I went to school with Big Buggering Bill.
LMMFAO!!!!!!!
😂 Exactly what this bill is doing to us, unless you’re in the 1%
Not boarding school, I hope.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ouch.