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Just got an email from a high school junior in FFA who read Kings Over the Necessaries of Life and now wants to learn how we can fight back against agricultural monopolies 🥺

You have so many correct opinions. More drinks should be lemony-gingery zingers, absolutely.

If Dems ever pull this off they're gonna be shocked by how popular it turns out to be.

Break 'em up

proud of u!

MAHA Moms Turn Against Trump After Stunning Betrayal It’s lose-lose for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

RFK Jr.’s supporters are furious after he sided with his boss over the movement that helped put him in power.

Hahaha me, not so much, but this — it’s so fucking rad 😂

Yesterday, our team got a rare treat in legal practice: The court complimented our briefs *and* ruled in our clients’ favor 🥳

I love my job.

You will never convince me this should be legal

highly productive, super billable time, anyone who says otherwise is incredibly wrong, incredibly

I'm making polenta in the slow cooker at 12:30AM, so it's ready for breakfast. Tomorrow is going to be so great.

Would you have preferred if I just said "corporatists"?

et tu, Brian?

Anyhow, I did confront the argument, in my tweets on the subject, which I screenshotted and posted on this wierd site above

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Lmao that’s a good one

Slingshot Episode 27 - The Sling Basel Musharbash of the Antimonopoly Counsel explains the cause of skyrocketing prices for groceries and housing.

In the latest Slingshot Podcast, @halsinger.bsky.social and Darren Bush interview @basel.bsky.social on all things eggs, beef, housing, and abundance.

Check it out!

www.thesling.org/video/slings...

Looking forward to watch this sometime soon. @basel.bsky.social has dug deep into a few big affordability issues in the last few years --eggs, beef, housing

Why do corporatist neoliberals like Stephen insist on lying / talking confidently about industries they clearly don’t understand?

You made up the “no relief in sight“ thing. You’re also making up the notion that prices are back to their pre-surge levels — when they’re actually double where they were before 2022. Quick talking about shit you don’t understand, dipshit.

Tyson Foods over the last few months:

• Approved 43 MILLION shares in stock buybacks
• Spent $196 million buying back its own stock to juice up the price
• Announced closure of Lexington plant: 3,200 workers in a town of 11,000 people

Then what happened?

What happened the week Tyson announced it was laying off 3,200 workers from its plant in Lexington, NE?

The profits from the Big 4 Meatpackers hit their HIGHEST level since 2022.

This is what a cartel looks like.

Tyson WIPES OUT Entire Nebraska Town To 'MANIPULATE' Beef Market YouTube video by Breaking Points

Watch the whole thing. It's about Nebraska.

Oh hey, that’s my tweet!

THIS. 👇

In a competitive food system, a meatpacker like Tyson would try to SELL a plant rather than close it.

But Tyson DOESN’T want to sell to a competitor! They want to retain as much monopoly power as possible. Listen to Tyson’s own words, it wants to “right-size” its business...

3. The USDA (@usdagov.bsky.social) should immediately commence proceedings to enforce the law to the fullest extent — and seek to compel Tyson to either keep the plant open or sell the plant to an upstart rival who will introduce honest competition into this cartelized industry.

2. If this kind of conduct doesn’t violate Section 202(e) of the Packers and Stockyards Act — which makes it illegal for any meatpacker to "engage in any course of business or do any act for the purpose or with the effect of manipulating or controlling prices” — then nothing does.

1. Osborn is right. By dismantling its giant meatpacking plant in Lexington instead of selling it to a rival, Tyson is practically committing arson to manipulate the market into a place where beef prices are high, cattle prices are low, and the meatpackers in the middle (like Tyson) make a killing.

3. The USDA (@usdagov.bsky.social) should immediately commence proceedings to enforce the law to the fullest extent — and seek to compel Tyson to either keep the plant open or sell the plant to an upstart rival who will introduce honest competition into this cartelized industry.