On one hand, Republican officials call themselves "warfighters."
On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident.
Real macho stuff.
'Left to rot': Farmer reeling over decaying crops as workforce flees ICE raids
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That’s at 1:56 mark in the YouTube video.
On the YouTube channel Dayton Nay - he mentioned that Pennsylvania had 67 counties and 59 voted for the Republican candidate last year.
He’s trying to figure out how to turn formerly liberal states blue again.
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It’s time to wake up - we are literally on the verge of losing our democracy if Donald Trump cheats his way to those seats in Texas.
NEW: We just received another big win in our case against the Trump Administration for unlawfully terminating funding for NIH grants.
Another win in our case to preserve NIH funding for public health and biomedical research from Trump’s illegality, this time before the First Circuit.
The irony is the farm workers are judged by both sides as being moral - hard work. But no one offers to do right by them. ie,Better work environments. Better pay. Suffering picking strawberries isn’t what either side says. It’s being used.
Today I held a press call to make clear GOP health care cuts hitting hospitals in WA state will also hurt people in WY, AK, MT, & ID.
Because hospitals in our state provide essential, high-level specialty care to people across the entire Mountain West.
CBS may have canceled Colbert, but satire doesn’t die it migrates. If HBO or Apple TV have any guts, they’ll hand him a mic and a match. Because in times like these, we don’t need less truth in comedy. We need truth that comes with teeth.
I don’t think they had “judges” or the judiciary branch of government before. Somehow according to a YouTube video I saw, Congress in years past made the Executive branch as the ones doing the screenings. I could be wrong though…
The $45 contract. That ruins so many black and minority adolescents who dream of playing for the NBA. 10s of millions of teens - all think they have a shot at it so neglect training for a real job or getting involved more in school learning.
The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
“Lift Every Voice & Sing" isn't just a song; it's an historical testament recounting the harrowing journey from slavery to freedom. It reminds us of the resilience that carried generations through unimaginable darkness. 75 days to Slavery Remembrance Day #CountdowntoSRD
Rewording my earlier post.
RFK Jr will be testifying before Congress.
I am interested in what experts and others think would be the best way to leverage this time and opportunity for the public good.
If you were behind the dais for this hearing, what would you do? What do you want to see asked?
What they aren’t showing on Fox News
Farmers' suicides in the United States refers to the instances of American farmers taking their own lives, largely since the 1980s, partly due to their falling into debt, but mainly as a larger mental-health crisis among U.S. agriculture workers. In the Midwest alone, over 1,500 farmers have taken their own lives since the 1980s. It mirrors a crisis happening globally: in Australia, a farmer dies by suicide every ten days; in the United Kingdom, one farmer a week takes their own life; and in France it is one every two days. Almost 300,000 farmers have died by suicide since 1995 in India. Farmers are among the most likely to die by suicide, in comparison to other occupations, according to a study published in January 2020 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Researchers at the University of lowa found that farmers, and others in the agricultural trade, had the highest suicide rate of all occupations from 1992 to 2010, the years covered in a 2017 study. The rate was 3.5 times that of the general population. This echoed a study conducted the previous year by the CDC and another undertaken by the National Rural Health Association (NRHA).
Most family farmers seem to agree on what led to their plight: government policy. In the years after the New Deal, they say, the United States set a price floor for farmers, essentially ensuring they received a minimum wage for the crops they produced. But the government began rolling back this policy in the 1970s, and now the global market largely determines the price they get for their crops. Big farms can make do with lower prices for crops by increasing their scale; a few cents per gallon of cow's milk adds up if you have thousands of cows. -Time, November 27, 2019 As of April 2023, the suicide rate within the farming community exceeds that of the general population by three and a half times.
Other findings from the students' report suggest: • Suicide rates in agriculture are higher than for any other occupation: 84.5 per 100,000 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control. • Studies suggest suicide rates may be higher as some deaths are reported as accidents rather than suicides. • Not all farm states are included in CDC farm suicide statics (California, lowa, Illinois, and Nebraska are excluded), further skewing the numbers. • Suicide rates appear to be higher in the Midwest than in California because of the diversified nature of agriculture in California and the greater likelihood of financial profitability among crops grown in the Golden State. • Access to mental health services remain limited to farmers because of the rural nature of their occupations. • Suicide rates are about 50 percent higher today than they were during the farm crisis of the 1980s.
Some of the posters on this thread don’t realize that suicide rates among farmers is higher than veterans. Suicide rates for farmers started climbing in the 1970s after government policy changes ended New Deal agricultural programs and shifted to Big Ag corporate farming model.
UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!
Reporters, looking for actual CDC employee reactions to this news? You can quote us:
"What the actual 🤬?"
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health secretary removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on how vaccines should be used.
It was always going to be about L.A. and NYC. Those metro areas have about a million “undocumented immigrants” each. A lot of it I don't understand because I don't live there.
Farms and other industries need to pay at least minimum wage, and follow the 40 hrs week with time and a half for overtime. It's the workplaces that are how “illegal immigration” is so prevalent.
Trump called the Los Angeles ICE protests “rebellion”
Steven Miller: “insurrection”
If emergency powers are invoked Trump can use the military
Suspend habeas corpus
Even put people in concentration camps
The images seen in LA have been chilling
But what Trump might do next could end democracy
No. A guy crying on camera’s not a good look though. Remember it is a macho culture in the US though. It'll just make it worse.
Last year, Nike made $23 billion. Its founder is worth $35 billion. But Nike pays just dollars a day to the workers who make its products.
Today I met Dinar, who sews 222 labels an hour onto Nike products. She is paid $202 a month.
This is corporate greed at its worst.
This is Henry. He brings his emotional support duck to his hydrotherapy sessions. They get along swimmingly. 13/10
The FDA has updated an ongoing recall of tomatoes distributed in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina to its most severe warning, saying there is a higher probability that potential salmonella contamination could lead to “serious adverse health consequences or death.”
