Already under financial pressure, Midwest soybean farmers are squeezed further by tariffs, Iran war Midwest soybean farmers are facing an array of compounding issues. Costs, such as equipment, have crept up over time while soybean prices have stayed low.

Illinois is the nation’s number one producer of soybeans — and we’re seeing and hearing the effects of Trump’s chaos.

Instead of helping our farmers, the President now wants to cut federal funding for them and our rural communities for his war in Iran.

"laying" at the bottom of the sea? What exactly are they laying? Are they laying mines? Or maybe laying lobster traps? Yes, I'm an English teacher and picky about such things, but shouldn't the President of the United States know the difference between "laying" and "lying"? ... No pun intended.

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

I think that's probably a mark in his favor.

Pathetic! ... as usual.

Me too. I find myself apologizing to my senior English students every year for the skewed view of reality we've presented to them through the text choices conventional in high school ELA courses. I've been using Barbara Kingsolver's beautiful novel, The Bean Trees, as a counter to this for years.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Remember how you felt about people defending their neighbors in Chicago, Minneapolis, and other cities around the US? Extend that empathy a bit further, to people Trump is calling animals. It may hurt to stop and think about how much you have in common with those people. That's okay. Let it.

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants.

Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare.

(🎥 Al Jazeera)

Rehearsing Fascism from the CPAC Stage Fiery and extremist rhetoric out of CPAC may seem like a sideshow, but it’s really a pipeline

When the Deputy Attorney General suggests sending ICE officers to polling places, it’s not just rhetoric. It’s part of a pattern we’ve seen before, where extreme ideas move from the CPAC stage into government action. This is how those ideas move from provocation to policy.

Good.

Fears Israel could replicate its 'Gaza model' in Lebanon as satellite imagery captures mounting destruction Israel has reinforced several military bases across southern Lebanon as more troops join its ground invasion, raising fears for the region's population.

www.nbcnews.com/world/lebano...
Between Gaza, “settlers’” terrorizing the West Bank and now this, there can be a little doubt that Israel is simply trying to take over as much territory as they can.
Crickets from world leaders

Israel is a rogue state run by fascists on a genocidal fuite en avant, the unhinged tip of the imperial spear.

They will not stop. They must BE stopped.

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Definitely. That crowd is in the thousands.

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below: 1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation … 3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people. 4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners … 5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice … 6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices … 7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. 8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. 9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. 10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: 11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: 12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit … 13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: 14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: 15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury: 16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: 17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: 18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. 19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people. 20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.

#NoKings

Telling kings to fuck off is a great American tradition.

Have a great day!

😂

"No Kings" in St. Augustine, FL today. I think it's definitely larger than the event in June (the last I could attend). And that would seem consistent with Trump's current approval ratings.
#NoKings

AMERICA FIRST IN ACTION: 1 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR FOR FOOD ASSISTANCE? “WE CAN’T AFFORD IT!” 1 BILLION DOLLARS A DAY FOR A POINTLESS WAR? “NO PROBLEM!”

It's just not adding up. But then again, it never does.

Yup.

Son and brother of Afghan man who died in ICE custody demand answers: "I want to know why he died" The family of an Afghan immigrant who died one day after being taken into custody by ICE in Texas says it has received no answers as to what caused the man's death.

Another innocent person killed in ICE custody.

And these are the stories we know about.

Imagine the names that are buried, lost and forgotten?

www.cbsnews.com/news/son-and...

republicans should be asked at town halls if they are a pedophile or just support them

THIS one we need to spread the word....everyone should start asking the repubic-cons this at every town hall or rally

The graves dug for 153 Iranian female school children who were killed by an Israeli-American strike.

Photo: IRNA

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

Watching highlights from the earlier Canada vs Columbia game, and I'm already missing Jeanine Sonis from Racing Louisville. 🫤 #nwsl

This center ref is freaking useless! #USWNT #shebelievescup

Right! It's a tournament. Why no VAR?