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New Sixteenth Minute (of Fame): chocolate rain: a political awakening 🎙️

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3/ that feels obvious to state, but I think the comparison between the very deliberate, effective multi-year strategy to support small farmers and whatever *gestures vaguely* this is is very stark

2/ For small businesses (see: LFPA, LFS, RFBC, PLANTS, many more). It worked.

There are a lot of ways that what’s happening now is insane, but a huge part is thinking that you can support American production by chaotically constricting markets, and offering no plans no supports for the transition.

Hi!! I work in food systems. I think it is worth saying that post-COVID era supply chain chaos, the Democrats/Biden admin wanted to support the growth of resilient regionalize food systems so they created a multi-pronged 5 year strategy that deliberately invested in gaps and created markets

The real joke here is an astronaut returning from the ISS

Has anyone covered this? Can’t find any report on this story