Platner: I believe that input from working people is far more important than input from someone who simply has money. I believe that we shouldn’t be settling for crumbs while billionaires eat the cookie we baked.
Maine girl living in a southern world. Farmer. Atheist. Intersectional Feminist. GenX, but in a good way. Embarrassing fact: I voted for Clinton because he played his saxophone on Arsenio Hall and I had also played in junior high. 🥴 Power to the People✊️
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Platner: I believe that input from working people is far more important than input from someone who simply has money. I believe that we shouldn’t be settling for crumbs while billionaires eat the cookie we baked.
He's NEVER used the word "ponder". Because he's never pondered.
We definitely need to regulate men in the same way they find it appropriate to regulate women.
And ending in 2017, after becoming Pres. His own little start up. That's why reports from women accusing him of abuse stopped. They are not American and had/ have no standing.
Started in 1999
This summary is excellent, but the most important piece that folks keep leaving out is that tRump also started his own modeling company, Trump Model Management. He built his own trafficking empire that brought in girls and young women from eastern Europe in false visas and promises of contracts.
The "kids" are always right.
76% of Texas’s $2.4 trillion GDP comes from the blue parts. - DFW: $709.0 B (29.5%) - Houston: $642.1 B (26.7%) - Austin: $229.2 B (9.5%) - San Antonio: $201.2 B (8.4%) - El Paso: $49.3 B (1.9%) Blue: $1.83 T (76%) Red: $0.57 T (24%) #EconSky #Gerrymandering comptroller.texas.gov/economy/econ...
8. We spoke with a nursery owner that told us they'd received letters from the state regarding meters to track water usage/ auto shutoff because they were going to be redirecting that H20 to Ruston for the cooling process. This is going to be catastrophic for LA and no one is paying attention.
7. Final fact. As landscapers we do lots of business in Forest Hill. Small town south of Alexandria with hundreds of family owned nurseries. It exists because it sits on a massive aquifer and that's how they water the hundreds of thousands of plants and trees that ship all over the country.
6. Our small 11 acres makes up a tiny portion of each square mile of speculation. We brought up the Ruston AI facility and the amount of energy they are "telling us" it will take. He hadn't even heard about it and asked how we knew... wild. There's alot of folk here that don't even know.
5. Our well is 200ft, they shoot trillions of gallons of water (not sure where that's coming from) 15,000ft down in lines as far as 3 miles. Then they have to truck out all of the very salty water and store it in underground tanks. They fill the earth with sand and capture the gas release.
4. We spoke to a lawyer last week to find out if our property was "in the play". This means they plan on exploring your acreage. LA allows land owners to hold mineral rights and Corps have to negotiate with you to do under your land and pay you royalties for anything produced minus transportation.
3. Most of the land around us is timber. They are moving fast to secure over 150,000 acres of land for drilling rights in this area. The pipelines were built over the last 2 years to move the gas to refineries in Southern LA. The timber land is mostly owned by out of state corps, hundreds of acres.
2. The land in this area was underwater, but the Shale is a bowl encompassing east TX and NWLa from Shreveport to Natchitoches Parish. Our soil is pure sand, we've found rocks with sea shell impressions. Most of the northern portion of the shale has been extracted, they're moving prospecting south.
As a vegetable farmer and landscaper in NWLa with 11 acres "in the play" of new drilling occurring in the Haynesville Shale, you're absolutely right that this is unsustainable. We've spent the last week researching the geology, aquifers (we have well water) and mineral rights of our property. Thread
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.
It's why he's remodeling the WH and now taking about spending 2 billion for grass in DC.
Cankles Patrol
One of my biggest gripes with organized religion is that they tell you suffering is a worthy sacrifice for heaven in the afterlife. But why I gotta wait for the afterlife for my suffering to end? Why it can’t end NOW??
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement. The President does not run the Smithsonian. The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law. Release the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
when people say violence is not the answer, they are always talking to the ones being oppressed.
When you strip away humanity
Every day, I am reminded that I live in a society that will believe absolutely anything about a woman to ignore the obvious about men.
I'm in LA. 2022 was the chance to get rid of Kennedy. I was on board with Chambers but got to meet Mixon at an event in Natchitoches. I asked him about Roe, his answer was cagey. He's "pro-life" but wanted to codify Roe. Hm. Everyone here placating Christian Exceptionalism. Can't move the needle.
While everyone obsesses over mythical “Epstein client lists,” the documented evidence of Trump’s participation in exploiting young models has been hiding in plain sight for YEARS. https://smpl.is/a9ves
THIS! Exactly what I've been telling folks. And to humbly add to your great piece, Hugh Hefner. The trafficking and exploitation of women under the guise of legitimate business, the history of Playboy... the houses around the country, the parties, the customers. They polished it up and sold it.
“What are we doing?”🔥 😳🇺🇸 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DMa31OX...
And mad about the White House Correspondants Dinner when Obama roasted him while he had to sit there and take it.
My name is Jonathan Nez. I’m the former President of the Navajo Nation. Today, I am running for Congress to defeat MAGA Republican Eli Crane, flip Arizona’s 2nd blue, and take back the house. Let’s win this.
I'm loving this energy
This exactly... my first thought. It's his MO.
Rupert Murdoch, welcome to The Resistance.
This part can’t be repeated enough. Does anyone actually think this was a coincidence?
Faux gold. Some would call it Fool's gold.
In 1965, the government recruited thousands of strapping high-school boys to replace Mexican workers on farms in Texas and California. A lot of the boys went on strike. Others quit. The program "was considered a giant failure and was never tried again." www.npr.org/sections/the...
I was a local writer for the Milford Patch during the time of Denice's death. This was a very controversial article at the time. I got a lot of angry feedback. I dug this 2011 article out of archive. My personal understanding has evolved more on this issue from 2011. patch.com/massachusett...
Where does Michelle Obama go for her apology?
I think he meant "to" the American people.
Fantastic way to start the week.
Trump was pedaling in underage girls in the 80s/90s with Casablanca. Don't forget he started his own "modeling" agency in 1999, T Models, that shut down right before he took office the first time. He's been trafficking and using young women and girls for decades. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
Trump was pedaling in underage girls with Casablanca in the 80s/90s. Don't forget, he started his own "modeling" agency in 1999, T Models, that shut down right before he took office the first time. He's been trafficking and using young women and girls for decades. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
Exactly. There are only two classes in America, the bourgeoisie capitalist class and the proletariat working class that sells our work for labor. We have to unite for The People. All of us. The global majority. You can't change a system until you understand who owns you. Power to the people✊️
Ask this ungrateful shit bag how he eats food if not for the labor of immigrants. Watching dude bros willfully misrepresent the irreplaceable duty of America to welcome immigrants is wild. You sir... are an immigrant. Weirdo.
I'm super busy but here's my weekly reminder that the Authoritarian goal of creating a permanent over-burdened underclass of low-wage workers with no information, education, choice or recourse is moving along, swimmingly.
Secretary "Never worked a labor job in her life" Collins, you first. Like undercover boss. Go work at a dairy farm in Vermont in December for a month or come to my small farm harvesting watermelons right now in Louisiana. Get you some blisters, then try and talk shit about immigrants.
Spoken like a dude who's never done one day of farm labor. You first buddy. As a small market farmer, it's important to note that white people have NEVER done this labor en masse. They think it's some idyllic dream, it's work. And you better love it.
At worst: We have a sex predator of children in the White House. At best: We have a defender of a sex predator of children in the White House.
You spelled misogyny and racism wrong.
Spoken like a person who's never seen a day of manual labor in their life. As a small market farmer, I can attest that white people have never done this kind of labor. Watch any video of immigrants harvesting food and ask yourself, are you ready for that back breaking labor?
About that letter from Trump- Lula responds. "In Brazil, freedom of expression is not to be confused with aggression or violent practices. To operate in our country, all national and foreign companies are subject to Brazilian legislation." x.com/LulaOficial/...
"From away" as my mom would say. I used to pick up the local real estate paper at Governors and look at all the nice spots to live. Now, as I'm hoping to move home, even houses near my hometown (Lincoln) are way overpriced. Everyone has lost their minds because property is the only asset.
Brooke Rollins said the quiet part out loud: No amnesty. Mass deportations. Medicaid recipients forced to replace immigrant labor. It’s a blueprint for a low-wage police state—deport the workers, punish the poor, automate the rest. America, powered by cruelty, not dignity.
America's particular brand of white supremacist capitalism is a Ponzi Scheme. At the top, white men sell to the next level down an "idea" of access to power and wealth. White women, gay white men and black men are so close🤏 to inherited access. In turn, those groups sell that same idea to others.
Explain the Big Ugly budget bill to me like I’m five… Seriously, this demo is a must see—anyone can understand it. Share it with family and friends. #VoteNo
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Absolutely! ✊️
Shouldn't he start with his wife?
Adjudicated rapist says what?
Is that THE Letitia James? ✊️
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Atwood's poetry books are some of her best. ❤️ty for sharing
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Round two: Tucker Carlson vs. Rafael Cruz.
The fascist wide leg stance. I've been told also... Tory stance. White men compensate by trying to be bigger and take up space. Once you see it, you can't unsee it
It isn't politics. It's your soul. We are no contact since the election with several close family members. We tried reasoning with them, it didn't work. Our lives are so much better.
Concept of a plan
So after terrorizing communities and ripping families apart with ICE raids at farms and restaurants, DHS is suddenly “pausing” because of labor gaps? Wild how the war on undocumented immigrants stops the second your rosé doesn’t pour itself and your salad’s missing veggies.
Furman would like a word.
#NoKings
As a small market farmer, I am keenly aware of the labor that goes into growing food for folks. I'm always sharing videos of the amazing people who harvest America's food. Most folks don't understand how food is grown and processed and arrives at the market. Power to the people✊️
Hm. That's it right there. The same all over the world, I thought it was just dudes like my brother-in-law.😏 who we no longer associate with.
Pee Wee German
He's not uncomfortable enough.
Truth.
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The wide open leg stance from (specifically) white dudes, to convey power and taking up space... once you see it, you can't unsee it.
From a draft dodger 👍
Watching white men warn us about the "threat" to our safety is irony in action. The "personal responsibility" gang, hates taking responsibility for literally EVERYTHING white men have done to communities around the world throughout human history, including violence to every marginalized group.
This. I followed the numbers very closely in PA. There's no way. I read some analysis on "ticket dropping" anomalies. In PA the Dem Sen got more votes than Harris and TRump way overperformed v. Rep Sen. This was across the board on swing states
It's like Spy vs. Spy, but N*zi VS. N*zi. I'm gleeful for their mutual destruction.
So... our "president" just admitted that he has so little political standing in the world he needs Putin's help to (re) make a deal with Iran about nuclear proliferation. AND what exactly will tRump owe Putin once he just tells Iran that he'll take care of protecting them himself?
Book of Footloose: Fascist #2: Slaughterhouse-Five, isn't that an awful name? Ren:Yeah it's a great book... Slaughterhouse-Five, it's a classic. Fascist #1: Do you read much? Fascist #2: Maybe in another town, it's a classic. Ren: In *any* town. Fascist #1: Tom Sawyer is a classic!
Ren: yeah it's a great book, Slaughterhouse Five, it's a classic. Fascist: maybe in another town it's a classic. Ren: in *any* town Fascist #2: Tom Sawyer is a classic. ... and GenX teenagers having pit parties with alcohol in the 80s who are adults now, ya know, those fascists were right😳
Did Texas GenXers not watch Footloose?
The government will decide what work you can do in the name of freedom
When Speaker Johnson goes on Crapper and lies about the BBB he's endorsing Prosperity Theology. They literally believe the plight of your circumstances, whatever they may be, aren't system failures but moral ones. And if you just believed as they do, you too can be literally & figuratively "saved"
YOU have free Healthcare. Paid from OUR taxes.
In 1968, when the middle class was at its strongest, the average CEO to worker pay ratio was 21:1. Today, it's 290:1 At some corporations, it's much worse - up to 10,000:1 Let's raise the top income tax rate Make union membership easier Enact tax penalties for high ratio companies
