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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social

Another way to word "produce prices doubling" is, a whole lot of Americans who are comfortable now are going to go hungry. This is the point at which, in most societies, social unrest accelerates. More protests, more crime, more violence.

aug 29, 2025, 6:52 pm • 100 44

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Paula Wirth @paulawirth.bsky.social

And for those of us who aren’t making enough, things are going to be way harder. And hungrier. Everyone should be sending money to their local food bank. Not old food, but money that they can use to distribute the most produce and fresh goods.

aug 29, 2025, 7:08 pm • 4 0 • view
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social

And that’s just the first part of the equation. Next, farmers lose their land because no one can pick the crops and the vulture capitalists swoop in to buy them out at foreclosure sales for pennies on the dollar. American farmers are gonna learn about sharecropping the hard way.

aug 29, 2025, 8:19 pm • 2 1 • view
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Dean Booth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social

The Bread Riots in Richmond, VA, 1863

Women carrying signs FOOD OR DEATH and BREAD AND PEACE while beating soldiers.
aug 29, 2025, 10:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dean Booth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social

Historical marker in Richmond

RICHMOND BREAD RIOT On 2 Apr. 1863, the largest wartime food riot in the Confederacy took place in Richmond the day after a group of women met at Belvidere Baptist Church in Oregon Hill to complain about rising food costs, inflation and speciation. In the morning, a crowd congregated at Washington equestrian statue in Capitol Square and grew to at least several hundred. The rioters looted warehouses on Cary and Main Streets as well as in Shockoe Slip. Mayor Joseph Mayo, Gov. John Letcher, and Pres. Jefferson Davis attempted to quiet the crowd, which dispersed by late morning with the arrival of the Public Guard.
aug 29, 2025, 10:26 pm • 2 0 • view
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crowtalk.bsky.social @crowtalk.bsky.social

I've been yelling about this since early spring - I'm surrounded by agriculture, and many of the fields never got planted this year. Those that did get planted, won't get harvested, processed, and shipped. Anyone who has a yard they're not growing food in yet had better get started while they can.

aug 29, 2025, 7:02 pm • 10 0 • view