Trump's ICE raids mean Washington farmers cannot harvest this year's cherry crop, and that many will now go out of business. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
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Most fruit farms in Washington State are in the red counties east of the Rocky Mountains. I wouldn't be surprised if Democrats pick up more seats in the state legislature in 2026.
jun 20, 2025, 11:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Hung on petards
jun 21, 2025, 10:39 pm • 0 0 • view
You can buy cherries from Europe. 🍒
jun 20, 2025, 1:45 pm • 1 0 • view
So much winning!
jun 20, 2025, 1:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Cherries were $8 a pound in Olympia, WA this week. That's up at least $2 more a pound than what they were summer. Cause and effect.
jun 20, 2025, 1:01 pm • 2 0 • view
There is going to be shortages on a lot of things.. Particularly in the food, service industry .. It’s gonna hurt the pockets of businesses, but it will show the community how much those businesses are needed, but the community voted out those businesses when they voted out immigrants.
jun 20, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Horrible!!!!
jun 20, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
It's not just cherries, watch prices rise and options decrease at the farmer's market and grocery store.
jun 20, 2025, 1:51 pm • 3 0 • view
We told you asshats that this would happen. It's going to happen with the entire food chain, the hospitality industry, the construction industry, and so many more. This will not work out for Americans.
jun 20, 2025, 12:49 pm • 17 2 • view
Sound like you think anti-immigration "they took our jobs" Republicans don't want to pick cherries.
jun 21, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Eastern Washington farmers- please call your representatives every day.
jun 24, 2025, 5:03 am • 0 0 • view
...thereby making lots of prime agricultural land available to private equity 😒🤬
jun 21, 2025, 6:32 am • 3 0 • view
As a result of lives being torn apart and destroyed, people are losing their livelihood. And, what, you’re laughing because they’re on the other team or something? There’s nothing to celebrate here. There’s nothing funny there’s no win. It’s just suffering.
jun 20, 2025, 3:58 am • 6 0 • view
Well, he does not care. Don't expect him to change. Plan B: The congress? It is compromised. So, he is not going anywhere. Start thinking of plan C concretely. Use the protest to inform, educate and put it into action. Time is not in our favor. #DefendDemocracy #Resist
jun 20, 2025, 8:43 am • 3 2 • view
I usually buy Washington cherries when they show up at my grocery store in Ontario. But yesterday I turned my nose up at the US cherries as I have done with all US products. Canadians boycotting American goods will be long lasting because we have and continue to add alternative suppliers.
jun 20, 2025, 1:31 pm • 2 0 • view
You think Trump cares about Washington ?
jun 20, 2025, 12:29 pm • 3 0 • view
Trump support grew in America’s top farming counties despite first-term trade war investigatemidwest.org/2024/11/13/t... hahahahahahahahahahaha!
jun 20, 2025, 3:33 am • 2 0 • view
This is the natural extension of eastern Washington voting out Tom Foley and being surprised they didn't get to keep speaker of the house back in the day. The leopards have been hanging around for fresh faces.
jun 20, 2025, 12:20 pm • 15 0 • view
There's a callback.
jun 20, 2025, 2:05 pm • 1 0 • view
I heard a lot about it growing up! Then Tim Eyman came along for variety.
jun 20, 2025, 3:28 pm • 2 0 • view
I just finished eating the bag of cherries I bought on the side of the road near Mattawa last weekend. They were so good. It’s unspeakably horrible what those amazing workers tolerate in their daily lives to bring us food. Now add ICE. It’s so awful!!!!
jun 20, 2025, 3:13 pm • 3 0 • view
They should import some white children from Florida
jun 20, 2025, 3:35 am • 5 0 • view
MAGA voted him in so they should volunteer to work on the farms that are going under.
jun 20, 2025, 4:16 am • 0 0 • view
All these smug lib takes about farmers deserving to go bankrupt are depressing & cruel. Y’all wish misery on farmers you assume voted for a fascist, but are unconcerned about the farmers’ families, much less the thousands of farm workers who depend on these jobs but can’t risk deportation to do them
jun 21, 2025, 10:44 pm • 3 2 • view
We've been begging MAGA not to drive the car into the tree for a decade now, the only way out now is to let them experience regret. Also most "farmers" aren't ma & pa out with a plow and oxen like 100 yrs ago, they're often millionaires with a 2nd home in Barbados when it's not harvest time.
jun 22, 2025, 6:46 am • 0 0 • view
Harvested food is going to skyrocket. Whether imported or grown in the us.
jun 20, 2025, 12:09 pm • 1 0 • view
I have the craziest PR idea for ICE to start picking and stop preying on people for "quotas". Holman and Noem in overalls. But that's not how fascism works as even the capital interests it pretends to serve are forfeited for displays of oppression to intimidate for control. bsky.app/profile/robe...
jun 20, 2025, 3:38 am • 3 2 • view
@jd-vance-1.bsky.social gonna get some decent business with acre trader.
jun 20, 2025, 1:56 am • 2 1 • view
May they have the day they voted for.
jun 20, 2025, 1:20 pm • 4 0 • view
Who'd they vote for? What policies did they vote for?
jun 20, 2025, 1:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Cherries are fussy. They can get destroyed from bad weather, or bad Presidents.
jun 20, 2025, 3:41 am • 0 0 • view
Or apples, or peaches, or... Hops, yes, Washington grows most of the nation's hops. No hops, no beer.
jun 20, 2025, 12:44 am • 23 0 • view
That might piss off a hillbilly or two.
jun 20, 2025, 3:19 am • 4 0 • view
Likely to piss off a lot of people, really. Add in California, which is another huge agricultural state. Take into account tariffs and downstream labor, then grocery prices are headed up.
jun 20, 2025, 4:49 am • 5 0 • view
Not even Non-Woke Super Patriot Beer?? Bull feathers! 🇺🇸
jun 20, 2025, 12:54 am • 3 0 • view
😆
jun 20, 2025, 3:18 am • 0 0 • view
Evil, for the fun of it.
jun 20, 2025, 12:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Forget rainier cherries being shipped to the east coast.
jun 20, 2025, 1:27 am • 5 0 • view
Well just keep those goodies here for ourselves. I just had some...8 bucks a pound.
jun 20, 2025, 3:21 am • 2 1 • view
📰
jun 20, 2025, 3:39 am • 1 0 • view
I love those cherries.
jul 13, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
Just what Trump wants so Vance’s corp can buy up as much farmland as possible on the cheap. Their.plan is working.
aug 13, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
📌
jun 21, 2025, 3:00 am • 0 0 • view
It's another way of turning food into a weapon. Dictators like to do that. Especially in this time when it seems they want only Rich White People in this country.
jun 20, 2025, 4:55 pm • 0 0 • view
If they voted for Trump, this is what they voted for.
jun 20, 2025, 12:44 am • 10 0 • view
When it works, the cherry harvest, and nearly all of Washington’s fruit harvest, is a well-choreographed operation. Washington growers rely on thousands of migrant workers who arrive in the state after finishing the cherry harvest in California. They then move north Washing to harvest their crops
jun 20, 2025, 12:24 pm • 4 1 • view
yep outside of the cities it's a major part of the economy and immigrants and migrant workers prop it up heavily. I am so angry that they're being attacked. they're people, doing their best. it's disgusting to treat people this way
jun 20, 2025, 7:11 pm • 3 0 • view
I grew up in a rural agricultural area of Washington state. Every year, workers arrived from Mexico to help us harvest our crops. Even as a little child, I understood how valuable they were to our farmers. How stupid do you have to be to not see that???
jun 20, 2025, 9:08 pm • 3 0 • view
We were just coming home from Skagit County, found the best strawberries at this fruit stand. Higher prices for sure, but to be expected as there is a shortage of workers. This is on the GOP and ICE.
jun 20, 2025, 9:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump is killing farmers, small businesses & the economy with his immigration, tariff budget policies. He never thinks anything through.
jun 20, 2025, 12:30 pm • 4 0 • view
The point is to buy the land when these farms have to declare bankruptcy, so the wealthy can control everything
jun 20, 2025, 1:00 pm • 6 0 • view
Donald Trump pardoned criminals who—in response to his call—attacked a Joint Session of Congress on 1/6/2021. These criminals are now ICE deployed bounty-hunters protected and directed by Donald Trump to force Americans to live in a Fascist, Christian-Nationalist, White-Supremacist Kleptocracy.
jun 20, 2025, 11:35 pm • 0 0 • view
📌
jun 20, 2025, 7:00 am • 0 0 • view
Who would have guessed that this would happen.
jun 20, 2025, 12:11 pm • 8 0 • view
What in holy hell happened to all the migrant farmworker visas? This never used to be an issue! Did Trump revoke them all? Did they stop issuing them? This was an essential part of our ag sector for generations!
jun 20, 2025, 5:20 am • 2 0 • view
What happened to the visas, like ICE fucking care. Have your eyes been opened yet? They're just snatching anyone who isn't white
jun 20, 2025, 7:19 am • 7 0 • view
They're acting more like 19th century bounty hunters, who were paid by the ear to kill the Indians, than like a police force. Are they, in fact, bounty hunters? They act and dress the part. This is not law enforcement.
jun 20, 2025, 11:40 am • 2 0 • view
There haven’t been enough of those visas issued to supply the needed manpower for a long time. Political support for the program fell and it’s easier for unscrupulous employers to exploit workers with no legal protections. 🫤
jun 21, 2025, 1:59 am • 1 0 • view
They voted for him. Elections have consequences.
jun 20, 2025, 12:45 pm • 5 1 • view
Not all farmers automatically = Trump voters. Go ahead and sneer so you can feel good about "owning the ags." Some of whom did not vote for him. Go ahead and HA HA while food rots. Your food. Your kids' food. Food for everyone, including the poor. Hilarious. Fuck those blue farmers too, right?
jun 20, 2025, 3:44 am • 8 0 • view
Fuck, i can't care for ppl who voted for this. The convention passed out mass deportation now signs ffs. I'd rather have mega corporate farms than 80% maga farms at this rate. 🤷
jun 20, 2025, 4:58 am • 0 0 • view
I'm not talking about Trump voters. I'm talking about every ag person who did not vote for this being lumped in with Trump voters because of their occupation.
jun 20, 2025, 6:51 am • 0 0 • view
TY and not all people in Red States are GOP. I am really getting pissed off too at this finger waving.
jun 20, 2025, 4:32 am • 2 0 • view
I'm a blue dot in UT, one of if not the most red states in the country. Fuck em, I don't care. I'm not offended by finger waving at my state. They chose this and I feel no ownership over their choice, even if I'm in the same state as them, and will suffer along with them. Fuck em right to their face
jun 20, 2025, 4:53 am • 4 0 • view
Get some of that unemployed pork to pick!😂😳
jun 20, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Noooo!!! 🍒
jun 20, 2025, 5:56 am • 1 0 • view
Yet farmers and rural communities voted for him
jun 20, 2025, 12:56 pm • 22 0 • view
White and white adjacent farmers did.
jun 20, 2025, 2:08 pm • 3 0 • view
Wait till you hear about the veterans who voted for him, and the people who don't want to go to war, and the immigrants who thought he'd only go after criminals, or any number of the fafo crowd.
jun 20, 2025, 8:07 pm • 5 0 • view
This maga fvckery must end. We need a Nuremberg-style trial. The Constitutionally disqualified, illegitimate, corrupt, Russian asset, political thief, criminal felon and his cronies and enablers all need to go! #MAGATerrorists #TrumpMustGoNow bsky.app/profile/iwil...
jun 20, 2025, 11:04 am • 6 1 • view
Everything Trump touches dies.
jun 21, 2025, 9:29 pm • 6 1 • view
Get the national guard up on ladders and let’s get this fruit in! Have the Marines keep ICE out of the orchards.
jun 20, 2025, 1:02 pm • 2 0 • view
The frail elderly in care homes left unattended, shortage of fruits / vegs in stores, no roofers available when severe weather damages homes. If the inhumane cruelty of Trump / Miller / ICE doesn't move people, wait until their own interests are affected. "Why is this happening to me?", they'll ask.
jun 20, 2025, 1:02 am • 16 2 • view
In eastern Washington? Oh that’s a shame.
jun 20, 2025, 3:29 am • 1 0 • view
Duh
jun 20, 2025, 12:52 am • 0 0 • view
Trump will end up once again bailing out farmers with more govt welfare - as those same farmers vote for Trump because he'll deny any govt assistance to others.
jun 20, 2025, 12:45 pm • 1 0 • view
jun 20, 2025, 4:06 am • 2 0 • view
Spoiler alert - the orchards were covered in Trump signs last October.
jun 20, 2025, 3:21 am • 100 3 • view
Because they know if they fail Trump will give them a stack of government cash. He's done it before.
jun 20, 2025, 11:38 am • 7 0 • view
That’s not happening this time. Lot of farmers went bust last time anyway. I guess these people can’t tell when politicians are lying to them.
jun 21, 2025, 11:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Give Trump time-he'll end up bailing some of them out of the problems he caused.
jun 22, 2025, 12:57 am • 0 0 • view
jun 20, 2025, 3:32 am • 9 0 • view
Eastern Washington loves Trump & Fox news so this is what they voted for.
jun 20, 2025, 4:10 am • 6 0 • view
There's too many fucking Culp signs still up for someone who lost four years ago.
jun 20, 2025, 3:46 am • 14 0 • view
I have some in my town still and always want to go pull them down. I’m not interested in getting shot though.
jun 20, 2025, 3:52 am • 4 0 • view
Tell me where these farmers are on the map and I'll tell you if I care about them.
jul 12, 2025, 6:16 pm • 0 0 • view
jun 20, 2025, 3:53 am • 2 0 • view
ICE is going to cause food shortages and soaring prices
jun 20, 2025, 1:12 pm • 6 0 • view
Techbros think they can do it better because they are the crown of creation because money and they control information keeping people ignorant about tech
jun 20, 2025, 8:31 am • 0 0 • view
You can't eat information. We should all go off-line and starve them. Time to shoot down the satellites!
jun 20, 2025, 12:24 pm • 0 0 • view
look for prominent trump donors at the foreclosure sales
jun 21, 2025, 11:13 pm • 4 0 • view
It is ok with this administration that farmers fail. Their billionaire friends who deal in private equity mega farming are on standby to buy up the land at a rock bottom price.
jun 20, 2025, 12:42 pm • 11 1 • view
Also alot of food is going to waste in Texas heat, because they can't find workers. It's just another way Trump has worked to destroy US and our economy.
aug 13, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
NOOOOOO!!! I love those Washington Cherries!
jun 20, 2025, 2:40 pm • 0 0 • view
😵💫
jun 20, 2025, 12:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Number 1,352 on the list of Things Everybody Except Racist Jerks with No Understanding of Economics Saw Coming.
jun 20, 2025, 12:35 pm • 30 1 • view
Wait, the farmers cannot harvest ANY of the cherries? They can’t get their family and friends to help. Them, or hire all the unemployed white peoples in town to pull together? Are they just farm owners and not actual farmers?
jun 20, 2025, 4:30 am • 2 0 • view
jun 20, 2025, 4:52 am • 1 0 • view
I mean, where is that “pick yourself up by your own bootstraps” mentality when it’s really needed?
jun 20, 2025, 5:02 am • 1 0 • view
Awesome. Trump take cherries
jun 20, 2025, 12:22 am • 8 1 • view
That's what they voted for. TWTVF
jun 20, 2025, 3:49 am • 1 0 • view
How incredibly stupid this all is. Farms going out of business. Produce rotting away. And for what?
jun 20, 2025, 12:13 pm • 19 0 • view
Private Equity will buy them and strip em for parts
jun 20, 2025, 12:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Hey, we've kept 8 trans athletes off the field. I'm sure that has MAGA over the moon!
jun 20, 2025, 12:25 pm • 2 1 • view
This is reminiscent of Mao’s outrageous policies during the Great Leap Forward.
jun 20, 2025, 1:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Corporate buy-outs. Once they completely control the food supply, they control the majority of the population.
jun 20, 2025, 12:19 pm • 15 2 • view
Bingo
jun 20, 2025, 12:49 pm • 3 1 • view
Which, ironically, the MAHA/MAGA types were supposedly against this, especially if it involved certain people buying the farmland
jun 20, 2025, 2:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Where are all the white people who were denied jobs because of immigrants taking them? Shouldn’t they be rushing to work picking cherries?
jun 20, 2025, 3:41 am • 42 1 • view
MAGA young people
jun 20, 2025, 4:25 am • 16 0 • view
jun 20, 2025, 5:38 am • 1 0 • view
Oh....Trump said last year that immigrants were taking Black jobs. He will assume Blacks will come running to take the jobs. 🫨
jun 20, 2025, 6:06 am • 0 0 • view
Of course! 🤦🏼♀️
jun 20, 2025, 1:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Are immigrants taking their jobs or are they criminals? Because I don’t see any MAGAts stepping in to pick cherries. 🍒
jun 20, 2025, 12:52 pm • 5 0 • view
Here’s how the rest of us can save our neighbors with what we got and fight like Ukraine. We can stop the kidnapping machine for good— in the easiest and most peaceful way possible: open.substack.com/pub/muppetge...
jun 21, 2025, 11:31 pm • 0 0 • view
That can’t be true - MAGA was clamoring for those American jobs!!
jun 20, 2025, 12:08 pm • 20 0 • view
Fuck I love Washington cherries. Time to hit the ramparts whatever they are
jun 20, 2025, 2:27 am • 5 0 • view
I didn't know, either. Or Perhaps I'd forgotten. I'm old. In either case, here ya go.
jun 20, 2025, 3:23 am • 3 0 • view
Followup question: what is a parapet
jun 20, 2025, 3:40 am • 1 0 • view
Handipup
jun 20, 2025, 3:51 am • 3 0 • view
The parapet is the wall at the edge of the roof or the top of a wall provides cover from projectiles from the outside. The square sawtooth stone thing is a parapet with the gaps being embrasures or crenels.
jun 20, 2025, 3:48 am • 3 0 • view
I like bluesky. We can actually learn things here that are most likely true. :)
jun 20, 2025, 5:06 am • 1 0 • view
I was at the store today, and a shopper next to me was horrified when she scanned a bag of cherries… $7 a POUND! She was charged $21!!!
jun 21, 2025, 12:33 am • 4 0 • view
(I live in Wichita, KS)
jun 21, 2025, 1:20 am • 1 0 • view
I’m on the southwest coast of Canada and I’m eating oranges from our friends in Morocco and apples from from our friends in New Zealand and vegetables from our friends in Mexico. It’s nice having real friends. You know …friends that don’t threaten to invade you.
jun 20, 2025, 12:15 pm • 78 5 • view
I could totally see the old orange deranged POS doing so more than ever now, especially after invading his own country that he’s supposedly leading. Time for squatting POS to end his reign of terror.
jun 20, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Canada has a southwest coast?
jun 20, 2025, 6:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Vancouver and Vancouver Island.
jun 20, 2025, 7:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Still it's hard to beat cherries.
jun 20, 2025, 8:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Not getting my cherries Now they’ve really pissed me off.
jun 20, 2025, 3:51 am • 6 0 • view
Can we also acknowledge that in a country where work is supposed to equal healthcare access that these jobs are also just not…real jobs for that matter
jun 20, 2025, 3:40 am • 4 0 • view
Lots of stupid libs libbing out in these replies
jun 20, 2025, 4:56 am • 2 0 • view
“I don’t care about that stuff. I just know that this is affecting the growers directly whether they are Democrat or Republican or whatever" --the director of the cooperative of farmers (who is probably an R).That's the problem. He should care and be vocal in support of immigrants.
jun 20, 2025, 1:12 pm • 10 2 • view
He will not speak the name 'Trump'.
jun 20, 2025, 1:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, yes, yes‼️ How is it he can't connect the dots to his lack of concern on ice raids, shortage of workers, and rotting/overripen cherries⁉️ If I'm a member of this coop, I'm definitely asking wtf is wrong with him that he can't see the obvious.
jun 20, 2025, 1:48 pm • 8 1 • view
I simply wouldn’t have aimed that huge gun at my foot, but what do I know? I am not a person of the land, the common clay of the new West. bsky.app/profile/robp...
jun 20, 2025, 3:42 am • 30 1 • view
When the trade war hit the farmers his first term he gave them billions but mostly to corporate farms.
jun 20, 2025, 12:12 pm • 5 0 • view
jun 20, 2025, 4:46 am • 13 0 • view
If they voted for him they get what they deserve.. if they didn’t I feel sad for them!
jun 20, 2025, 10:56 am • 0 0 • view
📌
jun 20, 2025, 3:34 am • 0 0 • view
Wasn’t Don jr on crack supposed to replace all these immigrants???!!! We were told these jobs were being taken from the trump children …don & eric…? Curious
jun 20, 2025, 12:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Crap. Another Trump casualty. Think old white dudes like me will pick?
jun 21, 2025, 9:40 pm • 1 0 • view
This was always the plan. Put small farmers out of business so corporations and foreign billionaires can buy the farms and own literally all of our food production.
jun 20, 2025, 1:03 am • 30 4 • view
🥵🤬
jun 20, 2025, 12:20 pm • 1 0 • view
And just guess who they'll get to be the pickers then?
jun 20, 2025, 2:11 am • 2 0 • view
The South Africans they’re currently importing?
jun 20, 2025, 4:25 am • 3 0 • view
jun 20, 2025, 4:51 am • 1 0 • view
Correct. Just ask JD and his acretrader.
jun 20, 2025, 3:59 am • 2 0 • view
This is part of the GOP plan.
jun 20, 2025, 1:32 am • 6 0 • view
And then get prisoners to do all the picking in order to afford to be able to call their friends and families.
jun 20, 2025, 2:56 am • 11 1 • view
Surely there are many MAGAts who will rush to fill those jobs.
jun 20, 2025, 12:38 pm • 3 0 • view
But Canadians will buy much less American cherries anyway...
jun 20, 2025, 12:36 pm • 3 0 • view
Explains why cherries haven't been for sale in the supermarket recently. This should be cherry season, but it isn't. Thanks a lot, Trump, Stephen Miller, and ICE. And Republican Members of Congress who could stop all of this RIGHT NOW, if they would do their damn jobs and defend the Constitution.
jun 20, 2025, 5:56 am • 13 0 • view
Trump's buddies will pick up the farms cheap, and have cheap undocumented labor on those farms next year, after paying a fee to Trump to not get ICE'd. Unenforced laws can be turned into a weapon and even the people who do nothing wrong will lose to those that buys protection from the Orange King.
jun 20, 2025, 7:25 am • 9 0 • view
They're defending the Russia constitution.
jun 20, 2025, 12:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Unpatriotic, un-American Traitors.
jun 20, 2025, 12:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I love cherries. I'm not young, but if I lived close to this I would go pick cherries for nothing (well, maybe for some cherries).
jun 20, 2025, 1:21 pm • 0 0 • view
It's a shame. I was just in Washington and it's a beautiful state with great cherries.
jun 20, 2025, 3:29 am • 1 0 • view
Not so great anymore
jun 20, 2025, 4:04 am • 0 0 • view
I think Trump imagines some Grapes of Wrath dustbowl migration of workers rushing to fill these jobs but I don't see it happening.
jun 20, 2025, 3:43 am • 3 0 • view
I can vouch for this on a much more micro level. My single sour cherry is coming to fruition on my city plot. When they are ripe there is a 2-week window to pick the tree clean or they rot and attract worms for the next year's crop. I offer them up to whatever friends can pick and use them.
jun 20, 2025, 3:28 pm • 1 0 • view
and industrial farms will snap up the land!🤬
jun 20, 2025, 4:34 am • 3 0 • view
Good to remember that Washington voted for Kamala. People there don’t deserve this what is happening.
jun 20, 2025, 4:20 am • 3 0 • view
I loathe Trump, but if you're going to base who deserves what on who they voted for, you should know that a majority of people who live in Washington's farm country voted for Trump. www.fox13seattle.com/news/wa-coun...
jun 20, 2025, 4:41 am • 1 0 • view
But none of us deserve any of this, except the corporate/tech elites & political class. Certainly not the farm workers who need those jobs to survive & provide for their families.
jun 21, 2025, 10:38 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree, and I didn't say otherwise.
jun 21, 2025, 10:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I live here Spokane is solidly blue but all the surrounding rural ag areas are resoundingly red, red. the population is 50% urban and 50% rural. the rural voters in this region, most voted for trump and as far right as they were able. I hate this for those that didn't but it isn't a long list
jun 20, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, MAGA, now’s your time to shine. Here are those jobs that immigrants “stole” from you.
jun 20, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, but he's SO pro-farmer, right? It's embarrassing that the president of our country lies every time he opens his mouth. And the entire world know it. He's only "pro-" anything that puts money in his pocket.
jun 21, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
Is this a win for Trump?
jun 20, 2025, 12:51 pm • 1 0 • view
There's plenty of cherry pickers in the Republican party -- especially among the so-called "Christians." They cherry pick the parts of the Bible they want to follow, the parts of the constitution to follow, all kinds of things. Those are transferable skills.
jun 20, 2025, 1:27 am • 115 9 • view
🙄 bsky.app/profile/www....
jun 21, 2025, 11:43 pm • 6 2 • view
👏👏👏
jun 20, 2025, 3:46 am • 7 0 • view
💔
jun 20, 2025, 3:29 am • 0 0 • view
All those MAGAs that claim the immigrants have taken their jobs have a perfect opportunity now to get off their asses and do some picking! All the fruit will rot on the trees thanks to the felon!
jun 20, 2025, 3:21 am • 54 2 • view
They'd lose their govt. disability checks tho.
jun 20, 2025, 12:10 pm • 2 0 • view
And all the assholes who VOTED for him.
jun 20, 2025, 3:24 am • 14 0 • view
"MAGAt farmers have two options: They can have their cherries picked, or they can have their cherries popped."--An ex-GF's opinion of this situation.
jun 20, 2025, 4:48 am • 0 0 • view
Not really a surprise. The felon is throwing his blue state supporters under the bus.
jun 20, 2025, 1:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Now that would be a good use of the national guard, ice and CBP.
jun 20, 2025, 8:04 pm • 7 0 • view
Have they checked Trump properties for immigrants?
jun 21, 2025, 1:14 am • 1 0 • view
Yup, and the point is that all immigrants are not criminals, as MAGA wants us to believe. Any more than all named Stevie Miller are lunatic bastards!
jun 20, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump take cherry pie.
jun 20, 2025, 12:13 pm • 0 0 • view
They ought to make those white Africans Trump welcomed to the US pick them.
jun 20, 2025, 2:20 pm • 1 0 • view
My sympathy is reserved for the farmers and farm owners that did NOT vote for Velveeta Voldemort
jun 20, 2025, 12:27 am • 40 0 • view
Any farmer who voted for any Republican, anywhere, since 1980, deserves what they're getting right now.
jun 20, 2025, 12:40 pm • 1 0 • view
So your sympathy lies with maybe 5% of farmers while 95% as usual voted against their own interest and will do so again
jun 20, 2025, 4:06 am • 3 0 • view
Yes. And fuck them.
jun 20, 2025, 6:27 am • 0 0 • view
And for the farm workers and immigrants of course.
jun 20, 2025, 12:28 am • 24 0 • view
It's cool. Rich fucks will be happy to buy good land for pennies on the dollar.
jun 20, 2025, 4:17 am • 3 0 • view
Same issue in Montana with our Flathead cherries.
jun 20, 2025, 4:28 pm • 0 0 • view
You reap what you sow, including xenophobia. But I'm sure MAGA will gladly pick the rotting cherries for $5 an hour.
jun 20, 2025, 12:10 pm • 5 1 • view
We best not be bailing them out. They’re getting what they voted for.
jun 20, 2025, 3:54 am • 3 0 • view
I live in the Grandview/Prosser area that was mentioned. You would have been hard pressed to find a Kamala sign on any of these farmers' lands. Elections have consequences, and it's about time these voters learned that.
jun 20, 2025, 3:47 am • 75 2 • view
While this is undoubtedly karmic and satisfying, this is just one component of our food supply that is going to be massively disrupted, not to mention made massively unsafe, by this administration’s reckless and hateful policies. It’s going to suck a lot more than it feels good to chuckle.
jun 20, 2025, 4:05 am • 49 0 • view
Have you ever laughed while crying? It's ugly and you feel crazy but I bet we've all done it at least once. I don't know that they'll learn from this but it's the only thing that really has a chance of breaking through.
jun 20, 2025, 4:46 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah. No. I’m going to really enjoy these eastern Washington parasites suffering. The only way anything will ever get better is if they learn a hard lesson or two. And guess what: nobody actually needs fresh cherries.
jun 20, 2025, 5:32 am • 10 0 • view
"Nobody actually needs fresh cherries?" Do you hear yourself? This isn't just about cherries either- our entire agricultural network is at risk here. Food is already getting extremely expensive, and who do you think hurts the most from that? Not rich people, I'll assure you.
jun 20, 2025, 6:46 am • 23 1 • view
And we should all be concerned about who buys these bankrupt farms. What sort of neighbor will they be? Worse, I suspect.
jun 20, 2025, 7:12 am • 16 1 • view
Exactly! We've already had so many small businesses, especially farms, slurped up by land-destroying monocrop megacorps. A chump-voting indie farmer still does less overall harm than chump-supporting conglomerates.
jun 20, 2025, 7:14 am • 13 1 • view
The big farms generally buy your small farm, and let you stay and work there. Until you don't make quotas, then you get fired and kicked out of your house.
jun 20, 2025, 11:35 am • 4 0 • view
And besides, FAFO only really applies when the person who effs around is the only one who finds out. "I poked a snake." "Well, that's why you got bitten!" Not "farmer effs around and the whole system collapses."
jun 20, 2025, 8:01 am • 9 0 • view
And that goes for every working class person who chooses to destroy the world that gives them whatever amount of comfort and privilege they enjoy, all the while blaming government for anything that inconveniences them. People have to learn that stupidity has a price.
jun 20, 2025, 8:30 am • 0 0 • view
I’m sorry. This is the kind of self defeating thinking that has paralyzed Democrats for half a century. The eastern Washington parasites live off our hard work and the work of everyone in government, and vote to hurt us and hurt vulnerable people. Nothing will change until they learn. Firsthand.
jun 20, 2025, 8:15 am • 7 0 • view
Gotta say, it's pretty uncool to use dehumanizing rhetoric like "parasites" to describe people, even when they're folks you don't like and are inclined to feel schadenfreude towards.
jun 20, 2025, 11:02 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m afraid you really don’t understand the math. Red states and red counties are parasites. They take in more cash from the Feds than they pay into the federal govt, and they use it to subsidize their elites and cause their working-class/ poor to suffer. It is deadly & immoral. They are parasites.
jun 20, 2025, 11:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm not saying "the farmers didn't deserve this," but everything else that depends on what they DO is suffering too. And who do you think pays for the ad campaigns that target them? Pulls them away from better ideas? We shouldn't celebrate *systemic collapse* just because some of them are assholes.
jun 20, 2025, 8:20 am • 7 0 • view
They have long-standing racism, but that's ALSO being fueled and manipulated to keep them stagnant. We don't live in a world where a farmer doesn't get news for weeks anymore. They are being propagandized in ways that keep their old biases going.
jun 20, 2025, 8:22 am • 7 0 • view
Well, the rich people won't feel it at first...
jun 20, 2025, 12:36 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh, most definitely. However, I'm not going to feel sorry for farmers who had to be forced to provide sanitary living conditions to migrants by our governor. Ditto for the farmers who would *knowingly* hire undocumented workers and then call in immigration on payday.
jun 20, 2025, 7:37 am • 2 0 • view
So then leave people alone to have the chuckle. Not literally everything needs a buzz kill.
jun 20, 2025, 4:13 am • 3 0 • view
They will not learn. They will be told by people on Fox propaganda that it was Biden fault.
jun 21, 2025, 11:03 pm • 3 1 • view
jun 21, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
My wife was at whole foods today and said shelves were empty and cereal was scarce or not on the shelves. Ie. Cornflakes no where to be found.
jun 20, 2025, 4:16 am • 1 0 • view
You know Whole Foods is owned by Amazon since 2017, right? There are other places to shop for cornflakes & cheaper…it’s cornflakes
jun 20, 2025, 4:50 am • 0 0 • view
Yes I know. My wife just happens to work there
jun 20, 2025, 11:52 am • 0 0 • view
A major Whole Foods supplier suffered a catastrophic cyberattack earlier this month and they’re still trying to get things functional again. 😬
jun 21, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
Why aren’t they all calling their representative. I’m sure Dan Newhouse would like to hear from them…
jun 20, 2025, 6:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, because if you bankrupt the blue states… They think they’ll become red with weakness I guess. Because all red states are weak. With very weak people running them.
jun 20, 2025, 10:54 am • 7 0 • view
jun 20, 2025, 12:53 am • 2 0 • view
This is going to be followed by more pushes to put prisoners in these jobs.
jun 20, 2025, 11:44 pm • 4 0 • view
Fresh food prices can only go up
jun 20, 2025, 12:53 pm • 5 0 • view
So what are we learning here? how about next time you see a migrant in the store or on the street, say thank you and give them a welcoming nod. Remember the fresh fruit and vegetables you are purchasing, came to your table through their hands and hard work.
jun 20, 2025, 12:25 pm • 4 0 • view
I acknowledge the pain of losing you business. I sincerely hope business owners acknowledge that Trump's policies put them out of business. We need a stronger voice to convince voters & to let Trump's policies are costing us.
jun 20, 2025, 3:40 am • 7 0 • view
Soon somebody will propose slave labour as a solution. Surely these delinquents in ICE detention should pay for their free accommodation and food.
jun 20, 2025, 12:13 pm • 8 0 • view
You mean like the firefighter solution during recent wildfires? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
jun 20, 2025, 12:21 pm • 6 0 • view
Rethinking prison labor under the 13th Amendment | University of Chicago News share.google/JO5KAprmZCjZ...
jun 20, 2025, 12:26 pm • 3 0 • view
Just one of the medieval aspects of US society. Yet those firefighters have been lawfully convicted, while the ones in ICE detention usually have not been.
jun 20, 2025, 2:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Just need a law to lawfully convict people. Aiding & abetting is a law - how long before knowing of an undocumented person becomes a felony worthy of prison labor? #StopCopCity were deemed terrorists - now eligible for prison labor. Many tax "errors" are felonies unprosecuted by IRS... for now.
jun 20, 2025, 2:27 pm • 3 0 • view
Too much reliance on "police said" or "convicted" as truth. Plenty of "possession" felonies fill the jails & prisons. While undocumented are civil, not criminal, "offenses" - most Voters don't know the difference & would easily condone prison labor of the undocumented.
jun 20, 2025, 2:27 pm • 2 0 • view
The whole point of private prisons.
jun 20, 2025, 12:20 pm • 3 0 • view
So then their orchards will be sold for pennies on the dollar to a huge conglomerate. Just the way they planned it.
jun 20, 2025, 3:23 pm • 6 0 • view