A Farmer
@afarmerinohio.bsky.social
A grain farmer with a few friends, a few cows, a little debt, and a lot of bad habits.
Reposted by A Farmer
They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.
NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution.
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
December 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.
Reposted by A Farmer
The BQE triple cantilever opened in 1954 and was designed to last 50 years. The risks go up as it continues to deteriorate. City officials and transportation engineers say imminent collapse is not a threat, but other catastrophes could still strike, like concrete falling off and hitting vehicles.
A Highway Is Crumbling. New York Can’t Agree on How to Fix It. (Gift Article)
The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has exceeded its life span. Clashing visions have hindered a solution.
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The BQE triple cantilever opened in 1954 and was designed to last 50 years. The risks go up as it continues to deteriorate. City officials and transportation engineers say imminent collapse is not a threat, but other catastrophes could still strike, like concrete falling off and hitting vehicles.
This shouldn't exist.
The $35 million, Ohio-based LifeWise Academy expects to serve close to 100,000 kids in 34 states this school year, spreading off-campus religious instruction during the school day. But tensions are growing over separation of church and state ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/02/l...
LifeWise’s big red bus is driving thorny questions about church and state • Ohio Capital Journal
The $35 million, Ohio-based LifeWise Academy expects to serve close to 100,000 kids in 34 states this school year, spreading off-campus religious instruction during the school day. But tensions are…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This shouldn't exist.
This lying sack of shit is an MD.
Sen. Roger Marshall on Trump's health: "I'll work 110 hours a week. He outworks me. He's the first person I've ever known that works harder than I do. He runs around that golf course. He's in incredible shape right now. And you talk about sharp! He's playing 4 dimensional chess"
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This lying sack of shit is an MD.
"Law and order."
Donald Trump commuted the prison sentence of a fraudster. Eli Weinstein promised to reform — but within months, he was back in business.
Read the full story in The Big Take: bloom.bg/44FIRmf
📷️: 731, Thomas P. Costello/USA Today Network
Read the full story in The Big Take: bloom.bg/44FIRmf
📷️: 731, Thomas P. Costello/USA Today Network
December 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"Law and order."
Because using more fuel is cheaper? Fucking morons.
Trump plans to roll back fuel economy standards that he says have pushed up the price of new cars
Trump to Roll Back Fuel Economy Rules in Nod to Rising Car Prices
It’s not clear that relaxing the standard will lower costs for consumers.
bloom.bg
December 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Because using more fuel is cheaper? Fucking morons.
Good thing Columbia and Northwestern capitulated to Trump. Way to read the political winds, you fucking ignorant cowards.
Aftyn Behn is going to fall a little short here but the shift from 2024 in today's election in central Tennessee is looking like ~15 or so points to the left.
The big surprise to me is total turnout, specials normally are very low turnout but this may have more voters than the '22 midterm in TN-07
The big surprise to me is total turnout, specials normally are very low turnout but this may have more voters than the '22 midterm in TN-07
December 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Good thing Columbia and Northwestern capitulated to Trump. Way to read the political winds, you fucking ignorant cowards.
Read this article and imagine the outcry if the potential success of various businesses' bids were dependent on the opinion of Barack Obama or Joe Biden.
Paramount throws in more cash in bid for Warner; Comcast wants to combine assets with NBCUniversal
Paramount throws in more cash in bid for Warner; Comcast wants to combine assets with NBCUniversal
Jockeying for HBO-owner Warner Bros. Discovery has intensified as the auction appears to enter its home stretch.
www.latimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Read this article and imagine the outcry if the potential success of various businesses' bids were dependent on the opinion of Barack Obama or Joe Biden.
Reposted by A Farmer
Thumbs up thing Trump loves doing so much, and imagery juxtaposing then as much as possible and refer to your opponent as "Trump's boy" or "Trump's girl".
Hang him around their necks like a fucking anvil, no matter your race.
County library board? Your opponent is Trump's boy.
Hang him around their necks like a fucking anvil, no matter your race.
County library board? Your opponent is Trump's boy.
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Thumbs up thing Trump loves doing so much, and imagery juxtaposing then as much as possible and refer to your opponent as "Trump's boy" or "Trump's girl".
Hang him around their necks like a fucking anvil, no matter your race.
County library board? Your opponent is Trump's boy.
Hang him around their necks like a fucking anvil, no matter your race.
County library board? Your opponent is Trump's boy.
Reposted by A Farmer
The lesson tonight if you're a Republican is to tell everyone you're your own person, and have lots of pictures of yourself at a supermarket with a frown.
If you're a Democrat, it's to find every picture you can of your opponent with Trump, particularly ones with both of them with that stupid
If you're a Democrat, it's to find every picture you can of your opponent with Trump, particularly ones with both of them with that stupid
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
The lesson tonight if you're a Republican is to tell everyone you're your own person, and have lots of pictures of yourself at a supermarket with a frown.
If you're a Democrat, it's to find every picture you can of your opponent with Trump, particularly ones with both of them with that stupid
If you're a Democrat, it's to find every picture you can of your opponent with Trump, particularly ones with both of them with that stupid
Reposted by A Farmer
Michael and Susan Dell to Put $250 in 25 Million Children’s Accounts
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Alabama doing Alabama things
The University of Alabama is claiming two student publications violate federal law because one of them focuses on women students and the other on Black students, and it has shut them both down.
Alice Magazine is a fashion and wellness magazine that primarily covers women. Nineteen Fifty-Six covers Black student life and culture.
“Hood said that the University made the decision and had not been spurred by a complaint about the magazines.“
thecrimsonwhite.com/125358/news/...
“Hood said that the University made the decision and had not been spurred by a complaint about the magazines.“
thecrimsonwhite.com/125358/news/...
December 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Alabama doing Alabama things
Reposted by A Farmer
I just love one of the lackey favorite hype lines is, “This man never sleeps!”
December 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I just love one of the lackey favorite hype lines is, “This man never sleeps!”
Reposted by A Farmer
The extractive use of public lands is another manifest destiny outcome. By the end of the 19thC, it was apparent that the complete privatization of Western land was not possible: land wasn't productive enough. Yet, public lands, forests included, were used in unsustainable ways, and still are today.
This is a another great piece from @highcountrynews.org and @propublica.org (and not just because I am quoted in it).
Grazing fees on public lands are ludicrously low: the disfunction of our ag sector extends to public lands both in environmental terms and in favoring the richest "farmers".
Grazing fees on public lands are ludicrously low: the disfunction of our ag sector extends to public lands both in environmental terms and in favoring the richest "farmers".
The wealthy profit from public lands, and taxpayers pick up the tab - High Country News
Roughly two-thirds of grazing on Bureau of Land Management land is controlled by just 10% of permit holders.
www.hcn.org
December 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The extractive use of public lands is another manifest destiny outcome. By the end of the 19thC, it was apparent that the complete privatization of Western land was not possible: land wasn't productive enough. Yet, public lands, forests included, were used in unsustainable ways, and still are today.
Reposted by A Farmer
Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...
Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder
Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...
www.alternet.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...
Reposted by A Farmer
hard to fall asleep while being fellated by so many people but Captain Sundown is built different newrepublic.com/post/203865/...
Trump, 79, Repeatedly Falls Asleep in His Own Cabinet Meeting
Donald Trump can no longer stay awake in his own meetings.
newrepublic.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
hard to fall asleep while being fellated by so many people but Captain Sundown is built different newrepublic.com/post/203865/...
He is a fucking moron.
The Ohio U.S. senator said there are other areas for automakers to innovate and compete on beside electrification.
Moreno says United States, allies 'dumb' to compete with China on EVs
The Ohio U.S. senator said there are other areas for automakers to innovate and compete on beside electrification.
bit.ly
December 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
He is a fucking moron.
Reposted by A Farmer
Rio Tinto’s Nuton venture is using microbes to remove copper from ores that are otherwise uneconomical to mine.
Can Arizona Miners Unleash an American Copper Boom?
Rio Tinto’s Nuton venture is using microbes to remove copper from ores that are otherwise uneconomical to mine.
on.wsj.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Rio Tinto’s Nuton venture is using microbes to remove copper from ores that are otherwise uneconomical to mine.
Reposted by A Farmer
Reposted by A Farmer
What if—bear with me now—both those strikes and all those that followed were illegal?
Markwayne Mullin defends Hegseth: "If there was a second strike, it wouldn't be to just simply take out the survivors. It's because there was still a threat or opportunity for them to run."
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
What if—bear with me now—both those strikes and all those that followed were illegal?
Reposted by A Farmer
farmers state bank (now an historical society), horizontal angle view, second street, deposit, new york, 2004
December 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
farmers state bank (now an historical society), horizontal angle view, second street, deposit, new york, 2004
I have a long way to go until I have too many books.
The estate sale of the late lawyer and bibliophile Bill Roberts, whose Rittenhouse townhouse is filled with thousands upon thousands of books and other treasures, opens to the public this week.
Estate sale at Delancey Street townhouse filled with 100,000 books opens this week
Sales by Helen expects to sell the vast majority of books for flat rates: $3 for paperbacks, $5 for hardbacks, $20 for coffee table.
www.inquirer.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I have a long way to go until I have too many books.
Reposted by A Farmer
I know these people were mostly born without consciences but I do think if I had to be politely asked not to use the cartoon turtle for children to promote extrajudicial killings I would wonder, if only for a second, if I was a bad person.
December 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I know these people were mostly born without consciences but I do think if I had to be politely asked not to use the cartoon turtle for children to promote extrajudicial killings I would wonder, if only for a second, if I was a bad person.
Reposted by A Farmer
America: Did you order the code Red?
Hegseth: YOU’RE GODDAM RIGHT I DID!
America: Uhm, it’s a crime.
Hegseth: Ok, someone else ordered the Code Red.
Hegseth: YOU’RE GODDAM RIGHT I DID!
America: Uhm, it’s a crime.
Hegseth: Ok, someone else ordered the Code Red.
December 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
America: Did you order the code Red?
Hegseth: YOU’RE GODDAM RIGHT I DID!
America: Uhm, it’s a crime.
Hegseth: Ok, someone else ordered the Code Red.
Hegseth: YOU’RE GODDAM RIGHT I DID!
America: Uhm, it’s a crime.
Hegseth: Ok, someone else ordered the Code Red.