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Red states produce the bulk of our meat, true—though California still produces 8% of American beef.
But the red states’ role as America’s breadbasket is LONG gone. Most red state agro-economy has been redirected from human-grade food to commodity feedstock.
And much of that is on federal welfare.
But the red states’ role as America’s breadbasket is LONG gone. Most red state agro-economy has been redirected from human-grade food to commodity feedstock.
And much of that is on federal welfare.
It goes even deeper than this. The vast bulk of red state agriculture is corn, soybeans or seed crops.
And most of it is not for US human consumption! We export 20% of our corn, half of our soybean and seeds. The rest?
Most of it becomes oil, animal feed or….ETHANOL.
The subsidized fuel additive.
And most of it is not for US human consumption! We export 20% of our corn, half of our soybean and seeds. The rest?
Most of it becomes oil, animal feed or….ETHANOL.
The subsidized fuel additive.
Half the fruits and vegetables in the US come from California, 75% of the nuts. The flyover states like to pretend they do much
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Red states produce the bulk of our meat, true—though California still produces 8% of American beef.
But the red states’ role as America’s breadbasket is LONG gone. Most red state agro-economy has been redirected from human-grade food to commodity feedstock.
And much of that is on federal welfare.
But the red states’ role as America’s breadbasket is LONG gone. Most red state agro-economy has been redirected from human-grade food to commodity feedstock.
And much of that is on federal welfare.
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Especially since a huge percentage of American crops are bought and paid for by the government.
Guess where the huge majority of the taxes that go toward buying those crops come from?
That’s right: Blue states.
Guess where the huge majority of the taxes that go toward buying those crops come from?
That’s right: Blue states.
Also this guy suggesting that food is “shared” with other states (or countries) out of goodwill, as opposed to for pay:
Good luck eating your way through an exploding silo of soybeans.
Good luck eating your way through an exploding silo of soybeans.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Especially since a huge percentage of American crops are bought and paid for by the government.
Guess where the huge majority of the taxes that go toward buying those crops come from?
That’s right: Blue states.
Guess where the huge majority of the taxes that go toward buying those crops come from?
That’s right: Blue states.
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California alone produces a third of all the food America eats. So this is a lie.
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
California alone produces a third of all the food America eats. So this is a lie.
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
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Barbara Klemm, The Louvre, Paris, 1987
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Barbara Klemm, The Louvre, Paris, 1987
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Goodnight, all
Leonard Freed, The National Gallery, Washington D.C.
Leonard Freed, The National Gallery, Washington D.C.
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Goodnight, all
Leonard Freed, The National Gallery, Washington D.C.
Leonard Freed, The National Gallery, Washington D.C.
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I counter the claim that "AI steals just the way human artists steal." We do not. Artists engage relationally with sources rather than severing them for computational processing. Computers are not people. Comparing generative tools to artists is a dehumanizing act.
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I counter the claim that "AI steals just the way human artists steal." We do not. Artists engage relationally with sources rather than severing them for computational processing. Computers are not people. Comparing generative tools to artists is a dehumanizing act.
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Like séances surging after the Civil War and Spanish Flu, today's AI promises—eternal life, superintelligence, climate solutions—emerge from the conditions of collective grief and fear.
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Like séances surging after the Civil War and Spanish Flu, today's AI promises—eternal life, superintelligence, climate solutions—emerge from the conditions of collective grief and fear.
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New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
vimeo.com/1116289621
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The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance
Şerife Wong The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 2025 Original score by Jeromey Cooks (rikuwru) This video is part of Icarus Salon. It is intended to be viewed in…
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November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
vimeo.com/1116289621
🧵
vimeo.com/1116289621
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The Halloween candy ice cream is ready. There’s a gallon and a half of candy in each batch of ice cream.
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The Halloween candy ice cream is ready. There’s a gallon and a half of candy in each batch of ice cream.
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Employees at the Detroit Institute of Arts have gone public with their push to unionize, hopping on the years-long wave of arts and culture institution workforces organizing nationwide.
Detroit Institute of Arts Workers Push to Unionize
“The people at the 'bottom' are also very important and all deserve to be getting a living wage,” said one of the workers.
hyperallergic.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Employees at the Detroit Institute of Arts have gone public with their push to unionize, hopping on the years-long wave of arts and culture institution workforces organizing nationwide.
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As so many of this country's politicians take away people's healthcare, this 🧵 came to mind.
Does anyone have recommendations of good books or articles on how racism impeded the formation of a universal healthcare system in the US?
Quadagno only mentions it in passing, but I'd like something with deeper analysis.
Thanks!
Quadagno only mentions it in passing, but I'd like something with deeper analysis.
Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
As so many of this country's politicians take away people's healthcare, this 🧵 came to mind.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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I know, I know--most of us are mainly going to talk today about Democratic cave-in. My recommendation: You know that story. Give yourself a break. Stay on the beat, but come at it sideways, via some real writing, like this from Brendilou Armstrong, a new writer telling the truth.
Gorgeous prose from Brendilou Armstrong, latest in a series of stories by new writers reported for a
@dartmouthartsci.bsky.social
course on documenting small corners of the Trumpocene. (Detail from photo by Matt Black, Armstrong's inspiration.) callingallsyllables.substack.com/p/desperate-...
@dartmouthartsci.bsky.social
course on documenting small corners of the Trumpocene. (Detail from photo by Matt Black, Armstrong's inspiration.) callingallsyllables.substack.com/p/desperate-...
Desperate Remedy
One writer's American geography
callingallsyllables.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I know, I know--most of us are mainly going to talk today about Democratic cave-in. My recommendation: You know that story. Give yourself a break. Stay on the beat, but come at it sideways, via some real writing, like this from Brendilou Armstrong, a new writer telling the truth.
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Passei o dia de hoje pensando no primeiro capítulo desse livro de Christina Sharpe, principalmente do que ela fala sobre o Trabalho no Vestígio.
Temos sim que Velar e fazer Vigília dos nossos mortos como ato político, como ato de afeto.
Comprem e leiam ao menos o primeiro capítulo.
Temos sim que Velar e fazer Vigília dos nossos mortos como ato político, como ato de afeto.
Comprem e leiam ao menos o primeiro capítulo.
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Passei o dia de hoje pensando no primeiro capítulo desse livro de Christina Sharpe, principalmente do que ela fala sobre o Trabalho no Vestígio.
Temos sim que Velar e fazer Vigília dos nossos mortos como ato político, como ato de afeto.
Comprem e leiam ao menos o primeiro capítulo.
Temos sim que Velar e fazer Vigília dos nossos mortos como ato político, como ato de afeto.
Comprem e leiam ao menos o primeiro capítulo.
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Only one more week left to re/listen.
Now listening to the 4th Annual Alchemy Lecture:
Sound—at the Interregnum.
First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science
listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
Sound—at the Interregnum.
First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science
listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Only one more week left to re/listen.
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Typhoon Fung-wong blew out of the Philippines after setting off floods and landslides, knocking out power to entire provinces, killing at least four people and displacing more than 1.4 million. n.pr/4nOFLDw
Typhoon Fung-wong leaves 4 dead and 1.4 million displaced in the Philippines
Typhoon Fung-wong blew out of the Philippines after setting off floods and landslides, knocking out power to entire provinces, killing at least four people and displacing more than 1.4 million.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Typhoon Fung-wong blew out of the Philippines after setting off floods and landslides, knocking out power to entire provinces, killing at least four people and displacing more than 1.4 million. n.pr/4nOFLDw
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It was an extended exposure — perhaps as long as 15 minutes. In those early days, the sensitivity of the plates varied, making every shot an experiment.
The first photo of Jackson Square dates to 1840. See what's changed in this modern-day retake.
It was an extended exposure — perhaps as long as 15 minutes. In those early days, the sensitivity of the plates varied, making every shot an experiment.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
It was an extended exposure — perhaps as long as 15 minutes. In those early days, the sensitivity of the plates varied, making every shot an experiment.
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So cool! Prince *loved* libraries. For example, this is one donation he made from his charity a few days after 9/11 to save the Louisville Free Public Library, the first library in the community to serve African Americans.
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
So cool! Prince *loved* libraries. For example, this is one donation he made from his charity a few days after 9/11 to save the Louisville Free Public Library, the first library in the community to serve African Americans.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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in any case it is wild that voters just sent a huge message and a bunch of senate democrats are all, “it doesn’t look like anything to me”
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
in any case it is wild that voters just sent a huge message and a bunch of senate democrats are all, “it doesn’t look like anything to me”
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I’m no political strategist or anything, but I feel like a bunch of people willing to use starving children as bargaining chips probably won’t honor any promises you make with them.
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I’m no political strategist or anything, but I feel like a bunch of people willing to use starving children as bargaining chips probably won’t honor any promises you make with them.
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Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means.
Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.
Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.
So Democrats get:
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means.
Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.
Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.