Farmgrl
@farmgrl.bsky.social
UU doing Community Ministry with our neighbors, justice-seeker, gardener, locavore, cat herder, avid reader of historical fiction, farm girl, recovering teacher of philosophy, and all-around nerd.
Memorial field of poppies, Fennville, MI. Happy Solstice!
June 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Memorial field of poppies, Fennville, MI. Happy Solstice!
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The bourbon industry is used to pouring $9 billion into Kentucky's economy annually. Trump may not understand what retaliatory tariffs are all about, but Kentuckians will feel it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Bourbon industry in crosshairs of U.S.-Canada trade war
Stores in Canada have been removing U.S.-made bourbon from their shelves in retaliation for stiff tariffs placed on the nation's goods.
www.nbcnews.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The bourbon industry is used to pouring $9 billion into Kentucky's economy annually. Trump may not understand what retaliatory tariffs are all about, but Kentuckians will feel it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Trump is using the White House to make a commercial for the richest man in the world while Americans’ 401ks are plummeting.
March 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Trump is using the White House to make a commercial for the richest man in the world while Americans’ 401ks are plummeting.
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Hey Lee Zeldin — you gonna let our kids drink sewage water and breathe polluted air to make the 1% richer.
This is the GOP way!!!
E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
This is the GOP way!!!
E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices
An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Hey Lee Zeldin — you gonna let our kids drink sewage water and breathe polluted air to make the 1% richer.
This is the GOP way!!!
E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
This is the GOP way!!!
E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
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Join us for a virtual night of action!
Our Legislative Action Night was so successful, we are offering a virtual option for those who couldn't make it on Tuesday, March 4! Register at the link.
https://www.mobilize.us/acluofkentucky/event/759312/
Our Legislative Action Night was so successful, we are offering a virtual option for those who couldn't make it on Tuesday, March 4! Register at the link.
https://www.mobilize.us/acluofkentucky/event/759312/
March 1, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Join us for a virtual night of action!
Our Legislative Action Night was so successful, we are offering a virtual option for those who couldn't make it on Tuesday, March 4! Register at the link.
https://www.mobilize.us/acluofkentucky/event/759312/
Our Legislative Action Night was so successful, we are offering a virtual option for those who couldn't make it on Tuesday, March 4! Register at the link.
https://www.mobilize.us/acluofkentucky/event/759312/
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If you love Baseball and are a LGBTQ supporter, make plans to be at Go Mart Park in Charleston WV on June 8th for Pride night with the Dirty Birds. Their owner is highly supportive and does an Amazing job celebrating Pride. I talking Top of the Dugouts Drag Shows. Let’s sell it out.
February 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
If you love Baseball and are a LGBTQ supporter, make plans to be at Go Mart Park in Charleston WV on June 8th for Pride night with the Dirty Birds. Their owner is highly supportive and does an Amazing job celebrating Pride. I talking Top of the Dugouts Drag Shows. Let’s sell it out.
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Birthright citizenship remains the law of the land. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Birthright citizenship remains the law of the land. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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“The Trump administration's Monday spending freeze is likely to provoke a crisis over the constitutionality of "impoundment"—one that the justices could well have to resolve *very* soon.”
120. The Impoundment Crisis of 2025
The Trump administration's Monday spending freeze is likely to provoke a crisis over the constitutionality of "impoundment"—one that the justices could well have to resolve *very* soon.
www.stevevladeck.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
“The Trump administration's Monday spending freeze is likely to provoke a crisis over the constitutionality of "impoundment"—one that the justices could well have to resolve *very* soon.”
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Trump has gagged the CDC, but not me. So I'm sharing this. www.cjonline.com/story/news/p...
Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history
Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s.
www.cjonline.com
January 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Trump has gagged the CDC, but not me. So I'm sharing this. www.cjonline.com/story/news/p...
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This is how you say “go fuck yourself sideways with a porcupine” in inspector general speak.
Going to be interesting to see how the administration responds
Going to be interesting to see how the administration responds
January 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This is how you say “go fuck yourself sideways with a porcupine” in inspector general speak.
Going to be interesting to see how the administration responds
Going to be interesting to see how the administration responds
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Trump while surveying hurricane recovery in NC today: "I'll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA or maybe getting rid of FEMA..I’d rather see the states take care of their own problems.”
He's not just stupid, he's dangerous.
He's not just stupid, he's dangerous.
January 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Trump while surveying hurricane recovery in NC today: "I'll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA or maybe getting rid of FEMA..I’d rather see the states take care of their own problems.”
He's not just stupid, he's dangerous.
He's not just stupid, he's dangerous.
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Dems would get much more traction finding and promoting people saying what they know and experience.
What has more impact, This man speaking his mind or the Dems speaking “in unison “ ?
What has more impact, This man speaking his mind or the Dems speaking “in unison “ ?
You guys need to see this and take it in…
Wise words from someone who is a target. And he’s been listening.
Wise words from someone who is a target. And he’s been listening.
January 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Dems would get much more traction finding and promoting people saying what they know and experience.
What has more impact, This man speaking his mind or the Dems speaking “in unison “ ?
What has more impact, This man speaking his mind or the Dems speaking “in unison “ ?
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NOW: More than 98% of #Costco shareholders have just rejected an anti-DEI measure
The attempt to force Costco to audit their #DEI work was by an anti-inclusion lobby group:
"The proponent's broader agenda is not reducing risk for the Company but abolition of diversity initiatives." - Costco Board
The attempt to force Costco to audit their #DEI work was by an anti-inclusion lobby group:
"The proponent's broader agenda is not reducing risk for the Company but abolition of diversity initiatives." - Costco Board
January 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
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President Trump has cleared a path for attempting not to include the total number of persons residing in each state in a key set of census results that the 14th Amendment says must include the “whole number of persons in each state”
Trump rescinds Biden's census order, clearing a path for reshaping election maps
President Trump revoked a Biden-era executive order that affirmed the longstanding practice of including the total number of persons residing in each state in a census count used for election maps.
www.npr.org
January 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
President Trump has cleared a path for attempting not to include the total number of persons residing in each state in a key set of census results that the 14th Amendment says must include the “whole number of persons in each state”
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This 👇
January 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This 👇
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The Laken Riley Act allows for the indefinite detention of any immigrant even SUSPECTED of theft.
It also enables cops to detain citizens who look like immigrants until they can prove their citizenship.
Senate Dems need to say #NoRacialProfilingLaws and vote against this bill.
It also enables cops to detain citizens who look like immigrants until they can prove their citizenship.
Senate Dems need to say #NoRacialProfilingLaws and vote against this bill.
January 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The Laken Riley Act allows for the indefinite detention of any immigrant even SUSPECTED of theft.
It also enables cops to detain citizens who look like immigrants until they can prove their citizenship.
Senate Dems need to say #NoRacialProfilingLaws and vote against this bill.
It also enables cops to detain citizens who look like immigrants until they can prove their citizenship.
Senate Dems need to say #NoRacialProfilingLaws and vote against this bill.
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The Laken Riley Act is an assault on due process and our constitutional rights. The Senate is poised to take a vote on this confusing and chaotic bill at 10:00 am this morning, so please call your Senators and tell them to vote NO on this anti-democratic bill. Tell them #NoRacialProfilingLaws
January 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The Laken Riley Act is an assault on due process and our constitutional rights. The Senate is poised to take a vote on this confusing and chaotic bill at 10:00 am this morning, so please call your Senators and tell them to vote NO on this anti-democratic bill. Tell them #NoRacialProfilingLaws
Yet another reason to move to Spain.
BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”
Spain to enshrine gay marriage and abortion rights into its constitution so 'they cannot be undone in the future' - Olive Press News Spain
PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain's constitution so they 'can never be undone'. The left-wing PSOE
www.theolivepress.es
December 7, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Yet another reason to move to Spain.
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Today in 1986: Bruce Hornsby and the Range are #1 with “The Way It Is”
It was “a great fluke,” said Hornsby. “A song about racism with two improvised solos is hardly the formula for pop success. .. but BBC Radio 1 played it and, boom, there it went. The last place it was a hit was in the US.”
It was “a great fluke,” said Hornsby. “A song about racism with two improvised solos is hardly the formula for pop success. .. but BBC Radio 1 played it and, boom, there it went. The last place it was a hit was in the US.”
December 6, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Today in 1986: Bruce Hornsby and the Range are #1 with “The Way It Is”
It was “a great fluke,” said Hornsby. “A song about racism with two improvised solos is hardly the formula for pop success. .. but BBC Radio 1 played it and, boom, there it went. The last place it was a hit was in the US.”
It was “a great fluke,” said Hornsby. “A song about racism with two improvised solos is hardly the formula for pop success. .. but BBC Radio 1 played it and, boom, there it went. The last place it was a hit was in the US.”
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From @sylviaruthg.bsky.social: Nearly two dozen homeless people in Louisville have faced bench warrants after they failed to appear in court for “unlawful camping,” as a result of the Safer Kentucky Act. Advocates say it's what they feared, but expected. #kyga25
Houseless Kentuckians facing arrest after failing to appear for ‘unlawful camping’ citations
Nearly two dozen unhoused people in Louisville have faced bench warrants after they failed to appear in court for “unlawful camping,” as a result of the Safer Kentucky Act. Advocates say it's what the...
www.lpm.org
December 4, 2024 at 2:00 PM
From @sylviaruthg.bsky.social: Nearly two dozen homeless people in Louisville have faced bench warrants after they failed to appear in court for “unlawful camping,” as a result of the Safer Kentucky Act. Advocates say it's what they feared, but expected. #kyga25
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i think this is right and i will observe that this is essentially the position the court took in plessy v. ferguson, which held that the constitution has no bearing on inequalities of social power
There is a stance I will call "Kavanaugh neutrality" that says the Constitution is "neutral" between vulnerable people and the power of the state and so we will watch and shrug while the vulnerable are beaten up in our presence. #Skrmetti
December 4, 2024 at 3:48 PM
i think this is right and i will observe that this is essentially the position the court took in plessy v. ferguson, which held that the constitution has no bearing on inequalities of social power
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They are thinking like felon47, if we don't test or report, it didn't happen. See how that works? #WomenAreDying
Georgia officials have dismissed all members of the state's Maternal Mortality Review Committee, which is charged with investigating deaths of pregnant women, in response to ProPublica's reporting on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller.
Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
propub.li
December 3, 2024 at 2:39 PM
They are thinking like felon47, if we don't test or report, it didn't happen. See how that works? #WomenAreDying
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Massive away win for the little fella.
December 2, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Massive away win for the little fella.
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Late-stage Capitalism: Americans shop whilst awaiting fascism.
November 30, 2024 at 1:47 AM
Late-stage Capitalism: Americans shop whilst awaiting fascism.