Foxtrot Farm

Cannot stress how fun this is as a small business owner in an industry directly and direly affected by the Trump tariffs, the Trump cuts, and the Trump administration actions to reverse half a century of progress.

Nothing like paying your taxes while also donating to legal fights against the actions now funded by said taxes while donating to the essential services that are supposed to be funded by, yep, your taxes while your taxes are used to line the pockets of living caricatures of evil villains.

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Thanks, Heather <3

That looks/sounds amazing

I’m going to start saying this people.

(also, wondering what percentage of these people are teacher of the year at their local elementary school)

Still can’t believe how many folks separately messaged me a kind note that contained the phrase, “I believe in you” over the past few days. Like 🥹😭 it’s got me all in my feelings. What incredibly powerful words to receive.

To avoid civilisation collapse the amount invested in fossil fuels needed to be NEGATIVE for a few years already.

This isn’t good news.

That we are still investing in fossil fuels is not only catastrophically horrific. It is insane.

Scientists Just Built a CO2-Eating Machine That Runs on Sunlight Scientists have developed a sunlight-powered reactor that directly captures CO2 from the air and transforms it into sustainable fuel. Unlike traditional carbon capture methods, this device requires no...

Nature already invented this machine 500 million years ago. It's called a plant.

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Obviously, don’t put yourself in danger! Don’t organize with people who make you unsafe. But if you’re a person like me who is relatively protected by the state (white, cis, homeowner), maybe it’s time to be willing to temper your language and employ patience to bring other folks along? /end rant.

But some things are more strategic than others. I am a person who has changed her mind a lot! I was a young republican. Thank god for the people who took the time to bring me along, to welcome me to spaces, and show me that there are different ways of being in community! 11/

…and then pause. Are you directing your anger at the right people? Are you signaling to people who might change their minds that there’s no place for them in the movement? This moment demands compassion from all of us as a means to solidarity. I mean, you get to say whatever you want. 10/?

And so we can’t— though believe me, I understand the frustration— fall prey to “red states” or “farmers” or “poor white people” are “getting what they deserve language.” Those are, as my friend Pheonix says, inside thoughts! If you have to express that frustration, do it with your friends… 9/?

Someone messaged me to say that her conservative farming family had “liked” my post. To me, that’s amazing. That’s the whole point. There are people who we can organize into resistance of this government. This is maybe the most potent moment in my lifetime to connect with them. 8/?

The administration has tried to overwhelm us with bad as a tactic to make people feel helpless. But if we can tell the critical stories— in plain accessible language— we can frame this moment, the tactic can backfire. Too much bad all at once; we see our own plight in each other. 7/?

It seems like the post really resonated with folks (18K shares and counting 🫣) and what this whole experience taught me is that this moment is charged with energy that is begging to be channeled into mass solidarity. 6/?

And that shame/quietude allows folks to think that it’s only the people over there who are getting “hand outs.” But you know what? We all pay into the safety net with the (god I hope) understanding that things go wrong, people get sick, factories close, floods come. 5/?

…for what they are: boogeymen. We can talk about “government handouts” or we can reframe them for what they are: systems of mutual support. It was wildly uncomfortable to admit I’m on Medicaid, but it’s the shame around receiving some share of the social safety net that keeps people quiet. 4/?

Will we reach everyone? Absolutely not, but we might reach our neighbors. They hear terms like DEI, welfare state, gender ideology, and green new deal Marxist social engineering, and they imagine someone scary, unknowable, threatening. But when we demystify the terms, they can start to see them 3/?

…you’re right! A lot of people exist a media sphere that is dominated by disinformation and fear mongering. When we lend our real faces and real stories to explain the impacts of policy, I believe we can crack that propoganda bubble. 2/?

Hey, new faces around here! I imagine some of you found me because of that (accidentally) viral (eek) Facebook (ugh) post. Welcome! I’m a full time farmer, but my background is in journalism, education, and climate activism, so if you thought maybe I was doing something intentional in that post, 1/?

Don't be fasc

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 13, 2025 CONTACT Gillian Branstetter, gbranstetter@aclu.org Tom Warnke, twarnke@lambdalegal.org BALTIMORE – In a victory for transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers, a federal district court today issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a Trump administration executive order attempting to shut down access nationwide to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 19. The decision by Judge Brendan Hurson was issued from the bench with a written order to come soon. The nationwide restraining order prohibits federal agencies from conditioning or withholding federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender-affirming medical care to a patient under nineteen. “Good and decent parents of transgender kids should never be in the frightening position of having their child’s prescribed, medically necessary care canceled at the whim and threat of a politician. But that’s exactly what President Trump’s executive order did to PFLAG families with trans youth and young adults nationwide,” said Brian K. Bond (he/him), Chief Executive Officer of PFLAG National. “Today’s decision rights a grievous wrong to our nation's families and children, and PFLAG families will be vigilant to ensure our transgender loved ones receive the healthcare they need—as this legal ruling demands.” “Forcing providers to withhold medically-necessary, evidence-based care not only threatens patient health and well-being, but also undermines the integrity of our healthcare system in its entirety,” said Alex Sheldon (they/them), GLMA executive director. “Today's intervention by the court underscores the cruelty and recklessness that is embedded in this order and affirms our commitment to resist the administration’s extremist agenda that targets trans and non-binary young people and privileges political ideology over medical expertise. We are hopeful that…

In the first week after the order was signed, some hospitals across the country — in Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington, Colorado, and Virginia at least — abruptly halted medical care for transgender people under age 19, canceling appointments and turning away patients, including some who had been receiving this care for most of their life. This prompted protests of support for transgender youth and in opposition to the order nationwide. On Feb. 4, a lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, the ACLU of Maryland, and law firms Jenner & Block and Hogan Lovells on behalf of transgender young adults and adolescents and their families whose health care has been disrupted by President Trump’s order. Also joining the case as plaintiffs are PFLAG National, the nation’s largest organization supporting LGBTQ+ people and their families, with over 550,000 members and supporters and nearly 350 chapters across the country; and GLMA, the country’s largest organization of LGBTQ and allied health professionals. "Across the country, this unlawful order from the president has sown fear among transgender youth and confusion among their providers,” said Joshua Block, senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. “But today’s decision should restore both their access to healthcare and protections under the Constitution. Providers who’ve suspended healthcare for their transgender patients should be left with no doubt that they can lift those suspensions and continue to provide healthcare and act in their best medical judgment without risking their funding or worse. “The president’s orders sought to take away from transgender young people the very care that they, their families, and their medical providers all agree is best for them – medical care that is evidence-based and well-established. But these decisions are for patients, their families, and their doctors to make, not for politicians or Washington bureaucrats,” said Omar Gonzale…

Incredible news!

The Trump administration's under 19 trans care ban has been BLOCKED in federal court via a bench temporary restraining order.

The administration CANNOT withhold funds from hospitals providing trans youth care.

ACLU statement here:

“Blistering” is a little strong for what happens here, but I am glad that of all the assholes in congress, Jim McGovern is ours.

(When that Worcester accent peaks through, ugh, I feel a weird amount of affection for him.)

They’re doing the meme

The last three weeks have been a disaster for America’s farmers and rural communities.

Signs in the second floor windows of a brick building read “AMERICAN-MADE APATHY 50 cents,” “DEJU VU 49 cents,” “INSOMNIA free with the purchase of stress”

Seen in Pittsfield, MA

Oooof, fingers crossed you get your reimbursement!

USDA freezes farmer funding for some programs, conservation contracts The U.S. Department of Agriculture has frozen some funding for farmers as it goes through a sweeping review, despite assurances from the Trump administration that programs helping farmers would not be affected in the government overhaul.

"We are possibly going to lose our farm if NRCS doesn't hold up their contract with us."

USDA freezes farmer funding for some programs, conservation contracts - www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...