Farmer Dan

I farm in MN. The FSA office is open so operating loans are available.

I'm not sure what you mean by "info for planting season".

Many farms have already bought their inputs for this season. The pain will show up by fall when farmers are selling crops and buying inputs for next season.

Thank you @booker.senate.gov you are an inspiration and a source of hope!

Counterpoint: As a small-business owner, I assure you we want and need paid leave A statewide plan is needed if we are to compete with the big guys on a level playing field.

Paid leave is about investing in the people who made our economy strong in the first place.

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Statement begins: The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others). Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

Shortly after the Felon King was inaugurated and I saw mainstream media bend the knee I decided it was time to go back to our journalistic roots and subscribe to my local newspaper the Mankato Free Press. I feel like a fool that I didn't subscribe sooner. #localnews #mankatofreepress

He's definitely not the guy who should be representing Minnesota's First District.

Musk, Vance & Trump all misrepresent democracy.

When they say “democracy”, they mean a free-for-all with no rule of law, where the winner takes all.

When Europe says “democracy”, we mean proportional representation, collaborative politics, citizen rights, and agreed guide rails guaranteed by law.

And just yesterday I asked my banker if there were any safeguards in place to prevent this. They said “well if it happens to you it will be happening to everyone.” Not reassuring.

The fact that the CIA or some other elite government group hasn’t black bagged Elon and his cronies is the best proof there is no deep state imo

More of this, America.

This is Chad Pergram of Fox News. One of the great Hill reporters, no matter what you think of his network.

My 4 yr old daughter wanted to make a valentine for Elon musk because she reckoned that maybe he just needs something nice to find his heart. 🥹

There’s so much I’m frustrated with in DC right now but one thing I haven’t seen talked about much is how muskrat and his oligarchs talk about this: like it’s a game, like they’re getting a new high score or leveling up. But it’s real life - he’s hurting real people. Our neighbors. It’s so callous.

✅ Free school meals
✅ Paid leave
✅ Nation-leading Child Tax Credit
✅ Historic housing investments
 
We’re lowering costs for middle class families, which is why we were just ranked the second-best state to raise a family.

So incredibly proud to be a Minnesotan!

Dear Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Europe:

100 percent tariffs on Tesla.

Non profit of the two but Medicare for all is the gold standard.

Leopard: I will eat your face

Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating

Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp

Sunflower microgreens are coming along nicely. You’ll notice a lot of the hulls still there - I think next time I need to leave em in the germ chamber for a day longer. Most of the hulls are falling off though! #agsky

More AOC, please!

AOC spot on , this is what leadership looks like.

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov

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They need to hear from you.

Thanks!

The latest from the woodshop. I ran out of space for Star Wars legos, toy tractors from my youth, books, and mementos that I love. These walnut shelves, located in my office sanctuary, will be perfect for all of the above. #woodworking

CARTOON OF THE DAY

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.

“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯

If she can do it, we can all do it.

(2/2) I agree that one side is less bad: the side that doesn't pardon nazi, white supremacists who had ambitions to hang vice presidents and assault police officers.