Matt Wheeland

😊Officially accepted today and forthcoming in Agriculture and Human Values, my paper "Who is an American farmer? Who counts in American agriculture?" 😊
I use data to illustrate how the US Census of Agriculture severely overestimates the number of farmers and farms and how this has got worse. 1/

Real discussion:
CNN: Hey Dave it's CNN. Could you come on to talk about the death of Hulk Hogan

Me: Hulk Hogan was a racist scab and a liar. He hated unions, Black people, and the truth and that's why he loved Donald Trump. What time do you want me?

CNN: Great! Well.... so we'll keep looking

We're excited to share the #SEJAwards for Reporting on the Environment open next week!

Deadline: Sept. 2, 2025 (11:59 p.m. PT)

Full details 🔗 sej.org/awards
#JournoAwards #EnvironmentalReporting

official DHS account posting fourteen word long tweets with the H's randomly capitalized

groyper occupied government

The co-founder running this account ( @nicolefroio.bsky.social ) is avoiding writing so let's do a quick thread on how to support the work we do at The Flytrap.

Being a @theflytrapmedia.com subscriber brings little unexpected treasures of feminist reporting to my inbox on the regular – like today's post from @freeblackgirl.bsky.social that @sesmith.lol flags below. It is 1000% worth the low cost to support worker-owned media you won't read anywhere else!

If you want to see more like this, PLEASE subscribe—we even have a monthly option—so we can keep doing it. Running any media company, even a small, worker-owned co-op, is really expensive, and we can't do it without our amazing subscribers.

What if everyone eager to throw money at a "liberal joe rogan" that doesn't exist instead bought one failing local newspaper and hired a handful of real reporters and simply told them to go do journalism and print it.

Immigrant Farmworkers Win Housing Rights in Vermont A new state law establishes protections for immigrant families against housing discrimination, aiding farmworkers.

A new state law establishes protections for immigrant families against housing discrimination, helping end decades of difficulty for farmworkers searching for an affordable place to live.

Civil Eats Intern @rileyramirez.bsky.social reports. ⬇️

The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS

Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows

How did the city do it?

Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

Californians are debating secession again. The state actually has a long history of attempting to secede, and it's really not pretty. I'm so excited to share my first (but definitely not last) article for @flaminghydra.com!

Immigration agents raided two California cannabis farm locations Thursday, arresting at least 200 people. United Farm Workers announced Friday that one worker died from the injuries sustained during the raid. buff.ly/so5tzP7

The One Big Beautiful Bill passed, leaving local ag leaders trying to figure out what’s next. Explore how the passing of the One Big Beautiful Bill affects local agriculture, focusing on SNAP cuts, farm impacts, and immigration enforcement issues.

“Quite frankly, I think the USDA is being looked at as being a poor employer. Science is a very slow process. Because of some vacillation, you have all this uncertainty on whether they’ll commit to the [work].” www.montereycountynow.com/news/local_n...

Pretty wild how "abundance" rides on centrist/center-left credentials but is rooted in right wing Technofascism.

The planet is burning - and the Global South is being told to "catch up"?

Across India, communities are saying no.

They're showing that another world is possible. Grounded. Fair. Democratic. Frugal. In harmony with nature.

They call it eco-swaraj. 🧵

If for NO REASON WHATSOEVER you woke up wanting a clickable/zoomable/hoverable map of ICE offices and detention facilities in the continental US, I've got ya. Preview image (not clickable) is below and here's the link. Sharing is caring! rawcdn.githack.com/chadtopaz/ic...

Stay engaged, stay fighting, get involved on a state and local level, and know that there are more of us than there are of them and we will fight not just for ourselves, but for our people. Yes, this bill will kill people. Those of us fueled by spite will never let lawmakers forget that, or give up.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Why The Washington Post is inviting sources to annotate stories "We're not giving up our fundamental framework where we make assessments about what we should publish."

so the washington post has decided to test out its "let's let sources comment on articles" idea on CLIMATE COVERAGE FIRST?!?!??!?!? you mean, the beat where there's literally a well-funded, well-oiled disinformation machine that is decades old?!?!?!??!?!

Launch Coyote Media Collective A new alt-weekly-style publication is hitting the Bay Area

If we reach $150K, we'll have runway through the end of the year to:
📰 More stories, more often
✍️ Bigger freelance budget
💰 Fair wages for our 11 worker-owners

Building truly independent media is a team effort. Can you help us reach the stretch goal? 🐺
givebutter.com/coyotemedia

Opinion | What Environmentalists Like Me Got Wrong About Climate Change

🧵No words for how infuriated this mea culpa from Carl Pope (former CEO @sierraclub.org) makes me feel. We openly shared with SC data on methane leaks from fracking while SC was secretly accepting $millions from the gas industry.

Seriously fuck you. 1/7

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

An estimated 2,000 people turned out for today’s “No Kings” protest starting at Chochenyo Park and ending at Alameda City Hall. #alameda #nokings

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government.

That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

The Symbolic Power of Burning Waymo Robotaxis It’s no accident that the vehicles that got torched during the Los Angeles protests were driverless cars.

The Waymo is a symbol of so much and that makes it the perfect target of direct action.

YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic I Just Wasn't Made For These Times

RIP to the best who ever did it youtu.be/216YJKbber8?...

Crop insurance costs taxpayers billions but only helps big farms Federal crop insurance providers steer coverage toward more profitable commodities like corn and soybeans, reinforcing Illinois’ two-crop system.

“In so far as who’s benefiting most from this system, without question, it’s these private insurance companies,” said Billy Hackett, a policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/08/i...

Boozman says 'everything is on the table' as Republicans plan to cut SNAP to help pay for Trump’s tax cuts - Arkansas Times The Republican bill aimed at extending Trump's tax cuts may drive up inequality in the Arkansas Delta.

Me in the @arktimes.bsky.social: "When large farms get bigger payments, it is easier for them to go out and buy up land, and... these farm subsidies programs make it easier for large farms to buy more land and make it much harder for small farms to compete.” arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Fear leads to Anger. Anger leads to Sadsad. Sadsad leads to Dartgæn. I sense much Dartgæn in you.

Democrats Decry Proposed SNAP Cuts In Capitol Hill Hearing Senators today forecast the devastating impacts on American families should Republicans succeed at cutting $300 billion in SNAP spending, with one describing the cuts as a ‘moral obscenity.’

My latest: “That is the height of cruelty,” said @senbooker25hrs.bsky.social. “It is a violation of our values. It is a moral obscenity.” @civileats.com civileats.com/2025/06/04/d...