New @rfunkfordham.bsky.social report on the 15th anniversary of Citizens United. The evidence is now clear, in part through Rachel's research, that CitUtd has:
-increased the influence of billionaires
-reduced state democratic performance
-made state governments more rightwing
-increased corruption
02.10.2025 18:32 β π 146 π 79 π¬ 4 π 3
An assassin writes Bella Ciao in the same breath as a Notices Your Bulge meme on his bullets. One of the government responses is a practicing Hindu asserting that the fundamentalist Christian victim will join him in a Norse pagan afterlife. Welcome to the epistemic collapse.
12.09.2025 16:17 β π 1987 π 565 π¬ 20 π 47
fun facts to learn and tell. (note there are some counties that are not under Milk Marketing Orders www.nmpf.org/issues/milk-...).
11.09.2025 16:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Kraft Heinz announces break-up a decade after megamerger
Split will undo 2015 tie-up orchestrated by Warren Buffett and investment group 3G Capital
Voluntary breakup of one of the biggest food mega mergers in the past decade - KraftHeinz - illustrates that the Curse of Bigness is a real thing! We need more small, local, dynamic firms in the food system to bring real competition and choice
www.ft.com/content/326f...
02.09.2025 11:22 β π 25 π 9 π¬ 3 π 0
from our friends to the north. What can we learn from Canadian farmers about getting supply management mechanisms back into US farm policy?
31.07.2025 01:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Armed and Underground: Inside the Turbulent, Secret World of an American Militia
Rounding up migrants. Lists of βfriendlyβ sheriffs. Debating political assassinations. Internal messages reveal AP3βs journey from Jan. 6 through the tumultuous lead-up to the 2024 election. Oneβ¦
Leaders of the American Patriots Three Percent (AP3) militia have forged alliances with law enforcement around the US.
Internal files reveal their strategies for building these ties and where theyβve claimed success.
(Published Aug. 2024)
31.07.2025 01:00 β π 514 π 286 π¬ 32 π 32
DOGE keeps gaining access to sensitive data. Now, it can cut off billions to farmers
DOGE recently gained high-level access to a database that controls government payments and loans to farmers and ranchers across the U.S.
If [the Biden] admin had said, we're going to share all your information w/ somebody that has access to everything across the fed govt, it would probably have resulted in people with pitchforks & torches outside my office - Zach Ducheneaux, former FSA admin & SD rancher www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...
10.07.2025 16:13 β π 5 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Americans across races, backgrounds, and parties value our freedoms. But this MAGA regime of the bullies for the billionaires unleashed military & police on American families & turned our government into a weapon against our people.
08.06.2025 23:42 β π 327 π 92 π¬ 4 π 2
More than 15,000 USDA staff - about 15% of the agency workforce - have taken Trump's financial incentive to quit, according to data shared with congress by the agency. And that number could rise.
Who's leaving? Details in the chart below, and story here:
www.reuters.com/world/us/mor...
04.05.2025 17:55 β π 3 π 7 π¬ 0 π 5
Read Mahmoud Khalil's words at the end of today's hearing:
11.04.2025 21:27 β π 601 π 289 π¬ 15 π 8
Introducing ProPublicaβs 527 Explorer
Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow journalists, researchers and others to more easily search theseβ¦
Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending.
As a reminder, we've got a database that allows journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizationsβ finances:
02.04.2025 03:02 β π 985 π 287 π¬ 8 π 7
a super key aspect that Last brings up in this piece is that activation does NOT mean fundraising. Thank you for saying this! If the 2024 election (and those before) are a lesson, getting 30 texts a day with the democratic party or a candidate asking you for money is not activation!
30.03.2025 19:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads:
"BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
30.03.2025 14:47 β π 4742 π 1549 π¬ 67 π 273
Also, historical note: When President Lincoln *actually suspended* habeas corpus under the Suspension Act of 1863, he was required to provide lists of all people detained who were not POWs to the circuit court. He complied. While prosecuting an *actual war*. (This is Milligan)
18.03.2025 05:43 β π 3790 π 769 π¬ 25 π 9
is it just me?
17.03.2025 19:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Oh no! I was thinking about you two today when I saw the National weather reports! Stay safe!
15.03.2025 02:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
As I've argued eleventy-billion times: You cannot beat your opposition by repeating your opposition. This both dissuades your base from voting, let alone acting as your "choir," it raises saliency of oppo's desired debate.
12.03.2025 00:04 β π 353 π 74 π¬ 4 π 2
2025 is the international year of the cooperative!! Ready. Set. Cooperate!
10.03.2025 15:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Dusting off some books from grad school days (hat tip to Jess Gilbert) trying to make sense of the state of the nation state and what would be a strategy to engage with at the present⦠hmm? Lots to ponder.
05.03.2025 20:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Weβre flying to DC to demand dairy reform! We want Congress to pass measures that balance milk supply and demand, curb overproduction, and ensure farmers are paid fairly for their product.
Join our fight for a fair #FarmBill2025!
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24.02.2025 22:17 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
uff da
14.02.2025 18:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Elon Muskβs Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the worldβs richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
We @propublica.org are tracking who is working with Elon Musk and what they are doing.
We have 20+ names so far including some that haven't yet been reported.
Help us investigate and send us tips π: www.propublica.org/tips/federal...
projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...
06.02.2025 22:56 β π 2813 π 1110 π¬ 41 π 52
Melania Trump Holds Paint Swatches Up Against Bellowing Void
Melania Trump Holds Paint Swatches Up Against Bellowing Void
06.02.2025 20:45 β π 3876 π 287 π¬ 78 π 17
π’ New book: βPostcapitalist Countrysidesβ @uclpress.bsky.social! From land commoning and rural social enterprises, to experimental food commons, Indigenous collectives & land art practices. And more! Co-edited with N Gallent, @markscott-ucd.bsky.social & A Purves
uclpress.co.uk/book/postcapitβ¦
06.02.2025 13:36 β π 26 π 11 π¬ 4 π 1
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