MrRural

Boozman said he was blindsided by the move but he comes off looking like a stupid sap.

Trump’s Tax Bill Expands Farm Subsidies. Not All Farmers Will Benefit.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...

Union Pacific to Buy Norfolk Southern in $85 Billion Railroad Deal

Uggh: But the deal would put around two-fifths of rail freight in the hands of one company, raising fears that it would reduce competition in a crucial industry. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/b...

Need to add more stops in the rural counties Dems are losing in MN-1, MN-7, MN-8.

Roy Cooper raises $3.4 million in first 24 hours of his Senate candidacy The former North Carolina governor set a fundraising record with his day-one haul for his Senate campaign.

Daggum Roy Cooper raised $3.4 million in his first day. #NCSen #NCPol
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Roy Cooper officially launches North Carolina Senate bid The two-term governor officially launched his campaign in a video.

Great announcement video from the governor www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Today’s front page of The National, a Scottish newspaper.

Mattapan gem: 18th-century farm feeds and educates locals - The Boston Globe The historic Fowler Clark Epstein Farm in Mattapan sits on just one and a half acres and is packed with rows of organically grown vegetables and herbs.

My mother grew up a block from this place www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/24/m...

Massachusetts Attorney General travels world on taxpayers’ dime: ‘Expensive junkets’ Massachusetts AG Andrea Campbell spent nearly $300,000 on her taxpayer-funded credit card last fiscal year, with expenses ranging from traveling to France and a balmy Caribbean island to hosting an…

@massago.bsky.social You find time for taxpayer-funded junkets but no time to help our state auditor get the legislature audited. www.bostonherald.com/2025/07/25/m... You need a Democratic primary opponent next year.

Rollins needs to be caged and never set free.

What’s Next For Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear? He’s found a way to win (and win again) in Trump Country and that’s put him at the top of the list of Democrats expected to vie for the presidential nomination in 2028.

www.vogue.com/article/andy...

Why Do Foreign Investors Buy American Farmland? | The Daily Yonder Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a

@repmcgovern.bsky.social We need to ban the ownership of American farm/forest land by foreigners dailyyonder.com/why-do-forei...

Ellisville Harbor State Park in Plymouth is some of the last totally undeveloped coastline between Boston and Cape Cod. It has lots of seals and osprey.

What would you do as senator to address this? Specifics please.

Rural Reckoning - A special series dissecting Colorado's urban-rural divide The four-week Rural Reckoning series examines the critical and often overlooked issues facing rural Colorado, where challenges to healthcare access, affordable housing, agricultural sustainability, an...

Great series here on rural Colorado: www.coloradopolitics.com/governor/rur...

This guy is a three time loser. Why can't Democrats get winners to be in the spotlight. They're out there.

This time the issues bar is set higher for you. Looking forward to seeing what specific policy proposals you will be running on, not just descriptions of problems that folks are living every day.

Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Is Described as Avoiding the Likeliest Cause of Death

Party officials described the draft document as focusing on the 2024 election as a whole, but not on the presidential campaign — which is something like eating at a steakhouse and then reviewing the salad. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...

Meet Chairman Do Nothing from Springfield

Save Rural Texas The 134 PAC is dedicated to rebuilding long-abandoned Democrats and infrastructures, ensuring those who know their communities best have the resources to do the work where they see it is needed most.

You should be meeting with www.the134pac.org Most of the counties in west and central TX have no Democratic county party.

@peggyflanagan.bsky.social So Craig voted for both crypto bills yesterday, helping them pass the House. What do we have to say about this?

No!

This is the 15% rule which means statewide candidates have to engage delegates in the rural towns: In Massachusetts, if a candidate does not meet a minimum threshold of convention delegates, they cannot qualify for the primary ballot.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/m...

How do you define "Dem state" because outside of DE and VT which have at-large Dem House members, CT, HI, ME, MA, NH, NM and RI already have all-Dem House delegations now.

Opinion: Massachusetts Legislature slaps voters in the face More than eight months have passed since November’s election in which a supermajority of Massachusetts voters gave the state Auditor the go-ahead to audit the State House. Since then, the Legislatu…

www.bostonherald.com/2025/07/15/o...

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

www.yahoo.com/news/trump-a...

Loved how you called Colin 'Loser' Allred "Schumer's candidate"

@whipkclark.bsky.social You're more wet noodle than whip with crap like this www.politico.com/live-updates... No wonder Dems have lost support from working class voters.

Good piece, but I would not hold my breath that Dems will change anytime soon. Folks like Klobuchar were schooled in ag by the likes of Collin Peterson. Angie Craig's FEC reports are filled with PAC$ from BigAg.