Tyson is one of just a few companies that controls the entire meat market.
Just last month, it paid $85M to settle charges it illegally conspired with other meatpackers to raise pork prices.
Corporate monopolies are great for executives and a raw deal for everyone else.
24.11.2025 18:02 β π 4027 π 1603 π¬ 141 π 48
LP Kindred is a non-traditional student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in need of help with tuition.
They're in their 40s & working on a BFA in Writing. Their work has appeared on LeVar Burton Reads podcast, Carnegie Hall's Afrofuturism Festival & they're a 3x Ignyte Award nominee.
24.11.2025 01:46 β π 17 π 18 π¬ 1 π 1
Marjorie Taylor Greene came into Congress in 2021 worth about $700,000. She leaves five years later worth around $25,000,000. π³ Congress is just a giant insider-trading scheme.
23.11.2025 19:07 β π 3806 π 1251 π¬ 128 π 55
Iβm in touch with a medical team in Gaza who described the situation, and I quote, like so: βthis ceasefire is less of a ceasefire than the last ceasefireβ
23.11.2025 15:43 β π 232 π 135 π¬ 4 π 1
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
23.11.2025 15:01 β π 10574 π 3761 π¬ 146 π 105
J6er Jake Lang got punched yesterday in Dearborn, Michigan during his anti-Muslim march.
19.11.2025 17:56 β π 8077 π 1374 π¬ 463 π 709
Please read. I got Mad, and wrote a thing again
23.11.2025 16:17 β π 315 π 61 π¬ 9 π 1
he's trying to single white woman him!
23.11.2025 16:54 β π 120 π 14 π¬ 1 π 0
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity⦠to remove that designation⦠indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
21.11.2025 00:00 β π 30907 π 8631 π¬ 785 π 357
I know not with what weapons the next war will be fought, but I do know that it will be fought to end the tyranny of *checks notes* redressing historical injustices against marginalized groups through social and economic policies.
This is a country devoid of honor. We live in the age of the peta'Q.
21.11.2025 18:42 β π 48 π 11 π¬ 3 π 0
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21.11.2025 18:49 β π 9 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
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21.11.2025 18:51 β π 29 π 9 π¬ 2 π 1
Just complete disregard for residents of Brighton Park and the SW Side.
19.11.2025 22:51 β π 57 π 34 π¬ 2 π 0
She doesnt know much, but one thing MTG does know:
the βmainstream mediaβ and centrist democrats will jump through every available hoop to help her rehabilitate her image.
Not only does she know thisβ¦sheβs banking on it.
19.11.2025 14:13 β π 48 π 9 π¬ 1 π 1
My Block, My Hood, My City is preparing to decorate MLK Drive for the holidays β and needs your help. blockclubchi.co/4rbPE0U
19.11.2025 13:01 β π 37 π 12 π¬ 0 π 0
Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out
Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.
Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBCβs teeth grinding about it).
"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
19.11.2025 09:07 β π 2767 π 613 π¬ 31 π 41
They flipped out about rap music for *decades*
19.11.2025 00:55 β π 1204 π 262 π¬ 12 π 7
Can we donate or share for Ahmad today?
17.11.2025 13:09 β π 21 π 19 π¬ 2 π 0
The summary of The Godfather on streaming.
I guess theyβre using AI for the plot summaries now?
17.11.2025 01:40 β π 167 π 26 π¬ 15 π 9
"Dick Clarkβs New Yearβs Rockinβ Eve" is hosting its first-ever Chicago countdown this year.
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17.11.2025 02:00 β π 47 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White β author of 'Charlotte's Web' β warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White β author of 'Charlotte's Web' β warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
17.11.2025 00:26 β π 3656 π 1341 π¬ 62 π 75
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
16.11.2025 23:43 β π 59108 π 36270 π¬ 1296 π 2859
A border patrol questions an elderly man with a cane in a parking lot before taking him.
Border Patrol has been targeting the elderly heavily. Today in Santa Ana, thatβs almost all they took, including this man and his cane.
15.11.2025 05:14 β π 497 π 281 π¬ 26 π 28
Authorities said Tren de Aragua βterroristsβ had taken over a South Shore building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the governmentβs claims.
For the first time, the Venezuelans arrested in the midnight Chicago raid are telling their stories. blockclubchi.co/43rPmbX
14.11.2025 13:01 β π 44 π 15 π¬ 0 π 1
My main take about Catholicism as a non-Catholic one generation removed from a family of Catholics is non-Catholics should avoid stanning the pope.
Leo XIV is a mild positive in US politics due to some ideosyncrasies of far right American Catholicism. That's perfectly nice but not stan-worthy.
14.11.2025 13:07 β π 79 π 7 π¬ 9 π 0
Nightmarish idea for a startup tbh
13.11.2025 21:35 β π 1336 π 164 π¬ 234 π 982
You do not have to hand it to the Catholic bishops. In the same meeting, they banned gender affirming care at all Catholic hospitals nationwide.
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...
14.11.2025 04:39 β π 1503 π 445 π¬ 43 π 24
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