
This farmer played himself
Critique of a New York times article that's sympathized with a farmer who is just bad in business.

Critique of a New York times article that's sympathized with a farmer who is just bad in business.
Darin Von Ruden is a Farmers Union leader who represents a tradition of rural populism. He isn’t a Trump supporter, but he also isn’t an AOC-style progressive. His politics are rooted in advocating for family farms, independent producers, rural communities, cooperative economics, and pushing back against corporate monopolies. That’s a distinct political tradition that’s often misunderstood when people apply today’s partisan labels.
July, 2026
‘Stealing and bribery’: Inside Trump’s $2.2B cashout - MS NOW
This is a good watch. Short and to the point. She lays out in detail the evidence of our founding fathers’ intent to have separation of church and state. From Washington and Adams to Madison. The original intent of the first amendment is the wall off separation of church and state.
Are cancer rates in SD about to skyrocket? I live around Aberdeen. I'm not well versed on our agricultural activity, but I see an awful lot of soybean and corn fields around my area.
Trump team hands out $129 million in taxpayer money to end another wind farm project - The Independent
This fair should be called the UnFair. Of course that's what he'll call the coverage.
For those unawares, Wallace was the best damn Secretary of Agriculture (and then Vice President) we ever had in the US. He was a Democratic Socialist, even way back then. What a thriving, sustainable nation we could have been by now if he hadn’t been replaced by bomb-dropping Truman and the conservative DINOs in the Democratic Party’s leadership. That faction still overwhelmingly holds the party and the people back today, and they need to be voted out in the midterms and beyond.