This is what regulatory capture looks like. US ranchers pay mandatory fees that fund lobbying groups working to destroy them. How is this legal? 🧵

Every US cattle producer must pay $1 per head to the 'Beef Checkoff' supposedly to promote US beef. But ~65% of that $38M annually flows INTO the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA), which lobbied AGAINST country-of-origin labeling and promotes cheap foreign imports.

Islasenkoism

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The same people who complained about "cancel culture" for the last decade are now, in fact, driving cancel culture. And for some issues (like #Israel/ #Palestine) they have *always* been the primary drivers of cancel culture, even during the height of the post 10/7 activism and

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I generally do not wear my faith on my sleeve, but I am proud of this.

A development very much worth celebrating, and states that don't adopt science-based curricula and especially phonics in reading are condemning their kids to worse outcomes in life.

Decades ago, my elderly neighbor’s daddy watched eastern bluebirds disappear when the government sprayed pesticides to eradicate the boll weevil. It devastated their numbers. Instead of just mourning the loss, he made it his mission to bring them back. In his workshop, he built

American Agriculture would prefer to kill the Gulf of Mexico and recreate the Dust Bowl just to get jet fuel from 0.3% to 0.7% biofuel—rather than use land to grow food for Americans to eat.

My boy, Tony has entered the chat. He has a few thoughts he’d like to express. Growincorn2020

Homeboy industries is awesome by the way shout out to Father Boyle.

I see Hamas, required to take a break from murdering Israelis, have returned to their second-favourite pursuit of murdering Palestinians.

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I can do the Sahara. No one can do mars.

Corn is king, because like a king, it requires taxes to make any money.

The average family of 4 will spend about $32k on healthcare this year. The average person sees a doctor 3 times a year. The average doctor spends 7 minutes per patient visit. In other words: $32,000 gets you 84 minutes of one-on-one time with a doctor! Nice

McOOL is one of the most obvious things that should be supported. Who doesn’t want more transparency?

Illinois produced 12-15x more value (in real $) worth of fruit crops in 1920 than in 1965