There are FIVE pillars of democracy #evolvedemocracy #communityengagement #civicinnovation

Kudos to this Missouri farmer who confronted GOP Rep. Alford at a town hall, calling out how tariffs are crushing farmers nationwide: "When are you going to stand up for us instead of kissing Trump's ass on these trade deals?"

FactPost WSJ: Farmers laying in bed crying. Tariffs affect NE “EXPONENTIALLY MORE” than other states. Farmers crisis hotline: WORST farming $$$ crisis since the 1980s. “There’s DESPERATION in their voices. They’re UP AGAINST THE WALL.” TRUMP won NE by 20 pts. medium.com/thought-thinke…

Democratic Wins Media We tried to tell them over and over again.

The resolution for Melissa Hortman was passed on June 26th to honor her life

Covie A resolution for Melissa Hortman and her husband passed on June 26th to honor their lives

The farmers are being decimated by government policy and the billionaires, including our vice president with his shares in acre trader, are just waiting to scoop up their farms for pennies on the dollar.

SOYBEAN FARMER🧑‍🌾 : “It’s not good for anybody. Best case scenario is we never have to talk about tariffs again. Free trade is the answer.” China is now buying $0 from us — and soybeans are Tennessee’s #1 cash crop. Why don’t Gov. Bill Lee Sen. Marsha Blackburn etc. care? 😕

It's possible that a $100,000 H-1B fee (especially if that's per year or per term) actually *increases* the federal deficit. Our back-of-the-envelope math suggests the average H-1B contributes $40,000 more per year in taxes than they use in benefits.

It's too late. China has found a new vendor for soybeans and your customer is gone forever.

So let’s just get this crystal clear. 30-year mortgages have now hit 6.37% It was 6.10% just last week. The market has completely rejected the Fed’s rate cut. Rate cuts did the exact opposite of what the Fed wanted. Mortgage rates are going higher. Lol.

The US ceased to be a reliable NATO ally on January 20, 2025. The last week has simply made that undeniable. The only question now is whether European leaders accept it. The USA will not now defend Europe from Russia. That is reality. Everything else is hopes and dreams.

“In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat” JD Vance in Munich, Feb Today in the US 👇 "Journalists must now pledge to only report information approved of by the Ministry of War" "Accuse your enemy of that which you yourself are doing"

All the universities and companies who caved and paid this imbecile paved the way for this.

Susan Collins hasn’t held a town hall since Bill Clinton was president. I’m holding 21 town halls across the state in the next month.

Wherein I talk about how the heinous murder of Charlie Kirk is being exploited by authoritarians in much the same way Nazi party chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels exploited the death of brownshirt Horst Wessel in 1930. episodes.fm/1456045551

Tricia McLaughlin “tHiS ReAdS LiKe a tHrEaT”

The fossil fuel industry floats on the biggest public subsidy in human history.

New from me: There's a lot of misinformation around the stated reasons I was fired from WaPo. Here's the official termination letter Washington Post sent me last week. Read and judge for yourself. api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy…

#FivePillars of democracy. Fuck authoritarian wannabe dictator Trump & everyone who voted for him! Release the Epstein files.