Please understand that the lack of transparency, crappy metrics, propping up of big ag and dubious modeling is a feature not a bug of US “climate smart” ag.
USDA has been giving subsidies to so many land grants, NGOs and others in the hope nobody is left to call this 🐖💩 out.

Israel is a significant liability to US peace and stability, and to the safety and wellbeing of Americans. Whatever one thinks of the project of it as a nation-state, the US and Americans are better off untethering ourselves from it.

There's been a lot of noise the last 2 years from anti-ESG state Attorneys General & Congress members claiming that investors & companies focused on climate change are causing oil prices to rise, hurting consumers. In reality, the US fossil fuel industry has been colluding ...

This is a ridiculous position.

Friends like Mitt Romney, who gave unconditional support to Israel to act out its revenge, are why Israel is in such a strategically screwed spot right now, facing isolation and decline.

If Israel had listened to its critics and been restrained they’d have gotten back the…

lol apparently the new marketing term for lab-grown meat is “no-kill meat”

The beauty of democracy: people can join the pro-bio slop caucus, but I’m in the pro-ribeye one.

Incredible chart from Nutrien 2023 report – the world’s largest provider of crop inputs and services. Notice the differential between natural gas prices (grey bars) and the fertilizer prices in 2021 and 2022. More evidence here of Isabella M. Weber's 'seller's inflation' thesis.

overheard (loud phone convo) on plane: 'I know Bill Nelson of Florida who runs NASA in DC .. If you get in touch with his son, who is lobbyist, he can totally steer some contracts your way ... let's take him for dinner'

This is the weirdest fucking shit

There is a 100% correlation between 'feeding the world' language and 'wanting to control the food supply because we know better than you.'

All the new propaganda is just an updated version of the Ezra Taft Benson/Earl Butz post-WW2 USDA that destroyed rural communities.

The Antitrust Division should prosecute the executives of Kroger and Albertsons criminally for wage and price fixing during strikes. news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/unio…

'The algorithm is just a new way of fixing prices.'

Lee Hepner breaks down lawsuits against landlord algorithmic price-fixer RealPage—an emerging driver of high rents in many cities—for KIRO 7.👇📺

Annals of anti-monopoly: “I can also assure you that I have not yet in my experience in Washington ever gotten a particle of practical advice from any economist living or dead.” Thurman Arnold to Eugene V. Rostow, 1940.

A little good news for consumers to cap off the evening. Congrats to the @levernews team!

'No one, and I mean no one, in Biden's Administration comes across as more impressive and trustworthy than his antitrust, labor, and consumer protection enforcers.
Lina Khan, Jonathan Kanter, Rohit Chopra, Jennifer Abruzzo –– these are people who can't be bought, and it shows.'

Nothing new to say but it bears repeating: it’s one of American history’s most Orwellian obscenities to see an anti-genocide movement that is in fact one of the most Jewish mass movements in US history slandered as antisemitic by one of the key guys doing the genocide.

Terrific work by these Senators, Chair Cantwell, Leader Schumer, and the White House to strip anti-consumer language and protect the Biden Administration’s strong automatic refund rule for cancelled or badly delayed flights. A real win for air travelers.

'As the Columbia administration’s actions over the past six months became increasingly contentious, and increasingly detached from ideals of academic freedom, the autocratic character of our governance model came to the fore.'

In looking at oil markets a bit more closely it does seem clear that the Biden use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve likely helped break a price-fixing cartel. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…