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My life in a tweet. teapawt.org/newstipps/status/80702…
Blogger 1: Do you know anything about branding?
Blogger 2: Cattle branding or company branding?
Yes.
#agchat #farmdistinctions
at some point we as a society have to stop answering political corruption with whataboutism and hold people accountable in the moment w/o rhetoric of what the "other side did"
it's a zero-sum game
don't know when the paradigm shift happens but if not now then when?
a whole lot of “we have to make the cuts even if people lose jobs and it seems harsh because we have to bring down the deficit” are real quiet on this
we are either all in on drastic cuts or we admit it’s all performative and a con lead by the biggest conman
Katy Kemp retweeted
My take: Dollar Generals are not good for your health, your community, or your wallet. They are a parasitic leach on small towns and only add to the decline of rural America.
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If we lived in a functioning democracy, Congress would be holding hearings on the findings in this article next week, and following up on those hearings with industry-by-industry investigations into the skyrocketing share of revenues being captured by corporate profits.
🚨NEWS: The Federal Reserve says that as prices increase, corporate profits have hit at an unprecedented share of national income & that the profiteering is “driven by an increase in dividends rewarding shareholders” — while worker compensation declines.
levernews.com/how-shareholde…
Katy Kemp retweeted
Breaking my exile. Do any growers want to write a letter of support for me for tenure? Maybe describing the value of my virtual outreach? Trying something new here. DM me if you want to talk.
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Despite Trump's promised cuts, U.S. spent about $220 billion more in first 100 days than last year
cbsnews.com/news/trump-promi…
GOP took control of the Texas House in 2002
we’ve had a GOP governor since 1995
GOP has had majority in the Texas Senate since 1997
prior to Governor, Abbott was Attorney General 2002-2015, and served on TX Supreme Court prior to that
exactly who is to blame for waste???
Coming soon!
Texas DOGE!!
fox7austin.com/news/texas-do…
Katy Kemp retweeted
Fixed it:
--> last year, the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal **combined**
--> every $1 of research funded by NIH generates $2.56 in economic activity
--> more than 1.1M foreign students come to the U.S. each year to study and they contributed over $43 billion to the U.S. economy in foreign currency balances
--> students who came to the U.S. to study founded 55% of America’s 582 start-up companies worth at least $1 billion
--> cutting health research in Texas will cause a loss of 3,698 jobs and cost the economy $856M
--> The University of Alabama is the largest employer in the state
--> shortage of trained occ/env docs set to cost CA $1B
RECEIPTS🧵
Katy Kemp retweeted
A few things about vouchers:
1. I voted NO.
2. There was almost an opportunity for the public to vote on it. A few Republicans said they would help put that amendment on the bill. But that failed because…
3. Gov. Abbott had Trump call them. Seriously. After that, no deal.
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"Abbott threatened to veto bills proposed by any Republican who voted in favor of Talarico’s amendment and told the lawmakers he would make their primary elections a “bloodbath.” This is not representative democracy. "The People's House" has failed the people of Texas.
“This scheme fails our poorest children, violates the Texas Constitution and uses public tax dollars to fund the establishment of religion—all under the false flag of ‘parental choice’.”
#txlege
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and if you’re reading this and wondering about the subsidy money Trump is saying he’ll give to farmers… those never go to livestock, only grain farmers
but the thing is, we shouldn’t want nor need those, we should want a leader who recognizes there are trade imbalances