There’s two types of sorority girls here in good ol’ Punchytown, USA.
There’s those that are from the big city & hate how small Stephenville is, then there’s those who can’t wait to own 30 acres, 17 cows & have turquoise kids.
If legislators always vote with the President, we have a king.
If legislators always vote with the prevailing wind, we have mob rule.
If legislators always vote with the Constitution, we have a Republic.
I think one of the wildest things, is that all of this is happening on the verge of the USA 250th anniversary. Like this should be a momentous time in our history, but instead we've never been more splintered. With corrupt elites laughing and mocking us directly.
People talk a lot about the National Parks, and that's fine, but personally I find the National Monuments to be totally underrated.
We've got 130 of them in all. Each is unique, and many carry the weight of a National Park -- without the crowds, glitz, and glam.
Apparently the guy in the pickup’s family had been renting the ground for 50 years and the guy in the tractor rented it from under them.
Farmin is undefeated.
Thomas Massie just delivered an urgent call to action:
“Americans are under attack by a German company.”
Bayer-Monsanto.
“People this week should be calling their congressmen … and saying, take the glyphosate immunity out of the Farm Bill.”
“It’s poison.”
“This administration has sided with the German company trying to get immunity from the harm that their products may cause.”
“Chellie Pingree and I … are trying to get them to strip the immunity for glyphosate that they’ve put into the Farm Bill.”
“Bayer’s product has become unprofitable because of the harm that state juries have decided has been caused to people.”
“And there’s something broader though than just glyphosate here.”
“This would set a precedent for every pesticide, every herbicide, every insecticide.”
“It would set a precedent that the EPA doesn’t exist to protect people and the environment.”
“It exists to give get-out-of-court-free cards to corporations.”
@MassieforKY@RepThomasMassie@RealLindellTV
Why is it American producers' responsibility to "feed the world?"
Our food system has never been so corrupt, consolidated, and fragile
We need to break up the Big Four, stop depleting our topsoil with monocrops, and focus on producing American food for Americans
During the ‘25 federal layoffs, the field of aquatic invasive inspectors was absolutely hammered. Lake Mead, AIS people in Yellowstone, and Great Lakes were given the axe or forced to end their season a month early.
Quagga mussels are probably the biggest threat to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and yet you rarely hear of them. They’re at the bottom rung of the food chain, so they filter all the phytoplankton (plant plankton) from the water. This starves zooplankton (animal plankton), which is the primary food source for native Yellowstone cutthroat trout. Because their filtering is so effective, excess sunlight in the water column raises temps and harms trout while also increasing algal blooms. They stink up the beach so bad and make it so your kids can’t run around barefoot. They clog all water intake pipes, boat engines, and so on and basically can’t be removed once they’re here.
AIS inspection staff who work the Park Service are paid around $17 an hour, and the cost of a quagga invasion is in the hundreds of millions. When these guys were laid off, they pulled people off the invasive lake trout program to deal with boat inspections. You can either invest in the things you love or let them go to shit, and it’s a choice.
The Midwestern United States was, until relatively recently, sitting on top of some of the deepest topsoil on earth.
Ten thousand years of prairie. Bison, fire, deep-rooted grasses, the slow accumulation of organic matter into a layer of black soil sometimes two feet thick. Soil that farmers in other parts of the world would have wept at the sight of.
Then the plough arrived.
In 2021, a team from the University of Massachusetts used satellite imagery and LiDAR to measure what was left. Their finding: roughly a third of the Corn Belt, around 30 million acres, has completely lost its A-horizon. The carbon-rich topsoil is simply gone. Scraped off the hilltops by a hundred and fifty years of tilling and rain, washed downslope, into rivers, into the Gulf.
The USDA had previously estimated that none of those same fields had lost their topsoil.
None.
The satellites disagreed.
Every year, the United States loses around five tons of soil per acre. Ten times the rate at which it forms. A layer as thick as a dime, peeled off every twelve months, across tens of millions of acres, and sent downhill.
The crops being grown on this land, the corn and soy that replaced the prairie, are in large part used for ethanol, high fructose corn syrup, and livestock feed. The livestock feed portion is the only one that gets criticised in polite company.
The prairie took ten thousand years to build.
We scraped a third of it off in under two hundred.
The people currently telling us to grow more crops instead of raising cattle are, presumably, unaware that the crops are already eating the ground they stand on.
The conservationist who set aside 230 million acres of public land because he believed future Americans deserved to inherit something worth inheriting.
Moving sight from Neligh this morning—semis of hay heading west to feed livestock after the worst wildfire in state history.
A powerful reminder this National Agriculture Day as we celebrate not just the industry, but the heart of the hardworking people who make it what it is.
An Auntie Anne’s original pretzel cost about $3.50 in 2009. Today it’s $7.29. The pretzel tracked inflation almost perfectly.
The pretzel is accidentally the most honest inflation tracker in America. It’s priced in flour, sugar, labor, commercial rent, and energy. Every cost that went up in 17 years is baked into that $7.29. One mall receipt tells you more about the economy than most dashboards.
Now do the rest. Gas in 2009 averaged $2.35 a gallon. Today it’s $3.81. Up 62%. The median U.S. home sold for $172,000 in 2009. The latest FRED data has it at $405,300. Up 136%. Average public university tuition went from about $7,000 to $12,000. Up 71%. Health insurance premiums for a family of four went from $13,000 to over $24,000. Up 85%.
Every price in the economy moved. The federal minimum wage of $7.25 was set on July 24, 2009. It has not changed once in 6,088 days. $7.25 in 2009 had the purchasing power of $10.47 today. That’s a 30% silent pay cut delivered one year at a time, while the number on the check never moved.
In 2009, $7.25 bought two Auntie Anne’s pretzels. In 2026, it doesn’t buy one.
The dollar lost 30% of its value. The pretzel adjusted. The wage didn’t.
The wind turbine uses more energy in its construction that it gives back in the whole of its working life. You are being conned - there is nothing green about wind turbines.
🚨 so let me get this straight..
this morning Trump announced he's halting attacks on Iran.. someone made $1.5 billion trading on that news 5 minutes before the announcement..
and now tonight.. the Pentagon is weighing deployment of airtroops to Iran..
so the "peace" that someone made $1.5 billion off of.. lasted about 12 hours..
the pause was never peace.. it was a window.. long enough for someone to collect.. short enough for the war machine to reload..
they halted the attacks just long enough for the markets to move.. and now the troops are going in anyway..
you're not watching geopolitics.. you're watching a trade.
They just admitted that many American farmers haven’t secured fertiliser for this year’s planting season. Fertiliser has doubled from $325 a ton to $620.
Next is corn because it requires a lot of fertiliser and it requires it in the spring. Corn has gone up 12% which is still low risk.
Wheat is up 20%
Cattle is up 33% already
This is not financial advice. I am not a financial advisor. I’m just making observations. Do with that as you wish