Ryan

WA native back home after time in DC & Nashville. Dad, Seattle sports fan, int’l trade nerd, liberal AF. 🏳️‍⚧️ Likes: politics,🍺,food,🏕,🌧,🐈,🏔

[Gigi @Gigi_chienergy]

The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.

As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.

Texan here

A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!

Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.

Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.

This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.

How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.

[Symone D. Sanders Townsend @SymoneDSanders]

Okay enough about Graham Platner…what I really want to know is how the president seemed to be sleep in the middle of the day on camera today from the Oval Office and no one asked him about it?

[vibe instructor✌🏾🐝 @Vanessa_ABee]

was it by “drinking raw milk”

[Joey Cappelletti @Cappelletti7]

Sen. Slotkin tells me she hasn't had a chance yet to fully review the allegations against Platner but that she takes "allegations of violence super seriously."

"I look forward to the day where I'm not responding yet again to another round of bad behavior by a guy," she said.

[Symone D. Sanders Townsend @SymoneDSanders]

I’m sorry, Platner does not sound like someone who is comfortable being held accountable. “It shouldn’t be like this” umm well what’s done in the dark comes to light.

Voters in Maine may decide they don’t care about this, but whew.

[Ryan @RyMB]

Facts.

[Jacson A. Bevens, LX @JacsonBevens]

Jermaine Kearse with two of the greatest WR plays in modern Super Bowl history and they both get forgotten for different reasons.

This one because the game was already in hand and the insane one on the last drive against the Patriots because well I don’t really remember why

[Ryan @RyMB]

I can forgive a Nazi tattoo and all the misogyny but Platner dated a Republican?!?

(this is a joke btw, I never made it past the Nazi tattoo and misogyny and could not care less who he dated)

[Kamikaze Cash @kamikazecash]

As a dad weighing in, have kids if you want to. Don’t have kids if you don’t want to.

Children will change 100% of your life’s activities. I can’t think of any aspect of life that is not drastically changed by having kids.

It is the most consequential decision you’ll make. It is a lifelong labor of love. It’s not trivial.

“Jesus wants you to have kids.”
- Jesus didn’t even have kids

“Social security will go insolvent”
- Govt’s problem, not yours

“Your ancestors are counting on you”
- No they’re not. They’re dead.

“Bloodlines!”
- Only relevant if you are a monarch

All of these arguments are fake and dumb. Have kids if you want them, and don’t have kids if you don’t. You owe no one an explanation.

[Ryan @RyMB]

Meritocracy!

[Covie @covie_93]

Shouldn't a requirement of being energy secretary is knowing how energy works????

[vibe instructor✌🏾🐝 @Vanessa_ABee]

you’re joking but they’re teaching him to count that high RIGHT NOW

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

i will never forgive the American people for voting this guy back into office because of burger and gas prices just to watch him put worms in the burgers and shut off 20% of the world's oil supply

[Ryan @RyMB]

Still good here 👍🏻

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Everyone ok?

[Ryan @RyMB]

I know some of them are Canadian but I bet geese would talk some shit…

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

Cats!
And never ducks! Ducks are the nicest. 🦆
(Most of the time)

[Ryan @RyMB]

@aliciainedmonds Good lord, what a lineup 😬

[Ryan @RyMB]

Happy Pride!

[DiggerCrave 🧡🪏 @CruiseCrave]

Coming up to three years of my favourite headline of all time

[Ryan @RyMB]

We are all going to be paying for the fallout from the damage that DOGE did globally for a VERY long time.

Everyone involved in that failure should be held responsible.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.

[Ryan @RyMB]

@LawsonEric24589 @hannahkrieg I guess you can agree that Trump is not a real leader then since he has called for boycotts of U.S. companies that didn’t kiss his ass several times.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

pretty decent encapsulation of the last few years on here

[sean @_sn_n]

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