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[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the Director of Repair Authorization at John Deere.

Today the FTC made us give farmers the right to repair the machines they already own. It took a lawsuit, a 10-year settlement, and $1 million paid to 5 states. Read the terms. We kept the part that matters.

Here is what we sold you. Steel. 400 horsepower. A cab, a seat, a mirror, a nameplate with your county's dealer on it. You own all of it. It is yours the way a piano is yours.

Here is what we did not sell you. The word go.

A modern tractor does not run on diesel alone. It runs on authorization. When a part fails and you bolt in a new one, the machine does not simply work. The new part has to be paired, and pairing happens through our software, and our software lived, until this morning, only in the hands of a dealer. You could hold the wrench. You could not give the machine permission to accept what the wrench installed.

And when an emissions sensor trips, the machine does something my department is quietly proud of. It goes to limp mode. Full steel, full fuel, reduced to walking speed. 3 miles an hour, in October, with rain in the forecast and the whole year standing in the field. The only thing that lifts it is our authorization, and for years the only hands that held our authorization drove out from the dealership, when they could, for a fee.

We sell the steel once. We sell the permission forever.

So when they say we lost today, read the settlement the way I read it.

10 years. We report our compliance every 60 days, then once a year, which is to say we have turned handing you your own machine into a paperwork schedule that runs through 2036. Any new repair tool we build, we only have to share once more than 50% of our dealers already have it. We decide when a dealer has it. We build the clock and we wind the clock.

They call it the right to repair. What we granted is the right to ask our software for permission, on terms we file every 60 days.

You own the tractor. You always did.

We own the word go.

And today we agreed, in writing, to a ten-year plan for slowly, carefully, on a reporting schedule, learning to say it a little less often.

[@amuse @amuse]

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[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

Bombshell HUD report shows the foreign-born population drove more than 60% of U.S. rental demand growth from 2021 to 2024!!!

Between 2021 and 2024, over six million foreigners entered the country and accounted for the majority of increased demand for rental housing. This surge has put massive pressure on an already strained housing market.

HUD Secretary Scott Turner highlighted the numbers in a new report, noting the direct impact on American families struggling to find affordable places to live.

This is exactly why mass illegal immigration doesn’t just affect the border — it hits working families in their wallets every single month.

Pass this along so more people connect the dots between open borders and skyrocketing rents.

#SecureTheBorder #HousingCrisis

[Agent Confidential™ | Mike Chaudron @fauxjimmysexton]

This is a significant development.

When Alabama and Auburn issue a joint statement, people in college athletics should pay attention.

One paragraph especially stood out to me:

”…advance private equity interests, who stand to profit from a redistribution of media-rights revenue…”

The debate over federal legislation is no longer just about NIL. It’s now about governance, media rights, antitrust, and who ultimately controls the future of college sports.

This story is far from over.

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

This is a must-watch video every 4th of July.

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

Friendly reminder to stay safe this Fourth of July weekend

[Nebraska Football @HuskerFootball]

Happy 4th of July, Husker Nation! 🇺🇸

[Nebraska Huskers @Huskers]

Go Big Red, White and Blue.

Happy 4th, Husker Nation! 🇺🇸💥

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Angel mom Jessica Gorman: "We’re in Chicago getting ready to claim my daughter’s body and the Mayor there is naming a truck ‘abolish ICE’, standing and laughing and joking while my daughter was just murdered there. Like, what?"

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Happy Bobby Bonilla Deferral Day: Bonilla is set to collect another $1.193 million from the New York Mets today, as he will each July 1st through the year 2035.

[Pick Six Previews @PickSixPreviews]

Since the FBS/FCS split (1978), there have been 5,731 FBS teams

Only 2 have won EVERY game by 14+ points:

• 1995 Nebraska
• 2004 Utah

[unseen1 @unseen1_unseen]

Pro tip: if you have 52 million people on welfare/government assistance you don't have a labor shortage.

[NFL @NFL]

Long before Alex Freeman was playing for @USMNT, his dad @afreeman86 was running routes for the @Packers 🫡

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The biggest party in Boston Harbor since the tea party

[Kalshi Football @KalshiFB]

Nebraska’s 4th quarter ‘Thunderstruck’ intro is electric ⚡

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

A man in Nebraska ordered a pizza for his grandmother in Florida after he was unable to reach her in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. The delivery served as a welfare check, allowing him to confirm she was safe when the pizza arrived. As he later said, “Police and fire couldn’t do it, but Papa John’s got there in 30 minutes and put the cellphone to her ear.”

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

250 years of the USA, and Jameis Winston covering the World Cup is something our founding fathers dreamed of

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Reports indicate Scottish fans avoided strict public drinking ordinances by renting boats to celebrate; several pubs in the Boston area were reportedly drank dry.