🤍"I got my community. I got my people. We got this movement. And, I got, more importantly than anything else, the TRUTH on my side." Hasan explaining why he doesn't respond to a lot of the hate anymore. He wouldn't get anything done if he addressed every rumor and controversy.
Yesterday I had a chance to meet and talk to a few local farmers in the Bates County area and listen to them speak on the challenges they are facing. Rising costs for essential inputs like fuel, seed, equipment, and fertilizers, while proprietary corporate restrictions on seed and equipment are forcing them into essentially operating under subscriptions services (this is analogous to Microsoft forcing us to repurchase software licenses annually!)
Labor costs are increasing because rents everywhere are on the rise. Our farmers want to both turn a profit and pay a living wage, but conditions are forcing bankruptcy and even suicide. Our local farmers do not want short term fixes, they want long term solutions that will ensure the stability of the farming community. Remember, No Farms, No Food. This essential tenet is getting lost in the mix and our poorest communities suffer the cost of high food prices and food deserts.
We have seen the success of efforts like the City of Kansas City’s PLANT Grant and the Kansas City Food Hub partnership. We have seen the benefits we all reap when we invest in the communities that feed us. The more we support our farmers, the more local jobs are created, and the more our neighborhoods and communities are strengthened. This is not a partisan issue, it’s simply another example of the failure of a corporate dominated business sector. We need to take that power back.
🇨🇦 🇸🇦 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Saudi Arabia on the first trip by a Canadian leader in 25 years, signing 13 new commercial agreements and MOUs worth over $1 billion, to expand cooperation in energy, critical minerals, and artificial intelligence.
Carney also said Canada would no longer “lecture countries from afar,” on human rights, marking a significant shift from Justin Trudeau’s approach, which led to a diplomatic rupture with Riyadh in 2018.
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Congressman @RoKhanna after visiting Israel and Palestine:
“In Palestine, I felt first as someone who was brown,” he said. “We really saw the apartheidlike conditions, the inequality.”
He added: “No American would support this if they knew the details of what was going on here.”
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Bernie and his policies are very popular.
The problems with Platner were personal to Platner and show we need to vet candidates. But the shit he ran on was very popular even in Maine.
Some are asking why @RoKhanna was in Palestine as an American congressman who doesn’t represent Palestine.
We met with many Palestinian-Americans who have been brutalized by the IDF and received no help from the embassy. We watched American-owned land being stolen in real time.
Somehow there's always money to expand the Pentagon and bankroll Israel's assault on Gaza. But when it comes to healthcare, education, or helping working people, we're told there's nothing left.
America's priorities are failing people here and abroad.
🧵Today, on the one-year anniversary of settlers beating 20-year-old Palestinian American Sayfollah Musallet to death in his own olive fields, I accompanied his father, Kamel, to visit his grave and then to try to reach the spot where he was killed. We were attacked by settlers…