“Farm bankruptcies are up 70% in the Midwest.”
“315 family farm operations filed [for] Chapter 12 bankruptcy in 2025.”
“Farmers are increasingly borrowing to cover operating costs, not to grow.”
“94% of farmers said the Iran conflict is hitting their operations through high fertilizer and energy costs.”
“78% named input costs as their top three challenges.”
Farmers are struggling because of policy decisions and monopolies they can’t control.
We’re losing family farmers every day at a pace that is simply not sustainable.
It’s time we recognize and address the farm crisis we’re facing before America’s family farms become a thing of the past.
@barntalkshow
But how could this happen, Donald Trump promised to take care of America's farmers and their families...and they bought that bullshit TWICE and voted for him AGAIN.
Apparently, there was an armed man, Jeanine John Taele, outside the Golf Club Trump was set to visit.
Every time Trump sinks in the polls, this happens. And like other times, there will be no investigation. It will all disappear, leaving only MAGA with maxi pads in their ears.
Republicans SCREAMED their stupid fucking heads off for weeks about how the ALLEGATIONS against Platner disqualified him, but now they’ve got a guy accused by his Republican Senator ex-father in law of ABUSING his wife and toddler daughter and suddenly they’re silent???
Translation: John Thune has carefully reviewed the vote count & has enough to confirm Todd Blanche without me.
Therefore, unlike with Brett Kavanagh, I can now pretend to care about character. 👍
My son works full time here in Florida. Let me run his numbers.
State minimum wage is $14/hour. He's at $15.
40 hours a week = $600/week
That's about $2,600/month before taxes.
Florida has no state income tax the thing they sell you on. So after federal and FICA he takes home roughly $2,200.
Average one-bedroom in our area runs about $1,600.
That's 73% of his entire paycheck gone to rent before he eats a single meal.
Leaves him around $600 a month for:
- groceries
- gas
- car insurance
- health insurance
- phone
- emergencies
- savings
Car insurance alone eats a third of that in this state.
He works 40 hours a week and cannot save a dollar. Not because he's careless because there's nothing left to be careless with.
I spent thirty years paying off a house here. He's doing the same job I did at his age and he can't afford a one-bedroom.
That's not a discipline problem. That's not avocado toast.
The floor moved and nobody lowered the ceiling.
Working full time should cover a roof. In Florida it barely covers the rent on one.
Joe Biden had a bad debate. Approximately 765 stories and opinion pieces in the NYTimes.
Donald Trump had 300 bank accounts closed because of evidence of money laundering. Nothing to see here, says the same NYTimes.
Shout out to Reuters and ABC for pushing this story, but this should be fucking everywhere.
The most openly corrupt individual this country has ever seen. No one else comes close.
C-SPAN caller: If you don’t have enough money to retire, don’t retire. Stop being so lazy!
Me: That might as well be the Republican Party’s message in the midterms because they don’t have a single idea that might actually improve your life. Meanwhile, Trump is stealing billions of dollars from American taxpayers.
Restored? They weren’t restored….they were remade. They never looked like that. The sculptor, and city planners that Approved them, never meant for them to look like something out of a Czarist palace. They were never coated in near pure gold. That's not what The nation's capital is about. At least it wasn’t before this money obsessed asshole lied his way into office.
$5.1 million in taxpayer money to restore 19-foot statues with 23.75-karat gold leaf.
Just when you think Trump cannot be more out of touch with the needs of working people, he outdoes himself.