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US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

submitted 16 days ago • 777 comments

Almost tempted to reup my X account just to see the ongoing replies to Tomi Lahren's "name one Canadian product better than US" I noticed she hasn't asked here yet. Top answers so far: -Healthcare that doesn't cause 66% of all bankruptcies -Life expectancy -Not getting shot up in grade school

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

It took one week to get Trump voters to go from “eggs need to be cheaper” to “let seniors starve”.

submitted 25 days ago • 387 comments

Ohio highway info signs said "Drive like a CHAMPION today!" 🤣 (Yesterday, noticed on way home last night)

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

A hearty congrats (in this first season where everyone who's anyone got a 2nd chance) to the SEC & ACC. We'll see you (in the bleachers) at the championship! GO BUCKS! O-H!

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

So that’s what Barack Obama and Donald Trump were talking about

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Exactly #prince #Prince4Ever #PrinceFam youtu.be/JLB4KSVgr6M?... @malckierob.bsky.social

submitted 48 days ago • 369 comments

Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.

submitted 49 days ago • 1253 comments

Happy New Year’s Eve from the top of The Association

submitted 54 days ago • 4 comments

There are no rules in this no man’s land between Christmas & New Years. Read all night! Don’t finish a book! Read three books at once! Just go nuts.

submitted 57 days ago • 140 comments

THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS HAVE THE BEST RECORD IN THE ASSOCIATION AT 27-4!!

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments

“This was an attempt to ‘thought police,’ and this victory over totalitarianism is a testament to the courage of librarians, booksellers, and readers who refused to bow to intimidation,” said Holly Dickson, executive director of the ACLU of Arkansas. Small victory is victory. 🙏📚🙏

submitted 60 days ago • 34 comments

Good morning, Bluesky Friends! 🗽💙 🌊

submitted 63 days ago • 330 comments

I am really disappointed Josh Naylor is no longer a Guardian. Then again who am I to question Guardians management what with all those World Series wins these past few decades?

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

"Is it not strange that men are so keen to fight for religion and so unkeen to live according to its precepts?"

submitted 64 days ago • 32 comments

I can hardly think of a better example of the moral decay in modern health care than a Goldman analyst noting that biotech cures for diseases like hepatitis are cool and all, until their success diminishes the business opportunity for pharmaceutical manufacturers. www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...

submitted 65 days ago • 542 comments

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." -- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917

submitted 69 days ago • 1003 comments

"Stop asking why schools don't have bulletproof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That's the question that needs to be asked,” Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes

submitted 68 days ago • 374 comments