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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1487714
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A vote for a Republican is a vote against the commons.
The water problem – and lack of accountability – goes beyond Tyson.
Last year Governor Jim Pillen, whose family owns one of America’s largest pork companies, was widely criticized for calling a Chinese-born journalist at Flatwater Free Press a “communist” after she exposed serious water quality violations at his hog farms. Earlier this month, the Nebraska supreme court ruled that the state environmental agency could charge the same investigative news outlet tens of thousands of dollars for a public records request about nitrates.
Big ag’s influence on state politics is “endemic”, according to Gavin Geis from Common Cause Nebraska, a non-partisan elections watchdog.
“The big money spent on lobbying and campaigns by corporate agriculture has played a major role in resisting stronger regulation – despite clear signals such as high levels of nitrates in our groundwater and cancers in rural communities that we need more oversight for farmers across the board,” said Geis.
“We’ve created a system with no accountability that doesn’t protect our ecosystem – which includes the land, water and people of Nebraska,” said Graham Christensen, a regenerative farmer and founder of GC Resolve, a communication and consulting firm. “The political capture is harming our rural communities, we’re in the belly of the beast and need help from federal regulators.”
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Trump fined $9k, has to remove posts and threatened with jail.
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But Eric is there to console him in his hour of loss.
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Whaat Did waFFLE do TO make You put him DOwn. HE smeLLed and needed a Bath? He begged for FOod at the dinner table? he wanted a walk?
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It’s the new math at Virginia Tech?
At Virginia Tech, more than 80 protesters, 532 of whom were students, were arrested
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Morning memo duz cypherin’
At Virginia Tech, more than 80 protesters, 532 of whom were students, were arrested Sunday night into Monday morning.
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They misspelled name of that guy at the top of the MM. It’s spelled “Convicted Felon Ken Chesebro.”
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The great sociologist Max Weber pioneered the theory of charismatic leadership. He theorized that the charismatic leader loses his hold over his followers when he can no longer show success. Historian Ian Kershaw illustrated that thesis in The Hitler Myth. Using surviving reports from the Nazi secret police on their assessment of German public opinion, he shows how the near-deification of Hitler began to weaken after the first winter in Russia, and then steadily crumbled after Stalingrad and the commencement of round-the-clock allied bombing.
I’m beginning to wonder if that thesis really holds up. Since November 2020, Trump has sustained a long series of setbacks and embarrassments, beginning with the election loss (and whatever they say, MAGAts know he lost). Under any conceivable circumstance, 93 indictments can’t be a good sign. Yet his hold on the GOP is undiminished (or rather, tighter than ever). Could it be that the combo of Fox News and social media is a more effective form of brainwashing than state propaganda because it’s ostensibly voluntarily administered?
Whatever the case, MAGA will provide fodder for psychopathologists for decades to come.
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- At Virginia Tech, more than 80 protesters, 532 of whom were students, were arrested Sunday night into Monday morning.
I don’t have access to WaPo, but when you have 532 out of 80, that seems…extreme.
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In the trial:
Farro, who had been Cohen’s private banker at First Republic bank, is being asked about documents related to the formation of Essential Consultants; this is providing a timeline for jurors about Cohen’s financial maneuvers related to the alleged hush-money payoff.
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I stand with PuPPYY.
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From your (and Weber’s) mouth to G*d’s ears.
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Would this be basking time?
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None of the above, he’ll plop down and nap in a sunny spot after his walk.
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How about just some cat scratch fever instead?
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