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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance

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Big USDA’s bratty little unsanctioned sibling 🌱🐮 Real gov. Real talk. Do Right and Feed Everyone. Cut the moo shit. Roll 1D20 to increase levity. Says No to $$. #climatesmart #nutrition #urbanag #conservation #diversity #bullsonparade #renegade 🚜💨🥦🥕⚗️🏡🌎🌈🐮✊

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · Feb 14

New USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins received by USDA today.

Her: “…a privilege beyond description to have the trust of President Donald J. Trump, and the opportunity to advance his agenda.”

Me:

FX show Archer, meme portrait of Cheryl Tunt exclaiming, “you’re not my supervisor!”

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 51m

Birds are migrating! If you see sick or dead animals, contact your State’s Department of Natural Resources ASAP! USDA is shut down. My own city neighborhood suffered a mass casualty event of a dozen geese, ducks and swans that hung out at the park ponds suddenly die of H5N1 & your pets are at risk!

Julia Dzikiewicz @juliadzikiewicz.bsky.social · 4h

"Bird flu," encaustic with postcards on linen.
From Your Local Epidemiologist
"USDA has seen an uptick in H5N1 detections in backyard flocks, commercial flocks, and wild birds. More than 4.4 million birds have been sick in the past month."
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com

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Angels In Velvet @angelsinvelvet.bsky.social · 2h

Year-to-date: By the first half of 2025, Chapter 12 filings had surged by nearly 70% compared to the same period in 2024.
Trend: 2025 is on pace to be one of the most difficult years for farm bankruptcies in more than a decade, with total filings so far being the highest since 2021.

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Angels In Velvet @angelsinvelvet.bsky.social · 2h

‘It’s just disappointment’: Shutdown adds to farmers’ anxieties
Producers are struggling under the weight of the loss of certain USDA services and lack of a bailout announcement.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘It’s just disappointment’: Shutdown adds to farmers’ anxieties

Producers are struggling under the weight of the loss of certain USDA services and lack of a bailout announcement.

www.politico.com

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Alt National Archives @altnatarchives.altgov.info · 6h

Inflaties take note! Safety 🧵 below. Increase the protection at the protestation! #NoKings

AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info · 10h

I absolutely love how the inflatable costume is taking off for protest! It offers protection in so many fucking ways but if they go into battle, we will need to level the costumes up for extended dancing in tear gas smoke. Let’s talk 🧵🧵🧵🧵

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

You gotta give ‘em hop.

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 1h

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AltFormerFed (aka Farmer Fred) @dataprism.altgov.info · 10h

Farmer Fred says if we need to prop up our farm economy, policy should support growing crops for food aid. When we feed ourselves & the world, we reduce crime in our streets, improve global security, reduce migration from famine & wars zones and we allow our fellow humans to live with dignity.

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12h

Farmers grow what they grow because of farm policy.

We don’t need all the soy and corn that we grow, but those are the commodities that receive subsidies and markets.

If we want something better, if we want to heal the Earth and grow food, now is the time to do it.

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 1h

Unrelated to shutdown, but swept up the throes of the conservative movement, Taylor Swift. After hearing more of the new album and the symbolism it presents lyrically, metaphorically and through jewelry merch, I’m back to nope. Don’t try to mask it as satire. Those dawgs are hearing the whistles. 👎

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 1d

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

We are going to close tonight with another Onion article that has more facts than the New York Times.

Good night all 🌌

The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 1d

If you have friends and family in the ag industry, how are they holding up?

David L Workman @dlworkman.bsky.social · 2d

@rbreich.bsky.social @demgovs.org @apnews.com @apnewsguild.bsky.social @altusda.altgov.info 👇

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Emanuel: China's basically found leverage; they're applying pressure, and they're doing it to soybean farmers. Our farmers have lost that market, are out a huge amount of money, and could see a lot of bankruptcies in the rural parts of the Midwest.

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 1d

Wishing all of our OG North American Indigenous People a peaceful day today and always. Friendly reminder to everyone else that smudging sage is a closed practice, please research first. This is probably the worst time to ask, but anyone have a great fry bread recipe? Would love to try all versions!

an illustration of a person holding a stick with the words " sage not rage " above it

Alt: an illustration of a person holding a stick with the words " sage not rage " above it

media.tenor.com

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 3d

Who is on Skylight?

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

With Larry Ellison in control of TikTok, we now have right-wingers or looney far-right wingers in control of most of the major social media platforms.

Right-Wing Moguls Dominate Social Media. One Legal Fix Can Help Stem the Tide.

Revising Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act would make outlets more accountable for the content they platform.

www.thenation.com

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 3d

Wait til they find out the Chinese actually discovered the Americas scores to centuries before this colonizer did. Fuck Columbus and his diseases. Fuck Trump and his… ____. #indigenouspeoplesday #oct13

NPR @npr.org · 3d

President Trump said "left-wing radicals" have tried to tarnish Columbus' legacy, and the proclamation is a way to preserve it. Some experts say it's a way to erase the heritage of Native Americans. n.pr/4h2pwRc

Trump issues a Columbus Day proclamation to 'reclaim' the explorer's legacy

President Trump said "left-wing radicals" have tried to tarnish Columbus' legacy, and the proclamation is a way to preserve it. Some experts say it's a way to erase the heritage of Native Americans.

n.pr

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Spuds 🥔 @spuds4.bsky.social · 4d

"Boycott Amazon!" I know, I know, but hear me out...

An Amazon cart containing a pink inflatable frog costume and rolling paper cones

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Ambassador Luis G. Moreno (ret) @ambassadormoreno.bsky.social · 3d

For pipsqueak Mike Johnson to basically say that protesting this administration is the equivalent of being a terrorist is obscene and terrifying. And for those of us (myself and many friends and colleagues) who personally experienced real terrorism-highly insulting.

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 3d

Exactly.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

THIS!! 👇👇

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 3d

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4d

Sen. Adam Schiff: I can tell you this: Those of us on the president's enemies list — and it is a long and growing list — will not be intimidated. We will not be deterred, we will do our jobs, we will stand up to this president."

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 4d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Alternative View, Pacific Northwest @alt-pnw.bsky.social · 3d

A little something for your morning:

Dizzygirl @dizzygirl.bsky.social · 7d

Glare from the window. 👎

This is a Question Mark butterfly.

Called that bc there is a question mark like marking on the underside of the wing.

There's a very similar Comma butterfly and you guessed it.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 4d

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 3d

Epicccccc 🤣🤩

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 3d

There is no leader of Antifa.
There is no girlfriend of the leader of Antifa.

They are creating imaginary people so they can justify going after real people.

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 3d

📢 Wide and far

United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 4d

I was born and raised in CAs Central Valley and I'm voting #YesOnProp50. Farm workers and people of color are suffering under this administration's racial profiling. Prop 50 gives us the opportunity to fight back on the power grab that TX Republicans and Trump are attempting.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 4d

Look at these fucking numbers.

#RIF #VoughtDidThis #PresidentMiller

315 Dept of Commerce
466 DoE
187 Dept. of Energy. You know, the agency that has the NUKES.
Between 1100 and 1200 at Dept HHS
442 at HUD
176 DHS which... they have to be UNDESIRABLES
1446 and Dept. of Treasury

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 4d

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 3d

Context on the ribbit ribbit 🐸

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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RebelFema @rebelfema.altgov.info · 4d

People. CDC is Literally being decimated right now. Our hearts are breaking for our colleagues at @altcdc.altgov.info.

You can check out their page to see the growing list of departments affected. They don’t deserve this and America doesn’t deserve this.

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