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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 47m

The way you actually live forever is to leave a positive legacy. The Romans understood this.

Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 49m

Eddie Bauer stopped being an actual company decades ago. I’m old enough to remember when they had a flagship store in Seattle where you could buy stuff like fishing rods and canoes.

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 17h

Plus as a Mariner's fan I'd rather see the Mariners win the series in Wrigley then wherever the Brewers play!

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 17h

Cubs because Illinois and Chicago deserve it right now for standing up to fascists.

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 17h

No kidding.

The Nazis aren't just at the Federal level. Why any woman who has options would choose to live in a red state is beyond me.

Best thing we ever did was move our family from Texas back to the Pacific Northwest.

Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 18h

It isn't just ICE.

Texas police are using Flock cameras to conduct nationwide searches for women they suspect of leaving the state to have abortions: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and ...

www.eff.org

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 18h

Georgia looking shaky too.

Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 18h

And districts really don't want to get sued if they can help it. That generally means hiring outside counsel and running up enormous legal fees unless the district is so large to have in-house counsel.

So even without DOE there is still incentive to obey the law.

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 18h

That's true too.

But in the Obama and Biden Administrations there was actually a Department of Ed that did go out and conduct investigations and take on districts that were dropping the ball. Even if it was at times glacial.

Today parents are all alone unless there are blue state agencies to help

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 18h

None of the laws have changed so conscientious states and school districts will still follow them. They have a SpEd infrastructure. But will likely have less Fed $$$ to implement them.

Less conscientious school districts and states? Perhaps not so much.

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 19h

What it will basically mean is that parents will now have to sue school districts themselves to enforce SpEd laws. There won't be any Department of Ed to step up and do it for them.

So rich parents have a chance, poor ones not so much.

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah right.

People can judge for themselves who brought the details to this discussion.

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 20h

Santiago Chile was putting them up all over the place. Some photos I took when I visited last Christmas because I'm a bike infrastructure nerd.

If they can afford it in a big congested metro, so can we.

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 20h

A perfect illustration of which "lifestyle" actually imposes itself on public space, public safety, and the public purse.

Jfrisco @jfrisco.bsky.social · 21h

Hold my beer...

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 22h

UCLA looks good?

Maybe it really was just the coach?

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 23h

And that is why the graph you posted above showing MEDIAN farm and non-farm income shows mostly non-farm income. Because it includes all those non-farmers and retired folks living in the country on hobby farms who run a couple cattle or cut some hay for tax purposes.

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 23h

The property tax benefits will be in the thousands of dollars depending on the assessed value of the land. So the tax savings outweigh any cost and hassle of keeping a couple animals on the land.

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 23h

So, for example, in my county you can gain an ag exemption on your property taxes if you have a 5 acre lot and gain at least $200 of ag income per acre for 3 of 5 years. These days you can hit that by running one or two feeder steers and then you become a small farm For tax and UDSA purposes.

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 23h

This means that any doctor, lawyer, or retired couple who live in a rural area on a hobby farm and gain at least $1000 in farm income is included. People do that to gain property tax breaks so they run a few steers, board some horses, or sell some hay. And then get included In the USDA definition.

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 23h

The USDA subdivides farm businesses into 5 categories. The vast majority (88%) are small family farms and 66% of those gain their primary income from sources other than farming. The USDA minimum size is $1,000 in farm income per year.
www.nass.usda.gov/Publications...

www.nass.usda.gov

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