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This is very interesting both for modern politics but also for history. While tracing families through the 19th and 20th centuries, I always marvel at the work women did on these farms. It has never gotten the attention it deserves.
NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social piece by @profsecchi.bsky.social! Late to posting it here but this piece is really a must read on how the USDA counts- or miscounts- farmers, how this came about and why it matters.
www.crisesnotes.com/what-is-a-fa...
www.crisesnotes.com/what-is-a-fa...
What is a Farmer and How Does the Government Count Them? The High Politics of a Seemingly Mundane Statistical Task
Silvia Secchi is a natural resources economist and a Full Professor in the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences at the University of Iowa.
Editor's Note: Dear readers, Nathan here. ...
www.crisesnotes.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is very interesting both for modern politics but also for history. While tracing families through the 19th and 20th centuries, I always marvel at the work women did on these farms. It has never gotten the attention it deserves.
Nothing like lasagna on a late fall evening.
December 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Nothing like lasagna on a late fall evening.
This is very wrong. It's an effort to charge non citizens more.
TSA SAYS AIR TRAVELERS WITHOUT REAL ID WILL FACE $45 FEE COVERING 10 DAYS OF TRAVEL -- BRIEFING
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is very wrong. It's an effort to charge non citizens more.
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The underlying premise of Maidan conspiracy theories is people couldn’t have possibly valued freedom on their own, someone must’ve made them.
US global media under Kari Lake has changed from promoting democracy and US interests to promoting anti-democracy lies and Russian interests. It’s terrible.
US global media under Kari Lake has changed from promoting democracy and US interests to promoting anti-democracy lies and Russian interests. It’s terrible.
December 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The underlying premise of Maidan conspiracy theories is people couldn’t have possibly valued freedom on their own, someone must’ve made them.
US global media under Kari Lake has changed from promoting democracy and US interests to promoting anti-democracy lies and Russian interests. It’s terrible.
US global media under Kari Lake has changed from promoting democracy and US interests to promoting anti-democracy lies and Russian interests. It’s terrible.
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We went from a country that defended others from being invaded for their natural resources, to a country that is now threatening to invade others for their natural resources.
Systems of governance are only as good as the people you elect to uphold them.
Systems of governance are only as good as the people you elect to uphold them.
November 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
We went from a country that defended others from being invaded for their natural resources, to a country that is now threatening to invade others for their natural resources.
Systems of governance are only as good as the people you elect to uphold them.
Systems of governance are only as good as the people you elect to uphold them.
Youtube wants me to sign in to prove I'm not a bot. Someone needs to mention that the existence of a login in no way proves a human is behind it.
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Youtube wants me to sign in to prove I'm not a bot. Someone needs to mention that the existence of a login in no way proves a human is behind it.
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I would welcome the fall of the Maduro regime, with all my heart. But the way Trump, Rubio, Hegseth, et al are going about it is turning the U.S. Navy into pirates on the high seas.
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I would welcome the fall of the Maduro regime, with all my heart. But the way Trump, Rubio, Hegseth, et al are going about it is turning the U.S. Navy into pirates on the high seas.
Coconut banana cream pie!
November 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Coconut banana cream pie!
Star Trek jokes aside, this is such an incredible feat.
Voyager 1 is about to reach one Light-day from Earth
After nearly 50 years in space, NASA’s Voyager 1 is about to hit a historic milestone. By November 15, 2026, it will be 16.1 billion miles (25.9 billion km) away, meaning a radio signal will take a full 24 hours — a full light-day — to reach it.
After nearly 50 years in space, NASA’s Voyager 1 is about to hit a historic milestone. By November 15, 2026, it will be 16.1 billion miles (25.9 billion km) away, meaning a radio signal will take a full 24 hours — a full light-day — to reach it.
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Star Trek jokes aside, this is such an incredible feat.
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This also means that Trump II will likely try to accelerate over the next 12 months to break as much as they can before a Dem majority takes over in Congress. Declining powers are often just as dangerous, if not more so, than rising powers.
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
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November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This also means that Trump II will likely try to accelerate over the next 12 months to break as much as they can before a Dem majority takes over in Congress. Declining powers are often just as dangerous, if not more so, than rising powers.
The Greenland story must not be forgotten despite Trump not making recent statements about it.
Meet Trump wing man Drew Horn, who suddenly turns up on every street corner in Greenland. A former US Special Forces soldier, Trump-world insider, businessman and political messenger—all wrapped in one. He says he's prepared to invest billions, that he doesn't have, in Greenland. In fact Horn
Business-update: Tidligere Trump-rådgiver vil investere ti milliarder i Grønland
Amerikansk interesse for den grønlandske undergrund, dansk økonomi i hopla og sanktioner mod den russiske skyggeflåde. Det er blot nogle af overskrifterne i dagens Update fra Berlingske Business.
www.berlingske.dk
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The Greenland story must not be forgotten despite Trump not making recent statements about it.
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The Moron Doctrine, it is
Of course it is. (He's going for some kind of record. He's already threatened military action against Canada, Mexico, Greenland, Panama, and Venezuela while taking punitive economic actions against virtually everyone else in the Hemisphere. The Monroe Doctrine it ain't.)
Trump: "Would I launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? It's okay with me."
November 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The Moron Doctrine, it is
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While it’s understandable why certain companies and countries are bribing the president, the next administration should penalize them to the greatest extent possible to make this kind of illegal activity much less palatable in the future
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
While it’s understandable why certain companies and countries are bribing the president, the next administration should penalize them to the greatest extent possible to make this kind of illegal activity much less palatable in the future
Lloyd's films are among the best of the 1920s.
Nov. 15, 1925: Movie comedian Harold Lloyd joins the Army Air Service Reserve and makes his first flight as a member of the "Red Dragon" squadron from Clover Field in Los Angeles, saying goodbye to his wife, Mildred Davis, before taking off.
November 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Lloyd's films are among the best of the 1920s.
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For the record, I am willing to lend the space laser to Marjorie Taylor Greene should that be helpful.
November 15, 2025 at 3:03 AM
For the record, I am willing to lend the space laser to Marjorie Taylor Greene should that be helpful.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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Yes, and one of the arguments for the ACA is that it would enable people to start businesses because they wouldn’t be chained to a job and its health insurance. Cassidy’s plan is anti-entrepreneurial, pro job lock.
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Yes, and one of the arguments for the ACA is that it would enable people to start businesses because they wouldn’t be chained to a job and its health insurance. Cassidy’s plan is anti-entrepreneurial, pro job lock.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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His children lose their father's care.
Our economy loses his skill.
Our treasury loses his tax payments.
This family separation makes America poorer & less joyful.
President Reagan's amnesty program would have let him become a citizen after paperwork & paying $185 ($550 w/inflation).
Our economy loses his skill.
Our treasury loses his tax payments.
This family separation makes America poorer & less joyful.
President Reagan's amnesty program would have let him become a citizen after paperwork & paying $185 ($550 w/inflation).
It has been enormously difficult to see our members at American Families United go through forced family separation. Here's the story of Jenni and her husband. "Mexican father, reflecting a trend, leaves family of 19 years and self-deports due to threat of arrest."
abcnews.go.com/US/mexican-f...
abcnews.go.com/US/mexican-f...
Mexican father, reflecting a trend, leaves family of 19 years and self-deports due to threat of arrest
Fidel Rivera, a husband and father who has been in the U.S. for 30 years, is one of thousands of undocumented migrants who have self-deported due to the threat of arrest.
abcnews.go.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
His children lose their father's care.
Our economy loses his skill.
Our treasury loses his tax payments.
This family separation makes America poorer & less joyful.
President Reagan's amnesty program would have let him become a citizen after paperwork & paying $185 ($550 w/inflation).
Our economy loses his skill.
Our treasury loses his tax payments.
This family separation makes America poorer & less joyful.
President Reagan's amnesty program would have let him become a citizen after paperwork & paying $185 ($550 w/inflation).
A letter from Woodrow Wilson to Albert Lybyer dated 15 April 1919. You can't see it from the picture, but the letter contains an embossed seal of the United States and "The President of the United States."
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A letter from Woodrow Wilson to Albert Lybyer dated 15 April 1919. You can't see it from the picture, but the letter contains an embossed seal of the United States and "The President of the United States."
They can't handle the truth!
"Did you order the Code Bread?!?"
November 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
They can't handle the truth!
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I love the smell of onions and mustard in the morning
Smells like
victory
Smells like
victory
November 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I love the smell of onions and mustard in the morning
Smells like
victory
Smells like
victory
I also remember when undergraduate CS classes used punch cards. Moving to terminals was controversial, with many believing it would waste valuable time.
November 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I also remember when undergraduate CS classes used punch cards. Moving to terminals was controversial, with many believing it would waste valuable time.