I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

At this point few things about this administration are surprising but this is astonishing

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

Similar pomodoro style but with 10 minute tactile craft breaks in between, knitting or weaving or whatever, it really helps to get up and touch something

This is fantastic, congratulations!!!!

Y/n cardinals are quintessential Midwestern baseball but also it’s. Mississippi city

This is correct! Was just explaining to a friend that “Ohio Valley” is an entirely different thing than “Great Lakes”

This is a direct transfer of wealth from consumers, who are paying ludicrous tariffs on necessary goods, to soybean farmers

I am currently surrounded by soybeans and corn and can think of 50 better ways to spend $10-15 billion

A reminder for academic book authors:

Yes, it’s totally fine to flag a couple of people who should not peer review your book

But do it in a phone call, not the proposal, not an email

Was just going to post on the alarming existence of olive loaf! A common find in low-end grocery stories in the Ohio Valley

Frozen tater tots are delicious straight from the bag

I like to include length w/ notes and w/o and then do little experiments to see how much of the problem can be fixed through notes alone

Nods rapidly from SW IN

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

But also a) many of the stories are about landowners, not farmers (active farmers are not sad about declining cash rent prices); b) no mention of crop price insurance; c) articles mostly omit role of elevators? Like, at all? As if farmers’ contracts are direct w/ China?

But anyway we’re changing over to the bean head this afternoon, very exciting!

This is an interesting question. So far not much of an issue in Indiana, in part bc there’s an oil processing plant nearby. Only other thing I’ll say is that natl media’s lack of ag reporters and knowledge is very very telling rn.

Back at my post

Do think the single most likely do or die flashpoint for this administration is gonna be the seating of the 120th Congress

I don't know what's going to happen but I'm really alarmed that no one, as far as I can tell, is doing any planning for a total institutional break and what would follow

My rage at the 6 nominally “centrist” GOP senators who could have done something in 2016 remains unbound. They had the power in their hands. And just didn’t.

There are plenty of other people to be mad at, too. But they are personally responsible for all that has followed.

The fact that they didn’t clap doesn’t make it any less chilling