Sky Chadde
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Cell: 773-318-3406
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THREAD: Jack Link’s has spent years cozying up to Trump and now it wants a bigger stake in food policy.
What's on your kid’s lunch tray might be up for grabs.
Read our investigation here: investigatemidwest.org/2025/07/30/j...
#SNAP #JackLinks #FoodPolicy
What's on your kid’s lunch tray might be up for grabs.
Read our investigation here: investigatemidwest.org/2025/07/30/j...
#SNAP #JackLinks #FoodPolicy
July 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
THREAD: Jack Link’s has spent years cozying up to Trump and now it wants a bigger stake in food policy.
What's on your kid’s lunch tray might be up for grabs.
Read our investigation here: investigatemidwest.org/2025/07/30/j...
#SNAP #JackLinks #FoodPolicy
What's on your kid’s lunch tray might be up for grabs.
Read our investigation here: investigatemidwest.org/2025/07/30/j...
#SNAP #JackLinks #FoodPolicy
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July 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Folks, Investigate Midwest is doing amazing investigative reporting into our food security and problems that need to be solved in agribusiness. It needs to raise a little less than $2K in the next 9 days to get a matching grant. Support this work if you can. investigatemidwest.org
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Investigate Midwest is an independent, nonprofit newsroom. Our mission is to serve the public interest by serving as a watchdog over influential agricultural corporations and institutions through in-d...
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July 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Folks, Investigate Midwest is doing amazing investigative reporting into our food security and problems that need to be solved in agribusiness. It needs to raise a little less than $2K in the next 9 days to get a matching grant. Support this work if you can. investigatemidwest.org
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@yanqixu.bsky.social and @skychadde.bsky.social exposed how a hog-farming empire owned by a US Governor polluted groundwater with a cancer-linked chemical, revealing deep-rooted issues of political influence and regulatory neglect.
@sejorg.bsky.social interviewed Xu: https://twp.ai/9PTJP7
@sejorg.bsky.social interviewed Xu: https://twp.ai/9PTJP7
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Uncovering the Hidden Environmental Impact of an Industrial-scale Hog Farm
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July 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
@yanqixu.bsky.social and @skychadde.bsky.social exposed how a hog-farming empire owned by a US Governor polluted groundwater with a cancer-linked chemical, revealing deep-rooted issues of political influence and regulatory neglect.
@sejorg.bsky.social interviewed Xu: https://twp.ai/9PTJP7
@sejorg.bsky.social interviewed Xu: https://twp.ai/9PTJP7
“This is a pattern,” said one longtime USDA employee. “Fire or force out people now, learn what their job is later."
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After forcing resignations, USDA tries to walk back staff cuts and calls frontline workers ‘vital’ - Investigate Midwest
After forcing the departure of several hundred U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists and inspectors who prevent invasive pest and disease outbreaks, the Trump administration is trying to reverse c...
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April 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“This is a pattern,” said one longtime USDA employee. “Fire or force out people now, learn what their job is later."
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Hmm, USDA's Brooke Rollins says the Biden administration didn't do anything on avian flu, then it announces... continuing a program that Biden did?
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February 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Hmm, USDA's Brooke Rollins says the Biden administration didn't do anything on avian flu, then it announces... continuing a program that Biden did?
www.wsj.com/opinion/agri...
www.wsj.com/opinion/agri...
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Fired #USDA employees told Investigate Midwest the #Trump admin's terminations have stalled irrigation projects, rural housing aid and efforts to combat invasive crop diseases. Remaining staff are overwhelmed, and farmers may not receive needed and timely help. story via @skychadde.bsky.social
Mass terminations have cut USDA ‘off at the knees,’ ex-employees say - Investigate Midwest
More than a dozen recently fired USDA employees told Investigate Midwest that mass terminations have stalled irrigation projects, rural housing aid and efforts to combat invasive crop diseases. Remain...
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February 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Fired #USDA employees told Investigate Midwest the #Trump admin's terminations have stalled irrigation projects, rural housing aid and efforts to combat invasive crop diseases. Remaining staff are overwhelmed, and farmers may not receive needed and timely help. story via @skychadde.bsky.social
With Brooke Rollins confirmed as ag secretary today, here's what she said about the effects of mass deportations on the ag industry, w/ @jmcjmc.bsky.social @investigatemidwest.bsky.social
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Trump ag secretary nominee says food issues from mass deportations are ‘hypothetical’ - Investigate Midwest
Farmers have begun raising concerns about the potential impact of President Donald Trump’s mass deportations on their operations, but the president’s nominee for agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins,...
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February 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
With Brooke Rollins confirmed as ag secretary today, here's what she said about the effects of mass deportations on the ag industry, w/ @jmcjmc.bsky.social @investigatemidwest.bsky.social
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"Anytime that a tariff is put on goods that I sell or export to those countries, that’s going to put me at a disadvantage to the marketplace,” an Iowa farmer said.
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President Trump’s tariffs bring return of uncertainty for America’s farmers - Investigate Midwest
Bob Hemesath has spent his entire life on his Northeast Iowa farm, raising corn and hogs alongside his brother. His business depends on open global markets and stable trade agreements. But under Donal...
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February 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"Anytime that a tariff is put on goods that I sell or export to those countries, that’s going to put me at a disadvantage to the marketplace,” an Iowa farmer said.
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Hey y’all, late to the party but here is some work I’ve done in past several years. Our newsroom investigates how Big Ag intersects with labor, the environment and government policy (and we love collaborating!) investigatemidwest.org
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Investigate Midwest is an independent, nonprofit newsroom. Our mission is to serve the public interest by exposing dangerous and costly practices of influential agricultural corporations and instituti...
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February 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Hey y’all, late to the party but here is some work I’ve done in past several years. Our newsroom investigates how Big Ag intersects with labor, the environment and government policy (and we love collaborating!) investigatemidwest.org