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

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The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

Good god I regret opening up my phone this evening

I actually think it's off base for the descriptor of these angry young white men who think violence is cool and/or funny to be "non-political." They are making rape jokes and saying racist things and wanting to sow chaos. That's literally the Alex Jones, Steve Bannon playbook.

I have now turned down three projects that centered on “civility,” I just can’t do it.

If Chotiner ever calls me I will know I have already fucked up beyond my comprehension

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