Bryce Oates
@bryceoates.bsky.social
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I write about rural people, places, policy, and politics. No billionaires. No bullies. Smartassery encouraged. Read my newsletter on rural politics and policy: https://thecocklebur.substack.com/
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Doesn't matter. You won't like it.
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What do they do? Leave out the tomato and replace it with tidy peppers or something?
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When I lived in an Aldi area I could totally throw a fill-you-up charcuterie party for $2/person. Seemingly fancy too.
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The cheese and tofu. 100%
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At Aldi a cheapass person can even afford nuts
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And it is also employee owned
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In the Pacific Northwest we have Winco. It’s kind of big box but has Aldi like price choices plus bulk foods and great cheap produce plus the international stuff.
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By crustless quiche do you mean what is sometimes called frittata?
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1.) Since when is ICE responsible for security at the Super Bowl? 2.) With the NFL trying to internationalize the game (see this weekend), shouldn't the NFL give Noem a fine here for not protecting the shield?
patriottakes.bsky.social
Kristi Noem tells Bad Bunny that ICE will be at the Super Bowl and the event should only be for Americans who “love this country”
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Talk about entitlement--and Chinese buyers can (and are) actually choose who they buy from.
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"These most important of all Americans."
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“A list of the 321 canceled grants obtained by Heatmap tells a different story. While much of the funding was awarded to blue state-based companies, the intended projects would have benefitted communities elsewhere, including in Texas, Florida, and Louisiana.”
The Department of Energy’s Latest Cuts Will Hit Red States, Too
A list of terminated grants obtained by Heatmap contains a number of grants that will cost jobs and revenue in Republican-led states.
heatmap.news
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There's 270,759 "soybean farmers" in the US per Ag Census. Some are not very big. But even including all of those $10B/# of farms = $36,933 per farm.
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NPR giving "Hillbilly Elegy" tons of friendly coverage, only for Vance to sign the de-funding of NPR, was one of the most ironic things I've lived through.
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And it’s not a coincidence both came to prominence through the liberal media by offering “necessary correctives” to imagined liberal bubbles.
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Bari Weiss and JD Vance are very similar figures with very similar skills.
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No problem. Flying carp were not a Missouri problem when we was kids.
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"Buyers there want our soybeans" is doing a lot of work there. How long is that gonna last? These companies do get to choose who they buy their soybeans from after all. So much for Big Ag's supposed free market commitments.
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The National Pork Producers Council continues to be out of touch. That's been the case since the 1990s.
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NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
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This song just came on and I was like "have I already liked this one" and I had it on my like list 4 times and had put it on 5 playlists. sl.bing.net/fSU9446yVdQ
Aaron Raitiere - For the Birds (Official Music Video) - YouTube
Found on Bing from www.youtube.com
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If you're in the market to buy pet insurance I figure you need to have your taxes increased.