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Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 10h

The trade war is unwise, and the politics of it cannot be favorable with both commercial farmers (who rely on export markets) and true fiscal conservatives (who cannot really support large chaotic ad hoc cobbled together new subsidy payments to hold farmers harmless). Somebody is being misled.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21h

“The American Farm Bureau Federation projects per-acre losses this year of $169 for corn, $114 for soybeans, $111 for wheat and $379 for cotton.

“Higher farm safety net programs passed in the One Big Beautiful Bill won't begin paying out until a year from now.”

www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...

Ag Groups Press for Aid While Some Raise Concerns About Long-Term Tariff Damage

President Donald Trump and members of his administration continue to tease that an aid package of up to $15 billion for farmers could be announced this week. More than 200 farm organizations wrote the...

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Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, I forget where it was, elsewhere on Bluesky, that a scholar struggled to confirm that a recent mention, supposedly of one of their past lay publications, was actually an AI hallucination.

Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 10h

My "office" view of Mystic Harbor on the Connecticut coastline shortly after sunrise, lovely in every weather, while traveling by Amtrak this morning, on my way to Pittsburgh and then Ohio State to give a talk about federal nutrition assistance policy. #BusinessTravel while #flyingless.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

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The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 1d

Praying today for the 736 Israeli civilians, 379 Israeli soldiers, and 79 foreigners killed in the attacks Oct 7, 2023, and for the 250 soldiers and civilians taken hostage, and for their families on a day of grief and remembrance. May there be peace with justice in Israel and Palestine.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 2d

“Respectable power” never could get how the values that drove Martin Luther King to oppose segregation led him to oppose the war on Vietnam. They called it his “wrong turn”.

Not a surprise, then, to see “respectable power” confused today by Greta, who they once recognised as

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Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 5d

Global Health NOW is a website and newsletter from @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social, covering news in international nutrition and food security.

Global Health NOW @globalhealthnow.bsky.social · 6d

Read Global Health NOW 10.02.25: The Collapse of Malaria Care in Cameroon; What’s Driving Turkey’s Diabetes Spike? And The Fattest Fat Bear Week.

Global Health NOW 10.02.25

The Collapse of Malaria Care in Cameroon; What’s Driving Turkey’s Diabetes Spike? And The Fattest Fat Bear Week.

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Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 5d

In a podcast and post today, @ricbayly.bsky.social uses some themes from Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction (Earthscan/Routledge, 2025) in an update on current events in food, nutrition, and agriculture policy. eatinginamerica.substack.com/p/can-our-am...

Can our American agriculture superpower status create a nutrition superhero?

Amber waves of grain vs bare cupboards: the puzzle of the Farm Bill, SNAP cuts, and subsidies to wealthy farmers to make corn for ethanol, not food

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Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 7d

The HUD banner is false and violates the Hatch Act, a sensible law that forbids partisan use of taxpayer resources.

When I worked for USDA, we always obeyed the Hatch Act.

The Hatch Act was written with bipartisan support to protect Republicans in the 1930s.

www.cbsnews.com/news/governm...

Government website blames shutdown on "radical left." Ethics group calls it a "blatant violation."

The Department of Housing and Urban Development posted a banner on its homepage Tuesday blaming the government shutdown on the "Radical Left."

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Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 7d

Many writers in health and nutrition sciences in recent years have focused more deeply on reducing chronic disease with less obsessive messaging on weight status.

I wanted the second half of this post still to gently support continued use of BMI in its place, but I couldn't get the wording right.

Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 7d

Nice terse video from Molly Jong-Fast says Democratic leadership made a sensible decision about where to draw the line -- refusing to vote for cuts to health care subsidies many voters need.

Republicans and Democrats alike benefit from limiting people's health care costs.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 7d

The awesome video team at the New York Times helped me make this video about the shutdown and Obamacare premiums.

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Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 14d

When you say, "just as important," I wonder if you mean "important along with" rather than "just as important" in a head-to-head comparison?

Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks for your reply.

Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 14d

I am reading the "traffic growth" section of the report.

Please help me confirm my understanding. What is the *lowest* demand scenario considered in this entire report?

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Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 15d

Even the Republican state-level gerrymandering has a brittle aspect.

Electoral maps have narrow Republican majorities in more districts than their proportion of the popular vote.

Medium-size shifts in public opinion would generate large political changes.

www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/l...

Lesson of the Day: A Gerrymandering Game (Published 2022)

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Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 15d

Sometimes an authoritarian regime falls quickly after previously seeming secure. A trickle of pebble-like defections turns into a landslide. I doubt President Trump has a secure hold on farmers, faithful evangelical Christians, proud honorable military families, suburban women, and rich capitalists.

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Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 15d

In NYC at Cooper Union Sep 25, the world premiere of Episode 4 of the documentary series The Price of Milk, with director Nicholas Bruckner, journalist @chloesorvino.bsky.social, and others. I enjoyed speaking with the producers about dairy checkoff programs. actionnetwork.org/events/the-p...

Climate Defiance and The Cooper Climate Coalition present: The Price of Milk (Ep 4) WORLD PREMIERE

Join Climate Defiance and the Cooper Climate Coalition at The Cooper Union for the WORLD PREMIERE of episode 4 of The Price of Milk - The Kids Are Not Alright. In school cafeterias, milk is inevitabl...

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Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 15d

Former crop scientist Sarah Taber's YouTube channel has a viral hit this week titled, "Why Farmers Voted For Trump."

Her report: they weren't fooled and weren't misled.

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 24d

If you think farmers voting for Trump was a bad decision, yes it was!

I'm a farmer. Let's get into why so many of my fellow farmers STILL love this guy who ran on destroying us... again.

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Why Farmers Voted For Trump

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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David L. Ortega @dlortega.bsky.social · 15d

Wait, it gets worse. The team of economists and researchers responsible for the USDA survey that measures food insecurity and hunger were put on indefinite paid leave today.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | USDA Puts Food Researchers on Leave

The move comes days after the Trump administration abruptly canceled an annual Agriculture Department report that measures hunger in America.

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 17d

Absurd. How little does this Government care about the climate?

Squeezing out 100k more flights a year won’t improve people’s daily lives. Investing in a growing green economy to lower bills, create high-paid jobs and cut deadly air pollution will! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gatwick airport second runway approved by transport secretary

There has been strong opposition against the airport wanting to use its northern runway.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 16d

Ignore suspicious accounts saying "2%". Aviation is 7% of UK emissions and soon will be 16%, airport expansion violates carbon budgets, and we can have wonderful internationally connected lives even while reducing the aggregate number of flights. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

Aviation and climate change

The UK Government plans to reduce aviation's contribution to climate change through domestic policies and by working with international organisations.

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Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 17d

I LOVED Zeke Hausfather's and David Keith's essay AGAINST reckless geoengineering.

Adding sulfur to the atmosphere is merely a "Band-aid" that will "damage the ozone layer" and "exacerbate climate change in some locations."

They should cut the nonsense and move that essay to the top of the op-ed.

Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 17d

I have a new @nytimes.com guest essay w/ @davidkeith.bsky.social about sunlight reflection. We note its not a solution for climate change and at best a band aid to treat systems, and suggest if its ever done it should only be to replace the cooling from air pollution today:

Opinion | A Responsible Way to Cool the Planet

A small, carefully scaled geoengineering program could compensate for the loss of cooling as we eliminate sulfur pollution.

www.nytimes.com

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Sun Day @sundayofaction.bsky.social · 17d

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Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 18d

Short answer: pretty much no.

Long answer: it's still on NHANES; an older USDA food sufficiency question was on the Household Pulse Survey in the COVID era; and the associations are strong enough that regression forecast using poverty and unemployment data will be moderately accurate.

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Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 18d

Irma Arteaga and I recount much of the history of U.S. food security measurement in a 2023 article for the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (JAND). (4/4) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Measuring Food Security in the United States for More Than 25 years: History, Methods, Findings, and Opportunities

This article sets the stage for the “25 Years of Food Security Measurement: Answered Questions and Further Research” conference, with support from the…

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