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Ann Baskerville, Marquette Grad, Will County News YouTube Channel
Jeff Bezos said the bottom half of Americans should pay zero federal income tax. He cited a nurse in Queens making ~$75K and paying ~$12K in taxes saying “we shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington.”
Americans deserve clean food. Food should nourish us, not be loaded with unnecessary chemicals, ultra-processed ingredients, and additives.
People are mad about data centers, they're mad about warehouses. Boy if neoliberalism hadn't killed all the factories people would be mad about them too. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
It’s underrated that there is a lot of generalized hostility to anything that changes the built environment — housing, data centers, warehouses, transmission lines, utility-scale solar — it doesn’t matter, lots of people just like uniformity.
It's kind of weird how every city now in America is ringed by these gigantic logistical hub warehouses and no one has uttered a peep about them. The avg person couldn't distinguish them from a data center. Curious.
Year-round E15 is long overdue and just makes sense: ⛽️ Saves drivers up to 30¢/gallon at the pump 🚜 Supports Iowa farmers and our ag economy 🇺🇸 Expands American energy production and reduces reliance on foreign oil Time to get it done! 🌽
I've been thinking a lot about how the Midwest is a landscape of inheritance. This idea is explored in a few paragraphs and forty photographs of grain elevators, Main Streets, railroad tracks, and towering beers. Feeling honored to have these published by @RacketMN.
The Midwest, in this sense, is not simply a story of what has been lost, but of what it takes to hold onto a place when the systems and shared identities that created it no longer exist. racketmn.com/exploring-midw…
@GGunthorp Ethanal is the rural extraction policy that Stalin wished he had.
@rfhirschfeld It is not easy to recreate the Dust Bowl and there will be death and destruction on this journey.
