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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Fertilizer Prices Vs Corn Prices Are Now Some of the Worst in History www.agweb.com/news/crops/c...
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
on farms and hotels.” The ag industry has voiced concern about worksite raids and inspections that have ensnared immigrants working at farm operations and a meatpacking plant. Part of that concern derives from ICE arresting workers beyond those for whom they have warrants.
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Thursday. After days of confusion over whether President Trump had carved out an exception for farms and hospitality operations, including hotels and restaurants, Homan told reporters, “The message is clear enough that we’re going to continue doing worksite enforcement operations even
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
fuel producers under the Renewable Fuel Standard. 1. Ag Operations on the Hot Seat, but ‘Criminals Come First’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will continue to conduct inspections of ag operations but will focus on criminal activity, White House border czar Tom Homan said
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
in recent weeks, especially when it comes to their farmworkers, uncertainty over new trade deals, and the MAHA movement. The Trump team also delivered some good news for farm country in the form of new investments to eradicate deadly screwworm, and favorable blending targets for
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Washington Watch: Ag Industry Hit by Immigration Raids, Trade Delays, and a Deadly Screwworm Threat www.agriculture.com/partners-was... President Donald Trump relied heavily on the rural vote for his election. Still, some of those voters have become increasingly anxious about his actions
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Washington Watch: Ag Industry Hit by Immigration Raids, Trade Delays, and a Deadly Screwworm Threat
President Donald Trump relied heavily on the rural vote for his election, but some of those voters have become increasingly anxious about his actions in recent weeks, especially when it comes to their...
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
him vast power to do harm. He will use that power to hurt people because, as a dysfunctional Child and monstrous Adult, it’s the only transaction he understands. And that, brothers and sisters, is what we have to live with.
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
him in. The horrors and injustices he visits on the townsfolk he lives among are beyond the reach of nightmares. . . . Again, Trump is what happens when you combine the worst of the Adult with the worst of the Child and give
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
business of the presidency as Adults. Trump never has. I don’t believe he ever will. His Adult is dead, if it existed at all. Trump is like Anthony from the Twilight Zone episode of “It’s a Good Life,” a Child with far more power than any Parent but without the restraint of a mature Adult to reign
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
an Adult in the White House. Instead we have a mewling, thin-skinned, immature, hateful, vindictive man-baby with more power at his command than anyone else on the face of the earth. Say what you will about the presidents in my lifetime, from Eisenhower to Biden they mostly transacted the
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
real or imagined. And with Trump they invariably do come out when he goes off script. From the standpoint of Transactional Analysis, Trump is the most dangerous possible combination of traits at their worst for a president of the United States. We need
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
monster who unlawfully usurped the White House has ever been in an Adult state. Even when Trump is reading a speech from a teleprompter, you can tell that his inner Monster (the Parent at its worst) and inner Brat (the Child at its worst) are bursting to come out and hurt someone for some insult,
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
from which we get tyrants and abusers. When the Parent at its worst is combined with the Child at its worst, we get a pouty, whiny, vindictive, hateful monster. You see where I am going with this. I cannot think of a single instance when the pouty, whiny, vindictive, hateful
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
and professional responsibilities and our child state when we play. Misuse occurs when the Parent is vindictive or cruel, when the Adult is cold, indifferent or arbitrary, and when the Child is more childish than child-like. The unloveliest human impulses live in the Parent, and it is the Parent
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
screwdriver can be used to fix an appliance or scratch a neighbour’s car, they can be used in good ways and not so good ways. Simplistically, we use our Parent state when we discipline or teach, our Adult state when we discharge our personal
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
types, Parent, Adult and Child. We are said to be in a Parent or Adult or Child state of being when we exhibit certain behaviours. These three states of being are neither good nor bad in and of themselves, but tools we all employ to negotiate interactions with other human beings. Just as a
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
What’s really wrong with Donald Trump www.palmerreport.com/analysis/wha... One of the most useful and enduring ideas to emerge from the pop psychology fad of the 1960s was Transactional Analysis, or TA. TA divides the ego-in-action into three
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What's really wrong with Donald Trump
One of the most useful and enduring ideas to emerge from the pop psychology fad of the 1960s was Transactional Analysis, or TA. TA divides the ego-in-action into three types, Parent, Adult and Child. ...
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
stage the entire time to a sparse audience, as most of the attendees perused the various offerings, hoisting their children up into the massive tanks and turrets sitting on the mall for pictures.
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
A crowd that was well under the administration’s projected 200,000 peppered the National Mall Saturday in a festival style event featuring Army info sessions, military fitness challenges, weapons exhibits, and other activities prior to the parade. Military members spoke on
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
everyone who showed up was even a fan of his. Donald Trump looks down as he walks on the White House lawn. Three dozen horses, 28 Abrams tanks, 6,700 soldiers, and millions of taxpayer dollars later, and Donald Trump’s military birthday parade was still a flop at best.
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Trump VISIBLY CRUMBLES As EMPTY CROWD LEAVES PARADE! youtu.be/q4xp_RZwBcw Trump’s Military Parade Was a Pathetic Event for a Pathetic President The turnout wasn’t anything like what he wanted, and not
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Trump VISIBLY CRUMBLES As EMPTY CROWD LEAVES PARADE!
YouTube video by Jack Cocchiarella
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
a stochastic terrorist. He continues to confirm himself in that role. I hate to acknowledge this inevitability, but Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark will not be the last victims of his rhetoric of violence. For this alone he should be impeached and cast out of office and into the outer darkness.
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
was one that was, I am pleased to report, poorly attended, and unenthusiastically attended by those who bothered to come at all. . . . Trump was and still is a sociopath, a vulgarian, a disloyal and craven traitor, an idiot, a fool, a conman, a rapist and
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
due to economic difficulties and low enrollment. While Boelter was murdering human beings, Trump was preparing for the ultimate expression of his violence fetish. He was holding an obscene parade of weapons and merchants of human slaughter, a military parade. It
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
What makes Boelter a little different from your everyday MAGA lunatic is he’s a soft spoken man with a PhD. His doctorate comes from a now defunct private Catholic college called Cardinal Stritch University. Stritch appears to have been legitimately accredited, but it closed its doors in 2023
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
No, people who actually knew Boelter, people who actually know what they’re talking about, including a lifelong friend who met Boelter in the fourth grade, know that he is a and always has been a Republican and deeply conservative. But facts never get in the way of conspiracy theorists.
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Boelter was in fact a Democrat in deep cover disguised as a MAGA Republican. They base all this lunacy on wishful thinking and the fact that “No Kings” leaflets were found in his car. That’s pathetically easy to explain: if they’re in his car they aren’t in the hands of others, right?
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
led to yet another terrible tragedy. And it was all avoidable. But violence is the lingua franca of MAGA these days, or as Isaac Asimov once put it, the last refuge of the incompetent. Now MAGA lunatics are already fashioning conspiracy theories that this was a “false flag operation,” that
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
workers in the 2020 election to increased instances of racially and ethnically motivated acts of violence in general, all blame inexorably tracks back to Trump. Trump’s constant indoctrination of his glassy-eyed, adoring base into his doctrine of hate and violence has
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
would be our current Vice President. This is Trump’s fault. The blood of those people is on Trump’s hands. Once again Trump’s violent rhetoric has naturally inspired violence, from January 6 to his two (or three?) assassination attempts to attacks on precinct
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
House of the Minnesota legislature Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, is still at large as I write this. He attempted to murder two other prominent Minnesota Democrats and was apparently targeting 70 more, including Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the man who, in a sane world,
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The REAL TERRORIST IN AMERICA = TRUMP AND THE NAZI/KKK REPUBLICANS AND ALWAYS WERE before Hitler www.palmerreport.com/analysis/tru... I suppose we should be thankful that it doesn’t happen more often. Vance Luther Boelter, 57, the alleged murderer of Democratic Speaker of the
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Trump’s stochastic terror
I suppose we should be thankful that it doesn’t happen more often. Vance Luther Boelter, 57, the alleged murderer of Democratic Speaker of the House of the Minnesota legislature Melissa Hortman and he...
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
hope of a violent clash, let’s all remember just how weak Trump truly is. This is a guy who can’t even manage to pull off a simple tariff, let alone a military dictatorship.
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Trump took a swing at the world, the world swung back, and now Trump is chickening out and hiding under his desk – just like always. . . . Even as Trump tries to find a way to make himself look strong by sending the military into Los Angeles in the
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
days that Trump initially announced. In other words, just as we predicted from the start, Trump’s tariffs are never coming back. Trump is simply not strong enough, at home or on the world stage, to make most of his international tariffs stick.
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Now he’s once again reminding everyone of why he got stuck with it in the first place. Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admitted in front of the TV cameras yesterday that Trump’s “pause” on most of his tariffs will continue past the original ninety
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Palmer Report has spent a decade calling out Trump’s propensity to cave. But now everyone else seems to be catching on as well. He’s been hit with the nickname “TACO,” which stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out.” Trump has reacted angrily to this nickname. But
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Trump has always been weak. More specifically, whenever he’s faced with superior power, he always caves. Always. And then he does some other stupid thing to distract everyone from the fact that he just caved again. It’s been the one consistent thing about Trump over the past ten years.
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
TACO Donald Trump just caved – again = “EVERYTHING TRUMP TOUCHES TURNS TO SHIT” www.palmerreport.com/analysis/don... For all of Donald Trump’s endless posturing, and for all of the media’s eternal insistence that Trump is a dangerously powerful strongman, the reality is that
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Donald Trump just caved – again
For all of Donald Trump’s endless posturing, and for all of the media’s eternal insistence that Trump is a dangerously powerful strongman, the reality is that Trump has always been weak. More specific...
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
. . . This is just a reminder that it’s still possible to be a Republican and be a human being. Senator John McCain was both. That’s all. Robert Harrington
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Senator John McCain died from a brain tumour in 2018. While there was much in his politics that I disagreed with, I cannot fault the man. He led a courageous and decent life. He was honest and compassionate.
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
then Senator John McCain cast his vote against it. It was defeated. Even though he disagreed with much in the ACA, McCain understood that repeal would mean that millions of Americans would lose their healthcare and have nothing adequate to replace it with. Many would die. Many would go bankrupt.
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I like people that weren’t captured .” When, in his first “administration,” Trump and his pirate ship of thugs and thieves tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as “Obamacare,” offering a pathetic replacement called the “skinny repeal option,”
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
John McCain volunteered for combat duty in Vietnam. Trump got five deferments so he wouldn’t have to go to Vietnam at all, including a fraudulent one invented by a bribed doctor. When McCain ran for president against Trump in 2016, Trump said of McCain, “He’s a war hero because he got captured.
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Obama of being someone she couldn’t trust. She accused Obama of being foreign born. McCain shook his head sadly, took the microphone away from her and said, “No ma’am, no ma’am, he’s a decent family man and citizen, he’s just someone I happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues.”
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
cost him. He was bound and beaten every two hours. For months. As the Republican nominee running against Barack Obama for the presidency in 2008, John McCain gave a town hall in October. In it a woman accused Barack
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
of war camp after five and a half years of abuse, torture and solitary confinement. McCain was offered early release but he refused, saying he would not agree to go until all the men who had been captured before him were also released. That refusal
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
while white people were always offered units. Every single time. The year 1973 was also significant for another American. That was the year that naval lieutenant commander John McCain was released from a North Vietnamese prisoner
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
He made sure that the people who worked for him understood that policy. The lawsuit was based on evidence gathered by testers for the New York City Human Rights Division, which proved that black people who went to Trump buildings were always told there were no apartments available,
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techlib @techlib1.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Citizen McCain and LYING ASS NAZI/KKK GOP TRUMP www.palmerreport.com/analysis/cit... In 1973 Trump was sued by the Department of Justice. At that time Trump made it clear that he would not rent apartments in one of his developments to African-Americans.
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Citizen McCain
In 1973 Trump was sued by the Department of Justice. At that time Trump made it clear that he would not rent apartments in one of his developments to African-Americans. He made sure that the people wh...
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