I find it hard to trust newspapers anymore. They are either owned by horrible people or companies that are horrible people, or local conservatives that are, well, often horrible people. That said, when you see one try to stay in business while truly reporting on their community, you want to root for them.
Category Archives: Economics
Campbell Soup executive called its products food for “poor people,” lawsuit claims
I am not sure anyone in corporate America isn’t a piece of shit. Maybe heads of smaller organizations and folks who work on the ground and have to interact with “real” people but we, just in the last week, have seen NPR, Nike, Target (again!), the St. Paul police department, and a host of other outfits either bending the knee or outright rooting and financing fascists and racists, if not being the shock troops for them.
Anyways, the main story here is about Campbell Soup hiring a guy who is an outright racist class war bigot. I’d be surprised, but, yeah, that tracks.
Episode 600 – Spirit Halloween | 99% Invisible
Hopefully the below link will play. If not, go here.
‘Grave concern’ at Minnesota border as more Canadians stay home
This has been an abundant week of chickens coming home to roost stories.
First, this one about Minnesota border towns trying to take the hit from losing up to the 30% percent of their former Canadian traffic because they helped elect a racist megalomaniac. Granted, since they are protected by the rest of us, their electoral college votes didn’t do it, but you know damn good and well who they pulled the lever for.
In Alabama they are facing a combination of bad growing conditions and tariff/immigration trouble. I see videos of farmers in Alabama and Nebraska literally crying in public meetings hoping someone will help them from THE VERY CONDITIONS THEY VOTED TO CREATE! Foreign contracts are cancelled, tariffs are killing their supply of fertilizers and parts. Nah, suck it up. You wanted others to hurt, now share in it.
Who’s the Socialist Now?
Pointing out conservative hypocrisy is about all the fun we are allowed these days.
It doesn’t help solve any of our problems – and facts do not work on MAGAts – but it is good to throw some reality out there.
Things like racism is the GOP platform, Reagan destroyed society, no Republican president has improved the economy is decades, if ever, and that fascism is their current economic model.
In Wake of Trump Tariffs, John Deere Announces Mass Layoffs
I hate that this is gonna kick the Quad Cities right in the teeth.
That said, farm country may be the reason we’re stuck with this madman and the ag industry went all in. Now they are getting what they ordered delivered in bulk.
Why Kentucky Whiskey Distilleries Are Filing For Bankruptcy
Sure, right now it is the low hanging fruit, but starting a trade war and getting regionally tied to supporting a pedophile racist isn’t helping the whiskey industry.
Also, Harley-Davidson is starting to collapse, but they hired a golf guy to right the ship.
Sure, that’ll appeal to the core demographic, and bring in diverse groups of non-traditional customers. Right?
The SNAP Cuts Are Coming — I Asked 6 State Reps What That Means for Families
Families will starve and many voted for just this to happen.
Texas Tries To Use ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ To Steal Space Shuttle Discovery From The Smithsonian
Of course Texas is still trying to steal from the rest of the nation using horrible legislation to do additional horrible things.
On a Quiet Southern Border, Empty Farms and Frightened Workers
A look inside the reign of terror our nation’s racists have created.