Avian influenza tops list of concerns for Minnesota turkey industry – Agweek https://www.byteseu.com/845266/ #Amy #AvianInfluenza #DepartmentOfAgriculture #Government #HPAI #klobuchar #MinnesotaSenators #SenatorAmyKlobuchar #TinaSmith #Turkey #TurkeyIndustry

Sorry y’all all #geographicallyUndesirable
“Democratic leadership elections for the 119th Congress took place on December 3, 2024
…#senators… elected to leadership positions in the 119th Congress:
Chuck #Schumer (D-N.Y.), minority leader: Schumer was re-elected without opposition
Dick #Durbin (D-Ill.), minority whip
Amy #Klobuchar (D-Minn.), chairwoman of the Steering and Policy Committee
Cory #Booker (D-N.J.), chairman of the Strategic Communications Committee”
https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._Senate_leadership_elections,_2025

Surely it's time to replace #schumer ~ someone with guts, better political instincts, more attuned to the wider world. #klobuchar ? #senate

According to CBS News Senator Amy Kobuchar urged Zelenskiyy to cave in to the orange fascist's extortion.

#doggees #contracts #tusk

“#Bloomberg says the American #Soybean Association has been notified by growers that payments associated with the Climate-Smart Commodities Program have been suspended. The ASA stressed to the #USDA that it should honor the contractual agreement it made with #farmers.
Senate #Ag Committee #Democrats joined Ranking Member Amy #Klobuchar in sending a letter to USDA requesting information on actions taken by USDA to pause these payments.

https://southeastagnet.com/2025/02/12/usda-freezes-conservation-farmer-payments/

A few hours ago, @nytimes wrote:

«"It is very clear that, if there is a middle of all of this hot mess of division, Americans want us to work together when we can and find common ground," Sen. Amy Klobuchar tells the Opinion writer Michelle Cottle.»

I'm going to pray that they've been sitting on that quote for weeks and that it's not the evidence of dangerous cluelessness by Klobuchar that it appears to be.

I think Americans want first for Congress to save Democracy, Amy. Because control of the public's attention is easily manipulated in social media, they may not realize it's in mortal danger, but it's Congress' job to know that fact.

If they, Democrats and Republicans alike, aren't describing it as a full-on assault on the Constitution, a coup, a sudden & complete dismantling of Democracy via a prior published & detailed plan, then they aren't solving the right problem and show no evidence of paying attention.

Even 4 years ago, on January 6, it wasn't "business as usual". We needed Congress on that day to continue a Constitutional government but NOT to hear budget debates and such mundane legislative things. We knew we were UNDER ATTACK.

This, now, today, is an ESCALATION OF THAT ATTACK, and she's talking like she wants to ignore it, treating this as an ordinary work day. Work together by IMPEACHING maybe, but nothing less. Do not underestimate the seriousness and urgency of what's going on. Do not get distracted.

If Congressfolk don't see this as an escalation, maybe because it's a "white collar" attack not (yet) involving guns, they can't respond properly. They must stop talking about this as something to legislate their way out of. We in the US are under a real time administrative assault. Stop taking weekends & holidays. This is not a schedulable event. They are preying on your willingness to pretend it can have a leisurely pace.

Congress has long been soft on white collar crime, treating it as a privilege of the elite, the donor class. Perhaps it's become invisible to them, even as it's far more sweeping and hurtful than much street crime. Maybe a white collar coup is then likewise invisible. We need them to wake up and SEE.

This time they're using ID cards to get into buildings they're taking over, but there's more to Constitutional government than right of entry. The Constitution spells out limits on power. They're violating limits so fast they can't all be checked fast enough. A Gish gallop assault on policy & power.

Sadly, I predicted this crisis on the ex-bird site Oct 13, 2016 (before 2016 vote). Talking Points Memo (TPM) had cited USA Today on Trump's propensity for legal challenges. I expected the same with Constitutional challenges. Just as happened. Our system barely handles a few challenges a year, not thousands.

#USPolitics #politics #USCongress #Congress #democracy #coup #TrumpCoup #oligarchy #fascism #authoritarianism #attack #assault #Jan6 #SCOTUS #Constitution #Lawless #Project2025 #TPM #Klobuchar #Senate #WhiteCollarCrime #WhiteCollarCoup #GishGallop

(This post is an expanded form of a thread I just posted to BlueSky.)

In 2022, #Royce #White
—a former first-round NBA draft pick and George Floyd protest leader
—ran in the primary for #Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District
as a far-right Republican and disciple of #Steve #Bannon.
White lost—badly... probably because he was hard to take seriously as a candidate.
White’s campaign centered less on issues affecting Minnesota voters and more on incendiary comments about the #Chinese Communist Party, #women, and #Jews.
After this defeat, one might assume an end to White’s political journey. Especially because, in many ways, his public image has somehow gotten worse. Earlier this week, the Daily Beast reported that White’s 2022 campaign spent lavishly, including thousands at strip clubs.
But, no quitter, White persisted. In an outsider campaign, he announced last year he would run for US #Senate in 2024. This week
—somehow—
White won the endorsement of the Republican party to face Sen. Amy #Klobuchar in Minnesota.
White’s endorsement perhaps shows the degree to which a new Republican party is emerging. Or, it could simply be a quirk of a weird election year. But, either way, you should go read Eamon’s old piece outlining White’s rise (perhaps descent is the better term) to MAGA candidate.
There is one part that has always stuck with me from that piece. For it, Eamon talked with White’s #grandfather, Frank White, an elder statesman in the Minnesota sporting scene:
“I’m proud of my grandson, but do I agree with his politics? -- #No,” White told us at the time.

“He told me, ‘Hey grandpa, I’m going to be on Steve Bannon’s podcast.’
I said, ‘Do you know who Steve Bannon is, man?’” White continued:
“There’s no way I can support my grandson supporting the GOP, and in essence, Trump. This is a guy who wants to be a #dictator. Think about what that means. You’re a person of color. Do you think you fit in his plans?”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/royce-white-us-senate-2024-republican-nomination-blm-george-floyd-nba/