Blast them away

Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."

Cartoon by Bill Bramhall

It must be nice to live in that kind of bubble. I have friends in Chicago who also are this way. I often feel like im explaining aliens to them when i talk about the people around me daily.

I will be blunt. Most are very racist. The ones who aren’t are conservatively religious. Thry spent weeks at a time in the 90s sitting in tractors 12 hours a day listening to Rush Limbaugh and conservative talk radio and have been essentially brainwashed. The GOP appeals to them via the culture war

We farmer fixed it and got our semi load done.

Very accurate how did you know

Hit a broken field cultivator sweep mostly buried in the ground. I didn’t see it, but the very end sickle bar tooth caught it. I was like oh whew, easy fix, just replace the sickle tooth. Umm. Because it was the very end one it is a special snowflake and here we are trying to remove broken bolts

Too close for missiles switching to guns

This afternoon’s Sunday view: harvesting soybeans. You can see the leftovers of the flooded out spot from the summer‘s deluges just ahead of me.

The US announced a deal to import Russian diesel this week, suspending sanctions on those exports until April. We want to speak directly to our supporters in the US and around the world.

No doubt! I imagine he’s a pretty rare breed down there

For all the good it will do, I actually emailed my congresspeople on the diesel issue. Congress isn’t in session (such a useless Congress) so whatever

Im quiet about it, or I would have no customers for my ag drone business, and my father would probably disown me. Mom kinda knows, but even she continues to vote R despite not liking Trump. So I use bluesky to vent. Someday I’ll probably regret that. 🤷🏻‍♂️

A bunch of people followed me after I talked about being pissed about the Russian diesel deal. Then I went off and did farm work for 9 hours. So yes, I’m a row crop farmer in IL. Seemingly the only democratic leaning farmer here.

I just filled a combine and a tractor with over 250 gallons of diesel and I am wildly, vehemently opposed to doing business with Russia for diesel.

"Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." — Senate GOP, July 28 Ten weeks later, Trump is making oil deals with Putin. A brief history of Republicans being against this, until they weren't 👇

If you see Trump's "diesel deal" to Putin as anything other than direct aid to Russia to continue their illegal war and war crimes against Ukraine then you do not understand what is happening.