This weekend, Dan Frosch, Patrick Thomas, and Andrea Peterson of the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is ending its annual report on household food security. Those reports began in the 1990s to help state and local officials distribute food assistance. Last yearâs report found that 18 million U.S. households experienced food insecurity during 2023. In a statement, the Department of Agriculture said: âThese redundant, costly, politicized and extraneous studies do nothing more than fearmonger.â
Not sure thereâs a better sign that this administration doesnât care at all about people struggling than this. Cut the reporting, cut the assistance, and no one is the wiserâexcept, you know, the people going hungry. You canât fix what you donât measure, and this administration has no interest in doing either.
That Johnson eventually chose the Bears sent a clear signal: This is the job he wanted above all others, one that would allow him to prove himself against his old team and division rivals and establish himself as a top head coach in the league.
Anyone willingly choosing to coach the Bears is giving you a clear sign that something is not right between the ears⊠I lump myself in that category as someone who was excited for the season and expected things to improve from last year.
Someone seriously needs to scoop him up and let him do this kind of stuff again once he's loose from CBS. Hopefully Paramount doesn't own all of the IP related to The Colbert Report...
I'm putting a feeler out there to see if anyone is interested in joining TIV as a fellow linkblogger and helping me turn this into a collective of like-minded linkblogging individuals.
Background
The way I've viewed the site is basically a way to talk about what's going on in the world via links, as well as sharing cool things I stumble upon.
I've long had this idea that The Independent Variable would eventually become a more collaborative linkblog Ă la Boing Boingâor maybe having the occasional guest editor/curator Ă la Kottke.
Now that we're on Ghost, and MagicPages allows unlimited Staff, the capabilities are all there, so there's no reason not to give it the ol' college try.
Details
Ideally, 3 or 4 people would join up.
Thereâd be no post quota or limits, but the loose guideline would be averaging anywhere between three posts a day to one a weekâin practice, it should be guided by the links that you find worthy of sharing and commenting on. Nor is there a length of time you'd be required to stick around if you get busy elsewhere or are no longer interested in it.
The only requirement is that every link should come with commentary. Commentary can riff on the link, give your thoughts on the topic, detail downstream effects, explain why itâs important, or why we should careâbasically anything you want to say about the topic.
Starting with a quote from the link is encouraged but not required.
Disclaimer
TIV is pro-Ukraine, believes Israel is committing genocide in Palestine, pro-LGBTQIA+, pro-choice, etc., etc., basically a socialist democrat; I personally donated to Elizabeth Warren's campaign in 2020. While we don't have to have the same opinion on everything, your words will live amongst those opinions. My motto is "be kind, stay sane," so hateful and discriminatory words won't fly.
Apply
If any of this sounds even a little bit intriguing, go ahead and apply, and we can discuss further to see if it's a good fit.
âWith God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people,â he added. âIt will happen, and we will do it in Charlieâs name.â
In honor of the âbastion of free speechâ and the debater who was so skilled he only ever debated with college students, we are going to⊠ensure no one can ever speak a negative word about Trump, Kirk, or any of their allies ever again. Thanks, Stephen Miller!
Two days ago, Slack reached out to us and said that if we donât agree to pay an extra $50k this week and $200k a year, theyâll deactivate our Slack workspace and delete all of our message history.
What a class act they run over at Slack and Salesforce. A weekâs notice to go from $5k a year to $200k a year for a non-profit when it probably costs Slack pennies on the dollar to host their data.
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So I built something on Friday and it's already gone through a ton of revisions, but it's at a point where I think I'm pretty happy with it. I wanted a simple place I could go to quickly catch up on the
