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I'll get there Bill, section by important section. At Ag it's "produce baby produce," no more food stamping, school lunches and climate inclinations. The humanitarian parts of the Department will go to Health and Human Services. Let farmers be farmers, not social workers. It sounds like the sci research and extension services will stay to better increase productivity. The Right will take us back to a) 1925 b) 1877 c)1896 d) 1980 take your pick. Somewhere in the late 19th century its seems to me. To the time when the extraction industries conduct was so shocking in the Western Maryland Mountains, hillsides were denuded of trees for both timber and shoring up the coal mining work, leading to wildfires and mudslides and provoking a state forestry reaction along the lines of Gifford Pinchot as he skirmished with John Muir over appraoches and goals. Led to saving the Adirondacks as well... There are a lot more eyes watching over Nature today, who have been losing political battles, but still, many more eyes than at the beginning of the environmental movement.

We are in a bad drought here in Allegany County, just under 1.25" inches of rain through June and July, where even the thunderstorms don't deliver rain, pass by. Local greens used to say we were the place to be to avoid all the global warming impacts...oh well...and we have been hotter than usual over this stretch, between 85-95 on too many days, and it looks like more ahead. Visited the Piney Creek Reservoir today, 9 miles West of Frostburg, the lowest I've ever seen it, mudflats exposed where there is usually water and one large wetland area almost completely dry. Kildeer liked the rocky shore lines newly exposed...I don't think the average citizen will be cheered during a possible water rationing system to know that the shorebird migration which begins shortly will have new places to stop...

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Bill - the Trumpers are attacking USDA and CDC efforts to impose public health protections via restrictions on raw milk due to avian flu. They are targeting the Amish. Claiming government over-reach, similar to the attacks on agricultural nutrient restrictions in the EU as a stealth campaign by WEF and globalists to take private farmland. Everything is being incorporated in the right wing attack on the globalists. Environmental groups, scientists, media, and Democrats are all standing down as far as I can tell.

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Yes bill, I'm just beginning to absorb it all - Haven't read the Dept. of Ag stuff yet, but will next read Dept. of Energy which should be very enlightening.

I'm still pitching the big picture story to all the reporters I know that the origin of this is The American Liberty League (1934) and the ideological attack on the New Deal. This included a coup plan on FDR. The next stop in that was The Powell Memo (1971). JD Vance literally parrots Powell Memo.

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