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4 Aug, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Finally, and I am going to say this as tactfully as possible, I get tired of urban people moving farmers and rural life. I did not grow up on a farm, but I studied agricultural trade for my dissertation. Farming is difficult, uncertain work. But farmers provide our food.
The last film I saw in a movie theater was Interstellar. I had a really hard time with the movie, because crop failure is *not* inevitable. But it is really depressing that we can send people to the moon and maybe Mars, but we can't organize against Monsanto.
I went to see the movie with my brothers and my family, and we went to the Cheesecake Factory (which some of you may know - you're quite good, I had no idea until 2016 that I was being spyed on). Anyway, my brothers and I discussed the movie.
I mentioned how I thought the idea of inevitable crop failure was garbage,and people in the United States just need to wake up and fight Monsanto. My older brother laughed, and said, "that was your only problem with the movie?" Older brother studied math, younger brother physics.
I also mentioned the movie at a talk given at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. I went to two talks at IATP before 2016, before my anti-fatigue medication was reduced. I believe I mentioned 'Interstellar" at a talk about natural genetic diversity in potatos.
People, do you know what Monsanto does? Have you not listened to my desperate appeals for help? Or did Monsanto buy, bribe and threaten everyone who works for Twitter? Also, this is not a movie, book, video game or virtual reality. This is my real, authentic life. (#*#$%*$)

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Some of you may have access to my notes on the Farm Bill which I created for my upper division class on Farming and Agriculture. I have them backed up on flash drives in my apartment, on my old laptop (really old, needs to be recycled), and my newish laptop (bought 2014).
I might have uploaded the Farm Bill notes to a course website, and by then, Google was backing up all our computer interactions.
If you have somehow gained access to any and all of my class notes, powerpoints, and teaching materials, especially my Statistics courses, I ask that you credit me for the powerpoints and course materials. Creating them took a lot of work. Not citing me is like wage theft.
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@unicorn_uterus I didn't know of the people at the 2017 city caucuses in my ward. I had never seen them at events organized by my neighborhood organization, and I had been attending my neighborhood organization meetings since Jan of 2014. They were really young and white.
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There is also a stone cold truth that Minneapolis and Minnesota are sexist and misogynistic. Four years ago, this city could have voted for Betsey Hodges (married to an African American man) or Nekima Levy-Pounds (African-American lawyer). 1/
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I attended local caucuses in my ward in 2017 and 2018, and I was profoundly underwhelmed. I don't really know the people in my neighborhood anymore. What I saw at the 2017 caucus was a bunch of young, white people who seemed to have only just moved to the neighborhood. 3/
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#1) As I talk about the need for creative solutions to parking for multiplexes, I feel that I must give my green, environmentally friendly background (in the same way that I have had to outline my progressive leftist credentials. Sigh.)
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I did not own a car until I was 26 years old. I had a three speed Raleigh bicycle in high school. I learned to take the local bus in Columbia, MD, to take Greyhound and to take Amtrak. I bicycled to a lot of places on my three sped Raleigh bicycle in the 1970s, before it was hip.
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I have commented on this issue at the Lyndale Neighborhood Community Meetings. In principle, this seems good. In practice, you get too many cars parked on the neighboring residential streets. One possibility is having a parking garage nearby for residents of several complexes.
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When Jacob Frey ran for mayor,he said there had to be many ideas for affordable housing. There are, @MayorFrey. If I were a candidate for mayor, I would be prepared with a list of at least ten different policy proposals from strategies that have worked in this country and abroad.
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