Let’s be clear about what we are talking about here.. Does Fox News tell the truth?

https://apnews.com/article/fox-news-dominion-lawsuit-trial-trump-2020-0ac71f75acfacc52ea80b3e747fb0afe

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Fox News agreed Tuesday to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million to avert a trial in the voting machine company’s lawsuit that would have exposed how the network promoted lies about the 2020 presidential election.

The stunning settlement emerged just as opening statements were supposed to begin, abruptly ending a case that had embarrassed Fox News over several months and raised the possibility that network founder Rupert Murdoch and stars such as Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity would have to testify publicly.

“The truth matters. Lies have consequences,” Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson told reporters outside a Delaware courthouse after Superior Court Judge Eric Davis announced the deal.

Outside of the $787.5 million promised to Colorado-based Dominion, it was unclear what other consequences Fox would face. Fox acknowledged in a statement “the court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false,” but no apology was offered. 

So now that we’ve established that.. in regards to this subject..

https://youtu.be/KOPGlS-dHSg?si=Dr1HFHsJ7xO0Rd0A

“NCGA found in a survey response that only 63% had secured 80% or more of their nitrogen needs.”

Locally I questioned 10 of my neighbors the Friday after we started bombing Iran.. 2 of us ( including myself.. ) had secured “most” of our summer fertilizer needs.. 2 had locked part of it in.. and the other 6 had zip locked in.

We’re still in a dry spell and a lot of nitrogen got skipped vs what was intended for wheat acres.. for the week we’re sitting at about 0.50” of rain with wheat entering the boot stage.  So that appears to be a cost savings on a crop which won’t utilize it anyway.. 

As I’ve noted elsewhere.. Kansas (if the planting intentions are correct) intends to plant more corn 7.1 million acres this year then wheat sown last fall.. 7.0 million acres.  This (some say) “Super” El Niño could pump above average moisture into the area.. Many are waiting on moisture for a go.. no go decision.. as one neighbor put it..

”I can’t make a final decision on fertilizer needs until I have a better determination on the weather outlook..”. Probably a third or more of dryland spoken for Corn seed is up in the air.. producers may go with corn (personally we are increasing corn acres) Sorghum.. (some will wait to see before pulling the trigger..) switching to Sorghum instead.. Or.. skip it entirely and go to fallow.

Similarly some wheat acres intended for harvest.. still have cattle grazing.. I would suspect Oklahoma and Texas to be.. as they normally are..more impacted by these decisions.

Back to Fox News constant drumbeat of false narratives.. “Undocumenteds should have never been allowed in..”

Dodge City Kansas (like Liberal and Garden City/Holcomb..) has two slaughter Houses processing about 12,000 head of cattle per day.. plus a nitrogen fertilizer plant.. plus a new Hilmars cheese plant.. plus supporting industries..  These facilities crank out about $50 Million of product value PER DAY.. 8 to 10 BILLION per year!!

67% of Dodge City is Hispanic.. which just elected a Hispanic mayor.. x% are probably undocumented.. Ditto the rest of the southern plains meat processing towns.. it’s kind of a big deal.

Fox News is pushing its deportation narrative..

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ice-spending-billions-to-turn-warehouses-into-migrant-detention-facilities

For months, ICE has been quietly buying industrial warehouses around the country, reportedly with plans to turn them into a network of immigration detention and processing centers to hold tens of thousands of detainees. White House correspondent Liz Landers reports on how the controversy is playing out in one small Maryland community.

They want to spend $38 Billion on processing workers.. out of the country..

This is INSANE!! It will decimate the United States food system..upwards of  80% of workers in the dairy industry are undocumented.. fruits.. vegetables.. any industry dependent on manual labor in the southwest will be decimated

https://www.wpr.org/news/undocumented-workers-wisconsin-dairy-farms-immigration-policy-uncertainty

Amid stepped-up immigration enforcement, Wisconsin’s dairy industry is confronting a familiar tension: farms rely heavily on immigrant labor to keep cows milked around the clock, even as policymakers, advocates and producers disagree over how to balance workforce needs, labor protections and the rule of law. 

The debate has sharpened calls to modernize visa rules for year-round agriculture while scrutinizing working conditions on large farms.

Francisco Guerrero, with the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service, works directly with Latino workers on dairy farms throughout central Wisconsin. In a conversation on WPR’s “Morning Edition,” he said that while many of these employees do not have permanent legal status, they have become indispensable to the industry over time.

Fox News hosts have NO CLUE how the US food supply system works.. as they read their prepared political remarks.. “news”.. everyday.  During Covid.. 

At a Safeway in Washington, D.C., this week, 19-year-old Tala Jordan was having trouble checking items off her shopping list. 

Fresh meat: Nope. Milk: Nope. Eggs?

"I got liquid eggs instead," she said. "Had to compromise somehow." 

Jordan was shopping for a family of four — her sister, mom and grandmother. And like families across America, they saw others making a rush to buy goods and figured they should stock up as well. 

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UNFI, one of the largest food distributors in the United States, says some warehouses are running at 200% to 500% their average capacity at this time of year. It's like the weekend before Thanksgiving — day after day after day. 

Chris Testa, UNFI's president and chief marketing officer, says that in some cases, the suppliers just can't keep up. "There's only so many gallons of milk that can be produced, only so many eggs that can be produced," he says.

Even when supply exists, there can still be shortages.

 Have we forgotten already what we just went through?  If it wasn’t for undocumented’s DOING THEIR JOBS the shelves would have been empty.. and this is how we repay them?

UNCONSCIONABLE!!

so Yal.. I’m a little pissed about the whole affair.

A neighbor.. runs a business.. voted for Trump.. decided to get his legal status in order.. was denied.. and deported.

Why has Trump and Fox News turned on the very people who put him over the top in the last election?

it’s a mystery to me. 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hispanics-helped-trump-retake-white-house-now-their-support-is-waning-2025-04-28/

The surge in support from Hispanic voters that helped power Trump to victory has waned since he took office, with his approval rating among Latinos falling 3 percentage points to 34% in a Reuters/Ipsos polllast week, amid concerns about the economy and the president's hardline approach to immigration. 

I’ve never seen an administration Self Destruct as bad as this one IN MY LIFE even Jimmy Carter did a better job.

so Yal.. no apologies from me.

I stand on what I said.