Agricultural Digest
On July 24th, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced a major restructuring at the USDA, aimed not only at trimming operations but also at moving agency workers closer to the people they’re supposed to be serving. USDA is hoping to relocate some 2,600 of the 4,600 employees currently serving in the Washington, DC, area to hubs in Raleigh, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Fort Collins, and Salt Lake City.
While we can already hear the sounds of coastal bureaucratic brains exploding as they consider having to tell their friends that they’re being shipped off to… the United States of America… the USDA says it’s a win-win, as the move will reduce employees’ cost of living. The department is also moving out of many of its oversized Washington digs as part of the change, giving up office space in at least three large buildings in the District and saving an estimated $2.2 billion in …
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The thought began as the end of a dream and dovetailed into wakefulness. It was an odd thought to have in a dream — coming at me not as one of the surreal and fractured impulses that usually bombard me during my REM cycle, but more as a complete vocalized sentence.
It was more like a remembered song lyric. You need to get a physical, was the thought. Not a very dreamlike message or a terribly catchy or poetic phrase for a song lyric (is there even a rhyme for “physical?”), but the words grabbed my attention, as if they had been scribbled on a Post-it with “TO DO!” written importantly across the top. I tried to put it out of my head and go about my morning business (shit, shave, shower, coffee), but it nagged me.
It had been years since I’d had a physical. Many people would find that irresponsible. I like to think of myself as a take-care-of-business kind of guy, so that kind of …
America by the Numbers
5 Percentage of Americans who believe that Adolf Hitler was a “completely good person” or a “good person who did some bad things”
65 Percentage of Americans who think Hitler was “a completely bad person”
74 Percentage of Americans who believe it was right for America to participate in WWII
88.8 Percentage of Americans who believe that Jews have the right to an independent country
8 Percentage of Americans who believed in 2017 that political violence was “at least a little bit justified”
25 Percentage of Americans identifying themselves as “very liberal” in 2025 who believe that violence can be justified in support of political goals
5 Americans identifying themselves in 2025 as “very …
