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senseandsensibility

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9. Segment with Jacob S. in the fields

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:51 PM

Jun 11

looks so familiar to me. You see miles of this traveling up and down CA and we are the 4th biggest economy in the world. Yet there is no one out there right now (still broad daylight) picking. They have scared the farmworkers off and food doesn't pick itself!

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Watching Chris Hayes [View all] malaise Jun 11 OP

SERIOUS madness!!!! elleng Jun 11 #1

Hope those " Alpha strong back males" are ready to replace those workers tulipsandroses Jun 11 #4

Look out for the private prison.chain gangs malaise Jun 11 #6

No cabbage, broccoli, anything good. elleng Jun 11 #10

And meat packing industry too... IcyPeas Jun 11 #2

Yep malaise Jun 11 #5

Russell Honore coming up now malaise Jun 11 #3

I remember him rescuing those twins and their mum Skittles Jun 11 #7

That was wonderful malaise Jun 11 #8

I will never forget watching Katrina in real time on a HUGE screen Skittles Jun 11 #12

Same here malaise Jun 11 #14

then the people fleeing Katrina and coming to Texas were called REFUGEES Skittles Jun 11 #15

I remembered when they separated families malaise Jun 11 #16

But...Babs Bush North Shore Chicago Jun 12 #24

I will never forget her comment malaise Jun 12 #25

I have a buddy and to this day when one of us screws up, the other will say "You're doin' a heck of a job, Brownie." Xavier Breath Jun 11 #17

Segment with Jacob S. in the fields senseandsensibility Jun 11 #9

He will destroy everything for power malaise Jun 11 #11

Just remember how good things were with Biden. multigraincracker Jun 11 #13

What fruits and veggies? If there's no strawberry pickers, there's no strawberries! SunSeeker Jun 11 #18

Yep malaise Jun 11 #19

I heard there was a Blackhawk Helicopter flying over slowly fermenting strawberry fields empty of pickers Cheezoholic Jun 11 #20

I don't get it. bagimin Jun 11 #21

For the ReTHUG party malaise Jun 12 #23

Yup seta1950 Jun 11 #22

We're buying and preserving. Canning and drying. marble falls Jun 12 #26

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