Gene-edited beagles may offer a future option for people with dog allergies
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Straight from sacking Rome. The vandals!
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · last wk.This is truly a sick individual.
Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 6 weeks(!) in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave—is now getting all three.
Hey so turns out discovering why we used to have all those food safety regulations in the first place is not all that much fun
Guess who had the integrity not to accept $1 million to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival last year?
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Turned Down Million-Dollar Offer to Perform in Saudi Arabia: ‘I Don’t Need to Take Any Money if It Makes Me Feel Icky’
'Weird Al' Yankovic revealed he turned down a seven-figure offer to perform at the state-sponsored Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.
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California becomes the second state to pass a ban on octopus farming and first state to prohibit farmed octopus sales
California Governor Signs Octopus Farming Ban into Law
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In Another Instalment of: “Didn’t Age Well” 🤭😂🥴 Andrew Tate: "England, come get me. I'm not hard to find. I'm in Beverly Hills." THEY FOUND HIS B!TCH A$$ FAST 😂😂😂
FromFB: BOOM! There you go! Now make them pay for every drop of water at consumer rates, and prove they are sustainable and won't use every drop available... then we can talk. 😼
A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
New: Late last night, Taylor Farms quietly posted an official recall notice We now know that the parasite-linked iceberg lettuce was shipped to Walmart & food distributors in 27 (!) states It was for some reason still being sent out up until Thursday July 16 www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
Parasite-Linked Lettuce Was Sent to Walmart Stores and Food Distributors in 27 States - Consumer Reports
Taylor Farms' recalled the parasite-linked lettuce it said was sent to Walmart stores, Sysco, and other food distributors in 27 states.
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"I need you to *find* 11,780 votes." —Something said by someone who tries to interfere with elections, not something said by someone who is concerned with election interference.
On bullshit www.psypost.org/new-psycholo... "...repeating statements made by someone indifferent to facts heavily increases how truthful those statements feel..." Study: "truth-indifferent communication may pose a greater & more insidious threat to public belief than deliberate deception..."
New psychology research reveals the insidious nature of bullshit
We naturally put our guard up against known liars, but new psychology research reveals we are highly vulnerable to "bullshitters." A recent study shows that repeated, truth-indifferent claims easily t...
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The FIFA Peace Prize winner is taking part in a ceremony with Gianni -- and that right hand of his is looking pretty rough 😳
23andMe put millions of their customers’ sensitive and personal genetic data at risk by allowing a massive data breach. Now, we've secured $18 million from 23andMe and we're putting new security measures in place to protect customers' data.
‼️ 1 in 5 adults make health decisions based on what they see on social media despite widespread mistrust medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07... "About 88% of U.S. adults used social media, and most of them engaged with health content, with 70% taking part in online health communities."
1 in 5 adults make health decisions based on what they see on social media despite widespread mistrust
Every few scrolls, another health expert appears on the screen. While some are genuinely qualified, others simply sound convincing enough to pass as one. With AI-generated content flooding feeds, avoi...
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pretty incredible, and telling, that these studies are yet to be covered in several leading Australian news outlets. www.science.org/content/arti...
British ‘First Fleet’ brought smallpox to Australia—and may have killed millions
Two papers pin the deadly disease’s introduction on British colonists and suggest the continent held far more people than previously believed
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AI-powered methods shake up animal testing www.nature.com/articles/s41... [🔓read free with login]
AI-powered methods shake up animal testing - Nature Biotechnology
The FDA’s drive to reduce animal testing in drug development has coincided with a boom in AI-powered biosimulation techniques such as multi-agent virtual scientists and digital twins, while organoids ...
nature.com
🚨 BREAKING News: New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers
The order will pause state permitting for new large data centers and direct state regulators to create standards that address environmental impacts, energy demand, water usage and other factors, the g...
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An American president being found liable for sexual assault is a national disgrace. It’s a stain on the country that will never wash out.
Lakers fan nailed a half-court hook shot for $75k and LeBron tackled him out of pure excitement. Less than 1% of pros can make that shot.
Susan Collins voted to give ICE and CBP $70 billion. She owns the consequences of that vote.
