Dr. Aria Halliday
@drariahalliday.bsky.social
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“Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. removed jalapeños from multiple stores in Minnesota after learning the peppers may be linked to a salmonella outbreak in the state that’s sickened 110 people.”
Chipotle Pulled Jalapeños Tied to Minnesota Salmonella Cases
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. removed jalapeños from multiple stores in Minnesota after learning the peppers may be linked to a salmonella outbreak in the state that’s sickened 110 people.
bloomberg.com
This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean, where tiny islands are epicenters of biodiversity. The Trump administration is now opening their waters to commercial fishing, sparking a battle over some of the country's most pristine ecosystems. n.pr/4pSfqqC
These are some of the last pristine ocean ecosystems. Now, they're losing protections
The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean, where tiny islands are epicenters of biodiversity. The Trump administration is now opening their waters to commercial fishing, sparking a battle over some of the country’s most pristine ecosystems.
n.pr
"...each above-ground spot in a parking deck in and around Washington, D.C. can cost $29,000 to build. While that’s below the national average of $52,000, it would also mean that Trump’s proposed 32,000 parking spots could cost more than $900 million."
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 3d agoOne part of Trump's $22 billion makeover of Dulles that's been missed is his big, beautiful, world-record 32,000-spot parking garage. That's *way* more parking than recent estimates show the airport needs, and it would tower over the historic terminal: www.notus.org/metro/dulles...
Concurrent with this, Taylor & Francis has granted us permission to provide free public access to the issue through September 30th, 2026. We invite you to read and engage with featured articles here, regardless of whether you have a current subscription: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/2...
Cultural Studies
Volume 20, Issue 2-3 of Cultural Studies
tandfonline.com
Mo’ne Davis and the Los Angeles Queens rallied for a wild 10-8 victory over Denae Benites and the New York Heights on opening day for the first women’s professional baseball league in the United States in almost 30 years.
Women's Professional Baseball League makes a rainy debut in front of enthusiastic crowd
The Women’s Professional Baseball League has started its inaugural season. Mo’ne Davis and the Los Angeles Queens rallied for a wild 10-8 victory over Denae Benites and the New York Heights on opening day for the first women’s professional baseball league in the United States in almost 30 years.
bit.ly
"Our students—and others in their AI-skeptical generation—are thoughtful moral agents who have used their capacity for critical reflection to arrive at compelling and deeply felt moral objections to using generative AI in their university work. We think educators should respect this.” #edusky
KEW@kidadaewilliams.com · 4d ago“Students expressed concerns ab cognitive dependence, enviro impact, bias, misinfo, academic integrity, & worker exploitation. They were invested in their own learning, developing their creative identity & fostering genuine intellectual relationships." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care... #edusky
I am closely monitoring the fires threatening the Spokane region. Eastern Washington, PLEASE listen to local authorities and do everything possible to stay safe and look after your friends and neighbors.
'Never seen it this bad': Thousands evacuated in north Spokane as wildfire crosses river into city
A wildfire driven by high winds jumped the Spokane River Saturday afternoon, burning homes and quickly moving into the Indian Trail Neighborhood.
spokesman.com
"Some of those incarcerated workers [contracted to Taylor Farms at Arizona DCRR] may have been here as non-citizens... their status as [imprisoned people] was the only thing that made the [work] arrangement legal."
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d agoThe 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.
Lately, I’ve been having a lot of conversations with people about how thinking of whiteness in binary terms (white or not) is preventing us from fully understanding the present moment. Whiteness has always had gradations and has always existed in a hierarchy.
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
‘emergency 🚨😭👇🏾 I am pleading with you one last time, with all the hope left in my heart. My child and I have run out of food, and hunger has weakened us to the point where we can barely stand. Collected $75/175 to secure treatment and vitamins for my son Omar😭👇🏾’ ✅Molly Shah tinyurl.com/4rdnwyzx
The thing is…. They are like “it’s the male loneliness epidemic its the male loneliness epidemic” If it had not been for men financially abusing women since the first spark led to flame civilization would have collapsed 2000 years ago
Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 2mo agowhere in history have the husbands been a commodity worth perusing?
Happening today at 1 pm ET:
404 Media@404media.co · 2w agoBy filing Freedom of Information requests, 404 Media has obtained bodycam footage and documents that uncover stories about tech that powers ICE and how cops abuse Flock. You can FOIA too! On July 30th at 1 pm ET, we will teach you how to file a FOIA request live: www.404media.co/our-new-foia...
The Philippines just made school meals universal and free for its youngest pupils. President Marcos launched a nationwide expansion covering every kindergarten and Grade 1 learner, plus undernourished children up to Grade 6, for at least 180 school days. buff.ly/xdVfUn4 #ShareGoodNewsToo
Expanded school feeding program launched
President Marcos launched yesterday the nationwide expansion of the School-Based Feeding Program to address child malnutrition and to promote the health, well-being and academic success of Filipino…
buff.ly
The Cherokee Nation took on opioid manufacturers, and won. Now, they're investing settlement money in transitional housing for tribal citizens reentering society after incarceration. www.kosu.org/cherokee-nat...
Cherokee Nation is using opioid settlement money to help people rebuild
Cherokee Nation’s reentry program has helped thousands of formerly incarcerated tribal citizens reintegrate into society. Tribal leaders plan to use opioid settlement money to expand it.
kosu.org
"...the White House has just ordered 250 brand new Cadillac Escalades, giant SUVs which have a suggested retail price of more than $90,000 each and cost significantly more to customize for secure uses."
Let them eat SUVs: Trump White House orders fleet of luxury cars as Americans struggle
Americans are facing a deepening affordability crisis but at least Trump and co have ... 250 new Cadillac Escalades
theguardian.com
This is GENUINELY surprising from LinkedIn, considering they have an *"AI" Generator Prominently Integrated Into Their Posting Interface*
Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · 7d agoOh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts
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Seems like AI slop
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Last year the Trump administration revoked nearly $500k from San Francisco Asian Women's Shelter. That was just the start. The politicization of federal funding is hurting domestic violence organizations across the country — and maybe soon, everyone else. 19thnews.org/2026/07/san-...
This domestic violence shelter was told it no longer aligns with the Trump administration’s priorities
Trump’s war on ‘gender ideology’ and diversity is hurting San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter's ability to help victims — many of whom can’t get help anywhere else. It’s already cost them nearly $500,...
19thnews.org
In the past decade, more than 5,000 women have served in combat roles. And the occupation standards for these roles have always been gender neutral by law, despite Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s false insistence that requirements were lowered for women and that there were quotas made for women.
Women have served in combat for a decade. Lawmakers want to protect that right.
“As far as I’m concerned, the only person who doesn’t think that women should have the opportunity to serve in these roles is Hegseth,” said Sen. Mazie Hirono, a lead sponsor of a new bill.
19thnews.org
I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community
While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.
newrepublic.com
things are going great!! also not noted here they seem to have found it on parsley and cilantro as well
Denis - The COVID Info Guy@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · last wk.USA: "More than 18,000 Cyclosporiasis cases reported across 45 states: CDC" "Health officials have linked some of these cases to shredded iceberg lettuce served at some Taco Bell restaurants in 9 states... The lettuce at Taco Bell was supplied by Taylor Farms and sourced from central Mexico."
"[Montgomery County] Council Approves 18-Month Data Center Moratorium and Places Limitations on Data Center Development" Limitations include a full ban on hyperscale data centers in the county. Well done MoCo. Very well done. Full press release here: www.montgomerycountymd.gov/news/council...
Staff were also part of this cut (I understand that laying off tenured faculty is bigger news, but we lost a LOT of people) leiterreports.com/2026/07/29/i...
Illinois Institute of Technology declares “financial exigency” and begins firing faculty, including tenured faculty
Up to one-third of the faculty may be terminated, although in the law school, Chicago-Kent, it appears the number is lower (maybe one-fifth by some accounts). If readers have more details, please e…
leiterreports.com
If u missed: Washington and Lee University seeks an experienced business journalist for its Donald W. Reynolds Chair in Business Journalism. It's an endowed professorship w/tenure to teach business journalism, oversee an internship program, more. DETAILS: loom.ly/opz2h7k
People think my job is professor. My job... it's just email.
Ken's Beach Job - Ryan Gosling in Barbie Movie
Alt: Blond white man in a pink t-shirt in front of a pink background says "My job...it's just beach"
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Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...
