This weeks whopper refutes RFK Jr's claim that the cyclospora outbreak is "under control" and that there have been no damaging cuts to key programs at CDC, FDA and USDA. Dwindling government support for food safety have created a perfect storm and endanger the nation's food safety programs.

Whopper of the Week: Yes, RFK Jr., your cuts did weaken the Cyclospora response | Defend Public Health

The United States is struggling to contain the largest Cyclospora outbreak in US history but RFK Jr. claims the outbreak is under control and unrelated to cuts made to the US food safety surveillance ...

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🧊✈️⛓️ He said he entered a sort of tunnel vision, where his whole world narrowed to surviving the pain one minute at a time, as the plane went from Alexandria to Baltimore, then Romania, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and finally Laos, where he was deported. He was shackled for approximately 72 hours ⤵️

Why did this ICE flight turn around over the Atlantic Ocean?

Video shows 11 exhausted and shackled people arrive back at ICE camp airport 15 hours after they left.

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Even those stupid or self-deluded enough to believe voting for Trump meant he would focus on deporting the "worst of the worst," are disgusted by this. Dems need to make campaign hay from this wonton, shameless cruelty. Even where "crimes" are involved, it's often limited to arrests v convictions

AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents

An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.

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SCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know

I'd love to hear why my book White Flight -- which won prizes from the Southern Historical Association and the American Political Science Association -- was deemed not good enough for students at Texas A&M.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 21h ago

Only a matter of time before Texas forces @kevinmkruse.bsky.social to drink hemlock. www.aclutx.org/press-releas...

holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!

Trump’s OSHA is rolling back rules that mandate rest breaks and access to water and shade to protect workers from extreme heat on the job. Remember: Trump doesn’t care about workers. He never has and never will.

How Trump’s Agenda Could Kill You

After an abysmal jobs report, Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.And Trump’s Labor Department just a

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Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

Who else could watch this for hours? Defragmenting Drive C in Windows 95

In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC

Our Team

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26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

OK, Well, Rogue AI Agents Are Hacking Again www.wired.com/story/ok-wel...

OK, Well, Rogue AI Agents Are Hacking Again

Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.

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For a year and a half, we’ve been subject to the daily onslaught of Trump and his cruel, corrupt, and incompetent second regime. My question to you now, in the middle of the summer of our discontent, is what strategies you’re using to cope with this horror.

Office Hours: How are you coping?

Friends,

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🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw

Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.

Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed

Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...

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The humiliation is the point. Tune into today's DEFIANCE Watchlist to learn more about ICE fitting Haitian immigrants with ankle monitors — as if legal asylum seekers were criminals.

The humiliation is the point.

ICE is fitting Haitian immigrants with ankle monitors, as if these residents who came to the U.S. legally were criminals.

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El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"

"A body that has historically held the hemisphere’s most authoritarian governments to account will now scrutinize the United States," write Thomas Becker and Antonio Romanucci. "It may be our last chance to stop the backsliding that threatens our democracy."

We are US civil rights lawyers. Trump’s policies have driven us to seek justice internationally | Thomas Becker and Antonio Romanucci

On Tuesday, a human rights commission will hold an extraordinary hearing over the administration’s alleged attacks on protesters, journalists and others

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There are a lot of these today

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Third long-range private jet ICE flight in one day. This one is headed for Africa, possible third-country nationals onboard.

The Ellison Bullshit machine CBS had to shovel their crap back from their LIES about Mamdani THEIR STENCH IS STRONG popular.info/p/update-cbs...

UPDATE: CBS News reverses course, airs story on 9/11 families supporting Mamdani

Last week, CBS News New York falsely reported that “thousands of 9/11 victims’ families are asking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this year’s solemn remembrance ceremony.” The articl...

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2/ This is not a scare story, it is measured. It is factual & peer reviewed. Researchers matched real ads to real voting records and found turnout among voters of color in swing state minority counties fell up to 17.3 percent after exposure. That is the 1 in 6. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

1/ 🧵 It costs 8 cents to make you skip an election. Not a typo. A peer reviewed PNAS study found the right ad, aimed at the right voter, erased 1 in 6 votes of color in swing counties. The billionaires who lost Michigan can buy a lot of 8 cent nudges. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

Over a year later and this still hits

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While the US is experiencing massive nationwide weather catastrophes, Donald Trump is out golfing to a whopping tune of tens of millions of tax payer dollars. The US dies, Trump golfs. #3E #EndAutogenocide

NEWS: Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) just dropped out of his re-election race at 3:32 a.m.m. He said he’s done running but will finish out his term. This after the House Ethics Committee found “substantial reason to believe [he] violated House Rules related to sexual harassment and hostile workplaces.”

Epic vandalism www.independent.co.uk/space/spacex...

Out-of-control SpaceX rocket smashes into the Moon

Collision hit with the power of three tons of TNT and will leave behind a visible crater on the lunar surface

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When I was Attorney General, I took on the chaos coming from the Trump administration in court. And I won. Trump makes a lot of dangerous noise, but as Governor, I'll continue fighting to stop his attempts to destroy our resources, our state, and our values.

There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...

As Oregon burns and gamblers bet, lawmakers push back against wildfire betting markets drawing millions

Wyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause

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People are scared, exhausted, and angry. ICE is using American tax dollars to fund mistreatment and abuse at detention centers across our country. Republicans and this president are ok with us being a country that implements this kind of cruelty, but we cannot be. This is not ok.

Developers beware: these ad-tracking libraries will give up your users’ location data by default to third parties. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Developers: Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Your Users’ Location

An EFF investigation identified several advertising software development kits (SDKs) that publicly acknowledge collecting and sharing users’ location by default when embedded in apps granted location

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Remember Trump's disastrous Great American State Fair? He's now asking Congress for an additional $10M to reimburse costs for his July 4th "Freedom 250" flop. That's on top of the $100M+ in taxpayer funds that's already been funneled into his MAGA party planning committee.

Freedom 250: Gladiators, Parades, & the Grifting of America

Who's paying for Trump's MAGA-fied Freedom 250 festivities?Major corporate donors include Lockheed Martin, ExxonMobil, a

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