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This summer's food recalls are broader in scope, longer-lasting, and more severe than past years as regulators are slow to respond. The parasite surveillance staff at the CDC, which responds to outbreaks (such as cyclosporiasis), was downsized last year by DOGE from 11 people to three.
A summer of recalls exposes holes in the nation’s food safety net • Minnesota Reformer
Jalapenos. Frozen berries. Beef. Alfalfa sprouts. A summer of food recalls, including the record-shattering cyclosporiasis outbreak tied to iceberg lettuce that has sickened thousands, has raised many...
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She sings from the perspective of people doing shitty jobs in offices, people building cars in Detroit, and she sings about the experience of being poor and exploited in general, but there's three songs, all covers, that strike me as really interesting choices. The first is Dark as a Dungeon.
Unfortunately the next Democratic president has no choice but to respond to such horrific behavior by giving this guy another 25 billion dollars worth of free weapons while begging Saudi Arabia to be friends with him
Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 4d agoBen Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.
In Gaza's displacement camps, survival has bred a new economy: a gym owner forges weights from empty cans, a supermarket owner turns baker, a housewife becomes a street vendor — each person rebuilding a livelihood from the wreckage of genocide. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/i-co...
‘I couldn’t watch my children cry from hunger’: Inside the ‘displacement economy’ Gazans built to survive the genocide
In Gaza’s displacement camps, survival has bred a new economy: a gym owner forges weights from empty cans, a supermarket owner turns baker, a housewife becomes a street vendor — each person…
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He sacrificed his NFL career for his beliefs. "Colin has used his platform to advocate for equality, human dignity, and social change, even when doing so came at significant personal and professional cost," said Lonnie Ali, CEO of the Muhammad Ali Center. www.reuters.com/sports/kaepe...
Kaepernick to receive Muhammad Ali humanitarian award
Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, whose protests against racial injustice a decade ago made him one of the most prominent athlete activists in the U.S., will receive the Muhammad Ali Center's ...
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NEW: For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical treatment as their children die. At least five sets of parents have lost multiple children.
These Children’s Deaths Were Preventable. Their Parents Prayed Instead of Seeking Medical Care.
For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care. Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of tr...
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“This isn’t a problem that started with the storm. We are a predominately Black city that tends to get ignored,” says Grammy award-winning rapper Freddie Gibbs as his hometown of Gary, Indiana remains without power after two weeks.
‘IGNORED’: Rapper Freddie Gibbs SPEAKS OUT on Gary, Indiana’s power crisis
YouTube video by MS NOW
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While diplomatic delegations pose for photos in Israel, the bloodshed on the ground doesn't stop. In the 48 hours following Jared Kushner’s visit, Israel killed over 18 Palestinians in Gaza. Diplomacy without accountability is just PR. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Netanyahu and Kushner talks make no breakthrough on stalled Gaza deal
Israeli PM again insists troops will not withdraw from strip until Hamas first disarms, but calls meeting constructive
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Canada says that it is "unacceptable" that Israel has closed its investigation of itself where it assassinated a Canadian citizen and half a dozen other World Central Kitchen members. If it is so unacceptable, what will Canada do in response? Nothing. Seems it's pretty acceptable actually.
Israel clears itself in killing of Canadian during airstrikes on World Central Kitchen convoy | CBC News
Israel has concluded its military did not commit a criminal act when it killed a Canadian and six other aid workers in Gaza two years ago.
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Every time someone says "but how will we afford it?" I want to ask them how we are affording it now, and in many cases, the answer is that we aren't.
Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 3w ago“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
🚨"WE HAVE TO LOSE THE FEAR AND SPEAK UP", The brother of Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo — who recently died in ICE custody, told the public outside Delaney Hall ICE prison. Footage by @jordanchariton for Status Coup
"We come here to work, not to hurt anybody," The aunt of Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, an ICE detainee who died inside of Delaney Hall this past weekend, begs for immigration raids to stop.
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Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · last mo.María Cornejo “tearfully decried the loss of her son. “‘I don’t have a way of healing this deep pain, this pain is too profound,’ she said while crying.” www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...
Another life. Another family forever changed. Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo should have gone home to his family. Instead, his family was asked to identify his body. Remember his name. 🕊️ Delaney Hall needs to be shut down. #SheShed
“I will not let his story be unheard,” said Edwin Jovanny López Cornejo’s 12-year-old daughter. Justice for Edwin Jovanny López Cornejo. 🎥 via Daysi Calavia-Robertson (@ presspassdaysi on IG)
Breaking: Another victim, Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, has died in ICE custody at Delaney Hall prison after being denied vital medication and family visits. Depriving sick detainees of care until they die is murder by neglect. We demand complete transparency and justice for Edwin! 🎥 Statuscoup
On Friday, Edwin told his mother by phone that the right side of his face and arm were numb. A statement from the ACLU of New Jersey alleges his death was due to the conditions inside the private for-profit concentration camp run by the GEO Group.
When Uber Eats and DoorDash hid the tip button, delivery workers paid the price. Tips fell by 79%. In January, we changed that. Since then, more than $104 million has gone back into the pockets of the delivery workers who keep New York City fed.
This summer I've been thinking a lot about how much better my mental health gets when I'm not teaching...anyways, every single thing in this thread:
Anne Lutz Fernandez@lutzfernandez.bsky.social · last mo.New data debunks the teacher shortage contrarians. I wrote about new data available on the exodus from K-12 classrooms, teachers like me who left and the professionals we left behind in jobs that have only become more challenging.
theintercept.com/2026/07/31/i... A surprise to no one.
Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows
Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.
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None of us is more important than a Palestinian child being bombed by Israel, or a Sudanese woman being assaulted by the RSF, or a Congolese child being enslaved so you can use a smartphone and AI, or an immigrant being tortured in ICE detention, or a detainee in Riker's who can't afford bail.
I’ve been writing a counter narrative of shutdowns that has me revisiting media from that time. And let me tell you, the only other option was everybody die. So yeah.
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · last mo.it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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