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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Blood labs come in the day before I'm headed for the beach, I've been dreaming of boardwalk fries for the past week and my A1C is too high damnit.

When people ask why I dedicate so much volunteer time to my shul, despite personally being mostly secular, it’s because they don’t just tolerate my interfaith family. They welcome us! And communities like these are shockingly hard to find!

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social · 5d ago

A couple of days ago the denomination that ordained me, which I have since left, made a big! deal! about issuing a ruling letting everyone know that they have made a big! decision! not to treat interfaith families like absolute garbage as much now even though they still won't do their weddings

That's the sound of the men working on the block chain That's the sound of the men working on the block chain All day long they're sayin'

If i was on a date and they brought up Fauci in any context whatsoever i'd jump from my seat and run like there was an active shooter in the building

Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social · 5d ago

what

A friend at work texted me that she's bringing me a dress today that she's owned but never worn, that she "just saw ME in." These "how do people see me" moments are scary, and yet illuminating.

A Great Blue Heron shakes out his silvery plumes. [📹debsandidge] Original post

They gave up Andy Levin for this

@thejrocktv.bsky.social · 6d ago

She knows she’s losing so she said let’s just go mask off.

Holy FUCKING shit. This is Epstein related so hopefully this catches any mutes. One of the great battles my mom and I had in the 90s was she wanted me to attend Interlochen for a summer and I didn't want to go. Ended up having to get a job and worked all summer, and apparently dodged some bullets

Jeffrey Epstein among 47 alleged abusers identified in Interlochen investigation

A new report released by the Interlochen Center for the Arts identifies dozens of people, including Jeffrey Epstein, accused of committing sexual abuse at the prestigious camp over a nearly 60-year…

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PIZZA HISTORIAN WATCHING “MYSTIC PIZZA”: I don’t even know where to begin. I would be ashamed to serve these pizzas.

Whole thread honestly restores the balance of the universe

Warhammer Dan@jacketdan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dudes rock

Found this on Tumblr with the caption, "Saw a fire, stopped his car, got out and Madonna'd the fuck out of those flames". I want him carnally.

After ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Araujo, the FBI leaked to Fox News a claim that he was found with possible meth in the van. His family said it was a total falsehood; it was a bag of salt to be used to make an electrolyte drink. And they were right. It was not drugs.

Q: Did you authorize Secretary Wright to sign the Saudi nuclear deal? If not, why did he sign it? TRUMP: We didn't talk about it

Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.

FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)

In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.

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Texas Nun detained by ICE speaks out: "For me, a nun, not to go to mass on Sunday, not to receive communion, it was very, very heartbreaking for me. Even when I told him, 'can I go to mass? Can I just attend mass? Can I receive communion?' And the answer was no."

PLEASE HELP US DO NOT IGNORE It breaks my heart to ask for help again, but we are running out of time. I truly hoped we could make it through this month on our own, but despite our best efforts, we are now facing the possibility of losing our home. We’re scared and don’t know where else to turn.

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I like posts like these as aspirational, the way I imagine some people engage with fitness content. I am barely surviving this cyclospora outbreak, my ability to garden is nil. But maybe one day I'll be in a place in life where I can grow myself something to eat.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2w ago

There is something magical and deeply ephemeral about the eating of tomatoes, and nothing in a store, in a stall, can compare to a tomato that was on a vine three seconds ago.

My great-grandfather was among the first Jews sent to Dachau, but it had operated for 8 years prior. He arrived to find a concentration camp already full of communists and other leftist dissidents. The public's acceptance of their incarceration paved the road for his own.

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 2w ago

fascists use anti leftism to build power and co opt centrists and liberals. they are doing this right now! this is what all the gibberish anti communist rhetoric is about!

It's that time again when I have to avoid Facebook because the algorithm is determined to let me know how fucking terrible people can be.

Here's an excerpt -- take a minute to read the actual column and tell me what you think

Human rights lawyer Wu Shaoping barely escaped arrest in his native China in 2019. The anti-communist Christian convert applied for asylum, made it to Pa. - doing it all the right way But in Trump's wretched America, the gulag is one traffic stop away My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/wu-s...

Wu Shaoping escaped China’s repression, only to get busted by ICE in Pa. | Will Bunch

The U.S. reputation as safe haven for the world's dissidents takes another hit with Pa. arrest of Chinese human rights lawyer.

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What are Republicans thinking as they try to kill a federal OSHA heat protection standard that would protect workers from excessive heat? Nothing good and nothing honest. jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

Republicans Try to Smother OSHA Heat Standard Under General Duty Clause - Confined Space

Republicans try to kill an OSHA heat standard in favor of misguided reliance on the General Duty Clause.

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I resemble this remark. I can't control it. I often don't even realize when I'm doing it until after words have come out of my mouth.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2w ago

People are making fun of AOC for having a slight southern accent while speaking in Memphis but they clearly don’t know the pain of habitually and unconsciously imitating the speaking style of the people around you

this is how dumb you sound, democrats, when you accept the absurd premise that this is an issue that you need to campaign on

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump: "We had transgender for everybody. Men in women's sports came ravaging through our cities."

Today I helped a little turtle who was slowly crossing the road. That is all.

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest

America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.

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Someone in DC set up a “little free blockbuster” with DVDs inside instead of books lol

Easy layup for President AOC to invoke the Defense Production Act on Day 1 to produce our own generic drugs.

Trump Plans 100% Tariff on Generic Drugs From August 2028

The US plans to impose a 100% tariff on generic drugs imported to the US beginning in August 2028, President Donald Trump said in a social media post Tuesday.

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The main qualification for this administration is sociopathy.

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“Testimonies included in the brief include instances of guards denying children medical care, providing inadequate education, constantly screaming at them when they attempt to play, and in some cases, attacking their physical well-being…”