I have heard this outbreak is being caused by Taylor Farms lettuce used at Taco Bell, but considering their lettuce is at Costco and Kroger and Walmart and Target and Safeway and Albertsons and Whole Foods (and other fast food chains) for now let us just avoid lettuce.

Good Morning #BlueSky “You’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that.” "Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order." “The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.” ~ Samuel Beckett

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMn

Earth is not an unlimited resource. It is not a product, a factory, or a disposable meal. We are not watching a natural disaster unfold. We are watching human decisions turn a living planet into a toxic recipe. The heat is already on. The question is: when will we turn it off?

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

Thank God, it's Frida!

Good Morning #BlueSky “The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.” ~ Reinhold Niebuhr “Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.” ~ H. Richard Niebuhr #religion

Hey friends, Don't forget Fox News paid nearly a billion dollars for the lies they aired again tonight.

He should have gone to prison for pressuring Brad Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes. That’s the very definition of election interference. We all heard the call.

HOLY CRAP! The documents Trump just released following his speech show that Russians worked with American officials to advance stories about Burisma and Joe Biden being corrupt. Someone is going to get fired tonight for accidentally allowing this one to be declassified.

How cool that soccer greats Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal met when the latter was 5 months old. Messi was a young Unicef ambassador and Yamal was, er, having a bath. Now Yamal is also a Unicef ambassador. Two soccer giants helping the world's kids!

People just don't think about these things. We have experienced wonderful socialism all our lives here in America.

Finally! A solution we can live with

i remember scientists saying 20 years ago that climate change-fueled wildfires would darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away. but republicans said that was a lie, so now climate change-fueled wildfires darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away every summer

Rings true.

Ironically, just as Blanche sought confirmation, the Trump DOJ he leads kept thumbing its nose at the advice and consent process for U.S. Attorneys. Federal judges have rejected Trump's unqualified, unconfirmed loyalists in NY, NJ, NM, NV, & LA. This morning, it was Seattle.

Trump admits who his bill really helped…

the World Cup final will be between two teams that Cape Verde played even through 90 minutes

Good Morning #BlueSky "Nurture GREAT thoughts, for you will NEVER go HIGHER than your thoughts." ~ Benjamin Disraeli “What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein “Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

28 years of cyclosporiasis testing Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. All are back because of this science denying administration.

July 15, 2026

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

“Canciones” is one of her best. But even after all the money Linda made for her label, they hated the idea of a Spanish-language album. “You owe me this,” she said. “Canciones” was for years “the biggest-selling non-English language album in US history, going double platinum and earning a Grammy” ✨

I may never forgive the City of Monterey for not prosecuting him. The police report is harrowing.

Isn't it weird that this week a currently sitting president had to pay a woman MILLIONS of dollars for *raping* (and defaming) her—and the media has forgotten all about it? There was a time that this would have been the ONLY story—until the rapist was driving from office.

US inflation is the highest in the G7.

Most corrupt administration in American history!

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Good Morning #BlueSky “The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures – is a definite symptom of maturity.” ~ Paul Tillich “Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone, and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.” ~ Paul Tillich

Trump's big, ugly budget megabill gave ICE more cops than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than most countries' militaries. No one in America is safe from Trump's deadly police state.

Ossoff makes an important point here that accurately frames Trump’s election fraud lies as racist. Trump’s 2020 election lies and efforts to overturn its results always target Black voters as illegitimate. The localities Trump challenged were disproportionately majority-Black.

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” ~ Maya Angelou

Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers

An active volcano in Iceland.

MAGA: 2016 was fair! (Obama was President) 2020 was rigged! (Trump was President) 2024 was fair! (Biden was President) They’re going to rig 2026! (Trump is President) Why is Donald Trump so fucking bad at securing elections according to MAGA?

Overwhelming response to this column today. Pretty clear people are fed up with the gambling takeover of major sports - and that fans support Kylian Mbappe in his opposition to the corporate bookies. montrealgazette.com/sports/socce...

Morning #BlueSky “If you can't say ‘no’ you can't say ‘yes.’ You cannot affirm something unless you have the ability to deny it. Unless you have the ability to maintain your individuality by saying ‘no,’ any ‘yes’ that you may say is not a ‘yes.’ It's simply compliance and submission.” ~ S. Keleman

Sometimes I’ll be chatting with friends and a sentence I’d never thought I’d say comes out. Today’s is: “The nominee for Attorney General was just referred to the bar for disciplinary consideration, but you don’t actually need a law license to be the Attorney General.”

SOLAR IS WINNING 👀

Jon gets it. He’ll make an excellent Vice President after his reelection & the election of GOVERNOR Keisha Lance Bottoms. 😇

Good Morning #BlueSky “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” ~ Antonio Gramsci "...this is the liquid liminal time. Solids melt.” ~ Nora Bateson

RIP Sam Neill.

There is exactly ONE active criminal investigation into Epstein's ranch. It's stuck. Not for lack of evidence...because the DOJ won't hand it over. New piece. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Galaxy NGC 474: Shells and Star Streams apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26071... The multiple layers of emission appear strangely complex given the relatively featureless appearance of the elliptical galaxy in less deep images.

The size of a blue whale compared to a full grown humpback whale. Original post

Elias Law Group has defeated DOJ lawsuits to access state voter files in: California Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Wisconsin DOJ has not won a single case. It is 0-12.

Good Morning #BlueSky Let's get loose With Compassion, Let's drown in the delicious Ambience of Love. ~Hafiz Last night while walking under the stars I caught the happy virus. It’s very contagious. So, kiss me! ~ #Hafiz

Good Morning #BlueSky Study me as much as you like, you will never know me, for I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes, and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see. ~Rumi