This is a *fantastic* video that explains exactly WTF is going on with Taylor Farms and how tracing works TLDR: - they are responsible - the false positive was only on one of several samples - it’s difficult to test parasites - there may still be other sources - Taylor Farms is being shady AF

So Congress gets indefinite paid medical leave whenever they need it, but the rest of us *maybe* get to take a few weeks off, unpaid, while covering the full cost of our health insurance.

Content creators of the world, please take note: you can buy a prop smartphone for $15 or less at your online marketplace of choice. No more empty phone cases!! I’m going to need you to either invest in the fake phone or fully lean in and just hold, like, a slice of toast.

As much as it sounds like a quarter of a million dollars is a lot of money, all of the people described in here must be woefully underpaid.

Seriously. Some of the smartest people in the world are working to make online gambling as addictive as possible. You aren’t immune.

it's not just for entertainment. gambling also goes up during economic downturns. here's the mindset: if you only have $500, you can't pay many of your bills — but if you double or triple it, you can. and if you lose that $500, you aren't much worse off than before. that's why it's so insidious.

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

New: Late last night, Taylor Farms quietly posted an official recall notice We now know that the parasite-linked iceberg lettuce was shipped to Walmart & food distributors in 27 (!) states It was for some reason still being sent out up until Thursday July 16 www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

Please enjoy this and other accurate descriptions of Stephen Miller

The billionaires have a vision of the future, and in it, many of us are dead. Not because they all want to kill us (some of them want to kill some of us), but because we are simply surplus and expendable in their eyes.

I guess it is news to the editors of . . . um . . . Forbes . . . that the annual filings of every public company have, for decades, contained pages and pages of detailed risk factors.

This lettuce is literally everywhere and usually it’s in contexts where no one knows/discloses it. Taco Bell is one of the only places doing the right, proactive thing here and misleading headlines are flipping things around making seem like they’re a site of danger instead.

The food supply chain is an incredibly complex Jenga tower. One piece gets out of line and the whole thing can fall apart. It relies on the good will and professionalism of the companies involved. When one company decided to save themselves money, it cost us millions & could have made people sick

Re: cyclospora, Taco Bell having ethics and going "you know what, it's always the fucking lettuce, why don't we just pull that until we know what's going on" resulting in all the outlets going "LETTUCE SOLD AT TACO BELL LINKED TO EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA" is a fantastic way to discourage ethics in future.

I guess this is what the FBI does now that they've stopped investigating white-collar crime? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...

Just so I'm clear, if you phone up Rowling's helpline, you are at risk of having your phone call tweeted out to her 14 million odd followers for a ridicule party?

Not to be all MAHA, but maybe we could address the chronic sleep deprivation, massive stress, poor nutrition, overtraining, and widespread steroid and painkiller abuse? I just think maybe try that before supplemental testosterone.

We fucking told you so.

There was a colossal amount of boy crying wolf about US government debt from the right for ages, but the wolf eventually does come and eat the kid at the end. US debt servicing is rapidly approaching 20% of all government spending.

"oh, i can use the p100 respirator i bought when the feds were teargassing people while kidnapping my neighbors to deal with the wildfire smoke when i have to go out tomorrow." --real minneapolis thought i just had

Also, what if the hypothetical cancer-curing messiah is the woman who you forced to carry a pregnancy to term, ending her chances of going to college? Or the kid she would have had post-graduation, when she was stable and ready?

In America today, the wealthiest 1% is now worth more than the entire American middle class. That never happened before.

"Father says" Dating myself here but I remember when the paper of record had investigative journalists who could verify basic facts as well as most high school journalism interns, instead of hedging the shit out of anything they say that might contradict the ruling regime.

Heat pumps! Heat pumps!

You could put solar panels on something like a quarter of the land we use to grow biofuel corn and power the entire United States. AND we wouldn’t need fertilizers made from fossil fuels! You can even grow shade crops around the panels! This is so dumb I can’t help using all the exclamation marks!

You’d think these vile people would be *proud* of all the harm they’ve caused. But instead they are claiming that quoting them constitutes defamation. Read and share the report. The anti-trans panic is killing vulnerable people.

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.

ICE shot someone in the fucking face in Biddeford, Maine this morning fuck ICE forever my heart goes out to their friends and family. maine is like a big small town and i’m from that area. there’s a nonzero chance that someone i know was affected by this. i’m just so mad. ACAB and FUCK ICE

And that is the thing I wish we could get across about climate adaptation. The largest group of humanity is better off with just about every climate-friendly change they make (that's most of us). We get cheaper electricity. We spend less money on gas. We are more comfortable in our homes.

Seems like a good time to bring this one back

Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice.

Hi. We're in the Age of Diarrhea. I'm a global health expert on helping children survive diarrhea. Here's what to do if you might have picked up cyclospora. 🧵 1. Call your primary care if possible. 2. Take oral rehydration therapy, which isn't just drinking fluids. 1/

No idea! 🤠 Whatever it is, it's concentrated in the eastern Great Lakes. The outbreak started in New York, now most of the cases are in Michigan. MN is somehow untouched. (And it's not bc Minnesota's just missing their cases. Minnesota does not miss cases.) www.indystar.com/story/graphi...

I’ll be there! You should join me.

When the weather gets hot, please take special care for the goths in your life. With their floor-length coats, platform shoes, and velvet capes, it’s hard for them to thermoregulate as we do.

Fuck every single person who would harass a school for the crime of educating Muslim girl children.

This is my favorite thing I've written for @mcsweeneys.net in a while. Hope you folks enjoy it! I think the headline pretty much clears up what it's about.

He’s uhh very verbose. I am gonna need to read this again. Man, Darcy would have been a bit of a keyboard warrior if he were around today—short sentences and grunts IRL, but you put him in front of a medium for writing, and you’re gonna get a long damn screed. Men. Just. Never change.

NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...

SHOCK NYT REPORT: DHS now admits the man ICE killed in Houston wasn't even their target. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 35-year U.S. resident, was just driving to work when agents — with no body cameras — shot him dead searching for two other men who weren't even in the van. Gift link in reply.

So yes, Pa's itinerant nature definitely did not help the Ingalls, but it's hard to separate how much was Pa being "restless" because he was actually restless and how much was Pa being "restless" because he owed money he couldn't pay back.

I don’t understand how people can run for office knowing they have insane baggage and/or crimes. Like I spent the entire campaign expecting AIPAC to somehow dig up my middle school livejournal fanfic account. I prepared my family for it. I’m still amazed it didn’t happen.

Facebook’s own researchers found that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools”, an internal report in 2016 found. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Oh wow you don’t say? giving ICE more funding to better check themselves doesn’t work?

3500 people control $20 trillion and about 5% of global wealth. The rest of us would like to use that money to feed, house and educate people while they would prefer to finance theft-based teen suicide and CSAM enabling AI and pogrom-oriented social media companies. This is a predictable problem.

Ojalá by Silvio Rodriguez. It’s haunting and full of longing and regret. youtu.be/u3quFCVY6Ug

I will be honest that was one of the most interesting few minutes of you guys watching sports that I've ever read