Is Taco Bell growing their own lettuce? No. They get their lettuce from companies like Taylor Farms (that has 1/3 of the market *including hospitals*). This is deflection on the part of the federal government, which specifically cut funding for food safety screening/testing.

The ruling class want to enslave people who actually work for a living

I look forward to the ADL introducing a Netanyahu Monitor to keep track of all the things Netanyahu is doing to make American Jews feel unsafe.

This article about @philweiser.bsky.social's win from the Denver Post starts with this anecdote. www.denverpost.com/2026/07/04/p...

If you in any way condone or support what was done to Scott Weiner at the SF trans march then congratulations, you’re an antisemite. And bonus, you’re a pretty lousy queer as well.

If you're still using Sticker Mule btw, you should not do that

Wrote about Dan Goldman implying he lost to Jewish candidate Brad Lander becasue of antisemitism, and how erasing the Jewishness of Jews who oppose Israeli policy is antisemitic. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/its-antise...

MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD Trump directed his Postmaster General to INTERFERE WITH YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE Pursuant to an Executive Order the USPS proposed a rule where they’ll REFUSE to carry mail-in ballots from certain states YOU HAVE UNTIL JULY 2 TO OBJECT You can do so HERE: apwu.org/news/submit-...

NEW: USPS won’t deliver mail ballots in states that refuse to turn over lists of voters under a proposed rule, the postmaster general told Congress on Wednesday My latest for @statesnewsroom.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/stat...

✅ tarp around the Kennedy Center ✅ fence around the Reflecting Pool The emperor may not be wearing any cloths but he knows how to desperately grasp at temporary sheeting to hide the rot beneath.

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built. Think about that. At a time when electricity demand is rising,

If it’s like Covid, ppl will direct their unprocessed trauma onto disabled and marginalized ppl, and Dem elites will help whitewash history to try to quickly move on, which only strengthens conspiracy theories and anti-science fascism.

Gavin Newsom, interesting use case. You can go on Steve Bannon’s podcast all you want, do your little concession parade, reluctantly toss people who don’t look like you to the wolves. But they will still come after you. No matter who you threw under the bus first, you’ll be right there with them.

Babies at 18 months old can’t even receive an accurate diagnosis of autism but RFK is thrilled to inject them with ketamine and stem cells for $20k. This is vile. Also, we know what helps autism and its OT, sensory management, environmental modifications, and communication support. Not experiments

This is why telling them that their policies lead to trans kids killing themselves *will never work*.

Court packing isn't setting off a judicial legitimacy crisis. We are faced with a judicial legitimacy crisis that is already here, a court that half or more of the country has good reason to see as not just conservative but as enemies of the republic. "Too bad, accept it" isn't an answer that works.

It’s been zero subtext for awhile now, but the specificity of branding for this event with these people really is all caps bolded TEXT.

"The United States draws its SPR; the world prices off the suppressed signal. When Cushing hits its operational floor — a matter of weeks at current trajectories — the self-correcting mechanism arrives not gradually but abruptly." Sounds bad. www.carlyle.com/carlyle-comp...

Do you not understand that if you allow trans people to be oppressed and hurt and destroyed that the fascists will move on from them to the next group and then the next group until you're reading dipshits on social media saying your life is worth sacrificing to win elections? Do you not?

Literally all the referees, including the American ones, should boycott. But nobody will because most people excuse racism unless it's happening to them personally.

trans kids should be on hrt and playing sports, because they’re kids and deserve a real childhood

What people need to understand is that this is solely in response to an executive order. No law or regulation has changed. If Trump writes another executive order targeting adults tomorrow, trans people cannot trust that our state and local governments will fight for us when they won't for youth.

If a medía outlet isn’t pushing back and and calling this out after every response with “counting every vote IS integrity” and “GOP lies yet again about voting fraud” then they’re complicit with fascism. It’s not enough to ask, it’s about ledes and framing and I’m so damn tired.

Los Angeles County literally has a fully transparent vote counting process - the entire count is livestreamed online. This commitment to transparency makes zero difference, mainstream press still credulously repeats GOP info bubble claims of fraud anyway.

This is obscene. Mamdani literally ran on opposing this kind of capitulation. He went to the protest at NYU, who made the EXACT same decision for the EXACT same reason. It's notable there is NO federal law that pulls funding right now. The Kennedy Declaration is blocked in ocurt.

The fact that Milei is extolling the Dutch East India company as a model for tech resource and human extraction is another Musk-Nazi-salute moment. There are no dog whistles anymore, just apocalyptic trumpets.

6 years ago, we came together to avoid protect ourselves and neighbors from a deadly virus. Today, instead of honoring our collective action & sacrifice, the revisionist historians behind the COVID Amnesia Project blame us for the lack of normalcy in 2020. I remember what they want us to forget.

I have a paper coming out soon about how the erosion of medical privacy for trans people would lead to this and even I'm shocked at how brazen this is.

The regulatory state is more important to the smooth operation of society to which we’ve become accustomed than anyone in this administration realizes, and in a lot of ways, we’ve already run off the cliff and are just starting to look down

Exhibit #1 in how the Dem establishment is misreading the moment, the electorate, and the need for change is Bill Kristol coming out swinging for AOC. I’m just an NPC to the oligarchs, but hopefully someone in the room shoves this read into the face of our purported centrist “leadership”

American federally-funded science, one of the most ambitious and effective mechanisms for advancing and sharing knowledge that the world has ever known, is about to undergo a real and grim metamorphosis. Read+share this, and if you're American (I assume the rest of us don't count), object.

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

I am consistently grateful for my relative financial privilege, but also aware they will leave me to die (see: pandemic with chronic illness) and actually actively want my trans family dead (and no pols or systems will save us). So yeah, my 401k is very nice but we still live w profound insecurity.

Mutual Aid to help support Trans refugees get resettled in Seattle: koinitiative.org

This bill, literally called the “CHARLIE Act,” imports definitions from Trump's odious EOs on race (EO 14190) and sex (EO 14168) into the federal statute for K-12 funding. It's not savvy centrist politics, it will not get them more votes. They know; they're bad people who like these parts of MAGA.

I don't think most people have even tried to grasp how it feels for trans people to be segregated, hunted, betrayed by allies, met with silence and neutrality by friends & family, and then wake up every single day to see articles and polls asking if there's a Centrist Solution to the Trans Problem.

In this week's newsletter I'm writing about trans kids' right to privacy in their medical records, and how nobody in the mainstream bothers giving lip service to it. Medical privacy laws were written with HIV stigma as the primary concern, this was always a queer issue. assignedmedia.org/support/

If you care even an iota about the trans community you don't want to see us stripped of rights that were uncontroversial as recently as 2020. This is not a litmus test or a purity test, it's an honesty test.

🧵I used to work for the Mayor of Los Angeles. It's time to talk about Spencer Pratt – and people who participate in civic life only when their wealth is at risk 🧵🧵🧵 Let's start with a story.

US internal trans refugee crisis cons: rapidly increasing threat of mass persecution, erosion or outright stripping of personhood, disruption of life, poverty from moving costs, displacement of families, endless communal trauma, decreasing number of safe areas, etc pros: yay my friends live closer

Agreed. It's not possible to reconcile "rule of law" with "one week the GOP SCOTUS will nullify a 43-year-old statute so they can allow racial gerrymandering, then the next week the GOP VA SC will block voter-approved redistricting and have themselves a laugh by citing the SCOTUS liberals' dissent."

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Don’t forget the recent FBI raid of the LAUSD Superintendent who fiercely protected immigrant kids (he had legit issues too, but standing against kidnappings was probably the real reason for FBI involvement). This is an escalation.

Research on cities deploying batteries, heat pumps, and EVs together shows that meeting the fossil fuel reduction targets would save 22 to 37% of energy costs; the transition pays for itself.

Our house motto is “Fuck Resilience” because we’re So Damn Tired of needing to be resilient. Grit doesn’t make us successful, it means we’re stubborn and burnt out.

Join and participate in School’s Beyond Screens. We’re starting to successfully fight back against tech in schools. www.schoolsbeyondscreens.com

A lot of my trans friends and community have found safety the left-leaning LATAM counties. Tech fascism is a global cancer coming for us all.

"Trump bad" is not the story. The story is that every Republican administration for the last 50 fucking years has been a corrupt disaster and Democrats keep having to clean up after them. This narrative is obvious in the numbers, in the history, but voters don't know it because Dems won't tell it.

How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.

What do conservatives always say when liberals criticize a Supreme Court decision? "Get Congress to pass a law," right? That is EXACTLY what happened here. In 1982, Congress explicitly overruled a Court case that narrowly interpreted the VRA. Today, Sam Alito said, nope, we were right all along.