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!

an idea's been rolling around in my head about how what we lose with assuming everyone wants "answers" & not search results is similar to what we lose when "route" is the only kind of map we encounter I won't get the academic terms right, but it's some version of skipping an essential abstraction

This post aged well

We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea

On this day in 1974: Board of Education in Long Branch, New Jersey, asks Congress to repeal permanent Daylight Saving Time.

The only research center in the United States focused on disabled parents may close soon due to loss of federal funding. New from me at @motherjones.com. “It is a profound setback for disability rights and family equity.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is deeply disingenuous and, frankly, a dereliction of journalistic integrity. A quick glance at Yum! Brand’s annual filings reveal that this is common language included every single year as an investment risk factor. The most recent filing is no different because the risk is always present.

A male Red-bellied Woodpecker showing his red belly while perched along a boardwalk railing.

Vermont Public’s review of more than 130 hours of body camera footage shows local police confronted both ICE and protesters as officers resisted — but ultimately accepted — a role in March’s immigration raid.

Jfc look at Duluth

Baseball sized hail now with this storm moving through Saint Lawrence County in New York⚠️

they were likely stuck on a siding, waiting for that oncoming train to pass. A lot of Canada (and the CN line) is one single rail track only, with sidings to let them pass.

Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

Burlington Electric says the project will help meet peak power consumption needs and could lower costs for customers.

Rachel Maddow’s description of Juan Sebastian Guerrero killed by ICE in Maine is a must see. She explains what happened w/out being graphic, and somehow that makes it even more powerful. Remember Alex, Pretti, and Renée? There have been no prosecutions. Still no justice. We know how this goes.

ope almost missed Harrison Ford’s birthday

It took DHS 12 hours to come up with this statement, And the best they could come up with is that ICE shot and killed an unarmed man who didn’t present a threat to the agents. They know they fucked this one up. And it’ll be up to state and local prosecutors—not the feds—to make the case

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement Friday that there have been two confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis in 2026 so far. Multiple states have reported outbreaks of the parasite, which can cause severe digestive issues.

President Trump on Monday sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah, undoing protections established by former presidents on public lands that are sacred among many Native Americans.

Someone should write a story about a curséd device, lusted after as a transformative source of power, that renders its users unnaturally youthful long beyond their time

“Introduced Friday, Harrigan and Scanlon’s bill, the Sunshine for Our Kids Act, would set the entire country to Standard Time, but still give states the option to change to Daylight Saving Time if they so wish…” dailycaller.com/2026/07/13/d...

Dangerous landslide-triggered tsunamis linked to receding glaciers — which are shrinking globally due to climate change — are on the rise in Alaska.

As with many elected officials I protected for nearly 2 decades as an officer, my interactions with him were limited, I do remember when he and I were alone in a elevator and he pretended he didn’t know who I was after my Jan 6 testimony. I will never forget his betrayal to me and my colleagues.

Permanent DST would put most states’ sunrise past 8am for 3+ months, and past 8:45am for 1+ weeks! It cost lives when last tried!! Tell Congress to OPPOSE the Sunshine Protection Act—there’s a vote tomorrow!!! Ditch the switch with the Sunshine for Our Kids Act instead!!!!

A surge of cases of the intestinal illness that causes diarrhea and nausea has been detected in 31 states, according to federal health authorities, but the source is still under investigation. n.pr/4guWrQn

Great question! While antibiotics typically target bacteria, they can sometimes be effective for v specific parasites. Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole is the drug of choice for cyclospora, or cipro if allergic. I really like this explainer

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/

Welp, here we are.

12 JULY 1776, PHILADELPHIA: “Art. I. THE Name of this Confederacy shall be ‘THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’”: The drafting committee submits to the Second Continental Congress its draft of the Articles of Confederation, America’s first federal constitution.

Onward and upward, friends.

Summer 2015. Several lifetimes ago. A different America. Lindsey Graham, running for president, says this about Joe Biden. The same summer he said Trump would “kill” the GOP with his hateful comments. Several lifetimes ago. A different America.

from before recent news

Rather than waste time and effort reading/writing about MAGAt Graham or his temporary replacement who South Carolina's governor will name, the patriotic thing to do is working toward election of Dr. Annie Andrews (who was running against him) this November 3: drannieandrews.com

One of the legacies of Lindsay

Underrated? A little. Essential? Absolutely. The Brazil Current is the South Atlantic's western boundary current, carrying warm water southward and driving circulation across an entire ocean basin. It doesn't have Gulf Stream's PR team, but WHOI scientists know it's doing the same critical work.

On this day in COVID history, July 12, 2020: Trump Aides Undercut Fauci as He Speaks Up on Virus Concerns Source: New York TImes https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/12/us/politics/fauci-trump-coronavirus.html

I worked on a commission dealing with issues for women faculty at my uni and we endlessly discussed motherhood but never elder care. Both v challenging, but one is joyful and gets better; one is heartbreaking and usually gets harder as time passes.

I was looking through old photos and found this Accidental Renaissance Painting of the cats

Sharing a gift link to this because I know when I was caretaking my mom every ounce of validation that I was doing something emotionally, physically, professionally and financially impossible helped me feel less alone

APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Missile alert sirens sound in Bahrain as United Arab Emirates and Qatar under attack.

More important stories from OTM. Get it all out in the open. @onthemedia.bsky.social www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Yeesh. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/w...

CD player with a tape deck.🔥🔥🔥 This was the peak of music listening and it all went to hell after this.

After the Civil War, Southern states ignored the rules of the law that brought them back into the nation in order to block huge numbers of Black people from voting. In January, that finally caught up with one of these former Confederate states—Virginia.

CDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country

A Russian strike sparked a massive 4,000-square-meter fire at an infrastructure facility in the Kyiv region. Firefighters had to operate under extreme temperatures and the constant threat of secondary strikes to extinguish the blaze. Video: State Emergency Service