The 2nd quarter fundraising numbers are in & they provide more evidence that North Carolina's 11th congressional district--where the Reps have won 7 elections in a row--might be competitive in '26. Here's the story in 5 graphs. ⬇️ #ncpol #nc11 #wncpol open.substack.com/pub/chriscoo...

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The award for easiest use of 1lb of ground beef.

Catching up on the news at People dot com

It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

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Flashback! Get the best keeper, do this.

Short red on tippy toes!!! (I am deeply sympathetic)

wow at this incredible deal

Spain!

None of you would've survived the Brian Ferentz era of Iowa Hawkeyes football

I'm watching in germany. The German commentators kept quiet for nearly the whole thing until suddenly the shot widened and we just hear with a German accent, "Oh, Miss Piggy"

An all-Muppets Super Bowl halftime show would be amazing.

Ok somebody sell me Piggy's soccer ball hair clip

Forget the billionaires, someone get me Shakira's anti-aging regimen

Muppets?

The Chuck Amato Spanish Brass

The Chuck Amato Spanish Brass

Lots of boos

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

As others have pointed out, the White House would love to make this just a funny Taco Bell story, but TB found out they had a problem in their supply chain and acted appropriately. The story is the people whose jobs it was to monitor this sort of thing were DOGED

Just trying to tread water on clean energy: columbusunderground.com/city-solar-r...

Yeah yeah, France didn’t want to be there, etc etc, I know the REAL reason England is crushing them right now…

A lot of attention has gone to Kennedy making cyclosporiasis optional for FoodNet reporting. But cuts to state and local health departments -- and the loss of CDC expertise -- are a much bigger deal. My latest: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

FOX soccer announcer: There’s the President, enjoying the game with FIFA President Gianni Infantino, we certainly hope he’s enjoying the action tonight in a great moment for him and our country TELEMUNDO ANNOUNCER: ¡ES EL GRAN NARANJA!

“The false rhetoric about the cause of wildfires is not constructive," says Tim Gray, exec director of Environmental Defence Canada. "It helps to further underscore the sense Canadians have that the U.S. has lost its way." Canada sent water bombers + teams to help with last year's CA fires.

Intellectually I know that The Hague is a real place and things other than The International Criminal Court exist there. I was still not prepared to read the sentence: “Shrek Rave Is Coming To The Hague!”

Dems rushing to pass the Lindsey Graham bill are making a major and regrettable mistake. They should take a minute and read fine print in this thing before they give Trump massive new tariff powers that he will certainly abuse

Again, weird way to cover this. Every public company files an annual 10k with the SEC that includes a disclosure of known risk factors to investors, and common types of food-borne illness would be included for *any* food service company. Like they’d legally have to include them.

When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

How are people this stupid. Why the fuck would you want to replace an incapacitated Republican senator with a Republican senator who can vote?

Among the revelations: an accusation that ADA leadership knew in advance that members would be handing out copies of the editorial and deliberately set up an ambush by venue security and local police. (2/2)

Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy. The American Diabetes Association blocked publication of a collection of op-ed articles in Diabetes Care journal, so the authors posted them as a preprint. (1/2) arstechnica.com/science/2026...

I do think pinning this on specifically Taco Bell is weird since many confirmed cases aren’t people who ate at Taco Bell at all and we know the actual source—Taylor Farms—distributes lettuce and other produce to many, many other large food businesses

INCREDIBLE READ: Depositions from Ohio teacher’s lawsuit against district shed light on how ‘Hate Has No Home Here’ poster was targeted. Ohio school board president’s hunt for LGBTQ+ ‘ideology’ possibly began with a tip from a pastor convicted of sex crimes involving minors.

Roy would never have been in "some trouble" in the NC primary if he had drawn a Sander's like opponent.

Roy Cooper wouldn't have had trouble against any challenger in North Carolina's Democratic primary, and the more important conversation to have here is why that's the case with Roy when it hasn't been with other centrist, establishment Democrats

when the cdc didn't care and the federal government attacked them, remember that taco bell stood with the people

Roy would never have been in "some trouble" in the NC primary if he had drawn a Sander's like opponent.

matt campbell is both not on social media at all and reads a lot of books so i really want someone to show this to him, people on the beat who follow me please do this

Tillis prodded a rape survivor to go public with allegations against Hegseth, promising her that it would sink the nomination of a dangerous man to a powerful position. She did, at significant risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote in favor of Hegseth. He has always been a coward.

We make our movies the old-fashioned way: we urn them

fwiw here is a link to download the north carolina voter file. congratulations you have now apparently done election espionage! www.ncsbe.gov/results-data...

We’ve seen this same explosive claim made many times that withers under scrutiny The game is played by making the accusation, having docile media report it, and then the media bury (or not report at all) the eventual resolution

I'm sorry, is that a FORMER AUBURN FOOTBALL COACH trying to lecture people about following the rules in the pursuit of winning?

Durham/Chapel Hill/Carrboro folks...best place you have eaten dinner in the last year? Making plans for Saturday.

“Do people enjoy the hospital food when they are hospitalized for exploding diarrhea because you dismantled surveillance programs?”

oh he’s gonna be pop’n alright