If you want to understand why America is struggling to trace a parasite outbreak sickening thousands, read this ⬇️ After food-industry lobbyists spent millions, a government funding deal delayed food-tracking rules, blocked produce-safety measures, and limited ultraprocessed-food research.

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

Reminder! There are alternatives to Substack! Which do not have its ethical problems! (My newsletter is on Ghost, which is fabulous, and Buttondown is among the others I've heard praised.) Thread--

And here's a thread on how cheapness becomes very expensive. bsky.app/profile/sust...

Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social say that part again about climate action not being economical? "It would have been too expensive for Canadians. Canadians who are already struggling with affordability."

Booker: Do you all know that they were constantly chipping away? I was told we would have 13 minutes for questioning. Then they brought it down to 10. Ten minutes of questioning for the confirmation of the highest law enforcement official in the land has never been done before.

The new Trump tariffs on Brazil appear to be a direct reaction to President Lula's sharp criticism of the Iran War as immoral and foolish, and are designed to help Bolsonaro jr who is now challenging Lula. They'll inflict more harm on US consumers than on Brazil.

Russian code is inside the White House app, which is now mandated on all government phones. The company behind the code is growing. Its founders bank at sanctioned Russian banks. And its accountant has a criminal history. Scott Stedman's investigation: youtu.be/0RRKYCLbUbk?...

We could have health care for all. We could have a national child care program. We could have free community college. Instead, Trump spends the money on detaining, brutalizing, & killing immigrants & an illegal war in Iran that's cost us over $103 billion in just a few months. #TrumpsWarofChoice

Republicans need to stop standing in the way of us doing our jobs and start figuring out how to do theirs. Just this past week, two people who weren’t even the intended targets lost their lives because of rogue ICE agents. Enough is enough. We need leaders who can actually govern.

📌Why is it called "aid" to Israel? We are helping "fund" their slaughter of innocent people.

Forensic analysis shows that almost every element of the ICE account of their killing of Lorenzo Salgado is a lie.

New reporting reveals the Secret Service is "fed up" with JD Vance's last-minute helicopter travel requests, including multiple house-hunting trips around Virginia and arrangements to fly his young son to a golf lesson.

Saying Biden was “certified” as the winner of the 2020 presidential election is not the same as saying Biden “won.” Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence doesn’t appear to understand the distinction — and his answer is more important than it may seem. https://demdock.com/4vRuGpj

Holy shit! Literally… The outbreak is worse than we think.

Interesting that claims that DOJ is refusing cooperation are simply denied as false. But the same charges are coming from prosecutors in the UK, France, Germany, Poland, Norway and other places. They all say the DOJ is sitting on materials and refusing to cooperate in pending criminal cases.

Also, remember when this guy had what would've been a career-ending scandal in 2025 and not a single Republican did anything about it and everybody just let him keep on in the job, day drunk and fucking everything up, firing competent service members and launching "holy wars" in the Middle East.

They will keep killing and getting away with it as long as we let them. Their goal is to terrorize and kill. Their disregard for humane life astounds us. May be time to rewatch Zone of Interest. ICE/CBP/Core Civic/Geo Group are so disconnected from their humanity, atrocities are easy for them.

J.D. Vance using a military chopper to send his son to golf lessons is very on brand. www.ms.now/news/veeps-s...

“Every single member of my medical team was an immigrant!” -anti-ICE protester who donated her kidney tells @andrew-mercado.bsky.social during ongoing protests in Maine after ICE killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero. WATCH LIVE ⬇️

The Trump administration has revised the Endangered Species Act to allow increased killings of brizzly gears. This comes days after the Trump administration made it legal to destroy an endangered species' habitat.

Q: Why is the FBI not releasing the Epstein list? Kash Patel: Simple. Because of who's on that list.

I know a lot of folks want big swift revolutionary change. But change IS incremental. We build power. We build relationships, recruit, engage, care for needs, fill in gaps, address what we have access to and influence over. Make time to plan, build, shift, grow, care, solve. Change the world.

We're angry & sad, but we're not angry or sad enough! Trump's ICE goons are gunning people down in the street & acting as judge, jury & executioner. We need to act. We need to fight like hell for our democracy. So many sacrificed for us, the least we can do is call Congress: 202-224-3121!

Bill Kristol: Being angry about the ICE executions in Houston and Biddeford, Maine, is the right reaction. Trump counts on earning support from his base with these homicides. And this degrades us as a people. We need to demand justice for the victims and an end to impunity for ICE agents.

📌ICE is MAGA. Our cops are MAGA. Our military is MAGA. Our Supreme Court is MAGA. Our senate is MAGA. Our House is MAGA. Our guns are sold by MAGA. Christian Nationalist churches are MAGA. So when Trump calls for arrests of anybody who will not submit, what the hell do you think will happen? 1/3

Ossoff and Warnock should sue Trump on Thursday at 10pm. Bury him in discovery.

Trump slashes Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante by 90% In contrast, Obama issued Proclamation 9681 on Dec 4, 2017, to expand the boundaries of the Monuments and protect the lands.

Before Donald Trump was elected, America was the undisputed world power in an essentially unipolar world. But Trump undermined America's position dramatically, and in his second term, he is administering the coup de grâce to America's historical position as the leader of the developed world.

To the consternation of Pentagon brass and pilots flying dangerous missions, Trump keeps casually announcing Iran targets and when he will strike them. Latest case in point: we said he would seize Pickaxe Mountain Bunker’s “Front Door” on Monday. .

“Having all white male doctors is just as bad for the medical profession as having all white male congressmen is to our government.” Rep. Summer Lee came with the facts. “Republicans care more about culture wars than culturally competent care… they don’t care who dies along the way.” #SheShed

Judges are expected to write opinions not only for the sake of precedent, but b/c written opinions act as judicial guardrails. They help keep judges from making arbitrary or insufficiently considered opinions because they have to provide some coherent explanation for their conclusion.

Gaza's interior ministry denounces 'horrific massacre' that killed station chief, other police personnel and a civilian https://aje.news/ylyxvy

1,200+ former Justice Department employees just spoke out against Todd Blanche. These are career civil servants who have actually defended our nation in court under both Democratic and Republican Administrations. Todd Blanche only defends Donald Trump.

Mainstream media’s use of the passive tense to describe ICE or police murdering someone is effectively running cover for the perpetrator of the crime. On the topic of mainstream media mistakes, ICE’s victim’s name was erroneously reported. His name was Johan Sebastien Guerrero, not Joan.

We may never know the true extent of the suffering there but the stories we have heard are horrifying and punishment must be a priority of the next government. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The explosive diarrhea-causing cyclosporiasis outbreak has now spread to 31 states, with nearly 7,000 potential cases. Last year, RFK ordered the CDC's Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network to stop tracking cyclosporiasis.

NEW: Last night, Florida officials paused their plan to baselessly brand the Council on American-Islamic Relations as a “terrorist organization.” We will keep fighting to protect all nonprofits’ right to criticize the government and advocate for what they believe in.

AOC on Susan Collins touting the money she got for body cameras and ICE training in the DHS bill. “Senator Collins wrote the blank check to allow these officers to conduct themselves in the way that they have in Maine in the first place, and she's the one who's poured resources into it.”

Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar urging colleagues to vote YES on Massie & Khanna's amendment cutting aid to Israel. "The American people are crying out for an end to US tax dollars subsidizing Israel's military." Comes as party leadership announces opposition to the amendment.

RFK Jr has proposed spending 10% of NIH's annual budget, or around $5 billion, to identify a link between vaccines and autism. Repeated NIH studies have found no such link.

A new report has found that the One Big Beautiful Bill led to the cancellation or delay of 223 manufacturing and clean energy projects, affecting over 111,000 jobs.

Hakeem Jeffries aka AIPAC Shakur announces that in thanks for Israel's role in drawing the US into another war of choice in the Middle East, he will follow AIPAC's direction to support the Trump administration's no-strings-attached $3.1 bn gift bag, even though 83% of all Democrats oppose that move

You just voted to give these thugs another $70 Billion. You’re complicit in this and every other murder committed by Trump’s secret police.

WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?

No Kings is meant to be the entry point to your activism and move you into organizing. It was never meant to be the culmination of your involvement in the resistance. We need you. We need everyone. Join us and together we can stop this madness.

A protest group called The Secret Handshake placed a giant gold “Iran war participation trophy” for President Trump on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Unsurprisingly, a government filled with convicted felons is scared to death of the International Criminal Court, so it moves to persecute prosecutors and dismantle the court. bsky.app/profile/trut...