Canadians and Northern USers, you would be shocked how well these work! Please, please, if you have the time and the money, make one.

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-...

This is 💯 entryism. He wrote a piece seemingly critical of AI, got caught & admitted to chatGPT use, but also gaslights us it's a search engine & it's useful for checking links — why not just click them? We can't be anti AI if we don't agree we see it. They did it with climate change, tobacco etc.

The actual blame is Taylor Farms. Taylor Farms owns Earthbound Organics and is the largest supplier of salads/lettuce in the US. Taco Bell just did the actual investigative work the FDA did before RFK jr decided we do not need food safety surveillance.

Part of the reason we end up with periodic outbreaks of food-borne illness is because the people who harvest, process, and prepare food are some of the lowest-paid workers with the fewest labor protections and most miserable working conditions in America

If you're wondering whether you're eating Taylor Farms products, their webpage has a handy-dandy brand and location finder! www.taylorfarms.com/find-a-store/

There is definitely a path! Control of the US Senate may depend on South Carolina. Please help amplify this and consider a donation. If you live in SC or can travel, consider volunteering. I’ll be knocking doors tomorrow. #SCpol #Midterms secure.actblue.com/donate/loc_a...

A lot of people are doing testosterone explainers, but you should read the one written by a trans man.

Taylor Farms grows lettuce in Salinas and Yuma. They also buy from other farms and process produce all over, incl Mexico & Europe. They've caused multiple outbreaks and sell under a variety of brands/labels to consumers and restaurants/food service. They're about a third of entire US salad market.

Over at the Climate Brink I take a deep dive into climate and wildfires in Canada, and why complaints about Canadian forest management largely miss the mark as conditions rapidly have become more favorable for megafires: www.theclimatebrink....

City Controller Kenneth Mejia backs Nithya Raman: “Nithya will bring the change we need at City Hall.” The endorsement marks a reset for Raman's campaign after her second-place primary finish and comes as Mayor Karen Bass confronts a growing list of political challenges. Read more: buff.ly/QvOn88X

wait.

“Area chuds shocked a household-name filmmaker who got audiences to sit through a 3-hour film about nuclear physicists might make a myth-&-monsters adventure story a hit” is like, you will never win this Kulturkampf, go build a testicle-tanning cult compound in the mountains or something.

Election experts say that Biden won the 2020 election fairly. A guy who shits himself in public and struggles to pass basic cognitive tests says that Trump won. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to trust.

While the Pacific is slightly ahead of season as far as TS formation, the Atlantic´s alarm went off... but likely snoozed soon, again.. Also, these areas have more meat to them as far as future development. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/07/the-...

Anyone else find it suspicious that the White House is releasing a bunch of “newly discovered” findings concerning the 2020 election weeks after they conducted mass firings of career intelligence officers? 🙋‍♀️

One of the hardest thing I've tried to get US government officials to understand over the past 15 years, including when I was an Army civilian, is that Russian doctrine is explicit that they take no physical actions until they have set the intellectual/conceptual theory via influence operations. 1/

one thing that finally forced the federal government to act on the dust bowl was when the dust storms finally got so big that they affected the east coast. before then, it was just a provincial western problem. the same pattern is repeating itself today with climate change and wildfire smoke.

it's the biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and you almost never hear about it (because it threatens to bankrupt many of the fossil fuel interests who currently run our society)

This one is going around and I just have to say that this guy was 12 years old when Trump withdrew from the JCPOA and 14 years old for George Floyd and Trump's fascist reaction. It's a bad take, but every authority in his life is normalizing Trump and no 14yo I knew in 1985 was paying attention.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched with Crowd on Jan. 6 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

Meanwhile in Hong Kong: book store employee (handcuffed?) led from store, arrested for “doing with a seditious intention an act or acts that had a seditious intention”... selling books. Books confiscated. Temperature not yet 451° Fahrenheit, but getting there... hongkongfp.com/2026/07/15/b...

every gardener i follow is going absolutely hogwild flexing that they eat lettuce from behind their house. i've never seen gardeners act like this in my life. this is our super bowl. this is our olympics. gold medal in shitting normally

Denise Oliver-Velez, RIP. Pa’lante, siempre pa’ lante!

Staying in power matters more to Donald Trump than anything else.

scenes from a climate apocalypse

Abolish ICE

The people have spoken and what we want is an ev station wagon with knobs and tactile buttons no touch screen bullshit and no massive console in beween the front seats so we can manspread

"women owe sex and life partnership to people who loathe them and want to subjugate them" would in most circumstances be seen as over the line by mainstream venues, but phrased around polarization somehow it becomes cool and smart and acceptable.

*clears throat* *taps mic* welcome to Schism Watch 2026 I am here to report a new crashout

The important thing to remember is these people have nothing. They control the money, most of the media, the top 13 social media platforms, every lever of government, and they're getting their ass handed to them in the messaging war They're scared, and they should be, because we're going to win.

As of early July, it’s clear that a summer COVID-19 wave is getting started in the U.S. Disease levels are going up in the South and parts of the West Coast. This week's COVID-19 trends report: thesicktimes.org/2026/07/14/n...

A satellite study reveals Southeast Asian mangroves are rebounding, driving 43% of global gains since 2010. While abandoned shrimp ponds offer ideal sites for recovery, scientists emphasize that newly grown forests cannot yet match the carbon storage of ancient stands. @npbrao.bsky.social reports.

Happy Bastille Day, everyone!

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Abolish ICE. Now.

Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...

This is where it was ALWAYS headed. While us trans people are real targets, not just cis people's fucking canaries, yeah we're the fucking canaries in the coal mine.

Important piece - and today is the last day to make comments.

el niño's gone plaid

100 years ago Oregon Electric ran 33 trains a day between Portland and Salem

every once in awhile we have to hand it to Oregon, and hosting the game on the state tourism website is p good stuff

Because their goalies think you can save by faith alone.

Literary Chinese for When You're Glad:

As someone who was born and raised in SC, and taught to never speak ill of the dead, I will say this about Lindsey Graham: It is always good when someone who fought for a race-neutral meritocracy can reunite with their ancestors.

Lindsey Graham was ashamed of what he should have been proud of and proud of what he should have been ashamed of.

posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.

1. Yes, y’all, I’ve been getting texts about Lindsey Graham, some looking for a South Carolina perspective. My very first thought was “What does this mean for the SC Senate race?” The rules say the SCGOP must hold a special election primary to replace him. #SCpol