It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

It’s genuinely weird to watch this mass abandonment of reason on this one thing take over this website.

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

Next week keeps trending towards a more serious escalation.

This website is broken again.

Feels like now might be a good time to log off for the night.

Nobody hates the white working class more than condescending assholes who, implicitly or otherwise, claim that rape and bigotry are simply their folkways.

Putting everything else aside, I have no idea why they'd use Dugin's analysis as a starting point.

I'm trying to decide if Hegseth tweeted this because he's too dumb to understand that the joke he's referencing mocks idiot leaders like himself... or because he somehow thinks that referencing the joke... somehow makes him look cool?

This ends with a jet crashing and the admin immediately blaming communist DEI terrorism.

*deep, deep sigh* This was Biden’s infrastructure bill, which contained *massive* environmental reforms. Our fellow voters decided they didn’t want a government that would enact it.

It's sort of crazy how often we have movies now with the cast in their 60s and 70s but who are "coded" as 40s and 50s. All because they don't really have movie stars anymore so are forced to rely on the last generation.

The one thing I'd add here is throughout the 90s and early 2000s if you lived in a city, you'd be able to rent most popular games for like $10. You'd have them for a few days, but a lot of games could be finished in that time. That and buying second hand was how a lot of people experienced games.

Marco Rubio will have his Cuban clusterfuck, one way or another.

Yeah. See that movie! ”The Hunt” which the trailers made abundantly clear was going to be elites kidnap rural Americans who eventually turn the tables, then MAGA went insane and cause they thought the film would be on the side of the obvious villains

I really hate the YouTube ads where they try to pretend like it's a podcast clip or an unboxing video, just randomly popping up in the middle of a video with no relation to any of that. It's like no one actually wants to even make commercials; they want to pretend it's something else.

It's crazy how every two weeks or so we get a 'Here is a leak from a top-secret meeting in what should be one of the most secure places on Earth outlining the US strategy' and no one really cares because they know it's Trump leaking it.

AND AGAIN

the truth is, social media is not too split into 'echo chambers' but is in fact not silo'd *enough*. humans naturally code-switch in different venues and settings but the idea of the 'common town square' means that we have these places that are both dive bar and work happy hour and it's a huge mess.

"As a realist, I am shocked to hear the middle powers are rearming and discussing power balancing when China, Russia, and the United States all have openly have imperial ambitions."

low info voters are constantly being convinced that Republicans have more moderate policies (and Democrats more left wing policies) than they actually do and the mainstream media is a huge accomplice in this effort.

It got muddled b/c it was mostly seen as incidental to getting at Trump himself, but Graham didn't just vaguely lean on Raffensperger. He told him to falsify the tally by not counting ballots. Straight-up criminal election fraud no different from telling a poll worker to go dump votes in the trash.

Does everyone realize how incredibly weak it is for the president of the United States to issue threats that achieve nothing, get no one to change their behavior, and instead receive widespread scoffs and shrugs?

It’s crazy how Trump explicitly states the ceasefire is over Iran explicitly declares the MoU void, and the media is just like, fragile agreement threatened.

You ever get the sense that people are no longer able to actually read more than four sentences, that they get distracted or confused in the middle and then fill in the gaps of their understanding by just making something up?

They seriously did a proof of life photo with today's newspaper.

You can - and should - shit on Graham's memory all you like yourself. Senators won't do so, and expecting them to do so and getting mad that they didn't is a waste of your own energy.

You want to see what ignoring any sense of regular human courtesies and performative ritual statements looks like? It's Trump.

Anyway, the reason it's important to engage in basic human decency when someone dies is because only one of these individuals comes off as an irredeemable asshole.

BREAKING: Lindsey Graham’s sudden death reveals everyone’s wake-up time on Sundays.

Lindsey Graham really thought he was like a deep thinker in the conservative movement and all the obituaries are Trump's Little Renfield dies.

Change in Headline

"Tributes Pour In for Senator Lindsey Graham", then a dramatic blank space on the landing page of NYT.

Lindsey Graham lived to see the Iran War he dreamed about happen, only to realize that it wasn’t the war he wanted, and he couldn’t say shit about it for fear of upsetting Trump.

There's also no special general election. The governor appoints a replacement who will serve till January 3. law.justia.com/codes/south-...

Today is a great reminder that we can never be too ready.

Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP.

Graham was often seen as a Trump suck up, whose heart wasnt in it, that he was merely doing so for the influence to mitigate Trump's damaging impulses. (Not sure that is true think he just wanted access to power) Regardless now thinking of the 47 Ronin, specifically the criticism of their plan.

Man, this is fucking with me bad. I have a nightmare, very rare, and I wake up to this. Now I'm half convinced it was some sort of prophetic dream.

Rubio apparently did not voice his concerns about starting a war with Iran. He still has his eyes on Cuba, which the US is strangling at his enthusiastic behest. Marco Rubio is not the "sane," "better than the alternatives" cabinet member. He's an active part of the Trump foreign policy disaster. 4/

Honestly when it comes to Mitch McConnell I'm not so sure you'd have so many people explicitly lying about convos with him if he was truly incapacitated. I think the news would leak. I'm inclined to believe that he's just in a clearly diminished state, badly slurring his words for instance.

I sort of assumed the explosive diarrhea would have been narrowed down to a particular brand or produce item, since that is normally how it works, but no it's all: try to avoid all these high-risk items; Raspberries, Basil, Salad mixes, Cilantro, Berry/fruit mixes, Lettuce...

I'm still very upset by this, but that is more a factor of me now having to clean out my oven than it is continued embarrassment.

When someone tells you it has always been this bad, the correct response is to point out that the Voting Rights Act passed with 98 votes in the Senate in 2006 and its main sponsor was a Republican who worked with the ACLU to build a comprehensive record in defense of its most “controversial” parts

A thing that gets me is how often the media will run op eds or ask for comment from guys who are utterly unhinged, something that can be learned by anyone spending any amount of time on social media (something everyone in the media does)