Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...

Pay attention to where your foodstuff is coming from! www.propublica.org/article/fore...

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Fabulous!!!

Cruelty is the goal.

The oligarchs have all the power allowed by the constitution. The only power they don’t have is the support of the governed.

Yep, had family in Ohio ask me about that

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Hey New Jersey, if you haven’t voted yet, make a plan to go on your lunch break!

Find your polling location: MikieSherrill.com/polls

Authoritarian leaders must control the message whether it's through mass media control or stripping citizens of their rights to free speech.

Democracy saying in the US.

The whole Third Term Project isn’t actually about Trump. The people behind it know he will likely be dead or enfeebled by 2029. It is about them, the vastly unpopular group around Trump, wanting to grift us forever without elections.

Don't hold back...how do you REALLY feel?

Trump is a paper tiger, he is not popular.

It's all about greed. Attorneys and firms who bow to Trump need to explore their moral compass...or determine if they even have one.

🙄

Thugs.

Not sure how many time I told people during the election, when someone tells you who they are believe them! Especially if it’s as important as our democracy .

yet here we are.

Measles case confirmed at Newark Liberty International Airport prompts health alert Health officials are asking anyone who was inside Terminal B at Newark Liberty on Oct. 19 between 2:15 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. and are feeling symptoms of measles to see their health professional.

#NewarkAirport. Terminal B
"Health officials are asking anyone who was inside Terminal B at Newark Liberty on Oct. 19 between 2:15 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. and are feeling symptoms of measles to see their health professional."

A Confederate statue toppled in Washington, D.C., in 2020 has been reinstalled — NPR A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.’s Judiciary Square.

"Pike, who was a Freemason and was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson, has also been identified by historians as possibly having been involved with the development of the Ku Klux Klan in the period after the Civil War." apple.news/Ae0VLV-j8TDi...

"cholesterol chrysalis" you crack me up 💕

Great idea! Let's do this New Jersey!

Trump being guided through a room by the Japanese PM

OMG. What an ad!

Vote now before the DOJ thugs come in and intimidate voters on Election Day

Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
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I would argue that Newt Gingrich laid the groundwork for divisiveness. Trump just took it to a new level

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

The US in brief: San Francisco wins a reprieve | Latest US politics news from The Economist Our daily political update, featuring the stories that matter

♦️Donald Trump drops his plan to send law-enforcement agents to San Francisco.

♦️Plans to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s unspoilt Arctic National Wildlife Refuge are approved.

♦️Virginia’s governor declares a state of emergency to fund hunger relief.

LOTS of reasons to Boycott Hpme Depot

He's been impeached...and he's still here. Need another strategy.

One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure — WIRED Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.

One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US #Election Infrastructure - WIRED apple.news/AZesS1G2jR-6...

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces on Wednesday, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs being removal from being at the sea...

Journalists turn in access badges, exit #Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules #FirstAmendment

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This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.