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US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.

they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...

ICE Agent Smashes Immigrant's Car Window While He Waits For Lawyer In Harrowing Video ICE is completely out of control.

This is despicable. ICE is out of control.

$15 MILLION agreement to detain abducted men, Sen. Van Hollen says. That’s our money.

Yet another reminder that we’ve got plenty of money to pay for good stuff that actually helps our communities.

Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit.

ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

They don’t care.

They don’t care that the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to bring an innocent man home to his family.

They don’t care.

They think it’s funny.

I don't really have anything especially profound to say, but yeah man this is it. They won't obey even the most milquetoast SCOTUS orders and are talking about sending US citizens to foreign gulags. It's happened here.

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

Not sure how these people sleep at night

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

Quite the coinky-dink that all these economic collapses always happen under Republican presidents.

Pls come to CD3!

Governor Newsom orders return to office | Governor of California

I'm old enough to remember when, in the early days of the pandemic, @governor.ca.gov's then Sr. Climate Policy Advisor Kate Gordon tweeted about the need to incorporate remote work as a climate solution. For this and many other reasons RTO mandates are not it, Governor.

Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?❞

A.R. Moxon 3/3

or ignorance, or greed.

That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.

They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. … 2/3

❝Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, … 1/3

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

Red Flag Alert for Genocide - United States: The Rise of the Nazi Salute | Lemkin Institute

Lemkin Institute issues a red flag alert for gcide in the US. So many of us tried to warn you all well before the election 🚩

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

It should prob be remembered that “birthright citizenship” was the product of the abolitionist mvt, which understood that no person of color would be safe from deportation or bondage if their citizenship could be questioned or taken away

There is no calamity so huge that there is not beauty and humor and joy to be had in the moments between actively working on solving or evading it.

Learning to take those moments, embrace the hell out of them, is what will make it all worth it, at whatever point you reach the end.

YouTube video by Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe Climate vs Weather | Global Weirding

"It's snowing in Florida - where's global warming now?!"

If you've ever thought that (or heard anyone else say it), I have a Global Weirding episode for you!

Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

I vacillate between deep sadness and pure, fiery rage 😩🤬

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

“I have been prepared for evil, for greed, for cruelty, for injustice – but I did not anticipate that the people in power would also be such huge losers.”

2.0 indicates an upgrade and an upgrade is most definitely not what we’re getting. How do we indicate a devastating downgrade? 😩

Fascist countries ban apps ⏰
Fascist countries ban websites 👩🏽‍💻
Fascist countries ban books 📚