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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 1h

"H5N1 virus can remain infectious for extended periods in raw-milk cheeses under specific conditions, underscoring the potential public health risks associated with consuming unpasteurized milk products "
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

H5N1 influenza virus stability and transmission risk in raw milk and cheese - Nature Medicine

The pathogenic avian flu H5N1 virus remains stable in raw milk and throughout the cheese-making process, but contaminated cheese fed to ferrets did not lead to infection, whereas raw milk did.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 27m

More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows

- Fossil fuel donors poured $96m into Trump’s 2025 presidential campaign and affiliated action committees

Story by @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows

Report looks at White House nominees and appointees and agencies dictating energy, environment and climate policy

www.theguardian.com

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 14m

"Socioeconomic circumstances are strongly correlated with health and thus an important complicating factor (i.e., it isn’t the food that’s making people sick; it’s the poverty)."

Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 22m

My new piece.👇

Sure, Ultra-Processed Foods Are Bad. But How Does That Help Anyone? thewalrus.ca/sure-ultra-p... via @thewalrus

86% of proposed strategies to regulate UPFs focus on changing behaviour – which can lead to equity issues – rather than addressing broader food system.

Sure, Ultra-Processed Foods Are Bad. But How Does That Help Anyone? | The Walrus

Nutrition panic distracts from the policies that make healthy eating a privilege

thewalrus.ca

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 20m

"Children were completely torn apart," another woman who had helped to organise the event told AFP news agency. She was not at the scene but attended funerals on Tuesday, and added that they were still "collecting body parts".

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h

Myanmar’s military government has bombed a protest, killing 24.

Myanmar: At least 24 killed as army paraglider bombs Buddhist festival

Locals tell the BBC the carnage has made it hard to identify victims of the military attack.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24m

Hey there! I think you read the USDA chart backwards. In fact, the USDA data shows that only 39% of farmworkers are citizens, not "significantly more than half" as you wrote.

Over Forty Percent of Hired Crop Farmworkers Lack Legal Immigration Status
The share of hired crop farmworkers who were not legally authorized to work in the United States grew from roughly 14 percent in 1989–91 to almost 55 percent in 1999–2001. In recent years, however, the share has declined to about 40 percent. In 2020–22, 32 percent of crop farmworkers were U.S. born, 7 percent were immigrants who had obtained U.S. citizenship, 19 percent were other authorized immigrants (primarily permanent residents or green-card holders), and the remaining 42 percent held no work authorization. The share of workers who are U.S. born is highest in the Midwest, while the share who are unauthorized is highest in California.

Below that is a chart showing the data trends over time.

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 24m

"But Republicans have rebuffed the proposal, particularly the assault weapons ban, and negotiations now seem to be at an impasse." IT'S A DEATH CULT

The Trace @thetrace.org · 26m

The June assassination of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman — followed weeks later by a deadly mass shooting at Minneapolis's Annunciation Catholic School — has reignited the state's long-running fight over gun laws.

Minnesota Lawmakers Are Gridlocked Over Gun Reform

The assassination of a former House speaker, followed by the deadly Annunciation school shooting, has reignited a battle over the state's gun laws.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 26m

Getting a flashback to that episode of Scandal where someone said 'There's a special place in hell for women who don't support other women' and then Liv hit her with 'There's a special place in hell for women who spout that tired quote to justify their bad behavior'

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2h

A useful illustration of the limits of liberal identity politics.

It's astounding to see self-described progressives lose their minds over the successes of a Jewish female entrepreneur and intellect in @bariweiss, and a wildly successful Black man in @VanJones68. I guess equity, diversity, and inclusion don't mean as much as they've told us.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29m

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 39m

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 31m

Reaction to Badenoch's speech is everything wrong with Britain's policymaking community. Mostly couched in terms of the politics and her survival. Nothing on the utter garbage of policies that would leave us in an even bigger mess. UK policymaking may be irredeemable.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

Conservatives would scrap stamp duty, Kemi Badenoch says - follow live

The party says it would scrap the

www.bbc.co.uk

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Katie Cannon @katiecannon.bsky.social · 31m

Exactly.

Fascists perfectly understand that our government creates our national currency when Congress votes to pay for something.

Having failed to have our government pay for our General Welfare when it creates our currency means the Fascists want to pay for Fascism

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2h

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 31m

I think its exactly the opposite: it is very unlikely Altman or OpenAI did not anticipate blowback, they just hoped it would be insignificant enough for them to ignore.

In response to a question about why OpenAI changed its policy, Altman said that it came from speaking with stakeholders and suggested he hadn’t expected the outcry.

“I think the theory of what it was going to feel like to people, and then actually seeing the thing, people had different responses,” Altman said. “It felt more different to images than people expected.”

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 31m

"However, a look at some of the alderpeople’s actions toward Trump’s immigration tactics provides some insight into their positionality." I'll say! 😱

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 35m

Chicago Ald. Gregory Mitchell oversees the 7th Ward, which is home to the South Shore apartment building at the center of last week’s ICE raid.

He didn’t sign the letter.

Mitchell has not yet publicly issued a statement on the raid.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/so-a...

So, about that letter of support for Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes: 13 alderpeople didn’t sign it • The TRiiBE

The letter describes what the agents did to Fuentes as an “abuse of power.” Mayor Brandon Johnson, City Clerk, Anna Valencia and City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin also signed it.

thetriibe.com

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 35m

Gaetz also says in that video clip that he returned to his room at the King David Hotel unexpectedly during one of his trips to Israel and walked in on someone he didn’t know inside his hotel room riffling through his stuff. He kind of soft-pedaled the occurrence, calling it “weird.”

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 48m

Wow:

Matt Gaetz says politicians at an AIPAC reception had to wear QR codes around their necks and go around and introduce themselves to potential donors. AIPAC members would scan the QR code to donate if they liked them.

If true, AIPAC is literally buying US politicians like groceries at a store.

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"At my first AIPAC reception, you had to wear a name badge with a QR code, talk to donors, and if they liked you, they scanned it to donate on the spot."
@mattgaetz on the surreal, humiliating world of AIPAC fundraisers.
[GAETZ interview video 1:40]
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 50m

An academic once famously (and correctly) identified The South as "the states of the former Confederacy plus or minus whichever adjoining states confirm your hypothesis"

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 44m

A study published in The Lancet journal in June said the U.S. funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including more than 4.5 million children under age 5, by 2030.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1h

If we’re drawing up a list of people who should be in jail…

Donald J. Trump • O @realDonald Trump
Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers!
Governor Pritzker also!

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 9h

This is the way.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 10h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 9h

Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 11h

I think that's a couple of memes, the part on the left is 5 years old

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 10h

"FBI employees were given a priority deadline of Wednesday to respond to the request, which comes on the seventh day of an ongoing federal government shutdown."

CNN @cnn.com · 12h

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 11h

This split screen is brutal. Cuomo gets a death watch while Mamdani gets the cover treatment & lines like this:
"I saw someone leap from a moving bike and another guy leave a motorcycle running on the sidewalk, all of them running to ask for one of the selfies that Mamdani takes endlessly"

As Cuomo Tries to Catch Mamdani, the Campaign May Get Ugly
“You’ve got a candidate who has lost his way,” one Cuomo insider tells Vanity Fair.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11h

Hell, if I were on @schumer.senate.gov’s comms staff, I’d make a separate short with the portion about Democrats having only three words to say to Republicans and then the “no fucking way” line.

It has narrative stickiness and encapsulates the fight people want to see from Democratic leadership.

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 11h

I think that's a couple of memes, the part on the left is 5 years old

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 11h

Eleven percent is too many. No evidence Tylenol causes autism. Pregnant women with untreated fever have a higher risk of miscarriage and other serious complications

Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 1d

Latest Economist/YouGov poll shows only 11% of respondents think tylenol is a cause of autism. 54% say no: d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12h

yo they hired Mamdani video guys. someone's doing some thinking somewhere

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 14h

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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