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Éireann

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Nautilus Island's hermit heiress (settler, she) Books, bread, cloth, cyclamen, snow, roses, rooms Walking—looking—liberation PINK THEORY! (Milkweed, 2027), PATTERN-BOOK(Carcanet, 2025); rep: Wylie profile, Corita print; banner, campion/gorse ohbara.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h
If you read the Walmart's patents, it's pretty wild. For example US11687872B2, granted in 2023: "The price for other items the customer purchases may be varied based on what items are already in the cart, e.g. if a customer has tuna fish, they may be offered a different price for mayonnaise."
Illustration from a Walmart patent showing an aisle with products and a camera: https://patents.google.com/patent/US11687872B2/en
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h
Who are you going to believe, the preeminent expert on surveillance pricing or George W. Bush’s communications director during the Iraq War who now works for Walmart?
gizmodo.com
Walmart Denies Plans for Surveillance Pricing Despite Holding Patents for Surveillance Pricing
Who you gonna believe?
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 50m
The Guardian reports on defendants who have formed a union while facing prosecution for protesting:
theguardian.com
Trump 2.0 is targeting US protesters with ‘antifa’ charges. Activists started a union to fight back
NSPM-7 Defendants Union plans to offer legal clinics, media training and more to people facing prosecution for protest
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 48m
Pope Leo XIV called the death penalty “an attack” on human dignity a day after senior Church officials pointedly condemned the decision by the U.S. Defense Department to live-stream the execution of the convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
washingtonpost.com
Pope criticizes death penalty after Hegseth announces public execution
Pope Leo XIV called the death penalty “an attack” on human dignity a day after senior Church officials condemned the Pentagon’s plans to live-stream an execution of Nidal Malik Hasan.
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Carolyn Chernoff @carolynchernoff.bsky.social · 57m
If you want to feel that frisson of hope and you’re in Chicagoland, may I suggest going to the Chicago Zine Fest at Harold Washington Library today? Free, masked, and just a delight. Going til 4 pm!
Marble and classical architecture behind CHICAGO ZINE FEST song; tables of art and zines and dozens of people below.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 41m
Thread 🧵
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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 23h
Attention on Deck: New England Review of Boats Issue 1 is now available for preorder! Shipping out on October 25. Get it here: newenglandreviewofboats.square.site/product/-pre...
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**Pre-order sale** New England Review of Boats, Issue 1 | New England Review of Boats
Pre-order Issue 1 of the New England Review of Boats!The beautifully-illustrated, 80-page magazine features stories such as…-A spirited defense of Long John Silver’s by Abdullah Shihipar-An oral histo...
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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 5h
everybody surprised that universities would trumpet their award season connection to a professor they essentially fired really didn't take the lesson from the decades of them trading on radical traditions of protest they tried like hell to crush at the time & have all but succeeded in crushing today
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EOW Without Context @eow-no-context.bsky.social · 5h
holy love
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 5h
We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
news.berkeley.edu
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 5h
ZINE BLOG: How many rich art collectors brag that they own a very valuable zine? That would be like saying, "I have something that's worth a thousand dollars!" No one in their world would be impressed. Zines and cheap artist books mostly help you avoid dealing with awful people with too much power.
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No More Deaths | No Más Muertes @nomoredeaths.bsky.social · 5h
⚠️ Border wall contractors plan to remove thousands of sacred saguaros (ha:ṣañ) on sovereign O'odham land starting Monday — Indigenous People's Day. Tadai Me:i Camp calls supporters to join in prayer and protest on the Tohono O’odham Nation.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY
OCTOBER 12, 2026
BORDER WALL CONTRACTORS ARE SET TO BEGIN REMOVING SACRED SAGUAROS AND OCOTILLO IN THE FIRST PHASE OF CONSTRUCTION ON THE TOHONO O'ODHAM NATION.
THE TADAI ME: CAMP CALLS FOR PUBLIC SUPPORT TO THE BORDER TO STAND WITH THE TOHONO O'ODHAM IN OUR FIGHT TO PROTECT O'ODHAM JEWED (LAND).
THESE ARE NON-VIOLENT GATHERINGS!
EVERYONE WELCOME
ALL ONK AKIMEL, KE:LI AKIMEL, AK-CHIN, HIA CED, TOHONO AND MEXICO O'ODHAM STRONGLY ENCOURAGED
PLEASE COME
PREPARED FOR THE
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ELEMENTS (HEAT/RAIN), COME HEALTHY, AND
ALL ELDERS, SINGERS, AND
SELF SUFFICIENT.10/10 - 10/11
GATHERING OF O'ODHAM SISTER
TRIBES AT TADAI ME:I CAMP
10/12 - Prayer to Action
SUNRISE
HIMDAG 'O WUD T-GEWKDAG (OUR
CULTURE IS OUR STRENGTH) GATHERING AT THE TADAI ME:I CAMP AT KO:LI KI:JIG.
9:00 AM
GEWKDAG HI:M (GO IN STRENGTH)
MARCH STARTING AT BASHAS PLAZA, BRING YOUR SIGNS AND WALK IN PEACEFUL PROTEST AGAINST THE DESTRUCTION OF O'ODHAM LAND.Camp is located at the San Miguel Gate, on South Indian
Route 19
Turn right at the "Entering
Prayer Camp" sign
Be aware of cattle and Border Patrol on your way down
If you are planning on staying at Tadai Me:i Camp, you will be required to check in with Camp Caretakers for safety checks and information before entering camps.
Be respectful of camp protocols
No alcohol, drugs or weapons. Zero tolerance.
IF YOU AIN'T PRAYING, YOU AIN'T STAYING!Tohono O'odham Nation Emergency Mobile Command will be stationed at San Miguel
Community Building
In case of emergency dial 911 or T.O.N. Dispatch at 520-383-6412
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 4h
I take this lesson forward: the best thing you can do for another person is take a chance on them. Fuck the credentials, the degrees, the past work. Take a chance. Everyone has a spark within them, even if they fucked up or procrastinated. Take a chance.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know
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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
WHAT REMAINS by Brais Lamela (trans by Jacob Rogers) is on The Millions' big fall list!
themillions.com
The Millions’ Great Fall 2026 Book Preview  - The Millions
The busiest season of the publishing year is upon us, bringing a deluge of books to sift through as you curate your TBR list. We’ve got you covered. Below, you’ll find some 130 books out this fall tha...
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Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 23h
Really enjoyed this piece, which implicitly suggests another good reason to support small and university presses as much as you can: many of them are the ones willing and ready to take chances on nonfiction books that big five publishers are more than ever too scared to take on.
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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You may have heard that nonfiction's having a rough time. I investigated for @thewalrus.ca. And it's very true, but not for the reasons you might think. thewalrus.ca/nonfiction-i...
An image of a big red book that says "FICTION" on the cover. Behind it, a smaller book that says "NON-FICTION" tries to peek out.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 23h
Far too many people simply hate children for existing
Neighbor blasts an ultrasonic device audible and painful only to children whenever they pass on the public sidewalk.

Was riding bikes with my daughter and a friend to school this morning. We passed a house and they both started yelling, "Ow! It hurts my ears." Really strange, right? Then I hear a voice play through a speaker who says, "If it hurts your ears, ride your bikes somewhere else!"

Now I'm angry. Literally doing nothing but riding bikes to school, probably one of the most wholesome activities a person could imagine, and...I can't even get my brain around it. 

It's apparently not loud, but it is tuned to a frequency higher than I can hear. If it's low enough for my children to hear it, it's going to be almost useless as an animal deterrent. It is specifically designed to cause pain to humans and serves no other purpose.

How is this legal?

Location: Minnesota, Twin Cities suburb
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 09/09/2026
want to swap?
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21h
@ali-alkhatib.com has the stickers.
Black sticker white writing: all bots are cops @stopthedata
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 19h
Our team has observed 165 flights, with an estimated 5,449 people being loaded here at MSP, and we've never seen the WRAP used before. It is routinely set next to the stairs as a deterrent though.
ap.org
ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment | The Associated Press
The Nigerian man described being roused with other detainees in September in the middle of the night. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 19h
A shackled detainee was thrown to the ground, placed in a WRAP full-body restraint, and carried onto today's ICE Air flight at MSP. This is the first time we've seen the device used in Minnesota. If a loved one may have been aboard, full loading sequence is here: youtube.com/watch?v=MEMv2ngB1GI
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 09/10/2026
A good time to remind people that Chris Van Hollen is the only Member of Congress to have ever called for European states to sanction the President and Secretary of State, in this case specifically in response to their attempts to destroy the ICC in order to protect Israel.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
UPDATE: After hearing from friends in the DMs, we’re gonna make this a cohosted gathering. So after my censored remarks, we’ll hear about people actually doing the work that so many of our institutions pretend to. If your org wants to cohost, DM me.
Black & white photo of “Black Community Survival Conference: Serve the People Body & Sold” —a banner hanging above a group of people standing on a platform. This is a photo depicting the work of the Black Panther Party.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So let me know if you want to come to a virtual talk next wk on “Reimagining Leadership.“ Time tbd. The focus is on cultivating critical, creative, and caring capacities in medicine, but I think it applies beyond that. I’m pretty sure we can do this without any leaders.
Ruha’s title slide for “Reimagining Leadership” with a quote by Saidiya Hartman: “Care is the antidote to violence.”
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Instead of the talk I spent hours preparing, they urged me to switch to a fireside chat and talk about my professional “journey.” But… this is the journey. And walking away is also movement.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So they asked me to delete half the deck: •screenshots of scientific articles •George Floyd’s autopsy report •med students holding signs for “White Coats for Black Lives” •a cartoonish image of Musk lest we offend the trillionaire •Butler quote: “choose your leaders with wisdom & forethought” ETC
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The concern is that people take photos of slides and circulate content that puts orgs in the crosshairs of this repressive administration.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Friday measles update; as expected cruised past 4,000 cases: now 4,080. The year I graduated medical school (2002) there were 44. Yes, 44. We’ve multiplied cases by 100 😳 Disinformation is effective 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️
CDC measles data, 4080 cases in 2026 date, 2289 cases from all of 2025. 95% of this year’s cases unvaccinated. 
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h
Mapping Chicago’s independent grocery stores  chicagoreader.com/food/chicago...
chicagoreader.com
Mapping Chicago’s independent grocery stores  - Chicago Reader
Grocery shopping can be a political act. Where you put your money can be just as important as where you put your vote. In a city full of food, Chicagoans face rising prices, competing priorities, and ...
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 22h
NEW from me: The National Association of Evangelicals (along with several other religious groups) are now joining the USCCB in condemning Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s plans to publicly execute Nidal Malik Hasan, also saying doing so promotes a “culture of death.” religionnews.com/2026/10/09/h...
Walter Kim, president of the National
Association of Evangelicals, told RNS that while he affirms the "need for justice" regarding Hasan's crime, "at the same time, a live-streamed execution by firing squad risks turning one of the state's most solemn responsibilities into a public spectacle, promoting a culture of death, rather than a culture that upholds the dignity of every human being."
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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 21h
On the other hand, Meg Reid, publisher of the independent Hub City Press, says LLM-written marketing and publicity unfortunately “feels pretty inevitable” for the Big Five. “That’s one place we’re probably going to see a bigger shift between corporate publishers looking for efficiencies and smaller publishers insisting that the humans involved are the whole point.”
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 23h
Ask yourself why the CEO of an online gambling company is giving money for research into the history of art using AI.
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UAW @uaw.org · 21h
“We haven’t seen any counters from Harvard on our proposals. We haven’t seen any points of discussion, anything." 📰 www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/10/…
thecrimson.com
Harvard Grad Union Votes to Authorize Another Strike After 40-Day Walkout | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard’s graduate student union voted to authorize another strike, setting the stage for a possible second work stoppage this year as contract negotiations with the University stretch past 18 months.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
These questions are specious but more importantly beside the point of the algorithmic governmentality that the AI Industry requires for its total entrenchment. Industry fused with the state —whether SpaceX or Palantir etc—is the objective.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So while members of the public are looking to the left at the big scary monster who might hate us if we call Chat a bad name, and academics are taking seriously fallacious solipsism asking “isn’t the concept of machine intelligence so FASCINATING?” the industry is getting hospitals to implode w AI.
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Will Jeakle @willjeakle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
At the same time that we are asked to embrace the morality of the AI machine, we are giving up our own morality by streaming executions for public entertainment. American priorities need a serious review.
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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 09/10/2026
In Minneapolis and in the State of Minnesota, we love, support, and stand in solidarity with our Somali and immigrant neighbors. 🩵 Artwork by @SeanLimMN.bsky.social
Text reading “We love our Somali neighbors” with blue butterflies over a blue backgroundText reading “We love our immigrant neighbors” with orange butterflies over an orange background
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
YOU ARE AN ELECTED OFFICIAL. STOP TELLING PEOPLE NOT TO BE NUMB AND TELL THEM WHAT YOU PLAN TO DO.
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amityf @amityf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Abdulahi: "the president's words are dangerous and reckless; in 2017, after his comments, Dar Al Farooq was bombed". And he's talking about the rhetoric about Somali youth right now. It's _racist_. All kids need care, they need mentors, they need guidance. Kids aren't political targets.
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amityf @amityf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Watching the @isaiahmn.org clergy press conference--responding to the hate yesterday: Pr Koch: "These are our neighbors and we will not abandon them." If you are a person of faith, and you cannot bring yourself to truly love your neighbors, then I don't think you are a person of faith.
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amityf @amityf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Rev Imari Bates: "we may have a desire to brush off what the president said; he says stuff like that all the time, raving, etc etc. But they are words of violence, calling for violence. We should not accept them. We have to rebuke them."
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amityf @amityf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh. Rabbi Arielle Rosenberg: "No idealogy of hate can erase our humanity; although it can threaten it. We call on you to take profound acts of love and protection." Profound acts. MN already knows how to do this, you guys.
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amityf @amityf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A call for all Minnesotans: show up at your neighborhood mosque today; whistles, signs--We Love our Neighbors, We Love our Somali Neighbors. Show up, between 12 and 2 (prayer time). (this is the post you should reshare, buds).
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I can’t keep up. Is AI god or just a little scrappy company trying to revise its terms and conditions? Anyone have the latest on that?
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
some additional background on the rule (all links in this thread are 🎁): news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
"I am confident that having the traceability rule in effect now would have greatly facilitated FDA's ability to more quickly trace suspect product back to the field in Mexico, and would also greatly facilitate the traceforward to know where potentially contaminated product may have been sent in the US," Susan Mayne, the former head of the FDA's Center for Food Safety, said in an email.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
trump and rfk jr. are planning to further weaken food safety regulations, despite all the recent outbreaks (which they tried to conceal after taking millions from big ag, of course)
bit.ly
FDA Signals Leniency for Small Retailers Under Food-Tracing Rule
The nation’s leading food regulator plans to relieve pressure on small food retailers and restaurants subject to regulations designed to speed up investigations of foodborne illness outbreaks.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Emphasizing: people I am speaking to are strong and have tremendous spirit. But they have been devastated. They mostly entered the U.S. legally, worked for several years, were detained (frequently illegally), arbitrarily deprived or denied status, treated brutally, and dropped here with nothing.
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