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blair @blairaf.com · 2h
"You may not deadname superintelligence but you should deadname trans people" is now 100% real US policy
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.
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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Love this piece celebrating our friend Gelina, one of the most remarkable and hardworking people I’ve ever known. She’s a nanny whose side gig is marshaling F1 races, and she’s done it on multiple continents.
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From nanay to nanny… to Madrid F1 marshall | Troi Santos
MADRID—Gelina Lutaro is 50 years old, a single mother of five, and an FIA-certified intervention marshal at this year’s inaugural Spanish Grand Prix. Getting there took 18 years, most of them spent aw...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Finally, an article about Pax Silica: “Tech Bros and the Trump Administration Are Building an AI Empire—In the Philippines *** Pax Silica aims to lock up rare earths, and hand Silicon Valley the keys.” By @kierabutler.bsky.social 9/25/26 … 1/ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Tech Bros and the Trump administration are building an AI empire—in the Philippines
Pax Silica aims to lock up rare earths, and hand Silicon Valley the keys.
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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sable Island is almost 300 km out in the Atlantic. @nichecanada.bsky.social
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 09/09/2026
Spinster September is here. 📖 A month that celebrates the women in literature who defy society's expectations of them and carve identities of their own – by choice or by circumstance. From Victorian Britain to postwar Europe, these books challenge misconceptions about the lives of unmarried women.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.
Aminata Seck, 26, a student-athlete at Kentucky State University, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while traveling with her school's basketball team Aug. 7, said Sadiqa Reynolds, a lawyer helping coordinate Seck's case.

Seck's team was headed to New York for a tournament, and she was taken into custody after going through airport security, said Reynolds, former president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League.
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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 20/09/2026
NEW: Inadequate recycling facilities push e-waste handling into Manila’s informal sector, exposing entire communities to toxins and serious health problems. This dispatch is published in English by The Xylom and in Spanish by Planeta Futuro, @elpais.com.
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The Toxic Cost of the Philippines’ Growing E-Waste Crisis
Inadequate recycling facilities mean that e-waste handling falls to Manila’s informal sector, exposing entire communities to toxins and serious health problems.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026
The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...
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The truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)
The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been.
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Pamela @pambofirstblood.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"More than anything, what stood out to me about the process of photographing these devices was geography: they exist at the boundaries of rich neighborhoods like Piedmont to track who enters; they exist embedded in poor neighborhoods to track the people who live there. Place exposes their purpose."
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cara esten hurtle
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Great coverage, too: globalnews.ca/news/1205333...
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Alberta First Nation invokes treaty clause to set up gender-affirming care safe haven | Globalnews.ca
Saddle Lake Cree Nation says it aims to defy Premier Danielle Smith’s government by establishing a safe haven for gender-affirming medical care — contrary to provincial law.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Duke professor Dan Ariely seeks political office in Israel with Pirate Party
After having an article retracted due to allegations of research fraud, Dan Ariely is taking his efforts elsewhere: Israel. He is running on the Pirate Party slate in the Israeli legislative elections...
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 05/09/2026
"20 years on, Kingdom Come hits so vividly it could be reportage—like a prophecy of the United Kingdom in 2026, a country in which racism has been institutionalised and the quiet bit is now being shouted out loud." J.G. Ballard’s Kingdom Come & England’s Slide towards Fascism buff.ly/fAUErsZ
A roundabout shape marked with a red cross, with some parked cars behind it. Photo by Matt Brown via Wikimedia Commons.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
absolute fuckers "Trump officials at NIH disclosed the existence of DoD’s efforts only after being pressed for information by House Appropriations Committee Democrats." democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Through a massive purge, Hegseth has fired or pushed out every single Senate-confirmed uniformed and civilian leader in the Department of Defense... largely because he feels threatened by them. (Recall that Hegseth was RIFed as an O4 due to suspicions of alcoholism.) www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Exclusive | Army Secretary Resigns After Months of Friction With Hegseth
Dan Driscoll had a close relationship with ousted Army chief of staff.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 31/08/2026
NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...
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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.
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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The overreaction to this Hugging Face thing is driving me nuts. Come flay me for being wrong but... 1/x
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Gary @gdtn75.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Trump isn't the only reason people fucking despise the USA
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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I mean JFC do you know how epic it was to do this experiment? Is this inferior science compared to visual experiments in rodents because they can do widefield calcium imaging with 47 different CRE-lines? Objecitvely the answer is no, but unfortunately many would say yes. bsky.app/profile/elsh...
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"The study was the first to show that misogyny was not an isolated prejudice, but a robust, cross-cutting predictor of violent extremism. "The number one thing predicting whether or not somebody is going to hold extremist attitudes is whether they think violence against women is acceptable,"
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
fantastic timeline we're in
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mandy brown @aworkinglibrary.com · 19/08/2026
People are like, you can’t refuse LLMs forever, someday you’ll have to use them. But listen, motherfuckers, I have been refusing to drive a car for the entirety of the twenty-first century. I am *practiced.* Refusing AI is easy mode.
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blair @blairaf.com · 19/08/2026
You can read my diss here. It applies trans & feminist theory to unpack why AI governance led by state & industry is limited in addressing structural injustice. Also looks at how affected communities & workers build counterpower against state-industry alliances. utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/bade91...
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The Impacts and Governance of Artificial Intelligence: A Transfeminist Perspective
This thesis investigates the impacts and governance of artificial intelligence (AI) systems through a transfeminist lens, focusing analysis upon challenges of power, exclusion, and injustice alongside...
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 17/08/2026
From Rachel Aviv's stunner of a story about D. Carleton Gajdusek, those who survived his sexual abuse (and those who didn't) and the people who didn't give a damn and let him flaunt his unrepentant pederasty. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/08/2026
> “It is not credible that Cofnas was the most suited candidate. In Canada or the United States, similar vacancies atract hundreds of candidates with almost identical qualifications. Cofnas wouldn’t stand a chance.” (our translation) 5/
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/08/2026
How many know about the process under which Cofnas was hired?
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Let's talk about AOC as a young scientist & her award winning research on antioxidants & C. elegans, a standard roundworm model. She grew up in the Bronx. Ethnically Puerto Rican, her dad Sergio, an architect, died when she was 19. Her mother cleaned houses, drove a school bus. Working class.
Alexandria with her project for ISEF 2007.  A young woman with square glasses, she stands in front of a cardboard display recounting her work on antioxidants.
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Permanent Revolution @permanentrev.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Tacoma ICE Detention Center Continues Abusive Conditions As ICE Lowers Detention Standards, Sexual Abuse of Detainees is Encouraged
The Northwest ICE Processing Center (formerly the Northwest Detention Center, or NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington, a privately operated, for-profit immigration prison opened in 2004, is run by the GEO Grou...
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Nina Friedman @ngfriedman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Starting in Spring or Summer 2027 K99/R00 (under its new activity code KT1/R00) will only be available to US citizens, permanent residents, and non-citizen nationals. I am hearing this from many program officers, but NIH has yet to make an official statement to my knowledge.
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TSN @tsnofficial.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Alexandra Eala makes WTA history, becoming the first Filipina to win on the tour. She took down the tournament's No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 seeds en route to the victory! 👏
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It's cautionary tale for LLM use though. Data aren't democratic; some are better. Reminds me of something a biologist recently said to me of an AI colleague: "His models are fantastic. It's just a shame he doesn't realize the output's garbage because half the papers fed into it are wrong.." 5/n
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
All im saying is, as a canadian, it would feel better if all this wasnt continually framed as a business decision
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I heard a story about a detained health researcher the other day and assumed this was it - but no, there‘s a second local scientist, from UMD, who is being held by ICE. On his way home from receiving a “teacher of the year” award. www.wbaltv.com/article/umb-...
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University of Maryland pharmacy instructor detained in Dallas
Federal officials detained an instructor from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy last week.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 30/07/2026
I wrote last year about the US Administration's plans to eviscerate Optional Practical Training, America's largest single source of global STEM talent: www.piie.com/blogs/realti... That came to pass. The White House is sharpening its tools to shatter OPT, and thus kneecap many US universities.
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Exclusive | U.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation
The proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A major story broken by Science and Retraction Watch: an unreported death in a human gene therapy attempt in China:
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Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public
Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 23/07/2026
Hong Wang, who proved the three-dimensional Kakeya set conjecture, has just won the Fields Medal, making her the third woman in the award’s 90-year history to receive math’s highest honor. Read our profile: www.quantamagazine.org/hong-wang-wi...
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Hong Wang Wins 2026 Fields Medal, the Third Woman Ever | Quanta Magazine
Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields Medal.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 23/07/2026
I blocked Senate Republicans' petty and offensive resolution that implied Canada is letting their own forests burn just to spite us. I know my Republican colleagues want to show the President how much they agree with him, but please. What a waste of everyone's time.
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Martyn Wendell Jones @martynwendell.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Americans should take the president's anti-Canadian saber-rattling so much more seriously than we do. We should treat it not as a joke, not as a quirk . . . but as a genuine threat to our neighbors." @jamellebouie.net is exactly right www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPs9...
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It is time to stop treating Donald Trump's anti-Canada rhetoric like a joke
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 21/07/2026
Trump announced 50% tariffs on Canada because of **wildfire smoke**—seriously! He is pitting Canada, our closest friend, neighbor, & WA state's most important trading partner, against America and he's expecting YOU to pay for it. This is just plain stupid.
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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Today I'm posting a blog about another ridiculous antibody blunder. Dozens of papers in the senescence and ageing field have mistakenly used an antibody for E. coli β-galactosidase when trying to stain for the human protein with the same name. forbetterscience.com/2026/07/21/d...
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This. This is the correct, science-backed, responsible framing. Wish more news outlets did it like the CBC.
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'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies only have one true fix | CBC News
Smoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Mark Zuckerberg's assistant at Meta, Josh Felker, who was responsible for Meta's "digital experiences for kids," was arrested after admitting he tried to sext a 13-year-old during an undercover sting. nypost.com/2026/07/20/u...
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Exclusive | Meta worker who developed ‘digital experiences for kids’ admits to trying to sext child in undercover NYC sting
He admitted he had been grooming and sexting someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl during a sting by vigilante group Predator Poachers Long Island.
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Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A few months ago I gave a public talk about satellites at a local brewery & afterwards one of the attendees asked me if I'd like to collaborate on an OpEd to spread the word about the growing problem of space junk. Long story short, today it's on the front page of the digital WaPo: wapo.st/4yqgbLn
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Opinion | Look at Earth’s orbit. This mess is dangerous.
Space debris is a safety risk, both on the Earth’s surface and in orbit.
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mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
German broadcast. Nailed it
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026
Some context for those who don’t know. The song was both racist and anti-trans. Him getting sent off makes my day!!! www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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Enzo Fernandez: Chelsea and Fifa begin action over alleged racist chant video
Chelsea begin disciplinary proceedings against midfielder Enzo Fernandez over a video on social media that the French FA said included a racist chant.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 19/07/2026
”OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX fit the late economist Hyman Minsky’s notion of Ponzi finance units, where loss-making businesses need to show capital appreciation to validate their liabilities. If valuations don’t rise... The whole thing would implode.“ themarket.ch/english/edwa...
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Edward Chancellor: «AI Is a Mania, And I Expect a Severe Implosion»
Historian Edward Chancellor discusses the investment boom surrounding AI, record-breaking IPOs such as SpaceX, and the warning signs he sees.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/
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Lisa No Thank You @ohseafarer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Taylor Farms grows lettuce in Salinas and Yuma. They also buy from other farms and process produce all over, incl Mexico & Europe. They've caused multiple outbreaks and sell under a variety of brands/labels to consumers and restaurants/food service. They're about a third of entire US salad market.
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