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@em_Lazzy @RepBeatty ♥️♥️♥️

Cheers to Rep. Joyce Beatty for leading the effort to remove Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center.

@adammocklerr If every Democrat had endorsed Mamdani we might believe in them.

If every Democrat were this good at politics, we'd win all 50 states.

@georgegalloway “Brutal”- Gwyneth

Consciously Uncoupled from Morality…

@GenXGirl1994 @GwynethPaltrow “Brutal”- Gwyneth

Genocide profiteer, Gwyneth Paltrow, (@GwynethPaltrow) is the new face of “luxury living in Israel”. She signed a $10M contract with the murderers of 17,000 children in Gaza. She profited $588 per murdered child.

In medieval times, within the arms race of ever more demonic torture devices, some sadistic genius came up with the idea of the Little Ease. This was a prison cell built so small in every dimension that a grown man could not stand upright in it nor lie down at full length nor properly sit. The pain is relentless and without relief and inflicted by one's own body. Prisoners were known to go insane within a few days. A stay at the Little Ease was considered even more cruel than the rack, the thumbscrew, and the other ghoulish machinery of the Tower of London. A breeding pig will spend her whole life in a version of that box. These are social, roaming creatures (more intelligent than dogs) who will never leave this corset of steel. They have been selectively bred to be bigger than their frames can support. Yet we put them in cells so confined that they cannot comfortably sit, and their attempts to do so (for example, by sneaking their limbs into adjacent stalls) reliably lead to fractures and sprains. They cannot sweat, yet have nothing to roll around in to cool themselves off. Except their own manure, which (contrary to the common misconception) they are so averse to (thanks to their strong sense of smell) that new sows will often suffer from constipation to avoid soiling the space from which they eat and sleep. Here is how the writer Matthew Scully described what saw at one of Smithfield’s “gestation barn”: > “Sores, tumors, ulcers, pus pockets, lesions, cysts, bruises, torn ears, swollen legs everywhere. Roaring, groaning, tail biting, fighting, and other “Vices,” as they’re called in the industry. Frenzied chewing on bars and chains, stereotypical “vacuum” chewing on nothing at all, stereotypical rooting and nest building with imaginary straw. And “social defeat,” lots of it, in every third or fourth stall some completely broken being you know is alive only because she blinks and stares up at you … creatures beyond the power of pity to help or indifference to make more miserable, dead to the world except as heaps of flesh into which the [insemination] rod may be stuck once more and more flesh reproduced.” — The Save Our Bacon Act is trying to unroll the few state protections we have against this barbaric cruelty - for example California’s Prop 12 - which banned the sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation crates. It’s incredibly important we don’t end up with this sort of federal preemption. SOB will not only kill the most important animal welfare related laws in the US of the past decade, but more importantly, it will also restrict ALL future legislative progress (aka how the animal welfare movement has gotten its biggest wins). The Senate is currently deciding whether to add the SOB Act to the Farm Bill. With relatively little money now, we can discourage the most pivotal senators in the Ag committee from backing this amendment. Defeating this bill is even more important given the amount of philanthropic funding I expect to come online in the next year or two. It will plausibly be over 10x more expensive to repeal SOB than to prevent it from passing in the first place. All that money that could be spent transforming our society's relationship to mass animal suffering will instead have to be spent just getting us back to where we are right now. That's why money spent now fighting this bill (and I mean right NOW) is so effective. If you’re in a position to donate six figures, please DM me.

@joshbalk @dwarkesh_sp Wow this is brilliant and should invest everyone in making change.

Please read what @dwarkesh_sp has to say about the notorious "Save Our Bacon" Act, a nightmare for animals being considered in the Senate right now.

@Nomads4Pritzker It’s almost like big AG is reckless, inhumane, and environmentally devastating.

So, I've worked in the beef industry. I have a fairly detailed knowledge of beef markets, the supply chain, parasites and parasiticides, etc. Suffice it to say, this is a nightmare scenario, but one we've known was coming since at least 2022. New World Screwworm was eradicated from North and Central America in the mid-90's. The US gov't (APHIS) funded a program of screwworm drops, where they bred sterile males so that extant populations couldn't reproduce and move northwards. But in 2022 NWS jumped the Darien gap and started moving northwards once again. It's most likely that they came undetected on livestock brought alongside migrants fleeing political instability in South and Central America. Elon Musk/DOGE, of course, cut several monitoring programs that would have detected this exact scenario. The screwworm drops are still funded, but the monitoring programs are what have been cut - a stupid move if there ever was one. A serious Central/South America policy would have worked hand-in-hand with CA/SA governments to help contain this, but we've never had a serious policy towards South America, not during the Biden years, and especially not under Trump. The USDA broke ground on a sterile screwworm facility in Texas... last month. I worry it's too little, too late. Screwworm is so dangerous because, unlike other fly larvae, they lay eggs and feed on living flesh. So something like a small scratch (or even bug bite) can quickly becomes infested, and the larvae will burrow into the flesh, growing the wound and attracting more screwworm. They don't only parasitize cattle, but will also feed on wildlife, domestic pets, even humans. Since they have detected screwworms in domesticated cattle right now, it's likely that there is a wild reservoir as well. We can quarantine herds and pets, but we can't quarantine deer and armadillos. They will move, and so will the NWS. Under normal circumstances, cattle are moved around - a lot. Calves will be sent to stockers through their adolescence, then shipped to feedlots for finishing. A lot of calving operations (like 70%) are small, and small-time producers don't always catch parasite infestations. Cattle moved in-state don't require a certificate of veterinary inspection, so it's easy for an infested animal to be moved without being noticed. Animals crossing state lines do need a CVI, but Texas has such an enormous cattle population (something like 13 million head) that as goes Texas, so goes the nation. Fortunately, we have a lot of drugs that treat NWS. The FDA has issued several emergency use authorizations in the last year or so. But every input raises the price of beef, and treatment only makes a difference if producers catch an infestation early. If an infestation spreads unnoticed on a large feedlot, it can hit hard, both in terms of cattle that have to be killed, and treatments that then have to be deployed. Producers will spend days at a time running cattle through the chute, inspecting them and applying parasiticides. It costs a lot of money, which is then passed on to the consumer. What does that mean for you? Beef is a commodity, and just because there's no NWS up here in Illinois doesn't mean that prices won't skyrocket - and they will skyrocket. US herd size is already at record lows, and this will result in culls. Consumer prices also run 18-24 months behind, which means that shocks to the supply chain now are still going to be felt by consumers in 2028. It's hard to say if our government will be able to muster an effective response - though I don't trust our current administration, which can't even throw a 250th anniversary party, to be able to deal with an ecological issue of this magnitude. It doesn't help that our current USDA secretary is a lawyer and think-tank creature. I don't much trust the state government of Texas either. The industry has also taken the workforce of large animal veterinarians for granted - a monopoly/market power issue that I just can't get in to here. For me, it comes back to our federal government having an incoherent policy on Central and South America. We knew what was coming, we know what's going to happen, but we cut the program meant to prevent this scenario. Instead of taking those countries seriously as partners, the government has been stupid and domineering. Here's the kicker: this is what the industry voted for. They might scream, they might get bailed out, but all that means is that you, the consumer, are going to be paying more for beef, plus whatever bailout gets shoveled their way. Until the industry accepts that they are part of a larger system; that they cannot eternally privatize the gains and publicize the losses of beef production; that they need to consider sustainability and stewardship in the management of their operations, this is only going to keep happening. Eventually, they may find that there is very little goodwill for them among the public, and people will decide that a Brazilian ribeye tastes just as good as one from Texas.

The entire Republican party from Trump down is saying California rigged the election. With ZERO proof. AGAIN But Elon Musk basically admitted he stole the 2024 election for Trump, yet we're crazy if we question Elons own words.

@CameronCorduroy You think we voted for him😂 ? Twitter baby king admitted to rigging it.

i will never forgive the American people for voting this guy back into office because of burger and gas prices just to watch him put worms in the burgers and shut off 20% of the world's oil supply

@CongressmanGT You are heartless. Allowing animals to be tortured is wrong.

PASSED: Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026.   This Farm Bill was not written in the halls of Congress, but in the fields and rural communities across our great nation. Every provision is a direct reflection of what we learned during each of the more than 150 listening sessions the Agriculture Committee held.   The 2026 Farm Bill is a win for our farmers, ranchers, foresters, rural communities, and all Americans across our country.

@dontfckwjustice @RepAshleyHinson Exactly!!!! Shameful

@RepAshleyHinson And the world is deeply frustrated and disappointed by you pushing your fetish for gestation crates on the rest of us with your disgusting SOB act. x.com/Lewis_Bollard/…

I am deeply frustrated and disappointed by Whirlpool’s decision to end second-shift production in Amana. Whirlpool’s modernization efforts should not come at the cost of workers who have been critical to the company’s success for many years. As other manufacturers make new investments in Iowa, Whirlpool should do the same. I remain committed to working closely with employees, community leaders, and the Iowa Workforce Development Agency to provide support to those affected by this decision.

@johann_bjorn Unforgivable

The pork industry spent $260K lobbying a single Farm Bill provision this quarter — just to put pigs back in cages.

@Acyn #SleepyDough

Rubio: I have never seen Trump fall asleep. Lieu: I’m going to show you a video that shows you just lied to congress. Here is a video of him asleep while you are talking.

@HQNewsNow Sleepy Dough

Trump appears to be completely passed out asleep during his 3pm Oval Office announcement

@mbolotnikova Thank you

Normal people are really viscerally horrified by the sight of gestation crates, it's got me thinking about other factory farm standard practices where this principle ought to be applied noahpinion.blog/p/the-way-we-t…

@FAADAorg There is no justification for this. Not make up testing. Not psychological testing. Not cancer research. None of it. We are technologically so advanced the time for Animal test testing is over.

🔴🐒 Esta es la escalofriante realidad que se esconde detrás de muchos de los medicamentos que utilizamos cada día. 🔍 Las pruebas que están saliendo a la luz desde el Reino Unido están destapando una de las industrias más opacas y herméticas del mundo, revelando prácticas que durante décadas han permanecido ocultas al escrutinio público. Una investigación que ya está movilizando a miles de personas en todo el planeta para exigir transparencia, responsabilidad y un cambio urgente✊ ➡️ Firma en toxicity.inc y ayúdanos a exigir el fin de estas pruebas y la transición hacia métodos sin animales. ➡️ ¡Comparte para visibilizar lo que aún intentan ocultar!

@Egg_Truth Disgrace 💔

This is a county fair in Lancaster County, PA. Open to the public. She's on the floor of a cage. Panting. Eyes closed. Other hens stepping on her. Every week hens arrive alive and die before they're sold. You're looking at her right now. That's more than anyone there did.