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Chicago train rider: "I'ma kiII whites. I got out 2 days ago. I finna kiIl for real."

Italian olive oil is one of the most adulterated products in the global food supply. Estimates suggest 70 to 80% of "extra virgin olive oil" sold worldwide is either mislabelled lower-grade oil or cut with cheaper seed oils. The fraud is run by organised crime. The 'Ndrangheta operates olive oil adulteration rings that generate more profit than cocaine trafficking. They import cheap oil from Tunisia, Morocco, and Turkey, relabel it as Italian, and export it at premium prices to people who think they're buying authenticity. Or they cut extra virgin with refined olive oil, lampante (lamp oil grade, unfit for human consumption), or seed oils like sunflower and soybean, then sell the mixture as pure extra virgin to supermarkets and restaurants. The Italian government knows. The EU knows. Occasional busts happen, the headlines run for a week, the fraud continues. The margins are enormous. The penalties are a rounding error. Even the legitimate stuff has problems. Intensive olive cultivation in Spain has eroded hillsides, drained aquifers, and contaminated groundwater with pesticide runoff. Traditional groves are being torn out and replaced with high-density intensive plantations that demand irrigation in arid climates, heavy spraying, and mechanical harvesting that wrecks the soil. The waste water is highly polluting. Every litre of olive oil produces 1 to 1.5 litres of effluent loaded with organic compounds, phenols, and residual oil. It gets dumped in evaporation ponds or discharged with token treatment. Your £12 bottle of "Italian extra virgin" is probably mislabelled Tunisian oil cut with sunflower, possibly sold by organised crime, definitely draining a Mediterranean aquifer, and generating toxic waste at the press. But it's from plants. So it's definitely healthier than butter from a British dairy cow grazing on rain-fed grass three miles down the road.

🇺🇸 Influencer Celina Powell just doxxed NBA player Michael Porter Jr.'s home address on Instagram and falsely claimed he was throwing a party there. He had to call the police and flee his own house with his jewelry. There has to be a charge for this...

FULL GAGGLE: Mayor Johnson discusses the Supreme Court's Voting Rights decision, the City's approach to youth-led antiviolence programming, and more.

🚨🇺🇸 What in hell is going on in Chicago?!.. Grown man stomps an elderly woman's head in the middle of the highway. Bystanders filmed instead of stepping in. If you can stand there and record this and not move, something inside you is already broken.