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Yep, and the ocean current moves it north up near Coronado. It smells like **** at those beaches quite often.

So much corruption in Tijuana. Many new homes sewage is connected to storm drains so even if they fix the sewer treatment plants the problems will continue.
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We should certainly make TJ fix this while eliminating the FDA. I feel good about the future like that!
 
Zombie said:

View: https://bsky.app/profile/alexander-a-tin.bsky.social/post/3lmzzea7ifc2w


I’ve always thought there wasn’t enough rat **** in my food, glad the Trump admin is finally putting this right
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Deadly E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Lettuce Found in 15 States — But FDA Says It Wasn’t Publicized

Nine families are suing a California-based produce company after more than 90 cases of serious E. coli infections were found by the FDA. These families, as well as food safety experts and former FDA officials, are criticizing how the case was handled.
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gandalfe said:
I think this is relevant to your interests:

people.com

Deadly E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Lettuce Found in 15 States — But FDA Says It Wasn’t Publicized

Nine families are suing a California-based produce company after more than 90 cases of serious E. coli infections were found by the FDA. These families, as well as food safety experts and former FDA officials, are criticizing how the case was handled.
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Oh weird what a coincidence.

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FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say

Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.
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This is what the working class slobs wanted. You know, cuz egg prices and Harris didn’t explain thoroughly something. Also, she’s a black woman. Red states will suffer the most. Their states won’t inspect food and other countries won’t touch the (literal) crap food they export. So this isn’t going to end well. But it’s also what the working class economically anxious bums wanted. Or something. Also, libs make republicans feel dum dum so this is backlash. Or so I’ve been told.
 

Imagine walking into your local library to check out a book and finding the shelves stripped bare. Imagine taking your child to a museum, only to find all programs have been cancelled and the doors are locked. Imagine living in a rural community where there is no high school and the only accessible education is provided by a local museum that is now closed, or your only access to the internet is a library that's now shuttered by political decree. Imagine trying to teach a classroom about civil rights, women's contributions to science, or the Holocaust—only to be told those stories are "divisive" and banned.

This is no longer hypothetical. It's the path we're on right now.
 

The Department of Government Efficiency’s website quietly removed nearly one billion dollars in what it claims to have “saved” through canceled contracts, grants or leases this past week.

In the latest example of altering figures on the agency’s website, staffers at DOGE seemingly updated its claimed savings overnight on Tuesday, erasing approximately $962 million, according to NOTUS.

On several occasions, the DOGE website has been updated to get rid of claimed savings that were later found to be inaccurate. NOTUS identified more than 600 grants that had been removed from DOGE’s website over the last few weeks in addition to dozens of contracts and leases. Almost all were removed during a two-hour window between midnight and 2 a.m. on Tuesday this week, according to NOTUS.

The latest string of corrected savings arrives after Elon Musk, the de facto head of DOGE, lowered expectations of the group’s savings from $1 trillion to $150 billion by the end of the fiscal year.

Other cuts DOGE has claimed on its website predate the current administration.


As of fiscal year 2025, the U.S. national deficit stands at approximately $1.31 trillion. This figure represents the difference between federal government spending and revenue collected so far this fiscal year. It's worth noting that this is an increase of about $242 billion compared to the same period in the previous fiscal year.
 
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Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks is widely seen as a measured figure who frequently calls out anything radical or removed from the center — but that's decidedly not the tone he struck in his latest article, calling for a "civic uprising" to defend American values against the assault of the Trump administration.

"Over the centuries, people built the sinews of civilization: Constitutions to restrain power, international alliances to promote peace, legal systems to peacefully settle disputes, scientific institutions to cure disease, news outlets to advance public understanding, charitable organizations to ease suffering, businesses to build wealth and spread prosperity, and universities to preserve, transmit and advance the glories of our way of life," wrote Brooks. "These institutions make our lives sweet, loving and creative, rather than nasty, brutish and short."

The Trump agenda, he continued, stands in opposition to all of that — pursuing only "power for its own sake" as it seeks to "make the earth a playground for ruthless men," tearing down any institution or cultural values that get in the way of that. This is the mindset with which Trump has forced universities, law firms, and media companies to bend to his will.

"So far, the only real hint of something larger — a mass countermovement — has been the rallies led by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But this ... is an ineffective way to respond to Trump; those partisan rallies make this fight seem like a normal contest between Democrats and Republicans," wrote Brooks. "What is happening now is not normal politics. We’re seeing an assault on the fundamental institutions of our civic life, things we should all swear loyalty to — Democrat, independent or Republican."

Specifically, what's needed is a type of collective nonviolent civil disobedience, wrote Brooks, of the type that drove British colonists out of India or forced passage of the Civil Rights Act.

"I’m really not a movement guy. I don’t naturally march in demonstrations or attend rallies that I’m not covering as a journalist," Brooks concluded. "But this is what America needs right now. Trump is shackling the greatest institutions in American life. We have nothing to lose but our chains."
 
And another one. This time a US citizen born in the united states with birth certificate and SSN: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...1&cvid=a870ba1ccf684b42a1cfa0817413e156&ei=57

A US Citizen born in Georgia is being held in Leon County Jail after being arrested and detained by ICE, despite his mother presenting a valid birth certificate and social security card to a judge.


A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, 20, a resident of Grady County, Georgia, was arrested Wednesday after a traffic stop while on his way to work in Tallahassee, the Florida Pheonix reported. He was charged with illegally entering Florida as an "unauthorized alien" under a controversial state law that has previously been temporarily blocked by a federal judge.


Leon County Judge LaShawn Riggans examined his birth certificate and Social Security card, declaring the documents authentic and stating there was no probable cause for the misdemeanor charge.

However, because Lopez-Gomez is under ICE hold, he cannot be released even if the court found no probable cause for his arrest, an attorney for the state said.

Lopez-Gomez must now wait up to 48 hours in custody for federal immigration agents to act. His next steps remain uncertain as his family and supporters call for his immediate release.

There's always "just one more thing" missing to justify these actions. You have a visa? Not enough, you have to be a resident. You have a green card? Not enough, you're not a full citizen. You have a birth certificate and SS card? Not enough, could be fake, doesn't prove your ID. You have a driver's license? Not enough, it doesn't prove your citizenship. And round and round it goes while people are being unlawfully detained before our very eyes.

Trump deported and imprisoned illegals without due process. Now he is taking in citizens. It could be a mistake. But they don’t fix their mistakes Because it’s a “diplomatic problem” and they can’t do anything. This is why people fear for their rights. This is another reason why people call him a Nazi.
 
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A conservative judge just issued a dire warning about the Abrego Garcia case

The government has brought us to the brink of "lawlessness."
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A conservative federal judge just issued a dire warning: The government must bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States after he was illegally deported to a brutal Salvadoran prison, or else the country will descend into lawlessness. The opinion, from the 4th Circuit’s J. Harvie Wilkinson III and joined by two colleagues, is an extraordinary document—and is all the more notable coming from a judge who has long championed presidential power.

“The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country
in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order,” Wilksinson wrote in an opinion Thursday rejecting the government’s request to halt a district court order that it takes affirmative steps to retrieve Abrego Garcia and vacate an order for discovery into these efforts. “Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done.”……

“………Wilkinson’s words will likely be taken seriously by Chief Justice John Roberts and possibly the other GOP-appointed justices because he is one of them. A Reagan appointee, Wilkinson is a conservative jurist who, during the height of the War on Terror, wrote an opinion upholding the president’s wartime authority to detain US citizens indefinitely. And it was Wilkinson’s concurrence in this same case that gave the Supreme Court the “facilitate” language it had recently adopted. Wilkinson’s clarion warning today sends a strong signal to the justices, the conservative legal community, and the country that we are careening toward crisis. What remains unknown is if there’s any way to stop it now.

In concluding his opinion, Wilkinson accurately warns that without compliance, the checks and balances of our system will fail. And he essentially pleads with the Trump administration to come to its senses. “We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos,” he wrote. “This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the best that is within us while there is still time.”

Wilkinson’s writing also, if implicitly, is directed at the Supreme Court, where this case may be headed once again. A week ago, the Supreme Court stressed deference to the executive all while upholding the district court’s effort to return Abrego Garcia. But at some point, the justices will either have to call out the administration for failing to act—or throw up their hands and sanction Trump’s lawlessness. Wilkinson’s opinion is a warning to avoid that outcome”.
 
fishonjazz said:
There's always "just one more thing" missing to justify these actions. You have a visa? Not enough, you have to be a resident. You have a green card? Not enough, you're not a full citizen. You have a birth certificate and SS card? Not enough, could be fake, doesn't prove your ID. You have a driver's license? Not enough, it doesn't prove your citizenship.
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It is the same thing over and over. Having a visa, being a resident, having a green card, being a full citizen, having a birth certificate with SS card, and having a driver's license is not enough evidence to allow a judge to exceed limits of jurisdiction. You also can't get out of a speeding ticket by showing up to Federal Court with proof of your not speeding no matter how iron clad your proof is. That is what the judge in your story is saying. The proof brought is more than enough, but you need to show that to an immigration judge who has the jurisdiction to do something with it.
 
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Saw this: When they hauled these guys off and withheld their rights and zero due process, they committed the acts of kidnapping.

When they exchanged money with El Salvador for these bodies, they committed human trafficking.

If any of these men die in El Salvador, this administration is an accessory to murder.

Of course as trump himself said, he can commit murder and not lose any supporters.
 

Berulis alleged in the affidavit that there attempted logins to NLRB systems from an IP address in Russia in the days after DOGE accessed the systems. He told Reuters Tuesday that the attempted logins apparently included correct username and password combinations but were rejected by location-related conditional access policies.
Berulis' affidavit said that an effort by him and his colleague to formally investigate and alert the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was disrupted by higher-ups without explanation.

As he and his colleagues prepared to pass information they'd gathered to CISA he received a threatening note taped to the door of his home with photographs of him walking in his neighborhood taken via drone, Andrew Bakaj, Whistleblower Aid's chief legal counsel, said in his submission to Cotton and Warner.
"Unlike any other time previously, there is this fear to speak out because of reprisal," Berulis told Reuters. "We're seeing data that is traditionally safeguarded with the highest standards in the United States government being taken and the people that do try to stop it from happening, the people that are saying no, they're being removed one by one."

In an affidavit, Berulis said he had evidence that DOGE staffers were given extraordinarily sweeping access to the NLRB's systems, which house sensitive case files. He said that beginning in early March, logging protocols created to audit users appeared to have been tampered with, and that he had detected the removal of about 10 gigabytes worth of data from NLRB's network sometime thereafter.
 
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Suspected Florida shooter has a history of espousing radical ideas. What did he say?

The gunman in a fatal attack at Florida State University had a history of espousing radical right-wing conspiracy theories and hateful ideas.
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So there was a Florida State University school shooting recently that left 2 dead and numerous others wounded.

The shooter: Leon County Sheriff Walter A. McNeil identified the alleged gunman as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, a student at Florida State University whose mother is a veteran Leon County sheriff deputy. McNeil said Ikner used a gun that belonged to his mother.

News that Ikner was the suspected gunman horrified people who knew him, but they said they weren't shocked given things he had said publicly.

According to the Florida native, Ikner touted right wing conspiracy theories and hateful ideas. Among them was a theory that President Joe Biden illegally came into office, “Rosa Parks was in the wrong” and Black people were ruining his neighborhood.

“I remember thinking this man should not have access to firearms,” Luzietti told USA TODAY. But, “what are you supposed to do? His mother was a cop and Florida doesn’t have very strong red flag laws.”

“It's so sad and so shocking,” Luzietti said of the shooting. “Then to see that it was him — I’m sadly not surprised.”

Reid Seybold, a former Tallahassee State College student who transferred to Florida State at the same time as Ikner, recalled how they crossed paths at their old school, according to NBC News.

Seybold said they belonged to a "political round table" club where the group eventually asked Ikner to leave over the hateful things he said.

"Basically our only rule was no Nazis — colloquially speaking — and he espoused so much white supremacist rhetoric, and far-right rhetoric as well, to the point where we had to exercise that rule," Seybold said.
 
There’s a reason global leaders aren’t picking up the phone. While Donald Trump storms into trade wars like a jilted Monopoly tycoon with a Twitter addiction, the rest of the world is quietly reaching for the receipts. Not just figuratively, literally. They’re holding trillions in U.S. Treasury bonds and debating how fast or how publicly to remind us who’s really cornered.

Trump’s economic chaos isn’t just bad policy. It’s an accelerant on dry tinder. The tariffs, the market manipulation, the self-serving tweets about “great times to buy DJT” hours before policy reversals, these aren’t isolated stumbles. They’re signs of a much deeper crisis unfolding: a breakdown of the postwar monetary order. The world sees it, even if Trump doesn’t.

Let’s start with the debt. One reader put it plainly: this year alone, the U.S. is on track to refinance $10 trillion of maturing debt, at more than double the interest rates of a decade ago. What we borrowed at 2% in 2015, we’re now refinancing at 4.5% or higher. That’s an extra $250 billion a year in interest. Altogether, we’ll soon be spending over $1.2 trillion annually just to service the debt, more than our entire defense budget. And that’s before Trump’s next round of tax cuts for billionaires.

You don’t have to be an economist to know what happens when you max out every credit card and then shred the bill collectors’ voicemails. You just have to read history. We’ve seen this kind of financial brinkmanship before, in 1929, in 1971, in 2008. But what we’re staring down now, as Ray Dalio warned last week on Meet the Press, could be worse than all of it.

Dalio isn’t some liberal firebrand. He founded the world’s largest hedge fund and he’s about as apolitical as they come. But his message was clear: Trump’s policies aren’t merely reckless, they’re destabilizing the very foundation of the global economy. The U.S. isn’t just flirting with a recession. We're toying with the collapse of the dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency, the one thing that’s kept our paper empire afloat since Bretton Woods. If we lose that privilege, it’s not a downgrade. It’s a reclassification from global superpower to banana republic with nukes.

And yet, Trump struts around like he’s playing 4D chess, while the rest of the world quietly plays actual chess, with our king boxed into a corner. As Part 1 argued, Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney may have orchestrated a slow, deliberate bleed of U.S. Treasury bonds in coordination with EU and Japanese allies. A financial firing squad triggered not by rage, but by risk management. In case of emergency, break the dollar.
Did Trump pause the tariffs because he saw the light? No. He blinked because the bond markets did. Because consumer sentiment collapsed to levels not seen since 1981. Because rich friends started calling. Because the Dow twitched like it knew something, and somebody absolutely did, as trade volume in ETFs like SPY and TQQQ surged just minutes before the reversal. Because Marjorie Taylor Greene somehow turned into Warren Buffett for a week, buying all the right stocks before anyone else knew the “pause” was coming.

And if you think that’s hyperbole, Senator Elizabeth Warren is already demanding investigations. She’s called out the blatant market manipulation, the suspicious trades, the suspicious silences from regulatory agencies now stacked with loyalists and sycophants. She’s also calling out what others dare not: the weaponization of economic data. Because Trump isn’t just faking his negotiating skills, he’s faking the scoreboard. Fired the economists. Hushed the statisticians. Replaced Treasury projections with “vibes.” We’re now running the economy on delusion and Doge memes.

Meanwhile, the housing market is sputtering. Not collapsing yet, but definitely wheezing. Open houses in desirable neighborhoods are drawing crickets. Mortgage rates are bouncing near 6.6% and headed higher. Builders are slashing prices and stacking incentives, even as tariffs drive up construction costs. Affordability has become a theoretical concept. The average American can no longer afford the average American home.

And still, we’re told to believe everything’s fine. Trust the numbers. Trust the orange-tinted strongman with his echo chamber cabinet of billionaires and brand managers, who laugh about gutting veterans' benefits and firing teachers like it’s a Friday afternoon round of The Apprentice: Cabinet Edition.
But here’s the thing: the world isn’t stupid. They see the grift. They’ve watched the collapse of independent institutions, the politicization of data, the attacks on the judiciary, the trillion-dollar debt refinancings, the cultic belief in a man who can’t keep his lies straight through a golf round. And unlike many Americans, they’re not afraid to hedge against that madness.
This is a story about trust and how quickly it can erode, and how devastating the consequences when it’s gone. When countries no longer trust our numbers. When investors no longer trust our bonds. When even allies begin quietly preparing for our decline not because they want to, but because they have to.

This is less a trade war and more of an international intervention. The world is trying to wrest the wheel from a drunk driver who thinks he’s Moses parting the Red Sea. And the passengers? That’s us. Every taxpayer. Every bondholder. Every veteran. Every teacher. Every kid whose public school is now on the chopping block so Elon Musk can tweet about fraud and fire civil servants with disabilities.

Ray Dalio sees it. Elizabeth Warren sees it. Mark Carney saw it early. And if the rest of us don’t see it soon, we may not be in a position to do much about it at all.

History is watching. And the bond market is blinking red.
 
fishonjazz said:
There’s a reason global leaders aren’t picking up the phone. While Donald Trump storms into trade wars like a jilted Monopoly tycoon with a Twitter addiction, the rest of the world is quietly reaching for the receipts. Not just figuratively, literally. They’re holding trillions in U.S. Treasury bonds and debating how fast or how publicly to remind us who’s really cornered.

Trump’s economic chaos isn’t just bad policy. It’s an accelerant on dry tinder. The tariffs, the market manipulation, the self-serving tweets about “great times to buy DJT” hours before policy reversals, these aren’t isolated stumbles. They’re signs of a much deeper crisis unfolding: a breakdown of the postwar monetary order. The world sees it, even if Trump doesn’t.

Let’s start with the debt. One reader put it plainly: this year alone, the U.S. is on track to refinance $10 trillion of maturing debt, at more than double the interest rates of a decade ago. What we borrowed at 2% in 2015, we’re now refinancing at 4.5% or higher. That’s an extra $250 billion a year in interest. Altogether, we’ll soon be spending over $1.2 trillion annually just to service the debt, more than our entire defense budget. And that’s before Trump’s next round of tax cuts for billionaires.

You don’t have to be an economist to know what happens when you max out every credit card and then shred the bill collectors’ voicemails. You just have to read history. We’ve seen this kind of financial brinkmanship before, in 1929, in 1971, in 2008. But what we’re staring down now, as Ray Dalio warned last week on Meet the Press, could be worse than all of it.

Dalio isn’t some liberal firebrand. He founded the world’s largest hedge fund and he’s about as apolitical as they come. But his message was clear: Trump’s policies aren’t merely reckless, they’re destabilizing the very foundation of the global economy. The U.S. isn’t just flirting with a recession. We're toying with the collapse of the dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency, the one thing that’s kept our paper empire afloat since Bretton Woods. If we lose that privilege, it’s not a downgrade. It’s a reclassification from global superpower to banana republic with nukes.

And yet, Trump struts around like he’s playing 4D chess, while the rest of the world quietly plays actual chess, with our king boxed into a corner. As Part 1 argued, Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney may have orchestrated a slow, deliberate bleed of U.S. Treasury bonds in coordination with EU and Japanese allies. A financial firing squad triggered not by rage, but by risk management. In case of emergency, break the dollar.
Did Trump pause the tariffs because he saw the light? No. He blinked because the bond markets did. Because consumer sentiment collapsed to levels not seen since 1981. Because rich friends started calling. Because the Dow twitched like it knew something, and somebody absolutely did, as trade volume in ETFs like SPY and TQQQ surged just minutes before the reversal. Because Marjorie Taylor Greene somehow turned into Warren Buffett for a week, buying all the right stocks before anyone else knew the “pause” was coming.

And if you think that’s hyperbole, Senator Elizabeth Warren is already demanding investigations. She’s called out the blatant market manipulation, the suspicious trades, the suspicious silences from regulatory agencies now stacked with loyalists and sycophants. She’s also calling out what others dare not: the weaponization of economic data. Because Trump isn’t just faking his negotiating skills, he’s faking the scoreboard. Fired the economists. Hushed the statisticians. Replaced Treasury projections with “vibes.” We’re now running the economy on delusion and Doge memes.

Meanwhile, the housing market is sputtering. Not collapsing yet, but definitely wheezing. Open houses in desirable neighborhoods are drawing crickets. Mortgage rates are bouncing near 6.6% and headed higher. Builders are slashing prices and stacking incentives, even as tariffs drive up construction costs. Affordability has become a theoretical concept. The average American can no longer afford the average American home.

And still, we’re told to believe everything’s fine. Trust the numbers. Trust the orange-tinted strongman with his echo chamber cabinet of billionaires and brand managers, who laugh about gutting veterans' benefits and firing teachers like it’s a Friday afternoon round of The Apprentice: Cabinet Edition.
But here’s the thing: the world isn’t stupid. They see the grift. They’ve watched the collapse of independent institutions, the politicization of data, the attacks on the judiciary, the trillion-dollar debt refinancings, the cultic belief in a man who can’t keep his lies straight through a golf round. And unlike many Americans, they’re not afraid to hedge against that madness.
This is a story about trust and how quickly it can erode, and how devastating the consequences when it’s gone. When countries no longer trust our numbers. When investors no longer trust our bonds. When even allies begin quietly preparing for our decline not because they want to, but because they have to.

This is less a trade war and more of an international intervention. The world is trying to wrest the wheel from a drunk driver who thinks he’s Moses parting the Red Sea. And the passengers? That’s us. Every taxpayer. Every bondholder. Every veteran. Every teacher. Every kid whose public school is now on the chopping block so Elon Musk can tweet about fraud and fire civil servants with disabilities.

Ray Dalio sees it. Elizabeth Warren sees it. Mark Carney saw it early. And if the rest of us don’t see it soon, we may not be in a position to do much about it at all.

History is watching. And the bond market is blinking red.
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Great post. Do you have a link to this?
 
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It's from this blog. Great stuff here:

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