puffins! puffins!!

My painting NORTHERN ENGLAND

Childhood toxin exposure ‘may be factor in bowel cancer rise in under-50s’ Researchers say mutations more often found in younger patients’ tumours caused by toxin secreted by E coli strains

Childhood toxin exposure ‘may be factor in bowel cancer rise in under-50s’

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Antibacterial action of vinegar against food-borne pathogenic bacteria including Escherichia coli O157:H7 - PubMed The bacteriostatic and bactericidal actions of vinegar on food-borne pathogenic bacteria including enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) O157:H7 were examined. The growth of all strains evaluated was inhib...

As much as I don't like to add vinegar/salad dressing to my salad greens, I just learned that the vinegar kills some bacteria in our fresh salad greens. Which is helpful for digestion and preventing bowel cancer.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9713753/

Former US Congresswoman Liz Cheney issues urgent call to Democrats: “stop fundraising and start fighting” In the US, as political tensions reach a boiling point and democratic norms continue to erode under what many now

You must read this article from Liz Cheney on what we need to do now, georgiatoday.ge/former-us-co...

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

Got milk? Nevermind. It's gonna kill me like the 1880's all over again.

FDA cuts to food safety, and bird flu testing clearly indicates, like a neon light flashing, DANGER! Your odds to die an early death have increased.

Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Cantaloupes, November 2023 Page provides information on an outbreak linked to cantaloupes.

Fresh raw produce that is safe to eat, was already a hard problem even with an FDA.

Being vegan with an intact FDA was being a vegan on *easy mode*.

You could roast vegetables instead of just boiling the hell out of them, not worry too much about getting salmonella or listeria from fresh oranges

DOGE just cut FDA safety testing for milk. They must not remember the Swill Milk Scandal where 8000 Babies Died.

The FDA was literally created because in the 1880s, milk sellers were thinning milk with chalk, cow brains, and formaldehyde to make more money. Like milk specifically was a main driving force behind the creation of the FDA.

www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts

US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts reut.rs/4cHdnz3

Know Your Rights | 100 Mile Border Zone | ACLU The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from random and arbitrary stops and searches. Although the federal government claims the power to conduct certain kinds of warrantless sto...

They claim their authority encompasses everywhere within 100 miles from the border. Any border. That’s where 2/3 of US citizens live. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

Do Customs and Border Protection officials have the authority to search your phone at the border? Short answer? Yes.

Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, an IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

The scale at which DOGE is seeking to interconnect data, including sensitive biometric data, is unprecedented, raising alarms with experts who fear it may lead to disastrous privacy violations for citizens and immigrants alike.

How to identify a half wit

#Chain #reaction setups are called Rube Goldberg machines, named after the American cartoonist who first illustrated them in the early 1900s.
Built for fun or challenge

I read your skeets like a bedtime story.

4/19 prawtests get up and move

🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY

I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent.

It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy.

based on
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
1/18

You are very right.

Oh, how I miss President Obama and competent government. 🇺🇸

My favorite sign from today in DC. #HandsOff #resist #50501

remembering fondly when people were like "don't promote 50501, it's not real, it's a psyop"

my offer to america: we bring woke back

George H.W. Bush: The Education President Proposals set forth by the 41st president have influenced decades of K-12 education policy

I miss the edumacation president www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org/stories/k-12...