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3/ Utah officials learned in mid-August of the outbreak at C&T Fenn Farms, a fur farm west of Provo. Had poultry been infected, the playbook is clear: If even one chicken tests positive, the US requires farmers to kill the whole flock. There are no federal rules for dealing with sick mink.

7/ Price also told us she has never set foot on the property. "They're a very private bunch," she said. So last Saturday, we tracked down two of the farm’s workers ourselves. One had a visibly red eye — a symptom present in over 90% of bird flu cases in humans.

Denmark to ban mink farming. "A business should not continue just because it has existed for a long time. It should also make sense for society, for the economy and for the animals." www.bbc.com/news/article...

9/ A half dozen flu experts had no shortage of adjectives to describe their disbelief at officials’ decisions to neither cull the mink nor monitor/test workers. “Utah doesn’t want to be the epicenter of the next human flu outbreak, right?” a former Kansas epidemiologist said.

🚨BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge just dismissed DOJ’s lawsuit seeking Utah’s unredacted voter roll, with prejudice. The ruling drops the administration to 0-27 in its nationwide crusade for sensitive voter data.

We’ve never seen corruption like this. Under Trump, a whole pardon industry has grown up around the White House, with wealthy criminals paying well-connected insiders for a shot at clemency. Some have paid up to a million dollars. This case blows past all of them.

Grok fact-checks its master 👇🏽 👀

🔥BREAKING: massive fire has broken out at the Omsky Kauchuk petrochemical plant in Omsk, Russia, following a Ukrainian drone attack, nearly 2,500 km from the front line.

🧵🧵🧵 10 ways the planet’s richest person, Elon Musk, has been busy making the world worse. A thread. 1. Buying crooked politicians like Ken Paxton.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Elon Musk vs. ActBlue! The unfair influence by Billionaire mega-donors is egregious, they are literally attempting to buy the people’s elections, stealing them from Americans voters… VOTE BLUE!!!🗳️💙🗳️

Why is it important to close down Moscow airports? Because it has a huge impact on Russian economy and logistics. The Moscow Aviation Hub is essentially a bottleneck for Russian logistics. Whenever its work is disrupted, it creates a cascading effect on the Russian logistics as a whole.

Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

This trumped-up evaluation is the latest evidence of what I and our delegation have been warning of: that Donald Trump’s NOAA is creating a pretext to take away California’s power to manage its own shores.

This is a five-alarm warning to every job and industry that relies on our sandy beaches and beautiful bluffs for its livelihood. Soon, you too could see your environment for sale to Big Oil, Elon Musk, and any other high bidder that buys its way into the White House ballroom.

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

Trump is working extra hard to bring financial benefits to Russia.

We get this.

What fresh hell?! The Trump administration is trying to cheat from every angle. Trump’s political appointees at DHS wanted federal cybersecurity officials to secretly obtain a voting machine, attempt to hack it, and send their findings to the White House.

Georgia: 40% increase in first-day turnout compared with the 2022 midterms, and more than double the first-day participation seen during the 2018 midterms. "Early ballots in North Carolina and Maine are up 38% from the last midterms, while Iowa has seen a 61% increase" www.kark.com/news/early-v...

⚡️️What Russia's doing to Ukraine is 'fine,' Trump says. "Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine. They haven't been doing much," Trump said, hours after a Russian drone strike in a public park killed six people, including two children.

A compromised telecommunications network can expose sensitive information, facilitate surveillance, disrupt communications, or create opportunities to manipulate systems.

During my time at the National Security Council, my colleagues and I worked to persuade European allies to reject Huawei’s 5G technology. The concern was not simply that Huawei was a Chinese company, or that we distrusted Beijing. open.substack.com/pub/alexande...

US defence stocks tumble as investors bet on Democratic election sweep ft.trib.al/3HyHorz

A resident of St Petersburg thanked the Ukrainian Defense Forces for attacking the city "The global goal of the attacks is victory over the Soviet Putin's regime.The regime that takes billions of taxes from St Petersburg&sends them to Moscow…The one isolating us from the brotherly Finns,"he said.

There has been very little talk of the Epstein files ever since the Iran war began. Gas prices > up. Prices of groceries > up. Trump's approval ratings went WAY DOWN! 📉 And yet, he keeps the war going. One has to wonder are the Epstein files really worth all that? Keep pushing!! #Epstein #Trump

What a glorious sight. Check out these amazing photos from No Kings 👑 yesterday. Nearly 3000 events nationwide ‼️ The Vote Early movement is transitioning from protest to organized electoral mobilization. Let's hope it leads to higher turnout. The strategic shift is significant! #NoKings #vote 🗳️💙

BREAKING: 33% of Americans are either paying no attention at all or are in a cult.

⚡Zelensky: Ukraine has retaken more territory than Russia captured this fall. Ukrainian forces have recaptured more territory than Russian forces have seized this fall, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an Oct. 18 post on social media.

In 2025, a majority of S&P 500 CEOs made more in 1 day than the median US worker made the entire year. Meanwhile, the median US worker would need to work 43,154 years to earn what Trump made in 2025 thanks to his crypto scams & various grifts. When I say the system is broken, this is what I mean.

They are suffering shortage of diesel not from Russia (never got it from there before) but from his war of choice in the gulf. His choice

Elon Musk has spent at least $366 million since July to boost Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterms. That’s just 0.0385% of his total net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

Watching Vance light his 2028 prospects on fire in real time is something

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus... #USDemocracy #ProudBlue Cassidy Hutchinson bravely told the truth about Trump’s insane actions on Jan 6. Now corrupt AG Todd Blanche is seeking to indict her This will be another failed DOJ prosecution that will cost Cassidy a fortune to defend and ruin her life

"If they get away with this it will be worse next time. I promise you." – @adamserwer.bsky.social, Jan. 6, 2021

CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION

The Fed did the math - Trump did the damage.

The pattern is simple and it is everywhere now: donate to Trump or do business with his family, and the rules stop applying to you. Skip the donation, and the rules suddenly apply with a vengeance. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption

Conditions attach quietly: relief was frozen while election related terms were demanded, and states that refused went to court. Disaster help that arrives with political conditions is not help. It is leverage with an emergency label on it. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption

26 days until we can show the republicans what a blue wave looks like. We need your vote though! Vote blue down the ballot #CostsOfTrumpsCorruption #momsky#sheshed

“You hear that alarm?” the detainee asked the Mirror as an alarm started blaring during a phone interview. “Thats a fire alarm that goes off, I’m telling you, every day.” ICE and CoreCivic say no alarms are going off. story via @jerodmacevoy.com

10/ That expansion also makes accountability harder. American Oversight found local agencies telling records requesters to ask ICE, while ICE said it could not access some local records. A bureaucratic catch-22 can keep the public from seeing what these partnerships are doing.

9/ The national scale is staggering. ICE had 135 state and local 287(g) contracts in Dec. 2024. By April 2026, American Oversight counted at least 1,712 agreements across 40 states and territories. Read that again. Local deputized Gestapo thugs americanoversight.org/ice-287g-foi...

7/ And Doral is not an isolated cautionary tale. Florida has been turning immigration enforcement into an ordinary function of state and local government, spreading ICE authority far beyond ICE itself and making federal enforcement part of everyday encounters.

3/ Here is the part that changes the story: Doral did not just obey a federal order. That might be defensible. No, Its leaders chose a 287(g) agreement that deputized local police for federal immigration enforcement. They wanted to do this. truthout.org/articles/flo...

2/ The backlash is now visible in daily life. Residents say they are afraid to leave home. Restaurants and shops report steep losses as customers and workers disappear from the streets. This was all predictable. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/d...

1/ Doral, Florida is about 40% Venezuelan. In 2024, 63% of its voters backed Trump. Then its leaders voluntarily deputized local police to help ICE. Now families are hiding & businesses report losses as high as 70%. #FAFO prime example #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

Men,we must change the culture . This is not a political issue. It is a MALE issue. Too many men still think it is ok, and the abjudicated rapist in the White House does not help. This 11 year old study, and anecdotes going back decades on social media, confirm a prevalent toxic culture