This should end up with them on the sex offender registry. It won’t, but it should.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, said he would hold “key talks” Monday as he tries to defuse a domestic political crisis, after last week’s government reshuffle exposed a deep split between the military’s old guard and young innovators over how to fight the war.

Zelenskyy needs to reassure Ukrainians that sacrificing 35-year-old Mykhailo Fedorov as defense minister and keeping faith with 60-year-old Soviet-trained Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi as armed forces chief won’t derail the fight against Russia.

Taco Bell is the one who identified one of their lettuce suppliers as a source of infection. (There are likely other sources, as some of the infected do not eat at Taco Bell.) Taco Bell then announced the issue (but did not name the supplier), pulled all lettuce from that supplier from stores and warehouses, plus anything else they thought might be questionable. They seem to be being very responsible here. (Admittedly, there was a long initial delay, but they were probably expecting government agencies to still be functional and doing their jobs.)

In many scientific tests, you need to chose between false positives and false negatives. The way to run infection tests like this is to choose for false positives: if a sample is negative, you can be sure that it’s negative and you can ignore it. If it tests positive, you can re-run the tests with other criteria and confirm or deny the original results.

It seems like the regime, tired of being blamed for not figuring this out, got a false positive and made the announcement before re-testing was complete. And now Taylor Farms (which has been involved in multiple other past infections) is saying that it wasn’t them, almost certainly because they’ve lost business, and the FDA is being forced to back them up on that.

I’ll also add that it’s been, what? two months since this started? It’s possible that Taylor Farms cracked down on their produce and farming practices, and that the samples provided to FDA are genuinely clean and we may never get a definitive answer; that’s happened before in other outbreaks. It’s extremely unusual for there to be no definitive answer in an outbreak that’s lasted this long - but then again, we used to have a functioning government.

Lmao

Interpol warrant from the UK, which is charging them with additional sex crimes. Also meaning they can’t buy a pardon from the orange turd

There was a bunch of discussion about why the government didn’t do something similar when ?Gaddafi? came to UN meetings, and it was that there’s an agreement of some kind (treaty? law? UN charter?) that means people coming to New York for UN meetings cannot be arrested. Of course, this administration and it’s supporters have shown absolutely no regard for any of those to date - but you can bet they’ll be screeching from the rooftops if Mamdani tries to arrest Netanyahu.

They should be including Jared “I want to re-build Gaza into a real destination (minus the Palestinians, of course!” Kushner as well.

Eric and Barron are on the ends, and somewhat faded in the picture.

Funny how they’re suddenly fine with gender-affirming care …

Lol, considering that the US spent decades ignoring Canadian effort to diminish the amount of acid rain we sent over the border, this doesn’t seem that bad. (And yes, I’m in the middle of the plume, with an air quality of purple.)

I remember reading an article years ago, where a young couple had moved into a newly built community. As they settled in, they realized they had projects around the house that weren’t overly skilled but would benefit from additional hands. They got together with several of their neighbors who had similar issues.

Once a month, they descended on one house. The owner had a list of projects - empty the attic, clean out the shed, paint the living room, whatever they needed help with. Everyone would divvy up the work; the owner provided food and drink throughout the day, and at the end, everyone relaxed together. Then the next month, they’d descend on the next person’s house.

The group ended up really bonding together. As they grew older, they helped each other get through illnesses, celebrate graduations and weddings, cope with grief, and stay in their houses. I’m sure it helped that it was a new neighborhood with a bunch of people likely seeking connections, but I’d love to see that kind of bond elsewhere.

A series of last-minute travel requests, known as “off the record” movements,

Not like this administration likes to do anything on the record.

Vance’s plans to travel from his home at the Naval Observatory to the golf course at Andrews Air Force Base would’ve represented a flight on a familiar route, while avoiding public impacts such as traffic jams

Ah, he thinks he’s too good to sit in traffic.

[Flock] run what it calls convoy analysis to flag vehicles that keep turning up near each other.

There’s an interesting article written back when it was revealed that the post office was recording the envelopes of every piece of mail it handles and what kind of data they could extrapolate from it. [If you’ve mailed a letter at the counter in the past few years, you’ll know that they bug you if you haven’t put a return address on the envelope.] Anyway, it’s called “Finding Paul Revere” and I found it an interesting read.

I want him to have to pay a million dollars to vevery person who entered. Plus a fine ten times that amount into an election integrity fund.

Prosecutors believe that, in addition to denying her wages for her domestic work, they appropriated the roughly $115 a month that Maria received through Bolsa Família, Brazil’s flagship anti-poverty program.

$115 per month for 55 years is $75,900; they’re “compensating” her $40k. So they got her free labor for 55 years, plus an additional $35,900 from her benefits that they still get to keep?

Plus she’s still living with the family, has no financial literacy, no experience with the real world, doesn’t know how badly she was abused, and can’t read or write. It’s literally only a matter of time before her $10k settlement is gone.

Looks like the governor appoints someone to serve in his seat for the next six months; his term was up in January, anyway, unless he won re-election. Not sure if his seat will be filled in the general election or they’ll call a special election to fill it.

he is draining it once again

Is he doing to have his entire SS detail drive over it again, including his multi-ton reinforced limo?

This is how we got invasive Burmese pythons spreading up the East Coast. The people keeping them as exotic pets absolutely swore they’d take care of them and they wouldn’t escape and breed, then a hurricane came through and they didn’t evacuate their pets and now we have fucking pythons slowly making their way north, devastating the local wildlife.

Twenty of the stations are located in Pennsylvania, while five are in New Jersey

I’m sure that’ll help people in Texas and Colorado.

Also: ewww, get that shit out of my state!

A civil contract does not override any law.