Can’t believe no one has yet commented on Gruesome Gavin’s ex-wife being Don Jr’s fiancé. The potential for the turbo-neoliberal to get dragged down into talking about his hog on a debate stage is real

On the plus side, Trump would likely redeploy his BOOT EDGE EDGE bit in a debate

Visiting family right now…my academic brother is despairing that Tory MPs are placing bets on how many seats they’ll lose as “Britain needs effective opposition” once Labour win otherwise “the extreme left or right will get power”. He also cited the lack of “effective opposition” as what led to “Britain being destroyed” by the Tories.

For someone that is a scientist and entirely defines his identity by his career, it’s kind of funny how little he understands long term trends or that having an effective right wing party is a bad thing.

Starmer accuses Sunak of 'Jeremy Corbyn-style' manifesto

Absolutely fucking rent free in Keith’s head. The Corbyn manifestos were fully costed and Keith der Sturmer stood on them as a member of the shadow cabinet.

Can’t wait for the look on his face when the press turns on him.

My company hired a bunch of lower cost engineers in Chile without considering local labor laws, and were upset to discover that the Chileans refused to respond to being paged out of hours when systems were failing…and there was nothing they could do about it

Naturally, Formula 1 is completely terrible and I should be sent to the gulag for still watching it since the 1990s out of childhood nostalgia, knowing full well it’s absolutely haram. But...

It’s pretty hilarious that Trump showed up at today’s race, hung out in McLaren’s garage, and then dubbed himself Lando Norris' lucky charm after his first ever win. What’s funnier is that Lando then said, “Donald is someone that you've got to have a lot of respect for in many ways,” which left fans upset that le epic bacon Twitch streaming driver would say such a thing

Imagine being surprised that someone from one of the UK’s richest families, competing in a sport formerly managed by someone who praised Hitler for being “a man who got things done” and someone else whose father led the British Union of Fascists, would have right-wing sympathies

January:

ACLU Urges President Biden to Abandon Disastrous Immigration Proposals

May:

Think about it. Why is China stalling so badly economically? Why is Japan having trouble. Why is Russia? Why is India? Because they're xenophobic. They don't want immigrants.

Tonight’s H5N1 posting

Some veterinarians working with dairies in Texas believe the virus is more active than current data suggest. Nick Schneider, a consulting dairy practitioner, is one of them.

“The thing is, when you get into the Panhandle of Texas, I’m not sure there’s anybody (dairy farms) that did not have it,” says Schneider. Texas is home to 335 Grade A dairies with an estimated 625,00 cows, according to information on the Texas Association of Dairymen website. More than 100 of those operations are in the Panhandle.

The virus likely is being under-reported by the dairy industry because the presence of the virus in dairy cows is new, and there are no reporting requirements, Russo says.

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Petersen says she has worked with people infected by H5N1 who do not interact with dairy cows. “I'm talking owners and feeders who don't usually touch cows,” she says.

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Moving forward, the U.S. livestock industry might operate in a new world – one where the H5N1 virus is endemic.

https://www.bovinevetonline.com/news/industry/message-ag-industry-about-h5n1

This comes after a lab at Ohio State University detected genetic material of the virus in 38% of retail milk samples they’ve tested, data that also suggests the current outbreak is being underreported.

https://www.bovinevetonline.com/news/industry/usda-now-requiring-mandatory-testing-and-reporting-hpai-dairy-cattle-new-data

“A colleague of mine, he told me, ‘You know what’s strange? I went to one of my dairies last week, and all their cats were missing. I couldn’t figure it out — the cats usually come to my vet truck,’ ” Petersen recalled. “And then someone called me and said half of his cats had passed away without warning, and so then all the alarm bells start going off in your head.”

The cats had died from swollen brains, a potential result of influenza. They didn’t have rabies.

https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/04/17/two-veterinarians-hundreds-of-miles-apart-solved-a-cow-sickness-whodunit/

All pilfered from this thread

According to an FDA study relying on 2016 and 2019 data, 4.4 percent of Americans report consuming raw milk in the past year, although the number has almost certainly grown since then.

• https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/10/the-alt-right-rebrand-of-raw-milk-00145625

Managed to post this in general mega instead of the news mega yesterday, but thought I’d repost here because it’s such sunny news:

• Influeza A is spiking in wastewater in Amarillo, in the middle of an area of very dense cattle factory farms
• There also appears to be a very recent steep uptick in Influenza A nationally

Meanwhile…

Only one human case linked to cattle has been confirmed to date, and symptoms were limited to conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye. But Russo and many other vets have heard anecdotes about workers who have pink eye and other symptoms—including fever, cough, and lethargy—and do not want to be tested or seen by doctors. James Lowe, a researcher who specializes in pig influenza viruses, says policies for monitoring exposed people vary greatly between states. “I believe there are probably lots of human cases,” he says, noting that most likely are asymptomatic.

— U.S. government in hot seat for response to growing cow flu outbreak

To quote from the first link I posted:

H5N1 is a strain of influenza A. It’s impossible to know at this time if this is what is driving this increase, but vigilance is warranted. Hopefully this is simply all a coincidence or just a statistical anomaly. I watch for early signals to monitor.

This could be nothing. But - we might be on the cusp of watching Joe Biden handle a new pandemic in a more dismissive way than Donald Trump, while liberals defend him.

Alex Jones is doing better than Joe Biden on Gaza

(CW: IDF drone footage in video in embedded Tweet)

Israel has lost the high ground. This is not war. It is robotic mass genocide. Section 1091 of Title 18, United States Code, prohibits genocide whether committed in time of peace or time of war. Genocide is defined in § 1091 and includes violent attacks with the specific intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

🚨 warning 🚨

Comrades. I will send myself to the gulag for this, but please excuse me. With the ongoing Katespiracy distraction that sadly has entered my brain, here’s my conspiracy theory as to what’s going on and how it could mean the end of the Royals

1. King Charles is dying of cancer, possibly within months
2. Prince William is supposed to become king
3. Kate wants to divorce William after an affair (or even worse, e.g. DV)
4. The circumstances of the divorce would make William a deeply unpopular king and harm their reputation, possibly to the point of a majority rejecting the monarchy. Therefore, they’re trying to cover it up.
5. The line of succession (lol) goes to their children, so if they skip William the UK would have to have a child monarch - again, harming the reputation of the monarchy to the point of the public questioning it.
6. The line of succession then goes to Harry, who has been outcast from the Royal Family.
7. The line of succession avoiding a child monarch then goes to….Prince Andrew

The end of the royal family would be so fucking funny, especially if it plays out this way