are people talking about the labor conditions at Taylor Farms yet? like the fact they use enslaved prisoners in their facilities?
are we drawing the connection between worker safety and consumer safety & public health yet?
are people demanding to see the conditions in this place that keeps making us sick? why are the enslaved workers not having the time to use the bathroom or to rest when ill? very few people would shit in front of their coworkers given any choice at all.
jfc tennis just mandated that every player on the wta tour has to undergo genetic sex testing. that's like. thousands of players.
Following cultural tides, the women's tennis tour is mandating a strict new eligibility requirement.
tennis has anyways been the women's sport with the most mainstream cultural cachet, its also the home of some of the most regressive and visible sexism re:skirt mandates for female players that existed till 2019 before serena williams dared them to fine her for wearing a catsuit. the other thing is that martina navratilova is a massive terf.
we're going from the "gender challenges" and restrictions on testosterone levels to straight up gene tests, following the lead of the ioc.
Just off the top of your head, don't need to try and look it up to check out anything:
Can you name a web search engine that you used before Google?
Yes
No
Don't know/just want to see the results
Remaining time: 5 days 14 hours
The book I'm reading suggests that Google became so market dominant that most people couldn't name a search engine that came before it, so I'm curious.
A Plea from the Heart: I Am Fatima, and This Is My Story
My name is Fatima, a teacher from Gaza. I used to work in a small school I loved dearly, planting hope in the hearts of children and teaching them that tomorrow could be better. But the war took everything away. My school was bombed, I lost my job, and our home was reduced to rubble. Yet, I refused to give up. I set up a small tent amid the destruction and continued teaching children, showing them that knowledge is a light that cannot be extinguished, even in the darkest times.
My husband, Akram, was my partner and pillar of support. But he was severely injured in an attack targeting civilians. His abdominal injuries are so severe that he can no longer work or even lift basic items. Every day, I see the pain in his eyes and feel the weight of helplessness, but I try to stay strong for him and for our children.
Our eldest, Manar, is four years old, and she’s missing out on her childhood amidst this devastation. Our youngest, Ibrahim, was born under bombardment just a year ago. He has suffered greatly due to the lack of milk and proper medical care. Yet, sometimes, he smiles, and in those brief moments, I find the strength to keep going.
We now live in a fragile tent that doesn’t shield us from the cold or rain. Every day is a new battle for survival. I write these words while holding my children’s hands, with nothing left but my faith in God and the hope that your kind hearts will hear our plea.
Please help us provide milk and food for our children, ease Akram’s pain, and rebuild even a small part of the life the war has destroyed. Every donation, no matter how small, makes a big difference in our lives.
I ask you to share our story and be our support during this harsh and unforgiving time.
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I am Fatima, a mother of two, displaced from Gaza, now seeking refuge in Al-Ma… Thistle Path needs your support for Help Fatima's family in
In Gaza, families live day after day between fear, hunger, and illness, in a reality that leaves no space for safety or stability. Every day becomes just another attempt to survive.
From the heart of Gaza, we reach out to you with deep pain and a plea for help… amelia romain needs your support for Help Wedad's family in
🔴 Between Hospitals and Fear... A Mother Fighting to Survive 😔
We write these words not knowing whether we will still be alive tomorrow. My name is Najah, I am a mother of six children, and I am living through days beyond what I can endure. I try to stay strong for my children, but I suffer from a severe deficiency in vitamins, iron, and calcium, which leaves my body exhausted all the time, yet I continue moving between home and the hospital without rest.
⚠️ My husband urgently needs surgery.
My husband is suffering from a severe health condition that began before the war due to digestive problems, but it has significantly worsened since then. He now urgently needs a surgical operation and continuous medical care that we cannot afford. His condition became even worse after he was injured during the bombardment while we were inside our home, increasing the danger to his life
⚠️ My child has had increased electrical activity in the brain since early childhood.
As for my son Ahmed, he is a young child not yet six years old who has suffered from recurrent epileptic seizures since birth. He needs continuous treatment, but the essential medications are almost unavailable in Gaza and, when they do arrive through the crossings, they come in extremely limited quantities, making his treatment unstable and full of risk
💔 There is no safe place left for us.
We live under constant bombardment, displacement, and repeated evacuation orders, with no safety or stability. My children live in constant fear, and we have no money to escape or even protect them, and there is no safe place for us to go. Every moment, we feel danger getting closer.
🔴 Repeated displacement and losing everything with every evacuation 💔
With every evacuation, we are forced to leave our tent, our clothes, and everything we own, fleeing in panic, losing again even the most basic necessities of life with no ability to replace them.
🔴 Children’s suffering inside tents due to harsh conditions and illness 💔
My children also suffer from recurring health problems due to harsh conditions inside the tent, where rodents and insects are widespread because of poor hygiene and lack of a safe environment, leading to painful skin infections and other health issues
🔴 Children are deprived of education due to families’ inability to provide basic school supplies 💔
They also struggle to continue their education due to the inability to afford books, notebooks, and school supplies. The cost is around $200 per child, which is completely beyond our means.
🚨 We urgently need treatment, food, and safe shelter to save my children’s lives. 💔🏥🍞🕊️
💛 Any contribution starting from $25, $50, $100, or even $200 can make a real difference in easing suffering and giving this family a chance at life.
Donation link below👎
From the heart of Gaza, we reach out to you with deep pain and a plea for help… amelia romain needs your support for Help Wedad's family in
💔 Any support, donation, or even sharing this message could help save our lives.
🕊️ Even a small action from you might be the reason a child survives another day.
🌿 We are not asking for comfort — we are asking for a chance to live.
🚨 Please do not turn away. Your kindness may reach us when nothing else can.
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Washington Post is paywalling the article but it looks like Taylor Farms — a consumer bagged salad brand that also supplies produce to grocers and fast food chains like Taco Bell, Walmart, McDonald's, Chipotle, Burger King, KFC, and Meijer —may be at least one of the sources of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak.
Taylor makes bagged greens, salad kits, chopped salads, the works. Keep avoiding supermarket greens, but keep an especially close eye out for this brand/supplier. The above list of grocers and fast food chains is NOT exhaustive, so please continue getting lettuce and other raw produce taken off your burgers, sandwiches, etc.
I wanted to use what ‘reach’ I may have here to share the Carolina Wildlife Center’s urgent plea for donations. If they are unable to raise $75,000 to cover ongoing and future care of their wildlife patients, the center will have to close July 20th, 2026. The services provided by CWC to the community are incredibly valuable, and without them, many wild animals will suffer without the care they need.
Hey hey, as a librarian, can I just say don’t pace yourself at the library. I get a lot of customers saying “oh I shouldn’t get too many books out at once” but like you should!!!! Max out your card, take everything we have on a subject you’re interested in, make a book fort in your home. We love that shit! It doesn’t matter if you read them or not; just take them for an adventure and bring them back whenever they’re due!
For public libraries, one of the ways we secure funding year to year is lending. Governments don’t want to fund more books if they’re not being used and the way we measure use is by issues. Regardless of whether you read it or not, whether you have it for a day or a month, if you issue it to your library card, we get the stats! It makes the library look good!
Help your local library; get books out even if you know you can’t read them all!
last post died (pls dont tag this post); it's been over a week since anyone sent anything. i didnt eat again yesterday. i'm struggling to eat & pay bills in general. i'm still looking to find new work after getting laid off. i was convinced during a crisis to take a job and move into the house of a family member who i now know just wanted free labour from me and has not paid me.
she's recently eaten much of the food i bought or came with and has been emotionally abusive. she knows what chronically overstimulating an autistic person can do and still did it. this is all taking a rough toll on my body after leaving another nightmare situation, i'm overwhelmed and need resources for a safe exit. please help how you can.
i’d really like to get out of here and get back to being healthier. i’m constantly overstimulated and feeling drained/on edge. i’m barely eating and feeling weaker for it.
this post is over a month old. i spent over a year eating once a day. the stress of moving here and enduring these people has made things worse. my body is eating through my muscles. it physically hurts trying to type. it pains me to spend some of the $300 on food but i have to bc if not i won't even have the capacity to go anywhere. please keep sharing. i need to leave.
Hi, gays! I spent ALL I had ($350) on my mother's eyes (after 2 surgeries she needed a 3rd, done July 10). My back and leg pain have become worse and more often. We both have chronic health issues. Living on benefits means bills keep happening cause emergencies/survival happen. We can't prepare for such things, as most of us disabled/financially struggling people can't save money for long.
I know lots of us struggle, so if you can't donate, please share it? Thank you regardless. More info under the cut.
My mother is 77 years old, she struggles with things "normal" for her age: high blood pressure, cholesterol, trigliceridi, anxiety, sleeping issues, back hernia, allergies and eye problems. I deal with chronic back/leg/feet pain, migraines, chronic dermatitis, severe anxiety, depression, ocd, possible borderline, and need vitamins supplements for severe deficiency. That being said, between both of us we take 10+ different medications a day:
Benefits + I make doing odd jobs makes us around $700, where $300 alone goes to rent, and we can't pay everything else (utensils, medicine, groceries) with only $400. We live in Brasil, my currency is BRL (1 USD = 5 BRL / 1 € = 6 BRL).
It has come to my attention that people have bad things to say about others struggling, as ifple who "e-beg" do it for fun, or as if it doesn't cause us anxiety knowing something important to us depends on the kindness that might not come. I have seen some posts directed at me even though they were "venting". Your lack of sympathy/empathy is your problem and says more about you than about me.
To anyone who has helped (donating, sharing, starting a conversation) thank you so much for all of it. Bless you all.
Hi! Thank you so much so far... I'm recovering from the flu, dealing with my chronic pain (feet) on semi bed rest. We'll need money to her post surgery check-ups (next Monday). I need to refill my anxiety med. We DEFINITELY need money for food soon. Please continue to help if possible.
Mom's 2nd eye appointment is this MONDAY, not mom nor I can walk long distances and we need cab fare! PLEASE HELP. Need at least $20 to make it there Monday 20th.
seeing news about the fallout remaster announcement feels like cruel irony to me
microsoft games are a bds boycott target, and because both bethesda + obsidian are owned by microsoft, this includes the games published by them.
microsoft is gonna further profit from a new virtual playground of ~post-apocalyptic bombed out towns in the desert~ while contributing to creating bombed out apocalyptic conditions in gazan towns, by collaborating with israel on so many fronts that bds calls microsoft the most complicit company in palestinian genocide.
and nostalgia-baited fans will still buy it bc playing pretend in a virtual world thats a knockoff of what real life people are currently facing – a virtual world funded by that very suffering of those real life people – is more important to them than simply playing a different game
here's two articles about how JK Rowling just posted on X an upskirt photo of Freda Wallace, a transgender woman, after deadnaming her and misgendering her repeatedly online.
The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in
Rowling posted the picture taken from below because the trans woman, she said, was "refusing to debate me."
So in summation; Rowling demanded access to a woman’s time and when she couldn’t get it she retaliated by posting an upskirt image of her and called her fat, and some of her fans even went “I think I can see her genitals”.
She literally went “debate me! Debate me!” Over and over like the grifter she is and when she couldn’t get what she wanted and when “no” wasn’t enough she resorted to retaliatory sex-pestery, posting an image of somebody’s body with intention to shame and embarrass and spawn more waspish tittering from her internet followers.
Rowling is trash and this is disgraceful behavior, in case anyone has forgotten.
She had also claimed Freda "deserved" this sexual harassment because of what she was wearing... You know... The same excuse used over and over to try and justify rape.
They lied to you when they said the genocide had stopped.
With the push of a button, the occupation wipes out entire residential squares, displacing thousands of families into the unknown on harsh displacement journeys that lack the most basic necessities of life. They want to destroy the present and the future, and make Gaza unlivable in full view of the silent world. Do not close your eyes to the horror of what we are experiencing, and do not tire of writing about us.
The bottom line is that everyone who has the ability to act or influence and then chooses silence bears a share of the responsibility as long as the genocide continues. Every spectator of hunger is a partner in its bitterness until bread reaches the mouths of the hungry, a partner in thirst until the throats of children are quenched, a partner in displacement until people return to their homes, a partner in pain until wounds are healed, and a partner in nights of terror until the dawn of safety comes... In times of massacres, neutrality does not grant innocence. Silence does not provide salvation; Because remaining silent about the crime prolongs its life and gives it space to continue.
There is no longer a ceasefire, nor even violations of the agreement in the Gaza Strip. War is our habit, and massacres, heavy shelling, and shelling are our habit. Since the morning, the bombing has not been limited to just five. Seven citizens were martyred in the Israeli bombing that targeted a funeral for the martyrs who rose this morning. In the morning, the Nazi army called on the people in the eastern neighborhoods of Deir al-Balah to fly planes and move west, coinciding with the advance of tanks in several areas of the Gaza Strip. The extermination group returns to society, and crimes become more widespread and aggressive.
Mahmoud has reached 50% of his goal, but he hasn’t received any donations in nineteen hours! Please help him and his family by sharing and donating if you can!
Any way, things to try and do to make some noise about this.
Call Discord at 888-594-0085. All I had to do was stay on the line and leave a voice mail.
File a support ticket with discord. This will require you to create an account separate from your discord account.
If you have Nitro, CANCEL IT.
File a complaint with the California Privacy Protection Agency. You do not need to live in California to do this. I personally checked off "Right to Opt-out of Sale/Sharing" "Right to Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information" "A business’s collection, use, storing or sharing of my personal information" and "Children's privacy" because like FUCK would they not be getting that in their efforts to protect them. When they asked for evidence of privacy violations, I shared the Discord press release.
It's also worth mentioning that Discord is headquartered in California.
If you live in a European country, this webpage has a list of all the countries so you can find yours and file a privacy complaint.
Canadians can file a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner.
On this day, 17 July 2014, Eric Garner, an unarmed Black man, was murdered by white NYPD officers whilst arresting him after they suspected him of illegally selling cigarettes. He was choked to death using a banned chokehold manoeuvre while he pleaded with officers, telling them 11 times "I can't breathe". On December 3 of that same year a grand jury decided not to charge the NYPD officer who put Garner in a lethal chokehold. The event sparked protests and rallies across the US. On July 13, 2015, an out-of-court settlement was announced in which the City of New York would pay the Garner family $5.9 million.
While the killer officer was eventually fired in 2019, none of the police involved in Garner's murder have been charged with any offence. Instead New York City painted the words "Black Lives Matter" on one lane of a short stretch of 5th Avenue.
More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8896/eric-garner-murdered-by-nypd
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