BH B4

[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

It’s happening in Georgia.

Effective immediately, all poultry events statewide are shut down.

The state’s #1 industry is now staring down the barrel of a nationwide outbreak that shows no mercy.

[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

The FDA just updated food safety rules to address H5N1 bird flu in pet food.

Uncooked poultry, raw milk, and unpasteurized eggs are now red flags for cat and dog food manufacturers.

Cases in wild and domestic cats show H5N1 isn’t just a bird problem anymore.

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

"For this is no longer a crisis of evidence: the evidence is in our blood and in our air and in our government. The crisis is the lure of a road that disregards where the evidence leads."

https://t.co/fFKGlbC92U

[The New Yorker Humor @newyorkerhumor]

A cartoon by Barbara Smaller. #NewYorkerCartoons

[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

The 2025 bingo cards will be unprecedented

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime"

- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Elon Musk’s daughter is not holding back. In a scathing takedown, she just called out her dad as a “racist bigoted motherfucker” and accused him of pushing Nazi conspiracies.

She’s outright labeling his rhetoric treasonous and made it clear she’s exhausted with the racist, far-right nonsense coming from the likes of Musk and his crew.

This is huge — when your kid is publicly torching you for peddling hate, it says everything you need to know.

[Corey Ryan Forrester - WeLoveCorey.com @CoreyRForrester]

Speaking of the Trump rally at MSG….Why do so many of us comedians misinterpret what freedom of speech means?

[BH B4 @BHB4000]

I did my part, your turn.
#VoteEarly #vote2024

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

Regarding the election:

1. We don't know how close the election will be.

2. The perception is that it is close.

3. Because of that perception, the incentive to spend money and effort on tipping it is very high.

4. If people perceived that Dems had a 10 point lead, strategy would shift more from trying to 'win' (too expensive) to trying to deny the outcome.

5. Some of the perception that the election is close is manufactured via bogus channels like Polymarket.

6. Plan A for Musk, Thiel, Putin, Vance, and Trump is to win. Plan B is to deny. Plan C is to spark a Civil War. Plans A and B may lead to Plan C.

7. It appears our institutions have been hollowed out, from the FBI to the DOJ to the courts. @POTUS must do everything he can to right the ship now and protect us.

Voting is necessary but not sufficient. Vote early if you can, lock in your vote, and help others do the same. And then be prepared to do everything you can to bolster institutions and the rule of law. Because Plan B and C are being warmed up now.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Mark Cuban: "You know, in my career I've learned a lot about business, including how tariffs work ... this is the same guy who also thought Mexico would pay for the wall."

[Jesse Joyce @jessejoyce]

I wrote this cause it’s what I always wanted to say about Trump pretending to be a tough guy.  But we got the amazing @DaveBautista to say it SO much better.  Thanks Dave.  #TrumpIsAWeakLittleBabyBitch

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

Love this—“If you don’t help bring about justice, then one day, you too can experience injustice, and there will be nobody there for you”.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

“Back in my day, Republicans hated Russia.”

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Exactly

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Boeing cut off negotiations with striking workers, claiming calls for a raise were unreasonable.

The same company spent $68B on dividends and stock buybacks over the past decade and gave its last two CEOs multimillion $ golden parachutes.

What's unreasonable is Boeing's greed.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Mark Cuban explains how it was actually Trump who raised gas prices

[Anna Giaritelli @Anna_Giaritelli]

Some personal news

Elon Musk followed me on X a couple years ago and has shared my work and been willing to respond to DMs about stories from time to time, including a back and forth we had for a story on the Secret Service last week.

Earlier this week, when I respectfully approached him via DM about his Sunday claim that Biden-Harris was ‘fast-tracking’ illegal immigrants to vote and provided information showing that confirmed it was not the case, Mr. Musk unfollowed me and blocked me from DMing him and said asking him for comment for a story via DM was inappropriate — despite him being willing to engage in the past. We did reach out to one of his companies, but did not receive a response.

Below is a link to our fact check on Mr. Musk's claims that Biden-Harris are flying migrants into the US and expeditiously granting them citizenship. Buried lede: It's absolutely false though we were unable to reach Mr. Musk for comment.

https://t.co/HRwbbLsPph via @dcexaminer