Jared Taylor

[Jared Taylor @jaredataylor]

@garonsen The one and two star reviews are where the truth lies (among the Sliquid™️)

[Bobby Allyn @BobbyAllyn]

George Santos called me after my story revealing federal investigations into his suspected market manipulation on Kalshi.

And he said: "This story is going to get you a gun in your face."

Then he lied about it.

https://t.co/3hZWckf54M

[Jared Taylor @jaredataylor]

https://t.co/a1eSvcwWHA

[Jared Taylor @jaredataylor]

same energy

[Mike Berg @MikeKBerg]

Platner campaign admitting he said he would rape men, but “not in a gay way.”

[Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker⚔️ @Nomads4Pritzker]

So, I've worked in the beef industry. I have a fairly detailed knowledge of beef markets, the supply chain, parasites and parasiticides, etc. Suffice it to say, this is a nightmare scenario, but one we've known was coming since at least 2022.

New World Screwworm was eradicated from North and Central America in the mid-90's. The US gov't (APHIS) funded a program of screwworm drops, where they bred sterile males so that extant populations couldn't reproduce and move northwards. But in 2022 NWS jumped the Darien gap and started moving northwards once again. It's most likely that they came undetected on livestock brought alongside migrants fleeing political instability in South and Central America. Elon Musk/DOGE, of course, cut several monitoring programs that would have detected this exact scenario. The screwworm drops are still funded, but the monitoring programs are what have been cut - a stupid move if there ever was one.

A serious Central/South America policy would have worked hand-in-hand with CA/SA governments to help contain this, but we've never had a serious policy towards South America, not during the Biden years, and especially not under Trump. The USDA broke ground on a sterile screwworm facility in Texas... last month. I worry it's too little, too late.

Screwworm is so dangerous because, unlike other fly larvae, they lay eggs and feed on living flesh. So something like a small scratch (or even bug bite) can quickly becomes infested, and the larvae will burrow into the flesh, growing the wound and attracting more screwworm. They don't only parasitize cattle, but will also feed on wildlife, domestic pets, even humans. Since they have detected screwworms in domesticated cattle right now, it's likely that there is a wild reservoir as well. We can quarantine herds and pets, but we can't quarantine deer and armadillos. They will move, and so will the NWS.

Under normal circumstances, cattle are moved around - a lot. Calves will be sent to stockers through their adolescence, then shipped to feedlots for finishing. A lot of calving operations (like 70%) are small, and small-time producers don't always catch parasite infestations. Cattle moved in-state don't require a certificate of veterinary inspection, so it's easy for an infested animal to be moved without being noticed. Animals crossing state lines do need a CVI, but Texas has such an enormous cattle population (something like 13 million head) that as goes Texas, so goes the nation.

Fortunately, we have a lot of drugs that treat NWS. The FDA has issued several emergency use authorizations in the last year or so. But every input raises the price of beef, and treatment only makes a difference if producers catch an infestation early. If an infestation spreads unnoticed on a large feedlot, it can hit hard, both in terms of cattle that have to be killed, and treatments that then have to be deployed. Producers will spend days at a time running cattle through the chute, inspecting them and applying parasiticides. It costs a lot of money, which is then passed on to the consumer.

What does that mean for you? Beef is a commodity, and just because there's no NWS up here in Illinois doesn't mean that prices won't skyrocket - and they will skyrocket. US herd size is already at record lows, and this will result in culls. Consumer prices also run 18-24 months behind, which means that shocks to the supply chain now are still going to be felt by consumers in 2028.

It's hard to say if our government will be able to muster an effective response - though I don't trust our current administration, which can't even throw a 250th anniversary party, to be able to deal with an ecological issue of this magnitude. It doesn't help that our current USDA secretary is a lawyer and think-tank creature. I don't much trust the state government of Texas either. The industry has also taken the workforce of large animal veterinarians for granted - a monopoly/market power issue that I just can't get in to here.

For me, it comes back to our federal government having an incoherent policy on Central and South America. We knew what was coming, we know what's going to happen, but we cut the program meant to prevent this scenario. Instead of taking those countries seriously as partners, the government has been stupid and domineering.

Here's the kicker: this is what the industry voted for. They might scream, they might get bailed out, but all that means is that you, the consumer, are going to be paying more for beef, plus whatever bailout gets shoveled their way. Until the industry accepts that they are part of a larger system; that they cannot eternally privatize the gains and publicize the losses of beef production; that they need to consider sustainability and stewardship in the management of their operations, this is only going to keep happening. Eventually, they may find that there is very little goodwill for them among the public, and people will decide that a Brazilian ribeye tastes just as good as one from Texas.

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

screwworm prevention is one of those markers of state capacity that gives you confidence adults are in the room somewhere

one by one, those markers fall

[Jared Taylor @jaredataylor]

@iowahawkblog

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Republicans nominated a lifelong political operative turned cock ring investing nepo-son-in-law for Governor in Iowa.

[Erin Burnett OutFront @OutFrontCNN]

Before his big victory in Iowa last night, Paralympian Josh Turek showed CNN’s @jeffzeleny how he campaigned door-to-door by wheelchair to try to win every last vote in the Senate primary.

[Jared Taylor @jaredataylor]

@ProFootballTalk

[Grace Yarrow @YarrowGrace]

NEWS: Screwworm has been detected in Texas, USDA confirmed - marking a serious threat to US cattle and other animals

Larvae of the parasite were found in the umbilical cord of a 3 week old calf

Screwworm was eradicated from the US in 1966

[hawkize @stillnothawkize]

the race for Iowa governor is a lifelong Iowan who made a skateboard video and put both republicans and democrats who stole in jail versus a Kansas man who is literally invested in a high tech cock ring which is endorsed by pornhub

[Lyz Lenz @lyzl]

This race was not about progressives v Schumer because no one in the state ever bought Wahls as an outsider and that dynamic isn’t motivating to voters here in Iowa. Iowa Democrats are just tired of losing and they picked the person they thought could win.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Years ago white nationalist congressman Steve King gets censured for his views by party & defeated in a primary by Randy Feenstra, a clean cut christian conservative.

Tonight Feenstra may lose his Gov primary to a no-name MAGA weirdo powered by an endorsement from
…Steve King

[Zach @ZachTGR]

what a clusterfuck

[Gavin Aronsen @garonsen]

I like how the Times doesn't even have photos for anyone but Feenstra

[O. Kay Henderson @okayhenderson]

Early vote as of 7a today:
IA01
13,141 Ds
6,333 Rs

IA02
10,301 Ds
4,949 Rs

IA03
10,156 Ds
5,804 Rs

IA04
10,370 Rs
6,946 Ds

[Ben Jacobs @Bencjacobs]

Iowa has elected a ton of Democrats statewide this century too. Texas, not so much