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Living the life Quixotic. Coordinator for @rgvzgm. Creator of Bitcoin. Gigeresque/Gygaxian @lightrider44.bsky.social

[Frank🦁F @Lightrider]

No fact will be more profoundly disappointing to me than that some people will destroy the real world and fellow humans for imaginary money.

[Reed Galen @reedgalen]

This person has no idea what she's talking about.

[Lesley Abravanel 🪩 @lesleyabravanel]

Rollins says DOGE cuts had “zero to do” with screwworm. False. DOGE cut the USDA/USAID screwworm monitoring program in early 2025. Hundreds of APHIS vets & inspectors left under DOGE pressure. The firewall fell. Now screwworm is in Texas & New Mexico.

[Beef Support | BeefMaps.com @BeefMaps]

7 confirmed cases of screwworm. Yesterday it was 5. The day before, 3. Two states. All originating from cartel-controlled ranches south of the border.

https://t.co/abIMfCK0yJ has been tracking cartel cattle corridors for over a year. Now screwworm is in Texas. The parasite moved through the same routes the cattle did.

InSight Crime confirmed it: outbreak hotspots mirror the smuggling routes. 800,000 head a year smuggled through Mexico with falsified paperwork, no quarantine, no traceability.

CJNG doesn't just extort ranchers — they charge 5 pesos per kilo on export animals. They access live herd data through RFID tags. They run regional managers embedded in Mexico's legal export system.

Cattle bought for $650 in Central America, resold for $1,500 in Texas. A $1.2 billion shadow market.

The parasite isn't the only thing hiding in plain sight.

The "Product of USA" rule changed in January. Packers can now only use that label if the animal was born, raised, harvested, AND processed in the US. The old loophole where imported beef got stamped "Product of USA" just for being processed here? Gone.

But it's still voluntary. Packers don't have to tell you anything. They can just leave the label off. Imported beef from cartel corridors can sit in your grocery store with zero origin disclosure.

MCOOL — mandatory country of origin labeling — would fix that. Every cut, labeled. Born where. Raised where. Slaughtered where. No exceptions.

H.R. 5818 is sitting in Congress right now.

The screwworm made this urgent. The cartel corridors made it obvious.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Brooke Rollins blames Biden for a screwworm outbreak a year and a half after he left office

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

How could Screwworm affect our beef supply?

Trump's own Agriculture Sec: At a time when our beef supply is at its lowest in 75 years, and prices are very high, it could make it harder for Americans to get good beef at a good price.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

…@BrookeLRollins @USDA is not telling ranchers, farmers, and the American people the whole story. Maybe this outbreak would have happened regardless, but the slow response is a direct consequence of losing experienced experts across the federal government. When crises hit agriculture, expertise matters. Every day without the right people in place increases the risk of further spread and greater harm to our food system.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The CDC just declared a national emergency for the screwworm spread. @repgabeevans @RepCiscomani you should be screaming about this threat potentially headed to your district's farms. Trump and DOGE brought this on your agriculture industries.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

New data reveals that New World Screwworm, a severely dangerous flesh-eating maggot, is spreading throughout Texas.

This comes months after Ken Paxton supported cutting Screwworm monitoring programs.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

If they say DOGE had 0 to do with it, then it had 100% to do with it.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

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[ProPublica @propublica]

New: The Trump administration put the Ambani family’s Reliance Industries at the center of an escalating tariff fight with India. Then Reliance invested millions in America First Refining, in which Donald Trump Jr. secretly held a stake. https://t.co/XaFQkYO3z3

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

MAGA commentator tries pushing election lies on CNN with no evidence, gets called LIAR to his face immediately by Charles Blow, and it is glorious.

[Inner City Press @innercitypress]

Complaint against upcoming UFC at the White House, sponsored by Crypto dot com, has been assigned to Judge Amit Mehta. No TRO hearing set yet. DC Circuit on Friday asked of ballroom if ugliness conveys standing. Here, an Uber driving vet is suing... On it.

[Cranky Canuck 🤘🥶 @crankycartoons]

I’m thankful I live in Canada and have a functional government that doesn’t let raw-milk-chugging, ivermectin-paste-eating motherfuckers manage our public health.🤢🤮

[Meriwether Farms @MeriwetherFarms]

Unfortunately you will be seeing these cases pop up like whac-a-moles from here on out, because we currently do not have the number of sterile flies produced to stop this

Only a matter of time until it leaves Texas and spills into other states

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Have the clueless, weak and arrogant DOGE bros apologized yet?

They had no idea what they were doing. They harmed Americans. They cut vital programs that protected America.

They also were lazy and made no effort to learn about important programs and functions of government.

[Linda Stevens 🌎 @Linda__Stevens]

@maddenifico Republicans voted for this. Ranchers voted for this. They must be thrilled. @TexasGOP did this.

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

Brook Rollins deleted this Screw Worm post. Either Trump told her to, or she's afraid he'll get mad.

Trump & his loyalists are gonna spread screw worm throughout the whole damn country while trying to cover it up. 🤬

Covid-19 2.0

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

“Screwworm monitoring among foreign aid programs killed by Trump” - Agri Pulse, March 2025

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

In half a century, we’ve held the screwworm at bay.

Enter Trump and his chainsaw waving, DOGE crew of morons and they cut funding to monitoring and treatment programs.