Vinod Srinivasaraghavan

[Reed Showalter @reed_showalter]

I worked on these regulations in the Biden Admin. There’s a reason we didn’t do this.

The problem was that the biggest packers were deregulated so they could cut corners with cheaper unsafe practices. And their scale crushed the safer, better, smaller packers. Big packers can functionally not inspect meat, but smaller packers still had to. But farmers and ranchers had to still go to them because they had all the bargaining power. You just can’t get your livestock to market without them, not at scale anyway.

The solution is to break up the big packers, stop letting them abuse their bargaining power over farmers, make them play by the same safety rules, and stop making us sick.

This version is useless. It’s like trying to fight Walmart with farmers markets that have broken glass in the peaches.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

The Food and Drug Administration has given its highest-risk classification on a recall of nearly 13,000 Whole Foods dips, salsas and guacamole products over potential Salmonella contamination.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: JPMorgan warns a large-scale global food supply crisis could hit within the next year, forecasting global food inflation to nearly double from 2.8% now to 5% by early 2027, per JPMorgan Global Research.

The direct driver is fertilizer, 1/3 of the world's nitrogen fertilizer moves through the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has kept shut since February. Unlike oil, there’s no strategic reserve for fertilizer and nothing to release.

Nitrogen fertilizer goes into about half of all crops grown globally.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump gutted the FDA and rolled back food safety regulations so the corporations who funded his campaigns can make more profit.

When Republicans talk about “deregulation,” they mean let people get hurt and die so their rich friends get richer.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump announces he will eliminate regulations on beef processing amid multiple food-borne illness outbreaks:

"I am authorizing legal documents to be drawn in order to allow Farmers and Ranchers to be given the right to PROCESS THEIR OWN FOOD. This should move quickly."

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

ANOTHER recall after ANOTHER skipped Federal Inspesction.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Chapter 10 of Project 2025 called for food safety deregulations.

All of these foods making us sick were always part of the Republicans’ plan to drive up profits for the corporations donating to their campaigns.

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

Axios: Alex Vindman gives $250,000 to Democratic Senate candidates + Dan Osborn after losing to Angie Nixon in the Florida Senate Democratic primary

🟦Mary Peltola (AK)
🟦Josh Turek (IA)
🟦Troy Jackson (ME)
🟦Abdul El-Sayed (MI)
🟦Chris Pappas (NH)
🟦Roy Cooper (NC)
🟦Sherrod Brown (OH)
🟦Charles Booker (KY)

[Mitch Landrieu @MitchLandrieu]

It's long overdue for Democrats to invest in the South. States like Mississippi have been ignored for far too long because we think it's unwinnable.

But that's just not true. Mississippi is worth fighting for.

Check out our episode on Mississippi: https://t.co/DiOvQi14HF

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

NOTUS: Adam Hamilton, the Democratic US Senate nominee in Kansas, recently hired a longtime Republican staffer to lead his campaign’s digital operations.

Austin Gilpin, who worked for Rep. Ron Estes (R-KS), said that Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) has chosen “his party and his president over Kansas.”

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

Trump's tariffs impact on Michigan 👀

[elle ✨ @thebothofthem]

I've never seen her help out Gina Hinojosa, Vikki Goodwin, Nathan Johnson, Clayton Tucker, or any of the awesome Texan Dems running in really tough races. She's only supported out-of-state people who have taken millions in donations from disturbing lobbying groups like AIPAC

[InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022]

KANSAS POLL: Governor - Holscher (Dem) internal

🟦 Cindy Holscher: 47%
🟥 Ty Masterson: 46%

@GSG | 8/13-16 | 600 LV
https://t.co/iAakBRz31g

[Oriana González @ReporterOriana]

👀 NEWS from @anna_c_kramer: For over a year, the National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer

https://t.co/oWi5aglYAX

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

Don’t sleep on South Dakota.

The Democratic candidate dropped out, and independent Brian Bengs — Navy veteran & retired Air Force lieutenant colonel — can make this a real race now that it’s 1:1.

Mike Rounds is 10 points underwater and 32% of Trump voters rate him unfavorably.

[Anna Kramer @anna_c_kramer]

SCOOP: Trump officials are pressuring the National Park Service to find a way to give a small piece of Yosemite to a private developer.

The land would be used for a road, to give the developer rare private access to the heart of the park.
https://t.co/3mPZ9NJ5aK

[Joe @electionsjoe]

This administration is just pure evil

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Imagine a child boarding the school bus for the first day of 2nd grade. He kisses his dad goodbye, and when he gets off the bus that afternoon, dad is gone. No one is there to pick him up. The 7 year old is abandoned, alone, scared.

That's what happened in Danbury this week.

[Forrest Saunders @FBSaunders]

Entire @FLSenateDems caucus calls for resignation of @AGJamesUthmeier and @SenAshleyMoody over Hope Florida grand jury report.

They provide a link to the full report as well: https://t.co/g9OZh47dpX

[Karen Finney @finneyk]

Shameful - she should not be in the U.S. Senate