Fifty Shades of Whey

In the United States, roughly 30% to 40% of the entire food supply goes uneaten

8 anti-ICE protesters received sentences from 30 to 100 years, with several receiving 50 years or more. The harsh sentencing is meant to be a warning that intimidates activists around the country. 🧵

It's actually insane that we each have our own personal indoctrination/brainwash machine in the form of various algorithmic social media feeds scientifically tailored to our unique forensic profiles built from sensitive data about us that's stored on private databases owned by actual Bond villains

Abdul El-Sayed's reply to Mallory McMorrow dropping out of the US Senate race:

"I welcome your supporters to our movement to stand up against money in politics, to put money back in pockets, and pass Medicare for All. We cannot allow the establishment to decide our nominee for us."

Dane County in Wisconsin has finalized an agreement to purchase 165 acres of ancestral land and return it to the Ho-Chunk Nation. 🧵

A woman in Biddeford, Maine explains through tears how ICE fatally shot and killed a 26-year-old man across the street from her home.

Joan Sebastian Guerrero was a father who was authorized to work in the United States and possessed a valid Social Security number.

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Joan Sebastian Guerrero had his whole life ahead of him. This is a national tragedy. Protests have erupted across Biddeford.

The federal government is making hunger and food insecurity in the US harder to measure.

The Trump administration cancelled the USDA-Census household food-security survey. This was a 30-year program widely considered to be the country's best measure of hunger.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has called for prompt, independent investigations into deaths in US immigration custody, and said that families have rights to truth, justice, reparations, and guarantees that abuses will not recur. 🧵

This guy is running for Wyoming's only seat in the US House and he's a real-life cartoon.

One of his main priorities is to "ban sharia law."

For context, there are less than 300 Muslims in the entire state of Wyoming.

The most rabidly pro-Israel Democratic Party operatives will consistently use their platform to attack other Democrats and scapegoat them... all while conveniently ignoring that it's the AIPAC donors and Netanyahu loyalists that THEY are aligned with who helped Trump win.

A federal judge has blocked Colorado from capping the price of the arthritis medicine Enbrel, which has a US list price that is over $100,000 per year. What a ludicrous price.

This was a first-in-the-nation price cap by Colorado, and they were doing the right thing. 🧵

As the nation is engulfed by wildfire smoke, you should all know that there's a clear statistical link between exposure to drifting wildfire smoke and chronic respiratory, cardiovascular, and oncological (cancer) health problems. 🧵

A pastor in Alabama who is also the son of a former justice on the Alabama Supreme Court was arrested in a child sex sting.

James Gorman Houston III, 66, is being charged with the electronic solicitation of a child and for traveling to meet a minor for a sex act.

A police officer in New Jersey has been arrested for killing 2 dogs after leaving his K-9 partners unattended inside his SUV for 7 hours from 8:30am to 3:30pm in the blistering sun. 🧵

I really don't like that Islamophobic dog whistles are becoming common with Dem Party consultants. They hate "the Gaza people" with passion of a thousand suns? Palestinians would "cheer" my death? Just truly awful things to say about people suffering a genocide.

A pastor in South Carolina was arrested for "sexual exploitation of a minor."

According to an affidavit, Daniel Keith Rabon, 62, had dozens of images and videos of "identifiable minors engaged in sexual activity."

He was released on $125,000 bond and placed under GPS monitoring.

Trump's SNAP cuts are starving American children. In 12 states with available age data, 776,134 of the 1,670,011 people who were dropped from SNAP were children, which is 46% so basically HALF. This is truly despicable. 🧵

2 of Trump's ICE agents tracked down and confronted Paigelynne Gonyea while she was working as a primary election poll worker in Syracuse, NY. They demanded that she remove an Instagram post criticizing the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good, and Gonyea firmly refused to delete her post. 🧵

UnitedHealth Group made a profit of $8 billion in the 2nd quarter of 2026.

For context, the private health insurer's denial rate has been known to sit as high as 33%.

How many Americans had to be screwed over for them to make that profit?

How many people are dead or suffering?

On July 2nd, a grand jury in Louisiana handed down a 16-count indictment against Louisiana AG Liz Murrill, charging her with public intimidation and malfeasance in office.

The next morning, the Louisiana Supreme Court issued an emergency stay, pausing the indictment and criminal case against her. 🧵

The Presbyterian Church (USA) voted 454–15 to recognize Israel's actions in Gaza as a genocide, divest from Palantir and GE Aerospace, lobby Congress for an arms embargo, and boycott certain products. They also say that criticism of the Israeli government is not inherently antisemitic.

A youth pastor in Louisiana was arrested for sexually abusing multiple children in the 1990s.

David Mercer, 72, was taken into custody Friday afternoon and is being held at the St. Tammany Parish jail.

Investigators believe there may be additional victims who have not yet come forward.

The same Dem Party operatives and "insider" circles who tried to resurrect Andrew Cuomo's career only a year ago are now organizing hate campaigns against Abdul El-Sayed, just like they did with Mamdani, and they think we're all dumb enough to forget that