So he’s a fascist who hates trans people and yet can’t be bothered to leave. What’s with liberals trying to colonize this place?
it all started with the reddit migration that spawned instances like axisworld that just wanted to make reddit again
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joined 8 months ago
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WTF are gringos adding to guacamole to make it a biohazard?
A recall of Whole Foods guacamole has received the Food and Drug Administration's highest-risk classification due to possible salmonella contamination.
The FDA classified the recall Aug. 20 as Class I, meaning the agency determined there is a reasonable probability that use of the recalled products could cause serious adverse health consequences or death.
The recall, initiated Aug. 7, involves 12,995 units of Whole Foods Mild Guacamole Dip. The products were made with jalapeños that may be contaminated with salmonella, according to the FDA.
The guacamole was sold in Whole Foods stores in 12 states, including Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Wisconsin. The recalled products have best before or by dates ranging from Aug. 7 to Aug. 12.
Why did the FDA upgrade the recall?
The recall is connected to an ongoing multistate salmonella outbreak linked to jalapeños supplied by Coast Citrus Distributors. The FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have identified a grower in Sinaloa, Mexico, as a potential source of the contaminated peppers.
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Firefighters sound alarm as US faces critical staffing shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people’
(grist.org)
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The U.S. has faced a critical shortage of firefighters at the Forest Service, or USFS, this summer as thousands of fires erupted across the country.
Despite officials’ claims that the firefighting workforce was stronger than ever, the agency has failed to keep pace with escalating conditions and the catastrophic fires fueled by them, according to nine firefighters who spoke to the Guardian anonymously, because they are barred from disclosing the information to the public.
Several people familiar with internal hiring data at the agency said there were also large gaps in important leadership roles, which had caused bottlenecks and operational challenges during a busy and dangerous year.
They described a response system that’s been pushed to the brink, as unsustainable pressure is put on skeleton crews with months to go before the highest fire risks subside. Last year, many firefighters had to work more than 1,000 hours of overtime — the equivalent of cramming an extra five months of work into an already busy season. This year is expected to be even worse.
“We just do not have enough people,” said a federal fire captain who works in the Pacific Northwest, where wildfires recently devastated neighborhoods in Washington state’s second largest city, Spokane. “Every firefighter is engaged at the highest priority we can possibly engage them, but houses are burning. When it’s not Spokane, it’s going to be the next town, and the next town.”
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The USFS, housed under the Department of Agriculture, employs the bulk of the federal government’s fire workforce and manages more than 193 million acres across the country. The agency has struggled with recruitment and retention for years, an issue that’s come to a head as the climate crisis fuels a rise in dangerous fire conditions.
A fire captain put the shortages in context by comparing crews to players in a soccer match, where each team has 11 players allowed on the field but an active roster of 30 in case substitutions have to be made. In the forest service, he said, there were no backup players.
“Showing up to a game with 13 people is insane. Playing a whole season with 13 people is abuse,” he said. “That’s how we fight fire — and nobody gets to take a day off.”
The picture stands in stark contrast to the one painted by Tom Schultz, the USFS chief, who has repeatedly assured lawmakers and the public that the agency’s firefighting workforce is at full capacity.
“Our firefighting workforce is stronger than at any point in recent years,” Schultz said in testimony to a congressional subcommittee in July. “We are fully staffed and equipped to respond aggressively to every unplanned ignition.”
The agency has avoided disclosing breakdowns in its staffing totals, even after repeated requests from journalists and members of Congress. Instead, the USFS points to a hiring goal of 11,300 positions as the benchmark for operational staffing levels — a number that has remained flat for years.
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John Winn, a spokesperson for the USFS, declined to answer questions about the staffing challenges or provide clarity on the numbers. He doubled down on Schultz’s claims, saying in an email that the agency was “fully staffed at the level we are funded for, and our posture allows us to respond effectively — just as we have for decades.”
But the minimum “operational” staffing levels are far different from what’s required to have a functioning firefighting force in the current climate, according to several firefighters.
Firefighters who have seen internal staff totals said the actual number of people who were able and available to be deployed when large blazes erupt was probably far smaller than what the USFS had reported to the public.
The disparity between the rhetoric repeated in public and the situation on the ground has added to the burdens borne by exhausted crews.
“Having more firefighters means I have a higher probability of coming home,” a fire captain said. “How are we supposed to feel when our leaders — the same people who get up and speak to the mourning families when firefighters die — are lying about our capacity?”
Gaps in leadership
Firefighters who spoke to the Guardian were most concerned about the widening gap at the management level. Specialized positions needed for running large-scale fire suppression operations, including taskforce leaders, division supervisors, and heavy equipment bosses, require decades of experience. Losses in these on-the-ground leadership roles have become extremely difficult to replace.
Seth McKinney, a fire management officer with the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office, spent 12 years working for the USFS before leaving the agency, but he returned this summer to help because the forest he previously worked for was short on chief officers.
“It shouldn’t really surprise anybody that we’re in the situation that we are in, because we haven’t invested in our federal firefighters,” he said, adding that the workforce had become a shadow of what it once was.
For years, escalating job hazards paired with low pay pushed scores of people with experience to leave the USFS. Even after an overdue bump in pay was finalized in 2025, the damage was already done. The USFS lost nearly half of its permanent employees between 2021 and 2024 alone, leaving the agency scrambling tofill leadership positions during the most active parts of the year.
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The agency lost roughly 20 percent of its workforce during the Trump administration’s mass-firing spree in 2025, according to a recent government report. While the cull wasn’t directed at firefighters, it affected vital support roles that crews are now searching desperately to fill.
“Without experienced middle management you don’t have anything resembling effective coordination,” a firefighter familiar with the shortages said. “It’s no small thing to be short in those areas and it is a significant safety issue.”
These positions oversee thousands of people deployed when big blazes erupt. When there are gaps, it can mean that other parts of the fire-suppression workforce can’t be utilized.
When fires tore across Oregon this summer, private contract resources sat idle, because there weren’t enough qualified managers available to supervise them, state Senator Mike McLane said. He found out about the issue from constituents and then confirmed with the incident management team staff and the Oregon department of forestry.
The problem has been compounded by decades of mismanagement at the agency, according to a firefighter who explained that the losses in positions critical to coordination and supervision left holes that exponentially affected response efforts. “We are now completely unequipped to deal with the sort of fire seasons we will see more and more of.”
A destructive summer adds more pressure
It’s already been a destructive wildfire season. The country has been classified at “preparedness Level 5” — the highest level of resource deployment and an indication that new requests for support may go unanswered — since July 18.
As of Tuesday, more than 49,200 wildfires have erupted and burned more than 7.2 million acres (2.9 million hectares) nationwide since the year began, eclipsing 10-year averages, and the dangers are far from over. In many regions, fire risks will remain high through autumn and could linger into winter.
Inter-agency complex-incident management teams, specialized groups that are crucial for organizing responses to large-scale disasters, have also taken a hit, with fewer experienced leaders to run them. There were 46 teams in 2023. Now there are just 38.
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Dave Upthegrove, the commissioner of public lands for Washington, a publicly elected official who manages the state’s roughly 6 million acres (2.4 million hectares) of public lands and directs statewide wildland firefighting efforts, said the USFS has been an important partner. But he raised the alarm early this year about the agency’s diminished capacity.
“There are fewer teams, which was true in 2025 as well,” Upthegrove said. “The difference this year is the extreme weather conditions, dangerously high winds at times, very dry fuels, and a fourth year of drought. All of that has combined to make us highly vulnerable to large and catastrophic fires like we have seen throughout the state, especially in Spokane.”
With resources spread thin, it’s also been increasingly challenging to meet the needs for equipment and manpower when new fires ignite.
More than 600 requests went unfilled during a 72-hour period last week, according to an internal dataset shared with the Guardian, the bulk of them coming from the Pacific Northwest region currently being hammered by fires. Requests for aircraft, crews, and equipment were unable to be filled 265 times over the three-day period. Dozens of requests for experienced managers and supervisors also went unfilled.
Staffing shortages have also affected urgently needed landscape treatment work that helps stop blazes before they spread.
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More than half of federal firefighters who responded to a survey, conducted in March by the firefighter advocacy group Grassroots Wildland Firefighters and the National Federation of Federal Employees union, said their unit had to cancel prescribed burning projects due to staffing shortages.
Last year, the USFS treated 35 percent fewer acres than in 2024, according to an analysis from the nonprofit Center for Western Priorities. In Oregon, a state now in the midst of a historic season when more acres have burned than in any other recorded year, treatments fell by 47 percent.
Only a quarter of federal firefighters who responded to the survey said their unit was fully staffed. A fifth reported that unqualified personnel are filling the vacant positions.
This comes amid a major consolidation of the federal firefighting workforce under a new agency, known as the Wildland Fire Service, housed under the Department of the Interior. Officials say the strategy will ensure better coordination and streamline costs.
While many federal firefighters are supportive of a centralized approach, there are also widespread concerns about how this consolidation will be achieved and whether officials will make good on promises to improve working conditions for the crews who bear a severe mental and physical toll trying to protect communities year after year.
After years of raising the alarm about the widening gap between limited capacity and growing catastrophes, federal firefighters are becoming disillusioned with the sacrifices they’re being asked to make.
“What’s the purpose of the fire service? That’s the hard question we’re starting to ask ourselves,” one fire captain said. “Is it actually to manage fire and to do what we’re telling the public we’re intended to do? Or is it simply to sell the public a belief so that they can sleep at night?”
This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Firefighters sound alarm as US faces critical staffing shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people’ on Aug 22, 2026.
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Daniel Herrera Carbajal
ICTThe Tohono O’odham Nation has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over its plans to construct a border wall on the tribe’s lands.
The suit was filed Tuesday as DHS plans to award contracts in the coming weeks to construct the border wall, according to a press release from Tohono O’odham.
“We do not believe, and we know that Customs and Border Protection has no legal authority to take any of our reservation land nor use it without permission,” said Tohono O’odham Chairman Verlon M. Jose in a speech Wednesday at a National Congress of American Indians event in Memphis, Tennessee.
About 62 miles of the Tohono O’odham Nations land are contiguous with the US-Mexico border.
“To build these walls, (Customs and Border Protection) will have to diminish the size of the Tohono O’odham Nation. … There is no good reason to steal even more tribal land or destroy tribal land” Jose said.
The Tohono O’odham Nation has said building a wall on its reservation would be illegal and DHS and other contracting personnel who enter the nation would be trespassing.
The tribe’s ancestral homelands lie adjacent but on opposite sides of the US-Mexico border. The Gadsden Purchase of 1854 divided the nation’s lands and separated families.
According to the Tohono O’odham Nation, there are more than 3,000 enrolled members who live in the tribe’s ancestral lands in the Mexican state of Sonora.
“The United States-Mexican border was drawn through the heart of our traditional territory, making it more difficult for us to visit our families, our cemeteries, our sacred places, our ceremonies,” Jose said.
The Tohono O’odham Nation has strongly opposed the construction of a border wall on its lands while strongly supporting border-security measures. The tribal nation spends millions of dollars a year on border security and has its own tactical patrol unit under the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency called the “Shadow Wolves” – an all-Native patrol unit whose mission is to delay, disrupt and interdict illicit trafficking, according to ICE.
“We believe in border security, to protect our people and to protect the United States,” Jose said.
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The Rise and Fall of Chris Smalls
Chris Smalls shot to prominence for playing a key role in the shock union win at a New York Amazon warehouse. He was charismatic and energetic at a time labor needed both. But in the years since, his own ego has overwhelmed his political contributions.
Keep in mind while reading that the "Fall of Chris Small" is because he criticise aoc in a tweet
People wont own AI, the USA goverment will. Do you people even bother to read the bill politicians propose or do you all close you eyes and hope for the best???
seizing the means of production = giving the bourgeois state 50% ownership
Yea ok
Yea, hopefully one day people like you will stop blaming minorities and foreigners for their countries failings and actually take responsability for your flaws
so you do literally think there is a ~~Jewish~~ Foreign plot against Bernie, lmao
Also apparently helping communism is when you support destroying the enviroment to make an old socdem happy lmao.
i dont like ai companies and their data centers, what else? lol
Bernie is a socdem and im a communist of course im going to criticize him, not everything is a secret republican plot
The People's Slop Machine
the MLs downvoting me. Can you tell what material outcome you are working towards by making or enjoying memes like the OP?
The same type of material outcome when Lenin would criticise and make fun of the Social Democrats in western europe.
Personally i think socialism should contain "ruthless criticism of all that exists" instead of ignoring eventhing outside your countries border, since it supposed to be an internationalist movement
Graham Platner is not perfect but he’s far from the violent Nazi you’re portraying him as
Im not portraying as anything, this are his words, also all the other things you are saying about Graham people said about Fetterman during his election and everyone know how that ended
it started with the lemmyworld vs dbzero drama i believe, lemmylibs basically made up that db0 was doing targeted harrasment of the world admins with no evidence so then everytime there was some drama involving world,piefed and now duvbee they will just say db0 was doing a campaign of brigating and harrasment against them