It is now linked to an onion grower, albeit not clear how the contamination occurred (from the fields possibly through water contamination, human picker contamination, livestock?) or from processing contamination, but it is going to bankrupt this local grower while CDC and others work to identify the route of contamination to stop it. At the same time beef producers and the meat processors have already taken a tremendous hit from obvious speculation.

This is not funny. E. coli kills and those investigating are working as quickly as is possible to identify/stop the source from recurring. CDC--the same agency, along with FDA/USDA food safety components that Trump was to dismantle.

is that we are "weak" and "feeble" with no backbone. There is an old saying about needing to "break an egg to make an omelet" and I think that is what is happening here. No more turning the other cheek as they say.

When I have gathered these news stories, I have noted a literal universal use of words and terms by the media to describe Democrats and made what I call the media's "Weasel Word Style Guide" -

These terms rarely appear in articles about the GOP and if they do, I often post them if they are in a news story.

As a counter to the above nonsense, what AOC is doing is to fight the stereotype that has been promoted by the right and their corporate media, and is ingrained in the consciousness - "Democrats will not fight because they pull punches and will back down".

I.e., showing that we know their game, yes we have a spine and can "go low", but we ALSO have a strong foundation of what reality is, and what is right.

One person has died already. This is not a punchline nor a cause to show how "Dems are tough" unless her comments are around the competence of CDC and collaborating public health agencies under Democratic governance as compared to Trump or R's. sigh...

and they also know who ALWAYS comes in to HELP and "fix" the problems, economic or healthwise, that the GOP creates every time they are in office.

But we need to stop knee-jerk reacting every time we find a way to "hit back" and mock them. THAT is why we have such a deficit of male voters who "haven't got the memo", and that then forces the type of INSANE campaign schedule that Harris has had to endure, to scrape up all the REST of the voters.

THAT is the reality.

Leave everything on the field.

And I am not laughing when a child comes in dying from Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome and kidney failure fromr E. coli O157:H7 contamination or an elderly person with Listeriosis. It IS NOT A JOKE.

Holder 3:16 - "When they go low, kick 'em."

Walz and AOC were wrong to do that.

We had to make a lot of changes in the orchard when that new deadly strain of E. coli first appeared. No more unpasteurized cider, no more harvesting of "drops" (fruit that has fallen to the ground) for juice, to name two examples. Hundreds of small family farms here took this threat to public health very seriously, despite the fact that the necessary changes to protect public health meant a substantial loss of income.