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Jim Swanson

@jimswanson.bsky.social

What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic Gone With The Wind: After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing hens and spiking egg prices, the USDA didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. ProPublica did. tinyurl.com/pOgxtJ

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What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19)

@covid19disease.bsky.social

12 days ago

JUST IN: USDA Confirms 6 House Mice Infected with H5 Bird Flu in Grant, Washington State Officials Investigating Potential Spread

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

12 days ago

KUDLOW: Are you able to reform the SNAP and food stamp program? Are there a lot of able-bodied people who shouldn't be in there? BROOKE ROLLINS: What DOGE and our amazing team at USDA have found is 186,000 dead people are receiving SNAP benefits. We've made hundreds of arrests.

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Social Media Lab

@socialmedialab.ca

12 days ago

This isn't very comforting. It's as if the US gov. wants a virus to rip through the population. "After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing hens & spiking egg prices, the USDA didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. ProPublica did." www.propublica.org/articl….

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What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...

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Emerging Crises

@emergingcrises.bsky.social

12 days ago

From @propublica.org on bird flu: The virus tore through 80+ farms. Evidence points to airborne spread between barns. Millions of hens killed and prices soaring. USDA stalls on vaccines to protect exports. We have seen this kind of denial before. I really hope we aren’t sleepwalking into a pandemic.

ProPublica@propublica.org

NEW: Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. The USDA didn’t test the theory after a disastrous Midwestern outbreak. Here’s how we did. By @natlash.bsky.social

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Sparrow / Liz

@untonuggan.myatproto.social

12 days ago

20 million chickens dead. Twenty. Million. "The USDA said it didn’t investigate whether airborne spread played a role in the outbreak." ...if anyone needs me, I'm looking for a nice void to scream into

Annie Waldman@anniewaldman.bsky.social

After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne. So ProPublica did. Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/bird...

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Carrie Brown

@brizzyc.bsky.social

12 days ago

"After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing hens and spiking egg prices, the USDA didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. ProPublica did. " www.propublica.org/articl….

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What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance

@altusda.altgov.info

12 days ago

Excellent investigative journalism by @natlash.bsky.social exposes USDA when pressed about research into avian flu spread in Midwest. “The USDA returned a public records request that likely would have contained some of those facts, but every piece of information was redacted.” Read. It. Again.

Screenshot image of an H-P-A-I Monitoring Depopulation Report with 100% response data fully redacted, although the fields appear benign. These fields are redacted by USDA:

Date:
Start time:
Weather Considerations (Examples temp, wind, rain, ice, snow):
Description:
Finish time:
Primary Depopulation Method:
Comments:
Time at 100% mortality or cessation of primary method:
Was standard achieved?
Approximate time at 50% mortality:
Secondary Depopulation Method:
Was secondary method required?
Number of birds requiring secondary method:
Finish time (100% mortality):
Was standard achieved?

ProPublica@propublica.org

NEW: Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. The USDA didn’t test the theory after a disastrous Midwestern outbreak. Here’s how we did. By @natlash.bsky.social

www.propublica.org

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Leah Shaffer

@leahshaffer.bsky.social

12 days ago

Along with @cidrap.bsky.social I guess @propublica.org is filling in for what should be the job of the CDC. Or USDA, or FDA. Our public health infrastructure is down to its last threads and we are relying on the good graces of news orgs and already struggling academia 🩺🧪

Annie Waldman@anniewaldman.bsky.social

After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne. So ProPublica did. Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/bird...

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🌬CasuallyLucid🌀🌊

@casuallylucid.bsky.social

12 days ago

"..Industry leaders raised evidence that bird flu was entering barns differently and evading even the strictest protocols. They suspected it could be airborne and begged officials to deploy a proven weapon against the disease: a vaccine for poultry." "The USDA didn’t do that" Science. Listen to it

www.propublica.org

What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...

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Pookleblinky

@pookleblinky.bsky.social

12 days ago

I wonder how many people are gonna get listeria and salmonella etc on Thanksgiving due to there no longer being a functional USDA, combined with inexperienced people cooking unfamiliar foods improperly

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Caitlin Kelly

@caitlinkelly.bsky.social

12 days ago

After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing hens and spiking egg prices, the USDA didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. @propublica.org did. www.propublica.org/articl….

www.propublica.org

What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...

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Hellish Children

@hellishchildren.bsky.social

13 days ago

When the USDA demands everyone on SNAP reapply, I want you to remember that this past summer, they demanded states turn over the personal information of SNAP recipients. I suspect, like the Medicaid records, it is for building ICE's surveillance database. July 19, 2025

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The USDA wants states to hand over food stamp data by the end of July

The USDA has set a deadline of July 30 for states to hand over the sensitive data of tens of millions of people who applied for federal food assistance, while a lawsuit is trying to stop the collectio...

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NewJukeboxCafe 🇨🇦 📎

@newjukeboxcafe.bsky.social

13 days ago

POLITICS & ELECTIONS USDA Secretary Says All SNAP Recipients Must Reapply, Dubiously Citing Fraud “Forcing millions to reapply is a deliberate effort to shrink the program and leave families hungry,” said one lawmaker. By Chris Walker , TRUTHOUT November 17, 2025 truthout.org/articles/usd...

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USDA Secretary Says All SNAP Recipients Must Reapply, Dubiously Citing Fraud

“Forcing millions to reapply is a deliberate effort to shrink the program and leave families hungry,” said one lawmaker.

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Maryn McKenna

@marynmck.bsky.social

13 days ago

This is an extraordinary slur on the USDA. Infected cattle are just… walking across the border? Unnoticed? Uninspected? 2,000-lb animals don’t exactly fit in a backpack. Copied from the bad place, sorry.

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Tennessee Lookout

@tennesseelookout.com

13 days ago

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is launching the second round of relief funding for farmers who suffered losses from natural disasters in 2023 and 2024, USDA officials announced Monday, reports @cstephenson.bsky.social.

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USDA launches new round of disaster relief aimed at uncovered farmers and ‘shallow losses’ • Tennessee Lookout

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is launching the second round of relief funding for farmers who suffered losses from natural disasters in 2023 and 2024, USDA officials announced Monday. Tennessee f...

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Zee.Nurse.Ratchet🍀🇮🇪🇳🇱🇺🇸

@nurseratchet2u.bsky.social

13 days ago

There are no Inspectors General at the USDA and now Argentina is sending us beef infected with hoof & mouth disease, but what in the AF is going on here! 👇 www.reuters.com/business/….

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Mom for Gliberty 🍂

@fakegreekgrill.bsky.social

13 days ago

They vastly over estimate the power of USDA food guidelines, lmfao. Like, if anything, the dietary cw has been pro-fat for quite awhile now, but this government weighing in may polarize people back to high fiber or whatever other trend.

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Katie Bergh

@katiebergh.bsky.social

13 days ago

On Friday, USDA reiterated that states were required to implement many of the megabill's SNAP cuts—major changes impacting millions of people—on the day it became law, with a grace period that ended 11/1. States won't get more time before they start being penalized for errors.

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Lulu

@lulu.sheshed.rocks

13 days ago

Asking 42 million to reapply, and then thinking the USDA is going to process those applications in an expeditious manner, is obscene. I hope those Senate Dems are glad they gave away people’s healthcare so the GOP could then dismantle SNAP benefits.

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USDA head says ‘everyone’ on SNAP will now have to reapply

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Thursday said the Trump administration is planning to have all Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries reapply for the program due t…

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Brendan Carde

@brendancarde.bsky.social

14 days ago

🙈🙈🙈 is Bessent on crack?! Stupid? Insane statement! Nobody’s but the gullible r gonna buy that nonsense! Um? Btw? How would you know the cattle were diseased anyway Trumps admin have shutdown the USDA agriculture testing facilities.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Last month he was a soybean farmer, this month he’s an expert on intercontinental cattle drives.

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@sizov-andre.bsky.social

14 days ago

Bessent (Oct 30): China will buy 12 MMT of US #soybeans in 2025 Bessent (Oct 31): US and China to sign the deal “over the coming week” USDA flash (Nov 14): China (+unknown) booked only ~0.8 MMT of US soybeans Bessent (Nov 16): Deal will “hopefully” be done by Thanksgiving

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Cajun Hiker

@cajunhiker.bsky.social

14 days ago

Anyone paying attention should go check out Trump's 2026 budget. He wants to effectively kill all domestic programs that help Americans. On the chopping block: Headstart, HUD/section 8, SNAP, energy assistance, USDA school lunches, national parks, etc.... It's seriously disturbing. 😡🤢

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