August 17, 2026

Rotten from the Top: How a $1 Million Check, a Killed Safety Rule, and 9,000 Sick Americans Expose a Presidency for Sale

A record-shattering cyclospora outbreak has killed two, hospitalized nearly 400, and sickened thousands. The lettuce supplier at the center of it wrote a seven-figure check to Donald Trump’s super PAC six days after his administration gutted the very rule designed to stop it. This is what state capture looks like at the dinner table.

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The Ambassador Against the Planet: Trump’s Envoy Tells Europe to Lower Its Standards

Andrew Puzder — the fast-food executive whose 2017 Labor Secretary nomination collapsed under bipartisan revulsion — is now U.S. Ambassador to the EU, and he is using the Turnberry trade deal to demand that Brussels gut its human-rights supply-chain rules and dismantle its climate tariff. The message to the world is unmistakable: America will not clean up its own act, and now it wants to stop anyone else from cleaning up theirs.

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