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First, it’s hard to stomach listening to people on national TV say infants in US government custody should go hungry because they weren’t born here. These are babies with desperate mothers who are currently detained in jail-like facilities, and the government has the responsibility to feed them because they can’t leave to purchase their own formula, something immigrant rights experts, among others, have already said on social media.

The “baby” formula they are referring to is actually an infant formula by the name of NIDO which is for children 1+. This is different than the baby formula which is in short supply. Leave it to the @GregAbbott_TX and the @GOP

to mislead the public for political gain.

Source: Fox News Is Screaming About “Pallets” of Baby Formula Going to the Border. Too Bad Its “Evidence” Is Flawed. – Mother Jones

The stores — one in Lakewood, the other in Long Beach — are the first Starbucks stores in Southern California with a union.
— Read on laist.com/news/workers-at-2-southern-california-starbucks-are-voting-on-unionizing-results-will-be-released-today

The attorneys general of more than a dozen U.S. states say the federal decision to let California set its own rules forces the rest of the country to follow suit.
— Read on www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-13/state-push-epa-on-california-vehicle-emissions-standards

GOP states want to not let California clean up its air that eventually become their air – new level of stupid.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House would move to provide regulatory relief and funds to bolster the infant formula supply, as the president said his team was acting within “weeks or less.”
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/us/politics/baby-formula-shortage-biden.html

LA County reports highest COVID-19 case total since mid-February, hospitalizations remain low – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
— Read on www.sgvtribune.com/2022/05/13/la-county-reports-highest-covid-19-case-total-since-mid-february-hospitalizations-remain-low/

Coffee County elections supervisor Misty Hampton allowed election conspiracist to walk right in.
— Read on www.salon.com/2022/05/13/georgia-official-allowed-conspiracist-to-breach-voting-system-in-search-of-fraud-report/

In an era of polarization, candidates posing with guns and using extreme language about opponents threatens more violence
— Read on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/13/missouri-republicans-violent-rhetoric-eric-greitens