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The citric acid in your food is grown on a black mold. Pfizer figured out how to mass produce it and it's how Pfizer learned to make penicillin.
Nearly all of it, about 2 million tons a year, comes from a fungus called Aspergillus niger fed sugar in steel tanks. The mold eats the sugar and gives off citric acid. The acid gets filtered off, crystallized and sold as a white powder. A Pfizer chemist named James Currie got it running at scale in 1919, and by 1939 a pound had gone from $1.25 to 20 cents. The deep tanks Pfizer built for citric acid are the ones it used for penicillin in 1941, when it was the only company making it by fermentation.
About 60% of it is made in China, and the US has had tariffs on Chinese citric acid since 2009 at the request of ADM, Cargill and Tate & Lyle.
Sprite, Gatorade, Hunt's tomatoes, Kraft mac and cheese, Pillsbury frosting and the liquid eggs on a hotel line all have it. It's the most used acid in food because it's cheap, it's sour, it keeps cut fruit from browning, and it holds pH where bacteria don't grow.
A 2018 paper described 4 people who reported joint pain and swelling after eating foods with manufactured citric acid, but the authors wrote that nothing had been proven. No large scale controlled study has been run since.
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Next time a stranger at a bar asks if you're a patriot, do not say yes.
Chase Hughes walks through a hypothetical recruitment, and it starts with someone telling you he loves your podcast and then asking whether you'd consider yourself a patriot. That first yes is what he builds everything else on - your identity.
Next he asks if you'd be willing to look at something that might be uncomfortable. Then he shows you your browsing history and webcam captures from your phones and computers, offers to keep it all out of the public eye, and puts $20,000 a month on the table. All you have to do is keep a few people off the show and leave a few things out, for your country.
What gets me is that the protection covers more than your reputation. It also hands you a story you can live with, where every concession counts as service.
"They don't build influencers. They find the ones who are already successful and recruit them."
Apparently the benefits package includes getting to keep calling yourself independent.
So be honest, has anybody here ever been approached with an indecent proposal?
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Ya'll, this is nuts.
Hundreds - that's right, HUNDREDS - of armed robberies between 2022 and 2024 weren't real.
They were staged by the "victims" as part of a massive immigration fraud scheme to secure U-visas for themselves and their families.
cwbchicago.com/2026/10/buckt…
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Strawberry Cutty 5. 16x20 oil on Belgian.
This one is sold. I'll let you know if I run prints. 😎
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Strawberry Cutty 3. 48x36. Oil on Belgian. Limited edition giclee prints available on paper and canvas ✨️ 🐟 – at Livingston, MT
Palmer Luckey unveils “Warhound,” a $200 million startup developing genetically enhanced dogs for the US military in partnership with Colossal Biosciences and Anduril Industries.
Colossal will provide genetic engineering and cloning expertise, while Anduril will equip the dogs with advanced cybernetic technology and battlefield awareness systems.
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The beautiful drone show that brought Kyle’s celebration of life at CMS to a close. 🤍
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They can put Flock cameras on every corner watching the rest of us, but the second someone puts a tracker on a cop’s truck, the whole department quits.
In the tiny Central Georgia town of Milner (population under 1,000), the entire full-time police force just resigned. That includes the chief, the officers, and most of the reserves. Their last day is October 28. The city manager walked out too.
What triggered it? Chief Lamar Bunn stood up at a city council meeting and accused Mayor Craig Timmons of secretly putting a GPS tracker on his personal truck. He said it was paid for with the mayor’s own money. No proper process. No heads-up. When people asked the mayor about it, he had no comment.
The officers’ resignation letters talked about lost trust, questionable leadership, and a workplace where integrity and accountability no longer seemed to apply. Other gripes like overtime and side-job vehicle rules got mentioned, but the tracker was the flashpoint.
So the same people who defend mass surveillance tools aimed at regular drivers decided one tracker on one of their own was a bridge too far. The Lamar County Sheriff’s Office is expected to cover the town now.
Rules for thee, not for me. On full display in a place small enough that the whole police department can fit in a single group text.
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In filings tonight over whether, with all the recent document production and reports needed, the case can remain on a schedule for Feb. 1 trial, a Spire Motorsports brief states “JGR seeks nearly $150 million in damages” in its lawsuit against Spire and Gabehart.






























