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Conservative activist Glen Morgan recruited two people who share a name with the Democratic front-runner for governor to also seek the state’s highest office. They officially filed to run Friday, at the close of Washington’s candidate filing week. 

 

“If I had started a little bit earlier, I would have been able to have six Bob Fergusons,” Morgan said. “I contacted about 12. I just ran out of time.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/three-bob-night-two-more-bob-fergusons-running-for-wa-governor/

Why arent Trump supporters supporting the constitution? Locking Trump up should be universal now that he wants it.

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Attorneys for a Drug Enforcement Agency agent who struck and killed a Salem woman riding her bicycle in March 2023 argued Tuesday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that he had shown a plausible defense for immunity and should be allowed to continue, and seek dismissal of, his criminal case in federal court. 

 

Attorneys with the Oregon Department of Justice, the agency that appealed a federal court's decision to remove the case from state court in light of the immunity defense, said the case should be returned to Marion County Circuit Court for trial. 

 

Attorneys for DEA agent Samuel Landis argue that his work duties as a federal agent at the time of the crash make him eligible for immunity from prosecution, even though he may have broken state law. 

 

Prosecutors say Landis acknowledged he ran a stop sign at High and Leslie streets SE and had no lights or siren on when he hit Marganne Allen while she was riding her bike home from work on March 28, 2023. 

 

Allen, 53, died at nearby Salem Health hospital.  Landis, 38, did not face immediate charges, and the case was transferred from Salem Police to Keizer Police due to a potential conflict of interest. Months later, the Marion County District Attorney's Office charged Landis with criminally negligent homicide.

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Alabama has become the second US state to ban the sale of cultivated meat. The bill, signed into law by Governor Kay Ivey on May 7, will make it illegal for anyone to manufacture, sell, or distribute cultivated meat in Alabama. Anyone found guilty of violating the law will have committed a class C misdemeanor, which in Alabama carries the possibility of up to a three-month jail sentence and a fine of $500.

 

Earlier this May, Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a similar bill banning cultivated meat in his state. US senator John Fetterman posted his support of the Florida bill on X, writing that “as some dude who would never serve that slop to my kids, I stand with our American ranchers and farmers.”

 

These two bans mean that approximately 28 million Americans now live in states that have banned cultivated meat—meat that comes from real animal cells grown by bioreactors instead of requiring the slaughter of animals. Only two companies have approval to sell cultivated meat in the US, and it is not currently on sale in any restaurants.

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The Alabama bill was proposed by Senator Jack Williams, vice chair of the Senate Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry Committee. The bill had a smooth passage through the state legislature, passing the Alabama House with 85 votes for and 14 against, and the Senate with 32 votes for and none against. The law will come into effect from October 2024.

 

Cultivated meat companies have argued strongly against the bans, saying that it should not be up to state governments to decide what people can eat, and that the bans will stifle a technology that could offer a way to produce meat with lower environmental impact and less animal cruelty. The Alabama bill includes a carve-out that allows higher education institutes and government departments to conduct research into cultivated meat.

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“This legislation has always been about one thing—helping one industry, ‘Big Ag,’ avoid accountability and competition,” wrote Carrie Kabat at Eat Just, one of the two US companies cleared to sell cultivated meat, in an emailed statement about the Florida ban. “Today, these multinational corporations and their lobbyists won. China will also be celebrating, as they are closer to overcoming our nation’s lead in this emerging sector.”

 

The other US company approved to sell cultivated meat is Upside Foods. “Legislation that bans cultivated meat is a reckless move that ignores food safety experts and science, stifles consumer choice, and hinders American innovation. It makes politicians the food police, and it ignores the food safety experts at USDA and FDA who have deemed it safe,” says Upside Foods’ chief legal officer Sean Edgett.

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In Alabama, the bill was supported by a group called Freedom Health Alabama, an organization that has previously campaigned against vaccine mandates and masking. One of the organization’s directors, Stephanie Durnin, spoke in favor of the bill in front of the Alabama House Health Committee. On the group’s website, it refers to cultivated meat as “franken-meat” and encourages Alabamans to support the bill.

https://www.wired.com/story/lab-grown-fake-meat-ban-alabama-florida/?utm_social-type=owned&mbid=social_twitter

Breaking Bad but it's for lab grown meat now