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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
If you’re wondering why some Covid activists still seem to be in the "emergency phase," please remember that for many, it truly is still an emergency - some are disabled, unhoused, grieving loved ones, or facing abuse for continuing to mask. Before judging, take a moment to check your privilege
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I'm seeing a whole lot less outrage for the journalists of color who have been systematically discarded at places like NBC and CBS (and across journalism, really) than the response to Jimmy Kimmel's 5-day suspension.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
"Women, and especially mothers, don’t necessarily need remote work. We don’t need so-called flexible work schedules" Please stop speaking for all of us, @nytimes.com Many mothers, especially those with disabilities or high-risk for Covid, do want remote work. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | What Women Really Want: Work Boundaries
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Please watch and share. Pete Hoekstra is fundamentally unfit to be ambassador. His record of race-baiting and extremist disinformation needs to be called out. MAGA is actively undermining our nation. Canada needs to send him packing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jThL...
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TIME TO GIVE LYING PETE HOEKSTRA THE BUM'S RUSH
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 31/10/2025
Racist, fascist bullshit in Quebec.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Bottom line of systematic assessment of studies on Covid vaccinations/boosters: ~50% reduction of hospitalization, across all adults (not just older) who are not immunocompromised Real data on vaccine-induced myocarditis: occurred in 1-3 per 100,000 male adolescents www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Global News | Breaking, Latest News and Video for Canada [Unoff… @globalnews.ca.web.brid.gy · 31/10/2025
globalnews.ca
Super greens powder supplements sold at Sam’s Club linked to salmonella outbreak
At least 11 people have been sickened, including three who were hospitalized, with salmonella infections linked to powder supplements sold at Sam's Club stores nationwide and online, federal health officials said Friday.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin) @caramartin.ca · 31/10/2025
After years of denial the international consensus is now shifting. Covid "causes system-wide injury that accumulates with each infection": brain damage, immune dysregulation leading to infections and cardiac injury with accelerated aging. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
thetyee.ca
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/10/2025
Popok: The blue states and cities effectively brought the cases. The red states are suffering, and their AGs are sitting on the sidelines. There’s no red state that brought a case. Think about that: not one red state attorney general brought a case to help prevent starvation and suffering. None.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"...a male correspondent was initially included on the layoff list but was removed after he appealed directly to the new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, leading to another female correspondent being added to the list at the last minute."
independent.co.uk
CBS News fired 8 on-air personalities in latest layoffs. All of them are women
EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources told The Independent that senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta was added to the layoff list following a last-minute change by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.
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solhog @solhog.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
“Public health emergency”: Report shows fossil fuel impacts on every stage of life The Global Climate and Health Alliance documents how fossil fuel extraction and use harms people throughout their lives, with the worst effects on marginalised groups www.climatechangenews.com/2025/09/16/p...
climatechangenews.com
New report links fossil fuels to health harms from birth to old age
A report that compiles over 600 scientific citations shows that fossil fuels' health harms start before birth and extend in time
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The Weather Network @weathernetwork.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Images of Hurricane Melissa that were made with artificial intelligence (AI) software are inundating social media, overshadowing crucial storm reporting and safety information. ow.ly/UUXL50XjmCn
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AI-generated images of Hurricane Melissa bog down social media - The Weather Network
Officials are urging the public to get news updated from verified sources only.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Trump building himself a new gold-plated ballroom at the White House shows what he really cares about - which is definitely not you.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
💯 Masking is a good litmus test for many things you'd want in a partner -science literacy -intelligence -empathy -community minded -values health > conformity -weirdly super cool
Tweet from Vivian @suchnerve

"also worth noting that i refuse to date nonmaskers, even if they swear they’d mask for me, because i simply don’t believe external motivation is sustainable. it’s not good enough to do something for me; you have to do it for yourself, because that means you’ll do it unsupervised."

She is QT'ing a tweet from @thejinjoguy 

"(nodding) hmmm i should emulate these behaviors because i find vivian suchnerve charming and nice and wish to gain her approval"
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Robert Roy Britt @robertroybritt.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
As he saw with a friend, the spiral into dementia can be swift. Since the writer is a doctor, he dug into the things that might've helped prevent his friend's fate, surprised to find the shingles vaccine is among them.
medium.com
This Vaccine Serendipitously Reduces Dementia
The shingles vaccine is highly recommended for preventing shingles, but studies find a nifty added benefit
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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The White House’s campaign against elections takes a radical turn with midterms on horizon
As Trump’s Justice Department intends to send election monitors to California and New Jersey, the developments are more unsettling in the broader context.
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 27/10/2025
“As the climate crisis gets worse for Canadians, there’s a hidden cause. The fact is that lobbyists trying to help groups cope with climate change are actually working for some of Canada’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters.” Latest @desmog.com #cdnpoli www.desmog.com/2025/10/27/l...
desmog.com
Landmark New Report Shows Canadian Lobbyists Represent Major Polluters Alongside Environmental Groups
In a major conflict of interest, F-Minus study shows nation’s climate action taking a back seat to Big Oil’s lobbying playbook.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
If you're going to volunteer at a food bank because of the current times, please consider wearing a mask when helping distributing food. Even if they're not wearing a mask themselves, poor people have enough to deal with right now, getting an infectious disease just adds to the burden.
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Stripy Lightbulb CIC @stripylightcic.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🩺 Calling all #healthcare professionals! Share your anonymous insights on remote care for severe ME/CFS in our 4-min survey. Help shape safer, more equitable care. Deadline: Tues 29 Oct, 12pm. 👉 Take part now: www.stripylightbulb.com/2025/10/16/c... #SevereME #RemoteCare #NHS
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Call for Input: Reconciling Safety in Remote Care for Severe M.E. | Stripy Lightbulb CIC
Reconciling Safety in Remote Care for Severe ME We are inviting healthcare professionals to anonymously share their insights via a short survey.
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Mike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Back in the 1960s, the Smothers Brothers made fun of President Lyndon Johnson and his policies many times on their popular television show. The president wrote them a letter in response.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house. Remove him from office.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/10/2025
Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone? Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate. They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I keep seeing long threads where people do complex math to justify unmasking, calculating their own risk of illness 🧮 But almost never, "Hey what's the risk to the person beside me at the pharmacy?" We’ve individualized public health to death
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Masking in public isn't just about protecting yourself, but about protecting high-risk people around you too. If we want to build a collectivist society rather than this hyper-individualistic "you do you" nonsense we see in the West, we have to be the change we want to see
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ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.lol · 25/10/2025
Good morning and happy Saturday to everyone. Anyone who will execute people at sea, do a flyover as victims speak out, send troops into cities he feels threatened by, deport people to third-country prisons, or illegally fire members of agencies ... will do anything to stay in power. Anything. 🚫👑
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Sadly, we no longer live in a functioning democracy.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
nails it www.desmog.com/2025/10/23/w...
desmog.com
Why Is Canada Fast-Tracking LNG? Not for Economy, Climate or Reconciliation
Some questions Prime Minister Mark Carney should ask before pushing ahead with natural gas projects.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/10/2025
I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/10/2025
Those who do learn from history are doomed to have people tell them they’re overreacting
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Rep. Randy Fine (R, Gilead) wants to review every US naturalization process for the past 30 years in an attempt to go after Zohran Mamdani. I wonder how Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R, Gerrymandering), a naturalized citizen born in Mexico, feels about this? MAGA won’t keep you safe, Juan.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
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Michael Olesen @molesen.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Australia has had their worst flu season on record. That is almost always predictive of what will happen in the northern Hemisphere. www.immunisationcoalition.org.au/wp-content/u...
immunisationcoalition.org.au
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
If you are going to make public spaces unsafe for high risk people and refuse to take precautions, you’re either advocating that we all die without safe access to society or that our new, isolated existence is subsidized with your taxes. Which is it.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/10/2025
Donald Trump just threw a late-night tantrum over an advertisement created by the Canadian province of Ontario, which featured Ronald Reagan’s REAL words expressing his dislike of tariffs. Trump says that, as a result, all trade negotiations with Canada are “HEREBY TERMINATED.”
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I really feel like there must be a course in the public health leadership curriculum on "What to do when you don't know the answer" where the entire content is "Just make something up, everyone who's not one of us is stupid and it's ok if some of them die as long as it protects our authority"
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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I often see people argue about just how many people are suffering from long COVID. The answer is LOTS. Canada is slow producing stats, but as of 2023 that number was 2.1 million people. Almost 12% of the population. About 50% of those had been suffering for more than a year.
About 3.5 million Canadian adults reported having long-term symptoms after a COVID-19 infection
(11.7%). Of these, 2.1 million were still dealing with symptoms as of June 2023 (6.8%), and nearly half
said their symptoms had not improved over time (49.7%).
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
In a cohort of over 13,500 women with mean age ~72 years, >4,000 steps per day, at least 1-2 days per week, was associated with reduction in all-cause mortality and lower risk of cardiovascular disease bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
“Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
propublica.org
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
"A 60-year-old couple earning $85,000 may have to pay $31,000 for a health insurance plan in Kentucky... $28,000 for a plan in Oregon... $44,000 for a plan in Vermont..." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
washingtonpost.com
Health insurance sticker shock begins as shutdown battle over subsidies rages
Many states have shown rising premiums ahead of open enrollment for Affordable Care Act plans. The government shutdown is driven by Democrats and Republicans being far apart on the issue of extended s...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/10/2025
An employee at Sequoia Park Zoo in Northern California found a black bear who came in from the wild, introduced itself to the zoo’s bears and played with their toys, before being shown the exit.
nyti.ms
Bear Breaks Into California Zoo to Mingle With Other Bears
Officials at Sequoia Park Zoo have no idea how the young bear got into the zoo and went “nose-to-nose” with the three bears there.
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Global News | Breaking, Latest News and Video for Canada [Unoff… @globalnews.ca.web.brid.gy · 21/10/2025
globalnews.ca
CRA gave accurate tax info to 17% of individual callers: AG report
Auditor General Karen Hogan's report said most callers waited an average of 31 minutes, with just 18 per cent of calls meeting the CRA service standard of within 15 minutes.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"Farmers keep making changes to keep feeding the world. We’re not climate change deniers. We live with its consequences every single day. And we’re not old-fashioned. We’re willing to try new methods, embrace new technologies, and evolve — because the future of our farms depends on it."
nationalobserver.com
Cultivating change: The unseen evolution of Alberta farmers
Eric Steeves has seen firsthand how combining solar energy and agriculture can keep farms productive and profitable.
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Melissa Lem @drmelissalem.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Honoured to join these incredible leaders from across Canada on behalf of @cape-acme.bsky.social in a unified call for Budget 2025 to fund a Youth Climate Corps—because young people deserve meaningful work that builds a #healthyfuture. Learn more: www.goodgreenjobsforall.ca
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/10/2025
It’s fitting that he thinks Darth Vader was the good guy
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Troy Avevipart🍁 @privatevotary.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Take the abstraction out of Poilievre's sloganeering — it hits different. 𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆. 𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆. 𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻. They're saying it bluntly. It's up to each of us to choose to actually 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 it.
Pierce Poilievre
@PierrePoilievre

Sign here. End DEI.
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