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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 4h

Measles outbreaks could leave thousands vulnerable to infectious diseases for years www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/meas...

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Measles outbreaks could leave thousands vulnerable to infectious diseases for years

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Truthout @truthout.org · 10h

A UN expert recently said in a report that the Venezuela invasion and kidnapping of Maduro was a violation of international law that violated the right to life and Venezuela’s sovereignty. The U.S. has since been seizing all of Venezuela’s oil revenues and its oil reserves as Trump brags about it.

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US Political Politics News 💙🌈🦋The Fighting Liberal @us-political-news.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks, Trump! Kennedy Center Honors gala gets evicted. The Kennedy Center Honors have been forced to relocate—and it’s all thanks to Trump’s pettiness.

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Thanks, Trump! Kennedy Center Honors gala gets evicted.

The Kennedy Center Honors have been forced to relocate—and it’s all thanks to Trump’s pettiness.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 10h

Egyptian security forces have arrested six journalists working for the independent investigative journalism platform Matsda2sh and appear to have forcibly disappeared them. Authorities should immediately disclose their whereabouts and grant access to lawyers.

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Egypt: Authorities Arrest Entire Investigative Newsroom

Egyptian security forces arrested six journalists working for the independent investigative journalism platform Matsda2sh on September 28 and 29 and appear to have forcibly disappeared them.

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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 19h

Holy cow "government’s huge subsidization of this project – up to 90 per cent of a $40-billion pipeline with ownership split evenly between Ottawa and Edmonton – ....." What kind of a deal is that? esp cuz we're subsidizing the past world of energy markets www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

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Opinion: Is it really a good idea for the government to subsidize a pipeline?

Designating the West Coast pipeline as a project of national interest exposes a global reality: Fossil fuels haven’t just lost to clean energy – they’ve already lost

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 02/10/2026

Taking people's chairs away doubles their heart disease risk.🤷🏿‍♂️ Yes, sitting too much causes health problems. But the solution isn't "Then always stand!🤡" Because human bodies are meant to move. Stand. Sit. Change positions. Move around.

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Standing too much at work can double your risk of heart disease: U of T expert

There's been a lot of interest in the harmful effects of prolonged sitting at work, from academics and the public alike. The attention being paid to sitting – or rather, not sitting – while on the job...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The unitary executive types never get too hung up on the "shall execute the law faithfully" bit of Article II

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me

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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OMG - a politician who actually is doing his best for the betterment of his constituents. Not gonna be popular with the leadership of either party, I fear. #mamdani #leadership #empathy #competency

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

-Trump Airlines -Trump Beverages -Trump Casinos -Trump Magazine -Trump Mortgage -Trump Steaks -Trump's Travel Site -Trumpnet -Trump Tower Tampa -Trump University -Trump Vodka -Trump Fragrances -Trump Mattress -Trump Mobile All massive financial failures led by Trump. Now this...

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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.

The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

a lot can happen in six hours

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

"I can go ramp, I can go stairs" -- Trump's audience in Texas gives him an extremely tepid round of applause as he brags about being able to go up stairs without falling

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs has joined a growing chorus of First Nations voices in denouncing the 'Pacific Link' pipeline-Grand Chief Stewart Phillip is promising a legal fight and possible 'boots on the ground.'

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He’s going to use nukes before it’s all over. People need to wake up

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Public health service announcement 👇👇👇 from this unpaid mom, because no one making between $250 and $400k as medical health officer in BC gives a rat's ass about preventing infections.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Everyone involved with this, except a dozen or so already very wealthy people, will lose.

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The statement of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide on the botched execution of Christa Pike is worth reading in full.

CCDPW Statement on the botched execution of
Christa Pike
October 1, 2026
Christa has endured punishment greater than any other person in the history of the American death penalty. The governor must commute Christa's sentence now.
-Randy Spivey, one of Christa Pike's lawyers
Last night, the State of Tennessee recklessly and callously sought to execute Christa Pike, notwithstanding the warnings of medical experts that Tennessee's lethal injection protocol would cause her to experience agonizing pain and psychological terror. Today, Christa remains in the hospital after the State tried and failed to execute her over the course of two hours. We do not know whether she will recover and what her recovery will look like. We are heartbroken for Christa's family, friends, and her legal team for having to endure the consequences of the state's barbarity.
After she was strapped to the gurney, the execution team inserted at least seven different needles in her left arm over the course of an hour. According to Christa's lawyer Randy Spivey, one of the needles appeared to be bent as they removed it from her arm. Medical experts had anticipated these problems based on Christa's small veins and a condition called thrombocytosis. When the executioners finally inserted an IV and injected the poison, something went terribly wrong. Although they injected her with double the usual dose of pentobarbital, Christa did not die.
While some media outlets reported that she was "snoring," her attorney and others stated that she whimpered, heaved, choked, breathed deep and raspy breaths, and moved frequently. At one point she stated that she felt her arm was burning up.
Christa's lawyers demanded that the prison halt the execution, they begged the courts and the governor to intervene, and they were met with stony silence while Christa suffered. Two and a half hours after the execution process began, the prison finally called an ambulance to take Christa to the hospital, where she is receiving t…

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am a Vietnam combat vet. My father, who fought in two theaters in WWII, is buried there. I will be buried there. Captain Bone Spurs is a six time draft dodger who does not deserve a monument to his cowardice. If he builds it, we must tear it down after we win in 2028. Fuck Trump.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 02/10/2026

(I don't know why I accidentally linked to an Icelandic site. Anyway.) This interview makes it abundantly clear this government is going to ignore its own requirements to advance whatever projects it wants and then point to the good it's doing elsewhere to justify it.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 01/10/2026

"The writer in this article appeared to suggest that under Jewish law, [Avi] Lewis would be considered either a 'mosar' or a 'rodef' - both terms to describe traitors. The killer of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin used the same language to justify Rabin's assassination..."

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why are Canada’s health care standards so different for Indigenous people? Miranda Mamakwa died after she wasn’t able to access required care, revealing how far we are from fulfilling the TRC’s Calls to Action, by @tanyatalaga.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @theglobeandmail.com

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Opinion: Why are Canada’s health care standards so different for Indigenous people?

Miranda Mamakwa died after she wasn’t able to access required care, revealing how far we are from fulfilling the TRC’s Calls to Action – and how denialism makes that much harder

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Whoa! Former chief coroner Lisa Lapointe is the BC Green candidate in Saanich South As chief coroner, 2011-2024, Lapointe was sharply critical of the BC government's response to the toxic drug crisis She's running against the NDP's Richard Zussman and Conservatives' Cathy Ounsted so far #bcpoli

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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lapointe, BC's chief coroner for 13 years, was highly critical of response/inaction to toxic drug crisis (tinyurl.com/ymm6xapw). Greens announced her candidacy today along with policy brief on how party would respond, including:

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The banality of evil (Arendt)

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@mtnbvan @mtnbvan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

THIS. This is leadership! And real effective housing policy, medical policy not empty promises and misdirection #homelessness #housing #bcpoli #onpoli #cdbpoli

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/10/2026

A series of purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have solidified Theodore Kaczynski’s nascent belief in the evil of science while he was in college, Alston Chase argued in 2000:

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Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber

A series of purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The government bill was introduced in the Senate, where senators added an amendment the government wasn’t expecting and doesn’t want. The federal government must now decide what to do with Bill S-2. | Story by Keelan Jacobs.

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Ottawa stalling on fixing second-generation cutoff: Mi'kmaw lawyer

Mi'kmaw lawyer Pam Palmater says Canada is stalling when it comes to getting rid of the second-generation cutoff from the Indian Act.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026

This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty.

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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

B.C. has gotta lead Canada when it comes to ex-coroners in politics

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026

The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As more people die of measles, I’m reminded of this quote from RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan: “What we’re going to have is a real-world experience of when unvaccinated people get measles. What is the new incidence of hospitalization…of death?” They are running their experiment.

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US committee is reconsidering all vaccine recommendations

Move is dramatic departure for advisory group under Kirk Milhoan, who says he dislikes the term ‘established science’

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