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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
Before judging, take a moment to check your privilege
November 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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
Before judging, take a moment to check your privilege
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November 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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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.
November 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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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"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...
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...
Opinion | What Women Really Want: Work Boundaries
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"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...
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...
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Healthcare but only for my friends
November 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Healthcare but only for my friends
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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...
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...
TIME TO GIVE LYING PETE HOEKSTRA THE BUM'S RUSH
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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...
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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Racist, fascist bullshit in Quebec.
Bill 94 has passed in Quebec.
Students and staff will have to attend school with their faces uncovered. Menus adapted to religious restrictions will be prohibited. Absences or leave granted to staff for religious celebrations also gone. montreal.citynews.ca/2025/10/30/q...
Students and staff will have to attend school with their faces uncovered. Menus adapted to religious restrictions will be prohibited. Absences or leave granted to staff for religious celebrations also gone. montreal.citynews.ca/2025/10/30/q...
Religious symbols ban: Quebec passes law to prevent students, staff from covering their faces
The Legault government passed Bill 94 on Thursday, aimed at strengthening secularism in the Quebec school system. From now on, students will have to attend school with their faces uncovered, as will v...
montreal.citynews.ca
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Racist, fascist bullshit in Quebec.
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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....
~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....
October 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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....
~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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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...
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.
thetyee.ca
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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...
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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.
October 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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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"...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."
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.
www.independent.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"...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."
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“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...
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...
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
www.climatechangenews.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“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...
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...
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Images of Hurricane Melissa that were made with artificial intelligence (AI) software are inundating social media, overshadowing crucial storm reporting and safety information.
https://ow.ly/UUXL50XjmCn
https://ow.ly/UUXL50XjmCn
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.
ow.ly
October 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Images of Hurricane Melissa that were made with artificial intelligence (AI) software are inundating social media, overshadowing crucial storm reporting and safety information.
https://ow.ly/UUXL50XjmCn
https://ow.ly/UUXL50XjmCn
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Trump building himself a new gold-plated ballroom at the White House shows what he really cares about - which is definitely not you.
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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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💯 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
-science literacy
-intelligence
-empathy
-community minded
-values health > conformity
-weirdly super cool
October 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM
💯 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
-science literacy
-intelligence
-empathy
-community minded
-values health > conformity
-weirdly super cool
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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.
This Vaccine Serendipitously Reduces Dementia
The shingles vaccine is highly recommended for preventing shingles, but studies find a nifty added benefit
medium.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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.
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“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...
Latest @desmog.com #cdnpoli
www.desmog.com/2025/10/27/l...
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.
www.desmog.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“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...
Latest @desmog.com #cdnpoli
www.desmog.com/2025/10/27/l...
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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.
October 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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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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.
October 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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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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.
Remove him from office.
October 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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.
Remove him from office.
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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.
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.
October 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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.
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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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
But almost never, "Hey what's the risk to the person beside me at the pharmacy?"
We’ve individualized public health to death
October 26, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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
But almost never, "Hey what's the risk to the person beside me at the pharmacy?"
We’ve individualized public health to death