SusanJD
@susanjd.bsky.social
Not so optimistic octogenarian. 🇨🇦
Long COVID since March 2020, masks in health care, please wear a mask to protect the vulnerable.
Nature, gardening, cats and all animals, astronomy, the arts, climate change, current events.
Please be kind.
Long COVID since March 2020, masks in health care, please wear a mask to protect the vulnerable.
Nature, gardening, cats and all animals, astronomy, the arts, climate change, current events.
Please be kind.
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Trainwreck? In October 2024, The Economist called Biden's economy "the envy of the world."
BARTIROMO: What are you expecting the president's economic message to be?
SEN. McCORMICK: I think the message is that we inherited a trainwreck from the Biden administration and we made a lot of progress
SEN. McCORMICK: I think the message is that we inherited a trainwreck from the Biden administration and we made a lot of progress
December 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Trainwreck? In October 2024, The Economist called Biden's economy "the envy of the world."
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
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MAGA is very upset about some Somalis who did 8 billion of fraud in Minnesota the same week they praise Trump for pardoning a venture capitalist who defrauded thousands of Americans for over 1 billion.
You cant reason with a shameless violent cult hellbent on white supremacist power.
You cant reason with a shameless violent cult hellbent on white supremacist power.
December 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
MAGA is very upset about some Somalis who did 8 billion of fraud in Minnesota the same week they praise Trump for pardoning a venture capitalist who defrauded thousands of Americans for over 1 billion.
You cant reason with a shameless violent cult hellbent on white supremacist power.
You cant reason with a shameless violent cult hellbent on white supremacist power.
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Seems fine, mild even?
December 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Seems fine, mild even?
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AI demands large invasive power sources requiring more data centers that suck up power we subsidize and compromise our water supply. Citizens across the nation resist AI & Data Centers as poison to our lifestyles; we resist “their” business plan for us www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...
Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks
How tech companies and government officials handle local impacts will shape the industry's future in the U.S.
www.npr.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
AI demands large invasive power sources requiring more data centers that suck up power we subsidize and compromise our water supply. Citizens across the nation resist AI & Data Centers as poison to our lifestyles; we resist “their” business plan for us www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...
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Where are Somalis in the Epstein Files? Oh wait there aren't.
It was rich men, overwhelmingly white men, who raped girls with Epstein. Allegedly Daddy Trump was Epstein's closest friend for 10 years.
So where are the Epstein Files?
Hit MAGA back and don't let them demonize Somalis. Enough.
It was rich men, overwhelmingly white men, who raped girls with Epstein. Allegedly Daddy Trump was Epstein's closest friend for 10 years.
So where are the Epstein Files?
Hit MAGA back and don't let them demonize Somalis. Enough.
December 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Where are Somalis in the Epstein Files? Oh wait there aren't.
It was rich men, overwhelmingly white men, who raped girls with Epstein. Allegedly Daddy Trump was Epstein's closest friend for 10 years.
So where are the Epstein Files?
Hit MAGA back and don't let them demonize Somalis. Enough.
It was rich men, overwhelmingly white men, who raped girls with Epstein. Allegedly Daddy Trump was Epstein's closest friend for 10 years.
So where are the Epstein Files?
Hit MAGA back and don't let them demonize Somalis. Enough.
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Am I Racist Against White People? (Gasp!) Responding to the Hatemongers and Faux (Fox) Controversy
Gather around, friends & frenemies, as I address the right-wing meltdown over my response to Trump's bigotry against immigrants and Muslims.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/am-i-racis...
Gather around, friends & frenemies, as I address the right-wing meltdown over my response to Trump's bigotry against immigrants and Muslims.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/am-i-racis...
December 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Am I Racist Against White People? (Gasp!) Responding to the Hatemongers and Faux (Fox) Controversy
Gather around, friends & frenemies, as I address the right-wing meltdown over my response to Trump's bigotry against immigrants and Muslims.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/am-i-racis...
Gather around, friends & frenemies, as I address the right-wing meltdown over my response to Trump's bigotry against immigrants and Muslims.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/am-i-racis...
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I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics
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“I felt like I lived a double life. How could this sick side of me be so central, so enormous, yet so unseen by those who knew and loved me?”please read this beautiful essay in @thesicktimes.org: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/28/y...
You know someone with Long COVID. They need you to ask about it genuinely. - The Sick Times
If community-building is a bulwark against autocracy, then asking after one another might be a good place to start.
thesicktimes.org
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“I felt like I lived a double life. How could this sick side of me be so central, so enormous, yet so unseen by those who knew and loved me?”please read this beautiful essay in @thesicktimes.org: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/28/y...
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Peter Swenson, a Yale professor and one of about 20 million Americans with long COVID, says calling chronic illness a “journey” needs to stop. He feels “pinned down by it, stuck with it,” calling it a “bad trip” with fatigue, brain fog, dysautonomia and heart problems.
Source: archive.md/CgY81
Source: archive.md/CgY81
November 26, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Peter Swenson, a Yale professor and one of about 20 million Americans with long COVID, says calling chronic illness a “journey” needs to stop. He feels “pinned down by it, stuck with it,” calling it a “bad trip” with fatigue, brain fog, dysautonomia and heart problems.
Source: archive.md/CgY81
Source: archive.md/CgY81
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100% of the time, in 100% of healthcare settings.
We need masks in healthcare...ALWAYS
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 26, 2025 at 6:47 AM
100% of the time, in 100% of healthcare settings.
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Again, can you imagine if a writer of color, a Black reporter specifically, did what Olivia Nuzzi did, what would happen to her career?
Would she be rehabilitated in less than a year? Hired by Vanity Fair? Given a book deal? A NYT puff piece?
It's a big club and we ain't in it.
Would she be rehabilitated in less than a year? Hired by Vanity Fair? Given a book deal? A NYT puff piece?
It's a big club and we ain't in it.
November 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Again, can you imagine if a writer of color, a Black reporter specifically, did what Olivia Nuzzi did, what would happen to her career?
Would she be rehabilitated in less than a year? Hired by Vanity Fair? Given a book deal? A NYT puff piece?
It's a big club and we ain't in it.
Would she be rehabilitated in less than a year? Hired by Vanity Fair? Given a book deal? A NYT puff piece?
It's a big club and we ain't in it.
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Between 1982 and October 2025, the Alberta government never used the notwithstanding clause. Now, they have invoked it twice in the last three weeks (and more to come).
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Between 1982 and October 2025, the Alberta government never used the notwithstanding clause. Now, they have invoked it twice in the last three weeks (and more to come).
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Elon Musk’s new pay package could amount to $100B per year.
That's the same as 3.2 million cashiers’ paychecks combined.
It’s more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks.
It’s more than 2 million janitors’ paychecks.
Billionaire greed is out of control.
That's the same as 3.2 million cashiers’ paychecks combined.
It’s more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks.
It’s more than 2 million janitors’ paychecks.
Billionaire greed is out of control.
November 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Elon Musk’s new pay package could amount to $100B per year.
That's the same as 3.2 million cashiers’ paychecks combined.
It’s more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks.
It’s more than 2 million janitors’ paychecks.
Billionaire greed is out of control.
That's the same as 3.2 million cashiers’ paychecks combined.
It’s more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks.
It’s more than 2 million janitors’ paychecks.
Billionaire greed is out of control.
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Does anyone care about schools in Ontario, because as I've said, Ford Nation doesn't. Our school's are doing so badly, the children are not getting what they need. And neither are the teachers. He doesn't care about people, he cares about businesses. And only certain ones for certain ppl. #corrupt
With no new money for schools in the Ford govt’s mini budget, educators are calling it “deliberate neglect” of “struggling students.” #cdnpoli
November 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Does anyone care about schools in Ontario, because as I've said, Ford Nation doesn't. Our school's are doing so badly, the children are not getting what they need. And neither are the teachers. He doesn't care about people, he cares about businesses. And only certain ones for certain ppl. #corrupt
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The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums.
He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up.
How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?
He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up.
How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?
November 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums.
He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up.
How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?
He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up.
How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?
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Nutrition assistance is NOT corrupt. Food stamps kept my family fed when my mom had to look for work after my dad got sick with MS.
The Trump administration wants kids, seniors, and veterans to go hungry. They are REFUSING to use emergency funds to keep SNAP benefits going.
The Trump administration wants kids, seniors, and veterans to go hungry. They are REFUSING to use emergency funds to keep SNAP benefits going.
October 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Nutrition assistance is NOT corrupt. Food stamps kept my family fed when my mom had to look for work after my dad got sick with MS.
The Trump administration wants kids, seniors, and veterans to go hungry. They are REFUSING to use emergency funds to keep SNAP benefits going.
The Trump administration wants kids, seniors, and veterans to go hungry. They are REFUSING to use emergency funds to keep SNAP benefits going.
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Stand up. Fight back. Get loud. #alberta #unions #notwithstanding #firetheucp youtu.be/z0sfd-DGgvg?... via @YouTube
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #SavePublicEducation #DefundPrivateEducation
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #SavePublicEducation #DefundPrivateEducation
Stand up. Fight back. Get loud. #alberta #unions #notwithstanding #firetheucp
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October 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Stand up. Fight back. Get loud. #alberta #unions #notwithstanding #firetheucp youtu.be/z0sfd-DGgvg?... via @YouTube
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #SavePublicEducation #DefundPrivateEducation
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #SavePublicEducation #DefundPrivateEducation
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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Oh look, it’s our qualified PM who uses ‘big words’
Know who also uses ‘big words’ we might not be familiar with?
Mechanics, healthcare professionals, plumbers, builders, programmers.
It’s called terminology Skippy.
Here’s a big word sandwiched by two little words:
You discombobulated dick
#NeverPP
Know who also uses ‘big words’ we might not be familiar with?
Mechanics, healthcare professionals, plumbers, builders, programmers.
It’s called terminology Skippy.
Here’s a big word sandwiched by two little words:
You discombobulated dick
#NeverPP
October 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Oh look, it’s our qualified PM who uses ‘big words’
Know who also uses ‘big words’ we might not be familiar with?
Mechanics, healthcare professionals, plumbers, builders, programmers.
It’s called terminology Skippy.
Here’s a big word sandwiched by two little words:
You discombobulated dick
#NeverPP
Know who also uses ‘big words’ we might not be familiar with?
Mechanics, healthcare professionals, plumbers, builders, programmers.
It’s called terminology Skippy.
Here’s a big word sandwiched by two little words:
You discombobulated dick
#NeverPP
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Raskin: "Speaker Johnson described the exercise of 1st Amendment rights across the country by 6 or 7 millions Americans as part of No Kings as a 'Hate America Rally.' The Hate America Rally happened on January 6 ... there were more than 140 police officers who were wounded."
October 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Raskin: "Speaker Johnson described the exercise of 1st Amendment rights across the country by 6 or 7 millions Americans as part of No Kings as a 'Hate America Rally.' The Hate America Rally happened on January 6 ... there were more than 140 police officers who were wounded."
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Most of us who are covid conscious understand that widespread masking is not returning.
But masking in healthcare facilities should be an easy ask.
Getting folks to mask when they’re sick should be an easy ask.
Cleaning the air should be an easy ask.
It’s time we adapt!
But masking in healthcare facilities should be an easy ask.
Getting folks to mask when they’re sick should be an easy ask.
Cleaning the air should be an easy ask.
It’s time we adapt!
October 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Most of us who are covid conscious understand that widespread masking is not returning.
But masking in healthcare facilities should be an easy ask.
Getting folks to mask when they’re sick should be an easy ask.
Cleaning the air should be an easy ask.
It’s time we adapt!
But masking in healthcare facilities should be an easy ask.
Getting folks to mask when they’re sick should be an easy ask.
Cleaning the air should be an easy ask.
It’s time we adapt!
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Trump has launched seven deadly strikes in the Caribbean Sea.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
October 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Trump has launched seven deadly strikes in the Caribbean Sea.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.