Terri Brandmueller
@tbrandmueller.bsky.social
Vancouver writer/reader/poet/baker
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HEY BC GREENS MEMBERS!
PLS REMEMBER TO VOTE for your Provincial Council reps!
Farrukh Chistie for vice chair
Kathy Porter for ombuds
Prym Goodacre for councillor at large
Maddy Kennedy-Parrott for Lower Mainland rep, OR Severin Odland for Van Is/Sunshine Coast rep (dep where you live)
#bcpoli 🧵
PLS REMEMBER TO VOTE for your Provincial Council reps!
Farrukh Chistie for vice chair
Kathy Porter for ombuds
Prym Goodacre for councillor at large
Maddy Kennedy-Parrott for Lower Mainland rep, OR Severin Odland for Van Is/Sunshine Coast rep (dep where you live)
#bcpoli 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
HEY BC GREENS MEMBERS!
PLS REMEMBER TO VOTE for your Provincial Council reps!
Farrukh Chistie for vice chair
Kathy Porter for ombuds
Prym Goodacre for councillor at large
Maddy Kennedy-Parrott for Lower Mainland rep, OR Severin Odland for Van Is/Sunshine Coast rep (dep where you live)
#bcpoli 🧵
PLS REMEMBER TO VOTE for your Provincial Council reps!
Farrukh Chistie for vice chair
Kathy Porter for ombuds
Prym Goodacre for councillor at large
Maddy Kennedy-Parrott for Lower Mainland rep, OR Severin Odland for Van Is/Sunshine Coast rep (dep where you live)
#bcpoli 🧵
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Canada has lost its measles elimination status.
A sad day, a win for anti-vaccine ignorance and politicized public health, a new age where children, families, and communities will face additional health risks for no good reason other than the comfort of joining others with similar fact-less beliefs.
A sad day, a win for anti-vaccine ignorance and politicized public health, a new age where children, families, and communities will face additional health risks for no good reason other than the comfort of joining others with similar fact-less beliefs.
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Canada has lost its measles elimination status.
A sad day, a win for anti-vaccine ignorance and politicized public health, a new age where children, families, and communities will face additional health risks for no good reason other than the comfort of joining others with similar fact-less beliefs.
A sad day, a win for anti-vaccine ignorance and politicized public health, a new age where children, families, and communities will face additional health risks for no good reason other than the comfort of joining others with similar fact-less beliefs.
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If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
And we’ve only gotten started
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 7, 2025 at 2:45 AM
And we’ve only gotten started
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It's actually insane that the feds are promising to put more than double the amount of money they're putting into childcare, into AI.
Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?
Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
It's actually insane that the feds are promising to put more than double the amount of money they're putting into childcare, into AI.
Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?
Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?
As a former New Yorker on the ground during the Cheney years, and a writer, I endorse this message
I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.
November 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
As a former New Yorker on the ground during the Cheney years, and a writer, I endorse this message
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There's something a bit medieval and also let them eat cake about their willingness to let us get sick in irrationally high numbers
I don't know what it is but it's not public health. Also this neutral shrugging over losing our measles elimination status bsky.app/profile/tbra...
I don't know what it is but it's not public health. Also this neutral shrugging over losing our measles elimination status bsky.app/profile/tbra...
Our minimizing public health officials are “disappointed” that Canada could lose measles-elimination status! If only there was something they could do about it…
Dark Age 2.0
The Americas, led by Canada, is on the brink of losing measles-elimination status www.statnews.com/2025/11/03/m... via @statnews.com
@antibioticdoc.bsky.social: "It’s tremendously disappointing. I never in my life thought I’d see a massive measles outbreak in Canada."
The Americas, led by Canada, is on the brink of losing measles-elimination status www.statnews.com/2025/11/03/m... via @statnews.com
@antibioticdoc.bsky.social: "It’s tremendously disappointing. I never in my life thought I’d see a massive measles outbreak in Canada."
November 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
There's something a bit medieval and also let them eat cake about their willingness to let us get sick in irrationally high numbers
I don't know what it is but it's not public health. Also this neutral shrugging over losing our measles elimination status bsky.app/profile/tbra...
I don't know what it is but it's not public health. Also this neutral shrugging over losing our measles elimination status bsky.app/profile/tbra...
Our minimizing public health officials are “disappointed” that Canada could lose measles-elimination status! If only there was something they could do about it…
Dark Age 2.0
The Americas, led by Canada, is on the brink of losing measles-elimination status www.statnews.com/2025/11/03/m... via @statnews.com
@antibioticdoc.bsky.social: "It’s tremendously disappointing. I never in my life thought I’d see a massive measles outbreak in Canada."
The Americas, led by Canada, is on the brink of losing measles-elimination status www.statnews.com/2025/11/03/m... via @statnews.com
@antibioticdoc.bsky.social: "It’s tremendously disappointing. I never in my life thought I’d see a massive measles outbreak in Canada."
The Americas, led by Canada, is on the brink of losing measles-elimination status
The Americas is the only region of the world to have stopped endemic transmission of measles. But its victory is on the verge of being rolled back.
www.statnews.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Our minimizing public health officials are “disappointed” that Canada could lose measles-elimination status! If only there was something they could do about it…
You know what’s scary? The cognitive dissonance experienced listening to the CBC morning show “reporting” on Vancouver ghosts and then the Current’s scientist guests rightfully indignant about scientific misinformation. Any kind of scientific misinformation primes the populace for believing BS, CBC
October 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
You know what’s scary? The cognitive dissonance experienced listening to the CBC morning show “reporting” on Vancouver ghosts and then the Current’s scientist guests rightfully indignant about scientific misinformation. Any kind of scientific misinformation primes the populace for believing BS, CBC
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Please help us save Chinatown's post office, closing (like many local businesses) due to exorbitant rents!
Please sign and share. Thank you!
#vanpoli
savechinatownyvr.substack.com/p/help-save-...
Please sign and share. Thank you!
#vanpoli
savechinatownyvr.substack.com/p/help-save-...
Help save Chinatown's Post Office!
Post office closing Nov 12. Sign petition now to tell Canada Post: Don't stamp us out!
savechinatownyvr.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Please help us save Chinatown's post office, closing (like many local businesses) due to exorbitant rents!
Please sign and share. Thank you!
#vanpoli
savechinatownyvr.substack.com/p/help-save-...
Please sign and share. Thank you!
#vanpoli
savechinatownyvr.substack.com/p/help-save-...
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Chinatown businesses are closing one by one due to high rents. First Floata, my dim sum place, now our post office.
I must pick up parcels on Commercial Drive now; how do disabled Chinatown seniors do that?
Barely regulated speculation & financialization of real estate, everyone! #vanpoli #bcpoli
I must pick up parcels on Commercial Drive now; how do disabled Chinatown seniors do that?
Barely regulated speculation & financialization of real estate, everyone! #vanpoli #bcpoli
October 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Retired 80-something senior I chat with over coffee in McD's has caught #shingles, beginning in & around their right eye. Went to VGH emergency 3am Tues - 10hr wait. Taking prescribed meds but it's spread to their left eye! Luckily no pain. Wonder what vaccine costs. I should pay for it!
As B.C.’s over-50 population grows, advocates want the shingles vaccine covered | Globalnews.ca
Almost 40 per cent of B.C.’s population is over 50 and physicians warn that shingles, which is a debilitating condition itself, can lead to other more serious health concerns.
globalnews.ca
October 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Retired 80-something senior I chat with over coffee in McD's has caught #shingles, beginning in & around their right eye. Went to VGH emergency 3am Tues - 10hr wait. Taking prescribed meds but it's spread to their left eye! Luckily no pain. Wonder what vaccine costs. I should pay for it!
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I'll be speaking at the 2nd night of hearings on #105Keefer (now renamed 570 Columbia, as if anyone is fooled).
Beedie's luxury condos are up before the Dev't Permit Board again. How many times will we have to fight this thing? It's a disaster for Chinatown. Enough! Social housing now. #vanpoli
Beedie's luxury condos are up before the Dev't Permit Board again. How many times will we have to fight this thing? It's a disaster for Chinatown. Enough! Social housing now. #vanpoli
Hundreds rally to oppose 133-unit condo proposal in Vancouver’s Chinatown
City staff recommends Beedie be given approval to proceed with redesigned project
www.biv.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I'll be speaking at the 2nd night of hearings on #105Keefer (now renamed 570 Columbia, as if anyone is fooled).
Beedie's luxury condos are up before the Dev't Permit Board again. How many times will we have to fight this thing? It's a disaster for Chinatown. Enough! Social housing now. #vanpoli
Beedie's luxury condos are up before the Dev't Permit Board again. How many times will we have to fight this thing? It's a disaster for Chinatown. Enough! Social housing now. #vanpoli
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I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs
Such a visible "go fuck yourself"
Such a visible "go fuck yourself"
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs
Such a visible "go fuck yourself"
Such a visible "go fuck yourself"
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Let’s also note that even other Oligarch-owned major MSM papers recognized the import of the story.
Seriously, shame on NYT for attempting to diminish the power of the people.
Seriously, shame on NYT for attempting to diminish the power of the people.
October 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Let’s also note that even other Oligarch-owned major MSM papers recognized the import of the story.
Seriously, shame on NYT for attempting to diminish the power of the people.
Seriously, shame on NYT for attempting to diminish the power of the people.
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Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970
The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside
Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23
They constantly let America down
The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside
Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23
They constantly let America down
October 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970
The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside
Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23
They constantly let America down
The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside
Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23
They constantly let America down
This is outrageous
This is wild. Dozens of nurses and other healthcare workers had their personal information stolen in a data breach from their employer. But the publicly run Interior Health Authority in B.C denied it for 10 years, even as crimes were being committed using their info
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
They were victims of a massive data breach in 2009. Their employer denied it for a decade | CBC News
For a decade, a B.C. government agency denied a data breach that affected 28,000 health-care workers, creating a situation that one privacy expert says opened the door for fraud artists to continue cr...
www.cbc.ca
October 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This is outrageous
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My developmentally disabled sister was admitted to hospital in a @vchhealthcare.bsky.social hospital 3 days ago with pneumonia. Didn't have Covid. Now suddenly she does, in an unmasked hospital amidst a massive Covid wave that VCH is telling no one about. MURDEROUS #bcpoli @josieosborne.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
My developmentally disabled sister was admitted to hospital in a @vchhealthcare.bsky.social hospital 3 days ago with pneumonia. Didn't have Covid. Now suddenly she does, in an unmasked hospital amidst a massive Covid wave that VCH is telling no one about. MURDEROUS #bcpoli @josieosborne.bsky.social
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For those who wonder what a modern postal service could look like, one example is in France, where letter carriers provide check-ins on the elderly for very affordable rates, while completing their routes.
I encourage everyone to read the whole thing
#CanadaPost
www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...
I encourage everyone to read the whole thing
#CanadaPost
www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...
In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail
Carriers for La Poste have a new job: checking in on the aged.
www.newyorker.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
For those who wonder what a modern postal service could look like, one example is in France, where letter carriers provide check-ins on the elderly for very affordable rates, while completing their routes.
I encourage everyone to read the whole thing
#CanadaPost
www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...
I encourage everyone to read the whole thing
#CanadaPost
www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...
While other #bcpoli parties stay mired in the status quo, the BC Greens have moved on—congratulations to Emily Lowan for her big win. This is a massive win for progressives who care about the climate, housing and equality in this province too
BC Greens have a new leader - Emily Lowan has won on the first ballot with 60%
She turned 25 last week
This is a huge win #BCpoli
She turned 25 last week
This is a huge win #BCpoli
September 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
While other #bcpoli parties stay mired in the status quo, the BC Greens have moved on—congratulations to Emily Lowan for her big win. This is a massive win for progressives who care about the climate, housing and equality in this province too
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1/3 Elder #Vancouver Fairview couple who became #homeless late 2023 (hoarding issues) got into a new place before winter 2024 but they said it was too small & ended up on street spring of 2025 for inability to pay rent. Then got free basement suite in East Van. Landlord suddenly evicted them Aug...
September 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
1/3 Elder #Vancouver Fairview couple who became #homeless late 2023 (hoarding issues) got into a new place before winter 2024 but they said it was too small & ended up on street spring of 2025 for inability to pay rent. Then got free basement suite in East Van. Landlord suddenly evicted them Aug...
If the first thing out of your mouth when 619 of the most vulnerable people in BC die horrific deaths in a heat dome is “fatalities are part of life,” no amount of access journalism sycophancy is going to make me want to read your self-serving book
August 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
If the first thing out of your mouth when 619 of the most vulnerable people in BC die horrific deaths in a heat dome is “fatalities are part of life,” no amount of access journalism sycophancy is going to make me want to read your self-serving book
Heroes
My mom has been a flight attendant for over 40 years (!). Today, she’s on the picket lines at YVR.
August 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Heroes