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thetnholler.bsky.social
Merry Christmas, y’all. We are grateful for each and every one of you. 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Schools have become cesspools for cold and flu, but they don’t have to be: Ontario School Safety

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December 21, 2025
By Rachel Morgan

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#CdnPoli #CovidIsNotOver #IndoorAirQuality
Schools have become cesspools for cold and flu, but they don’t have to be: Ontario School Safety
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December 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠

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Santa Edition

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COVID-19-associated neurological and psychological manifestations - Nature Reviews Disease Primers
This Primer by Wilson and colleagues summarizes the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of neurological and psychiatric manifestations of COVID-19.
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December 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel.

"Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."
December 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Want a Christmas service in Calgary that has N95 masks available? Hillhurst United Church is your answer. We’ve made sure to have N95s for everyone who wants one.

Please give health to yourself and others this Christmas: wear a mask.

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Hillhurst United Church An Affirming, progressive, Christian church in Calgary, Alberta
Hillhurst United Church is an Affirming, progressive, Christian church in NW Calgary. Led by Reverend John Pentland, Hillhurst is a spiritual church working for social justice in the way of Jesus Chri...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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keithmuise.bsky.social
Covid and Flu are working in tandem right now to wreak havoc. Healthcare systems everywhere are buckling under the pressure, and this winter will not be an anomaly, this will be the new norm unless we change course and get back to basics. #ForeverSick should not be our goal.
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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With half the world’s population lacking access to essential health services, traditional medicine is often the closest or only care available for many people.

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Traditional medicine use is now a global reality: WHO
The vast majority of World Health Organization (WHO) member States say 40 to 90 per cent of their populations now use traditional medicine.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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kimsiever.bsky.social
The next time someone tells you that business owners take on all the risk, send them this link.

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Traffic worker killed when semi driver plowed into vehicle with arrow board, troopers say
A traffic worker is dead after a semitruck slammed into his truck on Interstate 95 in Mims, Florida.
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December 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Mitt Romney said the quiet part out loud: the rich should pay more in taxes.
The Wall Street Journal attacked him for it.
But he’s right—and ignoring the math is how democracies crack.
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Mitt Romney Is Right: Tax the Rich Before the Pitchforks Come Out
The One Percent’s Problem Isn’t Envy. It’s Math.
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December 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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kimsiever.bsky.social
Calgary emergency wards coping with 'extreme overcapacity' in flu season: AHS memo

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Calgary ERs face 'extreme overcapacity,' internal hospital memo says | CBC News
Hospitals are tightening policies to prevent patient bottlenecks, even if beds aren't available, according to a memo obtained by CBC News.
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December 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Garcia: They are, on one hand, putting names of survivors in these documents that are not redacted. And in these same documents, they're taking extra time and being extra careful to redact the names of the coconspirators
December 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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The latest news story I wrote for @abworker.bsky.social
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CLAC files to poach 400 workers from UFCW

These workers left CLAC to join UFCW in 2023. But CLAC started it, when they took them from UFCW in 2017.

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CLAC files to poach 400 workers from UFCW
These workers left CLAC to join UFCW in 2023. But CLAC started it, when they took them from UFCW in 2017.
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December 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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SCOTUS just rejected Trump’s illegal deployment of the National Guard in Chicago, confirming what we knew all along - that turning the military on the American people is a disgusting misuse of our armed forces.

We got lucky this time, but our checks and balances remain under immense strain.
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service. Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress." 18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.
December 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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tryangregory.bsky.social
Governments can't keep getting credit for promises alone. What matters is co-creation (not "consultation") with Indigenous communities and real action.

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Carney government pitches over $35.5B for First Nations child welfare reform | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is presenting a new plan worth more than $35.5 billion to keep First Nations children connected to their communities, culture and families.
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December 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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kimsiever.bsky.social
The next time someone tells you that business owners take on all the risk, send them this link.

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Two killed in underground explosion at Polish coal mine
Two workers were killed due to an outburst of methane and rock masses at the Pniowek coal mine in southern Poland, owner JSW said on Monday evening.
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December 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Phenomenal story
Merry Christmas, indeed!
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Ottawa lottery winner making sure neighbours don’t go hungry
After winning $70 million, an Ottawa woman is doing as much as possible to make sure families in her community don’t go without. CTV’s Leah Larocque reports.
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December 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Schools have become cesspools for cold and flu, but they don't have to be: Ontario School Safety
The volunteer organization Ontario School Safety is calling on the provincial government to improve air quality in schools as flu spreads.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Yanked "60 Minutes" episode aired in Canada. Here's what it showed
The segment, anchored by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, caused uproar internally over whether it was pulled for political reasons.
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December 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Flu fatalism is not helpful: we can keep the air in schools much cleaner and fresher, reducing the risk of infection to children and teachers. #IAQ #masks ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...
Schools have become cesspools for cold and flu, but they don't have to be: Ontario School Safety
The volunteer organization Ontario School Safety is calling on the provincial government to improve air quality in schools as flu spreads.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Physicians And Chicano Community Demand ICE Out Of Hospitals - PopularResistance.Org
Los Angeles, CA – In early October, whistleblowers at White Memorial, a Boyle Heights Adventist hospital, leaked invaluable information. The whistleblowers stated that ICE agents were taking detainees...
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December 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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NEWS: Bill Clinton is demanding full transparency from the Trump DOJ on the Epstein files.

Clinton’s spokesman says the DOJ’s selective release suggests someone is being protected.

He calls on Trump to direct Bondi to immediately release all remaining materials referencing Clinton.
STATEMENT BY ANGEL UREÑA SPOKESMAN FOR FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON The Epstein Files Transparency Act imposes a clear legal duty on the U.S. Department of Justice to produce the full and complete record the public demands and deserves. However, what the Department of Justice has released so far, and the manner in which it did so, makes one thing clear: someone or something is being protected. We do not know whom, what or why. But we do know this: We need no such protection. Accordingly, we call on President Trump to direct Attorney General Bondi to immediately release any remaining materials referring to, mentioning, or containing a photograph of Bill Clinton. This includes, without limitation, any records that may exist and are subject to disclosure under the Act (Public Law 119-38 enacted Nov. 19, 2025), including grand jury transcripts, interview notes, photographs, and findings by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (as referenced under oath to Congress by President Trump's first-term Attorney General). Refusal to do so will confirm the widespread suspicion the Department of Justice's actions to date are not about transparency, but about insinuation - using selective releases to imply wrongdoing about individuals who have already been repeatedly cleared by the very same Department of Justice, over many years, under Presidents and Attorneys General of both parties.
December 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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The latest news story I wrote for @abworker.bsky.social
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AHS shut down emergency departments for 13 Alberta hospitals last month

One of these emergency departments had no in-person physicians for over 400 hours.

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AHS shut down ERs for 13 AB hospitals in Nov 2025
One of these emergency departments had no in-person physicians for over 400 hours.
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December 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Schools have become cesspools for cold and flu, but they don't have to be: Ontario School Safety
The volunteer organization Ontario School Safety is calling on the provincial government to improve air quality in schools as flu spreads.
ottawa.citynews.ca
December 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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CBS has become state regime media.
A Message to CBS from MeidasTouch
By Ben Meiselas
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December 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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PizzAut – Italy's first pizzerias run by autistic personnel

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PizzAut – Italy's first pizzerias run by autistic personnel | Focus on Europe
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December 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM