Liz
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Bill Gates, climate change isn't an existential threat to civilization... meanwhile reality wants a word.
www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...
www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...
Iran plans water cuts for Tehran amid worst drought in decades
Iranian officials on Saturday were drawing plans for periodic water supply cuts to Tehran neighbourhoods a day after President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that the Iranian capital might have to be evacua...
www.france24.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Bill Gates, climate change isn't an existential threat to civilization... meanwhile reality wants a word.
www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...
www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...
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What more is there to say at this point?
November 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
What more is there to say at this point?
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SCOOP: I got a copy of the Calgary police chief’s hand-written notes from May 9 and 10, which show that he discussed the dismantling of a 🇵🇸 encampment at UofC with three Cabinet ministers and the premier’s chief of staff.
open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...
open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...
How the UCP covered up police violence against the U of C Palestine encampment
The Orchard has obtained hundreds of pages of correspondence from the university's executive leadership team, campus security, Calgary police and the provincial government. Part II of II.
open.substack.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
SCOOP: I got a copy of the Calgary police chief’s hand-written notes from May 9 and 10, which show that he discussed the dismantling of a 🇵🇸 encampment at UofC with three Cabinet ministers and the premier’s chief of staff.
open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...
open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...
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Great article discussing the many, many reasons why masking remains crucial
Why Are People Wearing Masks in 2025?
open.substack.com/pub/misfitme...
open.substack.com/pub/misfitme...
Why Are People Wearing Masks in 2025?
a mental health professional’s perspective
open.substack.com
March 2, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Great article discussing the many, many reasons why masking remains crucial
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Again, two of my friends were concussed and a student’s mom had her ribs broken by police when they attacked the students who had *already* started taking the encampment down after 12 hrs. This is wholly rotten
SCOOP: Documents show the extent to which UCalgary administration was influenced by pro-Israel framing of the Palestine solidarity movement leading up to its short-lived encampment.
open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...
open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...
UCalgary Palestine encampment's fate was sealed before a single tent was pitched, documents reveal
The Orchard has obtained hundreds of pages of correspondence from the university's executive leadership team, campus security, Calgary police and the provincial government. Part I of II.
open.substack.com
February 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Again, two of my friends were concussed and a student’s mom had her ribs broken by police when they attacked the students who had *already* started taking the encampment down after 12 hrs. This is wholly rotten
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“put it on his fucking gravestone”
February 20, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“put it on his fucking gravestone”
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There's a lot more where that came from! Stay tuned
For a deeper look at the UAlberta review, especially now that this UCalgary review has been appropriately dissected, see @readtheorchard.org's excellent and painstaking December piece:
www.readtheorchard.org/p/u-of-a-sec...
www.readtheorchard.org/p/u-of-a-sec...
U of A security called pro-Palestine encampment "extremely peaceful" a day before police tore it down
The Orchard obtained more than 200 pages of heavily redacted internal communications about the protest camp, which was dismantled in the early hours of May 11, through FOIP.
www.readtheorchard.org
February 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
There's a lot more where that came from! Stay tuned
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This is 100% the next step for a society that has collapsed any semblance of a social safety net and has broken down regulations, public health and any other measures that would lessen epigenetic contributors to disability. Sicken and debilitate people, then call them useless eaters and eliminate
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This is 100% the next step for a society that has collapsed any semblance of a social safety net and has broken down regulations, public health and any other measures that would lessen epigenetic contributors to disability. Sicken and debilitate people, then call them useless eaters and eliminate
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I see a lot of Canadians flocking to patriotism at this moment due to Trump’s threats. This is also a good moment to question what is Canada? What defines us? What is our future?
To me this is a moment to reflect on Canada’s history as a project of colonization and imagine a new way forward
To me this is a moment to reflect on Canada’s history as a project of colonization and imagine a new way forward
February 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I see a lot of Canadians flocking to patriotism at this moment due to Trump’s threats. This is also a good moment to question what is Canada? What defines us? What is our future?
To me this is a moment to reflect on Canada’s history as a project of colonization and imagine a new way forward
To me this is a moment to reflect on Canada’s history as a project of colonization and imagine a new way forward
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Existing in a time where people who mask and take other precautions against airborne viruses are crazy and people who get sick over and over and over again are normal is the most monumentally shitty failure of public health and I hate it.
February 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Existing in a time where people who mask and take other precautions against airborne viruses are crazy and people who get sick over and over and over again are normal is the most monumentally shitty failure of public health and I hate it.
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90% has happened in my grandma’s lifetime. She’s still alive. We changed the world in a human lifetime and we could do it again, but in a way that gives our kids a future.
Just to say, if you are 30, more than half of all human fossil fuel emissions have occurred in your lifetime #dataviz
February 13, 2025 at 3:56 AM
90% has happened in my grandma’s lifetime. She’s still alive. We changed the world in a human lifetime and we could do it again, but in a way that gives our kids a future.
Well that’s fucking alarming.
Not surprising per se, but alarming.
Not surprising per se, but alarming.
Yet another update in the Alberta private health care scandal. Athana Mentzelopoulos has filed a 1.7 million dollar lawsuit today.
Obviously some concerning stuff here but maybe the most was she was allegedly told to be potentially concerned about her personal safety.
Obviously some concerning stuff here but maybe the most was she was allegedly told to be potentially concerned about her personal safety.
February 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Well that’s fucking alarming.
Not surprising per se, but alarming.
Not surprising per se, but alarming.
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Expect more!
It's just beginning, is the feeling I get.
It's just beginning, is the feeling I get.
~Good job, Red Deer!
We need MORE of this at every single UCP MLA's office!
We need MORE of this at every single UCP MLA's office!
February 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Expect more!
It's just beginning, is the feeling I get.
It's just beginning, is the feeling I get.
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sort of funny that the Wexit people have shown themselves to be so badly prepared for exactly the opportunity presenting itself right now
February 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
sort of funny that the Wexit people have shown themselves to be so badly prepared for exactly the opportunity presenting itself right now
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What crime did the person commit that merits detention?
Related: it’s been three weeks since Elon Musk vigorously saluted his fellow Nazis at the inauguration
Related: it’s been three weeks since Elon Musk vigorously saluted his fellow Nazis at the inauguration
Excuse me, what in the Footloose fuck? www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
February 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
What crime did the person commit that merits detention?
Related: it’s been three weeks since Elon Musk vigorously saluted his fellow Nazis at the inauguration
Related: it’s been three weeks since Elon Musk vigorously saluted his fellow Nazis at the inauguration
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In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
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Pfizer’s cancer drug commercial was beautiful, but their breast cancer drug Ibrance costs $10k per month and their prostate cancer drug Xtandi costs $22k per month.
Beautiful commercials don’t change the fact that 42% of cancer patients exhaust their life savings in 2 years.
Beautiful commercials don’t change the fact that 42% of cancer patients exhaust their life savings in 2 years.
February 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Pfizer’s cancer drug commercial was beautiful, but their breast cancer drug Ibrance costs $10k per month and their prostate cancer drug Xtandi costs $22k per month.
Beautiful commercials don’t change the fact that 42% of cancer patients exhaust their life savings in 2 years.
Beautiful commercials don’t change the fact that 42% of cancer patients exhaust their life savings in 2 years.
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Israeli police have arrested two Palestinian booksellers for selling books about Palestine in Jerusalem
You know who else did this kind of thing?
You know who else did this kind of thing?
February 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Israeli police have arrested two Palestinian booksellers for selling books about Palestine in Jerusalem
You know who else did this kind of thing?
You know who else did this kind of thing?
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starting to believe that the people who campaigned to usher in a millennia of white supremacist fascist oligarchy were not as committed to the principle of free speech as the media had led voters to believe
Excuse me, what in the Footloose fuck? www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
February 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
starting to believe that the people who campaigned to usher in a millennia of white supremacist fascist oligarchy were not as committed to the principle of free speech as the media had led voters to believe
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Just in case you weren't sure — hospitalization for measles (or other infectious diseases) is serious. Not everyone spends a couple of days there, then goes home to a normal life. Some are disabled. Some die.
Doctors aren't lying to you. Get your shots.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/h...
Doctors aren't lying to you. Get your shots.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/h...
Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate | CNN
A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.
www.cnn.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Just in case you weren't sure — hospitalization for measles (or other infectious diseases) is serious. Not everyone spends a couple of days there, then goes home to a normal life. Some are disabled. Some die.
Doctors aren't lying to you. Get your shots.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/h...
Doctors aren't lying to you. Get your shots.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/h...
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I just helped revive someone in downtown Calgary. I saw people walking by a man lying flat on his back so I went to check and sure enough he wasn’t breathing so I started to shake him and his friend returned we took turns pumping his chest until he started breathing. My point is don’t just walk by.
February 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I just helped revive someone in downtown Calgary. I saw people walking by a man lying flat on his back so I went to check and sure enough he wasn’t breathing so I started to shake him and his friend returned we took turns pumping his chest until he started breathing. My point is don’t just walk by.
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Tl;dr:
AHS CEO did her job to ensure that AHS was awarding contracts appropriately, discovered that the AB govt was likely giving contracts to their hockey box friends with the fake Tylenol and they fired her to keep it quiet.
AHS CEO did her job to ensure that AHS was awarding contracts appropriately, discovered that the AB govt was likely giving contracts to their hockey box friends with the fake Tylenol and they fired her to keep it quiet.
SCOOP: Danielle Smith's government fired the head of Alberta Health Services two days before she was to meet with the Auditor-General to discuss her internal investigation into procurement contracts and deals for private surgical facilities. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... #abpoli #ableg
Alberta ousted health services CEO amid probe into medical contracts, document alleges
Athana Mentzelopoulos was dismissed two days before a meeting with province’s auditor on her investigation, according to letter
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Tl;dr:
AHS CEO did her job to ensure that AHS was awarding contracts appropriately, discovered that the AB govt was likely giving contracts to their hockey box friends with the fake Tylenol and they fired her to keep it quiet.
AHS CEO did her job to ensure that AHS was awarding contracts appropriately, discovered that the AB govt was likely giving contracts to their hockey box friends with the fake Tylenol and they fired her to keep it quiet.
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February 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.