Lynette Reid
@lynettereid.bsky.social
Assoc Prof Bioethics, Dalhousie University. Co-Editor, Public Health Ethics.
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Lynette Reid
@lynettereid.bsky.social
· Jul 15
New Peter Winch just dropped!
Out now in @anthempress.bsky.social Studies in Wittgenstein
anthempress.com/books/politi...
Out now in @anthempress.bsky.social Studies in Wittgenstein
anthempress.com/books/politi...
Michael Campbell and I have edited these papers from the Peter Winch archives. They show a side of Peter Winch that many readers might not realize: how his thinking about language, logic and ethics was deeply intertwined with thinking about political authority and legitimacy.
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U.S. billionaire financier of Cabot Links golf resort in Cape Breton is Trumpian climate denier, Mike Keiser. Now the Cabot Group wants to take West Mabou Beach provincial park for a 3rd luxury golf course in Inverness, Nova Scotia. Keiser originally got his hands on the Cabot Links land for $1. 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
U.S. billionaire financier of Cabot Links golf resort in Cape Breton is Trumpian climate denier, Mike Keiser. Now the Cabot Group wants to take West Mabou Beach provincial park for a 3rd luxury golf course in Inverness, Nova Scotia. Keiser originally got his hands on the Cabot Links land for $1. 🧵
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By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
www.bu.edu
November 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
Asparagus field in fall
October 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Asparagus field in fall
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“What caught his eye and captured his heart was the sight of colourful rainbow and transgender pride flags flying at locations around the city.”
Dr. Jesse Krikorian decided it was time to leave his country after U.S. President Donald Trump signed executive orders that target transgender Americans in January.
‘Morally sound medicine’: U.S. doctor finds freedom, acceptance in Winnipeg
One of six American physicians now practising in Manitoba
www.winnipegfreepress.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
“What caught his eye and captured his heart was the sight of colourful rainbow and transgender pride flags flying at locations around the city.”
Any ideas on how to boycott every single tech company involved in the illegal demolition of US national heritage? How do non-tech people learn to run Linux desktops?? Word processing, reference management, collaboration?
October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Any ideas on how to boycott every single tech company involved in the illegal demolition of US national heritage? How do non-tech people learn to run Linux desktops?? Word processing, reference management, collaboration?
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Plug-in hybrid cars are essentially a massive fossil fuel demand protection scam enacted on well-meaning consumers trying to do the right thing
The gap between reported and real emissions is just utterly bonkers - new @transenvuk.bsky.social study here
www.transportenvironment.org/articles/smo...
The gap between reported and real emissions is just utterly bonkers - new @transenvuk.bsky.social study here
www.transportenvironment.org/articles/smo...
October 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Plug-in hybrid cars are essentially a massive fossil fuel demand protection scam enacted on well-meaning consumers trying to do the right thing
The gap between reported and real emissions is just utterly bonkers - new @transenvuk.bsky.social study here
www.transportenvironment.org/articles/smo...
The gap between reported and real emissions is just utterly bonkers - new @transenvuk.bsky.social study here
www.transportenvironment.org/articles/smo...
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On Sept 17th, 2025, @aaas.org and @researchamerica.bsky.social hosted Jay Bhattacharya—NIH Director—as the keynote for the National Health Research Forum.
Less than two weeks later, he spoke at the MAHA Action hour alongside Oz, Russel Brand, Tony Lyons, and Callie Means.
I have a call to action:
Less than two weeks later, he spoke at the MAHA Action hour alongside Oz, Russel Brand, Tony Lyons, and Callie Means.
I have a call to action:
October 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
On Sept 17th, 2025, @aaas.org and @researchamerica.bsky.social hosted Jay Bhattacharya—NIH Director—as the keynote for the National Health Research Forum.
Less than two weeks later, he spoke at the MAHA Action hour alongside Oz, Russel Brand, Tony Lyons, and Callie Means.
I have a call to action:
Less than two weeks later, he spoke at the MAHA Action hour alongside Oz, Russel Brand, Tony Lyons, and Callie Means.
I have a call to action:
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There’s something mortifying about this spectacle: a grown man, supposedly a paragon of rational thinking, scratching around in primeval religious texts to terrify himself with superstitious prophecies, which the people around him entertain because he’s wealthy and powerful.
Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It
He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.
futurism.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
There’s something mortifying about this spectacle: a grown man, supposedly a paragon of rational thinking, scratching around in primeval religious texts to terrify himself with superstitious prophecies, which the people around him entertain because he’s wealthy and powerful.
No way.
Fun fact: Popik's research traces early iterations of the term to the northwestern part of North America, specifically the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan:
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/tri...
#yeg #Alberta
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/tri...
#yeg #Alberta
'Trick or Treat': A History
A tale of candy, costumes, and divine mischief
www.merriam-webster.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM
No way.
As I was falling asleep last night I was wondering who is tracking this. @propublica.org , that's who.
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
As I was falling asleep last night I was wondering who is tracking this. @propublica.org , that's who.
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For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’
Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
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Meanwhile, Sobeys and Aquaterra are pulling hundreds of millions of litres of water from wells in Colchester County which they sell as bottled water. For that water, the companies pay the province a total of $769 annually. That's not a typo. It's $769. (Exactly, $768.85.)
Nova Scotia is practically giving away 'some of the purest water in Canada' - Halifax Examiner
Every year, two corporations withdraw hundreds of millions of litres of groundwater from wells in Colchester County. They bottle the water — which the companies market as “pristine” and “some of the p...
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
October 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Meanwhile, Sobeys and Aquaterra are pulling hundreds of millions of litres of water from wells in Colchester County which they sell as bottled water. For that water, the companies pay the province a total of $769 annually. That's not a typo. It's $769. (Exactly, $768.85.)
With the ban on hiking in the woods it feels like summer never happened.
October 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
With the ban on hiking in the woods it feels like summer never happened.
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Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.
October 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.
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🚨 Horrifying. Does misinformation do real harm? Yep.
Who believes FALSE claim Tylenol causes (true / probably true) autism?
- 41% of parents
- 57% of Republicans
Thx MAHA / MAGA. Dark Age 2.0
www.kff.org/public-opini... via @kff.org
Who believes FALSE claim Tylenol causes (true / probably true) autism?
- 41% of parents
- 57% of Republicans
Thx MAHA / MAGA. Dark Age 2.0
www.kff.org/public-opini... via @kff.org
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🚨 Horrifying. Does misinformation do real harm? Yep.
Who believes FALSE claim Tylenol causes (true / probably true) autism?
- 41% of parents
- 57% of Republicans
Thx MAHA / MAGA. Dark Age 2.0
www.kff.org/public-opini... via @kff.org
Who believes FALSE claim Tylenol causes (true / probably true) autism?
- 41% of parents
- 57% of Republicans
Thx MAHA / MAGA. Dark Age 2.0
www.kff.org/public-opini... via @kff.org
Sometimes there's an important piece of analysis in the maelstrom of sound bites into which a democracy dissolves.
JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule
He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.
newrepublic.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Sometimes there's an important piece of analysis in the maelstrom of sound bites into which a democracy dissolves.
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I will not back down.
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I will not back down.
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
I think I'll spend the day reposting other people posting this report from AP of children screaming as they die of hunger because the South African gazillionaire destroyed USAID. (Certainly, the movement towards martial law at home and the associated chicken videos are also important.)
Former USAID official here.
The current Administration has done zero impact analysis to estimate the effects of its obliteration of USAID on deaths around the world.
It just keeps saying "no one has died" as a mesmeric incantation.
The facts, below. 🧵
The current Administration has done zero impact analysis to estimate the effects of its obliteration of USAID on deaths around the world.
It just keeps saying "no one has died" as a mesmeric incantation.
The facts, below. 🧵
October 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I think I'll spend the day reposting other people posting this report from AP of children screaming as they die of hunger because the South African gazillionaire destroyed USAID. (Certainly, the movement towards martial law at home and the associated chicken videos are also important.)
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I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.
“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus
“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.
“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus
“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus
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The findings “suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less ‘empathy’ towards Black and Asian ones.”
AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities
Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients
www.ft.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The findings “suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less ‘empathy’ towards Black and Asian ones.”
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my first piece in the UK press
. . . on just how bad the UK press is . . .
. . . on just how bad the UK press is . . .
“Reactionary centrists”, writes @polphilpod.bsky.social—while not exactly supportive of the political right—tend to view it as without agency, as if the radicalisation of US conservatism is a mere response to the excesses of social justice.
What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?
A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
my first piece in the UK press
. . . on just how bad the UK press is . . .
. . . on just how bad the UK press is . . .
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With the Kirk assassination becoming clearer, we need to talk about the radicalized, Right Wing subculture that carries out terrorism and mass shootings.
They’re an essential part of MAGA and so people really don’t want to see what is undeniable.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-threat...
They’re an essential part of MAGA and so people really don’t want to see what is undeniable.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-threat...
The Threat No One Wants to Talk About
As details emerge in the Kirk Assassination, the picture is becoming much clearer
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
With the Kirk assassination becoming clearer, we need to talk about the radicalized, Right Wing subculture that carries out terrorism and mass shootings.
They’re an essential part of MAGA and so people really don’t want to see what is undeniable.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-threat...
They’re an essential part of MAGA and so people really don’t want to see what is undeniable.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-threat...
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The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...
‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts
Social media accounts that appear to be connected to the 16-year-old shooter are littered with references to mass shootings and antisemitic views, The Denver Post found.
www.denverpost.com
September 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...