Murray Abrams
@murrayabrams.bsky.social
🇨🇦, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, spouse, parent of two grown-ups, cat lover, woodworker, gardener, aspiring boat builder. Worried for the world. Comforted by geological time and the vastness of the universe.
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What’s the Family Doctor Fix? Teams are a great place to start.
December 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
What’s the Family Doctor Fix? Teams are a great place to start.
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In case you missed it… Here's a QCIB blog post on the massive cuts to city transit that council is considering. It ends on a pretty crusty note about the floral conservatory. queencityib.com/blog/2025/12... #yqrcc /1
Transit Cuts Are Back On Council's Menu — Queen City Improvement Bureau
Council will consider $12,150,000 in transit cuts during next week's budget debate. This is what that will look like. On the chopping block: • accessibility training for drivers • accessibilit...
queencityib.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
In case you missed it… Here's a QCIB blog post on the massive cuts to city transit that council is considering. It ends on a pretty crusty note about the floral conservatory. queencityib.com/blog/2025/12... #yqrcc /1
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“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything to steer the future away from endless war and grinding down of the poor.Hope gives a future."
-Rebecca Solnit
-Rebecca Solnit
October 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything to steer the future away from endless war and grinding down of the poor.Hope gives a future."
-Rebecca Solnit
-Rebecca Solnit
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Coffee is made.
Torch is lit.
Good Morning, America!
Let’s see how the levy looks.
#RadioFreeAmerica
youtu.be/LH0-WXUFY2k?...
Torch is lit.
Good Morning, America!
Let’s see how the levy looks.
#RadioFreeAmerica
youtu.be/LH0-WXUFY2k?...
When The Levee Breaks feat. John Paul Jones | Playing For Change | Song Around The World
YouTube video by Playing For Change
youtu.be
September 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Coffee is made.
Torch is lit.
Good Morning, America!
Let’s see how the levy looks.
#RadioFreeAmerica
youtu.be/LH0-WXUFY2k?...
Torch is lit.
Good Morning, America!
Let’s see how the levy looks.
#RadioFreeAmerica
youtu.be/LH0-WXUFY2k?...
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Saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Rossiter, who told the stories of the many forgotten and underappreciated women of science.
Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering.
RIP, Margaret.
Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering.
RIP, Margaret.
Margaret W. Rossiter, 81, Dies; Wrote Women Scientists Into History
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Rossiter, who told the stories of the many forgotten and underappreciated women of science.
Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering.
RIP, Margaret.
Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering.
RIP, Margaret.
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Everyone of us is eventually a patient of a specialist or dead.
Thems the facts.
Thems the facts.
People(including my family members)couldn’t care less about healthcare bc they never think they will need a specialist or chronic care
Forcing a return to “normal” during a pandemic creates cog dissonance in those who”don’t do Covid/disability etc”
So it’s met with denial/hostility not concern 🙁
Forcing a return to “normal” during a pandemic creates cog dissonance in those who”don’t do Covid/disability etc”
So it’s met with denial/hostility not concern 🙁
August 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Everyone of us is eventually a patient of a specialist or dead.
Thems the facts.
Thems the facts.
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Many of us believe that these women were raped as children, because when we were children about 11 or 12 years old, creepy older guys came onto us.
That’s the age when we learned that men are interested in children.
So yes, we believe them.
That’s the age when we learned that men are interested in children.
So yes, we believe them.
July 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Many of us believe that these women were raped as children, because when we were children about 11 or 12 years old, creepy older guys came onto us.
That’s the age when we learned that men are interested in children.
So yes, we believe them.
That’s the age when we learned that men are interested in children.
So yes, we believe them.
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On a Tuesday in March, Rümeysa Öztürk writes, “I was thrust into a nightmare.”
For VF, the Fulbright scholar details what she witnessed in the six and a half weeks she spent inside a South Louisiana ICE detention center.
For VF, the Fulbright scholar details what she witnessed in the six and a half weeks she spent inside a South Louisiana ICE detention center.
“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
www.vanityfair.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
On a Tuesday in March, Rümeysa Öztürk writes, “I was thrust into a nightmare.”
For VF, the Fulbright scholar details what she witnessed in the six and a half weeks she spent inside a South Louisiana ICE detention center.
For VF, the Fulbright scholar details what she witnessed in the six and a half weeks she spent inside a South Louisiana ICE detention center.
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There's nothing that pisses me more than when people are getting ripped off by their employers, by landlords, by banks, by Energy Companies, by Water Companies, by Supermarkets.
Then they decide actually the problem is immigrants or Disabled People.
How stupid can you be?
Then they decide actually the problem is immigrants or Disabled People.
How stupid can you be?
July 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
There's nothing that pisses me more than when people are getting ripped off by their employers, by landlords, by banks, by Energy Companies, by Water Companies, by Supermarkets.
Then they decide actually the problem is immigrants or Disabled People.
How stupid can you be?
Then they decide actually the problem is immigrants or Disabled People.
How stupid can you be?
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“Dr. Bonnie Henry describes honour as 'humbling'”
She should be more than humbled, she should be ashamed.
After making a mess of SARS in Ontario, she gave inane advice from BC about COVID, like belitting masking + cheering ‘protective’ infections.
This is failing up!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
She should be more than humbled, she should be ashamed.
After making a mess of SARS in Ontario, she gave inane advice from BC about COVID, like belitting masking + cheering ‘protective’ infections.
This is failing up!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
B.C.'s top doctor among British Columbians appointed to Order of Canada | CBC News
"Having my name amongst this group of incredible Canadians is truly humbling," Dr. Bonnie Henry said in a statement. "To be recognized by my country for my life's work in health and public health is a...
www.cbc.ca
July 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“Dr. Bonnie Henry describes honour as 'humbling'”
She should be more than humbled, she should be ashamed.
After making a mess of SARS in Ontario, she gave inane advice from BC about COVID, like belitting masking + cheering ‘protective’ infections.
This is failing up!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
She should be more than humbled, she should be ashamed.
After making a mess of SARS in Ontario, she gave inane advice from BC about COVID, like belitting masking + cheering ‘protective’ infections.
This is failing up!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Haven’t read this and won’t because:
1. ‘Soap and water’ do not combat airborne viruses.
2. ‘Common sense’ suggests everyone understands virology so, why bother writing this book if everyone knows anyway? Is common sense all we need to fly an airplane?
#deathofexpertise
#covidisairborne
#WTF
1. ‘Soap and water’ do not combat airborne viruses.
2. ‘Common sense’ suggests everyone understands virology so, why bother writing this book if everyone knows anyway? Is common sense all we need to fly an airplane?
#deathofexpertise
#covidisairborne
#WTF
At best she's a grifter (book published March of 2020) but don't get me started on her "school is the safest place for children" nonsense
July 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Haven’t read this and won’t because:
1. ‘Soap and water’ do not combat airborne viruses.
2. ‘Common sense’ suggests everyone understands virology so, why bother writing this book if everyone knows anyway? Is common sense all we need to fly an airplane?
#deathofexpertise
#covidisairborne
#WTF
1. ‘Soap and water’ do not combat airborne viruses.
2. ‘Common sense’ suggests everyone understands virology so, why bother writing this book if everyone knows anyway? Is common sense all we need to fly an airplane?
#deathofexpertise
#covidisairborne
#WTF
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Wrote an article on the theme from the tweets below: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/heat-exhau...
June 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Wrote an article on the theme from the tweets below: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/heat-exhau...
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I explained this in 2017; let’s see if it takes this time…
June 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I explained this in 2017; let’s see if it takes this time…
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61 years ago today, the Klan murdered three civil rights workers in Mississippi. One of them was a childhood friend. I'd like to share what he meant to me. https://youtu.be/u-kv3wdqqNo?si=Zc3Uh-CJOcODt-RW
When the KKK Murdered My Childhood Friend | Robert Reich
As the shortest kid in school, I was an easy target for bullies. When I was about eight, I befriended a kind teenager wh
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June 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
61 years ago today, the Klan murdered three civil rights workers in Mississippi. One of them was a childhood friend. I'd like to share what he meant to me. https://youtu.be/u-kv3wdqqNo?si=Zc3Uh-CJOcODt-RW
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June 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Hey @CBC you should stop using ALL lobbyists as panel pundits. They always have self interests that they push. Thinking of this often, but pretty appalled just now by Moe Sihota on the Early Edition. #Vancouver #CBC
June 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hey @CBC you should stop using ALL lobbyists as panel pundits. They always have self interests that they push. Thinking of this often, but pretty appalled just now by Moe Sihota on the Early Edition. #Vancouver #CBC
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Naheed Nenshi
Donald Trump increased tariffs to 50% on steel and aluminum, affecting Canadian jobs.
Danielle Smith's response? Restocking American booze back on Alberta shelves! She can’t do anything that Trump might not like.
She’s a terrible negotiator and can’t or won’t stand up for Canada.
Donald Trump increased tariffs to 50% on steel and aluminum, affecting Canadian jobs.
Danielle Smith's response? Restocking American booze back on Alberta shelves! She can’t do anything that Trump might not like.
She’s a terrible negotiator and can’t or won’t stand up for Canada.
June 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Naheed Nenshi
Donald Trump increased tariffs to 50% on steel and aluminum, affecting Canadian jobs.
Danielle Smith's response? Restocking American booze back on Alberta shelves! She can’t do anything that Trump might not like.
She’s a terrible negotiator and can’t or won’t stand up for Canada.
Donald Trump increased tariffs to 50% on steel and aluminum, affecting Canadian jobs.
Danielle Smith's response? Restocking American booze back on Alberta shelves! She can’t do anything that Trump might not like.
She’s a terrible negotiator and can’t or won’t stand up for Canada.
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Are you a journalist in a national Canadian newsroom who has felt institutional pressure when it comes to covering the genocide in Gaza?
I want to talk to you and can protect your identity.
Here’s my Signal. Pls include proof of identity so I can avoid the weirdos lol ❤️
I want to talk to you and can protect your identity.
Here’s my Signal. Pls include proof of identity so I can avoid the weirdos lol ❤️
June 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Are you a journalist in a national Canadian newsroom who has felt institutional pressure when it comes to covering the genocide in Gaza?
I want to talk to you and can protect your identity.
Here’s my Signal. Pls include proof of identity so I can avoid the weirdos lol ❤️
I want to talk to you and can protect your identity.
Here’s my Signal. Pls include proof of identity so I can avoid the weirdos lol ❤️
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Read my biography of Henri Bergson to find out about his philosophy of durée, his secret meeting with President Wilson during WWI, the experiments he and Pierre Curie conducted on an Italian medium, and why he caused the 1st traffic jam on Broadway!
Order your copy here:
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Order your copy here:
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November 28, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Read my biography of Henri Bergson to find out about his philosophy of durée, his secret meeting with President Wilson during WWI, the experiments he and Pierre Curie conducted on an Italian medium, and why he caused the 1st traffic jam on Broadway!
Order your copy here:
linktr.ee/eherring
Order your copy here:
linktr.ee/eherring
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There's something surreal about watching this Conservative MP speak in the House about how "words matter" knowing the son he raised (Keean Bexte) called me a filthy whore last week lmao
May 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
There's something surreal about watching this Conservative MP speak in the House about how "words matter" knowing the son he raised (Keean Bexte) called me a filthy whore last week lmao
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They are not a political party as we know it. There are a cult, just like the MAGA. If you are not familiar with IDU I suggest YOU educate yourself.
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Democracy Is Under Siege Globally. Canada Is Being Tested | The Tyee
How the well-honed playbook for whipping up authoritarian populism is being employed here and around the world.
thetyee.ca
May 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
They are not a political party as we know it. There are a cult, just like the MAGA. If you are not familiar with IDU I suggest YOU educate yourself.
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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Imagine CBC covering Trudeau so positively if he had lost his seat. They would be all over him for acting like he was elected, staying at Stornoway, having expensive by-election.
PP cosplays. CBC plays along.
PP is an unelected loud mouth sucking up the taxpayer dime!
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
PP cosplays. CBC plays along.
PP is an unelected loud mouth sucking up the taxpayer dime!
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Poilievre says Conservatives will fight for change in new session of Parliament | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his caucus will be pushing measures to make Canada more affordable, safe, self-reliant and united, as Conservative MPs prepare to return to Parliament without...
www.cbc.ca
May 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Imagine CBC covering Trudeau so positively if he had lost his seat. They would be all over him for acting like he was elected, staying at Stornoway, having expensive by-election.
PP cosplays. CBC plays along.
PP is an unelected loud mouth sucking up the taxpayer dime!
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
PP cosplays. CBC plays along.
PP is an unelected loud mouth sucking up the taxpayer dime!
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff
May 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff