Maxim Voronov

Sadly, by refusing to pay for portable HEPA air filters for every classroom and refusing to monitor and address air quality in schools, the Ford government will continue to be complicit in the massive infection of children and we will be dealing with long-term complications for many years to come.

Selena Gomez's Lupus and Health Journey, In Her Own Words Gomez has been honest over the years about what it's like to live with a chronic illness and mental health issues.

Selena Gomez was diagnosed with lupus, and has been through chemotherapy, so a mask is one of the many important tools she uses to protect herself.

Indeed!

Wow! I am not a pet owner myself. But this sounds like a wonderful thread. Great resources!

To lower carbon emissions, choose a pet rabbit over a dog The top three individual actions that help the climate, including avoiding plane flights, choosing not to get a dog and using renewable electricity, were also the three that participants underestimate...

To help lower carbon emissions, get a pet rabbit instead of a dog www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/13/n...

Tell the Canadian Government: Stop Funding Companies Supporting Trump’s Human Rights Abuses GardaWorld — a Canadian-based “private security company” — has million-dollar contracts to execute Trump's racist and inhumane immigration regime, which kidnaps people, tears families apart, and denie...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/te...

Baltic states know Russian occupation is never temporary Land swaps and de facto annexation in Ukraine won’t bring peace and could lead to decades of brutal subjugation

Op-ed from the foreign ministers of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, arguing that any territorial swaps with Russia won’t be temporary: “To entertain the idea of trading land for a fragile truce is to repeat the mistakes of the past — and to invite history’s darkest chapters to be repeated.”

Opinion: Even in war, attacking medical facilities must remain off-limits Disregard for the policy of ‘medical neutrality’ in war – outlined in treaties like the Geneva Conventions - has given rise to a new term: healthocide

Even in war, attacking medical facilities must remain off-limits. The principle of ‘medical neutrality’ — protecting health workers and patients— is all-important, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social
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Went to the Topography of Terror museum in Berlin a little while ago. The museum chronicles the elaborate institutions through which the Nazis exercised terror. And lemme tell you: I am very concerned by where we are heading with ICE...

Kind of depends on "intended by who?" Some of the people who are now part of running the US gvt and other influential people got exactly what they wanted - anti-vax, anti- public health. The stuff they had been pushing for from the start of the pandemic.

Guess so.

This is a key reason societies (and governments) worked so hard to erase the pandemic from the memory and downplay the ongoing toll of the endless cycles of infections and re-infections. They (and we) wanted to go back to this mindset. We erased public health because it's anti-meritocracy.

Local climate activism leads to ‘remarkable’ gains, report shows Efforts to pass laws and advance clean energy projects can significantly reduce emissions, and at a low cost.

Advocates say that "community-based strategies" driven by grassroots groups are a powerful and relatively cheap way of driving climate action, especially as the Trump administration rolls back as much progress as it can. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/13/n...

Shaw has a valid work visa and is employed in Washington State at a maximum security juvenile detention facility. Yet, after she drove her two older kids to get a direct flight to visit grandparents in New Zealand, she was treated like a criminal herself when driving home with her youngest son.

Israel is wiping out Gaza’s journalists – and it’s no longer even hiding it | Jodi Ginsberg The laws of war are clear: journalists are civilians. To target them deliberately in war is to commit a war crime

Israel is wiping out Gaza’s journalists – and it’s no longer even hiding it | Jodi Ginsberg

𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝘀 𝗨𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗘𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗻: 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗨𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀.

𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗗𝘇𝗶𝘂𝗯𝗮, Hanken School of Economics, Finland
𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗞𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗮𝘀-𝗠𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿, Aalto University, School of Business, Finland
𝗠𝗶𝗸𝗸𝗼 𝗩𝗲𝘀𝗮, Hanken School of Economics, Finland

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Danielle Smith

Alberta's Bizarre and Dangerous Vaccine Experiment Begins thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025... @djclimenhaga.bsky.social @thetyee.ca

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

So assuming this story is correct -- and the WSJ reporter is excellent -- Trump's chief negotiator on Ukraine is meeting with Putin about how to end the war while also scouting sites for a possible Trump hotel in Moscow.

www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Yep, small government. And absolute freedom of speech.

“They won’t overturn same sex marriage!”

That’s what we all thought about Roe. We didn’t believe it could fall, until it did.

Please don’t become complacent.

The right wing christofascists have seized power & want to undo decades of hard won civil rights.

Protect Obergefell

Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."

More States Consider Joining Redistricting Fight Launched by Trump More States Consider Joining Redistricting Fight Launched by Trump

NEW: Facing increasingly dire polls, President Donald Trump recently launched a gerrymandering war in the hopes of staving off Democratic control of the U.S. House of Representatives after the 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/mor...

Finland did it. There's no more homelessness in Finland.
You just have to stop being an anti-social society.

WATCH: D.C. mayor Bowser calls Trump takeover of DC police ‘unsettling’ D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday that the city had reached a 30-year low in violent crime.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday that the city had reached a 30-year low in violent crime.

Delia Ramirez graphic showcasing all cosponsors.

31 members of the House of Representatives, all Democrats, are currently cosponsoring the Block the Bombs Act which would automatically withhold the transfer or sale of offensive weaponry to Israel.

Here are their names:

Where are all the people who used to complain about government over-reach? There is a pattern of micro-managing private business. Telling Coke which flavors to sell. And now this? If this is not "big government", I don't know what is.

We don't believe in taxes, we just believe in taking your money

bar chart showing amount of microplastics found in human organs (brain, liver, kidney) in 2016 and 2024. Liver and brain levels have increased a lot, with the brain having by far the most -- 4.9 micrograms per gram of tissue in 2024.

We have plastic in our brains. And our livers, kidneys, heart, bloodstream and more. In just 8 years, scientists have observed an increase in the amount of bodily plastic.

The outcomes of becoming part-plastic are not good.

🎁 via @opinion.bloomberg.com

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𝗖𝗼-𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.

𝗠𝗶𝗮 𝗥𝗮𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗱, University of British Columbia, Canada
𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗵 𝗞𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗶𝗵, IÉSEG School of Management, France
𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗲-𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗷𝗮𝗹𝗶è𝘀, Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada

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