Pamela Yake

Smith 2.0, Authoritarian Libertarianism, and Breaking Bad in Alberta It's not just MAGA politics. Premier Danielle Smith has also adopted the underlying ideology of Donald Trump's movement

Smith 2.0, Authoritarian Libertarianism, and Breaking Bad in Alberta

Henry Ford: "You can have your car in any colour you want as long as it's black."

Danielle Smith: "You can have as much freedom as you want as long as I approve."
#ableg #abpoli
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/smith-20-a...

Robert Reich Why Abortion Bans Aren’t Pro-Life | Robert Reich

Tierra Walker died because she could not get an abortion in Texas to treat her severe preeclampsia.

This is what Republicans have wrought with their anti-abortion crusade.

But let’s be clear: Abortion bans aren’t pro-life. They’re pro-control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN3oLwO0OEE

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

Abortion bans have killed another woman in Texas.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

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Covid raises risk of heart issues in children more than vaccination Getting covid-19 for the first time slightly increased the risk of heart inflammation, blood clots and bleeding disorders among children, whereas being vaccinated against the virus was much safer and ...

COVID "...increased the risk of heart inflammation, blood clots & bleeding disorders among children..."

"...vaccinated had a lower risk of myocarditis than those who were unvaccinated..."

COVID & heart issues in children: www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

#VaccinesWork

What he said Part 2: 💯 🎯

A haunted house, but it’s just the White House eviscerating US science and public health.

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#DJT

#HumanRights

The ‘sour grapes’ of conspiracy theories: how does the emotion of ressentiment predict conspiracy beliefs? - Acta Politica This research examines how negative emotions affect the degree to which people endorse conspiracy theories. Conspiracy beliefs typically flourish in contemporary politics that evoke negative emotions. In the present article, we hypothesized that citizens in ressentiment, a particular emotional state salient in contemporary grievance politics, is a key underpinning of why people believe in conspiracy theories. Ressentiment is a multi-layered emotion, within which perceptions of unfairness, bitterness, and feelings of (suppressed) anger are central. Across three studies, we examined the role of ressentiment in predicting belief in conspiracy theories. Study 1 (United Kingdom, N = 300) and Study 2 (United States, N = 300) revealed a positive relationship between ressentiment, measured through a validated scale, and belief in conspiracy theories. This relationship was mediated by rejection of the status quo. In Study 3 (United States, N = 300, pre-registered), we used a vignette describing a fictitious country to experimentally show that evoking ressentiment (vs. control condition) significantly increased belief in conspiracy theories. Taken together, these findings reveal that ressentiment is central for understanding the emotional roots of believing in conspiracy theories.

Rage & resentment important = more belief in bunk.

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"...these findings reveal that ressentiment is central for understanding the emotional roots of believing in conspiracy theories."

Study abstract: The ‘sour grapes’ of conspiracy theories link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Me, a middle aged woman with grey hair in a ponytail and wearing round plastic glasses and an N95 mask

Happy vaxxed smile.

The Greatest Nurse in the World did not ask me about eligibility.

I commented that he had not asked.

He responded “I don’t ask. I don’t care why you need it. Everyone should get it”.

May the gods shower him with infinite blessings. Undermining the rules is good power. ✊

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

The struggle to protect children from conspiracy theorist parents The inquest following the death of Paloma Shemirani raises the question of how to prevent young people from health misinformation

Sum: Misinformation is killing people.

Why we struggle to protect the young from conspiracy theorist parents bbc.com/news/article...

Anti-medicine conspiracy theories "have become more prevalent."

@lizoriordan.bsky.social: "[People] end up in an algorithm-induced rabbit hole."

Mom's COVID Shot Aided Baby, Too, Large Review Confirmed Vaccination during pregnancy was safe for both mom and baby

Mom's COVID Shot Aided Baby, Too, Large Review Confirmed www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...

"...vaccinated mothers tend to have healthier pregnancies and infants. What is reassuring here is that we now have robust pooled evidence..."

#VaccinesWork

Weird flex for the Nobel Prize next week, but OK.

Gynecologists prepare for questions about Tylenol and pregnancy after Trump’s unproven claims Political observers, medical professionals believe President and his administration taking ideological positions rather than scientific ones

Gynecologists prepare for Qs about Tylenol after Trump’s unproven claims www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... by @kkirkup

Me: "Announcement was not surprising. It builds on familiar and worrisome trends [pseudoscience, fearmongering, blame] in the MAHA political movement."

#ScienceMatters

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Wild animals are vaccinated all the time. (For example, oral rabies vaccines left in bait.)

But I guess they wouldn't teach you that in chiropractor school.

Look, I don't want to throw shade on chiropractors, as I've known some very intelligent, thoughtful, and introspective ones.

But fact remains, if there's an idiot online using the title "Doctor" to confidently spread medical misinformation, 9 times out of 10 it's a chiropractor.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

this doesn't look like a normal distribution

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