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Trump slammed for demolishing White House before Canadians could burn it down again WASHINGTON D.C. - US President Donald Trump's planned White House ballroom, requiring the complete demolition of the historic East Wing, is being criticized by Canadians who will now never get to light the building on fire for a second time since the War of 1812.

Trump slammed for demolishing White House before Canadians could burn it down again

The White White East Wing has a big gaping hole.

the year is 2030. the white house remains half demolished because president trump refused to pay construction workers and musk gutted government spending. two thieves sneak into the white house using a truck mounted ladder and steal the constitution

YouTube KidZuko clips of the first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow. Both of the clips have over 400,000 views each

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯

Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚

And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋

youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

“We’re here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president because he’s a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power. And we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.” 🦄

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AI’s shortcut to cheating: Why Google’s “homework help” button crossed the line - BCIT When Google quietly tested a “homework help” button inside its Chrome browser earlier this month, the company likely expected little more than quiet adoption. Instead, the experiment provoked outrage ...

BCIT interviewed me. I’m proud to work here. www.bcit.ca/news/stories...

“Some people say AI is inevitable and we should give up,” Ian reflected. “But we can’t. This is exactly the moment to fight for an ethical future.”

If we ever want to be at least a semblance of a democracy again, there must be a reckoning with what ICE has been empowered to do, and with all the people who empowered them to do it.

RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns “The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

Multicolored silhouettes of people facing each other with speech bubbles above their heads. The text reads New Podcast! Community of Praxis with Brenna Clarke Gray. Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Today we launch Community of Praxis, a new podcast with Brenna Clarke Gray. Twice monthly Brenna sits down for critical chats about teaching and learning to invite a more care-centred, student-focused approach into classrooms, while still minding structural limitations like time and precarity.

Among all the other things, "The President has screwed things up so badly that the world's other rich countries won't deliver mail to us anymore" really should end it immediately.

Headline - LA public schools to open with new protections for immigrant children

Such a difference between "higher" ed and "lower" ed. Higher ed's response ranges from "We can do nothing about ICE" to "How can we help you, ICE?" while K-12 defends their kids and families. Via LA Times www.latimes.com/california/s...

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R.F.K. Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Research

Completely horrifying.👇 Anti-science monster.

RFK Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Research www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Reality: Vaccine...
- saved millions of lives
- < hospitalization
- < long COVID
- > pregnancy outcomes
- < healthcare costs
- promising platform for other diseases!
- etc, etc!!!

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Taking Action in Higher Ed Taking Action for Higher Education is a workbook to assist university workers in assessing personal risk and making decisions about how and when to take action to resist fascism.

I just posted a free workbook that aims to help university workers better understand when and how to take risks in the fight against fascism in higher ed.

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The Illusion of Connection

From Facebook getting us to assign “friendship” to casual acquaintances, to LinkedIn encouraging us to call a stack of business cards “a network,” social media has completely reshaped how we define and maintain relationships. And not for the better.

RFK Jr. says U.S. will stop funding global vaccine alliance Gavi Gavi works to expand access to vaccines for children in some of the world’s poorest countries. Health experts say the move could have deadly consequences.

Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
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lol that was fast. Even for the TACO.

‘By 2028, AI alone could consume as much energy as 28% of US households’?

For a party professing to hold personal responsibility so highly, the UCP sure want to make sure you can't chose what your kids read.
#AbLeg #AbPoli

"There are a growing # of AI bots crawling repositories[; they're] sufficiently aggressive [to] cause service disruptions + outages... As a result, some repositories have started to block machine access to their collections, which is also inadvertently blocking other desired network services..."

Poilievre rushed to safety after actual journalist question makes it past security CALGARY - During an outdoor campaign rally, security rushed a shaken Pierre Poilievre to safety after he was tragically struck by a lone question from a journalist.

Poilievre rushed to safety after actual journalist question makes it past security

I worry about that, too.

Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.

Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics

https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc

“I dream of a a safe, kind, and clean Canada. A Canada that is not the US.”

This video is amazing. Canada will emerge stronger with a leader made for this moment -
@mark-carney.bsky.social 💪❤️🇨🇦

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This is a *fantastic* response piece, and I urge everyone to read it.