Anna Drake (she/her)

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

Tomorrow!
Oct 16
7-8pm ET

Fast paced and interactive but cameras/mics are off, so you're never on the spot.

You leave with 5 super practical techniques to de-escalate and safely intervene.

Not recorded, so don't miss out!

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This story is somehow not on either CNN's or the NYTimes' main page...

Long COVID associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection among children and adolescents in the omicron era (RECOVER-EHR): a retrospective cohort study Children and adolescents face a significantly higher risk of various PASC outcomes after reinfection with SARS-CoV-2. These findings add to previous evidence linking paediatric long COVID to multisyst...

Children & adolescents reinfected with SARS-CoV-2 face a significantly higher risk of …”myocarditis, changes in taste & smell, thrombophlebitis & thromboembolism, heart disease, acute kidney injury,… generalised pain, arrhythmias, abnormal liver enzymes, ...”

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The post office must be defended - CCPA When Stephen Harper’s government announced the end of door-to-door mail delivery in favour of community “super-boxes” in 2014, then Canada Post CEO Deepak Chopra was asked about the difficulty this wo...

“Too often when public services are cut, the burden is shifted onto the individual or the community. Cuts to Canada Post will be borne by those least able to carry them and by rural communities that have been all but abandoned.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...

Seems like a good time to remind people that Canada Post will deliver any piece of mail to federal elected officials for FREE.

No stamp necessary!

Just a reminder in case you, oh I dunno, wanna send your elected officials a sternly worded letter a day for a year or something.

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.

Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

"Tylenol causes autism" is bananas but easy to comprehend from a feminist perspective. They want women* to suffer without pain relief. They want to control pregnant women.

But just saw @robinmarty.com point out that it's also to counter the "medication abortion is safer that Tylenol"

And oooof.

Let's talk about Tylenol and pregnancy.

Fundamentally, this is about making sure women do not get one ounce of relief, but it's also about criminalization.

How long do you think it's going to be before they arrest someone for taking Tylenol during a pregnancy? We are going down that road.

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC

Wonderful news. A salutary reminder of the absolute benefits of scientific progress, and the absolute evil of conspiracist bollocks.

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Antiabortion Violence in America: A Ms. Investigation Archives - Ms. Magazine Ms.’ four-part investigation into antiabortion violence reveals how political extremism, radicalized religion and weakened federal protections have created a climate of unprecedented danger for aborti...

A must-read: @msmagazine.com is running an important 4-part series about the rise in anti-abortion violence under the Trump administration.

It feels especially timely this week, as conservatives try to paint the left as politically violent in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder.

Late-Night TV Isn’t Dying—It’s Being Murdered And we’re not just talking about Jimmy Kimmel. In part one of a two-part series, nearly a dozen insiders explain how one of comedy’s oldest genres is being strangled—starting with the chilling effect ...

“I question the sanity of anyone who does not believe this is a five-alarm fire. They created a lot of false pretense with Stephen about money,” he says. “They didn’t bother with the pretense this time.”

Rights and Parliamentary Systems in Canada and Beyond - University of Toronto Press

So pleased that my 8th book (5th edited collection) is finally out! This one brings together a great group of political scientists and legal scholars examining institutional relationships surrounding rights, in Canada and other parliamentary democracies.
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

For the record.

My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.

I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

They are TRYING to push it through. It's important for everyone who's able to vote on this to keep in mind that it isn't inevitable: we can vote No and this can make a difference. Just because the admin wants to do something doesn't mean they can or should. Support--and withholding it--matters.

Black and white photo of women protesting

"The book that was missing from the catalogue about HIV/AIDS and the catastrophic health, legal, and political crises in its wake."

Risk and Resistance by @azizaahmed.bsky.social (@bulaw.bsky.social‬), Coming Soon

#LawSky #PublicHealth 💙📚 #Feminism

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Anything by Allison is worth reading (with Anna Drake, one of the first to write on deliberative consociation).

Trump's promise to end vote-by-mail is yet another attack on disabled voters The president credits democracy superfan Vladimir Putin with the idea. Yes, really.

I wrote about how Trump's threat to end mail-in voting is just his latest attack on disabled people, some of whom find voting by mail to be much more accessible, at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Back to school imagery with the words "Stand Up against Street Harassment. Happening September 4, 2025 at noon EST"

If you give me 1 hour of your time, I'll give you 5 concrete ways you can safely intervene as a bystander if you witness hate or harassment in public spaces.

It's open to anyone, anywhere aged 12+ and cameras/mics muted, so you're never on the spot!

Register : zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Sickening. Every journalist in America should think deeply about the fact that most American politicians are willing to accept and indeed facilitate the murder of our colleagues.

Israel murders five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif Al-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen and an assistant in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.

The deliberate killing of five Al Jazeera staff has brought the total number of journalists killed by Israel since the start of the war to 237, according to Gaza's Government Media Office.

🔴 LIVE updates:

Bill 5 gives the government sweeping authority to:
-Ignore the constitutional duty to consult First Nations.
-Override labour protections won through generations of organizing.
-Tear up environmental safeguards meant to protect our future.
-Shut communities out of decisions that directly impact them

For the rest of my professional life, I will never forget how you all failed Gaza journalists who fought a genocide, an ecocide, the fifth stage of hunger, the murder of their family members and colleagues to tell the truth .

‘Sleeping’ cancer cells in the lungs can be roused by COVID and flu Inflammation from the respiratory infections seems to be the culprit, study in mice finds.

Hidden in the lungs of some breast cancer survivors are tumour cells that can remain dormant for decades — until they one day trigger a relapse

go.nature.com/41iIdJR

So.. officially, I'm the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post's opinion section.

Opinion: When aggressive tactics are praised as legal strategy, it’s survivors like me who pay the price Whatever the outcome of the Hockey Canada trial, complainants continue to be retraumatized by the justice system

In light of this week's Hockey Canada trial verdict, it's worth listening to the young woman who was raped by Jacob Hoggard and is still in therapy from the trauma of that trial.

COMIC: How to intervene when someone is harassed or attacked : Life Kit What would you do if you saw someone being harassed on the bus or attacked in broad daylight? Most of us would like to think we know how we'd respond, but intervening in dangerous situations is easier...

In light of *waves at everything*, @npr.org has re-upped this comic/episode from 2021.

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Email : julie @ righttobe dot org

Doug Ford’s plan to put cops back in schools will make students less safe ⋆ The Breach Ontario Premier Doug Ford is seeking to undo years of organizing that removed police from local schools

Doug Ford is paving the way to put cops back in our schools

I don't know how many times we have to say this:

No.

my latest for @breachmedia.ca

breachmedia.ca/doug-fords-p...