Peter Leventis

There's also no debt ceiling. And I mean that in a good way as in the US this is seemingly used periodically to extract concessions from the other party

Important thread

Spoiler for an upcoming piece. I often hear people dismissing Canada's housing crisis by saying, "Mike, home prices skyrocketed everywhere, it's not just a Canada thing".

Turns out... nope. It really is a Canada thing.

If the Jays had won, he would have been series MVP

Graphic: Keep your hands off our transit lanes, Ford! Ford moves to consider banning transit lanes, worsening commutes. Image of a bus in a bus lane, and Doug Ford staring at it

Today's announcement by Doug Ford on the so-called "Fighting Delays, Building Faster" Act is yet another attempt to interfere with Toronto's streets and the way we get around, opening the path for the province to ban dedicated transit lanes.

Read our release: www.ttcriders.ca/transit_ride...

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Ford just put every renter in Ontario into an even more precarious position. This is a clear and present danger to the 1.7 million renters in Ontario.

Remember when Ontario had to stop ProLine betting on basketball for a number of years in order for the Raptors to be allowed to Join the NBA? I don't know if this was inevitable, but I'm not surprised.

It’s getting increasingly harder to convince anti-vaxxers bc it is no longer about science & evidence. It is about identify & belonging.
It’s not just accepting a vaccine, it’s about leaving behind their sense of self & community. It’s about security. This is why throwing data will never work.

They don’t ever think they are going to have to leave

Yup! They do outgrow it! (Mine are in their 20s now) But it is a lot

The Ford Government gave away $750 million to low ranking projects for his skill development fund, constantly picking poor programs over high ranking ones. The government is also refusing to give any documented reason for $500 million in project allocation. Just another Ford scandal where he's

Name a police station after Sewell

(Sewell was voted out after he defended the gays after the bathhouse raids and had been a fairly consistent cop critic)

Acetaminophen may not be correlated with negative fetal outcomes, but pre-natal brain-baking from a high maternal fever that would have been reduced with acetaminophen sure is!

Trump attacks Tylenol as officials unveil highly contentious conclusions on autism President says acetaminophen – also known as paracetamol - increases risk when taken by pregnant women, assertion contradicted by research

Sum: pseudoscience, lies, and fearmongering nonsense.

Those with a science background - Makary, Bhattacharya, Oz, etc - MUST know this is harmful BS. They MUST know they are enabling authoritarian BS.

Integrity black hole.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Vaccines don’t cause autism.
Tylenol (acetaminophen) doesn’t cause autism.
Miniscule trace pesticide residues don’t cause autism.
Aluminum doesn’t cause autism.
Fluoride doesn’t cause autism.

The biggest predictor of autism?
Genetics.

And we recognize autism better today.

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Exactly... I feel this apparently pending recommendation does have more than a hint of misogyny in it

The evidence shows this is absolutely not the case. Also, there is no other analgesic for use in pregnancy

Weird some scicomm accounts gave the new “Tylenol in pregnancy & autism” review some weight.

They don’t know the lead author, Baccarelli, had the exact claims thrown out of federal court for having ZERO scientific merit,

when he was a paid “expert witness” in lawsuits against Tylenol makers.

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This is such a smart column by @shawnmicallef.bsky.social -- I like the metaphor of Toronto as an unruly teen

“In my opinion, we lose 300K plus a year to fentanyl”

There were 48K deaths involving synthetic opioids like fentanyl in 2024. None of them would have been prevented by extrajudicial murder of foreign citizens.

ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely over his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s death The network’s decision came after Nexstar announced its ABC affiliates would pre-empt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” indefinitely over his comments.

#Breaking: ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely over his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s death

In 1933 Nazi Germany passed the Schriftleitergesetz, which required media to follow mandates and instructions handed down by the Propaganda ministry. It required editors to omit from publication anything “calculated to weaken the strength of the Reich abroad or at home.” #JimmyKimmel

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

I don’t know what the limit of this will be, but this is phrased to allow for a wide crackdown on anyone who isn’t MAGA

If you're in the US and don't want your posts to potentially put a target on your back for "deportation," you can clean up your Bluesky archives using @jaz.bsky.social's Profile Cleaner: bsky.jazco.dev/cleanup.

Everything on Bluesky is public and findable, and I'm pretty sure they'll be looking.

Municipalities warn we’re about to enter peak sewer clown season "The North American sewer clown prefers to nest in small, picturesque former logging towns with dark sewers and even darker secrets."

Municipalities warn we’re about to enter peak sewer clown season

Here’s Atwood dragging Smith:

What’s wild to me:

NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health.

Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years.
Even more so in the last year.

We were called hyperbolic.

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