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BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?

American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

Thank you

I don’t see this on Leavitt’s X account, not sure if it is real, just fyi

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Yep - Pretty sure Orban is doing it far less as a result of any microeconomic evidence and more because he’s a flaming racist/nationalist.

Kinder-Kirche-Kuche.

Actually, this article should be studied by @trevortombe.bsky.social, maybe as he is sitting right beside the Premier in her sham “consultation” where they use GoA resources to invite UCP membership lists before the general public.

In Orbanism, there are no facts, just partisan arguments.

The Path to Autocracy A second Trump term will leave America’s political system and culture looking even more like Orbán’s Hungary.

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Orban is a stone-cold anti-Semite, racist and has mobilized the power of the state to quash opposition, dissent and independent media.

So it tracks that Smith is watching what he’s up to on immigration, I guess

I don’t, necessarily. In this aggravating attention economy, things move past us so fast that we can’t or shouldn’t catch everything the first time. Being reminded of good content we may not have caught is a good thing!

+1 to this. Maintenance Phase has done this the odd time and it’s fine by me

No deal on tariffs
Withdraws digital services tax
Massive spending on defence
Massive public sector cuts and layoffs
Cuts funding to CBC and VIA Rail

Not sure this was the mandate voters thought they were giving Mark Carney

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. A scholar of genocide comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.

“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”

I’m on them! They really do help. They helped me with the POTS, but not with the PEM. There are some other options, so I have to wait for specialist appointments to switch things up. Fun!

*in the primary care system…
Also there are few specialists. even if there are, if GPs just take standard blood tests, find nothing, and have no desire to USE THE FREELY AVAILABLE DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS, referrals don’t occur. Important: majority of long covid pts are women. Who get told to lose weight.

In my experience, I don’t think many of the players primary care system has clinical understanding of any of the mechanisms, diagnostic tools (such as they are - questionnaires, HRV tracking over time), or treatments. Very few. I avoid talk of the overall pandemic politics because I find it tiring.

The folks at Visible and those in that research/clinical space usually refer to “post viral complex illness.”

Some people get their lives back! But many do not. It’s such a variable basket of conditions!

A news article published by the National Post on May 5, 2023 written by Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press Headline reads: Danielle Smith says UCP won't campaign on sovereignty act, RCMP replacement and pension plan Part of the article reads: The controversial issues are 'not in our campaign because I think we've got so many things that we have done that we're excited about, Smith said. CALGARY — United Conservative Leader Danielle Smith says she won't be campaigning on some of her party's more contentious ideas - sovereignty legislation, a provincial police force and an Alberta pension plan - ahead of the May 29 election. Smith was interviewed on Global's morning show in Calgary on Friday and fielded a variety of questions on revitalizing the city's downtown, public safety and health care.

Hey Alberta!

Remember when I said I wouldn't campaign on sovereignty act, provincial police force, and a pension plan?

I lied.

Seeing a pattern here? I don't have a mandate on these policies but that won't stop me from pushing ahead with them.

#abpoli #ableg #UCPCorruption

Happy to.

Honestly I don’t really talk about it, either. I can’t stand the politics, for starters, but also no one knows how to react and I don’t blame them ‘cause neither do I.

The other thing I tell people is to use the daylights out of perplexity Ai, I have found it useful for summarizing studies, RCTs, etc. Also, stay far away from TikTok and use YouTube once you've found the right researchers to watch their talks, but be very side-eye skeptical of randos on YouTube.

I bring a power point presentation now, with the diagnostic criteria and questionnaire for post-exertional malaise, which is the hallmark symptom of post-covid condition. The first thing I advise anyone in this situation is to prepare for every appointment like you're going to court.

Honestly, if there’s blame, it’s in the diagnosis and treatment of post-viral complex illness. There’s NO understanding of it in primary care and few specialists with clinical understanding. Any knowledge progress I’ve made has been on my own or outside the public system (physio). BRUTAL.

Once again, if 🇪🇺 or 🇨🇦 or 🇯🇵 or anyone else were serious about relocating American scholars & seizing scientific leadership from an 🇺🇸 stabbing itself for no reason, they would be spending orders of magnitude more than they are now on making that happen.

What I find problematic about this is the notion that it goes away over time. For many, there is no return to exercise. Literally ever. On balance of probabilities, I will never run, bike, hike, ski, weightlift or even go for walks ever again.

it’s worth making this more explicit:
The NYT is suggesting Zohran lied by checking off both “Asian” & “African”, because (in their view) someone of Indian descent born & raised in Africa isn’t “truly” African. Which was also how Idi Amin justified expelling Zohran’s father & thousands of others.

We know why.

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In 2009, ADL said cartoonist Gary Trudeau referencing Jesus and the moneylenders was antisemitic, noting:

"To speak of money-lenders harkens back the stereotype of Shylock, when Jews were forced by Christians to engage in usury.”

So, in 2009, ADL believed Shylock was self-evidently antisemitic.

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