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Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...

As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Farhana Sultana is a well-known academic who writes about climate change, environmental issues, and social justice. Syracuse University put her on leave at the behest of the far right. Read and sign if you can

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.

FACT: "If benefits lapse Saturday, it would mark the first time in the program’s 60-year history where the federal government fails to make the food-assistance payments because of a pause in appropriations." Trump, Vought, Johnson are trying to spin this. Don't let them. They own this. end/

BECAUSE THEY HAVE USED THESE FUNDS BEFORE: "During previous shutdowns, USDA said states could use the contingency fund to pay for SNAP, including during the longest-ever closure, which ran from December 2018 into January 2019 in the first Trump administration." Spread the word. Stop the lies. 2/

Democratic states sue to force SNAP payments during government shutdown The Agriculture Department has $5.5 billion in backup funds for food stamp benefits but says it can’t use them.

Spread the word. The Trump Administration can use emergency funds to pay for SNAP benefits during a shutdown. The President and little Mike Johnson are lying to you. How do we know? 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I am going to be that annoying friend. Get your #COVID & #flu shots. There is little downside to getting immunized and it will spare you from being out sick, having to go to the doctor's office, hospitalization and yes, death. Too many people aren't stepping up to get the shots. Do it this weekend.

YouTube video by Charlie Angus TIME TO GIVE LYING PETE HOEKSTRA THE BUM'S RUSH

Please watch and share.
Pete Hoekstra is fundamentally unfit to be ambassador. His record of race-baiting and extremist disinformation needs to be called out.
MAGA is actively undermining our nation. Canada needs to send him packing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jThL...

Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’ Indiana Jones star calls US president one history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels Harrison Ford has said that Donald Trump’s assault upon measures to address the climate crisis “scares the shit out of me” and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history. In a blistering attack upon the president, Ford told the Guardian that Trump “doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.” Continue reading...

Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’

We’re disappearing people:

Speed cameras across Ontario to be removed in 2 weeks, transportation minister says | CBC News Ontario's transportation minister says speed cameras across the province are set to be removed in two weeks, after Premier Doug Ford's government passed legislation Thursday to ban them.

Deaths will rise, probably more so with children, but other than that, what could go wrong?

“Ford has said speed cameras don't work to slow drivers down — though evidence collected by municipalities and Hospital for Sick Children researchers says otherwise”

#onpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Because they work too well and several of his deplorable Cabinet ministers have been caught speeding by them 🤦🏻‍♀️

Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack

Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack. A new analysis adds to the research about the link between viral infections and heart disease, by Nina Agrawal www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w... via @nytimes.com

Doug the Thug and his band of thugs - Halloween horror in Ontario every day 😱

The family rides on the gravy train.

Conservative Labour Minister's wife hired to lobby for private colleges who received $900,000 from the latest round of the Skills Development Fund.

🚨 Piccini is still in charge of distributing another $260 million tax dollars!?

#ONpoli

No paywall:

archive.ph/2025.10.30-1...

Minimizing COVID-19 is maximizing social harm Governments, in the interest of maintaining the status quo, seem to be misleading people and hoping for the best.

www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.

Residential electricity generation rates to rise by 29%! Residential electricity generation rates to rise by 29%! Wind and solar – not nuclear – is how we can lower rates. #onpoli

Residential electricity generation rates to rise by 29%!
Wind and solar – not nuclear – is how we can lower rates.
#onpoli
www.cleanairalliance.org/rates/

The President wants to use the military to crack down on Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to oppose him. I can’t think of a better reason to insist on exercising those rights.

Carbon Monoxide From Generators Poisons Thousands of People a Year. The U.S. Has Failed to Force Safety Changes. Portable generators are among the deadliest consumer products. Two decades after the government identified the danger, and as climate change leads to more power outages, people are left vulnerable by ...

If you lose power this winter and use a portable generator to power your home: Be careful.

Preventable carbon monoxide deaths follow every major power outage.

(Published 2021 with @texastribune.org @nbcnews.com)

Republicans need to come back from their month-long paid vacation and do the work of democracy. Cancel the health care cuts. Reopen the government. Restore nutrition. Release the Epstein File. Cut the crap.

Dr Fernando, it’s my strategy to NOT watch the games to ensure the Jays win!!! Glad you’re joining me! 😂

How about this Yesavage kid? #BlueJays

Boy, this Blue Jays team — after losing that marathon heartbreaker game 3, coming back to decisively win the next two games IN LA just takes a lot of character and confidence. This is a really special Toronto team.

Heading back to Canada with one more win to go. Get it, boys. #WorldSeries #GoJaysGo

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

Yesavage pitches Blue Jays past Dodgers 6-1 for 3-2 lead in World Series Trey Yesavage set a World Series rookie record with 12 strikeouts, and the Toronto Blue Jays opened Game 5 with back-to-back homers in a 6-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers that moved them within one win of their first championship since 1993.

Trey Yesavage set a World Series rookie record with 12 strikeouts, and the Toronto Blue Jays opened Game 5 with back-to-back homers in a 6-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers that moved them within one win of their first championship since 1993.

My oldest works with special needs kids in the public school system

When you have over 30 kids in a kindergarten class, 10 with special needs, kids are going to fall through the cracks

Those kids grow up to be adults who can't read

The teachers were trying to save their future

#ableg #abpoli

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll