Elle 🇨🇦

Screenshot of a Daily Mail article titled “Catching Covid significantly raises the risk of developing kidney disease, researchers find,” published 1 March 2026. Below the headline is a medical illustration of a semi-transparent human torso showing internal organs, with both kidneys highlighted in bright red. A caption notes kidney disease affects about 7.2 million Britons and occurs when the kidneys, which filter toxins, stop working properly.

"Catching COVID significantly raises the risk of developing kidney disease, researchers find"

"The virus was found to increase the chances that patients will develop the incurable condition by around 50 per cent."

Source: archive.md/Z87bA

Your periodic reminder that in times of geopolitical instability - domestic, international, or both - an important element of building and maintaining both individual and societal resilience is to stay as healthy as possible. Protect your body and your brain: wear a respirator.

This sounds good and proper to me. Delicious

Carney: Canada supports the United States…

Canada: no, we fucking do not.

玉險 Office of the Prime Minister Cabinet du Premier Ministre Statement by Prime Minister Carney and Minister Anand on the situation in the Middle East "The Canadian government is closely following Iran-related hostilities throughout the Middle East and urges all Canadians in Iran to shelter in place. Canadians in the wider region should follow local advice and take all necessary precautions. Canada's position remains clear: the Islamic Republic of Iran is the principal source of instability and terror throughout the Middle East, has one of the world's worst human rights records, and must never be allowed to obtain or develop nuclear weapons. Canada and our international partners have consistently called upon the Iranian regime to end its nuclear program, including at the 2025 G7 Leaders' Summit in Kananaskis and with the United Nations' reimposition of sanctions in September. Despite diplomatic efforts, Iran has neither fully dismantled its nuclear program, halted all enrichment activities, nor ended its support for regional terrorist proxy groups. Canada stands with the Iranian people in their long and courageous struggle against Iran's oppressive regime. Canada has listed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity, and has sanctioned 256 Iranian entities and 222 individuals in response to the regime's repression and its violence both against its own people, and persistently, beyond its borders. Canada reaffirms Israel's right to defend itself and to ensure the security of its people. Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security. The Canadian government urges the protection of all civilians in this conflict. We will take all possible measures to protect our nationals and Canadian diplomatic missions throughout the region." February 28, 2026

“Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.”

Well. For those of us wondering if he’d walk the walk of the Davos speech, this is a pretty big answer.

Nope.

Trump has launched an illegal regime change war.

As someone who has survived the horrors of war, I know military strikes will not make us safer; they will inflame tensions and push the region further into chaos.

When we abandon diplomacy, we choose destruction.

The first reported casualties were 40 girls between seven and twelve. “Protecting civilians” is a rhetorical flourish, nothing more.

Thank you!

How Covid Quietly Rewires the Brain Researchers keep discovering more about the long-term neurological effects of SARS-CoV-2.

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

🎯. Yup.

text says "There’s no way to know which COVID-19 infection will cause long-term illness. Each new COVID-19 infection increases your risk of organ damage, Long COVID, and disability, even if you have no other health conditions that you know of, and even if your previous COVID-19 infections were mild or had no symptoms. Protect your lifelong health by protecting yourself from COVID-19, no matter your age or health history. Wear masks. get vaccinated. keep indoor air clean.” Graphics on the side illustrate people getting sick repeatedly until eventually they end up with long-term illness.

Every time you get COVID-19, your risk increases for Long COVID, organ damage, disability, & more, & there’s no way to know which infection will be the one to cause it! Protect your lifelong health by protecting yourself from COVID-19. Learn more about Long COVID: www.cdc.gov/long-covid/a...

It is so widespread, further than most of us realized, maybe. The misogyny. But also, the acceptance, even praising, of pedophile rapists? Wtf I did not know it was THIS okay amongst SO many people. Scares the hell out of me.

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'This Is Endometriosis’ just won a BAFTA - here's where to watch it - RUSSH ‘This Is Endometriosis’ has won a BAFTA, shining a global spotlight on the chronic condition. Here’s where to watch it in Australia.

A short film about endometriosis has won a BAFTA, bringing much needed visibility to the disabling condition.

Endometriosis and adenomyosis robbed me of years of my life.

Countless surgeries, blood transfusions and hospital stays.

Doctors saying it was “no big deal”.

It’s a very big deal:

Doubleday’s Hummingbird in Oaxaca, Mexico. #birdsoftheworld

Trump snubbed as U.S. Women’s Hockey Team declines State of the Union invitation Olympic champions opt out of high-profile White House moment, citing scheduling conflicts

NEWS: The gold medal–winning U.S. Women’s Hockey Team has declined an invitation to attend Trump’s State of the Union.

This comes after Trump was heard telling the men’s team he’d begrudgingly invite the women’s champions or risk impeachment.

Breaking news: Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office following claims he leaked confidential UK government memos to Jeffrey Epstein ft.trib.al/cRr1m4T

There is a video of them live on speaker with Kash with Trump and the team inviting them to the SOTU and they are lapping it up like the little fascist puppets they are, making jokes about having to invite the women’s team so he doesn’t get impeached. It’s a sickening display of fascist bootlicking

a baby with a sad look on his face Alt: a baby with a sad look on his face, trying not to cry

Me for the rest of the day:

Have you seen this petition yet? Stop Daylight Saving Time in Canada

Stop Daylight Saving Time in Canada petition below, for anyone who hates it as much as I do 😊

c.org/jQtXCn6pDS

Thank you all so much

Alysa Liu’s Olympic run came with terms. Her choreographer helps her express them Liu is the best U.S. hope for an Olympic medal in women's figure skating, which would be the country's first in the competition since 2006.

“When Liu, 20, decided to return to skating, she did so with conditions. She’d wear what she wants. Dance to the music she wants. Eat what she wants. Take breaks when she wants…. [Skating] would be the vehicle through which she displayed the real Alysa.”

she did it! her! way!!

Baffling

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.

She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.

Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office - live updates It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with Jeffrey Epstein.

See, you arrest criminals, you don’t allow them to walk free and continue to destroy lives.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested and in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office

www.bbc.com/news/live/c7...

Oh darn, derailed careers, likely temporarily.
The victims have had their lives derailed, some destroyed.
Where is the actual justice?

🚨Must read/listen: “After COVID infection, the immune dysfunction usually…lasts a few months, & then it does begin to recover. But…people are often catching COVID more than once a year. And that would keep you in a permanent state of immune dysfunction…because you just keep adding infections…”

Cancer under the lens of the ongoing pandemic and clean air Sunday, Feb 22, 2026 12 noon ET / 5pm GMT Zoom With special guests Ruth Brooker of Clean Air for Kids UK, and Arijit Chakravarty, COVID educator

Join us and @airsupportproject.bsky.social  on Sunday, Feb 22nd, 12 noon ET / 5pm GMT for a conversation about cancer and COVID with guests Ruth Brooker of Clean Air for Kids UK, and Arijit Chakravarty, COVID educator. 

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/neiR4EXlTUiZEauB6p-fJw#/registration

Debunking the Mistruths and Misinformation About COVID-19 | Infection Control Today "Although the virus itself remains a threat, misinformation about COVID-19 has become a parallel epidemic, one that undermines public health efforts and endangers lives."

💯 'The fight against COVID‑19 is now as much about managing information as managing the virus.
🤦 COVID‑19 misinformation also fueled broader skepticism across public health.
💪 The virus persists, but so does the truth - which remains our strongest tool.'
www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/debunki...

SILVER FOR CANADA 🇨🇦

COURTNEY SARAULT HAS DONE IT AGAIN

SHE WINS HER THIRD MEDAL OF THE OLYMPICS

The beast from the east wins 1000m silver after finishing 11th in this event four years ago.