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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

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"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Meet the New Host of Reading Rainbow: Mychal the Librarian After 20 years, Reading Rainbow is back! The new host is Mychal the Librarian, who has been spreading library joy online for years.

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Have you ever witnessed hate or harassment & felt unsure what to do? Do you tend to freeze in situations of crisis?

Let me teach you effective bystander intervention - for free!

I've got 3 more webinars on the schedule for this year. Open to anyone, anywhere aged 12+ Not recorded! Don't miss out!

she’s right, you know😐

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach.

To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat.

And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

Boring can be brilliant. In Pueblo, Colorado, they're planning to replace a coal plant with one of largest clean energy hubs in US.

At its core: a thermal battery. These batteries can provide round-the-clock heat, slashing emissions, creating jobs, and improving public health.

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

A Future Made in Canada: Moderna Launches the First Domestic mRNA Vaccines - Macleans.ca Moderna’s new Laval-based facility supports onshore vaccine production, bolsters health and economic resilience, and strengthens Canada’s position in biotechnology

Moderna to roll out first Made-In-Canada 🇨🇦 mRNA COVID-19 vaccines this fall.
"By producing mRNA vaccines here in Canada, we can help safeguard communities & strengthen national pandemic preparedness," Stefan Raos, GM Moderna Canada.

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I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

TLDR: Ben Mulroney DONATED nearly the maximum allowable amount to the Conservative Party of Canada — and is now the interim host of one of Canada’s top political shows.

I’ve got the receipts:

Tomorrow!

"Take Back the Night" starts at 6pm at Minto Park (as usual) and the March will end on Parliament Hill this year where literal buses of women from across eastern Ontario and Quebec will be joining us for a rally at 7:30pm.

The world is run by people who show up, so let's get people out!

How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS:

In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

This.
I told a student group that I declined their debate invitation but that I would love to read something together and have a conversation. The response: crickets.
Let's stop debating and try to talk with each other instead.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

The best time for media, government and employers to actually understand social media and how it can be gamed by bad-faith actors and false outrage was a decade ago.

The next best time is right now.

Unbelievable how stupidly some of them are responding to blatant hateful opportunism right now.

So… a bunch of tech bros stole all the writing and art in history but what they made with it is “the future” and we have to join them?

Also the thing they made with it will accelerate the destruction of our planet but we’re gonna overlook that too so we don’t have to do our own admin?

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

All the research around de-radicalization shows that people double down instead of apologizing/changing their mind when they feel like changing their mind will result in losing community.

I am utterly fascinated by concepts of accountability and the truth is, we suck at this stuff on the Left.

Comcast Executives Warn Workers To Not Say The Wrong Thing About Charlie Kirk An email sent to NBCUniversal employees, including journalists at NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and more, eulogizes Charlie Kirk as an "advocate for open debate" and reminds staff that even milquetoast stat...

Corporate media bravely continues Charlie Kirk's legacy by committing to destroy the careers of anyone who disagreed with him:

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'It's like Bernardo,' officer says as Haaima trial resumes – Kingston News (Kingston, Ontario) The "mega trial" of Michael Mark Haaima resumed Tuesday, Sep. 2, 2025, after a two-week summer hiatus, with testimony from the boyfriend of one of Haaima's alleged victims.

In Kingston, there's a trial happening that's getting barely any attention. Even I just heard of it!

40yr old tech entrepreneur Michael Haaima is facing *98* charges for sexual assault and related offences committed against *28 women and girls* between '07 and '22.

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5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content: “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated c...

Tech bros must be stopped before we drown in an ocean of AI slop
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Most US adults think individual choices keep people in poverty, new AP-NORC/Harris poll finds A new AP-NORC poll finds that most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, while fewer blame a lack of government support.

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity.

As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein

Shocked by this headline? Don’t be.

Remember that “trafficking” is a synonym for “slavery” which JP Morgan was involved in two centuries ago. Also remember, slavery money didn’t disappear— it just was reinvested.

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I feel like I'm on a desert island writing messages in the sand here but please, if anyone sees this, tell me how to search for people on this app because I have found like 2% of the folks I used to follow on the App That Shall Not Be Named and I am struggling.

🥺 Are chatbots dangerous for our kids?

🎙️ We are dedicating this week's new episode of The AmberMac Show podcast, out today, to this topic 👇
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@racheltobac.bsky.social on some of these risks

@jeffmacarthur.bsky.social on the dangers of chatbots becoming a "mentor" in the home