Candace McNaughton

Excellent work from @michellegamage.bsky.social - a breath of fresh air!

Put the word out if BC's legion of airborne-transmission-denier quacks come after you for this. We've got your back.

#Standupforscience

I posted this one week after the election in 2024. Holds up.

Based on the experience of countries that have tried this, there’s overwhelming evidence that it is utterly unnecessary.

Trump’s new IRS ‘CEO’: The head of Social Security The Trump administration on Monday found its seventh leader for the Internal Revenue Service since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term: the head of the Social Security Administration.

Frank Bisignano is already wreaking havoc at the Social Security Administration.

If he tries to run his same chaotic playbook at the IRS, it could spell disaster for American taxpayers.

Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government

One of the most brazen conflicts in history.

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

🤤 (shocked, shocked I tell you)

the best answer i got for this:

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

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Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

If you watch closely, you'll see they're doing this opposite an actual funeral procession.

somehow they managed to do the free press but worse

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolat...

Preliminary results show that the current framework of "AI" makes ppl less likely to help or seek help from other humans, or to seek to soothe conflict, and that people actively prefer that framework to any others, literally serving to make them more dependent on it.

Text card: Listen for dangerous words. Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary. #OnTyranny

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

See also: health care.

His name is Bayron Rovidio Marin and he should be a much bigger story.

A man held for 37 days under a pseudonym.

No due process. He wasn’t even told why he was held (so I would assume he wasn’t given a lawyer either)

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

Reminds me of that old throwaway joke commonly used at roasts: "If you wanted a eulogy, you should have done something about it."

This is a fierce ruling against Trump from a judge he appointed.

Lewy body dementia promotion by air pollutants Evidence links air pollution to dementia, yet its role in Lewy body dementia (LBD) remains unclear. In this work, we showed in a cohort of 56.5 million individuals across the United States that fine p...

🧪 NEW STUDY: Air pollution increases risk of Lewy Body Dementia, the 2nd most common dementia after Alzheimer’s*

Your reminder that air pollution is just another name for fossil fuel combustion byproducts.

*linked to air pollution in previous studies

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If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

Mark Kelly: “lf you are undocumented in our country, you cannot get healthcare from the Affordable Care Act exchange. You are not eligible for Medicare. You are not eligible for Medicaid. They’re just making that up. They just like to blame brown people.”

The U.S. is probably going to lose our elimination status for measles in 2026.

Anyone tired of so much “winning”?

MAHA is a toxic infection of the brain that spreads via social media and results in the rejection of scientific fact, followed by disease and death.

Pete Hegseth gets into a Blackhawk helicopter. He's wearing a blue suit lined in the USA flag. The back of his suit is flying up at the vents, exposing his rear.

President Trump just signed an executive order that says you can't fart on the flag.

Microplastics in the placenta linked to increased risk of miscarriage In a recent study published by eBioMedicine, researchers found that women with higher levels of microplastics in their placenta were at an increased risk of experiencing spontaneous miscarriage in the...

🧪 NEW STUDY: Pregnant women with higher levels of microplastics in their placenta are at increased risk of miscarriage.

Also: Microplastics were found in all placentas tested.

Also: Miscarriages are involuntary abortions.

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Tourism to Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields National Military Park contributes $78.1 million to local economy - Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park (U.S. National P...

"A new National Park Service report shows that 819,000 visitors to Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park in 2024 spent $57.6 million in communities near the park. That spending had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $78.1 million." #NationalParks tinyurl.com/5rd6x3v5

Judge Says DOJ May Be Vindictively Punishing Abrego Garcia for Challenging Removal to El Salvador Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Nashville ruled that the Department of Justice’s criminal case against Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia may be a form of punishment against him for legally challenging his abrupt removal to an El Salvador megaprison earlier this year.