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Increase in Ottawa paramedic calls for overdoses near closed drug consumption site: data Data from the City of Ottawa shows an increase in the number of overdose incidents paramedics have responded to since the closure of the supervised consumption site at the Somerset West Community Heal...

Removing harm reduction services in neighbourhoods improves no one's safety - neighbours, people who use substances, anyone.

Comey Attacks Perjury and Obstruction Charges in New Motions The court filings added to the legal challenges that James B. Comey’s defense team has already raised against the indictment.

Lawyers for James Comey, the former FBI director, sought on Thursday to dismiss the perjury and obstruction charges against him, arguing that federal prosecutors botched the indictment by misusing the grand jury process and by accusing him of telling a lie that he never actually told.

What's your favorite Bluesky account that primarily posts about something other than current events/politics?

An Obscure Military Program Helps Local Cops Buy Armored Cars and Spyware. It Might Balloon Under Trump. The 1122 program, as it’s known, presents a danger to protesters facing off against militarized cops, according to a new report.

"1122 program has allowed local cops to purchase everything from uniforms to riot shields at federal government rates."

"[P]oised to grow under recent executive action from Donald Trump."
#USA #Policing #Military

Why are we cancelling the football ⚽ games. Just because you might not like the sport they're thousands who do

Also don't forget the Finch West LRT which is also late and over budget

California’s hidden homeless children: living in garages, doubled-up and unseen Student homelessness in Monterey county soars as families struggle with high rent and scarce housing amid funding cuts

The fastest-growing homeless population in America? School-age children.

Last year, student homelessness in California—where rents continue to soar past wages—rose by 20,000, reaching its highest level in a decade.

But sure, keep insisting homelessness is all about mental illness and addiction.

My oldest received their first Canada Disability Program payment. $200 every month, that would make a difference, if the Alberta government would not immediately deduct it from their AISH! Theft from the poor!
#abpoli

Sadly I can post my takeaway here is be banned until post my reincarnation

The Canadian government cannot afford to give any more tax cuts.
Unless those demanding cuts have an alternative to filling the federal coffers so we can fix infrastructure, build hospitals houses and schools pay workers a living wage.
The present system doesn't work anymore. Change mandated

Front Page of the Day:

He will not be deterred.

#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files

We've done far too good a job over the decades of cultivating public health and medical leadership positions as principle-free spaces. Eagerness to obey regardless of ethical qualms and material consequences for vulnerable groups is effectively a prerequisite for career advancement.

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The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

What is a ‘criminal’ immigrant? The word is an American rhetorical trap | Jonathan Ben-Menachem Labels like ‘gang members’ and ‘terrorist supporters’ are an easy way to make humans disposable

It shouldn't matter if Trump’s victims have criminal records. If we only defend the “innocent,” the fascists will argue that their victim “was no angel.” An anti-fascist rhetoric that carves out exceptions for imperfect victims is a gift to our opponents.

New from me for @us.theguardian.com:

A stamp that reads “Not to be removed from the library”

10/10 tattoo idea right here

This stunning image of a supernova remnant is more than just beautiful—it tells a cosmic detective story.

Astronomers uncovered that it resulted from the collision of two white dwarf stars!

(Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, SAO, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Hughes)

'Outlast the bully': Retired law prof vows Harvard will beat 'vindictive' Trump Retired Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe applauded his institution for standing firm in the face of President Donald Trump's efforts to shake it down on Thursday — and said Trump will lose this fi...

'Outlast the bully': Retired law prof vows Harvard will beat 'vindictive' Trump

www.rawstory.com/laurence-tri...

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Harvard receives over $1 million in donations after standing up to Trump.

This is 40 times the usual donation level for April received in just 24 hours

To some longtime donors, their stand is a sign that Harvard is beginning to reclaim the conviction and fighting spirit they feared it had lost
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#harvard #university

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