your vote is rarely the single decisive vote
but sometimes it is! and you never know when that might be
@sueinnovates.bsky.social has started a call blitz to the Premier's office to voice objections.
bsky.app/profile/skir...
Call Ford to say, "NO!" to his latest move to avoid accountability. I did and got right thru.
Ford ☎️ (staffed 24/7): 416 325-1941
Holy shit
I am begging my fellow Canadians to take a break for a second from obsessing about American corruption to focus on our home grown versions.
Ford is a corrupt crony goon who has done countless shady backroom deals. He wants to remove one of our most powerful tools to hold him accountable. Fuck that!
Read the latest from the Covid-Is-Not-Over newsletter:
50 reasons to mask, The harms of Covid, Accumulating damage, Immune compromise, and more
johndupuis.substack.com/p/50-reasons...
This is the company the UK government has embedded in the nation’s services. Seriously, fuck everyone who is excusing this.
If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one.
My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I lost my job, my kids have measles, and gas is six dollars a gallon. But at least now they’re not tearing down a statue of a Confederate general that I’ve never heard of in a city that I’ve never been to.
Was feeling discouraged about not making much progress in the fight to shift Covid policy 6 yrs in, but then a
family member called to say they put a HEPA filter in their office because of me
They were tired of being sick & knew there had to be a better way.
It's the small things ☺️
Link to HHS Long COVID website:
RFK Jr and HHS have launched a new website dedicated to Long COVID.
Please remain skeptical: They will offer more junk science than real solutions, and use this as another opportunity to spread misinformation about vaccines.
Real talk: Progressives have completely failed to adequately address the significant impacts of Long COVID, and this has left an opening for the far right to exploit vulnerable patients and deceitfully blame vaccines for all chronic illnesses.
i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this
Yeah, man, it’s an absolute mystery why so many people are going all in on AI refusal. Maybe they absolutely do understand the ways in which AI is “useful” to the people hawking AI in the words of those very people.
Happy 6th anniversary to the time Sarah Palin sang Baby Got Back on the Masked Singer and then the show changed to Trump's address to the nation about COVID.
Our rural ERs closed regularly because staff are routinely off sick, and still we won't do the simplest no-brainer returns-on-investment (clean air in schools & hospitals) to bring down the levels of mass illness 6 years into a pandemic. It's the most mind-boggling stupidity I've ever witnessed.
can this be a solution?
I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...
#longCOVID is a national security threat. Specifically to readiness, via the recruitment necessary to replace COVID-related attrition, and via attrition of the pool that recruits can be drawn from.
The push to hide COVID harms by those who failed to contain it is a danger to all of us.
🧵:
Nowadays I get the frisson of transgression by wearing a mask
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
Here’s my (frighteningly vulnerable!!) follow up on my reporting that exposed a white nationalist active club.
On the professional and personal costs of this work:
That’s terrible.
I'm still incredibly irate about the headline for this news story from October. Both flu and Covid vaccine up-take was down. In 2024-25 about 30% got a flu shot and less than 19% got vaccinated against Covid.
Can this be a solution?
Not that the 5-12s (circa 2022, so 9-16s now) are much better - in NB we only hit about ~35% of them getting a second dose, back when initial series was 2 doses. NL did much better - had vaccines in schools. How many kids aged 9/10-16 have had 2+ doses? I wonder. They have had more infections.
It’s just wild to think of pretty much every kid in Canada aged 9 and under not getting a Covid vaccine. And out of any population I think they are the most age-stratified. Who do 2-year-olds spend time with? 5- and 8-year-olds? Other young kids. School & activities.
"This means our unvaccinated population is growing."
Some very concerning points being raised here.
Not perfect necessarily but heavy-handed about ‘chronic absenteeism’ without any acknowledgement of chronic illness. In my district 5 absences gets you a call from teacher. 10 from principal. 15 from district and threat to suspend.