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Mainstream media reporting on wildfire smoke, but not mentioning N95 masks 🤡

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

SCOOP: The CDC is planning to move information on cases of diseases like measles and polio to a data system managed by Palantir, raising concerns about patient privacy. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/h...

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

New Data: U.S. Wine Exports to Canada Approaching Zero. In April 2025, U.S. wine exports to Canada — the country’s most important wine export market — fell by US$32.5 million, a 92.2% decrease compared to April 2024, dropping to just US$2.73 million.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

#TeslaTakedown

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Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked. But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths. research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

The DOGE/MAGA/MAHA/Great Barrington Declaration linkages are REALLY TIGHT This guy Tucker, anti-vaxxer & founder of the Brownstone Institute, was editorial director of the right wing AIER, the GBD's sponsor; he conceived, edited, & marketed the GBD He❤️DOGE, MAGA, & MAHA! @adrian7745.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

“[B]itcoin is fulfilling PayPal’s original vision to create ‘the new world currency.’ We actually had T-shirts printed in 1999 w/ that mission statement” - 2017, David Sacks (Trump’s “Crypto Czar”) In 2024, Sacks encouraged Trump to pick JD Vance—a protégé of PayPal founder Peter Thiel—as VP. 👇 1/

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Everyone involved in trying to pass off that ChatGPT-extruded disinformation manifesto as a scientific report should be, at the very least, barred from public office for life. The MAHA report is dangerous criminal misconduct and an offence to the process of science.

submitted 11 days ago • 26 comments

Ford is corrupt, this is awful. #Ford government scrapped #Toronto affordable housing requirements after pushback from three REITs, documents show Two of the REITs suggested the quotas for converted employment lands could result in no new housing built at all. www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

submitted 12 days ago • 25 comments

#TeslaTakedown

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

SCOOP: ICE, HSI, and DHS are getting side-door access to the nationwide system of Flock license plate cameras by asking local police to perform lookups for them, new public records show. ICE does not have a contract to use this surveillance tool itself. www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...

submitted 13 days ago • 37 comments

“Already gaining traction for outpatient medical visits, the AI-powered systems are also moving into hospital rooms and emergency departments to capture discussions at the bedside, update medical records, draft care plans and create discharge instructions.”

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

A good news story, which we all need more of. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

“.. European airlines are freezing their transatlantic growth and pulling back from major U.S. cities like New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago as they redirect flights to Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Caribbean.” $JETS $XAL www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...

submitted 13 days ago • 236 comments

New Covid symptom just dropped! If you get “a sharp, burning sore throat”, that’s probably NB 1.8.1. Measles started with fewer than 20 cases too Mask up 😷 This could be the variant that brings you Long Covid, why find out?

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Having to pay for products will absolutely kill my 'stealing products then reselling them' industry. www.theverge.com/news/674366/...

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

Time to get out your air cleaners and respirators. Don’t have any? Start with canadastrong.ca #Wildfires

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Ontario community reclaims public water from private corporations rabble.ca/environment/...

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Queensland hit by surge in whooping cough cases as experts blame low vaccination levels Queensland has reported 2,384 whooping cough cases this year—3.4 times higher than the 2020–24 average, according to Queensland Health. Source: www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Quick Update: The source of this info is She Matters, an advocacy group for survivors. And they have a petition right on this page re: this issue. Direct link. #cdnpoli #onpoli #Canada #CanadaSky www.shematters.ca/calltoaction

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

AI guys have useless jobs but derive their entire sense of self from their careers (which are useless.) They want to make things of value (or at least be treated like it) but lack the curiosity or humility to do so. They live their lives in unlocked prisons and hate you for refusing to join them.

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss” Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

submitted 14 days ago • 264 comments

The new 'razor blade throat' Covid variant is causing an increase in hospitalizations across Asia France reported a 19% positivity rate on tests The US has detected it in a number of major cities What's being done? They're taking away boosters. No free tests or paid time off Wear a respirator.

submitted 14 days ago • 79 comments

Remember the French case we were all horrified by of the woman who was drugged by her husband and sold to be assaulted? That’s happening in Canada 🇨🇦 to little media attention : #Canadasky www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

submitted 15 days ago • 16 comments

Did You Know: According to a 2020 survey, 41% of Canadian hospitals do NOT stock rape kits. That is 100% unacceptable. Source: CBC Radio’s The Sunday Magazine with Piya Chattopadhyay, May 25, 2025. #cdnpoli #onpoli #Canada #CanadaSky

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments