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For a change, CNN gets the headline right. We are in an oligarchy with an immoral SCOTUS encouraging it. edition.cnn.com/2025/05/21/b...

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Stop calling kidnapping and trafficking people to countries they’ve never been to “deporting.” It’s criminal behavior by a country with no conscience. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Everyone 6 months and older is eligible to get a flu vaccine. It makes no sense to restrict Covid vaccines to only people who have specific medical conditions. The FDA is basing its decisions on politics, not science.

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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

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Unspeakably evil. Anyone who continues to defend the actions of this genocidal state deserves an eternity of pain and suffering

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President Trump is doing more than just turning a blind eye to the fact that the planet is growing hotter. He is weakening the U.S.'s capacity to understand global warming and to prepare for its consequences.

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Attacks on healthcare in war zones in 2024 reach ‘new levels of horror.’ Health facilities were destroyed and staff killed in record numbers in conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine, Myanmar and Sudan, by @katlay.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel... via @theguardian.com #GlobalHealth

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19 May 1903 | A Polish Jew, Moszek Rozencwajg, was born in Będzin. A locksmith assistant. In #Auschwitz from 25 October 1941. No. 22240 He perished in the camp on 30 October 1941.

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“A family is torn apart.” Again. 💔 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Even before President Trump was re-elected, the Heritage Foundation — the conservative think tank behind Project 2025 — set out to destroy pro-Palestinian activism in the U.S. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

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18 May 1884 | Czech Jewish woman, Hedvika Zdekauerová, was born in Hořice. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

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so this is how conservatives always play it..always about how much our former PM spent so much money!

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That's INSANE, really Another 26.4C in Iceland and even 25.5C in the Highlands. And we are just halfway of this incredible warm spell. Iceland being amongst the hottest spots in Europe in May is really extreme. On Monday Norway will reach 28/29C !

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⚡️Polish PM Tusk blames Russian hackers for cyberattacks ahead of presidential election. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the cyberattacks hit the website of his Civic Platform party, as well as those of its coalition partners, the Left and the Polish People’s Party (PSL).

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Silfra rift valley between tectonic plates of the continental divide in Thingvellir National Park, Iceland. #BlueSkyArtShow #Texture #photography

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17 May 1917 | Polish man, Zdzisław Niewiadomski, was born in Tomaszów Mazowiecki. A waver. In #Auschwitz from 11 December 1941 No. 24144 He perished in the camp on 6 May 1942 Look at him before the incarceration & in the registration image from Auschwitz.

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There are now a total of 1,622 #Measles cases in #Ontario since the outbreak began with 119 hospitalized. The case count continues to grow. The epicentre remains southwestern Ontario, most cases are in children, most cases are due to a lack of vaccination. www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Diseases-...

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Private, for-profit surgical and diagnostic facilities get $280m in the Ontario budget These investor-owned facilities cost the public purse 2-3x more than hospitals for the same procedure www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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wow. 11% rise in Measles cases in South zone. In one day. 10% hospitalization rate. Source: www.alberta.ca/measles

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A National Weather Service office in Kentucky was scrambling to cover the overnight forecast on Friday as severe storms moved through much of the eastern U.S. The office is one of several left without an overnight forecaster as a result of cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency.

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One of the few remaining magnolia blooms for this season! #FlowersOnFriday #nature #naturetherapy #photography #bloomscrolling

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Let’s keep politics out of #measles. No parent should have to bury their child because of a preventable illness like measles., by Lyne Filiatrault, Arijit Chakravarty healthydebate.ca/2025/05/topi... via @healthydebate.bsky.social #vaccination

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CBC stop giving Poilievre time on your platform please. He is not an elected member of Parliament.

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Many stores are warning of higher prices very soon because of upcoming tariffs. DOUBLE DOWN ON MADE IN CANADA PRODUCTS AND LOCAL FARMERS MARKETS AND THRIFT STORES AND CONSIGNMENT STORES

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Ru shills have said Ru is winning or has already won every single day since Feb 2022, but Ru is bogged down in rural Donbas, hasn't won a battle since Avdiivka in Feb 2024, and has incurred record losses in the last year. Enough lying or delusion already! www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Toronto Public Health faces staffing crisis, plummeting public trust and dwindling resources, report finds. TPH is experiencing a staff exodus, following employee burnout and fatigue in the aftermath of the pandemic, by Kevin Jiang www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor... via @thestar.com

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#Measles continues to spread. Where is the robust public-health response? by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the... www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #vaccination

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"Liberal MPP for Kingston and the Islands Ted Hsu called for the investigation in a May 9 letter in which he claimed there's reasonable and probable grounds to believe that Ford and the trio may have contravened the Members' Integrity Act." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

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15 May 1941 | A Yugoslavian (Bosnian) Jewish girl, Leah Miriam Brainer, was born in Tuzla. In 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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I will never forget that the week Qatar decided to bribe the president of the United States with a plane, CNN decided to focus on the age and health of an ex-president. Shame.

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The "lost decade" Poilievre and Conservatives talk about included the pandemic which they are careful to avoid since many protested public health and vaccine efforts. Canada's confirmed covid deaths per million was 1,379. The US rate, mostly under Trump and the GOP, was 3,540. #CanadaStrong #cdnpoli

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I had an interesting conversation today w someone who asked me whether it would really be so terrible if no COVID vaccine boosters were available this fall. I showed the list of co-morbidities that increase risk for severe COVID and reminded that 74% of Americans >18 have at least one of these.

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New @policyalternatives.ca report shows LNG expansion worsens BC's climate & affordability crises. In NE BC, the LNG industry also strains healthcare as doctors leave & clinics close due to impacts from fracking & work camp conditions. It’s time to prioritize public health over fossil fuel profits.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

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Jamal Khashoggi -- remember his name.

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Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm

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CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @laloalcaraz)

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As Israel’s government has publicly dismissed warnings of extreme food shortages in Gaza after it blocked aid deliveries, some Israeli military officials have privately warned that the territory faces widespread starvation if aid is not restored quickly. trib.al/2VovLbU

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