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They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission. They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again. And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.

submitted 9 hours ago • 66 comments

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

submitted 15 hours ago • 563 comments

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

submitted 13 hours ago • 469 comments

Who started a what with who now

submitted 12 hours ago • 13 comments

Sen. Chris Murphy: "I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States."

submitted 9 hours ago • 24 comments

Still holding out hope to meet you, the first hospital or university leader who - while still in their role - says clearly that covid is airborne and it was a mistake to pretend it wasn’t. You are awesome. You will start a chain reaction. Your courage will save millions from death and disability.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

All this talk about us being distinct from America only for him to turn around and do everything the US wants feels even more pathetic than Poilievre's groveling.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Health Canada won’t challenge Alberta’s plan to make almost everyone pay to get updated COVID vaccines 𝙖𝙣𝙙 greatly restrict access to the shots. This probably paves the way for other provinces to follow suit, should they want to. ICYMI 👇

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

this is what it comes down to. some people have been like "well technically you can get an LLM to not lie all the time by extremely limiting what it can say and only training it on a few things, or by writing another program on top" but then you don't need an LLM

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

submitted 3 days ago • 260 comments

Gilead has announced that lenacapavir, the game-changing HIV prevention drug just approved by the FDA will cost $28,218 USD per person per year. Researchers say a generic version could be made for just $25 per person a year. Capitalism kills.

submitted 3 days ago • 74 comments

transition care for trans people is life saving healthcare. the only regret with my transition is that i didn’t start when i was younger. fuck everyone who is cheering on the destruction legal trans healthcare, and fuck those indifferent to it

submitted 3 days ago • 62 comments

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

submitted 3 days ago • 173 comments

Canadians said no to Trump – so why is Mark Carney pushing a Maga-inspired border bill? good stuff from @wickdchiq.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

It's one reason why I will never forgive the Democratic consultants who got Tim Walz to stop calling the GOP weird

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Real talk: One of the (many) reasons we are in this mess again is because too many people went back to brunch after 2020.

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

Sure is great that all the politicians listened to the capitalists to declare the pandemic over because everyone wanted it to be true. When have our capitalist overlords ever been concerned with the health of their workers?!? And why would they be concerned with the health of children?!?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

'Long covid is now the number 1 chronic illness in children...' surpassing asthma. Heartbreaking.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

submitted 6 days ago • 160 comments

"First responders" needs to be abolished from style guides because its purpose is to smuggle cops into a category that includes EMTs and firefighters. The phrase is deliberate copaganda that allows abusers to borrow an aura of respectability from other groups.

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

submitted 6 days ago • 259 comments

At this point, our leaders are going to be shouting "Israel has a right to defend itself" as Netanyahu personally runs them over with a tank.

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

Y'all saying you will trust the authorities to tell us when we have to wear masks... Sorry, but have you seen the authorities in charge of public health right now?? If there was ever a time to think independently, it's now

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

submitted 7 days ago • 54 comments

"The newly elected Mark Carney government tabled a border bill that will give law enforcement sweeping powers in obtaining citizen’s data, and will align Canada with the US’s refugee policies." #cdnpoli

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Yes, Brian Wilson was 82 and had many health issues. But the world might have had him longer if he’d been protected from COVID. COVID can exacerbate dementia, among a host of other issues.

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

RFKJr's parents got him vaccinated and handed him a pile of generational wealth. that's who survives

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

What the actual fuck is this? Horrifying if true.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The idea that the progressive left used the internet to bully institutions into accepting unpopular, far-left positions is the exact opposite of what has actually happened. The alt-right used the internet for ideological capture and they are now in the White House bragging about it daily

submitted 11 days ago • 270 comments

the right won't tell you this because they want your money, but the best way to get a girlfriend as a young man is to be a straight guy who likes musical theater.

submitted 10 days ago • 169 comments

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

submitted 12 days ago • 111 comments

Please stop saying ICE agents are “wearing masks” They’re wearing face coverings. Gaitors. The anti-mask rhetoric has caused untold harm to disabled people. Mask bans have already been enacted in many places. We must fight for our right to continue wearing medical masks & respirators.

submitted 12 days ago • 54 comments

AP Style Guide page 21: always use active voice when possible except when the story is about Israel

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

It’s incredible but not surprising how much western media is blacking out one of the most recognizable and important activists in the world in Greta Thunberg going to Gaza on a single unarmed boat with food for starving children. It should be an hourly story with huge ratings and clicks.

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

Yeah I’ve always thought the “I piss off both sides equally” brag from fellow journalists just shows how deep your brainrotted dedication to bothsidesism goes

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

The enemy of my enemy still did two Nazi salutes.

submitted 16 days ago • 14 comments

“making those risk assessments based on false assurances and wrong information. How many people might mask if they understood that their vaccines cannot protect them from infection, that many COVID infections are asymptomatic…asymptomatic and mild infections can lead to silent damage or Long COVID?”

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

with alt text. #MaskUp

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

centrism means focusing on the good things bad people do and the bad things good people do

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

why is it that the second Greta started making connections between climate change and capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism, Greta's media coverage came to a screeching halt?