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There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

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So, now might be a good time to rewatch “Swimming to Cambodia,” especially around the 20-minute mark where Spalding Gray discusses Nixon’s “madman theory” and its connection to Kent State. archive.org/details/swim...

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Watch Edward R. Murrow's concluding remarks in his March 9, 1954 broadcast on Senator Joseph McCarthy. 🗃️⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvE...

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I am floored at how many posts I've seen from people asking if LAPD would get involved to stop or de-escalate things with ICE. The LAPD couldn't de-escalate finding some illegal fireworks at a guy's house before a long weekend and blew up a city block. They're not going to de-escalate a thing.

submitted 9 hours ago • 17 comments

Hell of a photo

submitted 10 hours ago • 321 comments

Man, it's bad enough to watch your nation sinking into fascist dystopia but for THAT guy? the barely-sentient former game show host with the laughably stupid combover? Really, that's the dude for whom we're giving up democracy?

submitted 11 hours ago • 30 comments

In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented. (Photo from a colleague in DC)

submitted 19 hours ago • 2111 comments

Climate change, even if we pivot and mitigate its worst results, is here and will stay. That means wildfires are here to stay. It likely means increased risk of respiratory pandemics is here to stay. Improving indoor air-quality infrastructure is a necessary national investment in Canada.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Trump is an absolute sack of pus.

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Oh, well, thank god it’s just random abuse, I guess.

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when I see Pam Bondi I think of the defense attorney from her state who told me that people in his office would high five every time they saw her listed as prosecutor because she was so bad at her job she would routinely screw up cases that any other prosecutor would have nailed in minutes

submitted 19 hours ago • 44 comments

explaining to my son my idea of having a giant dog rescue where all the dogs are trained to sniff out various diseases and you can pay $100 to walk through and have a dog diagnose you by scent my son: you could call it “plague dogters” me: I have given birth to a genius

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Kelowna Companies Won’t Run Pro-Choice Billboards The crowdfunded campaign aims to counter anti-abortion billboards in the region. #BritishColumbia #Canada #ItsYourChoice #ProChoice 🍁 thetyee.ca/News/2025/06...

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I will always repost this, to honour his service and sacrifice in the war, and to honour the endless inspiration he gave afterwards to youth who would go on to pursue science, engineering, acting, and even, for some of us, academic SF studies.

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Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

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Me on Canada’s east coast: “YEAAAAHHHHOOohno I have an early morning meeting.”

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My god. This is the energy in Game TWO?! Gonna need some more of the good chamomile tea, I think.

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LOL: “Gavin Newsom inadvertently threatens to secede and likely starts Civil War II by trying desperately to make people hate him a little less” is precisely the headline we all should have seen coming.

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Is this a glimpse of a corner of a possible cover for the Broadview Anthology of #ScienceFiction? I’ll never tell… @broadviewpress.bsky.social

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#SaveTheBees

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"Don't murder Greta Thunberg and half a dozen other people in cold blood with US made weapons" gets a whopping 11 signatures in the House

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Look, fellas, I’m a man of a certain age who has… occasionally… made poor choices health-wise, so if you could make this hockey game a little less exciting I’d super appreciate it, kthx #GoOilers

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Some people are acting as if Trump and Elon breaking up is like Steve Rogers fighting Tony Stark, when it’s really Captain Caveman vs Cowboy X. (This post will be slightly funny to a very few people in a very narrow age-range.)

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Canada is turning away hundreds of U.S. asylum seekers fleeing the threat of 'deportation.' Nearly 500 people were denied entry at the Canadian border in April alone. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/u-s-cra...

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Geez, does Florida ever come back hard in the shift after they’re scored on. Every time.

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Something tells me that when the Deputy Chief of Staff at DHS tweets to his 1.3M followers that Abrego Garcia is a criminal terrorist monster who will serve a long prison sentence, that might taint the jury pool. @aclu.org

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Happy to see The Weather Network include N95’s in their recommedations in the Special Air Quality Alert 😷👍🏼

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This is “NYT pitchbot”-worthy. The stock went down 14% yesterday... and came up just 3% today.

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The Trump administration put together its best minds to figure out the most morally bankrupt, procedurally corrupt, and downright evil way to accommodate court orders to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia to the United States The result:

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Could it be that I finally managed to get a decent shot of a crow harassing an eagle? Of course, the eagle is nonplussed, but I think I did it, finally!

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Poilievre is probably super sad right now that he can’t use “Canada Needs to put the Oil back in the Oilers” as a campaign slogan.

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Canada to Florida tonight:

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5 Proud Boys leaders, including Enrique Tarrio, sued the DOJ for $100 M, claiming constitutional violations in their January 6 prosecutions. They allege malicious & political persecution, despite receiving pardons. A settlement could undermine judicial integrity & encourage political violence.

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Some flyers, and then in the next post some perchers, from around Halifax the last few days. #Birds

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I am a notorious summer hater because I cannot stand humidity and Ottawa is a merciless swamp every summer. Now we have the new nightmare reality of "smoke days". Anyway, climate change is killer and I hate that how many people choose to normalize these changes rather than resist them.

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This is 10-12 tenure-track assistant professors’ salaries at many places. A whole academic program’s worth of money, pissed away, In Times of Austerity, on rent-a-cops going after students who dared speak. Nobody behind this should have a career.

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once again I must tap my own sign

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This is great work and a really interesting case study of science, communication, and policy.

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I specialize in male toxicity. All of these men - RFK Jr, Hawley, Makary - are more dangerous to women than mifepristone.

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Hi! I specialize in medication toxicity. All available, real-world data has proven mifepristone is actually even safer than many over the counter medicines. Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K)

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This is Muslim/African ban 5.0 (incl. Haiti and Myanmar) Having been detained under it in 2017, I’ve been following its many iterations closely. Each one gets more harmful + expansive. Also Biden never reversed its damage leaving hundreds of thousands in limbo bcs their visas were revoked by the ban

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Going to be a long road living through 80s style Progressive Conservatives again.

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Carbon capture is a fraud just like decarbonized oil and Mark Carney Insiders say Mark Carney could compromise on emissions cap www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

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#ElbowsUp #BuyCanadian #Canada 💪🍁

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This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

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