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Retired I.T. person; cyclist, sailor, birder, reader, dog snuggler Energy transition - climate justice - electrify everything https://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~prall
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5 books every #Resistance member should read. 1.1984 Geo.Orwell 2.The Femine Mystigue.Betty Friedan. 3.A Peoples History of the Uninted States. Howard Zinn 4.The New Jim Crow.Michelle Alexander. 5.The Grapes of Wrath.John Steinbeck. Please add your own.

I use this app…YUKA…and I find it very useful for finding out what products I’m better off avoiding. WSJ is doing it a disservice by insinuating it has anything to do with MAHA/RFK Jr. It does not. “Chapon said the app isn’t affiliated with the MAHA movement”

I’ve started using a new app called Yuka to track the nutritional value of food. It works by a traffic light system and then gives you a breakdown. I’m already making better choices in what I’m putting in my basket. #SpeirGorm

Yuka, an app which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called “invaluable,” assigns health scores to food. But can it actually help people make better choices?

Newsflash! (Or not.) "Only one-third of Canadians (34%) think positively of their southern neighbour today, compared with 54% last year." #cdnpoli www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Between 2002 and 2011, 165 Canadians - 158 military personnel and 7 civilians - died in Afghanistan, including 4 Canadian soldiers killed by American friendly fire. Let us remember them - even if our erstwhile allies would prefer to forget or ridicule their service and sacrifice. #cdnpoli

Well we still have famine to look forward to. How great for us.

It’s disgusting that the Pentagon went from being run by a highly decorated 4-star General to a trashy tacky rapist drunkard buffoon from Fox Propaganda. That goes for everything Dept in the US Govt now. American democracy is in mortal danger and it’ll take decades to repair the damage.

arguing about Dem messaging is largely beside the point when the right can win with an agenda like this. the info environment is the problem

Yet another reminder that cutting Medicaid is deeply unpopular across the ideological spectrum. Just 10% of Americans (just 18% of Republicans) in the latest Quinnipiac poll want to see Medicaid funding decrease. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more

Thank you for your attention to this matter. #AccountabilityForJanuary6th

Ya know, I’m not entirely sure what this would look like, but I do wish Congressional Democrats had a unified plan to communicate to the American people that we’re an existential moment for our republic.

I have seen shockingly little from the Dem House caucus after one of their own caught bogus charges from the regime. I cannot fathom half the Republicans in the House not tweeting about it in the opposite scenario.

It took THREE WEEKS to get this indictment. I have to ask; how many grand juries did they shop before getting the indictment? www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

You said you were going after dangerous criminals ? Now you are taking hard working people off the streets, separating parents from kids, taking people from immigration court who are following the rules, & putting the military on our streets…this isn’t America. DON’T TELL US EVERYTHING IS FINE

TOP 10 MUST-KNOW TIPS FOR NO KINGS DAY. Please share!! Let's get out there and make some NOISE.

www.politico.com/live-updates... Now THIS ICE OVER BUDGET STOP ICE FROM ARRESTING AND DRAGGING OFF INNOCENT PEOPLE

Newsom: Police should police—not the military. That’s what happens in third-world countries, and that’s exactly what Donald Trump is trying to impose on the American people: a mindset of militarization, power, dominance, and control—not the rule of law. This is a very, very serious moment.

Please go to a No Kings rally on Saturday. It’s worth your lifestyle.

Jesus Christ... the Washington Post is so fallen from its former glory that it tacks on the name of Robert W. Malone—one of the most infamous, shameless, and dangerous misinformation merchants in the United States—as one of the Kennedy Jr. appointees without making any comment about his past at all.

Irony is officially dead.

This is the most dangerous thing Trump has done since taking office and the silence from Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker and House Chair Mike Rogers is deafening, and a betrayal of their duty to the military and the Republic.

A really chilling implication here is that if Trump keeps doing speeches on military bases, and commanding officers continue to tell soldiers to opt in or out of these events (as they did here), then there will be lists by base and unit of which soldiers support the administration & which don't.

I am sounding the alarm as loudly as I can that Donald Trump has turned the Department of Justice into a cog in his authoritarian machine to prosecute his political opponents.

When someone like Vindman is saying this, things are dark. He’s not posting 4th hand information. Don’t consult your hope when assessing what’s up ahead. It will lead you astray. Base your plans on reality.

Former ABC News correspondent and anchor Terry Moran has joined Substack. He says he can’t wait to “get at the important work that we all have to do at a time of such trouble in our country.” bit.ly/3HAX77o

Minnesota was just ranked the 5th best state for child wellbeing — here’s why: ✅ Free school meals ✅ Nation-leading Child Tax Credit ✅ Paid family and medical leave

Yeah if I thought there was even a 5% chance of being renditioned to Gitmo or El Salvador for the crime of leaving my passport at the hotel, I would simply not travel. This is going to kill tourism.

“Pretty much wherever you are, you’re probably less than 30 minutes away from your closest No Kings event.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social with @democracynow.org We hope to see you at your local #NoKings Day mobilization on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

People in L.A. are waving Mexican flags—not because they hate America, but because the Trump regime is disrespecting immigrants. The Mexican flag has become a symbol of resistance and solidarity in these times. Make no mistake: they love what this country stands for—just not what it’s turning into.

You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

Florida child welfare officers found a 17-year-old living in a shed with no food or water. They sent him to a foster home... and then reported him to ICE, whereupon he was handcuffed and shackled and marched to detention. Not only is that victimizing him again, it violates Florida's own rules.

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” -Steve Martin

I love baseball

I am interested in forming a virtual March for the “No Kings gathering on the 14th. I am disabled and can’t join physically. #disability #chronicillness #medsky #virtualnokings

Karen Bass: "The 100 National Guard soldiers that are downtown LA are guarding one federal building, so there is no need for this...it's all part of an experiment that is taking place in Los Angeles...what happens when the federal government intervenes and takes power away from a governor & mayor?"

Gavin Newsom and his team are doing a good job at social media. Using comebacks and memes to just straight up murder muffukahs. Pay attention, Dems. This is how it’s done.

Oy vey is mir

Learned some more about a few of these dangerous new ACIP people

I think we’ve become so inured to this stuff that it’s easy to lose sight of just how quickly epistemic collapse has accelerated. Ten years ago, the media was wringing its hands over social media misinformation and what it meant that Trump had the gall to lie. Now, the lies control health policy.

More scenes from the “big insurrection” in Los Angeles

I LOVE MY HOMETOWN.