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A must-read: Patrick Chandler Brown — named after the PCB chemicals dumped in his community — purchased the plantation where his great-grandfather was enslaved and is in the process of transforming it to serve farmers like him

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"Ban fossil fuel advertising. Remove lobbyists from negotiations. End subsidies. The science is clear, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. It’s time to treat fossil fuels like Big Tobacco." www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/01/o...

submitted 84 days ago • 9 comments

The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore

submitted 84 days ago • 62 comments

FELLOW CANADIANS, this is the most important thread you may ever read. PLEASE READ and share with your friends. NOW is the last chance to stop foreign interference and totalitarianism’s attack on our western democracies. #cdnpoli #ableg #ONpoli

submitted 83 days ago • 10 comments

Media Coverage of the Canada Post Strike is Centering Business Interests, Not the Interests of Workers Canadian media coverage of the postal strike promotes anti-worker narratives pressprogress.ca/media-covera...

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Single payer health care would cost HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS LESS, but the parasites are actively waging a war against it (in congress and through mainstream propaganda) because the savings would result from the elimination of exorbitant administrative costs and private health insurance profits

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The reason private insurance exists on such a massive scale in the US is because the US failed to enact national health insurance in 1915-1919, 1930s, and 1940s. It exists because doctors and southern politicians blocked the creation of national health insurance. It grew up in that absence.

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I just found out that around 20% of the neanderthal genome still exists today in living people!! No individual person has more than 3 or 4% but we don't all have the same bits. If you add up all the bits we've found, about a fifth of the Neanderthal genome is still present on earth today.

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When I hear people talk about deregulation, what I'm really hearing them say is: "any limitation on harming people is a limitation on profits".

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I didn’t know that being Canadian helped me surmise that nothing on the shooter’s body was cheap. It looked like Mountain Equipment Co-op commissioned this murder

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United Healthcare CEO was murdered The bullet casings had the words: Deny, Defend, Depose Fucked around found out People are tired People are done #SheShed

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A certain healthcare corporation who needs a new chief executive today once laid my dad off at 39.5 years of service so he wouldn’t be entitled to the 40 year pension. His team raised money themselves to give him a watch with “39.5 Years” engraved on it. I think about that watch A LOT.

submitted 84 days ago • 31 comments

I struggle with this but @marisakabas.bsky.social's piece here helps clarify my thoughts (and honestly as a new father I'm trying to be much more conscious about the behavior I model)

submitted 83 days ago • 5 comments

Wealth in the U.S. is heavily skewed, with the top 10% holding far more than the bottom 90%. This imbalance stems from tax policies favoring the wealthiest Americans, shaped by the flawed logic of supply-side economics that prioritizes the rich under the guise of economic growth.

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Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star

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In privatized healthcare systems, insurance companies and pharmaceutical firms profit from high prices, resisting policies like universal healthcare or affordable medicine. #onpoli #cdnpoli

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1969: Black Panther leader Fred Hampton is killed in a predawn raid by Chicago Police with help from the FBI. More than 90 gunshots were sprayed into the apartment, also killing Panther Mark Clark and seriously wounding several others. /1

submitted 84 days ago • 4 comments

☕😶 & both liberals & conservatives & many independents commit & profit from class war violence even if they don't "see class"; they choose certain identities as less valuable & worthy of human status, who they consider acceptable to exploit & harm,, #TheCivilityOfNormal #MetaGame #LiberationLit

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Today, #KashPatel sent a letter to my counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social threatening to sue & demanding I retract my MSNBC comments on his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed. I stand by my statements.

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Poilievre’s new slogan “the border is broken” reminds us that when last in government, his crew slashed border security: every agent that tracked child porn 19 dog-sniffing drug teams *fully half the intelligence agents who track terrorists and gun & drug traffickers. Great work, Agent Anschluss.

submitted 84 days ago • 3 comments

One thing working on AI guardrails has taught me is at some point we gotta talk about whether philosophy is the right field for ethics to be under because boy howdy have I never seen a field other than business studies that seems to attract so many narcissists.

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

The hit on the UnitedHealth CEO is going to turn out to be from a rival, or a current or ex-spouse or whatever. There's no reason to believe the CEOs of major corporations are going to stop fucking us all over out of fear of assassination. We should talk about why we want this to be ideological.

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I’m not sure how this got swept under the carpet, but President Biden’s efforts to combat junk fees will likely save Americans more than $20 billion annually. 👀

submitted 84 days ago • 435 comments

Private healthcare is NOT better healthcare. Any business is FOR PROFIT. Government funded systems perform better on equity & access, with lower admin costs.

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I'm pinning this just so they stop and all be clear that there's no "red wave." 💙🦋 #BlueWave

submitted 88 days ago • 13 comments

Roy Cohn groomed Donald Trump. A stupendous/ phenomenal demonstration of grooming. Roy Cohn groomed Donald Trump. Accurate meaning, in the technical + depraved sense. Roy Cohn groomed Donald Trump. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

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I think it’s important not to just dismiss people’s reactions to this as a lack of empathy. I watched my dad dying of cancer while I had to help fight his insurance company almost literally until the day he died. There was no empathy on that end. This is the response of victims in an abusive system.

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🎁For your consideration this Holiday Season…🎁 My food aversion guide and cookbook COLOR TASTE TEXTURE is for people of all ages. Written by me, an Autistic classically trained chef, to help people explore sensory experiences and make food that better fits their needs. Available at retailers here:

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"When you're 1% of the population, it's very hard to see how the democratic process will protect you" was quite a statement at the court after the TN attorney argued that the equal protection should be declined in favor of “the democratic process.”

submitted 84 days ago • 38 comments

if Jeff Bezos keeps saving the Washington Post like this, all that will be left of it will be a Kathleen Parker column titled "Relax, the Trains Are Probably Taking Us Somewhere Nice"

submitted 84 days ago • 26 comments

Elon Musk didn’t spend $44 billion to buy Twitter, it was Elon Musk and his wealthy co-investors all of which are deeply tied to Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and organized crime.

submitted 84 days ago • 72 comments

Of all days to announce this, Blue Cross Blue Shield comes out with this bunch of bullshit 😤

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Maybe obscure, but here's another form of early crustacean fossil for #Crustmas. These stunning fossils detail setae (hairs) on ~509 mya mouthparts and limbs, suggesting complex feeding. Only thing is they are bits, not whole animal. A lot to learn still 🧪🦑 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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"The wealth class and the technocrats are the enemy the population is not"

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This is a major story that uncovers gross malfeasance by a federal department. Exclusive: How a federal agency colluded with a pesticide maker to silence a Canadian researcher www.nationalobserver.com/2024/10/17/n...

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This is the best endorsement of PM Trudeau I've seen in a while.

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Three guesses: who funded all the campaigns against the Canadian Climate Plan? First two don’t count. #OilAndGas www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Authoritarianism is the desire to be incompetent without repercussions.

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Again: mob violence is the intended outcome of the “use your birth gender bathroom” laws. The intent is to provoke violence against trans people and drive them from public life.

submitted 91 days ago • 86 comments

This thread is the best kind of internet. Go ahead - look through, and tell them your favorite food and they’ll answer you with video about how they grew it

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Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵

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Calling the Democratic Party "flawed" misses the point entirely. This is a well-oiled machine that works flawlessly for its billionaire class of shareholders. It was made to lose gracefully, while turning its own voters against each other, and empowering the GOP and the ultra-rich billionaire class.

submitted 91 days ago • 25 comments