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Retired Canadian labour and human rights lawyer. Lung cancer survivor and screening advocate. Friend to many good dogs. 🇨🇦
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“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

Minnesota Senator Tina Smith bringing the thunder 🔥

Always always always listen to Ed Yong. One of the smartest and most empathetic humans out there.

This alone should be grounds for terminating Ontario’s contract with Starlink immediately.

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

The framing of this is a terrible mistake by the usually sensible @ianhanomansing.bsky.social and the crew at Checkup. Another example of how mainstream media is simply incapable of reporting this historic moment. And "some people are upset with our topic" is lazy deflection.

When the PĂ©tainists say you're a Nazi, it's pretty good evidence you're a Nazi.

In Germany, trade unions fight for solidarity and against the far right www.ituc-csi.org/in-germany-t...

🇨🇦 YES! The best ❤️❤️❤️❤️ #FOURNATIONS. Canada strong and free!!!!

Amanda Zurawski, one of the Texas women who nearly died due to the states abortion ban, has been named one of Time’s Women of the Year.

Canada strong 🇨🇦🙌 #DogsofBluesky

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

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Headline: Exploding rocket company to oversee changes to airplane safety. buff.ly/3X86gt4

CDC staffers, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation, speak of the increasing chaos upending their work since Trump's return. “The feeling in the building is fear.”

1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information. The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"

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JD Vance went to Dachau and afterwards expressed sympathy ... for the Nazis by promoting their successors in the AfD. No opposition in Nazi Germany? Read one fucking history book, Rubio.

I am trying to cut down on the cussing, but then stuff like this happens. STEM is my field. I spent over 3 decades working in it. Fuck the GOP. Especially cowardly women. "Female scientists are having their information deleted from government websites." womenrefusingtobeerased.org

This is what oligarchy looks like.

There are other options. Please boycott Airbnb. www.reuters.com/world/us/air...

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

Fuck the nonsense from the South. We are a sovereign nation. Our leadership tends to have a measurable IQ. We are a proud and compassionate people. Don’t fuck with us. #OHCanada

This former US Atty supports the courage of Danielle Sassoon, the acting US Atty in SDNY, who put service ahead of self & refused to let politics interfere with prosecutions. True American hero. Thank you for your service, Danielle. You are the best of us. Who's with me?

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.