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Breaking: RFK Jr. moves to quietly eliminate public comment from HHS's decision making: www.statnews.com/2025/02/28/r...

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Guys I just published this, pls enjoy my pain wherever u like to consume it youtu.be/M_75HK0a31w

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1/9 Breaking: Manitoba becomes the first province to join the federal pharmacare program, securing $219 million over four years to cover birth control, diabetes medications, and hormone replacement therapy for menopause - all with zero cost to patients! #Pharmacare #HealthCare #CDNpoli

submitted 18 hours ago • 9 comments

Well I don't hate that.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

a very clear lesson of the last 20 years from Libya to Ukraine* has been to get nukes if you can. *ukraine did not control its own nuclear weapons but it would be in a much better position if it had them now

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Damn I didn’t need to read this this morning 😭

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NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

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Andrew Tate being allowed to come to the U.S. and avoid facing trial for sex trafficking in Romania is beyond stomach-churning. This man is a HUGE influencer and uses his platform/following to further abuse women who have accused him. Now he won’t face justice, reaffirming his lies to his followers

submitted 1 day ago • 399 comments

Only took a dead kid.

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“You’re terminated because…?” Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside. DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”

submitted 2 days ago • 685 comments

God damn a one stop shop

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Water is heavy.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

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Murphy: "The destruction of our democracy is part of this story ... this is super unpopular, what they are doing. Nobody wants their healthcare to disappear ... so how do you get away with it? You try to destroy our democracy. You try to crush dissent. You threaten members of Congress with arrest."

submitted 3 days ago • 463 comments

It would take a very high bar to justify "involuntary treatment" of any individual under the Charter of Rights, which would almost certainly not be met in the circumstances of the typical person suffering addiction. Alberta continues to fall into dangerous fascistic territory under Danielle Smith.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Never trust the fey.

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New Childcare blog post is up on my Substack! Read my thoughts on the current status of child care in Alberta here: loom.ly/A0iqpPM AbLeg #ChildCare #yycAcadia www.threads.net/@dianabatten...

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~The St. Albert Gazette has been knocking it out of the park in exposing #UCPCorruption Timeline of how lobbyists with ties to UCP pushed coal policy rewrite The coal industry hired at least 14 UCP insiders to lobby for favourable policy changes www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/t...

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night. 800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream. There is a movement to be harnessed here. @sanders.senate.gov (📸 Anna Bahr)

submitted 6 days ago • 728 comments

In the era that I studied when I was still part of the academic world one recurrent topic was that of "over-mighty subjects". This referred to subjects of the Crown who were themselves so powerful that they threatened the sovereign power of the Crown itself. In the US we have no sovereign, or ...

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.

submitted 5 days ago • 104 comments

Europe can fairly easily replace American military support for Ukraine, but it will require massive investments to replace U.S. in NATO. Interesting assessments from @kiel.institute. www.ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Da...

submitted 6 days ago • 54 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 7 days ago • 76 comments

📢 Join us on Tuesday at the Budget Townhall and tell us what matters most to you! We are at a critical juncture for Alberta. The Alberta NDP is hosting a budget town hall to hear directly from you. Your voice can help shape a better path forward. #abpoli #BetterIsPossible

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i just want to write my little stories of lesser known figures of the white power movement who are already dead or in prison. i want to read old forum posts, court cases, & 1980s klan newsletters. but i can't ignore what's happening now, as republican lawmakers carry on the work those men started.

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

In a positive note it will really hamper their ability invade Canada, AND Mexico.

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“this is not a political parlor game for Canadians. They are incandescently furious, and they are right to be.” prospect.org/world/2025-0...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

STORY + DATA: The scale of Canadian efforts to boycott US goods is becoming clear. New border data shows crossborder traffic has utterly plummeted in the last month. Southbound traffic during the recent holiday weekend dropped by more than 40% from last year. fvcurrent.com/p/border-tra...

submitted 8 days ago • 84 comments

Nuclear proliferation will be consequence of the the US retreating from its allies to a world partitioned into sphere's of influence (Russia > Europe, China > East Asia, US > Americas). The only way to carve space out will be with nuclear deterrence. Canada's not the only one who needs the bomb

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I posted a copy of the 3 minute version of my speech from yesterday (with citations) if anyone is interested. Feel free to steal from it if you want! (also, this is literally less than half of the Nazi shit they're currently pulling)

submitted 9 days ago • 148 comments

This is what anti-fascism looks like

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Gary the Canadian Adventure Cat would like to remind America that if it invades Canada, its children will die, scared, alone and frozen.

submitted 8 days ago • 101 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 8 days ago • 1004 comments

I guess if anyone thought this press conference was going to be 1 or more resignations, you can tear up your bingo card now.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

submitted 9 days ago • 501 comments

I donated (again!) to Nate's defense fund. www.gofundme.com/f/vggge-lega...

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Imagine one of your employees accused another of funneling half a billion of your dollars to their friends. Imagine the accused told you not to worry. They're looking into it for you. That's where we are in Alberta. The premier and her staff are telling taxpayers to let them handle it.

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Lawyers should face disbarment because of this. As a professional, you are responsible and accountable for the output.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 13 days ago • 411 comments

None of these words are erotic

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

It’s enraging.

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I wanted to do something easy and light for my first real, public, non-academic foray into longform writing, so naturally I wrote about how we as a country should behave in the face of looming annihilation open.substack.com/pub/maxp94/p...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

It’s well known in industry circles that Smith is a boss who needs to be managed - both by ministers and lobbyists. It’s not surprising that she’s not told everything.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking about ASG doing my ACL reconstruction and the absolutely unhinged anti-vax rant from a the attending nurse was not confidence inspiring. #abpoli

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Nuclear proliferation is an obvious consequence of a multi-polar world oriented around might makes right. Ukraine, Germany, and yes Canada, will all need to consider the need to develop nuclear weapons.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

A Brief History of Kids Today Are Too Rude 🧵

submitted 16 days ago • 17 comments