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This Juneteenth, I’m asking you to support two initiatives. 1) The Expansion of #FindThatLizard. I want to travel to get more photos of more species of lizards. 2) #FindThatLizard scholarship for girls, women, and gender non-conforming people interested in herpetology.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

There are many reasons why I think the American democracy is in danger and one of those is in plain sight on the streets. Citizens cannot be grabbed by masked men with no uniforms and no visible ID, to be spirited away to an unknown location. They are literally secret police.

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'Razor blade throat' -- What to know about #COVID19 variant NB.1.8.1. A common symptom of the latest COVID variant is intense throat pain, by @juliamariegz.bsky.social, Greta Cross ‬ www.usatoday.com/story/news/h... via @usatoday.com

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The news stations are talking about how much money the anti-ice protests have cost LA and I want to everyone to know, the protests didn’t cost the city money. ice cost the city money by coming here to terrorize Angelenos. Our city has the right to fight back.

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1/Thought provoking & persuasive piece by @drjengunter.bsky.social that the term HRT should be replaced by HT (hormone therapy) or MHT (menopause hormone therapy), shedding 'replacement' and with it the suggestion menopause is a disease. UK very attached to HRT vajenda.substack.com/p/menopause-...

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Ask yourself a simple question. If the majority of illegal immigrants were European, would these warrantless masked arrests and deportations be taking place across the United States? Would they all be smeared as dangerous criminals? Would marines be sent to LA? Would visitors from Europe be banned?

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Ultrasonic flea/tick repellants for pets. Easy to find, splashy advertizing, but do they work? TLDR: There's no supporting evidence and often the 'evidence' that's used in marketing is crap. 1/3

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When Politicians Play Doctor, People Die https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/06/18/Politicians-Play-Doctor-People-Die/ @thetyee.ca 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca

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I agree. A basic rule of statistics is to retain the information available, don't needlessly summarize it before analysis. A ranked ballot contains more information on a voter's preference than a simple check mark for one candidate. Therefore it better mirrors the preferences of a voter.

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“They're missing the whole point in that we're seeing more fires, a longer fire season, more intense fires, more severe fires, because the climate is changing due to human activities,” said fire expert Mike Flannigan. “It's a serious omission, and that's being very polite.”

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Right now the White House Situation Room is like a vacuum chamber except it isn't oxygen that's missing. It's missing qualifications, intelligence, experience, ethics, and the best interests of the American people and the world community. What could go wrong?

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

AI can bring many advancements as it develops but also at a cost: fewer jobs, lower wages, higher unemployment, new AI demands on scarcer water and electricity, lower average education, more plagiarism, a less intelligent population, more advanced fraud + disinformation, and less human originality.

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Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

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I just want to sit down with a Google AI person, one on one, and ask them what information their robots are going to steal if there is no one producing information anymore. Maybe they've thought this through... but I don't think they have. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...

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Alberta to charge for #COVID19 shots as its war against #vaccination continues. It’s clear government would be happy if no one requested the COVID-19 vaccine so it could pretend the disease doesn’t exist at all, by @gillian2.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... via @thestar.com

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

One month apart.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Not an official "Dear Veterinarian" letter but my own plea to avoid causing harm through inappropriate nitrofurantoin use in dogs and cats. It's a good drug for UTIs but only gets useful drug levels in the bladder (so it's useless for other infections).

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A judge comes down HARD on "arbitrary" Trump administration directives that cancelled funding for a large number of NIH projects. He angrily noted "discrimination" against women's and LGTBQ+ health research. Read this entire thread, it's 🔥🔥🔥.

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#G7 #Canada #cdnpoli #Trump #cdnpolitics

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

Trump meeting with Carney on G7: "Barack Obama, and a person named Trudeau didn't want to have Russia in, then I would say that that was a mistake." Fact check: Russia was suspended in 2014 following its annexation of Crimea. Harper was the Canadian PM, not Trudeau. It was a joint G7 decision.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

#measles can harm children in many ways. The best way to prevent that from happening is to make sure they are vaccinated. Ontario and Alberta are seeing a historic rebound in measles cases, most are in unvaccinated children.

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Clever Strava drawings a perfect intersection of art, fitness and road rash. B.C. cyclist Janine Strong creates massive GPS-tracked sketches around the world, by @jjadams.bsky.social vancouversun.com/news/strava-... via @vancouversun.bsky.social #cycling

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Seems like yesterday I pointed out the high probability Danielle Smith is MAGA given her fringe positions on health, including a past record of fighting against an anti-smoking group and her commissioning of a fringe pandemic report mocked by experts. Now she is following RFK Jr's advice. #cdnpoli

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Seems like just yesterday I pointed out Trump's deportation support is in part based on a lie about immigrants and crime. I find nothing more disgusting than building hate against a group based on lies. But this is the new normal.

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Happy Father's Day & don't forget the lessons learned. (H/T - The Dad Briefs)

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If they haven’t had a million cat videos by the end of the week then I will be very disappointed in Great Britain.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

The No Kings protest was massive! Historic turnout across the country. Shoutout to all the cities and towns that showed up in force:

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Orca rebellion acquires autonomous drone technology

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Wouldn't happen to Trooping the Colour. This is how you do a birthday parade for the head of state you rubes

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In classic Friday afternoon bad-news dump, UCP moves to make COVID vaccines expensive and hard to find. albertapolitics.ca/2025/06/in-c...

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“No Kings Day is about standing up for our democracy. Standing up for our rights, our liberties and making sure that we are sending a strong message that we are going to have a free and fair democracy,” Deirdre Schifeling, the ACLU’s chief political and advocacy officer, told Democracy Docket.

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

Troubling trend.

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Family doctors are now a condo amenity. The CDC gave its outbreak data to Ρаlаntіr. A "harmless" virus might be behind MS, lupus, and long COVID. This week’s newsletter is... something. 👇 canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...

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Robert Malone would easily be in my top five looniest characters of the pandemic. I saw him quoted many times by extremists who dropped by to explain their vaccine conspiracy theories to me. Yet now he has power over US #vaccine decisions. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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Support for the Trump administration's aggressive approach on immigrant deportations is in part based on the repeated claim that illegal immigrants cause more crime. Yet I have been unable to find any evidence of this. In fact, the evidence I can find says the opposite. www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1...

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From November 2024 (when Trump was elected) to April 2025, there has been a 788% increase in American doctors applying for licences to practice in Canada. mcc.ca/news/welcomi... via @medcouncilcan.bsky.social @alexmunter.bsky.social

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Do you need travel insurance? What to know as trade war, stricter border rules upend summer plans https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/article-travel-insurance-guide-canada-us-trump-border-rules/ 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca

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Research highlights high risk of multi-organ complications, death after dengue infection www.cidrap.umn.edu/dengue/resea... @cidrap.bsky.social 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca

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Nothing says “I’m an insecure wannabe dictator” like throwing yourself a big ol’ military parade for your birthday. Congrats on the tanks, you absolute buffoon, you orange Dollar Store Hitler. We hope it rains. www.life.com/history/adol...

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

Sounds about right. 1985 was about fifteen years ago, 2010 was about ten years ago, and 2020 three full fucking centuries ago.

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“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

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I wonder what Trump would have to do to NOT get invited? Be convicted of multiple felonies and found guilty of sexual assault? Incite an insurrection? Threaten annexation of the host country? Invoke unilateral tariffs on G7 members? Sabotage NATO? Side with Putin vs Ukraine? #CanadaStrong #ElbowsUp

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Drug analyzer goes mobile in Thunder Bay, Ont., in wake of consumption site's closure www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @cbcnews.ca 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca

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This U.S. doctor is making the move to B.C. Here's why. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @katiederosa.bsky.social 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca

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