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Moses may have parted the Sea of Reeds, but my offspring just spread cream cheese on an entire matzah and ate it without any pieces breaking off 😱

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Poilievre is dangerous to all of us. Glad to hear people talking about Poilievre’s relationship to Rebel News and True North—the cause of the media scrum shut down at the Leaders’ Debate—as some of us have lived through years of harassment condoned by Poilievre and far-right media. #CanadaStrong 🇨🇦

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This bodega cat just saw Eric Adams walk by their bodega.

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RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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We have to remind people over + over again, as reporting from @michaelehayden.bsky.social showed: Stephen Miller - at the center of Trump's push for massive deportations - is rooted in white nationalist ideology that wants to remove people of color from the US. itsgoingdown.org/what-you-nee...

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And I really really hate to hand it to Harvard, but I gotta hand it to Harvard here.

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Voting at an advance poll this weekend? Don’t be like the jerkface who was behind me & @bobapud.bsky.social today! * Advance polling places cover several polls. Yours may have the longest line, & that sucks, but you still can’t vote at the other ones, because you’re not on their list.

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This is useful, from Scientific American Biology doesn’t give us a simple binary model of sex Society, law and infrastructure needs to catch up so that everybody can have privacy, dignity and safety www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

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Vaccinating is “a personal choice” but your child getting lead poisoning from your municipal water supply is mandatory

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

THEY WON'T PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE BUT THEY'LL BREAK TAXPAYER PRIVACY LAWS TO DEPORT THOSE WHO DO FUCKERS thirty six times thirty six times the Torah commands us to care for, protect, love, deal justly with, treat "as a citizen" the non-citizen/stranger in our midst. can't even theocracy right

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs less to house people.

submitted 7 days ago • 39 comments

This is an own goal in an election where the Liberals must keep progressive voters, and it's a terrible signal of where their policies will be going if re-elected. The Conservatives would be worse, but that is more reason to push back now on the Liberals over things like this.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

‘after COVID” and “post COVID” are common parlance. This language is confounding not only because COVID-19 remains a threat, but also because one would be hard-pressed to find anyone similarly willing to say “post AIDS”, for example, despite AIDS being first recognized nearly half a century ago’.

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

New hospital study: air purifiers cut airborne COVID by 98%. Rooms with HEPA ventilation had 0 virus detected. Clean air is essential public health infrastructure — not a luxury. #COVIDisnotover #wearamask #cleantheair #itsnotoverjustbecauseyouareoverit www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Measles cases in Ontario, by year: 2013: 15 2014: 22 2015: 20 2016: 7 2017: 7 2018: 8 2019: 14 2020: 0 2021: 0 2022: 1 2023: 7 2024: 64 2025: 804 And it's only April 10. Nearly 5x more than the previous 12 years combined. From Public health Ontario: www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Docu...

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The US achieved its measles elimination status in 2000. If the current outbreak continues for more than 12 months, it could lose that status, even though the vaccine costs less than $1. Another astonishing own goal

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Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens

submitted 11 days ago • 146 comments

Because apparently it needs to be said over and over again: It is not antisemitic to say negative things about things the Israeli government does or says. It is not Good for the Jews™️ when non-Jews appoint themselves the arbiters of who is Jewish or what is antisemitic. >>

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Poilievre has vowed to defund Canada’s public broadcaster. Try covering that.

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments

Measles Is Dangerous medium.com/p/measles-is... by @GidMK The long-disproven myth the MMR vaccine causes autism "used to be popular mostly in the bizarre corners of the internet." But "it has become mainstream due to RFK Jr. & the current U.S. government endorsing it."

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After a freed hostage says that Netanyahu is to blame for her long captivity, his supporters start an online rampage, with "explicit threats against her life." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

submitted 13 days ago • 373 comments

At Carney events, reporters scrum and decide on the question and who will ask. They can ask followup. At Poilievre events, handlers suggest questions, reporter(s)who agree get priority, and Poilievre chooses reporters with no followup. #cdnpoli #canpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/fed...

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Here’s what RFK Jr. has done since a measles outbreak began which has killed 3 people so far: 1. Buried a CDC report showing need for vaccination 2. Recommended vitamin A, resulting in liver damage in kids 3. Defunded vaccination clinics nationally 4. Hired a fraud to manipulate vaccine data

submitted 14 days ago • 91 comments

Please Canada, only vote for parties committed to publicly-funded and publicly-delivered healthcare. Private health care has lots of problems and damages the public system, leading to worse care for almost everyone. See research of @alonghurst.bsky.social and others for details.

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

“Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Pierre Poilievre — none of these men became household names on merit, they simply cried the loudest. The entire conservative movement is composed of insufferable cry babies aided and abetted by spineless corporate media.”

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On this day of massive anti-Trump protests, Poilievre was asked (again) if his policies aren’t a bit Trump-adjacent: anti-government, anti-regulation, anti-media… “Your question is false,” Poilievre replied (again). “Trump has endorsed the Liberals.” More coming soon at @nationalobserver.com

submitted 15 days ago • 17 comments

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

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Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.

submitted 16 days ago • 1446 comments

The American Plan to Eliminate Vaccines www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/... by @jonathanjarry.bsky.social "Vaccines do not cause autism. I have recently written about how we know that vaccines are safe. You can also spend a day reading the many, many credible papers answering this question."

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COVID didn’t end. Its story just stopped being told. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/04/04/c... by @flannerydean.bsky.social 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

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New by @lukelebrun.ca Andrew Lawton, current PC candidate, was "a member of a secret group chat used by Freedom Convoy leaders and their lawyers to coordinate messages on social media with right-wing alternative media personalities and social media influencers" pressprogress.ca/conservative...

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SUPER weird take I just encountered: All kids are eager to talk to everyone! If a child is shy or introverted [this person appears to think these are synonyms], this can only be due to severe trauma of some kind. What would lead someone who works with kids to conclude this??

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Hey, Canadians! Do you care about evidence-informed policy? Do you want our federal government to support scientific research? Help make science a priority in #Elxn2025! evidencefordemocracy.ca/vote-science/

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