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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Aug 22

For those who haven’t yet seen, this👇is an important piece by the co-founder of @dekleptocracy.bsky.social
“Canada should demand that any index provider or institutional investor seeking Canadian pension business must exclude DJT [Truth Social’s parent company] from their holdings.”

The Tyee @thetyee.ca · Aug 18

Here’s how to find out. And fight back, writes Kristofer Harrison.

Your Pension May Be Fuelling Trump’s Hate Machine | The Tyee

Truth Social is a bad investment by any measure. Here’s how to cut its Canadian lines of support.

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 4h

This is frightening -> "The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 5h

They don't care about health, they care about control

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 5h

Ah, well, I'm sure Jim O'Neil will just make all the decisions. Super cool.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 6h

Really?

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 13h

Sesame bagel, 1/2 the cream cheese, all the lox

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 13h

I’m sorry, but nothing screams I SWEAR I AM NOT THE ANTICHRIST more than hearing about some billionaire AI-obsessed technofascist’s obsession with the Antichrist. A billionaire whose face is actively melting off before our eyes to expose the digital demon beneath, I might add!

Candybaz @barryodonovan.bsky.social · 16h

Peter Thiel is quite, quite mad.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Justin Lehmiller @justinlehmiller.bsky.social · 13h

Research finds a link between a sense of shared power in a marriage and better sexual outcomes for both men and women. Those who report more shared power report more sexual passion, and shared power predicts increases in passion over time. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02654075251350075

Power and passion: An exploration of the relationship between marital power processes and sexual passion styles - Ashley Forbush, Dean Busby, Jeremy Yorgason, Erin Holmes, 2025

Limited research has explored the connections between relational power and sexual motivations in couple relationships. Self-determination theory provides a fram...

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 13h

This should scare the fuck out of everyone because this guy is funding fucking everything

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 13h

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Christopher Graves 👻🎃✊🏿 @itsmechriswade.mov · 13h

Put this in your minds now: these corrupt motherfuckers will argue in favor of Trump and the AI corporations that back him. Many AI companies like Palantir already define themselves by their pocketbook and because many of the judges here take bribes, they too will serve their billionaire masters.

Reuters @reuters.com · 13h

US Supreme Court asked to hear dispute over copyrights for AI creations reut.rs/478nrij

US Supreme Court asked to hear dispute over copyrights for AI creations

A computer scientist on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that a work of art generated by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 17h

So this IL Hospital Association memo describes an incident where ICE detained a US citizen, gave them HEART PROBLEMS, took them to a hospital where the fought with medical personnel, then left when they realized they detained a CITIZEN.

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 1d

I have no time for bullshit. Come into my feed and assert some massive opinion without reading what we are discussing and then tell me you have no time for the facts = block.

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Dan Collen @dancollen.bsky.social · 1d

For the normal people in the room, you should probably know this shit is a hit with neo-Nazis. The 14-year old Groyper you know has more space in his head for circumcision conspiracies (all of which blame the Jews) than you have space in your head for your cousins' first names.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe you should read the article we are discussing and this is an important scientific point not some bullshit point

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 1d

Obstacles in getting MHT have nothing to do with this study. Or with me as I have actively advocated for evidence based medicine in menopause for a very long time.

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 1d

Ha thanks

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 1d

You cannot conclude cause and effect from a small observational study of bio markers.

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 1d

It’s an observational study of bio markers.

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 1d

Ducking asshole he is

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 1d

Hoping to contribute with solar at the new house!!!

NPR @npr.org · 1d

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 1d

lol if you are a young pregnant American citizen in an ER you may not get the treatment you need and instead get sepsis because of forced birth Republican laws

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d

Federal law prohibits ERs from treating people differently based on their ability to pay or citizenship status.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 3d

I might be biased, but this seems like reasonable advice. I have not been approved by the FDA to treat or prevent disease

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

A Plea From Doctors: Cool It on the Supplements

www.nytimes.com

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Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 3d

Elections Alberta has approved a citizen-initiated petition application to gather signatures in support of the proposal to end public funding to independent/private schools.

Calgary teacher Alicia Taylor says she brought it forward because it could help improve funding for public schools. #AbEd

Alberta teacher prompts petition on province's private school funding | CBC News

If high school chemistry teacher Alicia Taylor gets her wish, Albertans will vote in a referendum on whether to end public funding for independent schools.

www.cbc.ca

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