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Michael Boo-jack 🎃 🇨🇦 @michael.burjack.com · Nov 10

“I'm very concerned that our society is much more interested in information, than wonder. And noise, rather than silence. … How do we encourage reflection? … Oh my, this is a noisy world.”
— Mr. (Fred) Rogers

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

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MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 8h

Just astonishing how much focus there is on planting trees to hopefully create new forests for the future

And all the while the plunder and destruction of our actual, existing forests just carries on worsening

This is horrific news

‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns

Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus

www.theguardian.com

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ScienceUpFirst @scienceupfirst.bsky.social · 4h

Nope. Measles isn’t just a childhood disease. It can affect anyone!

Learn more about measles and who is most at risk for serious infection here: tinyurl.com/MeaslesNeedT...

This post was made in collaboration between (@immunizecanada.bsky.social) and (@ScienceUpFirst)

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 5h

Liberals clutching their pearls on this site when told that not masking to protect others in essential public spaces is ableist. Instead of getting angry, they should reflect on how they can do better

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 4h

New York Times, AP, Reuters and Newsmax among news organizations fighting new press rules #USA

Outlets say policy threatens to punish routine news gathering protected by the 1st Amendment

www.cbc.ca/news/world/n...

New York Times, AP, Reuters and Newsmax among news organizations fighting new press rules | CBC News

News organizations including the New York Times, The Associated Press and the conservative Newsmax television network said Monday they will not sign a Defence Department document about its new press r...

www.cbc.ca

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 15h

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 7h

#transparencyoncovid

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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 7h

“Paternal SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm small noncoding RNAs and increases anxiety in offspring in a sex-dependent manner”

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Client Challenge

www.nature.com

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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 6h

I’d rather be Canadian than vote for the Conservatives.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 6h

Mother urges parents to get RSV antibody for newborns after son's harrowing experience #Ottawa

50% of babies with RSV are hospitalized

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Mother urges parents to get RSV antibody for newborns after son's harrowing experience | CBC News

A mother is sharing the devastation she felt watching her newborn son develop respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and urging Ontario parents to get a newly available preventative treatment for their bab...

www.cbc.ca

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 6h

“she described meeting with the group that spearheaded Project 2025, the plan to rapidly overhaul the U.S. government under President Donald Trump“

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Smith Reveals Meeting with the US Heritage Foundation After Trump Win | The Tyee

The Alberta premier said she met with the right-wing think tank because of its influence on the president.

thetyee.ca

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 17h

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Chris Ratzlaff @ratzlaff.bsky.social · 18h

Finally made my way to Abraham Lake for the Fall submerged forests!
Inspired by @Pushtheimpossible and @Herry
#fall #nature #lake #drone #fpv

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 17h

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17h

I reread Heinlein frequently; all his work is aging (as is everyone's) but not all of it at the same rate. Asimov I rarely reread, I find his prose workman-like at best and tin-eared at worst. He's inarguably incredibly important to SF, and also today there are SO MANY better writers of prose.

jeann3z.bsky.social @jeann3z.bsky.social · 17h

Haven't been able to read Heinlein or Asimov for decades, and I grew up on Heinlein

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 17h

We are going to close tonight with another Onion article that has more facts than the New York Times.

Good night all 🌌

The Onion @theonion.com · 20h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Jenn 🇨🇦 @jenniferhogan.bsky.social · 2d

ugh, Canada, too?

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 2d

Just curious…

Hands up if you just believe the science you publish and you think everything else is bullshit?

I’m referring to the half-decade of research & half-million publications showing SARS-CoV-2 can lead to new and worsening health conditions of every variety.

I’m talking to you academia.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 19h

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 22h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice.

Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice.

Cutting food assistance for children is a policy choice.

Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice.

Make no mistake: Trump and the GOP just chose to do this.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 19h

From the DM’s…

This is Danielle Smith’s disintegrated system she swore she would fix in 90 days.

3 years ago.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Duane Bratt @duanebratt.bsky.social · 19h

Total Calgary operating budget for 2026 is $4.6 billion. Sad that two current councillors (Sharp and McLean) and one former councillor (Davison) believe that the city of Calgary is spending $87 billion just on climate change.

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