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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1h

Sat on a board once with a self described ‘devils advocate’. It became clear her one job was to rip apart any solution to every problem while never submitting a solution. Ever.

No reason I thought of her, today. 😒

#never51
#neverPP
#elbowsUp

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1h

Why are they building shit that will make us stupider…oh. Never mind.

Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 2h

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
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ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 2h

Claque. Perfect.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 2h

Since when was the goal to save lives become trying to kill as many as they can? The right keeps bleating about not enough babies, but why, when they just want to kill as many as they can? I will never understand this.
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#never51
#elbowsUp

Ed Belongia MD @belongia.bsky.social · 3h

CDC has been a global leader in public health & played a key role in smallpox eradication. Health depts in red states & blue states rely on CDC expertise & support. The CDC EIS program trains the next generation of public health leaders & disease detectives.

They are burning it to the ground.

JAMA Health Forum Oct 9, 2025 by LO Gostin and P Lurie.
Abstract
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has long served as the cornerstone of the US
public health system, combining technical expertise, evidence-based policy recommendations, and high-quality health information. Yet, it is undergoing profound weakening by the Trump administration, including major funding cuts, the dismissal and resignation of experienced senior staff, and the erosion of its scientific independence. With tightening political control, public trust in
the CDC is diminishing. Undermining the agency’s reputation and capacities will reverberate for generations, making the nation less prepared for future health emergencies, including diseases of
pandemic potential. At this perilous moment, we document the current assault on the CDC that will inevitably have serious repercussion

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 2h

I swear their goal is to kill off as many of the left as they can. 🤷‍♀️

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 2h

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

Figure showing the largest measles outbreak in the US in decades. There are over 1500 cases as of October 7 2025

Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 2h

I support Planned Parenthood but not PP the person.

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 2h

I was asked by a pharmacy to provide feedback on a recent online purchase. They made the mistake of asking if I wanted so comment on anything else. I asked if their store had filtration. I think I will start asking every store the same question.
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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 2h

No. No, I am not.

Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 6h

You okay with it?

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FSC G. Z17 @fortinstcommando.bsky.social · 13h

#NoKings10-18 #mikeGrindrBoyjohnson #EpsteinShutDown #trumpEpsteinFiles #Nakba48 #SlavaUkraini #BLM #LandBack #FreePalestine #EndCitizensUnited #Medicare4All #Fuckgop #FuckIce #BoycottDisney #BoycottWalmart #BoycottHomeDepot #BoyCottDelta #BoycottTarget #BoycottCBS #Fuckdonold #NoBathroomsnazis

Eric Slater @esslater.bsky.social · 1d

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 3h

Are these guys their ‘best’? Seriously? Sounds like the whole party needs to be in jail. Weren’t they insistent a certain someone should be locked up? But how many GOP are facing charges? Trump going to pardon them all?
#never51
#elbowsUp

blueanimallover.bsky.social @blueanimallover.bsky.social · 12h

Another one...

Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 3h

Yo, BC. It’s flu, covid, measles, et bloody cetera, season. I just bought another package of masks. I survived a brain bleed last year. I don’t intend to die, or worse, live with Long covid for the rest of my life.

But you do you, I guess?

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Susan🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍁 TEAM 🇨🇦 @bellwhitworth.bsky.social · 4h

Dear Ontario!

Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 5h

Masks required again in all P.E.I. Health Facilities because “Masks are are known to be one of those easy measures that we can implement to ensure the safety and the health of our health-care workforce and our overall health-care system"

www.cbc.ca/news/canad%E...

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 12h

Jaysus.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 16h

Literally cutting of her nose to spite her face.

Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17h

She wants a fight with Ottawa, not a pipeline. And she’ll do almost anything — including damaging the prospects of a new pipeline — to make it happen.

St. Albert Gazette @stalbertgazette.bsky.social · 19h

BEYOND LOCAL: Alberta Premier Smith says Ottawa is dodging responsibility for pipeline decision

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 16h

Guess Rustad has been serving the (ahem) special orange ‘juice’…?

Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 17h

"I would be surprised that that would be an action that would be taken, and in terms of the privacy and the protection of the caucus members, and what they contained on their phone, it seems problematic to me."

#bcpoli

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 16h

Because of course he is. It’s what he always does. No wonder he doesn’t leave politics. How else is he going to get rich?

Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 18h

Fundraising on the taxpayers' dime

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 16h

In his dreams.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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Bryson The Gaytive @brysonthegaytive.bsky.social · 1d

Your reminder not to dress up as a Native person this Halloween.

That includes white folks donning the “Chakotay” tattoo in your #StarTrek costume.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19h

If you like my work, please share and subscribe. I'm trying to override a variety of shadowbans and broken algorithms. Thank you!

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19h

New Q & A answers are up! Readers sent in thoughtful questions on city raids, digital surveillance, the disappearing internet, and much more: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 18h

Working, albeit slowly. But towels and test sample are wet finished. I think I’m good to go with finishing the current warp. Just have to re-check pick count and adjust length. Started ms ‘review’. I am SO excited for this book. It has made its go fund me so will publish in 26. 📕

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The Georg @thegeorg.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody wins a peace prize by starting a war within their own country. #AbolishICE.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone actually care about this? Y’all happy with the destruction of environmental protections? Work safety? Safe food? Letting people get sick and die?
#never51
#elbowsUp

Dr Adam Levy @climateadam.bsky.social · 1d

I'm beginning to think Musk might not care about the environment after all...

www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

www.propublica.org

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Margaret Sanger must be spinning in her grave. (Yes, I know, but without her efforts we would not have had birth control etc.)

The alt right want to remove anyone not male to be baby producers. Back to no basic human rights. No choice. No freedom.

#never51
#elboesUp

Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

The South Carolina GOP is pushing for one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans. If passed, the bill would:
✅Make abortion a felony equivalent to homicide
✅Narrow the legal definition of contraceptives
✅Criminalize sharing information about abortion
https://bit.ly/47ipe5t

New Attack on Free Speech: South Carolina GOP Wants to Criminalize Sharing Abortion Info