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God @thegodpodcast.com · 11h

Thou shalt not shoot pastors in the head with smoke bombs. I shouldn’t have to say this.

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MJ Nabuurs @mjnabuurs.bsky.social · 7h

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 7h

🚨 You can do something to prevent this disaster. Call your Senators - Republican ones as well as the Democrats; we need them - and tell them you only want a Surgeon General who respects & promotes evidence-based medical science, & you need them to vote NO on the confirmation of grifter Casey Means.

J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 8h

Mini essay 🧵: I've posted about this grifter nominee for Surgeon General before, & about *why* this admin. gravitates to such awful people: Means, like Dr. Oz & RFK himself, doesn't just hawk products; she sells both the idea that people are to blame...

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www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 10h

UPDATED: #Ontario #SARSCoV2 variants.

Of 31 samples from 9/28 - 10/1 (vs. 388, 9/21 - 9/27; 432, 9/14 - 9/20):
NB.1.8.1.* (incl. PQ.*): <4% (⬇️ 9%; ⬇️ 20.6%)
XFG.*: 90.3% (⬆️ 79.6%; ⬆️ 69.9%)
→ XFG.3.* (incl. QK.2): 48.4% (⬆️ 40.2%; ⬆️ 33.3%)

ratnegative.tumblr.com/ONVariants #COVID19

Of the samples collected in Ontario on these weeks, the prevalence of each of these significant variants/lineages are as follows:

- 9/28 - 10/1 -
• NB.1.8.1: <4%
• XFG.* (incl. XFG.1.1, ".3.*): 90.3%
→ XFG.3.* (incl. XFG.3.4.*): 48.4%
→ XFG.3.4.* (incl. XFG.3.4.1, ".3.4.3): 16.1%
• PY.1.1.1: 0%

- 9/21 - 9/27 -
• NB.1.8.1 (incl. PQ.1, ".2): 9%
• XFG.* (incl. XFG.1.* - ".3.*): 79.6%
→ XFG.3.* (incl. XFG.3.1.*, ".3.3.*, ".3.4.*, QK.2): 40.2%
→ XFG.3.4.* (incl. XFG.3.4.1 - ".3.4.3): 14.2%
• PY.1.1.1: 6.2%

X.X.* in text = X.X & descendants.

X.X.* in graph = all descendants of X.X, except for ones with own segment of week’s bar.

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MJ Nabuurs @mjnabuurs.bsky.social · 17h

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#WomensHistoryMonth2025
#WAGECanada

@mark-carney.bsky.social - Want to show you truly support women? Keep WAGE robust & well represented!

@coopspeak.bsky.social @theresisters.bsky.social

Celebrate Women’s History Month 2025

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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 22h

HEY #CANADA‼️❤️ Remember these faces at the polls. They ARE the #Premiers who insist they should have access to the #notwithstandingclause” to do as they see fit.

The law, intended to allow for unforeseen emergency or protections, isn’t intended to be a #powergrab.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

5 premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause | CBC News

Five premiers say Ottawa must withdraw its recent call for limits on the notwithstanding clause because it amounts to a "complete disavowal" of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights and Freed...

www.cbc.ca

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defeline.bsky.social @defeline.bsky.social · 19h

Indeed. 👇
I don’t ever want to shame someone for admitting they were wrong (oh so wrong), and helping us to take back America! #ResistFascism #FightForDemocracy

Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 21h

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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 1d

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 2d

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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 2d

Thank goodness for @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com & the small handful of others who deliver honest analysis.
If you ever needed more evidence of what a self-interested feckless enabler @jaketapper.bsky.social is, look no further than this abomination from @cnn.com.

#DementiaDon #WeekendAtBernie’s

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Andrew Robinson (no, not Garak) @andrewr.bsky.social · 2d

Ontario provincial government policy is confined to two topics: booze and cars.

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Ford says he'll yank Crown Royal from LCBO shelves if Diageo closes Ontario plant | CBC News

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he will pull Crown Royal off the shelves of the province's liquor stores should Diageo, the global company that produces the iconic Canadian whisky, go through with its ...

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

Piccini, who has final say over who receives money through the $2.5-billion Skills Development Fund (SDF), was in Paris this weekend at the wedding of Michael Rudderham, a lobbyist & longtime friend of the minister, The Trillium can report based on well-placed sources & social media records. #OnPoli

Jack Hauen @jackhauen.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: David Piccini, the minister whose office picks Skills Development Fund recipients, was in Paris this weekend at the wedding of a lobbyist whose clients received millions from that fund.

From me and @charliepinkerton.bsky.social.

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Ontario labour minister attended lobbyist’s wedding after granting his clients millions in training funds

Two clients of lobbyist Michael Rudderham have received more than $8.5 million in Skills Development Fund grants, records show

www.thetrillium.ca

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Dr. Ali Ibu RPsych 🇨🇦 @indo1908.bsky.social · 1d

Hell No! - do not give these conservative premiers more leeway to deny us our rights. Danielle Smith wants to use it to enact draconian ideological laws oppressing LGBTQ Albertans that are being challenged in court.

PM must give a Hard NO to every one of these assholes @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social

Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 2d

Attention is understandably focused on Washington, but this shouldn't go overlooked.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

5 premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause | CBC News

Five premiers say Ottawa must withdraw its recent call for limits on the notwithstanding clause because it amounts to a "complete disavowal" of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights and Freed...

www.cbc.ca

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Make America Decent Again @disposableheroes.bsky.social · Aug 25

One more time 👏👏👏

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MJ Nabuurs @mjnabuurs.bsky.social · 2d

Carney knows how to fluff Frump up and use words that aren’t always as complimentary as Frump thinks.

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WingFlex @wingflex.bsky.social · 2d

Because Canadians despise this regime, just like most of us in the US.

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Amy Young @ayoung.bsky.social · 2d

What is this picture @cnn.com ? It’s sure not Portland. Can’t take yall seriously when you make choices like this. There’s nothing burning in Portland.

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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 3d

The single most important lesson for Dem politicians

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Lindsay @lindsayjaykay.bsky.social · 3d

Done!

MJ Nabuurs @mjnabuurs.bsky.social · 6d

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Ghost Gurney @ghostgurney.bsky.social · 3d

Douglas gives a whole new meaning to the term ‘cash flow’.

Listen, he’s been doing this stuff from the start but #Ontario keeps handing him back the keys- so he’s picking up the pace of return trips to the trough. No one should be surprised

Jessica Smith Cross @jessiecatherine.bsky.social · 8d

BREAKING: Ford government skills training funding ‘not fair, transparent or accountable’: auditor general

Ford government labour ministers overruled civil servants to fund skills training by groups with lobbyists, according to a scathing new report

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

BREAKING: Ford government skills training funding ‘not fair, transparent or accountable’: auditor general

Ford government labour ministers overruled civil servants to fund skills training by groups with lobbyists, according to a scathing new report

www.thetrillium.ca

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MJ Nabuurs @mjnabuurs.bsky.social · 3d

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Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 5d

Long COVID exhibition co-produced with community opens:

“One of the key findings of our research was that people who are living with Long COVID want to raise awareness of this ongoing public health crisis, especially as COVID continues to circulate,”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Sean Duffy says the safety of the air traffic control system will start being impacted next Sunday if the shutdown continues

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MJ Nabuurs @mjnabuurs.bsky.social · 3d

Hey, #Canada!

Did you know today,

Oct. 6, 2025,

is our first

National Day of Action on Planetary Health?

Learn more here:

planetaryhealthday.ca

@jvipondmd.bsky.social - Literally carrying the world on your shoulders lol?

Photo of a white, male, middle-aged medical professional wearing a blue medical shirt, khaki pants, white lab coat, red stethoscope, and brown shoes. He is walking directly toward the camera holding a large royal blue and green globe on his left shoulder. He walks on a wide, grey and white striped path with people walking various directions behind him.

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MJ Nabuurs @mjnabuurs.bsky.social · 3d

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