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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

The federal Health Minister said it’s “impossible” to release the $4B promised for national health projects, and won’t fund new team-based care programs.

canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...

Health promises walked back in run-up to Carney’s first budget

The federal Health Minister said it’s “impossible” to release the $4B promised for health projects, for now.

canadahealthwatch.ca

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

AP: “A U.S. Senate investigation report released by @ossoff.senate.gov has uncovered dozens of credible reports of medical neglect and poor conditions in immigration detention centers nationwide…” apnews.com/article/immi...

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sandverge.bsky.social @sandverge.bsky.social · 1d

No need to leak the Republican Healthcare platform; in a nutshell, it is "pay up or die."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson talks about the Republican "healthcare plan" like it's highly classified information: "We're not gonna be on a conference call explaining all our plans and strategies for healthcare reform, because they're leaked in real time."

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sandverge.bsky.social @sandverge.bsky.social · 1d

Site of one of the bills: www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/202...

www.revisor.mn.gov

sandverge.bsky.social @sandverge.bsky.social · 1d

There is an actual anti-vax bill shown here designating mRNA injections and products as weapons of mass destruction:
apnews.com/article/vacc...

Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century

More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.

apnews.com

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 1d

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.

I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

Many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics, and never hope for a democratic alternative: Our state may be corrupt, but everyone else is corrupt too. You may not like our leader, but the others are worse. You may not like our society, but at least we are strong and the democratic world is weak, degenerate, divided, dying.

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sandverge.bsky.social @sandverge.bsky.social · 1d

So glad that you are working hard for real science. If it's at all heartening for you, I know someone very much on the right who used to fall for his BS who now suggests facetiously that if you are feeling ill, you should do some heroin, eat roadkill, and swim in sewage.

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sandverge.bsky.social @sandverge.bsky.social · 1d

It just seems difficult to "like" a post with a heart when you are thinking "Bloody hell, another step toward fascism worldwide."

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sandverge.bsky.social @sandverge.bsky.social · 2d

What we really need is an icon that says "Thank you for letting me know about this even if I am deeply disgusted by it".

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Tess McGill @txbluewave.bsky.social · 3d

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sandverge.bsky.social @sandverge.bsky.social · 2d

www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...

Thirsty AI data centres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight | CBC News

Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will mean for the country’s water.

www.cbc.ca

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westvillagecrank.bsky.social @westvillagecrank.bsky.social · 3d

FWIW:

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Poll: Americans prefer Democratic position on ending the shutdown by a 2-to-1 margin

Just 27% agree with Republicans that lawmakers shouldn't extend Obamacare subsidies before reopening the government. A majority (51%) says they should.

www.yahoo.com

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 4d

www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...

Thirsty AI data centres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight | CBC News

Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will mean for the country’s water.

www.cbc.ca

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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 3d

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

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sandverge.bsky.social @sandverge.bsky.social · 3d

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meta @metatheory.bsky.social · 3d

Speaking of BLOATED:

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meta @metatheory.bsky.social · 3d

Just a reminder that in addition to their starting salary of $174,000 (+ expenses and top of the line benefits), members of Congress get a $79 daily reimbursement for meals and incidentals WHILE IN WASHINGTON, DC.

SNAP benefit is $6 a day.

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sandverge.bsky.social @sandverge.bsky.social · 3d

Fascinating article:
www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin...

The Decline of Deviance

Where has all the weirdness gone?

www.experimental-history.com

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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 3d

Covid is rotting your brain and damaging your immune system, Life before vaccines, and more

open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...

Covid is rotting your brain and damaging your immune system, Life before vaccines, and more

Bonus Add your name to a Call for the Universal Use of Respirators in Healthcare

open.substack.com

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 3d

Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories.

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

The Telegraph Headline: New Covid virus found in wild Brazilian bats

Subhed: The discovery of a ‘furin cleavage site’ suggests the mutation which helps the virus adapt to humans is naturally occurring

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sandverge.bsky.social @sandverge.bsky.social · 3d

Insight into programmed economical failure.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...

I Know Exactly What They Are Doing

Rural foresight

jesspiper.substack.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4d

What happens when the Administration for Strategic Preparedness & Response is not strategic, prepared, or capable of responding because it's run by an unqualified anti-vax scammer?

Thanks to @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social's always excellent reporting, we have a clear view of the ongoing ASPR disaster.

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 4d

1/3 John Knox, anti-vaccine activist, is now acting head of ASPR -- the agency that handles pandemic response.

He’s called COVID vaccine campaigns “nothing other than genocide.” 😶

Not exactly reassuring...

Meet the anti-vaccine activist who could lead the response to the next pandemic

Former firefighter John Knox's ties to RFK Jr. have landed him atop the agency that helped bring Covid-19 under control. People in the know are worried.

www.msnbc.com

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A Dandelion @onedandelion.bsky.social · 4d

Yup❗

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 5d

Measles outbreak expected to continue in northeast B.C., health officials say #BritishColumbia

Models predict Fort St. John could see 5 or more cases a day as transmission stays high

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

Measles outbreak expected to continue in northeast B.C. with 5 or more new cases a day, health officials say | CBC News

Despite a surge in summer vaccinations, health officials say the measles outbreak in northeastern British Columbia shows no sign of slowing down.

www.cbc.ca

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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 6d

UPS just said it cut 48,000 jobs this year.
Here’s why that matters:

💰 The company is making record profits;
📈 Its stock rose after the layoffs.

When a company calls that “savings,” it’s not efficiency — it’s putting profits way over people.

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sandverge.bsky.social @sandverge.bsky.social · 5d

Shouldn't be too hard to focus on the sex scandals and crypto Trump-enriching schemes, not to mention money to Argentina.

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