Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉
@alonghurst.bsky.social
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Political economist, health policy researcher, SFU PhD candidate. Research Associate with CCPA and others. Health care finance & delivery, wait times, privatization. BC-based, Canada-wide views. https://sites.google.com/view/andrew-longhurst
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alonghurst.bsky.social
UN experts have said the IDF's "targeted destruction" of Gaza's health-care system amounts to "medicide." The UN has accused Israel of deliberately attacking and starving health-care workers, paramedics and hospitals in order to wipe out medical care in the besieged enclave.
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andrewjweinstein.com
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
alonghurst.bsky.social
Fascism below the 49th

Meanwhile Carney is busy polishing the narcissist autocrat’s ego

Appeasement didn’t work in the 1930s. I don’t think it will today
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bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight
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stillcovidingca.bsky.social
Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

The Washington Post
October 7, 2025
By Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello, David Satcher

stillcoviding.ca/en/news/six-...

#WarOnScience
Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
stillcoviding.ca
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Greg Abbott sends the elite Meal Team 6 from the Texas National Guard into Illinois.
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mehlerpaperny.bsky.social
There's a telling moment in CBC's Cross Country Checkup call-in show where the host asks the doctor heading Alberta's expansion of involuntary treatment for addiction if it works - and he can't answer. (It has not been shown to work for addiction.)
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.
peterwalker99.bsky.social
NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
There’s no world where Israel goes back to normal after this egregious, bloody chapter comes to a close.

It must change. The Palestinian people must have freedom and guaranteed equal rights.
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.
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lidsville.bsky.social
Israel and the US are hellbent on becoming the mirror of each other
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thetyee.ca
“It was a lightning rod of hope. We brought in thousands of new members to this party, many of whom were completely disillusioned with politics.”

Emily Lowan’s victory is a sign that the climate movement still has the energy to capture voters. Hugh Chan writes. #bcpoli
How a Zoomer Became Leader of the BC Green Party | The Tyee
Inside the campaign that scored a victory for 25-year-old Emily Lowan.
thetyee.ca
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fayzaa.bsky.social
What Gramsci said
tyleraking.com
We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd
Jared Kushner's Firm Is Said to Be Part of $50 Billion Buyout of Electronic Arts Mr. Kushner's private equity firm, Affinity Partners, is said to be in talks with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and Silver Lake to buy out the video game giant.
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
"We absolutely need to stop the boats,” Polanski said, “but let’s stop the boats by offering safe and legal routes to asylum and not having people clinging on to dinghies for dear life.*

www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...
Zack Polanski: “We absolutely need to stop the boats”
The Greens’ Zack Polanski on facing up to Reform
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
Barbra Streisand is joining Jane Fonda and 600+ entertainment figures in re-launching the Committee for the First Amendment. Fonda announced the revival of the organization, initially founded by her father, Henry Fonda. The organization was founded in the 1940s to defend free speech against fascism.