People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

“Support for mandatory vaccinations is growing in Canada, poll finds”

globalnews.ca/news/1147248...

Premier Wab Kinew is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney resolve the trade dispute with China after recent comments from the Chinese ambassador to Canada suggested China was ready to lift the levy on canola and pork.

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

Premier Kinew has written PMMC advocating for Manitoba canola and pork farmers, asking for EV tariff relief so China will resume purchases of these commodities.
#mbpoli

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

The gunman who murdered the state lawmaker is a far-right conspiracy theorist and evangelical Christian.

Echoes of a very dark past.

From the Chicago Sun Times: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

“Meritocracy”
Save this in case you ever have imposter syndrome.
Should be curative.

Today is the International Day of the Girl!

Did you know that in Canada, girls and young women under 25 have the highest rates of sexual assault AND criminal harassment?

All girls deserve a life free from violence ❤️‍🩹

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.

What a horrific tragedy. This is what happens when people decide it’s acceptable for drug users to die, and when we allow law enforcement to pretend to be experts on drugs and how drugs work. It’s very likely that this man would be alive today if he had received medical care instead of imprisonment.

“For more than 3 hours, officers can be seen walking past while he lay on the floor in his urine in obvious distress…noting he was foaming at the mouth & having seizure-like activity…mistaking his medical emergency for a drug overdose…”

Except a drug overdose is also a medical emergency...

guards ignore—but are trained—that withdrawal is a life threatening condition, and ignoring someone in withdrawal is both deliberate and indifferent

the fact that they were *wrong* about this person’s emergency doesn’t make their conduct any less deliberate or indifferent

His BP was 240/216 when paramedics arrived

RIF notices also sent to the CDC’s 2023 and 2024 class of civilian EIS officers known as its main disease detectives, per sources. These are the people who are typically the first responders in an outbreak. 4/4

Among other RIF notices at CDC:
—Center for Forecasting and Analytics;
—all of CDC Washington
—Office of Human Resources
—National Center for Injury Prevention and Control 3/4

The CDC official who was leading the measles response and was RIFd has more than 28 yrs experience as the senior USG official leading outbreaks on Ebola, Marburg virus, and mpox. 2/4

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4