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Maxim Voronov

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Professor, Schulich School of Business, York University. Researching social change. Opinions my own. A jew against genocide in Gaza (and anywhere) #CleanAir https://schulich.yorku.ca/faculty/maxim-voronov/

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Maxim Voronov @drmaximvoronov.bsky.social · Jan 24

This new piece with @toubiana.bsky.social and Trish Ruebottom in @sciam.bsky.social, explored how Trump’s appeal mirrors the strategies of voyeuristic businesses, like reality TV or social media influencers. 🧵

How Reality TV Helps Explain Trump’s Success
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

How Reality TV Helps Explain Trump’s Success

What makes reality shows so popular also helps explain why Donald Trump is so popular

www.scientificamerican.com

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Maxim Voronov @drmaximvoronov.bsky.social · 10h

Via Euronews: Scientists uncover biological cause of Long COVID brain fog in major breakthrough
www.euronews.com/health/2025/...

Scientists uncover biological cause of Long COVID brain fog

New research offers what scientists describe as the first biological evidence of Long COVID brain fog.

www.euronews.com

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Maxim Voronov @drmaximvoronov.bsky.social · 10h

"Looking at the actual situation unfolding — as opposed to Russ Vought’s and Donald Trump’s social media feeds — suggests the White House is in a much weaker position than people seem to think."

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

Don’t Believe the Hype: Trump Bum-Rushing DC Reporters Edition

News comes today that Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought...

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Maxim Voronov @drmaximvoronov.bsky.social · 1d

Looking at you @MarkJCarney to deliver Homes For All in Budget 2025 👀
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Leadnow @leadnowca.bsky.social · 1d

📣 Say it with us: the rent is TOO DAMN HIGH.

That’s why we are fighting for #HomesForAll — and demanding the government invest in housing solutions that work for us.

Share this video, then join the Homes for All campaign 👉 leadnow.ca/HomesForAll

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline

People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

www.technologyreview.com

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Organization Studies @orgstudies.bsky.social · 2d

Our October Issue is here! 🎃🦇

𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝟰𝟲 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝟭𝟬, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7d

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KLM @klm.bsky.social · 7d

please think about this with your kids. it's on you to protect them - and you don't want them to live their entire lives with LC, which has no cure

start with boosters twice a year - less than 20% of you got your kids even one shot last year

Pam Belluck @pambelluck.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: Long Covid risk for children doubles after a second infection, study finds www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...

Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7d

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7d

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown.

Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 7d

“Reasonable Republicans.” Good luck with that Hakeem. The leadership of my new political party just does not understand this moment we’re in. They just don’t get it.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 7d

Hakeem Jeffries says "we're urging reasonable Republicans to come to the table."

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 7d

Huh, I'm hearing that the Democrats shut down the government, why can't Donald Trump make it open up again, I thought he was in charge, is he not in charge? Is he too weak to make the government open up again?

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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 19d

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream

The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

www.insidehighered.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government.

They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights.

We must fight back.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 7d

The people at this ostrich farm are the same gang that opposed M-103, co-opted yellow vests, push UN / WEF conspiracies, opposed lockdowns, face masks and vaccines, occupied Ottawa, harassed people at drag story time events etc

It’s all the same far-right influencers and content creators every time

Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 7d

A 72-year-old woman who lives next to that ostrich farm where a group of convoy people are camping out was doused in gasoline and physically assaulted by a man in a balaclava who may have been trying to light her in fire

She says she survived the attack by kicking the man in the nuts and biting him

RCMP investigate alleged assault of woman who lives beside B.C. ostrich farm

The RCMP are providing round the clock protection for a B.C., resident who lives next to Universal Ostrich Farms (UOF) after a masked man doused the woman in gasoline and punched her in the face.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Maxim Voronov @drmaximvoronov.bsky.social · 7d

Opinion | We need to stop being so naive about what America is becoming. Trump and his secretary of war just showed us why

"If we are going to prepare for what’s coming, we need to accept it’s already happening."

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Justin Ling: We need to stop being so naive about what America is becoming. Trump and his secretary of war just showed us why

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright observed some years ago that fascism is quite hard to define. It is not an ideology, she said. “I think it is a method,

www.thestar.com

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Maxim Voronov @drmaximvoronov.bsky.social · 8d

The Corrupt Supreme Court Must Be Reformed: Dems Must Champion It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-c...

The Corrupt Supreme Court Must Be Reformed: Dems Must Champion It

Going into 2026 and 2028 it’s time for — essential for —...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Maxim Voronov @drmaximvoronov.bsky.social · 9d

Encapsulates Ontario since 2018:

"Ford’s patented brand of chummy corporate socialism: To each according to whoever has the premier’s ear last, from each according to whoever was foolish enough to assume things were going to roll out as originally planned."

www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...

Star Editorial Board: Ontario’s botched Blue Box reform is a showcase for everything wrong with Doug Ford’s Ontario

Ontario's revamped curbside recycling regime has been so watered down it can no longer reasonably be expected to achieve the policy goals for which it was originally designed.

www.thestar.com

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 9d

Meal Team Six is on it

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 9d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9d

Hakeem Jeffries is acting like he *wants* to draw a strong primary challenger in 2026 and, honestly, I wish him all the luck in the world there.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11d

I really welcome creative thinking like this.

Because SIMPLY expanding the court won't be enough.

Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 11d

In a world where I'm President with supermajorities in Congress in 2029 what I do is:

1. Skip the 2029 SCOTUS term to put reforms in

2. Expand the Court to 13 justices (matching the Circuits)

3. Require justices to actually ride Circuit, hopefully this forces retirement of one's like Thomas (1/2)

Maine's Black Lawyer @lutherevers.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah. If Dems don't immediately go all-in on Supreme Court reform the second they regain power, this country won't survive.

I again float my idea of peaceful dissolution into 4 smaller regional countries.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 11d

As tanks closed in and relentless airstrikes occurred within a kilometre of our clinics, it was impossible to continue our vital work.

Thousands of people still remain in Gaza City, now stripped of critical medical support.

Read more here: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...

Palestine: MSF forced to suspend activities amid intensified Israeli offensive in Gaza City | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...

MSF halts operations in Gaza City as Israeli offensive intensifies, hospitals overflow and civilians face dire shortages of care, shelter and essentials.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca

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🇨🇦👠👠OhHellNoCanada👠👠 @ohhellnocanada.bsky.social · 11d

Doctors Without Borders forced to suspend lifesaving medical activities in Gaza 😢😢😢

Storm Dragon ⛈️ 🐉 @adragonbish.bsky.social · 11d

Not good!! 🥺

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 12d

IMPORTANT: Healthy indoor air has become a human right.
⬇️ 🧪 #healthpolicy
Thanks @luckytran.com

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13d

Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.

Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!

People signing the Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air at the UN

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12d

Use the words: Trump’s abuse of power is an act of tyranny: presswatchers.org/2025/09/use-... NEW ON PRESS WATCH

Use the words: Trump’s abuse of power is an act of tyranny | Press Watch

Trump's Second Term

presswatchers.org

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