8/ If you have tips about new ICE enforcement tactics in courts, my colleagues and I want to hear from you. Reach out to me on Signal (tilleckert.90) or via propublica.org/tips.

To clarify: All of the implementation and standards for Ontario speed cameras comes from the province: eligible locations, signage/warnings, amount of fines, and everything else. Cities aren't making this up on the fly - they are following provincial regulations for speed cameras.

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

Ontario has 800,000 unemployed workers. 800,000 people who are worried about how they are going to make ends meet. If they can stay housed. If they can afford to buy groceries this week. But sure, let’s keep talking about speed cameras, Doug. #OnPoli

Because this administration thinks everyone believes the rules only matter when it helps “your side” (like they do), they are counting on Comey’s unpopularity to normalize this. Don’t let it. Whatever you think of him or his actions in the past, etc. this indictment is dangerous and an outrage.

My art teacher walked with calipers because of childhood polio An elderly gentleman, paralysed from the chest down, used to propel himself along the road in an enormous bathchair. We who grew up with this knew why we took vaccines, and gave them to our kids: Vaccines cause adulthood #VaccinesWork

Hey, I built a desktop app that lets you download video and audio files from *most websites* with basically zero friction. No ads, spyware, or sketchy web-redirects. Sends stuff straight to your Downloads folder. Should work on Windows *and* Mac. Free to use. I need beta testers. Any takers?

Do not go to the USA.

1/ Many of us have followed this extraordinarily compassionate 🇨🇦 doctor throughout the pandemic. Dr. Markland was indefatigable in his advocacy for healthcare & patients, & so much more. Rest in peace, Dr. Darren Markland - www.westernstandard.news/news/beloved...

RIP @drdagly.bsky.social . His presence will be missed www.reddeeradvocate.com/home/edmonto...

Some of us do.

What Brett Sutton is saying now is nothing new. He was one of the few CHOs who openly stated that #COVIDisAirborne even in the early crisis years of the pandemic. This is an official Victorian Dept of Health video from 21 Dec, 2021.

The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

Medicine has experienced a lot of leadership failures lately, mismanaging COVID aerosol transmission, rejecting expertise, embracing anti-PPE (and increasingly anti-vaccine) pseudoscience etc. The >17,000 hits in Google Scholar for 'bullying "medical profession"' seem relevant to understanding why.

A reminder to everyone that this great lecture is as relevant today as it was in 2022. The speaker is Mario Possamai, a key figure in Ontario's "SARS Commission" inquiry that examined how infection control leaders mishandled SARS. If they'd listened, we could have stopped the pandemic in 2020.

Yikes. "SooToday has learned that MPP Chris Scott has been charged with assault and assault with a weapon. ...Scott is currently in custody. SooToday has learned his bail has been approved." #OnPoli

Fundamentally, the reason I avoid Covid is because all - all - of the elements of my life that bring me joy and fulfillment rest on my cardiovascular fitness and / or my cognition. I'm not going to risk a virus wrecking that, as I've seen happen to way too many people I know.

MAGA grifters are reusing the images and video from Ukrainian funeral processions from the services of fallen Ukrainian soldiers to pretend that they are for Charlie Kirk and to spread right wing propaganda.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

If you are still on the garbage website Academia dot edu, delete that account asap

BREAKING: ABC has pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air indefinitely following comments he made in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. Trump’s FCC chair earlier appeared on MAGA propagandist Benny Johnson’s show and threatened to revoke ABC’s broadcast license if they didn’t take action against him.

Since 1994 childhood vaccines have prevented: 508M cases of illnesses 32M hospitalizations 1.3M deaths Every $1 spent on childhood vaccines, the US has saved $10.90, totaling $2.7 trillion in societal savings. Yet, tomorrow ACIP will consider changing the schedule based on no science or data.

Let's address one of the most common clapbacks I get from anti-vaxxers: "If you want a jab, just get one. What does that have to do with me?" Let's begin. And let's use measles as an example.... Thread [1/8]

Upper respiratory tract immunization with Pam2Cys-adjuvanted spike protein vaccine achieves sterilizing protection against SARS-CoV-2 Published: 02 September 2025 www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

Intranasal vaccine stops infection at the source. In 2022, Australian researchers secured nearly $1M in grants to develop an intranasal COVID vaccine. New findings show it blocks the virus in the nose, stopping it from spreading in the body and preventing transmission to others. archive.md/iaSKv

The special will catalogue over 100 of Trump’s lies and falsehoods, with “brief text-based fact-checks, offering viewers the truth behind the tweets, speeches and soundbites.” Details: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

wow

Classic illustration of the false dilemma fallacy. “The false dilemma…involves presenting a limited number of options as if they were the only…available. This forces people to choose between two extremes, even though there is a spectrum of possibilities.” www.scribbr.co.uk/fallacy/fals...

I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed. Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing. Both sides!

I, a healthcare lawyer, run through how to navigate the pharmacy websites to make a COVID vaccine appointment. This video is completely shareable, there's no patreon account, no log in at all, required. It's meant to be a shareable resource for your normie friends www.patreon.com/posts/138393...

There is still time to sign the petition for better CSA mask standards in Canada. Check the link⬇️ www.aerosoltransmissioncoalition.ca @barryhunt008.bsky.social pls share

JUST IN: A federal appeals court allows Trump administration to end Planned Parenthood's Medicaid funding reut.rs/3JZCJOn

It’s “one of the most egregious interventions in university autonomy we've ever seen in Canada,” one scholar of governance in higher education says. A look at the Ontario government’s quiet takeover of university admissions and operations: thelocal.to/bill-33-onta...

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont just announced several actions to protect COVID vaccine access. Connecticut is: - recommending COVID vaccines for everyone ages 6 months and up - affirming that pharmacists can administer the vaccine to anyone “off-label” - requiring insurers to cover COVID vaccines

So is #DanielleSmith . In fact she has a whole town hall called #AlbertaNext to still it anti-immigrant views. #AbLeg #ABpoli

'We have basically destroyed what capacity we had to respond to a pandemic,' says leading epidemiologist Michael Osterholm www.livescience.com/health/virus...

Their ignorance is deadly.

In Russia's air raid on Ukraine tonight, about 15 of its attack drones have entered Polish airspace, per Ukrainian channels. There's been a few instances of these drones crashing in Poland to date, but this appears to be the most significant Russian intrusion into NATO airspace yet.

BC measles still going up. Sep 8: 268 cases. @tjradcliffe.bsky.social

Every timeline needs two GOATS having a good time... 😊 #bluesky #nature #animals

Israel bombing yet another capital city of yet another country. news.sky.com/story/israel...

Multiple people infected with measles in Utah during student cycling race kutv.com/news/local/m...

Since January 20, Russian air raids in Ukraine have intensified dramatically

Interesting podcast podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Trump’s problem is that so many Americans — including his MAGA base — believed that he’d expose a powerful global elite. But every day it's becoming more and more clear that Trump is actually part of that global elite. Expect him to lash out as the walls close in.

So this whole time, the Forest Service *wouldn't let* firefighters wear N95 masks or respirators to protect themselves while battling wildfires? This makes me really, really angry. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

More good news from Nevada: Walgreens confirmed this afternoon that the latest COVID-19 vaccines are now available in Nevada Walgreens, and eligible patients do not need a prescription (you should be able to self attest that you have an underlying condition).

"Millions Face Water Crisis Tomorrow": Himalayan Glaciers Disappearing 10 Times Faster Than Predicted, Threatening Entire Nations' Survival www.sustainability-times.com/climate/mill...