The latest from YouGov (n ~ 2.2k): No one's buying this Greenland shit. Trump loses virtually everyone on the threat of force. He barely gets *half of Republicans* on "purchasing" Greenland. today.yougov.com/topics/overv...

Linked YouGov also has Venezeula numbers, and as someone who has studied public opinion on uses of force for 30 years.... these are TERRIBLE numbers for a President immediately after a surprise tactical success with strong claims of direct US interests from President. Not just no rally, TERRIBLE

During the worst of COVID, my Dean allowed me to focus 100% of my time on combating the pandemic through public engagement. Traditional research could wait. Universities across the USA need to grant their professors similar leeway now to battle the creep of fascism in whatever way they can.

Canada is a deeply flawed country with its own messed up politics and problems right now, but every day I read the news, it gets clearer why my decision to move from NYC back to Toronto was the right one

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

I used to hate the media studies emphasis in our English curriculum, but now I see its value. Literacy is about more than being able to read. Media and political literacy is vital

I might add, whatever responsible media still remains should consider a similar tack. All hands on deck. Priority number one is to empower and educate the citizenry to take down the regime.

Giving young sociopaths with arrested development and anger issues masks, guns, and power—what could go wrong?

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

Notice the way the phrase ‘National security’ is repeated over and over regarding Greenland. The Ad nauseam technique is used so that eventually when a phrase is repeated enough people start to believe it. The same happened with ‘mild’, ‘learn to live with it’.

At this point, if you're a marginalized person, it is almost mandatory that you be proficient in some kind of self-defense so that, in the words of Ida B. Wells, you can provide "that protection which the law refuses to give."

You can be an ordinary, decent person who loves and is loved and cares about their community and the federal government will kill you and call you a domestic terrorist. You will someday have to answer to your children and grandchildren about what you did from this point.

Hmmmmm... I'll just leave this here www.jabfm.org/content/earl...

🔥🔥🔥 Canadians need to read this US policy document! Don't believe for one second our sovereignty isn't up for the taking. National Security Strategy of the United States of America November 2025 #cdnpoli www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

A good article about Firefox' recent bullshit.

There will be a day when the US is on the other side of what it has done to other countries. I may not be here to experience it. But it's a guarantee. All empires fall.

random lady ice skating today would be great if she saw this picture #Calgary

Imagine if we could’ve just focused on J6, given that it was the 5th anniversary of one of the worst events in American history …

My hot take is that I don’t want any kids to die of vaccine preventable illnesses, even if their parents are anti vaxo fucko buckos. I want the kids to live.

Wearing a mask is better than getting sick. Wearing a mask is better than becoming disabled. Wearing a mask is better than dying. Wearing a mask is better than being the reason someone else becomes sick, hospitalized or dies. Mask up & protect your health.

I was diagnosed with POTS years before COVID When the first cases of Long Covid were reported, I thought we would see breakthroughs in POTS, MCAS, ME/CFS and more. I assumed the problem was too big to ignore. Unfortunately I was wrong, and most LC patients have been abandoned like the rest of us.

Sounds like David Cochrane hit the nail on the head today on CBC: "Amercia isn't the way America is because he's president. He's president because America is the way it is." -David Cochrane On PnP, Jan. 6, 2025

Everyone deserves shelter, food, water & healthcare. Even the people you don’t like. Even the people you feel made “bad lifestyle choices” Even the people who you don’t think “contribute enough” Every person should have their basic needs met This shouldn’t be controversial.

See it now?

When violence expert Bandy Lee publicly warned that Donald Trump likely presented a danger to the nation’s health, she was ostracized by the psychiatric community. It turns out she was right.

What is perhaps the gravest transgression ever committed by a US president has been airbrushed out of the picture and the perp allowed (by a majority of voters) to return to the scene of the crime. This is one of the most worrisome turns in American history.

Trump’s attack on Venezuela is for himself and even his own party is beginning to realize it.

1/ "Patients with #LongCOVID demonstrated signs of chronic inflammation, immune system depletion, and disruptions in cellular metabolism not seen in patients who had fully recovered from COVID-19": news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

On Tuesday, European leaders pushed back against Trump's interest in acquiring Greenland. How did the president hear about this idea anyway? Allegedly, he got the idea from Ronald Lauder of Estée Lauder, the $29 billion makeup brand.

WE’RE NOT DOOMED: Jan 6, 2025 Welcome to the first day of my new series! Everyone talks about how we are all doomed all the time every day and it creates a blanket over all of social media, so I’m the antithesis I’m showing you why we’re not doomed. 1/

There are organizations to: End Cancer End Heart Disease End Domestic Violence End Drunk Driving. And some of those huge problems don't kill half the people COVID-19 is still killing today. It's not surprising there are people who want to make government take steps to end it.

A @1goodtern.bsky.social🧵: "Yes, we were right the whole time."

@1goodtern.bsky.social: "It's time to talk about the vax and relax crowd again. They got their shots, so the virus is now someone else's problem. But vaccines *reduce* the risks of Covid's long-term harms *without* eliminating them. The science never said that. It is just what people chose to hear.

A decade long transatlantic panic about the civilizational threat of left-wing cancel culture and we now have an "anti-woke" censorship campaign taking out Plato at a major American university. Absolutely pathetic.

Bloomberg's X account has more than 800k followers. Their most recent post was shared five times It would basically come at close to zero cost for outlets like Bloomberg to delete their X accounts, and "We don't want to use a non-consensual deepfake abuse app as a comms platform" is a fine excuse

A teacher was arrested on live TV after criticising Trump for attacking Venezuela. The police officers said that they were arresting her for "obstructing a roadway." Remember when this sort of thing, only ever happened in oppressive regimes and many thought, it would never happen at home?

I knew Tory ministers could be cruel, unfeeling bastards. But the insouciance, even mockery, by Labour ministers towards people convicted of no crime, who are at imminent risk of death as a result of an unconscionable period on remand is on another level altogether. They are revelling in it.

Once you’ve labelled someone a terrorist, it seems, you can do almost anything to them and get away with it. The silence on this issue across almost all the media is something to behold.

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Jack Smith testified that he had proof Trump tried to overthrow the 2020 election. On the 5th anniversary of Jan 6th what is Trump doing? Attacking Venezuela & forcibly removing their President. Threatening Greenland. Violating the constitution & international law.

He tried to overthrow his own government, and now he wants to overthrow sovereign nations. It’s not “America First”. It’s Trump first. It’s billionaires first. It’s money and power first. It’s fascism.

In July 2024, I warned that if Trump were re-elected, "The age of multilateralism would be over, and something much worse will take its place. The UK and Europe will need to find the means of defending ourselves". I was called "hysterical". Well, here we are. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This was Biden's legacy

32 NATO countries and only 6 have spoken up (7 with Denmark) on Trumps plans to take Greenland. They are bound to defend a NATO protected country or NATO will be no more. It will end world peace.

Up late and my mind is racing. I grew up poor and disabled. When you're a kid, you never really think about things like the cost of healthcare, usually it's just how fast you can possibly run once a needle shows up and how many nurses you think you could dodge before getting caught.

Please get yourself & your kids vaxxed against flu & covid NOW, if you haven't. 🔹️"the US is at its highest level of respiratory illness since at least the 1997-98 flu season," per the CDC. Meanwhile, flu vax rates are down among both kids & adults. 🧵1/4 www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/h...

You should always make rice and beans with a flavored liquid because it makes them taste great.

#Cdnpoli #USpoli #It'sAirborne Clean the indoor air.

"I will love the light, for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness, for it shows me the stars." Og Mandino These are dark times, but remember: all things end, even the darkest nights. open.substack.com/pub/amandafi...

Surprising nobody with a memory of the past 25 years, the Democrats did not come together to condemn the latest blatantly illegal military atrocity carried out in pursuit of oil.