We’re at the intersection of multiple wicked problems: Combating climate change, AI slop, fascism, ongoing pandemic, Long Covid. And that’s just off the top of my head. johndupuis.substack.com/p/climate-ch...

Climate change is a Covid threat multiplier, Long Covid feedback loops, Science dies in darkness, and more johndupuis.substack.com/p/climate-ch...

Thanks John Oliver

Looking at RFK's recent moves, including an attack on the hepatitis B vaccine and on painkillers for pregnant women. The common theme: That all children's health problems are due to "bad" mothers. This isn't about making kids healthy. It's misogyny. www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...

We really can’t understate the psychic toll of knowing that the United States government is trying to kill as many people as possible

Bbq in the big city with a million wasps helping out…paper towels had the burgers on them.

Putting clean air infrastructure into the built environment (in schools, daycare, long term care homes, shopping centres, offices, airplanes, buses, taxis, cruise ships...) is more important than ever. Because giving people the "choice" has led to lower vaccination rates and a refusal to mask.

Marvel Comics that were on sale with cover dates of October 1968.

this exists it is called thinking

The past week really mattered in a way that I’m not sure has been totally processed yet

If monopoly was invented today the tokens would be like a labubu, a nice pair of crocs, a cybertruck, 150mg of Wellbutrin, a Stanley cup, and a mini goldendoodle, and the players would just go around the board paying rent until everybody loses

1/ "Improved ventilation was independently associated with lower odds of SARS-CoV-2 infection among exposed [hospital patient] roommates": Via @dupuisj.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The ACIP vote was tied 6-6 for requiring everyone to get a prescription for the COVID19 vaccine. The chair broke the tie by voting NO. Prescriptions will NOT be required.

Another reason to buck up, these guys can't even rig the game with refs that they picked!

Climate change is a Covid threat multiplier, Long Covid feedback loops, Science dies in darkness, and more johndupuis.substack.com/p/climate-ch...

2/ Likewise with #LongCOVID. The fiction that the pandemic is over relies on the ongoing #Stigma of Long COVID, & the gaslighting of millions living with it with scant care/support, & still NO cure. Via @dupuisj.bsky.social's excellent Substack newsletter - open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...

Read the latest from the Covid-Is-Not-Over newsletter: Climate change is a Covid threat multiplier, Long Covid feedback loops, Science dies in darkness, and more johndupuis.substack.com/p/climate-ch...

Thinking about how Charles Stross's publishers initially sold his Merchant Princes books as portal fantasy, when they're really alternate universe/dimensional travel novels. Compare to the 1960s, when McCaffrey et al had to disguise their dragon and wizard novels as sci-fi.

This is a particularly dark day in Alberta. We must protect trans kids in this province, no matter what #ableg #abpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Read the latest from the Covid-Is-Not-Over newsletter: Climate change is a Covid threat multiplier, Long Covid feedback loops, Science dies in darkness, and more johndupuis.substack.com/p/climate-ch...

Trump shouts out George Orwell

FFS you guys, you’re not in a bubble and you know better. Also, vaccine availability should be a national responsibility bc good health is a national issue. If Quebec is going to deny free access the federal govt should pick up the slack for those who want it. Provincial health is national health🇨🇦💪

Yep.

More US-style vaccine bullshit coming to Canada. Quebec to stop offering free COVID-19 vaccines to the general population www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

BREAKING: First Colbert. Now Kimmel. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

The point is that many can live quite normally under the thumb of authoritarianism. Yes: many suffer and suffer now but large swaths of the American public chooses to be clueless and it’s not difficult. This is how the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. www.vox.com/the-big-idea...

First Colbert, now Kimmel. Not to mention Matthew Dowd, Terry Moran and Jim Acosta. And anyone at the CDC who dared to care about science. If you still think freedom of speech exists in American, you’re wrong. If you still don’t understand you’re living under fascism… please wake up.

WELCOME TO NEWS

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Presumably no high windows were available: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

SAG-AFTRA mourns the loss of SAG Life Achievement honoree Robert Redford, who passed away today at the age 89. Redford, the founder of the Sundance Film Festival, a tireless activist and an accomplished actor and director, received the Life Achievement Award in 1995.

Report: At this point we are just trying to figure who Canadian Parliament WON’T give a standing ovation to www.thebeaverton.com/2025/09/repo...

Anti-science, anti-vaxx, pro-Covd, what a world we live in. The firestorm around vaccines is the fight of our lives, Craving connection, Long Covid globalized, and more open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...

Charlie Kirk's death was a tragedy. But he built his name on provocation and white supremacy. He said that gun deaths of innocents was "worth it." On Mark Carney's first day as PM in Parliament Liberals gave Kirk a standing ovation. Ceding ground to extremism won't make them nicer.

In all the talk about Charlie Kirk, there’s not been nearly enough discussion about murders and suicides of LGBTQIA+ people—especially youth. Kirk and his allies targeted that community, stoking hate, misunderstanding, and radicalization.

Excellent piece explaining the significant danger to the health of Americans that has been brought about by RFK Jr. and his lackeys in their decimation of the CDC.

We are in a massive Covid surge right now. No one will tell you this, because they’re still trying to prop up the “Covid is over” narrative. Every day we learn more about the harmful long term effects of repeat infections. Get your vaccine (if you can). Wear a respirator. Clean the air.

Anti-science, anti-vaxx, pro-Covd, what a world we live in. The firestorm around vaccines is the fight of our lives, Craving connection, Long Covid globalized, and more open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...

NEW: The American Right is demanding that the nation mourn the loss of one of the most polarizing figures in politics. But Charlie Kirk was an extremist, a bigot, a conspiracy theorist, a bully, and a radicalizing force who reveled in political violence. www.importantcontext.news/p/rewriting-...

COVID keeps mutating. Measles is roaring back. One scientist refuses to quit: Dr. Peter Hotez.🔥👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

From the always wise brittlestar www.brittlestar.com/p/what-to-do...

With the ACIP meeting again this week, it’s worth reminding everyone that it’s new leader, Martin Kulldorff, is a depraved quack that celebrates children being hospitalized by COVID-19. www.panaccindex.info/p/profile-ma...

California is devising a plan to create their own National Institutes of Health to counter federal cuts to science research.

Read the latest from the Covid-Is-Not-Over newsletter: The firestorm around vaccines is the fight of our lives, Craving connection, Long Covid globalized, and more open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...

A great deal of our problems result from not holding those who tried to destroy our democracy accountable for their actions.

Getting Wild for Covid Awareness. Want to help me stay in the advocacy game? $5 goes a long way. I want helping people, and educating others to be more than a dream. That’s my goal. gofund.me/f1f07602 #health #sick #kids #teacher #backtoschool #mentalhealth I

Oh, what’s that?? The - checks notes - AIRLINES are furious about a covid outbreak, are they??? Cry me a river. Airlines demanding removal and reduction of protections are a big reason why the world is still in this f’ing mess.