Trump lied to the nation yet again. He assured us, repeatedly, that this man had never been vetted. Clearly he knew that was a lie, but he also wanted to use the death of a soldier to advance his own personal political agenda. He is the scum of the Earth—and that is inarguable.

It’s proven. #VaccinesWork. | Case counts of 6 vaccine-preventable diseases before and after routine vaccination | Public Health Agency of Canada | www.canada.ca/en/public-hea... #VaccinesSaveLives #GetImmunized

Tell Congress: in the war against Putin’s aggression, there are not “fine people on both sides.” Stand with Ukraine. Not with Putin.

It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes...

Under the Trump Regime, Theology is a professional degree but public health and nursing aren’t. @drjudystone.bsky.social explains the implications of this and why it will cause harm in her latest.

Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith: “In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’” open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

I know you already know, but for other folks who don't, Goldsmith was previously head of OLC, is a genuinely brilliant mind on executive authority and separation of powers, and is usually very cautious about making claims this unqualified and direct. That he is saying it so starkly is v significant

A running theme of Trump II is cautious, level-headed, mainstream, career professional experts sounding existential alarms about how we aren't panicking nearly enough.

I'm sure this will go well for Russia, like most things.

Roger roger

That looks like a Cybrdog

It looks like a newly-discovered SCP that probably kills everyone who sees its eyes.

This is the cenobite that will come for me when I finally finish this damn puzzle box.

And it goes on. The man is completely unraveling. Bombing boats, threatening invasions “to stop drugs,” and now promising a full pardon to a president convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S. This isn’t law and order. It’s the most lawless presidency in American history.👇

Under-appreciated part of these tweets from Hegseth is that he’s not just trying to thumb his nose at the law, he’s also trying to reassure—indeed, communicate with—the military establishment itself.

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They'll say you're overreacting until they start demanding to know why no one warned them

Finding flu shots at #Toronto area pharmacies may prove difficult this year. Here’s why www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

I had to book weeks in advance in Northern Ontario. My appointment is Dec. 02.

Working on a bowl. Looks pretty nice for soft maple. Still need to lacquer the other side.

time to put up my Halloween decorations!

Young people in the U.S. have been priced out of their dreams. Stop acting like it’s their fault.

Militants of the russian terrorist state are attacking civilians in Ukraine with missiles and drones. It’s 2 a.m. local time. Russia is not interested in peace. It will stop only when it is stopped.

Cold blooded murder.

Canada’s economic growth beat expectations this quarter. We’re diversifying our trade, building big, and creating well-paying careers — and we’re getting results.

Not surprised. The only thing modern republicans love more than murdering Hispanic people is covering up child sex crimes.

Remember that the Republicans are allowing this.

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That is an interesting theory

Vaccines work!

The vaccine is pretty astonishing. Just look at that green line.

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

🇺🇦 SBU exposed a Russian agent network that was preparing caches with components for explosive devices for terrorist attacks in western Ukraine.

Only the transcendent culture understander has the power to say: this is objectively good, and yet I hate it.

I’m not saying authoritarian outcomes are locked in. I’m saying the pressures pushing institutions in that direction are already built into how our information and political systems now work, and you can only counter those pressures if you understand them clearly.

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Simulated democracy in the Trump era comes from how information power has shifted, where groups that once lived at the edges built their own alternative information systems and then pushed those systems into the centre of institutions.

“I was just following otters.”

1/ Wounded soldiers in Russia's 51st Army say they have been banned from going back to Russia for medical treatment. Instead, they're sent straight back, unhealed, to the fighting. "Tie a crutch to his leg and let him go to the front line," one commander has reportedly said. ⬇️

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Earlier this month, the ITK denounced the federal government for not renewing funding to eliminate the disease in Inuit

It’s not a great deal if you don’t need it. And especially this year, others really need support. So for all of us who have enough, let’s refuse to get sucked into the holiday shopping frenzy and share instead of shop. We don’t need more stuff, we need communities where all our neighbors are safe.

This is a crime against humanity.

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

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My BFF is telling me IN GREAT DETAIL about this hella authentic German cake he had and sending me pictures of it and telling me how it’s made and I do not have the heart to tell him that my family is from Austria and I don’t care about German cakes.