USians, are you helping your marginalized communities? And disabled communities, too, so hard hit by all this. statuskuo.substack.com/p/drum-roll-...

I’m very impatient with Canada becoming a two-party system, and all we’ve got is fascist on one side and (at least) economically/human rights right-wing on the other. I hope the new NDP leader a month hence has some real charisma and juice for change.

At least a half-dozen top officials in the current Trump administration have connections to Jeffrey Epstein, according to an NBC News review of some of the over 3 million documents released by the DOJ.

In an interview on Sunday, the Republican congressman also said he had no confidence in Attorney General Pam Bondi.

It’s so darned discouraging that no one can help my buddy, Karrie Higgins. I don’t want to slot disabled people into “worthy/unworthy” because everyone, obviously, is worthy, but cripes the toll of being sick and broke year after relentless year… People w reg pay just don’t get it. Pls help.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Myself and @sesmith.lol and others were interviewed for the Lancet’s obituary of our friend Alice. <3

The best way to get the pedophiles out of your city is to pass a billionaires tax.

What could go wrong? www.wired.com/story/robot-...

Worth it for the BBC coverage, folks.

Look, I know it’s the ever-untrustable Daily Mail UK, but even if a shred of it is true (and we already know it is from the JE files).

@mark-carney.bsky.social, please don’t turn us into this. Seems like you keep edging closer and closer with your nukes, fossil fuels and militarization (of policing, of immigration, of the military itself). All meant to “save” us, but this is where that shit goes eventually.

I have a lot of swear words circulating inside at the moment.

So, yeah, why are Dem politicos posting what V Guiffre also wrote: That they are not suicidal, that they value their lives, and if they turn up missing or dead, better damned well search hard and do thorough autopsy.

How else can we catch these violent criminals 🤷‍♀️

This year for Long Covid Awareness Month, we’re highlighting the impact of Covid on the heart & cardiovascular system. But #LongCovid impacts people in many different ways, so we want to feature all sorts of experiences—including those of caregivers—with an instantly recognizable broken heart. 1/2

Heartbreaking. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is fascinating, particularly for a Cdn: cmarmitage.substack.com/p/the-prosec...

Such a good essay: unknownliterarycanon.substack.com/p/why-i-a-ra...

For folks who have love to celebrate for V Day, I send you a little more to buoy you. For the rest of us, I hope you’ve been able to make your peace or even pre-eminently value your solitude/single/sole-support life. ❤️

🤮 substack.com/@azkim1/note...

I came out in 1982 as gay, and in those days, gays were “pedos.” Seriously. Thankfully we grew away from that utter horse pucky, but it was particularly hard on my kids, who were shunned because of it. But now, like clockwork, despite just exposing this vast network of het cis white men pedos...

💯 but I sure hope all the pediatricians speaking out about this are also wearing masks around their young patients

🧵 Unbelievable that in Canada, care starts getting taken away around 65, when medical deems people not worth saving. They might save you, but you’ll slowly creep up from the bottom dregs of the wait list even if your situation is urgent.

🚨🧵by Dr @harryspoelstra.bsky.social "MicroRNAs in Long COVID: Key Regulators, Biomarkers, and Therapeutic Targets of Post-SARS-CoV-2 Sequelae 🚨This interesting international narrative review explores microRNAs (miRNAs) as pivotal regulators in long COVID..." 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/20218...

About bloody time.

They’re all crappy humans (as it were):

From US, Canada med WARNING: "Between 2022 and 2023, care denials rose an average of 20.2 percent for commercial insurance claims and 55.7 percent for Medicare Advantage claims, driven in part by machine learning tools that automatically reject claims without clinical review.¹” -from C Armitage

Good warning for us all... www.readtpa.com/p/computer-e...

This is critical everywhere on Turtle Island, but urgent in the USA NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW. I’ve been agitating for this for decades. Please, women, join hands. They’ve taught you to hate each other. Now is the time for disobedience, as they steal your voting rights. Walk off work together.

"If transparency destabilizes the system, the system deserves to fall.” -L Winnerman + Blue Amp Media @mark-carney.bsky.social, this means you—no more pushing through bills/decisions w/o citizen discussion--and it also means every premier and PH office. Also,we deserve to have covid inquest.

The knee-jerk reactions from the right, and the link—as always—from violence to mental health issues, which I often find myself thinking ignores more complex explorations of causative factors. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Indeed.

And will even be used in the US against the trans community and queer/trans rights in general. Every time a trans person does something heinous, it reflects on the entire population, yet every time a white straight cis man does something heinous, nope, no reflection on others of his ilk herd.

Within hours, we already had an elected official—B.C. MLA Tara Armstrong—blaming the Tumbler Ridge school shooting on gender-affirming care.

In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

Chat GPT agrees it wasn’t a shooting: themouthyrenegadewriter.substack.com/p/chatgpt-sa...

You are going to want to watch this, especially about AI. Must watch, Canada. @mark-carney.bsky.social daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/the-digita...

This poor girl/family/friends. Please help if you have the means, or share if not.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Palantir for California Governor? The Broligarchy Is Buying Democrats! Palantir is spending millions buying Democratic and Republican politicians as it continues to make billions of dollars by gobbling up our data, helping ICE, and creating a surveillance state. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

🧵Rescue dog people … can you think thru this with me? Had to leave rescue dog alone today, first time in a while. 3 hrs. Came home, dog excited, fed, watered etc, cuddled. But she wouldn’t come for dinner. Finally found her cowering and too scared to move. Sort of edged her along, where she found a

Is it just me? I cannot bear this word “heifers” applied to humans. I don’t like us feeling it’s okay to dehumanize people. (Or treat animals the way we do, for that matter.)

ICYMI: DOJ caught spying on lawmakers in major breach. #Epstein

6 years ago this month, I went to see my Vancouver cardio for the last time (and caught covid, when there were only 4 known cases in the city). I had had qualms about going, plus my car broke down in heavy traffic, which was expensive and humiliating.

I found this great site that purported to show covid safe aspects of hotels, but you had to turn those filters on. So I was not that choosy. I chose only the most critical and filtered. 0 hotels. Big fart on safety. Help pls.