This weeks Whopper is about how RFK Jr tries to circumvent normal processes of scientific deliberation and go straight to the public with his half-baked reports.

Saudi Arabia reportedly wants Trump to launch a ground invasion of Iran. Remember: Trump's family has deep business ties to Saudi Arabia, including new luxury properties in Riyadh and Jeddah. Trump cannot be trusted to put protecting American lives over lining his own pockets.

A 94MW solar + grazing project was proposed in Ohio. There were a bunch of public comments in opposition. It turned out most of those comments were faked. But the Power Siting Board rejeced the project anyway, because opponents worked so *hard* to fake all those comments, they deserve a treat. 🤬

Is it any wonder people feel the system is rigged?

It feels like we're finally making some headway on getting public discussion of just how messed up the nasty little world of public health leadership and guidance making is! For so long it has been completely verboten to criticize medicine's management class - so they've gotten away with murder.

"We health professionals must call urgent attention to this silent but deadly assault [EPA dismantling] on American's health...." @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

The mass death and disability of the COVID pandemic didn't have to happen. It resulted from the arrogant ignorance, normalization of manipulation, and jockeying for power baked into our public health and infection control systems. COVID didn't kill those people. They were sacrificed. #medsky

This article (h/t @beansproutsmom.bsky.social ) nails the manipulation and bad-faith obstructionism that have characterized the public health and infection control response throughout the COVID pandemic. Bad systems controlled by bad people produce bad outcomes. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan....

Here's the link to the 15min video on YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr9w...

🚨shared by @youarelobbylud.bsky.social on XTwitter: "CO2 LEVELS IN CARS. Watch this video. One person with recirculate ON and the CO2 is 4,500ppm. Switch recirculate OFF and it falls to 600ppm within minutes. With four people in that car it would have been > 10k ppm..." OP: x.com/YouAreLobbyL...

A 3-year study published in Pediatrics examined newborns in Norway. It found a clear benefit for the baby when mom gets a COVID vaccination during pregnancy. n.pr/4uXOx6X

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 doi.org/10.1093/cerc...

Art is the most human of things. It doesn’t matter if you’re writing a short poem, or multipart novel, a cartoon stick figure, or a giant oil, painting, a silly song on a ukulele, or a huge orchestral piece, it all has value, and it’s all wonderful. Do it no matter what anyone else tells you! 👇🏻

Intimidation, violence and murder is becoming more systematic in the targeting of Palestinian people in the West Bank. Israel hasn't followed through with a single prosecution. Lawless state. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

'Women make up most of the health‑care workforce, yet much PPE is still designed around male bodies. Ill‑fitting respirators, gloves, gowns and eyewear aren’t minor inconveniences, they’re safety failures!' Infection Control Today www.mjhlifesciences.com www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/ill-fit...

Really important to reemphasize this - the findings of the UK COVID Inquiry are a huge win for patients and science - and an equally huge defeat for the medical establishment. There should be many resignations, professional discipline and investigations for negligence happening this week.

Related to that, limiting choice is one of the ways the culture of manipulation in hospitals manufactures consent for the denial of appropriate PPE, so leaders can pretend their negligence reflects worker opinions. Good article, but the medical mask "PPE" image reflects IPC's widespread failure.

The Ford government believes in free speech, but only when it's government approved. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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‼️ Ukrainian foreign minister urges UNESCO to respond to Russian strike on World Heritage site in Lviv

"You're not allowed to know what we're up to on our government burner phones, but you bet your bottom dollar we'll be monitoring what high school kids are saying!" - Doug Ford

People get sick and die when physicians spread pseudoscientific conspiracies and undermine evidence-based public health interventions.

Politicize our independent judicial system and make them a wing of political parties is power? No, thank you. #Canada www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Cartoon by @dennisgoris.bsky.social

Read, bookmark, & share this 🎯 guide to masks & respirators by @airsupportproject.bsky.social Does One-Way Masking Work? (COVID-19 Series, Part 4 of 7) airsupportproject.com/does-one-way... This👇is image1 from👆

Bring your kids. 👧🧒 Bring your neighbors. 🏘️ Bring your anger, your hope, and your unwillingness to bow. ✊ 3,000+ events. March 28. History will ask if you showed up. #NoKings2026 social.demcast.com/s/So9ND0t6

The regime is counting on your exhaustion. 😮‍💨 Your neighbors are counting on your presence. 🤝 3,000+ events this Saturday. Choose your side. March 28. #NoKings2026

Somebody is making a fortune on the war with inside information and it is grotesquely corrupt.

In the most recent special election in Florida, the President violated his proposed Safe Act when he voted by mail! WTF???

Think voting doesn’t matter? 766 votes.

It’s interesting how provinces always howl when they feel the feds are trampling on their jurisdiction, yet they also constantly try to trample on federal jurisdiction.

The French version of this website has existed for years. I order all my French books through it. So happy that it’s now available in English throughout Canada. Can’t recommend it enough. An Amazing tool that helps independent bookstores.

🚨🧵 by Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) aka @Yash25571056: "From a study using MRI and proteomics analysis, "Brain changes after COVID-19 infection include gray matter volume decrease, white matter microstructure integrity decrease, and brain function alterations..." 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/20359...

Tuberculosis remains one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, yet it is preventable and curable. Airborne diseases can be stopped. #WorldTBDay #Tuberculosis #EndTB #WorldTuberculosisDay

Trump's tariffs have served to add uncertainty to the global trading system and the financial markets that rely on a stable system. His latest misadventure threatens the very oil supply that fuels many economies. Can one man create a global recession? The impossible may be possible with Trump.

Update your phrases: do not say we are “fiddling while Rome burns,” for that phrase is old and apocryphal, instead say we are “skiing in swimsuits while the mountains melt” for that phrase accurately describes what some (in Colorado) are actually doing at the moment.

Robert Koch Institute Berlin reviewed 33 studies with 1847 patients and found 54% had SARS-CoV-2 RNA in stool. In half of stool shedders it lasted about 22 days and could continue for 2 to 12 weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"The 1.5-degree limit is only possible if we ultimately stop burning all fossil fuels. Not reduce. Not abate. Phaseout." @UN Secretary General @antonioguterres | #ActOnClimate #climate #energy

As if the plans to weaken Ontario's access-to-information laws weren't bad enough, Premier Doug Ford compounds the problem by personally targeting Ontario's exceptional information and privacy commissioner. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

What a coincidence...

Fantastic. electrek.co/2026/03/24/b...

My latest, reflections on the devastating “Varieties of Democracy” (V-Dem) report revealing the autocratization of America under Trump. www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/autocratiz...

The interesting thing in that article is that 62% of Canadians want a proper public inquiry into the handling of COVID. Considering how desperate our public health leaders are to hide the same failures identified in the UK COVID Inquiry, that's a reassuringly large number.

With a sigh, my friend said that this is a bad time for people who care about education, and the planet, about public health and democracy, about humanity and the humanities, so I asked her when was it a good time? and she replied: fair, but this is a particularly bad time.

I was going to say some stuff about this but Nicole says it all in the thread. I'll just echo: I really think power -- economic power but also cultural power -- fucks people up, makes them less happy, and makes it harder for them to have real friendships.

Excited to get this out in preprint: triple-blind, placebo-controlled microtesla magnetic therapy (MMT) is safe, feasible and effective in reducing cognitive impairment in people with #LongCOVID. I get excited about interventions for cognitive symptoms www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/