Gerard Farrell
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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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âShe was like a deer in headlightsâ: how unskilled radical birthkeepers took hold in Canada
In holistic communities and midwifery deserts, women are turning to the Free Birth Society for information and unlicensed providers
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/19/she-was-like-a-deer-in-headlights-how-unskilled-radical-birthkeepers-took-hold-in-canada
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In a Rare Move, Two Manitoba Hospitals Declared Unsafe for Nurses
Staff describe being punched, kicked, and sexually assaulted. The union is discouraging members from the facilities
https://thewalrusca.substack.com/p/in-a-rare-move-two-manitoba-hospitals
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Trump, 79, Falls Asleep After Signing Marijuana Executive Order
President Trump struggled to stay awake while discussing his order reclassifying marijuana.
https://newrepublic.com/post/204617/trump-falls-asleep-signing-marijuana-executive-order
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Fox News debunks Trump's "600 percent" price cuts
Held liable for years of committing financial fraud, and well known for over-inflating his own crowd sizes, Donald Trump is not one to be trusted with numbers.
https://boingboing.net/2025/12/18/fox-news-debunks-trumps-600-percent-price-cuts.html
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Canadian Generals Are Losing It: Sweden's Offer Exposes the F-35 as a Trump-Proofing Trap
Hard Pass: The $42,000/hour F-35 is a budget black hole. The Gripen is a Canadian-made escape route.
https://theplanetdemocracy.substack.com/p/canadian-generals-are-losing-it-swedens
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Essay cheating at universities an 'open secret' despite new law
An essay mill owner says he's made millions, while an ex-lecturer says he quit due to rife cheating.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8er32715do
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Hospitals providing organs to wealthy international patients, leaving Americans waiting
A new report from the New York Times reveals a system of de facto quid pro quo where wealthy patients from oil-rich nations are sometimes moved to the top of organ transplant lists.
https://healthexec.com/topics/healthcare-management/healthcare-economics/hospitals-providing-organs-wealthy-international-patients-leaving-americans-waiting?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=he_news
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Women who say they were tricked into servitude for Opus Dei to meet in Argentina
Pope urged organisers to hold conference after 43 women alleged they were exploited as minors by Catholic group
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/15/women-say-tricked-servitude-opus-dei-to-meet-argentina
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Republicans Finally Unveil Healthcare Plan: âAmericans Must Move to Canadaâ
âUnder this plan, the American people will receive full access to the doctors, hospitals, and medications they deserve,â House Speaker Mike Johnson declared.
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/republicans-finally-unveil-healthcare
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US engaging in âextreme rightwing tropesâ reminiscent of 1930s, British MPs warn
House of Commons calls on Keir Starmer to condemn Donald Trumpâs âinterferenceâ in European politics
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/11/us-extreme-rightwing-tropes-1930s-british-mps-donald-trump-keir-starmer
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Visitors to U.S. required to show past 5 years of social media - UPI.com
The Trump administration plans to require all visitors to the United States to share the last five years of their social media history.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/12/10/trump-visa-applicants-past-five-years-social-media/7441765375685/
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This should fix everything:
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Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri ...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rubio-stages-font-coup-times-new-roman-ousts-calibri-2025-12-09/
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Hegseth Orders Strike on Notorious Drug Traffickers
The narcoterrorists were posing as seven stranded castaways.
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/hegseth-orders-strike-on-notorious
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Death of Irish mother in âfree birthâ reveals how poor maternity care is pushing women towards extreme influencers
Women in Ireland and the UK linked to Free Birth Society among scores around world to have suffered loss or serious harm after births
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2025/dec/03/death-of-irish-mother-in-free-birth-reveals-how-poor-maternity-care-is-pushing-women-towards-extreme-influencers
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Gerard Farrell
NPR
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Young adults who took just a one-week break from social media showed improvement in depression, anxiety and insomnia symptoms, a new study says. Plus, tips for how to take a break from your feed.
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A short social media detox improves mental health, a study shows. Here's how to do it
Young adults who took just a one-week break from social media showed improvement in depression, anxiety and insomnia symptoms, a new study says. Plus, tips for how to take a break from your feed.
https://n.pr/48zoPLv
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Theyâre doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trumpâs wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesusâs message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/23/america-christian-evangelical-discrimination-immigration
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Why canât ChatGPT tell time?
But actually, what time is it?
https://www.theverge.com/report/829137/openai-chatgpt-time-date
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Happy Thanksgiving
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Family medicine clinic in Hudson, Que., to close citing Quebec's Bill 2 | CBC News
A family medicine clinic in Hudson, Que., west of Montreal, will close citing the implementation of Quebec's controversial Bill 2.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/hudson-medical-centre-9.6993716?cmp=rss
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How to Gaslight Your MAGA Relatives on Thanksgiving
Helpful tips!
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/how-to-gaslight-your-maga-relatives
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Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligence-neuroscience-problems
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Marc Elias
about 1 month ago
In 2022, Donald Trump sued me and others associated with the Clinton campaign for RICO. We did not cave. We fought. First, we won in a Florida trial court. Today, we won in the 11th Circuit. To the law firms, media corps and billionaires who bow down: Learn a lesson. Have some dignity and fight.
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The president of the United States tweets â on the daily â the most incoherent, random, chaotic, batshit things and because itâs so often, it just doesnât get covered at all. Its so bad
add a skeleton here at some point
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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? No
GNL's problem is a social disorder
https://edhollett.substack.com/p/artificial-yes-intelligent-no
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Opinion | A.I.âs Anti-A.I. Marketing Strategy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/opinion/ais-anti-ai-marketing-strategy.html
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China has brought millions out of poverty. The US has not â by choice
Despite the USâs economic success, income inequality remains breathtaking. But this is no glitch â itâs the system
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/china-us-poverty-income-inequality
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For all the folks out there talking up how great Hitler was, this is how that story ended, since you clearly haven't finished the book yet ...
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ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/
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AI as Cyberattacker
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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/ai-as-cyberattacker.html
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Jeffrey Epsteinâs emails reveal a disdain for morality among the elite | Moira Donegan
Epstein paints Trump as someone he knew intimately. But the documents also reveal how many powerful men confided in him
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/17/jeffrey-epstein-emails-elites
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Hegseth Rushed to Walter Reed Hospital After Poking Eye With Mascara Brush
Karoline Leavitt denied that alcohol played âany roleâ in the cosmetics mishap.
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/hegseth-rushed-to-walter-reed-hospital
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