Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

I wonder what our history would have been had this criteria been applied to us in the 19th and 20th centuries.

This is why the measles vaccine should be mandatory for all with no opt-outs except for exceedingly rare medical conditions. You don't have a right to expose other people to measles. I will die on this hill.

When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

This is why journalists should not be friends with the people they cover. It‘s embarrassing for all concerned. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

I've thought for a while now that -- oh god, forgive the woo -- Carney has benefited from how well he fits the good father archetype, with many of us wanting to project wisdom, integrity safety and stability on him. This becomes harder with his recent Machiavellian, morality-free choices.

Two weeks ago I wrote a column about the egregious escalation in violent Toronto police corruption in one of the biggest daily newspapers in Canada. I wrote that they are bullies & the chief should be fired. I take none of that lightly. 1/3

Yesterday @joshuasweitz.bsky.social wrote the best essay I’ve seen on Covid revisionism The MAGA & MAHA extremists—eg RFK Jr & Drs Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, Atlas & Makary—keep saying the pandemic wasn’t that bad, life saving public health protections weren’t needed, & the vaccine was dangerous 1/2

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

among my favorite French Revolution details: the King's cousin, the Duke of Orleans, was so shook by the events of the revolution that he not only voted to execute his cousin but legally changed his name to Equality Phil.

Really remarkable writing here, blasting the "strange timidity" of courts to interpret the Constitution itself, and their weird reliance on precedent to decide storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

4-5 years ago there were MDs like Lucy McBride crowing about the urgency of normal, getting kids back to school. There were PR hacks like David Zweig supporting them. Now kids are being sent to immigration detention, getting measles & these folks are nowhere to be found. It was never about the kids.

Talking about distracted driving and distracted walking as if they are similar problems is ludicrous. You are simply not going to kill someone by bumping into them while walking!

…she…she thinks this is a good thing.

“All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times…”

A toddler is dead in Calgary because we allow these jacked up SUVs with very minimal forward visibility. The drivers of these can’t see people in the crosswalk. When will these be banned? #Calgary

Elon's racist little post made me mad enough to write about it at CAMPAIGN TRAILS.

The FDA today approves and promotes quack autism “cures” based on “incredible stories” while refusing to even consider vaccines despite multiple RCTs. My latest.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

It’s the same damned phenomenon with antivaxxers and their autistic children, hence the determination to “fix” the autistic child and get their “real child” back.

ATTN: Ward 3 & Main St neighbours. Councillors who live no where near you are trying to stop Main St safety & complete streets interventions this budget. I know families who lost loved one or experienced critical injuries and will continue to fight for you. Pls email [email protected] to connect.

what's wrong with Hamilton: our council will spend tens of thousands debating $50k budget items, but not even consider anything* around how to reduce the ~$100M of overbuilt-road maintenance we have to do every year *not quite true, they may consider cutting the solutions to this problem

A resident named Walter calmly took the mic and recounted an April 9, 1945 newspaper clipping about the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp... "And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough." www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...

This is fucking criminal. I can't believe Ontario keeps electing these malicious clowns who are openly and gleefully destroying health care in front of our eyes.

This is so sad, and so unjust.

I'm reminded of how they expressed public disappointment when they failed to convict a man of committing a crime he didn't commit by having officers provide testimony that was easily contradicted by video evidence ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

"Van Papen, Quisling, Stephen A. Douglas-level incompetence" ⚰️⚰️⚰️

From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: 1554 Second Age Subject: Re: Master Ring (Forged in secret)??? lmfao u totally shoulkd

‘It’s a real problem,’ Toronto cyclists file complaint after police charged riders in crash, raising concerns about anti-cyclist bias nowtoronto.com/news/toronto... #VisionZero #VisionZeroTO #ZeroVision #ZeroVisionTO #WalkTO #BikeTO #TOpoli #ActiveTO

I’ve spent 15 years challenging a flawed explanation for an infant’s death. Credit to The New Yorker for patient investigative journalism that corrected the record when institutions did not.

Folks have implored to assume good faith and engage in collegial ways. Spare me, friends. This is law office history in furtherance of stripping children who would otherwise be entitled to citizenship because the president doesn't like how they look. If this is acceptable to law profs, count me out.

Or maybe he didn't. Who can say. Peter H. Duesberg, 89, Renowned Biologist Turned H.I.V. Denialist, Dies www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/s...

It’s the big day! The appeal hearing @cycletoronto.bsky.social’s successful Bill 212 case is being heard at Ontario’s Court of Appeal. Time permitting I’ll try and live post the proceedings, like I did for the Ottawa convey injunctions back when #lawtwitter was a thing.

We had eradicated this disease. And now because of targeted disinformation, children, immunocompromised people, elderly folks, and so many others become victims in this proxy war and we have a new avoidable pandemic.

This is a very disappointing framing, as we don't really have vaccine mandates in Canada in any meaningful sense. It's far too easy to opt out. (That's why measles is back!) The real question that deserves a column is whether we should replace fake mandates with real ones. (We should.)

fascinating long read www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... featuring @davidjuurlink.bsky.social and the infamous Gideon Koren and a lot of pharmacology and @thelancet.com recalcitrance in retracting a fraudulent paper

"Did a Celebrated Researcher Obscure a Baby’s Poisoning?" by Ben Taub is our pick from the February 2, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/02/02?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

And if you are Canadian and feel at all smug about this, know that Canada is willingly and knowingly sending families back to this kind of treatment.

“How will you say 'no' this week when a bill is going to be considered in Congress? Will you contact your congressional representatives…Will you ask them, for the love of God and the love of human beings, which can't be separated, to vote against renewing funding for such a lawless organization?"

My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.