Thanks to the @thetyee.ca and @crof.bsky.social for this piece. I've been off work due to long COVID for a year this January, and it's heartening to see the realities of the ongoing pandemic reflected in local media. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

At PN, I argued that Trump attacked Venezuela not to prevent drug trafficking, and not even really to get oil, but mostly because he is a fascist who thinks military action and murder are fun and manly. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-vene...

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

The US is all the way into right-wing authoritarianism. If you compare US media to international, it’s clearly just Emperor’s New Clothes 24/7/365, even when you think it’s being critical of Trump. It’s not. There’s no substantive criticism whatsoever of Trump’s madness in US media. It’s forbidden.

University of Chicago tracked 31 people before and after COVID. Their T cells responded worse to flu, shingles, and staph after infection. This was due to impaired metabolism but partially fixed with metformin or ubiquinol. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

In 2026 there will be more mass media articles and commentators ridiculing people taking precautions to avoid SARS-CoV-2 infection while simultaneously hundreds of pieces of research will be published further demonstrating the long-term harms of infection. Ignore the ridicule.

We're only $150 away from $10,000 which puts us at 50% of what we need to raise for the Black Zine Fair. Donations are tax deductible. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...

What we are seeing now is just the tip of the iceberg. The focus on blaming the vaccines instead of the virus will only continue to make things worse. Condemning a whole generation that has not even born yet. #COVID #LongCovid

That they were effective revisionist historians and propagandists is undeniably true and the story I tell here. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-covid-pr...

"Overall, 14 % of toddlers in the pre-pandemic group were at high risk for developmental delays on the BSID-III compared with 51.6 % in the SARS-CoV-2 exposed group." 😭

Most people living in poverty in Canada are working or live in families where someone works. 👇👇👇

Extremely important study, with very concerning implications for the future. The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Saturday marked the formal debut of an imperial America, led by a president who recognizes no law, save that of the jungle…Every country in the Western Hemisphere should be worried, particularly this country, which Trump so obviously covets as a 51st state.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

If we don’t have the courage to stand against blatant imperialism, we shouldn’t be surprised when no one stands with Canada either.

I hate to burst everyones bubble but this has nothing to do with AI. For years and years big tech begrudgingly supported open source software and as soon as interest rates increased, they saw the perfect opportunity to lay off expensive senior engineering staff who built/maintained these ecosystems.

We’re creating more code than we can maintain or understand. With an explosion of new code we’ll see a lot of the code go extinct Even current projects that seemed well supported with company backing are dying without dedicated resources to maintain it

Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.

January 6th was the prelude to all of this. It was the promise that Trump, in power, would seize the government to his own ends. Instead of having this laid bare—by systems, by campaigns, by our news—we were told that we had a choice in how our government would be run.

What do Venezuela, Greenland, Honduras, Nigeria, and “Freedom Cities” have in common? The “network state” cabal—which includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, & Joe Lonsdale—has been circling them like vultures. Thread. ⬇️

Days after his third dementia screening in six months the president of the United States, who is an open pedophile, abducts a foreign head of state

#EpsteinVenezuelaWar Remember to use this with reporting on Trump’s imperialist illegal invasion of Venezuela to steal their oil and other resources and let their Silicon Valley fascist a billionaire oligarchs establish fascist city states in Venezuela, where there’s no human rights just slaves🇻🇪

Indigenous people have the right to their own resources over bloated, foreign white pedophiles

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

Two things can be true: 1. This is a criminal and immoral act by the US. 2. That's it. Nothing else matters.

Trump just said what it is all about. The sooner the world sheds its addiction to fossil fuels, the better. The alternatives are available, plentiful and cheaper.

As if we didn’t already treat educators horribly, now we also have to subject them to never-ending infections with an organ- and immune system-damaging virus that leave them chronically ill & jobless. Denial is comforting only in the short term. #COVID

The oil is barely worth extracting in the first place at current market prices. This administration is not just evil and stupid, they’re not even good at being greedy

you simply do not have to preface your statements about this with “but Maduro sucks” whether or not Maduro sucks is entirely beside the point - we invaded another country and grabbed their leader with no justification other than “we wanted to” don’t give them cover on it

If you let him get away with this, he’ll do it with Iran and whatever other neocon bugaboos have been lingering around conservative media since Obama first started running. Maybe Greenland but less intense because white. One of them will invariably respond in the mainland U.S. Stop him before then.

This is a dangerous and irresponsible response. Cheering the illegal abduction of a foreign head of state and celebrating U.S. control over another country is wrong. Canada cannot pick & choose when international law applies. If the rules only matter when it’s convenient, they don’t protect anyone

hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.

“We’ll be selling oil in large amounts to other countries,” Trump tells a reporter after kidnapping Maduro, announcing “we” will run Venezuela. This lawless thug and his criminal henchman have abandoned the international order. Yes, there is no bottom.

We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.

I undid some reposts and remind you that's a thing you can do but fuck all of this. Whatever is happening is bad and I hate it. If the U.S. is behind it, I hope this is the real beginning of the fucking end for these horrible people.

in anything resembling a just world there will be nothing left of this administration but a federal cell block every day these people are allowed to live free is a categorical failure of the most basic rule of law

READ THIS ARTICLE FOR #NEWYEARS: 25 simple but POWERFUL resolutions you can make to improve your life AND YOUR CITY! Revisit my most read @fastcompany.com article—the resolutions feel even MORE relevant now! Which ones resonate with you? What would you add? #HappyNewYear #Resolutions #NewYearsEve

Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?

Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor. Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️ The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly. It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.

“Canada appears to be the country with the highest average rate of involuntary psychiatric detentions in the western world.” Note this is *before* new forced abstinence measures hit full speed in AB and BC. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

A fly in my morning coffee. Welcome to Friday.

Can we please stop referring to common viruses as mild when they cause families unimaginable heartache every year? people.com/influencer-p...

Maybe I'm the odd one out because these viral posts are popular right now, but I don't find them funny or entertaining. Children are dying of these viruses. These vids with massive reach help normalize it while providing no concrete info to parents on how to prevent illness

“I’m honored to be your ancestor and believe that disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

White supremacy is making up a story about fraud at a Somali run daycare then shutting off funding based on that lie, but ignoring the trillions in missing dollars at the Pentagon which relentlessly bombs Somalia and other Black and brown majority nations.

“Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Pierre Poilievre — none of these men became household names on merit, they simply cried the loudest. The entire conservative movement is composed of insufferable cry babies aided and abetted by spineless corporate media.”

People who embraced cruelty have caused tremendous death and suffering in 2025, but those opposed to cruelty have banded together, gaining so much strength across the year. We will continue to rise, and our power increases each time we do.

happy new year to all—especially the small but brave minority who adapted to a new world nearly six years ago and refuse to live in a fantasy timeline forever suspended in 2019. keep strong and carry on in 2026—“don’t let the bastards grind you down” 😷

Please say “ethnic cleansing” when posting this stuff because that’s what they’re broadcasting. They’re broadcasting plans to engage in ethnic cleansing.