Wait so Evangelicals are just Protestants on steroids and both of them require all Jewish people to die to fulfil their #1 goal which is supposed to happen tomorrow on the Jewish New Year and there is no conversation how that is very antisemitic. Annihilation is kinda the worst form?

The 19th century dispensationalist concept of a rapture and apocalypse is antisemetic.

“Understandably, autistic people will be dismayed and frightened by this... We urge our Govt and NHS to stand by autistic people and condemn this misinformation. "We urge anyone looking for information about autism to visit websites from trusted organisations." www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/n...

In other words, no apocalypse.

I guess she knows he will kill a lot of people. l.smartnews.com/p-6fos3N6M/Z...

The great @heidibeirich.bsky.social: designating #antifa is “ridiculous on its face” and has “no basis in law or fact.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Disability and neurodiverse groups, too! "The research evidence highlights that autistic adults, for example, bring exceptional strengths—attention to detail, focused cognition, reliability and unique perspectives—that enhance accuracy and creativity in research tasks."

Excellent research on concrete value of diversity in research! Gender- and race-diverse teams= more novel research, more citations & longer-term impact. Researchers from underrepresented groups produced more novel research but their work was systematically undervalued and less likely to be adopted

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I did a deep-dive into Ben Mulroney's extracurricular activities: At the same time as Mulroney is filling-in as host of The West Block, he is also working for two registered lobby groups and as an adviser to several companies – some of whose CEOs he's interviewed on Global News 640 Toronto radio

The extra biblical belief in a rapture held by MAGA folks is all over TikTok. It's slated for tomorrow. MAGA blame leftists supposedly under Satanic control for current events. They will be exclusively saved from humanity's self destruction or the apocalypse. This is driving political choices.

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Looking at RFK's recent moves, including an attack on the hepatitis B vaccine and on painkillers for pregnant women. The common theme: That all children's health problems are due to "bad" mothers. This isn't about making kids healthy. It's misogyny. www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...

a day of protest in brasil.

the Brazilian right is attempting to pass measures through the legislature to shield Bolsonaro and other legislators from the legal consequences of the failed coup, for which Bolsonaro was recently sentenced to 27 years. these photos are of the massive protests in response.

Previously unimaginable sentiment from a US president.

What we might refer to as a Kavanaugh Raid

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Christian nationalists elevate their leaders as prophets and Christlike.

In the wake of Charlie Kirk taking one to the neck nick Fuentes is attempting to go mainstream and take his spot as the voice for young republicans. Fuentes is a self described Nazi who leads a digital terror organization… This is about to be very bad if he goes fully mainstream.

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So little, so late.

Why do we allow media to call a jail for kids where children get sexually assaulted a “youth centre”?

Presbyterian Pastor David Black in the trenches protesting ICE. Read liberation theologians like Gutierrez, Boff, and so many more. The time is already now. www.chicagofirstchurch.org/pastor-black/

No words except to say fascism is deeply ableist.

Even as some countries are destroying vaccine research and access, it is wonderful to see Canada manufacturing mRNA vaccines now! 👏🏽👏🏽

Studies find medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect severity of symptoms for women patients & display less "empathy" toward Black and Asian patients. Many Drs are using LLMs & note taking apps to generate transcripts & summaries. www.ft.com/content/128e...

Statement from MP Jenny Kwan, said that none of NDP’s MPs participated in the standing ovation. Kwan denounces political violence, but “anyone with a platform should always be mindful that political rhetoric that is incendiary, racist and dehumanizing is unacceptable.” thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

We can't understand health inequities until we understand economic inequities Our global health class @mcgill.ca was privileged to listen to @doctrott.bsky.social on economic inequities, their impact, and why taxation matters Do read her interview: Tax Me, I Am The 1% thewalrus.ca/s3e17-claire...

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In medical creep Canada supports eugenics by legalizing Track2 euthanasia for disabled people not at risk of imminent death. People are using medically assisted suicide to escape discriminatory social neglect and extreme poverty. Beware.

Canadians: Oh, these poor terrible Americans with their fascism and genocide denial and government censorship of artists! It’s just awful, isn't it! Also Canadians:

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem. Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

For those reading that academia.edu has predatory terms of service, this is how to delete your account when they ask you to agree to their terms of service.

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New piece by Ellen Gabriel and I on the need to resist Canada’s “elbows up” colonialism.

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Hell yeah.

“These calls don’t emerge in a vacuum. Institutionalization was once a favored tool for erasing transgender people from public life, a way to disappear them rather than recognize their humanity.”

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

When the dust settles, I hope we remember that on the precise evening Trump (a) pulled his cultural critics off TV and (b) designated his political enemies as terrorists, the UK was giving him every honour imaginable, and glorying in its "special relationship" with his regime.

Gee. I better not travel to the US.

This is an extremely basic point, but one that bears repeating: in a law-governed society, the state cannot simply murder people it has identified as potential criminals. It does not matter if those alleged criminals are foreigners. If you illegally kill people, you have committed murder.

It’s not just the United States. If you’ve followed my reporting, you already know: Canada also has a far-right extremist problem. Now, they’re using Charlie Kirk’s assassination as a moment to mobilize, recruit and further radicalize their followers:

"Modernism" and the "medical-pharmaceutical–industrial complex" are often blamed for all the world's evils, and while there ABSOLUTELY are MASSIVE problems with medical institutions and pharmaceutical companies, we really don't talk much about the eugenic impulses in new age, alt medicine spaces.

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I wasn’t joking. The folks running out govt are evangelical Christians and their patsies who are very specifically implementing a Christian Right vision of child control and domination. This is a very specific Christian flavor of abuse that is being set in motion by the idea of “strong families”