Big difference www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We are living in a world where we have safe and effective vaccines against some of the most detrimental diseases in history. And yet people choose not to give them to their children and protect them and others. Measles could have been eradicated by now.

Podcast Jay is still spending his time with podcasting with MAGA doctors, wistfully longing for his glory days of 2020, claiming lockdowns hurt the poor around the world. I wonder if he knows what his administration has done with USAID.

Another towering achievement for RFKJr's anitivaxxer policies. www.thebanner.com/community/pu...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine was being asked ‘too often’ to make concessions ahead of U.S.-brokered peace talks in Geneva next week with Russia. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

“The report highlights how Bill 11 opens the door to American-style health care markets. By allowing private insurance for services that are currently publicly covered, Alberta has created the conditions for U.S. health corporations to enter Canada.” www.lakesideleader.com/albertas-bil...

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

Corb Lund’s Drive to Block Coal Mines Gets the Green Light Elections Alberta approves a citizen initiative petition drive. thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

“the medical profession’s response to covid-19 has been in effect to walk away from the established public health principles of ‘control, eliminate, eradicate’, adopting instead what I have termed the ‘surrender narrative’” www.bmj.com/content/392/...

The CDC has removed several vaccines from the childhood and adolescent immunization schedule. Here’s why the changes are sparking grave concern. ja.ma/4qzH22s

The transition to cleaner forms of energy are not happening fast enough to avoid dangerous climate change Read the full story: go.nature.com/4rNfCXM

This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services. Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you. Please do keep sharing! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

The pandemic preparedness programme at NIAD is to be cut in yet another inexplicable decision by Bhattacharya. Without the research that was done by institutes such as the NIAD that was already looking at coronaviruses we would not have had such speedy vaccine development 🧪🧵 #HealthPolicy

Rubio speech at MSC—in short: US sees global trade, diplomacy, migration, immigration, global institutions and global affairs in general as a “foolish post-WWII mistake” and invites Europe “so save itself by each protecting sovereignty, closed borders, and Christianity” alike Trump’s America.

Further confirmation that Canada's far off track from its 2030 target. As I mention here, the models tend to overestimate the impact of climate policies, because they represent an idealized world in which policies are fully implemented and work as intended. www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...

Sure sure let’s order the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) to end all pandemic preparedness and biodefense work. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

Workers at the Social Security Administration have been told to share information about in-person appointments with agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The order to share information, which was recently communicated verbally to workers... TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening Civil Rights]

This does not seem prudent.

“Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages, according to e-mails Nature has obtained.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Pensions and Investments Dangerously at Risk open.substack.com/pub/leahy/p/...

This is a bracing read, and also one to share with anyone you know questioning the severity of this virus:

I can’t believe we still rely on yellow cards …after thousands of deaths from Covid & the biggest measles outbreak in decades Have we le’arned nothing? This makes NO sense. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Researchers fear this will lead to further political interference in US science go.nature.com/4kxFjJK

It is against Canadian law to sell weapons that could be used against civilians. Check out my conversation with @heathermcpherson.bsky.social over her push to cancel the export permits for the armoured carriers that Rochell industries is building for ICE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3McF...

Canada should not be providing military equipment to ICE bsky.app/profile/char...

So the confrontations, violent apprehensions, and general fear bearing down on communities like Minnesota is only the beginning of the nightmare. Behind the scenes, Orwellian anti-judicial antics thwart lawful recourse. And hidden from sight, non-citizens are tortured for being noncitizens. 29/

People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy. But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing. 27/

These are the conditions under which the Trump regime wants to detain noncitizens indefinitely. It violates international law, the Eighth Amendment, and our own laws & regulations. And the DOJ and DHS are willing to manipulate any law, defy any court order, to keep doing so. 26/

I had a pregnant client who was experiencing abdominal cramping for three days and was deprived of medical care. When we interceded, she was punished. A first grader snatched two days after surgery denied wound care. A client who developed a large painful cyst but was ignored. 25/

A transplant recipient whose body was rejecting his organ because DHS won’t give him his absolutely essential anti-rejection meds. www.thedailybeast.com/ice-arrests-... 24/

4. Medical malpractice. Here’s why I say stopping this detention-to Texas pipeline is life of death. An 18-month old hospitalized after nearly dying of three simultaneous respiratory infections. When she returned to the camp, DHS withheld her meds. 23/ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

2. Non-potable water. Clients have reported becoming ill from chemical-tasting water. Some developed rashes. 3. Deplorable accommodations. A client sick with the flu was forced to sleep on a frigid concrete floor. In Camp East Montana, fetid water leaches through the roof and soaks the beds. /22

And what awaits these clients in Texas? Unspeakably cruel and inhumane treatment. 1. Rotten food. I had a client explain she had to make a half-pint of milk and an apple last every day because the other meals consisted of spoiled or rotten food. One client wasn’t fed for >36 hours. 21/

And even when we move at warp speed and outpace this regime, DHS doesn’t care. They’ve moved people to Texas hours or days after being enjoined. When ordered to return them, DHS just… doesn’t. The AUSAs let them: when we notify them of a violation, they send the email equivalent of a shrug. 19/

Meanwhile, DHS shows its contempt for the judiciary in a different way. In dozens, likely now thousands, of cases, DHS openly defies court orders. Minnesota courts enter orders forbidding ICE from moving noncitizens who’ve filed habeas petitions out of Minnesota. They move them anyway. 16/

Coincidentally, the most recent Gallup poll had Trump at less than 37 percent.

As a Minnesotan... bsky.app/profile/aaro...

"In the recent overhaul of Alberta Health Services, several initiatives were quietly dismantled — including the National Surgery Quality Improvement Program which tracked surgical safety and compared Alberta’s performance to national and international standards." edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Mexico reports more human New World screwworm infections Mexico has now reported 141 human cases of the parasitic infection, which is spread by flies. www.cidrap.umn.edu/n...

NYT: Billionaire owner of Ambassador Bridge met with Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, on Monday, hours before President Trump's threats to block the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, the Ambassador's competing span www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...

This week marks a year since 10% of the CDC work force was fired. We are more vulnerable to the next pandemic,outbreak monitoring is crumbling, measles is basically endemic again,vaccine guidelines are now RFK Jr fan fiction. All it took was one year.

It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines. apnews.com/article/mode...

A clear-eyed analysis of what’s at stake, from @cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social Chair, Dr Melanie Bechard. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

This is troubling for multiple reasons, but one big one is companies won’t want to invest in R&D and clinical trials if they don’t think they can get a fair regulatory review—which is at the end of a long and extremely expensive process. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

They would have had these approved if Kamala had won.

NEW: The F.D.A. refused to accept an application from Moderna for its mRNA flu vaccine. Its reason: The agency did not think Moderna compared the new vaccine to one of the best flu shots available. The company spent $750M+ on a 41,000 person study. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

The fate of American democracy concerns the entire world. If it falls to authoritarianism, the shock waves will be felt everywhere.

www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic... Blood pressure medication recalled after pill mix-up

IMPEACH AND REMOVE RFK JR. RFK Jr misled Senate during confirmation, Congress members and Hawaii governor say www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #BatshitBob #AgentBrainWorm #BobKennedy #HHS #PublicHealth #Vaccines #RFKisNoKennedy #RFKPredator #RFKGrifter #USPol