ICE dragged a mother from her home in Massachusetts—clinging to her baby—without showing a warrant or ID. When neighbors demanded proof, ICE sneered, “We don’t have to show you anything.” That’s not law enforcement. That’s state-sponsored kidnapping. This is fascism & it’s terrifying.

Let’s be honest: the policies they’re pushing? LITERALLY straight out of Project 2025. The same plan they claimed they had nothing to do with.  Now they’re writing them into law—gutting public lands, rejecting science, and handing out kickbacks to their corporate buddies.   We’re fighting back!

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is sidestepping questions on how the budget for a five-million-dollar task force aimed at cracking down on the Downtown Eastside was approved. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people. Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.

The work that we do in my lab - measuring the number of people that greenhouse gas emissions kill - is now forbidden by NIH. A real delight, particularly six months into starting a lab that does this. Got some cash? Want to support this work? Drop us a line. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tell Prime Minister Carney to block Donald Trump’s billionaire donors from owning or building pipelines in Canada! #cdnpoli #PRGT www.dogwoodbc.ca/petitions/ca...

Israel has killed 214 Palestinian journalists in Gaza over the past 18 months, including two journalists killed on Wednesday, Yahya Subaih and Nour El-Din Abdo. Yahya Subaih died just hours after his wife gave birth to their first child.

I just want to say how much I appreciate lawyer @pauldoroshenko.com who is warning people about what these extra checkpoints at Canadian borders from the Americans, are intended for: restricting American women’s access to healthcare. #Canadasky

I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.

Premier Eby not taking responsibility for authoritarian remarks that suggest stripping citizens of their rights. Orange is a good colour on him. ground.news/article/cour...

6/ Read the MMWR. Share it. Celebrate it. This is what public health is for. This is why it matters. Awesome work by CDC and public health colleagues around the country! www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Called it. #pope

This is a wild story and well worth reading.

For the Premier that wasn’t sure what they were supposed to do about the measles outbreak in their province.

A surgeon general that can feel Listeria by petting cows has the US setting a new bar.

I want to know what we are doing in Canada to be sure we have COVID and flu vaccines. I am worried that our usual path of following in the US footsteps remains in place and there is no other plan. Anybody here who actually knows?

From a friend "A sad metaphor for our times F/k/a Black Lives Matter Plaza Now just a caucasian skin tone cement pathway leading to the White House"

Some of the best Warhammer players in the world are boycotting a championship in the U.S. over our embrace of fascism. One Belgian player cited specifically legal actions against trans people as one reason he will not participate. Nice to see.

Whatever the hell happened to public health during COVID has not been good for us. Yearning for the good old days of the 90s. Nosocomial infections were bad. People were immunized. Premieres knew that good medical officers of health could make effective change.

No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Another Meta-Analysis on Long Covid, But This Time with Controls. Here's What You Need to Know. 🧵

After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/5)

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

The UN warns of a "slaughter of the innocents." Israel boasts that "Gaza will be completely destroyed." Here are notes from doctors in Gaza. They document the crimes against humanity being perpetrated against the sick, wounded and children. Please share. charlieangus.substack.com/p/gaza-eyewi...

When I share a story about a disabled patient being abused or gaslit in a healthcare setting, people act aghast but treat it like an outlier. It’s not an outlier. We all have these stories, some have multiple. It happens in every country & under all political stripes. It’s ableism.

NEW: In the Mahmoud Khalil case, Judge Farbiarz orders the government to give him a COMPLETE LIST of every time since 1975 it has invoked the secretary of state's power to deport someone for foreign-policy reasons—including a description of each case's facts and a copy of the official determination.

It’s up to 3 now! Go Orca!!

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

For a country that didn’t want a king they sure love their executive orders. Even though this is a good one I don’t understand why everyone is so quick to give up their democracy.

denmark summons us ambassador to copenhagen over reports that intelligence agencies are stepping up surveillance of greenland danish foreign minister rasmussen saying “it worries me a lot, because we don’t spy between friends.”

Between WSFS and MWA I think we can reliably say that if you're an organization dependent in one form or another on the goodwill of a professional class with deep and existential concerns about "AI," maybe just don't fucking use "AI" for anything you do, even if it would be "cool" or "time saving."

As a US citizen, I say please boycott us. It’s risky enough for us to be here—it’s most definitely not safe here for visitors.

A new kind of timeline cleanse for you.

“If Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was looking for another camera-ready smash and grab, by Wednesday night it seemed like the opportunity had eluded her. For that we can be grateful, both for the worst being avoided and for the reminder that only we can protect one another.”

Excess deaths from disease among school-aged (5-17) children remain highly elevated In every year since 2022, deaths from disease in school-aged children have been running 13% higher than they were pre-pandemic 13% increase translates into roughly 500 extra deaths per year

The fact that they’re tracking autism and not the bird flu automatically tells you they’re operating on eugenics and not actually wanting people to be healthy. They want you sick, disabled, or dead.

They want to track autism, miscarriages, abortion, birth control use but don’t want to track measles, bird flu, Covid or salmonella. Ask yourselves why that is. They’re setting the stage to blame people for their disabilities. To slate them for elimination. It’s eugenics & it’s escalating.

When facism arrives the job is to name it not pretend its a precursor. This is eugenics, this is facism. It's not entry level, it's not pretend, it's not the start of something. It's facism and eugenics.

‘A slippery slope to eugenics’: Privacy fears grow over RFK Jr.’s national autism database www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... @melodyschreiber.com @theguardian.com 𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Walz: When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child has? Government just big enough to fit in your bedroom, your womb, and apparently now in your toy chest.

Canada is on track to lose its 30-year measles elimination status by the fall. Should provinces be doing more to stop this? globalnews.ca/news/1116848... @kdangerfield.bsky.social 𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

The family has set up the following GoFundMe to cover Ximena’s secure legal representation — please consider sharing/donating if possible: gofund.me/a821621c?fbc...

My employer is threatening to cancel my contract if I continue to mask at work. Does anyone know of any #disability rights resources in Canada, specifically in Quebec? I am devastated, and I feel completely lost right now.

Change change change!

Nothing to see here.

DOJ "website has removed at least two key reports about violence against Indigenous people." "A widely cited 2016 study [..] showing that Native American women were more likely than White women to experience a slew of different types of violence is no longer accessible." #USA #Policing

22 additional cases of measles in Alberta since yesterday with 3 people under 18 being in ICU. #medsky #albertapoli

The new NIH director said grants “canceled because they’re DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion]-based science … [which does] not actually have anything to do with promoting the health of the American people” www.science.org/content/arti... So let’s take a quick look at some of his past papers… 🧵