COVID-19 and diabetes share a complex link. The virus messes with blood sugar through direct pancreatic damage, insulin resistance, and systemic inflammation. It's a reminder of the long-term health impacts of the ongoing pandemic. Published: 27 June 2026

I wish I could feel celebratory, but I don’t. To me, the darkness that has befallen our country doesn’t call for celebration or self-congratulation — not this week, nor as long as the darkness prevails. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-mourning-in-america

“Things are so bad that Republicans will never win an election again if they can’t figure out how to prevent millions and millions of Americans from voting.” trib.al/o7w96Pu

The arm on NBA star Kelsey Plum, who throws a rolled-up jersey to her dad sitting in the upper bleachers. www.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUn...

If you vote for the guys who lie viciously about immigrants and tell you mass removals are needed to purify the nation and its heartland towns, what you’re actually going to get is social turmoil, violent ethnic purges, and serious economic disruption. newrepublic.com/article/2124...

A big question is whether we'll now see major ICE raids or whether they'll do something more disguised, because ICE is toxic even in red areas. Either way, local press reports that this could mean an economic loss of up to $400 million. Way to own the libs, Ohio! newrepublic.com/article/2124...

JD Vance made up a horrific and racist lie about a group of people, and now those people will be deported because the Supreme Court refuses to acknowledge, let along regard as disqualifying, the clear racial bias of this administration.

It’s unspeakable how this Administration can just turn vicious lies into illegal policy and get their legal operatives to endorse it

Does PM Oil & Gas see this as 'collateral damage'? Does he view the over 1,300 people who died as noble sacrifices for the economy and shareholder value? Does he feel this at all? Carney with his destruction of climate-protecting policies is driving us to a future with far, far more death.

When that reversal in popularity starts, people will begin clueing in to all the other horrendous policies Carney has been implementing which they managed to rationalize before.

Carney greatly miscalculates both the durability of his popularity and the depth of disdain for forced adoption of AI among the public. This could finally be the start of the inevitable decline in Carney's approval -- perhaps very rapid, and with considerable backlash due to a feeling of betrayal.

“You’ve already told me inflation is 4.2 percent, right? What’s the annual wage growth right now?” Warren asked Christopher, Trump’s pick to lead the White House Council of Economic Advisers. “It’s 3.4 percent. So let’s put this one together. Is 4.2 higher than 3.4?” trib.al/RAzpvpN

Wildfire activity has intensified across the western United States, as consecutive days of hot, dry and windy weather have fueled flames in Utah, Arizona and elsewhere as new fires popped up across the region.

🤖🫧💥 www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

For those who can visit #Winnipeg, go see the relatively small exhibit "Palestine Uprooted: #Nakba Past and Present: A moving exploration of the ongoing forced displacement of Palestinians." June 27, 2026 to November 30, 2028 @humanrights.ca Otherwise, visit online: humanrights.ca/exhibition/p...

President Donald Trump has made it clear he doesn’t care about high prices—even at his own Great American State Fair. trib.al/1vZGEFJ

The reason I don’t want a “Christian nation” isn’t because I’m against Christianity. It’s because I’ve studied church history and learned about the horrors caused by the church fusing itself with the empire. Separation of church and state helps keep Christianity Christian.

2/ The Israeli government has the power, the resources, and the responsibility to dismantle organized crime and protect Palestinian citizens, but instead it has chosen to leave this crisis to spiral while blaming the very communities that are paying the highest price.

At least 14 people were killed in Saudi Arabia when a helicopter carrying them crashed, killing everyone aboard, according to the Saudi Ministry of Energy. The helicopter belonged to Aramco, the world’s largest oil company.

10 years on the fall-out from Brexit is still being felt in the UK. Canada is heading into our own Brexit summer with no plan for dealing with the dark forces working to manipulate the chaos. My latest on what we need to learn from Brexit before it is too late. youtu.be/yTXSYP229sc?...

Fox set up a whole-ass news desk for the Great American State Fair and barely anybody showed up. ☠️

My question is: why do certain reporters and editors keep saying there is ceasefire even though their own reporting details ongoing hostilities? What's the incentive here? It makes no sense. @ronfournier.bsky.social

Deals mean nothing to Trump. Nothing. Negotiating with the United States Government is worthless.

BP not only funded the research behind the influential “Wedges” climate science paper, but company execs even tried to revise versions of it. “Chaps, I have had a go at rewriting the paper,” a BP climate adviser wrote the researchers at one point.

It turns out refusing to use AI and "getting left behind" just means you wind up back behind them again because you're lapping them

Bill 11 moves Canada in the wrong direction! 😲🤒 www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #Bill11 #AlbertaHealthCare #TwoTierSystem #CanadaHealthAct #PublicHealthRights

It's up to us to decide *whether* we're going to use it, and unless the *many* fundamental issues with the entire industry are addressed, we simply aren't. You cannot compel the use of a consumer product. And the more you try, the more resistance you'll experience. THAT is what's inevitable.

Weird argument. From my standpoint, Carney is gutting federal science and the public service *so that* he can massively increase military spending. Not investing in a public asset he won't even use isn't really a signal of unwillingness to buy weapons.

“The Reflecting Pool saga, now escalated to the White House imposing a mini-police-state around the pool while accused of killing ducks, is nothing if not emblematic of the Maddest-Emperor phase of Trump’s Mad Emperor presidency.”

Doug Ford showed up for 29 days of work in the legislature and has given himself a 21 week summer break. If you are done with the Ford gravy train for insiders join the protests today across Ontario.

Wear and tear? Increased age ageing? Keep mucking around with infectious diseases… and watch this space for the next exciting update in “mess around and see the outcome”.

Ladies & gentlemen, May I present to you the head of the new National Advisory Committee on Preventive Health Care, Dr David Keegan A leader for our times 👏👏👏

Screen time can damage under-twos’ development, landmark study suggests

Dave Eggers: ‘Once you have a machine think and write for you, you’re cooked as a species’

Do you know Alabama gasses people to death even when the jury voted for life? This is J Love, and Alabama intends to do that to him in less than a week.

Abolish the death penalty as a legal penalty for human beings. Institute it exclusively as a legal penalty for those deemed human beings under the law who put themselves beyond human accountability: corporations, world leaders, and billionaires.

I keep updating this piece about the Reflecting Pool because every day brings a detail that makes it worse. Today: No reflecting at the Reflecting Pool donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-r...

The Reflecting Pool contracts are just one example of a massive increase in “urgency” exception spending this year exempted from normal review. In a normal year, this would be $3-6 billion. So far in 2026, it is $28 billion, mostly in homeland security. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-r...

As the former President of South Korea serves a life sentence for his role in a failed insurrection, his wife just got sentenced to 7 years in prison for bribery. The US could learn a lot from South Korea what accountability looks like for power-hungry, corrupt grifters. youtu.be/nAUksLhLSKs?...

The Italian P.M.’s recent spat with Trump aside, she remains a right-wing figure. Global progressives should be looking to Elly Schlein. trib.al/vvSqdvk

Gangster cat 🐈‍⬛ #BritishColumbia chases bear out of yard #Canada

He is a racist bigot. And together with four other racist bigots and a man who does not realize he is black (and would be a slave in Alito’s utopia) they cover up the ugliest racism under a sauce of legalism. Trump said all those things on purpose because he means them.

Trump’s comments have been as explicitly racist as any we’ve seen from a major political figure since the Jim Crow era.

yeah, he’s a giant fucking white supremacist and literally everyone knows it. alito’s obfuscation is obscene and immoral and itself racist to the core.

Fresh off of endorsing Chris Rufo —by name—and his vision to destroy higher education, Yale is rushing to help the Trump admin resegregate education. An absolute disgrace.

Everyone who fights Trump wins and everyone who gives in suffers an endless series of humiliations

KfW: Divest from this toxic time bomb! actions.eko.org/a/kfw-divest...

I just signed this petition and honestly everyone in 🇨🇦 should know about it. Right now political parties can legally vacuum up your personal data with zero safeguards. Your bank can't do that, so why can they? Learn more and sign the petition today 👉 voterprivacy.ca @openmedia.org

After years of advocacy from the Palestinian Canadian community, an official Nakba exhibition will launch at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. Join us in asking Minister Miller to reject calls to shut down Palestinian histories. share.nwmd.social/s/OGyINvwW