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The Guardian
40 minutes ago
Food insecurity leaves long-term scars. The Snap cuts are no exception | Priya Fielding-Singh
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Food insecurity leaves long-term scars. The Snap cuts are no exception | Priya Fielding-Singh
Even after Snap benefits return, damage will have been done: scarcity leaves trauma in its wake
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/13/food-insecurity-snap-cuts-damage?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1763035093
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ProPublica
about 9 hours ago
“I really believe that if I didn’t have [my] birth certificate, I would be somewhere in a facility,” one resident said, recalling that one of the armed federal agents who stopped him on the street aggressively asked if he was from Ethiopia or Ghana. With
@mlk50.com
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“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force
A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...
https://www.propublica.org/article/memphis-safe-task-force-police-harassment?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1763006411&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Grudgie the Whale
about 9 hours ago
Now this is moral clarity
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Wajahat Ali
about 8 hours ago
Imagine being such a horrible human being that one of the most horrible human beings on Earth, Jeffrey Epstein, thought you were the worst person he's ever met. That's Donald Trump: MAGA's King and Daddy.
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Alt National Park Service
about 8 hours ago
The Trump administration broke the law yet again, and now a federal judge is ordering the review and release of hundreds of immigrants. No one is above the law.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
about 8 hours ago
There is nothing “clean” about the Continuing Resolution that was passed tonight. Sure, it reopens the government—but it does nothing to address the healthcare crisis that Republicans created. (1/2)
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DO NOT REPEAT THIS POPEHAT
about 8 hours ago
Chris, you’re probably pretty affluent, but apparently not rich enough to know people put up with all sorts of illiterate subnormal bullshit from rich people.
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Chris Hayes
about 9 hours ago
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D.
about 8 hours ago
These are the planet-destroying billionaires taking over from the fossil fuel corporations, while our govts compete for their investment in AI centres . . .
www.truthdig.com/articles/the...
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The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-ecological-cost-of-ai-is-much-higher-than-you-think/
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Wajahat Ali
about 10 hours ago
Imagine one of the worst people on Earth saying this about you, and the you happens to be Donald Trump, the President.
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Nora Loreto
about 10 hours ago
My latest -- Jamil Jivani is staking his political future on white supremacy and has campuses in his sights.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/jamil-jiva...
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Jamil Jivani: the Conservatives' Great White Saviour
"Together with your voice, we will restore the promise of Canada" says Jivani's new initiative.
https://noraloreto.substack.com/p/jamil-jivani-the-conservatives-great
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Norm Di Pasquale🇨🇦
about 10 hours ago
Ford is making it easier to evict you. His government’s Bill 60 will make it easier for landlords to evict renters—in the middle of a housing crisis. More families, seniors & low-income tenants will lose their homes. Take action & sign:
www.progresstoronto.ca/stop-fords-e...
#onpoli
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Petition: Stop Ford’s plan to make evictions easier — Progress Toronto
Sign petition: Tell Premier Doug Ford, Minister Robert Flack, and your MPP to cancel any changes that make evictions easier, and to protect and expand rent-control.
https://www.progresstoronto.ca/stop-fords-eviction-plan
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton
about 10 hours ago
I hope this isn't being rushed to its death because they were able to strongarm someone like Boebert into flipping.
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Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush
about 10 hours ago
Catholic Bishops Rebuke U.S. ‘Mass Deportation’ of Immigrants This administration's policies are anti-Christian
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Catholic Bishops Rebuke U.S. ‘Mass Deportation’ of Immigrants
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/bishops-trump-immigration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Shawn Micallef
about 11 hours ago
At some point we need a national conversation about why so many Canadian mayor are so bluntly bad.
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Kyle Griffin
about 10 hours ago
Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)
about 10 hours ago
www.aarp.org/health/condi...
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Flu, COVID and Other Infections Can Increase Heart Attack and Stroke Risk
Doctors and researchers say getting vaccinated may help reduce risks for cardiovascular complications
https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/infections-increase-heart-attack-stroke-risk/
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)
about 10 hours ago
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
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Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/well/viral-infections-covid-flu-heart-attacks.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Join me at Homes for All-Canvassing at the Ontario Labour Union Conference in Toronto
you.leadnow.ca/events/homes...
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Homes for All-Canvassing at the Ontario Labour Union Conference in Toronto
The housing crisis is hitting people in Canada hard. On the campaign trail, Carney promised to tackle housing unaffordability by creating an entity called Build Canada Homes (BCH) — a new Crown Corpor...
https://you.leadnow.ca/events/homes-for-all-canvassing-at-the-ontario-labour-union-conference-in-toronto?share=f1b998ac-30cb-4b01-8c02-025f752e2b09&source=bluesky&time=1762910551&utm_source=bluesky
about 16 hours ago
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
about 22 hours ago
Why doesn’t the media find it worthy of scrutiny and what do the owners of those media conglomerates have invested in protecting him, his racket, his agenda and / or this story is a whole other set of questions
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Charlie Angus
1 day ago
Happy 80th birthday to Canada's great rebel warrior. Keep on rocking in the free world Neil.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFw7...
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Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World (Glastonbury 2009)
YouTube video by TheGRStars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFw7q-BLxLA&list=RDfFw7q-BLxLA&start_radio=1
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Jörg Broschek 🇨🇦
1 day ago
....Tom Kent called "sugar daddy federalism": "The Martin style ..... seems to have been brought over from the corporate world. It is the style not of public affairs but of private charity. The man of money decides what donations to make to causes he favours.'
potestlaunch.irpp.org/2004/11/paul...
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Paul Martin's sugar-daddy federalism, donating to a favoured cause - health care
September’s First Ministers Meeting on health care ””the third within four years ”” was less different than billed. The effective negotiation was again out of pub- lic view, the exchange again of mone...
https://potestlaunch.irpp.org/2004/11/paul-martins-sugar-daddy-federalism-donating-to-a-favoured-cause-health-care/
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
1 day ago
Obscene in every way
theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...
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Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising
Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/11/cost-trump-national-guard-military-occupation/?utm_content=buffer0e59f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=instagram&utm_campaign=theintercept
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦
about 24 hours ago
Told ya.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦
about 24 hours ago
Could someone please explain this to our current government in Canada?
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Greg Sargent
about 24 hours ago
Trump just claimed his tariffs have pulled in $2 trillion. Then literally hours later, he inflated that to $3 trillion. With this absurdity, he undermined his case for tariffs, revealing that he's just pulling numbers out of his ass. On the pod we dig deep into this:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
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Trump Wrecks His Own Case for Tariffs as Bizarre SCOTUS Rant Backfires
As Trump unleashes confused statements about the Supreme Court case on his tariffs, a trade expert explains how he accidentally undermined his argument for them—and why all this is trending toward a m...
https://newrepublic.com/article/203061/trump-wrecks-case-tariffs-bizarre-scotus-rant-backfires
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ProPublica
about 24 hours ago
NEW: Under DOJ standards and requirements, people seeking pardons generally must wait five years after release, demonstrate good conduct and remorse, and file petitions through the Office of the Pardon Attorney. Trump has largely abandoned that process.
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How Trump Has Exploited Pardons and Clemency to Reward Allies and Supporters
The president’s second term has brought a flood of clemency for allies and donors — as well as felons, like him, who were convicted of financial wrongdoing.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-pardons-clemency-george-santos-ed-martin?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Timothy Caulfield
about 24 hours ago
Yet more science-free MAHA BS... 👇 What Kennedy’s saturated fat guidelines would mean for American health
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/i...
via
@statnews.com
"...experts say data simply doesn’t support the idea that fat from animal sources is preferable to fat from plants."
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What Kennedy's saturated fat guidelines would mean for American health
RFK Jr.'s new dietary guidelines are set to encourage consumption of more saturated fat, but some nutrition experts say that could cause long-term, widespread harm.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/is-saturated-fat-bad-new-dietary-guidelines-maha-vs-science/
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Charlie Angus
about 24 hours ago
Samira reached out to my team to share her story of heroism and resistance. This is a powerful story of the fight for Afghani girls. Please read.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Portraits of Courage — Samira's Story of Resistance
“Every decision I made, to study, to create, to hope, was an act of survival and resistance."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-178488396
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Diane Baker Mason
about 23 hours ago
There is a reason Canadian banking rules cap mortgage amortization at 25 years. Otherwise, after like 40 years of paying, you've basically paid nothing but interest. It seems like a good idea because payments are lower, but they are 99.9% interest. For DECADES. Run an "am schedule" and look.
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Stephanie Carvin
about 23 hours ago
I feel like the business community in Canada is just not getting the message - there is no miracle deal with Trump and any arrangement we make will be immediately upended when he somehow takes offence at some trivial thing.
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Mother Jones
about 23 hours ago
Taking stock of the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it. "This is now a MAGA court, and Roberts is at the helm."
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Taking stock of the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it
"Roberts will go down in history as the most destructive chief justice."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/supreme-court-john-roberts-lisa-graves/
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The Narwhal
about 23 hours ago
The day pipeline security followed reporter
@writermjs.bsky.social
— and what he’s learned since about CSIS — has him asking a lot of questions.
thenarwhal.ca/csis-resourc...
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The deepening ties between CSIS and resource companies | The Narwhal
As the federal government earmarks resource extraction projects in the ‘national interest,’ the companies building them are deepening ties to CSIS
https://thenarwhal.ca/csis-resource-projects-surveillance/
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My IRL friends call me Chris
about 23 hours ago
See post following repost. (It has read corporate to me.) "sugar daddy federalism": "The Martin style ..... seems to have been brought over from the corporate world. It is the style not of public affairs but of private charity. The man of money decides what donations to make to causes he favours.'
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Donnie 🇨🇦
about 23 hours ago
Who is surprised by this? The question now is, who’s going to hold this idiot and his enablers accountable for his disgusting behaviour?
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Molly Jong-Fast
about 23 hours ago
Whoaaaaa
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 23 hours ago
We're going to get an angry statement from Karoline Leavitt that "President Trump was merely tutoring a high school student in an AP Calculus class."
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Don Moynihan
2 days ago
IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO DO SOME CRIMES AND WANT TO GET AWAY WITH IT: *Become a Republican member of Congress *Donate money to President Trump or cronies *Marry a Republican member of Congress
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Eric Reinhart
4 days ago
I have a feature essay for The Guardian today on the mirage of AI medicine, why care cannot be automated, and how overwhelming uptake of AI by American health capitalism threatens to undermine the very possibility of democracy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/09/healthcare-artificial-intelligence-ai
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DGBassani
2 days ago
A masterful essay worth everyone’s time.
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Nick Tsergas
3 days ago
Hospitals across Canada are closing their ERs because there aren't enough doctors to run them. Millions don’t have a doctor. Millions more can’t get an appointment. It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP
2 days ago
🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/41202...
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SARS-CoV-2 spike protein causes synaptic dysfunction and p-tau and α-synuclein aggregation leading cognitive impairment: The protective role of metformin - PubMed
Patients recovering from post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) often experience cognitive dysfunction, including difficulties with focusing, conversation, or memory issues, which can persist for weeks or even months after infection. Although the persistence of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein has bee …
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/41202111
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Still COVIDing Canada
2 days ago
CUPE Alberta launches online campaign against province’s COVID-19 vaccine fee CTV News November 7, 2025 By Stephen Hunt
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#COVID
#CovidIsNotOver
#AxeTheVaxTax
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CUPE Alberta launches online campaign against province’s COVID-19 vaccine fee
https://stillcoviding.ca/en/news/cupe-alberta-launches-online-campaign-against-provinces-covid-19-vaccine-fee/
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Brent Toderian
2 days ago
Incredibly short-sighted and irresponsible, and completely disconnected from the real values & priorities of Vancouverites. This move would be awful not only for Vancouver, but also for all the cities that Vancouver’s leadership has inspired over decades of North American sustainability leadership.
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Mother Jones
2 days ago
Former models for Donald Trump’s agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally.
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Former models for Donald Trump's agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally
"It's like modern-day slavery."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/
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Mother Jones
2 days ago
For years, a “Goon Squad” of sheriff’s deputies roamed Rankin County, Mississippi, beating and choking people until they confessed to drug crimes. This week, our friends at
@revealnews.org
sit down with the reporters from
@mississippitoday.org
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@nytimes.com
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How a ‘Goon Squad’ of Mississippi deputies got away with years of brutality
A “Goon Squad” of Rankin County sheriff’s deputies spent years brutalizing people until their reign of terror was exposed.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/mississippi-goon-squad-drug-crimes-torture-police/
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Tara Moriarty
3 days ago
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025 SEVERE: AB VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK HIGH: BC, ON, PEI MODERATE: none About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
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Kimberly Prather PhD
2 days ago
All spineless weaklings with zero moral compass...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
2 days ago
This move is based on pseudoscientific nonsense. Just ftr.
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Tim Ellis 🍁
2 days ago
The last thing I want is to negotiate, especially for healthcare! I want the doctor to tell me what I need to get healthy and then to either provide it or send me to a different doctor who will. That's it! That's all I need from this system!
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