LA
@tryingtohelp.bsky.social
retired doc, flight surgeon, FoB Doc, triathlete, mom, human rights advocate, artist
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Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.
December 18, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.
Winner of the Borowitz Report Haiku contest!
December 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Winner of the Borowitz Report Haiku contest!
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Republicans are saying there was no probable cause to search Mar-a-Lago. That is not true. I explain and provide all the facts in this piece (If you find information like this useful, you can sign up for my newsletter for free): joycevance.substack.com/p/jack-smith...
December 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Republicans are saying there was no probable cause to search Mar-a-Lago. That is not true. I explain and provide all the facts in this piece (If you find information like this useful, you can sign up for my newsletter for free): joycevance.substack.com/p/jack-smith...
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This 👇. My go-to explanation since the boat strikes and navy buildup began in late summer: They're bootstrapping a justification for invoking the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport people domestically.
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This 👇. My go-to explanation since the boat strikes and navy buildup began in late summer: They're bootstrapping a justification for invoking the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport people domestically.
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I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
December 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
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Uhm.. There are no words.. AHS report is a mess.. 13 OBGYN Closures/Diversions, GROWING list of COVID/Influenza Outbreaks.. 6 Sites with Acute care bed closures...8 ER's closed.. 7 OR's closed.. @frazzleheadlc.bsky.social Sorry!
open.substack.com/pub/frazzleh... #UCPCorruption #ABHealth #abpoli
open.substack.com/pub/frazzleh... #UCPCorruption #ABHealth #abpoli
AHS Update V264 of 2025! 2025-12-16
13 OBGYN Closures/Diversions, Just under a dozen ER Closures, 6 Sites with Acute care bed closures, 7 Operating/Surgical Closures.. Just another day in the Alberta Healthcare crisis!
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Uhm.. There are no words.. AHS report is a mess.. 13 OBGYN Closures/Diversions, GROWING list of COVID/Influenza Outbreaks.. 6 Sites with Acute care bed closures...8 ER's closed.. 7 OR's closed.. @frazzleheadlc.bsky.social Sorry!
open.substack.com/pub/frazzleh... #UCPCorruption #ABHealth #abpoli
open.substack.com/pub/frazzleh... #UCPCorruption #ABHealth #abpoli
If you care about healthcare and in Canada and in Alberta - a canary in a privatization mine- please follow this ! He is a national Canadian treasure !!! @pfparks.bsky.social
Uhm.. There are no words.. AHS report is a mess.. 13 OBGYN Closures/Diversions, GROWING list of COVID/Influenza Outbreaks.. 6 Sites with Acute care bed closures...8 ER's closed.. 7 OR's closed.. @frazzleheadlc.bsky.social Sorry!
open.substack.com/pub/frazzleh... #UCPCorruption #ABHealth #abpoli
open.substack.com/pub/frazzleh... #UCPCorruption #ABHealth #abpoli
AHS Update V264 of 2025! 2025-12-16
13 OBGYN Closures/Diversions, Just under a dozen ER Closures, 6 Sites with Acute care bed closures, 7 Operating/Surgical Closures.. Just another day in the Alberta Healthcare crisis!
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
If you care about healthcare and in Canada and in Alberta - a canary in a privatization mine- please follow this ! He is a national Canadian treasure !!! @pfparks.bsky.social
Gone with the wind to big strip club donuts and family and friends? Seriously where is the booze Doug?
Area man who wants to dig tunnel under country's biggest highway says selling alcohol a daunting task.
December 17, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Gone with the wind to big strip club donuts and family and friends? Seriously where is the booze Doug?
No Olympics for Alberta but they don’t plan to be in Canada that long. Smith wants to be American to make bank on her position !!! Nothing more nothing less
I hope this sets a precedent that transphobic policymakers choke on. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Skate Canada to stop hosting events in Alberta due to sports gender law
Canada’s governing body for figure skating says Alberta is now a no-go zone for national and international events because of its law on transgender athletes.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
No Olympics for Alberta but they don’t plan to be in Canada that long. Smith wants to be American to make bank on her position !!! Nothing more nothing less
www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Bizarre story as apparently the MWO met with a Canadian official !!! And a UKR person! What CDN official? Who!!!
Canadian military intelligence operative accused of leaking secrets was trying to help Ukraine: sources | CBC News
A Canadian counter-intelligence operative, accused of leaking secrets, was in conversation with a Ukrainian representative last year and faced a complaint from within in his own service, CBC News has ...
www.cbc.ca
December 17, 2025 at 4:56 AM
www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Bizarre story as apparently the MWO met with a Canadian official !!! And a UKR person! What CDN official? Who!!!
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Billionaires Don't Know Our World Is Dying Outside Their Gates
Billionaires control the cable channels, social media, newspapers, movie studios and all we consume.
Greedy leaches.
A majority of Americans now believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Billionaires control the cable channels, social media, newspapers, movie studios and all we consume.
Greedy leaches.
A majority of Americans now believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Billionaires Don't Know Our World Is Dying Outside Their Gates
Billionaires control the cable channels, social media, newspapers, movie studios and all we consume.
Greedy leaches.
A majority of Americans now believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Billionaires control the cable channels, social media, newspapers, movie studios and all we consume.
Greedy leaches.
A majority of Americans now believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
They are bringing the cues they are bringing the calves and we suspect bringing the bulls too!
So ridiculous
So ridiculous
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
They are bringing the cues they are bringing the calves and we suspect bringing the bulls too!
So ridiculous
So ridiculous
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A thousand times this.
December 15, 2025 at 11:51 PM
A thousand times this.
Making cancer great again
The chemical industry has launched a multi-million dollar lobbying blitz to influence Trump, including on regulations related to "forever chemicals."
Trump's EPA has also recently added chemical lobbyists to regulatory positions.
"Make America Healthy Again."
Trump's EPA has also recently added chemical lobbyists to regulatory positions.
"Make America Healthy Again."
The Trump administration has nearly doubled the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale under EPA regulations.
Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
December 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Making cancer great again
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So the Premier has finally stated her vision for AB: hand over our Social Safety Net to FOR-PROFITS, non-profits, and let Charity cover the leftovers.
Not a lot of profit in "Orphans and widows", so let's hope our religious charities really ramp up.
Let's check some facts🧵
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Not a lot of profit in "Orphans and widows", so let's hope our religious charities really ramp up.
Let's check some facts🧵
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December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
So the Premier has finally stated her vision for AB: hand over our Social Safety Net to FOR-PROFITS, non-profits, and let Charity cover the leftovers.
Not a lot of profit in "Orphans and widows", so let's hope our religious charities really ramp up.
Let's check some facts🧵
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Not a lot of profit in "Orphans and widows", so let's hope our religious charities really ramp up.
Let's check some facts🧵
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This is appalling. Again, Trump and ICE have had the option to deport Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica for weeks and weeks. They won't explain why they refuse to do this. But we know why: Because they've decided it isn't dehumanizing or cruel enough.
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
December 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This is appalling. Again, Trump and ICE have had the option to deport Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica for weeks and weeks. They won't explain why they refuse to do this. But we know why: Because they've decided it isn't dehumanizing or cruel enough.
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
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NEW: 9 ex-DOJ lawyers who resigned from antisemitism investigations into UCLA and other UC campuses say they were pressured to find UC guilty of violations in a rushed and politically motivated process.
One called it a "fraudulent and sham investigation."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
One called it a "fraudulent and sham investigation."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Times Investigation: Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say 'fraudulent' UC antisemitism probes led them to quit
The Times spoke to nine former Department of Justice civil rights attorneys tasked with investigating antisemitism complaints at the University of California. They all resigned during their invetigati...
www.latimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
NEW: 9 ex-DOJ lawyers who resigned from antisemitism investigations into UCLA and other UC campuses say they were pressured to find UC guilty of violations in a rushed and politically motivated process.
One called it a "fraudulent and sham investigation."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
One called it a "fraudulent and sham investigation."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
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The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
‘I heard 40, 50 shots’: Witnesses fled Bondi Beach as gunmen targeted Jewish event
‘I heard 40, 50 shots’: Witnesses fled Bondi Beach as gunmen targeted Jewish event
Gunshots ripped through a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, killing at least 12 people
www.irishtimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
Back to poorhouses and child beggars on the streets
So the Premier has finally stated her vision for AB: hand over our Social Safety Net to FOR-PROFITS, non-profits, and let Charity cover the leftovers.
Not a lot of profit in "Orphans and widows", so let's hope our religious charities really ramp up.
Let's check some facts🧵
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Not a lot of profit in "Orphans and widows", so let's hope our religious charities really ramp up.
Let's check some facts🧵
1/10
December 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Back to poorhouses and child beggars on the streets
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In Michigan, Republicans cave to the demands of the regime while their own constituents won't receive the benefits these projects would have brought.
They even said that canceling the projects was a negotiating tactic to force dems to the table. Normal representatives do this through debate.
They even said that canceling the projects was a negotiating tactic to force dems to the table. Normal representatives do this through debate.
Matt Hall & House Republicans believe that children with cancer, children who need access to support after going through sexual assault, moms & babies, our first responders and more are waste, fraud and abuse.
December 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
In Michigan, Republicans cave to the demands of the regime while their own constituents won't receive the benefits these projects would have brought.
They even said that canceling the projects was a negotiating tactic to force dems to the table. Normal representatives do this through debate.
They even said that canceling the projects was a negotiating tactic to force dems to the table. Normal representatives do this through debate.
Its the guns and- the deranged violence in US
Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
December 14, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Its the guns and- the deranged violence in US