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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17m

Leavitt: "President Putin thanked the First Lady for her efforts to bring back children and save children in this brutal conflict."

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Kieran @nug.monster · 14m

i'll just leave this here

‘Basically impossible to get them back’: Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is a war crime, say experts

As territories shift and divide families, desperate parents are travelling to Russia to find their children, many of whom have been moved into military camps or orphanages

www.theguardian.com

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Bodhi Boo🕊️🩵🤘 @bodhiboo.bsky.social · 20h

Johnny Cash
1932-2003

"It's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people."
JOHNNY CASH

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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 56m

I respect AOC, but I’d go further: Trump doesn’t even want his own MAGA base to benefit.

Their loyalty is the product he sells, their suffering is the proof of it.

The cruelty isn’t a side effect of his rule, it’s the point.👇

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 22h

Uh, being compared to Marjorie Taylor Greene of all people on CNN? Not on my bingo card.

Real talk tho: Keeping our tax dollars here to feed kids, build schools, and provide healthcare instead of sending it abroad to subsidize genocide…should be standard DEMOCRATIC platform.

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Raywat Deonandan @deonandan.bsky.social · 56m

Decades ago I went "under cover" for the Toronto Star to infiltrate online hate groups. I got an early taste of the bubbling neo Nazi movement in Canada.

One story lingers with me. A Nazi skinhead leader confronted a group of other skinheads...

Thread (1/2)

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 11h

"If we fail to prepare, wildfires will continue to exacerbate the cracks in our health system. Patient-centred, climate-resilient care is no longer optional; it is essential."

How wildfires and other climate disasters put health systems under extreme pressure

Wildfires are not just environmental events. They are public health crises that demand stronger, more resilient health systems.

theconversation.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson refusing to swear her in: "The excuses depending on the day keep changing ... the timing is the fact that I am the 218th signer to the discharge petition for the Epstein files"

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 5h

New analysis of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first 100 days after the federal election show oil and gas, mining and other industrial groups made up about 60 per cent of lobbying records. Environmental groups couldn’t get a word in. thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...

Carney welcomed industry lobby, ignored environmental groups: records | The Narwhal

Records show resource industry lobbyists had regular access to Prime Minister Mark Carney in his first 100 days, while environmental groups were shut out

thenarwhal.ca

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 5h

"The criteria used by the Ford government to hand out millions of dollars through its controversial Skills Development Fund remain a secret as a new Star analysis shows 17 unions & industry groups that endorsed the Progressive Conservatives in the February election received $237 million."

#OnPoli

Robert Benzie @robertbenzie.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: Unions and industry groups that endorsed Premier Doug Ford’s ⁦‪@OntarioPCParty‬⁩ shared in $237M in Skills Development Fund cash for training. ⁦‪@robferguson1‬⁩ and ⁦‪@MoiraWelsh‬⁩ with the scoop.
#onpoli

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Government secrecy clouds $237 million in funding to groups that endorsed Doug Ford

Seventeen trade unions and industry groups that endorsed Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives in the February election received $237 million from the government’s controversial Skills Develop...

www.thestar.com

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 4h

Gerard Parkes had two iconic roles as a character named Doc.
In the 1980s, he was Doc on Fraggle Rock.
A decade later he was Doc in The Boondock Saints.
But his career is so much more than that, and he remains a beloved actor to this day.
This is his story.

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A man with gray hair and glasses, wearing a white shirt and brown vest, sits at a workbench with a puppet dog with a shaggy gray coat and an open mouth. The dog is positioned next to a yellow bowl labeled "SPROCKET" filled with dark food, in a workshop setting with tools, a lamp, and various objects in the background.

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, 14,000 preventable deaths from negligently outdated guidance seems like a lot - but saving those lives might give the impression that infection control leaders got it wrong.

Is saving an enormous number of lives worth living in a world where well-connected VIPs can be embarrassed like that?

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 1d

One in three European doctors and nurses have experienced depression or anxiety in the past two weeks and more than one in 10 have had suicidal thoughts, the region’s largest ever mental health survey has found
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

This is straight up white nationalist talking points posted by the DHS.

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 1d

ANU Reporter: 'More than half of long COVID patients still showing symptoms after six months'

'A new study of Australians suffering from long COVID found 56 percent still had persistent symptoms 6 months after their initial infection, according to experts..'

reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/...

More than half of long COVID patients still showing symptoms after six months

A new study of Australians suffering from long COVID found 56 per cent still had persistent symptoms six months after their initial infection.

reporter.anu.edu.au

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @johnbuss.bsky.social.

The TIME Magazine cover Trump hates.

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, a clinical trial manipulated to produce results aligned with the conflicts of interest held by the MD running it, producing misinformation that would endanger patient lives, and then covered up by the university using the excuse of privacy?

Imagine that.

theijf.org/ubc-misconduct

Report says UBC researcher fabricated data, gave patients ‘false hope.' The public was not alerted

Aziz Ghahary ‘abandoned his scholarly integrity’ in clinical trial for patented treatment, investigation found

theijf.org

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

We wouldn’t be in this mess if they were dealing with COVID but foolishly they are failing to prevent infections which is costing us billions in lost GDP. I don’t understand why this hasn’t been challenged. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Budget situation is ‘desperate’, Reeves told as experts say she must raise big taxes

Labour chancellor told a ‘Scrabble bag’ of smaller increases will not rejuvenate UK’s faltering economy

www.independent.co.uk

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Wrambbit @wrambbit.bsky.social · 1d

Please don’t call child rape that.

It’s a re traumatizing term for a horrific crime & should never be lumped in & normalized with pornography

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 1d

NBC Connecticut: 'Five years after the pandemic began, some in Connecticut struggle with Long COVID'

"Now, why it does this is still something of a mystery. I think it's clear that the immune system is changed in some fundamental way" - Dr. Lisa Sanders

www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/f...

Five years after the pandemic began, some in Connecticut struggle with Long COVID

Five years after the pandemic began, it’s clear that some people who got COVID have developed something called Long COVID. The CDC says Long COVID can involve a myriad of symptoms and can last months ...

www.nbcconnecticut.com

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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Wrambbit @wrambbit.bsky.social · 1d

Also normalizing targeting the disabled who are trying desperately to protect their baselines by calling them”anxious”,”Covidiots”, “delusional”bc”the pandemic is over” & the vulnerable’s😷make them easy to spot/bully-Healthcare workers& DRs are disabling/killing patients w/ zeal & ZERO consequences

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Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 1d

This here is why we’ve suffered the backlash against social justice and DEI and such: the attempt to frame racism as unfortunate but normal while the “woke” are the weird outliers. A fight for what speech is acceptable. Thread 👇🏼

geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 1d

the end is always to define what is acceptable in a society. it's not really a "both sides are doing it" thing, because that is the reason for the existence of the sides. without the it there would be nothing for the sides to do. it is, ultimately, a moral question, there's no getting around it

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