🍁#SettlerCollector She / her Six Nation Haudenosaunee treaty land https://nctr.ca/ https://bsky.app/profile/circaliz.bsky.social/post/3l5eskplzpt2i #StillMasking CircaLiz everywhere, Elf at COVID-19resources.ca
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Thinking about gig workers in DC right now. The situation has put some clarity towards my long-held feelings: If I were aware of a business model which relies on putting its workers in precarious positions, I would not contribute to that business model's demand.
Thea Tsulukiani, regime MP author of the “Parliamentary commision”, whose father a Soviet judge ordered the most death penalties in Georgia, has unveiled a 470-page report accusing former UNM of rights abuses, starting 2008 war, branding Rose Revolution a “coup,” and charging today’s opposition.
A journal has retracted a study on ‘Tin Man Syndrome’ plagiarized from a decade-old April Fools’ joke — which the author now admits was fake.
#BritishColumbia The Sim'oogit Laay' totem pole is returning home after almost 80 years at a UBC museum Pole officially leaves the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver on Sept. 18 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
DC MUSIC FESTIVAL HAPPENING NOW 9/1
Tell British Columbia not to rent vast swaths of Crown Land to the American Military #bcpoli www.campbellrivermirror.com/notices/land...
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D.C. yes, P.R. no. It's a colony, and no one needs to be doing any more colonizing with it. Allow actual Boriqueños to decide on independence, if that's what they want. P.R.does not exist to make the Dems' vote counts happy.
#MMIWG2S #MMIWG #CallsForJustice 12.9 ... This commissioner would act as a national counterpart to the child advocate offices that exist in nearly all provinces and territories.
#MMIWG2S #MMIWG #CallsForJustice 12.9 ... We call upon the federal government to establish a National Child and Youth Commissioner who would also serve as a special measure to strengthen the framework of accountability for the rights of Indigenous children in Canada. ...
#MMIWG2S #MMIWG #CallsForJustice 12.9 We call for the establishment of a Child and Youth Advocate in each jurisdiction with a specialized unit with the mandate of Indigenous children and youth. These units must be established within a period of one year of this report. ...
Chrystia Freeland Convenes ‘Made in Canada’ Summit – September 2, 2025 #Canada www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...
If you pair light colors (yellow text on white background) or dark colors (dark blue text on black background), users will struggle to read your content. Understanding color contrast will help you better serve all users, especially those with low vision. webaim.org/articles/con...
The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
Hot take: if you abuse and coerce the women around you, there should be consequences. Other hot take: a man's career is not more important than the safety of the women he meets.
Kennedy must be removed from office. He has already caused a catastrophe at HHS and the CDC. I strongly suspect that he is about to use data manipulated by unscrupulous and unqualified individuals to attempt to falsely show that vaccines are in some way a net harm. He simply must be stopped.
Nine former officials at the CDC have said that RFK Jr’s leadership of the US health and human services department is “unlike anything our country has ever experienced” and “unacceptable”. They said that this “should alarm every American, regardless of political leanings”.
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Free Virtual Gender-affirming care program expands mental health support in northwestern #Ontario Partnership between Foria Clinic, NorWest Community Health Centres www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I am proud of this flag. It is one of the oldest in the world, it stands for a warm, open, welcoming country. It says, come on in, the kettles on. It says let's be friends, family, let's enrich our cultures, lets learn and grow together. It does NOT stand for hate. #ScottishIndependence
Not starting to, I did from jump. I also want to know how he can pay a manager, driver, take a vacation, and also security when the judgement against him has t been paid in full yet? The judge needs to haul his ass back into court, and have him answer these questions.
Northern lights could be visible across much of #Canada tonight www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Update: The newest Scamperbeast has an official name. Meet Saja! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/09/02/s...
Is he not physically able to make a speech without his decIining heaIth being apparent? But you know, keep talking about the health of the last guy in office, who was just spotted coherent, smiling and getting ice cream the other day.
I support the nurses' strike #nzpol
RFK is a singularly horrible & bizarre person, but he is able to exploit the culture's ableism for his eugenicist plans, the revival of ableist language that had once been banished is part of it, because this language is used to justify real life brutality against us & that's its historical root.
Most people are good. I know I'm privileged as a white person but I find most people are good if they're given a chance.
Happy COVID Tuesday everybody! Dr. Tara Moriarty will be speaking tonight about how the forecast is created. We'd love for you to join us. covid19resources.ca/discussions/ @moriartylab.bsky.social @netgaines.bsky.social @wikisteff.bsky.social @allenescott.bsky.social @ryantennant.ca
Just arrived 330k followers, which a) wow, b) thank you for following me here, you're amazing. To commemorate the moment I've made a donation to World Central Kitchen, who is doing good work in places where it's needed the most. wck.org
At least 25 per cent of Canada’s domestic internet traffic “unnecessarily routed through the U.S., where it loses Canadian control and protections and is subject to U.S. surveillance and other forms of interference.” www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.
. @bsky.app just start running this ad on X asap
RIP Graham Greene 💔😢 Oscar-nominated actor Graham Greene dead at 73 Oneida actor from the Six Nations of Grand River in Ontario had a vast body of roles on stage and screen #Canada www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
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Wealth taxes NOW. It’s patriotic to do your part and fund society for the workers you exploit in order to get this rich. #taxtherich
Back in the 1960's the top tax rate was about 92%. If we implemented a tax system that increased the amount of tax owed over $1 billion to 92%, then 92 cents of every dollar over 1 billion will go to government functions, like Medicare, infrastructure, stuff Gov'ts do. We'd be debt free.
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And it's another short thread @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social with tonight's inventory selection, an incredibly apt, extraordinary cuff wrought entirely freehand, with a butterfly taking flight:
The dog realises when the point has been won and celebrates... 😊 #dog #dogday #bluesky
I scored a ticket but I might have to cancel and watch the live stream.
I’m doing a public talk with @perimeterinstitute.ca in Waterloo! www.eventbrite.ca/e/how-the-un... (Tickets are free but you have to be quick — Eventbrite ticket reservations open at 9am Eastern Sep 2, which is in… 5 minutes)
Can a non-corporate grocery chain work across #Canada? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Wasn't St George from Palestine? Palestine Action should declare that their new logo is the St George's Cross, then anyone displaying the flag would have to be arrested. 🏴 🏴 🏴
Soooo there’s literal military in the streets of US cities and we got centrists still lecturing about ‘you shouldn’t have tried to defund the police.’ Mmkay.
Someone just drove past my apartment playing "Sixteen Tons" at top volume. Happy Labor Day.
9 Former CDC Directors who were all qualified for their posts are warning that deranged chaos agent RFK Jr is a danger to public health. I’d say he’s actively destroying public health and committing murder on a daily basis with his destructive monstrous agenda.
NASA scheduled a major workshop for early career researchers during the most important week of the Jewish calendar, during two of the most important days of that week and expects me to accept that this was “difficult scheduling conflicts” That’s what casual antisemitism sounds like
A comfortable life used to be the American Dream. Not being a financial mogul. Not fighting for the top spot on the food chain. Working to get your share of the pie with the whip cream on top. Grabbing enough food to fill your plate, but leaving plenty on the table for others. Let’s do that again.
One of my Supreme Court reform takes is they should be completely barred from taking any outside income (incl. publishing deals) and it should be particularly frowned upon, normatively, to be writing books. Memoirs are for writing after you retire, not five years into a lifetime appointment.
I think we need to stop saying that people hate crime. They like punishment. There are clear ways to reduce crime that involve systemic investment in communities but we avoid doing that in favor of ever more militarized policing because too many people in power like punishment.
There's a simple test. Put RFKJr in a room with 100 unlabeled kids. Have him sort the vaccinated from the unvaccinated based on vibes or whatever he's claiming, and see how he does. He should welcome this chance to prove he's right in a scientific way.
Anti-racists ‘won’t be divided by fascists’ at refugee hotel protests 👇A round-up of the far right protests and the counter-demonstrations to them, which took place across Britain socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/...
A calm good morning from this aquatic plant producing oxygen: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...
#Seaweed farms are a dual solution for climate change & sustainable energy. - don't require freshwater, fertilizer, or arable land to grow, making it one of the most eco-friendly resources - naturally absorbs massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis helping 1/...
RIP Graham Greene 🖤🎬 #filmsky #moviesky #cinema
For some reason I was just thinking about Bush v. Gore. First time in my life the Supreme Court let a candidate steal an election.
Happy 61st birthday to the talented Keanu Reeves.
180 shots fired, 150 broken windows. Tumultuous firings and resignations at the CDC. The installation of a techno-optimist with a history of pushing unproven medical treatments. The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department.
Sheesh. From where I stood as an elementary school teacher in the Obama years, she transformed school lunches.
RFKJ may be wacky but, come on, he must be better, he's a rich, white man.
No, the Atlantic article is worse: Michelle: Let's encourage exercise & healthy food! RFK Jr: Let's get rid of food dyes and vaccines! The Atlantic: Michelle Obama failed to get food regulations passed, failed to provide proper oversight and failed to make America Healthy Again.
Every time RFK jr speaks the word "science", he must be asked to recite a detailed summary of the scientific method. He won't be able to answer.
Bill Cassidy wasn’t just a hepatologist, he was also a vaccinologist. He authored large studies on the hep B vaccine in adolescents, and others seeking to improve vaccine uptake, including the flu shot. It is truly a shame that with all this expertise, he let RFK Jr move forward.
National Nurses United Called For Firing Or Resignation Of RFK Jr "RFK Jr's tenure at HHS has been one disaster after another, dangerously eroding public trust in the institutions critical for the health and safety of all Americans. Time for him to go.” www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
I love looking at this graph, showing it to my students, and sharing it on social media, even though it unerringly brings out the trolls. This is the efficacy curve of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine. This, people, is what ended the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic. Despite what RFK Jr says.
This is so important. Please read. RFK Jr is endangering our lives. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
President of Death! Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list #cdnpoli
Happy Labrador Day, I hope your day was filled with Canadians and dogs (listens to earpiece) Sorry, LABOR Day, I hope you passed a small human out of your body in a relatively non-punishing way (listens to earpiece again)
Graham Greene was one of those actors whose presence was absolutely, 100% guaranteed to make whatever movie or TV show he was in better. He added instant gravitas and authority, reliable stealthy humor and depth beyond whatever was on the page. Should've been Emmy nominated for "Reservation Dogs."
Ursula von der Leyen’s plane was forced to land in Bulgaria and use paper maps after suspected Russian GPS jamming disabled its navigation, the FT reports.
Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. The word for elephant is the same as butterfly in the Cherokee language because when they first encountered
Netflix is putting its money where its mouth is: 💰 $2M to back Newsom in the redistricting fight 📺 A deal for Sesame Street — new episodes and the full archive free to watch. That’s how you pick a side.
On September 1, 2025, we lost a true legend. Graham Greene, Oneida from Six Nations Reserve, walked on at the age of 73. Over the span of more than 175 acting credits, he gave us characters that were unforgettable, complex, and real. redpopnews.com/remembering-... #redpopnews
The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.
RFK jr's cult beliefs in no way supersedes anyone's right to prevent death or disease in their self or their family. Full Stop.
@scalzi.com Fuzz Butt in a previous incarnation.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
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🇨🇦 Covid Forecast is out, not liking it’s already high in Ontario which means kids at school will be spreading Covid around since no one masks, no air filtration in schools & no vax yet. Year 6 & we’re still as unprepared as ever for Fall surge 😮💨😷 #ONpoli Find your province in tabs: shorturl.at/xLUlQ
A local diner was raided by ICE and 14 people were kidnapped, and most of the locals seem more concerned with where they're going to get their hashbrowns than with anything else. Unfriendly reminder that immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers and migrants don't owe you labor to deserve respect.
How is "ultra processed" defined? Everything I've seen is actually associated with ingredients, not something that seems to be a process.
Feel like it's worth mentioning that 'policing' and 'non-combat' grunt work is known to take the edge off of crack troops, and has done so throughout history. Using the military to occupy American cities makes the military less effective at what they putatively exist to do: defend the country.
YALL this is brilliant and mind blowing using the audio from Vietnam war on the national guard here in #DC
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
Self-ID and questioning autistics welcome! Learn autism from the inside out: masking vs unmasking, interoception, sensory, meltdowns vs shutdowns, burnout. Leave with language and community, not scripts. 5 weeks, pay as you can. www.theautisticcoach.com/newly-diagno...
It’s the naivety for me, hosting panels to declare their shock in a country that ripped Black kids away from their families and sold them as cattle during slavery. None of that moved some of you sufficiently to keep them from absolute power in the voting booth.
"COLONIZERS" FTFY Some of us have ancestry here since time immemorial [also, enslaved Black folks and their descendants are NOT "immigrants"] Why do we have to keep repeating this to ya'll
📢 TEXAS WORKER WIN: Food service workers at Meta in Austin just voted to unionize with UNITE HERE Local 23! (@unitehere.org) These workers are coming together for respect, job security, and guaranteed raises and benefits. Welcome to the labor movement, y’all!
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
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CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
Happy Labour Day Sabo Cat
"Alberta's book ban... includes The Handmaid's Tale, Brave New World..." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Very annoyed by this brainworm, heroin narrative that RFK is some kind of incompetent. He may very well be mentally ill, I'm not a doctor, but it's kind of beside the point. He's calculating; he has said he wanted to do all these things for years, and now he's doing them. 🤷🏻
People take for granted that we Americans are at negligible risk of tuberculosis, polio, diphtheria, malaria. That didn't happen by accident. Future generations will curse us if CDC is collapsed by a Secretary who is utterly unqualified and president who doesn't care.