Here to ride this 🌊 with integrity, love, humour & a whole lot of spitting 🔥. I never shy away from the truth - let’s find it together… Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King Jr.
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A fascinating new preprint w/one very unexpected finding suggests, I believe, that a large proportion of Long Covid may be due to chronic infection in a particular bodily niche, which could be crucial for finding effective LC treatments. It requires some explaining. 🧵 1/33
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
This is your daily reminder that foreign fruit is wearing a maple leaf... and nobody's getting fined for it. #cdnpoli youtu.be/Lo2brYfSeyY
Arijit Chakravarty made very in-depth threads about it, explaining the mechanism that allows cancer to take hold, and how sars2 causes disruption in the immune system to hamper cancer development, as well as DNA repair mechanisms, and the role of mitochondria. But he's not on bsky.
"Sc2 infections, even mild ones, can lead to loss of white blood cells (lymphocytopenia). Sc2 causes DNA damage in these cells. Sc2 infects T cells (killing them) and suppresses T cell signaling. The innate immune system is also suppressed by Sc2."
Unlike Arijit, I tend to distinguish between carcinogenic and oncogenic. The first related to poisoning and toxicity (like heavy metals, radiation, etc), and oncogenic to biological mechanisms leading to cancer. I'm afraid sars2 is both, and also an accelerant.
Nadler ‘said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel was committing mass murder and war crimes in Gaza “without question.”’
As we head back to school, Nova Scotia's Covid Forecast outlook is high and about 1 of every 69 people is infected. You can reduce the spread by staying home when sick, wearing a well-fitting mask, meeting outside when possible, opening windows, and running air purifiers. Take care of each other!
22 year old man whose previous experience is a grocer. The header of counter terrorism. MAGA is Affirmative Action for Mediocre White Men
True, but step one is severing ties with AIPAC and Israel.
COVID outbreak risk remains in #ONhealth hospitals without layers of protection. Universal masking in ALL areas of #Ontario hospitals is essential for safe healthcare access. Let regional decision-makers know this is a priority. @safecare.initiative.works Take action: safecare.initiative.works
Behold! My sister’s lap doggo(*who is part cat)providing moral support before the first day of school 🐾 *he has been known to nap on the desk where the sun is shining if there’s a blanket & a need to be puppy free to type faster
A world-first RCT in cancer patients found that a daily interferon-α nasal spray reduced the risk of Covid infections by ~40% vs. placebo 🎉 interferon-α is a naturally occurring protein with broad antiviral effects www.petermac.org/about-us/new...
It's amazing how people forget *just how bad things got* for hospitals, hospital workers, and people who needed healthcare during 2020-2021. Guys, it was bad! Really bad!
It’s astounding that HCWs forgot🤷🏻♀️ I’m at a loss as to why HCWs & hospital employees are STILL refusing to protect their patients by wearing N95s Patients are being disabled & killed by this absolutely willful ignorance & refusal to take airborne precautions Patients w/ HAI have worse outcomes 😕
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
And yet Harper’s claiming that he’s giving Carney advice Carney is also taking council from the head of Theil’s Palantir Canada Wonder if Carney is going to cancel any government contracts with Elon’s Starlink or nah? 🤔 Not exactly what he campaigned on or what we voted for 🤷🏻♀️
THIS! Is the plain spoken truth telling I was posting about the other day here, the sort that everyone from White House press corps reporters to the person on the street needs to see, here and say. Quite an excellent op-ed. Coudn't have written it better myself! @velshimsnbc.bsky.social
These hormonal middle aged men are too emotional and irrational to understand the science of contraception. Better enact some controls on their voting rights - who knows what kind of unscientific nonsense will spin their dizzy little heads? Anyway, I prefer when they just smile and don't post.
Further proof that Canada is just four corporations in a trench coat pretending to be a real country…
"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars "bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me
Well I would argue it was the lack of clear messaging on: 1. The Covid vaccine being primarily designed to reduce severity of infection. 2. The continued lack of messaging on the seriousness of Post infection risks. 3. Reminding folks there is asymptomatic covid- ending testing 🧵
Something press pool could ask about
"To those on the C.D.C. staff who continue to perform their jobs heroically in the face of the excruciating circumstances, we offer our sincere thanks and appreciation."
Just sayin’.
You’d be horrified 2C how many people are enthusiastically following Theil & Yarvin around the🌎 Don’t forget Stephen Harper’s IDU gang of dictators either The silent majority has already let Ford(IDU)take over🇨🇦 Carney is working WITH Theil’s Palantir🇨🇦CEO 2create Canadian policies We’re cooked!😖
⚡️ Zelensky announces faster air defense deliveries after deadly Russian strikes. "We are accelerating the supply of additional air defense systems to enhance protection against missiles," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
💯 Disability benefits are often denied forcing people who need it 2appeal2 even get it Denying Novavax&N95 mandates in med settings will only⬆️the # of disabled due2 Long Covid w/ more patients unable 2protect themselves 🇨🇦doesn’t have a plan to support the🌊of disability coming VERY un Canadian
Meagre Canada Disability Payment is a slap in the face. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Trudeau gave $2000/month 2survive in🇨🇦for Covid pymts but the disabled can go ahead&make it on<$1500🤷🏻♀️ It’s dehumanizing but that’s the point-MAID is more accessible than disability benefits by design Some disabled can’t tolerate mRNA💉but Novavax isn’t avail in🇨🇦-let ‘em”fall by the wayside” I guess😕
Carney’s first 100 days: Unpacking the new prime minister’s ‘disappointing move to the right’ with Linda McQuaig: ricochet.media/politics/car...
SciTech Daily: 'Covid Could Be Quietly Aging Your Arteries by Five Years' 'A major international study found that even mild Covid infections can stiffen blood vessels as if they had aged five extra years, raising long-term risks of heart attacks and strokes' scitechdaily.com/covid-could-...
Im old enough to remember when America thought children were our future. Under this minority rule we value the gun rights of a small minority of people over the lives of every child. We put children on planes to deport them to countries with no guardians or due process. This is not Great America.
Well, hey. I’ve never felt like I fit on either side of the introvert/extrovert camp but this article has me feeling seen 💚
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security in which she’ll help oversee election security.
I’m certain Ford will do away with children’s rights throughout Canada should he be elected as Prime Minister 😕
A few reminders. Convention on the Rights of the Child "196 countries have become State Parties to the Convention as of October 2015. Only the United States of America has not ratified the Convention." www.unicef.org/child-rights...
Fun fact: The Ontario Child & Family Services Advocacy Office used to support young people as per the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Ford shut them down Ford also got rid of the Child Advocate in ON(where a child with CAS dies Every.Three.Days) Ford is IDU. IDU hates children
EVERY building in the area should be nothing but rainbows if this memorial isn’t allowed. EVERY. Last. One.
Umm Ontario public health pretends there’s treatment options if people relying on Novavax get infected sooo
Not all vaccines. People relying on Novavax are SOL according to Ontario PH which couldn’t care less about protecting anyone who isn’t able to take mRNA… they’re lying when they say Paxlovid is an option here… hasn’t been available to MOST for over 5 yrs-there are no treatment options 🤷🏻♀️
I've seen many debating what to do if COVID vaccines truly disappear in the US & what they told me in Canada (as I can only safely receive a vaccine our government no longer buys)- is to "get infected to avoid infection" which is obviously bad advice. So, I wear an N95 everywhere in public instead.
Ontario says we can get Paxlovid 🙄ummm not for the last 5+ yrs & after being forcibly infected 3x by unmasked HCWs while I had to unmask in the hospital🤷🏻♀️Total BS
Why do I blame Bill Cassidy for the destruction of the CDC and the NIH? Because he is a physician. He knew or should have known the danger that Kennedy poses to the U.S. and the globe. Kennedy has never hidden what he is—a predator, a fraud, an anti-science hack, and a gargantuan narcissist.
“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.
Pectoral, 4th century BCE, Scythian gold. I shortly explained who were the Scythians and showed other examples of ancient Crimean heritage. Salted with Ukrainian reality. Sunday Letter: www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...
This is… so depressing But it helps everything make sense
This was/is a choice. We can at any time chose something different. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
Labour should be ashamed of themselves for not mentioning #COVID being the biggest cause of absence in schools! Phillipson said herself clean air was needed in 2022, no mention on the news today or the association with neurological risks post infection! Many parents are very fed up of this narrative
Right out of Soviet propaganda.
Poilievre unveiled a proposal in Brampton Ont to amend Canada's Criminal Code, introducing the "Stand on Guard" law. This measure would simplify self-defense by presuming force, including lethal force, as reasonable against unlawful intruders posing a threat. #cdnpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLZR...
Lauren Gunderson, who worked on ‘LIGHTYEAR’, responds to Snoop Dogg’s criticism of the film’s lesbian couple: “A key character needed a partner, and it was so natural to write ‘she’ instead of ‘he’ … I’m proud of it. To infinity. Love is love.”
I originally wrote this in October 2024, please read it. I had a reporter ask this week what Trump means when he calls himself a dictator. 😐
YEP! MAGGATs need to get the F’ out of America. This isn’t their country. Go to Russia or North Korea where you can live under dictatorship cuz that’s what u Voted for! #arresttrump
For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers. Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us. Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work. It was a hoax.
My long Covid patient. 3 covid infections and 3 vaccinations- unable to have further mRNA due to myocarditis. Developed long covid after 3rd infection. POTS and PEM crashes. Limited to 2500 steps daily. Previously fit and well and gyms regularly. No meds prior to long covid.
Here is I/v: "He (RFKJR) said ... the 🐓s shd get the bird flu .. the ones that survive r genetically ⬆️. They shd reproduce. W Texas & measles where he says getting the infection is fine becos only the 💪 will survive. It will make your immune system 💪er = FALSE. " www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVm7...
Ha. Haha. Haaa. I get it.
drjenniferlincoln Jennifer Lincoln, MD, IBCLC
A months-long investigation estimates that the profits from the Trump family’s ventures in private clubs, hotels, golf courses, crypto currencies, NFTs, and other businesses has raised President Trump’s net worth by billions of dollars.
Good morning, BlueSky. Why are people (even if it’s premature) celebrating a Vance presidency?
Theil,Yarvin & IDU are FAR from finished with us. Unfortunately they’re not even on Canadian’s radars… Canada has no clue who the shot callers are 😐
If he’s on the golf course tomorrow, I hope it’s next to Ivana.
Closing the ON Child & Family Services Advocacy Office & then firing the last Child Advocate Shutting down the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board Failing to provide Crown Wards treatment for Complex PTSD Cutting Autism support Doug Ford is a horrible person with no heart who hates kids
Homelessness is a policy choice. Increasing numbers of violent incidents in schools is a policy choice. Families relying on food banks to survive is a policy choice.
The Ford government is touting nearly $1B for new schools opening this fall, but the repair backlog for existing ones has swelled to $16B. “This isn’t record spending, it’s record neglect." #cdnpoli
Neil Young goes after Trump in new protest song, ‘Big Crime’ globalnews.ca/news/1135588...
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My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
TIL Captain Stottlemeyer from "Monk" and Buffalo Bill from "Silence of the Lambs" were the SAME GUY!!!
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@LePapillonBlu2 Maya We are living in the dumbest timeline in human history. 😳
JAMA: New research indicates that #COVID19 and #flu can awaken dormant cancer cells, and there could be implications for cancer survivors. COVID-19, Flu May Reawaken Dormant Cancer Cells (Aug 29, 2025) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Corporate America’s playbook: 1) Exploit workers to maximize profits 2) Use profits to buy Congress 3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws 4) Use these laws to further exploit workers 5) Repeat Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
I’ve heard from a couple of messaging strategists now that people shouldn’t post so much about COVID19 vaccines because it’s “divisive”. I am here to say that I do not give a damn what is popular. I will never ignore scientific evidence for the sake of expediency, and neither should anyone else.
Thankful for the Social Media Guardians who have my back. 🥰 🙏
Peeked into BlueSky, saw a racist attack against the fabulous and talented @eslfairy.bsky.social (and swiped at me probably) reported and blocked. Just posting because I’m so 😡 The underbelly of our society is crawling out from the rocks they live under and I’m fed up of seeing them.
I truly don’t understand the people who think teachers telling children how to run, hide, and fight during school shootings is normal but think a teacher acknowledging that someone has two moms or two dads is indoctrination.
Love Lisa’s take…. youtu.be/imzt6iNU9Js?...
it’s absolutely unsafe that @ottawapublichealth.ca now doesn’t have doctor’s emails and is unable to communicate with them unless they sign up. Many doctors won’t know they have to sign up and patients will pay the price of not having informed doctors. Who’s responsible? The govt? CPSO? #Onpoli
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Good.
“You cannot argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience” -Mark Twain This is why the medical experts are leaving the CDC.
Nothing has changed since this event, if anything it’s gotten worse!
Wish he would have called out Ford during Ford’s last election. No matter how many times I tagged Charlie he had nothing to say ON could have used his voice to motivate people to vote Ford out! He has so many followers but instead he criticized people like me (with only 100s)for not doing enough😏
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