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You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

Due Process for Me, Not for Thee Donald Trump has benefited greatly from America’s constitutional protections, but he seeks to deprive others of them.

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For decades, BigT put profit over health—that’s undeniable. Now they invest in reduced-risk alternatives. Whether for survival or real change, this shift could save millions of lives.

Health organizations should ask if their fight is still relevant. The real enemy is smoking and its consequences.

This year is a weird one. In September I will be the same age as you were when you left. Time is elastic but it never snaps back so you can get one more day. You would have been 89 today. That is also the last age that Nana was herself before her swift downward spiral to be with you.

Wouldn’t know reading this safer smoke free products accounted 40% revenue PMI in 2024! PMI world’s biggest traded tobacco company. Smoke free now more profitable than deadly cigs. But tobacco control perversely trying to stop smokers switching to safer options!! @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social

#ActualWinning

Well worth listen anything @jamomartin.bsky.social says! Simon Chapman sure vape availability via chemists will improve & law enforcement will get on top of vape black market! Really? Illicit drugs still readily available in Australia Simon! @m1ngthemerciless.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social

EveryvdayvI wake up and wonder what new element has been added to the American hellscape. WITAF people? Seriously? The lunatics are running the asylum, and I fear there is no recourse at this point.

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Why is Australia's smoking rate falling slower than NZ's? (Hint: vapes) The Coalition is following the evidence. Labor is stuck with its prohibitionist conspiracy theory.

Oh dear! Cracks starting to appear in Australian media on vaping! Previously wall-to-wall partisan anti vaping but now some articles pointing out what a clusterfuck Australia has created @jamomartin.bsky.social @pippaslive.bsky.social @caphra.bsky.social
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I'll add this: Speak for those who cannot. Take care of yourself so you are strong for others. Do the right thing, even if its going against the majority. The truth always prevails, but sometimes its a mess to get to the end of the line. Hold the line.

Thou shalt impeach the motherfucker.

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Meanwhile, a whole bunch of people who voted for him, see no issue with what is going on. So either they have drank the Kool Aid, or they are ostriches until something happens that directly impacts them. By then, it will be too late. History does, in fact, repeat.

2/2 letter signed by CASA Africa, ARDT Iberoamerica, & CAPHRA (Asia Pacific), calls for recognition of tobacco harm reduction (THR) as crucial strategy in public health policy @pippaslive.bsky.social

1/2 It’s time UN Special Rapporteur recognised Tobacco Harm Reduction. A coalition of international consumer advocacy groups submitted a comprehensive response to UN Special Rapporteur on right to health, Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, re her recent report on harm reduction ..

If you're not ok with sending a Nigerian prince your personal and private information, why would you be ok with a South African oligarch barging into government offices and stealing it?

So tired of this idea that billionaires are our "betters" whose opinion is super important because they have a lot of money. It's bullshit. They're mostly greedy sociopaths who have no problem destroying people who get in their way. That doesn't make your opinion one to be valued, in my opinion.

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FDR was last president who had no term limits I think. He changed it.

Same.

Sadly, if the OS changes the constitution so he can be president for as long as he wants, I will not renew my US passport. I may burn it. It expires 2030 so we will see. Waiting on youngest NZ Citizenship ceremony...hopefully sooner rather than later.

Please stay safe everyone.

You can't, I figured that out late last night. The fact that it makes no sense means I still have one good brain cell and its relatively sane.

I was in a very dark place over the last weekend...and I knew, KNEW, I had to come up with something to keep going and it was this: Do the best you can, in the kindest manner possible and protect those who need it. Its all I can do, its all any of us can do. Be a voice for the voiceless.