How far away this seems.

Corruption at every level of government. Inconvenient truths are eradicated.

First Covid wave for 12 months is well underway. Hospital admissions are already higher than last year's peak, but are much lower than we were seeing in earlier waves.

There will be weekly surveillance reports through the winter months here:
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Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America 404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:

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DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree. Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

"DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree." thedispatch.com/article/dhs-...

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
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Chicago PD: arrest these motherfuckers threatening civilians. Put them in jail. Let the courts sort it out

#WarRavagedPortland

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And who have legal work permits.

If you’re bored or love docs like I do consider watching Bending Lines: The Sculpture of Robert Wiggs on Prime Video. I came away seeing the world differently and I love when that happens.

Come to Canada. This is the kind of research that is embraced and funded.

Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Fighting fire with fire. I endorse this approach.

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Seriously, HCS must divest from P******r. It is indefensible to compromise patient privacy with an entity that is simultaneously setting up a surveillance state for an emerging fascist regime.

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Can Solar Energy Save Us? Bill McKibben’s new book argues that sun power can displace fossil fuels.

“Sometime in the early part of the 2020s, civilization crossed an invisible line where the cost of producing energy from the sun dropped below the cost of fossil fuel. That’s not yet common knowledge—because so much of the solar revolution is taking place in China.”
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Brilliant strategy for identifying and combatting the overwhelm of living during fascism.

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If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

One of the villains of the new Jackal series is a fellow who bears an uncanny similarity to a certain billionaire broligarch. The screenwriter even threw in an “ancien regime” reference so there would be no chance of missing the context. Brilliant.

Is it Claustrophobia? Or Discomfort? I had a breast MRI before they had optimized protocols and they hyperextended my arm and screwed up my shoulder. I was literally silently begging for it to be over. Of all the procedures I had, breast surgery, needle loc bx, etc.. the MRI was the worst part.

Spied on the Interwebs related to current events: “The USA is Karenistan”.

Spied on the Interwebs:

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The Supreme Court should preserve the status quo until legal questions are resolved and explain the disposition of cases for the public. They are abdicating basic principles of equity and failing to fulfill their institutional role. They aren’t pretending to try. There isn’t even the veneer of law.

So grateful for the clear, unequivocal witness and voice of Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social who visited the horrifying detention camp in Florida. As he said, “I didn’t see any Russians who’ve overstayed their visas. Only Black & Latino men who look like me.” @maddow.msnbc.com

Padilla: "What if I was outside a Home Depot, because I like to do some work around the house, not dressed in a suit. Would I be a target of ICE enforcement under Tom Homan? Probably. And it is just wrong."