An Indigenous occupation of a sacred #Minneapolis site is offering prayers to those held in Whipple and demanding #LandBack to return Fort Snelling to the Dakota people.

A Shareable Resource for Grassroots Crisis Support & Mutual Aid Flocking Towards Justice, Support Pods In Action

I made a resource on how to use Mia Mingus' "Pod Mapping" strategy for grassroots community-based crisis intervention and mutual aid

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Donate to Medical Costs & Housing, organized by Tracey Thompson In March of 2020 I was attacked on my way home from work. The man grabbed me, shook me, cough… Tracey Thompson needs your support for Medical Costs & Housing

Been trying to meet this goal for a several years now.
Please consider donating if you are financially secure & safe, if not to me then one of the many others who could use help. I am grateful to everyone who’s helped me make it this far.
Look out for each other & stay gold.
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The Afterlives of Viral Infection | KPFA As influenza cases reach a twenty-five year high, a look at the complicated history of long lasting post-viral conditions. Medical anthropologist Emily Mendenhall considers how the medical establishme...

Medical anthropologist Emily Mendenhall considers how the medical establishment has frequently ignored chronic but often invisible illnesses like long Covid and long flu, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Lyme disease. kpfa.org/episode/agai...

What Can We Do for the 250 Million and Counting Displaced by the Environmental Crisis? | Common Dreams ​We must demand a new comprehensive legal framework for climate refugees to safeguard vulnerable populations and protect those who may be at risk in the future.

We all saw this coming: first-world countries refusing to accept climate refugees, despite being responsible for the environmental destruction through fossil fuel extraction, and allowing uninformed debates by some fascist who knows nothing about the subject.

Important to emphasize: while the realities depicted in this article are grim, the trans political prisoners are also building community. They do have real support both behind bars and outside. This is part of a long history of U.S. political prisoners organizing.

People resist. Always.

Why Hotter Ovens Make Better Cookies, According to Science - Bytes Europe Maria Corradini, an associate professor at the university and chair in food quality at the Arrell Food Institute, said that better understanding these changes

Why Hotter Ovens Make Better Cookies, According to Science

https://www.byteseu.com/1712855/

Food scientists at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, have developed mathematical models to explain how cookies change during baking, focusing on how temperature affects size, shape, and …

Toronto's Linguistic Heritage Explore how Toronto's linguistic landscape has evolved over decades.

OK, this is super neat: "Toronto's Linguistic Heritage" from @uoftcities.bsky.social!

It tracks the histories and geographies of linguistic communities in Toronto. Greek, Hungarian, Arabic...and way more! Bravo Aniket Kali & Jeff Allen!

schoolofcities.github.io/languages/to...

Health Canada warns of fake Viagra and Cialis distributed in southern Ontario The federal health agency said the fake Cialis (20 mg tadalafil tablets) and Viagra (100 mg sildenafil tablets) were at Bitco Distribution in Mississauga.

Health Canada warns of fake Viagra and Cialis distributed in southern Ontario #Canada

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Screenshot of an article from The Tyee titled “Get Ready for the Forever Plague.” The subheading states that public health officials’ COVID complacency has opened the door to new illnesses and long-term damage. The byline credits Andrew Nikiforuk, dated 4 July 2022. Below the headline is an image of a hooded figure wearing a black plague doctor mask in a dark, smoky environment, evoking themes of disease and ongoing pandemic risk.

Get Ready for the Forever Plague.

"Public health officials gambled with the future and chose a fantasy world instead. Now COVID has become a runaway train with unknown biological consequences."

Published: July 2022

Source: archive.md/Of1Jb

Love open access publishing. Here is Mariam Thalos' new book Reasoning in the Wild (Routledge 2026), with an Open Access license. Feel free to share.
#philsky
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Gentle reminder that you can turn off autoplay on videos so you don’t have to be traumatized by graphic images without your consent:

Settings — content and media — autoplay videos and gifs

this is SO GOOD. you need to read it.

it's a crime against collective journalism that Juno isn't being paid for her amazing work.

The CRA spent $18M on 'Charlie,' a new tax information chatbot that is wrong most of the time The Canada Revenue Agency paid $18 million for a chatbot the auditor general says give her team the wrong answer 66 per cent of the time.

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time.

The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.

ICE arrests are forcing American moms to leave their jobs A new analysis shows that increased immigration enforcement is reducing labor in the child care workforce. The ripple effect is impacting mothers with young children.

A lot to unpack here about class, gender, and caring work 19thnews.org/2025/12/ice-...

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"

Reviews.

Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)

Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

MOST buisness' succeed ONLY because they extract labor for cheap.This happens on all levels - nobody writes their business plan paying their workers a liveable wage ...

Who is minding the water data centres will use? Around the world, scientists and environmentalists are sounding the alarm on the data centre industry.

From a legendary scholar whom I'm proud to call my friend, Maude Barlow:

"Who is minding the water data centres will use?"

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/05/o...

Post-COVID-19 Cognitive Impairment Cognitive impairment has emerged as one of the most commonly reported health effects associated with Long COVID, potentially portending significant consequences for patient functioning and quality of life. Cognitive impairment is defined as difficulties with thinking processes that can impact various cognitive domains, including memory, attention, processing speed, language, visuospatial, and executive functions (e.g., multitasking, judgment, problem solving). In patients with Long COVID, cognitive impairment has been characterized primarily by deficits in executive functioning (Becker et al., 2023). Cognitive impairment associated with Long COVID can vary in severity, from mild to severe, and often has an impact on instrumental activities of daily living. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Long-Term Health Effects of COVID-19: Disability and Function Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/771.

The "Post-COVID-19 Cognitive Impairment" section in the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine report is worthy of reflection.

As is the question of why we don't hear about it from the institutions that told us it was safe to ignore COVID.

www.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...

Water is Not For Sale. It’s a Public Right. For the health of the water and our communities, we can’t afford to test the waters of privatization. Sign on now to urge the provincial government to ensure water and wastewater services in Ontario r...

Important to act on this now 👇
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Photo of a young person wearing a black bifold KN95 respirator mask and a colourful button up shirt with tropical motif. They have short black hair and they are looking to the side. "Your donation of $100 allows us to send several thousand masks to a mask bloc for distribution to people who need them!" Donate A Mask Canada donatemask.ca

Did you know? Donate A Mask’s Free Request Program sends #masks to mask blocs around the country. 😷 🇨🇦 Help us continue this work by donating today. 💙

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#GivingTuesdayCa #Masks4All #MaskDistro

Pregnant immigrants held for months in detention despite rules against it With the immigration crackdown, more pregnant women are being detained. The ACLU alleges a woman was shackled while miscarrying and others were denied prenatal care.

The stories of pregnant women in ICE detention — one shackled while miscarrying, another placed in solitary confinement with a high-risk pregnancy — are not one offs.

They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...

Help is down 68% but the needs are only increasing. We didn't distribute funds this week. We're turning down all individual requests for help.

- Four women’s emergency healthcare
- Food in persisting famine
- Shelter for the few who are housed
- Winter items, like blankets
- Newborn supplies

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If you knew every Covid infection you prevented also prevents organ damage, diabetes, cancer, early dementia, other ailments, would you mask again?

N95 is effective prevention tool. Covid vax can keep you out of hospital, maybe prevent Long Covid but doesn’t entirely prevent infection 😷 does better

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings

The FBI accessed and spied on a Signal group chat that was organizing immigrant “court watch” efforts in NYC.

I feel like this should be bigger news.

You aren’t supposed to be able to spy on Signal chats.

Were they invited? How did they get access? Was there a warrant?

Measles Vaccine Protection Wanes After a Decade Individuals who receive a measles-containing vaccine maintain seropositivity for a decade; however, the vaccine’s protection declines gradually thereafter.

New Lancet meta-analysis finds measles vaccine immunity wanes over time, with seropositivity dropping from ~93% within 10 yrs to ~83% at 16–22 yrs.

The authors say their findings warrant an urgent review of vaccination strategies

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