“.. This is life-altering,” said Carla Kurkjian, an oncologist at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City, who wasn’t involved in the studies. “Not just for patients .. but for us as physicians, to be able to have a different conversation than we’ve had for so long.” www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

Breaking: US has announced sanctions & terror designations on Palestine Action. UK previously banned Palestine ​Action, and there is ongoing legal challenge. Solidarity must be unequivocal esp as Pal Action is one of the most effective & inspiring organizations.

this piece suddenly started getting attention and i just knew. Rest in Peace to my favorite performer

Corey Brickley@coreybrickley.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Happy Birthday Mr Curry thank you for awakening my interest in beautiful evil men

Not gonna lie, this feels like a pretty significant development. Meta will “restrict teenagers' use of Facebook and Instagram ​to two hours a day and block all usage from midnight to 6 a.m.” It will also “disable most push notifications to teenage users ​during school hours of 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.”

Meta agrees to pay $18 billion to settle US lawsuits over children's social media addiction

Meta Platforms will pay up to $18 billion over the next decade and strictly limit how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram under an agreement with nearly all U.S. states to resolve claims it designed ...

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Their tactic, which they have done over and over again for more than a decade, is simple: * Get caught violating privacy and trust * Say that it was an accident or mistake * Wait long enough for people's attention to drift, and ship the abusive feature anyway They have done this _dozens_ of times

“We found absolute, iron-clad evidence that short-term rental regulations put downward pressure on rent. Lots of things cause housing to be expensive, but this is low-hanging fruit to manage those costs.” Long past time for harsh restrictions on Airbnb.

Andy Yan@ayan604.bsky.social · 18h ago

"McGill study demonstrates that restricting short-term rentals improves housing affordability" #Vanpoli #VanRe www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...

What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass

CNN@cnn.com · 2d ago

"At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the country’s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind," writes Zachary B. Wolf. | Analysis

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

queen of hearts 💔

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: TWO Australian Scientists, Stacey Edwards & Juliet French, Have Discovered Cancer-Fighting RNA Molecules That Could Lead to a New Generation of Breast Cancer Treatments

I had to say thank you.

In Praise of Dolly Parton, 1946-2026, Our Goddess of Kindness

We will always love her, and there will never be another like her, this artist who came out of deep rural poverty in the 1960s to become not just a staggeringly great performer and songwriter but phil...

meditationsinanemergency.com

Ceres estimates data centers in 7 states used ~3.4 trillion gallons of freshwater for electricity in 2024 alone, ~12X the combined total of Los Angeles, Phoenix & Washington, D.C. Big increases projected (4T to 8T) for 2030. Tech companies say they're working on it, talk about how ag is worse.

Data centers’ hidden water footprint is linked to the grid

A Ceres analysis shows that data centers’ indirect water footprint from power plants dwarfs direct cooling.

latitudemedia.com

The Ellisons openly fund and support Israel’s military. Pointing this out is not a form of hatred, and it’s getting more and more absurd to suggest it is: by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

The Ellison family and Israel lobby’s smearing of Mark Ruffalo shows how tedious the ‘antisemitism scandal’ script is getting

The Ellisons openly fund and support Israel’s military. Pointing this out is not a form of hatred, and it’s getting more and more absurd to suggest it is.

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NEW: ICE data released under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that more than half of all ICE arrests are now people with no criminal record; no prior convictions or pending charges. In the first week of August, 55% of all ICE arrests were of people with no criminal record.

Deportation Data Project@deportationdata.bsky.social · 3d ago

🚨 We just released new ICE data updated through August 6, 2026, adding almost five months of data to our previous release. The new dataset contains a field recording the city of each arrest. deportationdata.org/news/2026-08...

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

Songwriter of I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 also invested millions in child literacy, Covid-19 vaccine development and other causes

Dolly Parton, country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80

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Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford just deleted this tweet announcing an endorsement from Catherine Swift, president of the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses of Canada Swift recently tweeted that she is a "proud islamophobe"

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

Seems like a good time to reshare my take from April 2025.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Mark Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership"

"I can ask the AI to give me 75 different variations in three seconds" sure, at the expense of the artists whose works were scraped without permission, and at the expense of the health of our fucking planet. Selfish behavior.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 2w ago

This is hopefully the last time Luke has to write about 1666: Amsterdam aftermath.site/1666-amsterdam...

This new Alzheimer’s drug targets a different brain protein, and is showing promise: www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic... by Lauran Neergaard, The Associated Press. Find out more at canadahealthwatch.ca

This new Alzheimer’s drug targets a different brain protein, and is showing promise

An experimental drug approved in the United States might help slow early Alzheimer’s disease in a markedly different way than today’s treatments — by lowering levels of a brain protein called tau,…

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Here's the AP story: www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - US is preparing to rescind up to 200,000 business and tourism visas in largest mass visa revocation ever, officials say.

A new cancer treatment is hailed as a breakthrough, but Canadians don’t have access to it. Here’s why. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic... by Christl Dabu. Find out more at canadahealthwatch.ca

A new cancer treatment is hailed as a breakthrough, but Canadians don’t have access to it. Here’s why.

A medical oncologist says a new pill for pancreatic cancer is the 'biggest breakthrough' in treating the disease, but there are reasons why it isn’t available yet in Canada.

ctvnews.ca

is taylor preparing for her “why i left the left” moment over backlash to her AI use 👀

NEW: The Trump admin is proposing to impose a $103,265 fee on all H-1B visa petitions which are subject to the annual cap of 85,000 visas. The fee would apply to all those selected in the annual lottery who go on to file H-1B visa petitions. There is a 30-day comment period which starts tomorrow.

*ahem* “Even if Democrats retake Congress or the White House, it is far from certain they will abandon tariffs and economic coercion now that these tools have been normalized. The rhetoric may change; the actions may not. “ www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

A deal with Donald Trump isn’t the end of instability. It’s just the start of it

Canada’s leaders need to stop expecting that a deal with Trump will lead to a new status quo, rather than never-ending turmoil for as long as he’s in office.

thestar.com

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 4d ago

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and President Donald Trump's son-in-law and outside adviser Jared Kushner met privately recently in New York, a signal that the White House is seeking ways to work with Democrats if they wrest majority control in the midterms. https://to.pbs.org/4wVszkQ

New prison projects across the US champion reforms that appear progressive: trauma-informed (in NJ); a wellness center (in PA); a model for rehabilitation (in SD). Each reform justifies and usually expands carceral budgets, logics, and footprints - normalizing prisons. truthout.org/articles/sta...

States Claim to Invest in “Humane” New Prisons — But Prisons Were Never Humane

The historical record shows that the glossy language of “reform” contributes to the normalization of prisons and jails.

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Domestic & foreign tarriffs has been sold to American working class as a means of generating jobs & debt reduction. However "main effects of tariffs has been to cause massive transfer of wealth from the poor & middle class to wealthy and well-connected corporations" www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

ANALYSIS | How Trump's tariffs work to redistribute wealth up the food chain | CBC News

Though nominally aimed at making foreign "cheaters" pay, the U.S. president's tariffs have in fact been a powerful domestic mechanism for taking money from poor and middle-class Americans and giving i...

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“As of the start of this year, the bank estimates that there was a combined value of $500B in private lending by Canadian investors & lending to private credit funds by Canadian banks. Most of that lending activity was in the US.”

TorontoToday@torontotoday.ca · 4d ago