My friends call me Spike, BSc 🇨🇦
@chemspice.bsky.social
A West Coast Canadian 🇨🇦 Gen X'er STEM gurl, university chemist, 9th year ketovore. Enjoys stories usually expressed in the form of TV and movies. Rumoured to have written a cookbook or two. Whose heart was stolen by a Texan. 🤠 @bf2multi100.bsky.social
Such a hypocrite! www.ibtimes.co.uk/texas-aborti...
Texas Abortion-Ban Author Admits Affair, Denies Claim He Funded Abortions
Texas Republican Giovanni Capriglione has admitted an affair with Alex Grace but denies her allegation that he paid for abortions, threatening legal action over the claims.
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Foreign investors bought $20.7 billion of stocks and bonds in July alone, bringing the 12-month total to an "astonishing" $295.5 billion or 8.7 per cent of this year's gross domestic product Investment in canada is actually pouring in ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/posthas...
Posthaste: Canada is killing it attracting this foreign investment — even without Carney's summit
Last year $72 billion flowed out of Canada, this year $124 billion flowed in
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www.winnipegsun.com/national-new...
FBI cuts off RCMP over CBC's 9/11 terrorism wording memo
The FBI paused parts of its collaboration with the RCMP after CBC advised staff against calling the September 11 attacks terrorist acts without attribution, sparking controversy between U.S. and Canad...
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www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/u... Trump spit is our brother’s face, he has absolutely no idea about our relationship. America’s economy can’t survive without Canada. We used their buying power along with Mexico to become the North American bloc. Trump has destroyed our economy and we’re doomed
Trump Wanted Canada as the 51st State. He Ended Up Pushing It Toward the European Union.
The invitation by the E.U. for Canada to become an “associate member” is a sign of Mr. Trump’s brand of diplomacy, which often involves threatening America’s closest friends.
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www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-a...
Family blames Texas' "merciless" abortion ban for woman's death, files lawsuit targeting Paxton, doctors
The family of 37-year-old Tierra Walker filed a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and others, saying she was denied an abortion that could have saved her life.
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Just another government subsidy to billionaire Bezos. Increase his profits by impoverishing his workers.
My friends call me Spike, BSc 🇨🇦@chemspice.bsky.social · 2w agoUtterly disgusting! “These are families that are really barely able to make ends meet,” one policy expert said. “And yet they are working, and they are working a lot.” fortune.com/2026/09/13/a...
leave in 2025, with about $6.7 billion tied to the DOGE-era deferred resignation program. Call it “efficiency” if you want. The only result was fewer federal employees and a federal workforce dramatically reshaped by a corrupt administration.
U.S. GAO - Federal Workforce: Deferred Resignation Program Largely Responsible for Sixfold Increase in Paid Administrative Leave Salary Costs
Federal agencies can use paid administrative leave (excused absence with pay) for workforce flexibility. Agencies spent $9.5 billion on salary costs...
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Utterly disgusting! “These are families that are really barely able to make ends meet,” one policy expert said. “And yet they are working, and they are working a lot.” fortune.com/2026/09/13/a...
Amazon workers on food stamps have tripled despite its record revenue—and it’s just the latest evidence of the new economy of shrinking labor shares | Fortune
“These are families that are really barely able to make ends meet,” one policy expert said. “And yet they are working, and they are working a lot.”
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Things are heating up in the Michigan Senate race And MAGA Mike Rogers is getting his a** handed to him by @abdulelsayed.bsky.social
This is barbaric and horrific! www.sacurrent.com/news/ectopic...
Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled. It’s worse in states, like Texas, with abortion bans.
People gather for an abortion rights rally at the federal courthouse in San Antonio on May 3, 2022. This story was originally published by ProPublica. The
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Yep, Trump's plan for the midterms: 1) Lie, 2) Cheat, 3) Steal
substack.com/@jamestalari... The banned FCC interview. Cowards
James Talarico (@jamestalarico)
This is the interview Trump’s FCC doesn’t want you to see. We’re not just going up against the most corrupt politician in Texas. We’re going up against this entire corrupt system. Watch my banned i...
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www.texastribune.org/2026/09/10/p...
More ectopic pregnancy deaths in abortion ban states like Texas
After Texas banned nearly all abortions, patients have struggled to get ectopic care. More than 300 patients here experienced substantial blood loss in 2023 and 2024, compared to 2018 and 2019.
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I hated writing this, if I'm being honest. I'm not a lawyer, but as a victim of deepfake sexual abuse I am incredibly frustrated by the ways our backward looking legal system continues to fail the most vulnerable when it comes to genAI www.thewayfinder.net/p/when-virtu...
When “Virtual” Abuse Has Real Victims
Two cases reveal how generative AI has outgrown the legal framework governing child sexual abuse material
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