Jason Harrison
@drjasonharrison.bsky.social
Citizen of the USA, Canadian resident since 1992. Husband, dad, software developer, keeper of the house plants.
"Now we [panting] have photographs or tapes. Like moving cameras, right?" DJT Did he think "tapes" would mean anything but video? Police tape? Duct tape? Flex Tape? Pee Tape? www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
Trump disses Pirro over Reflecting Pool case | CNN Politics
On Monday, President Donald Trump made his disappointment towards the US attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, work on the Reflecting Pool case with the DOJ very clear at an Oval Offic...
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Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Buck v. Bell: In 1927, Carrie Buck, a poor white woman, was the first person to be sterilized in Virginia under a new law. 31 states still allow forced sterilization. www.pbs.org/independentl...
Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics Programs in the United States
A shameful part of America’s history.
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Linguistic accent adaptation is the subconscious or conscious process of adjusting speech patterns, intonation, and vowel sounds to match other people. Rooted in the brain’s mirror neurons and neuroplasticity, this phenomenon strengthens social bonding. See also isciencemag.co.uk/features/tal...
Talking Like Friends: Exploring the Phenomenon of Accent Adaptation
Olive Bradshaw delves into how and why we adapt our accents to those around us
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Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2w agoPeople are making fun of AOC for having a slight southern accent while speaking in Memphis but they clearly don’t know the pain of habitually and unconsciously imitating the speaking style of the people around you
Uncle Sam wants to test your testosterone deadder.substack.com/p/uncle-sam
Uncle Sam
Globe and Mail
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This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.
A cycle of increasing temperatures, rising CO2 levels, and US politicians complaining about smoke from Canada. www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
Canada’s Forests Will Burn and Burn
Once a wildfire starts, it can spread to an area too massive to control.
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Voters or organization you are employed by would like you to update your ability-to-work status. Sick, vacation, personal day, extended absence...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoBeshear on McConnell: "I'm concerned. I get that we all have a right to privacy for our health, but when you run for an office like mine or Sen. McConnell's you answer to the voters. If you're in the hospital for an entire month, you owe it to the people who elected you to give them an update."
Funniest possible breaking news banner on this amazing headline from a few months ago
The thing is, doing sports like Norway (focused on fun, companionship, team spirit) rather than the US (focused on intensity, suffering, competition, which individual is "best") isn't just healthier & more pro-social, it produces *better athletes*.
A Recent Supreme Court Opinion Completely Misunderstands the Point of Sports. One World Cup Superstar Is the Corrective.
We’re fundamentally misunderstanding the point of sports.
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07/09/26 PM: Did YOU have Dinner?14,000,000 children have no food security in America! 770,000 more have lost SNAP benefits! 1 in 4 around the world go to bed hungry! You can mute/block me. I don't care. I'll not stop! Will YOU Be Voting for Children to eat in 11/26 &giving to a local food bank?
"The most ubiquitous form of American culture nowadays is not jazz programming going out on shortwave radio across Eurasia, but the social-media platforms that pump conspiracy theories, extremism, advertising, pornography, and spam into every corner of the globe." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark
For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.
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A sadly apropos image for this particular July 4 in the nation’s capital. bsky.app/profile/joey...
Joey Parks@joeyparks.bsky.social · last mo.Yay, America! Are we great again now?
I'm happy for 🇨🇦 Always nice to see them doing well. This goal will go down in history and Canadian football folklore.
In this video I show how you can go from £4 per hour at 60g of carbs down to just £0.37 (10x cheaper) whilst removing single-use plastic from your fuelling strategy. By using DirtBags you can move to bulk bought or home-made fuel sources that cost you much less shop.forthetrail.com #trailrunning
"The trouble with being vocally in opposition to fascism under a fascist regime is that it automatically makes you a target."
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last mo.NEW — The sentencing of the Prairieland demonstrators shows the brutality of Trump's war on dissent, but it's not without precedent, @kimkelly.bsky.social writes. History shows us the government has always punished anti-fascism. But this time we can change the narrative in real time. Read here:
www.democracynow.org/2026/6/25/re...
“How to Think About AI”: Cory Doctorow on Big Tech, Understanding AI, Labor Automation & More
Democracy Now! speaks with science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow about AI and his latest book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intel...
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Nothing says ‘freedom’ like burning taxpayer money on dirt bikes at the White House for a billionaire’s birthday party. Bread’s expensive, rent’s worse, but sure, let’s fund a midlife crisis with fireworks and motocross. Peak empire decay. America is not a serious country.
Between this and his abandonment of trans children y’all gotta take off your rose colored glasses because we will never get him to move on any of this unless we’re standing up to him rather then kissing his feet and trying to get a selfie with him.
jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · 2mo agoYeah, I mean, he made three specific campaign promises about the NYPD and he’s walked them all back. They weren’t particularly ambitious promises either www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/n...
