Jeremy Mulder

@jeremulder.bsky.social

House painter, painty painter, girl dad, raptors fan, music lover of all eras and genres, anime and cartoons, free Palestine!

BREAKING NEWS: The United Nations’ top human rights body reported that it found “reasonable grounds” to believe that the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran.

Ford Conservatives are promoting privatization of our healthcare in Ontario — pouring public money into for-profit private MRI & surgical clinics while our public hospitals sit idle for hours every day. This isn't what they campaigned on. Ontario deserves better. #ONpoli #ONhealth

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If Canada is going to become an Associate Member of the EU, a great spot to start would be recognizing EU vehicle safety and emissions standards. That would open an easy pathway to increase the availability of small, fuel efficient vehicles in the Canadian market.

In the end, privatizing Canada’s airports doesn’t solve any of the problems we face. Instead it risks making air travel even more expensive and less pleasant. And Canadians would be giving up democratic control over a critical public asset for generations. www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

Don’t fall for Ottawa’s airport privatization trap

Privatizing Canada’s airports could mean higher costs for travellers and less control over a critical public asset.

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Since returning to the White House, Donald Trump has made more stock trades than every Member of Congress COMBINED. Trump’s unprecedented corruption — as millions of Americans struggle to afford basic needs — is one of the many reasons why we are going to crush the regime electorally in 49 days.

Bloomberg headline: “Trump Has Made More Trades Than All of Congress Combined”

When Australia privatized their airports, their Competition Bureau found that consumers paid $1.6 billion in extra fees.

Lack of airport regulation costs consumers up to $1.6b in fees: ACCC

Airlines and their passengers have paid up to $1.6 billion too much for airport access over the past decade due to a textbook example of how not to privatise monopoly assets, the competition regulator...

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Toronto Star@thestar.com · 4d ago

#Breaking: The federal government will allow private ownership of four major airports — including Toronto’s Pearson, Canada’s busiest — in a move that breaks with a decades-long arrangement that saw them run by non-profits on government-owned land.

In case you’re wondering why you shouldn’t vote for Brad Bradford, he just chastised Olivia Chow for not standing up to Doug Ford on bike lanes. Dude has no grasp on what he did last week.

As @siamosolocani.bsky.social points out, @solidevidence.bsky.social's wastewater variant dashboard makes it clear that PJ.2.1 is the fastest-growing lineage in the US. I've inserted arrows pointing to some of the PJ.2.1 mutations. The farther above the dotted diagonal line, the faster the growth.

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Federico Gueli@siamosolocani.bsky.social · 4d ago

PJ.2.1 is running now in the United States, also the super useful "Lungfish" dashboard by @solidevidence.bsky.social and his team is now showing a clear cluster of mutations all linked to PJ.2.1 growing faster than the other growing mutations (linked to other lineages), do you see that tiny "arch"?

I warned in July that a Houthi blockade of the Bab el-Mandeb—the "Gate of Tears"—would cut off Saudi Arabia's relief valve from the Hormuz shutdown. This week it happened. My write-up in the link in the comments.

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