Blind Melon

@theblindmelon.bsky.social

🇨🇦 "God Damn... that Bible Pushing Man"

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Jeff Hoffman on what he’ll remember most from his time with the #BlueJays: “Once you play in a place like this… you don’t want to leave. They definitely have a great thing going here. I think all organizations should strive to be like Toronto.”

Phang: Judge Sullivan found, in both fact and law, that the acting attorney general conceded he violated the law—a law that is intended to bring sunlight and transparency to one of the worst crimes, indeed multiple crimes committed by multiple perpetrators, in American history.

Nothing spells knowledge of CORRUPTION like telling your MPPs to “keep it in the strictest confidence.” Not only does elitist autocrat nepo baby Ford thinks he’s entitled to his Gravy Plane he looks like he’s buying loyalty by giving MPPs secret perks. It’s disgusting #Onpoli

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Former CityNews political reporter Tina Yazdani is suing Rogers Communications for $650,000 for wrongful termination, alleging she was just doing her job holding politicians to account when she was fired.

Former CityNews politics reporter sues Rogers for $650,000 for wrongful termination

Tina Yazdani alleges her firing amounted to a wrongful termination after new management took issue with her confrontational style with politicians in the Ontario government.

thestar.com

The Coast Guard said that, per Sail4th 250, no political messages were permitted, that the organizers asked them to be removed, and that Clearwater refused to take down the banners. Clearwater said they were never asked to take down the banners. Sail4th 250 said they did not ask them to leave.

“I was shouting at them, ‘Folks, we’re part of this parade,’ ” said Clearwater Executive Director David Toman from the deck of the sloop. “We’re part of this all.” Toman said crew members were not immediately told why they were being removed from the parade, and a quick call to organizers provided little clarity. “They told us they were unaware of this, and that the decision was being made above their heads,” said Toman. It was only later that someone from one of the Coast Guard vessels told Clearwater Captain Rory Kane that it was because of the ship’s banners, Toman said.A Coast Guard representative told The Current that, “As part of the parade of sail, participants agreed to conditions established by Sail4th. One of those conditions was to not display political or politically charged messages/statements. The owner of the sloop Clearwater was contacted and requested to remove the message being displayed or be removed from the parade of sail. They declined to remove it. So, the Coast Guard enforced the agreement on behalf of Sail4th removing the vessel from the parade.”

But Jen Benson of Clearwater, who was on the sloop, said there was no communication from either Sail250 or the Coast Guard regarding the banners. “We were not given an option to remove the banners and continue in the parade,” she said.

Toman said that no such restrictions existed, only that ships were instructed not to carry banners that could be considered “promotional.”

I was a regular user of Facebook and was kicked off the platform without explanation within hours of my posting excerpts from Sarah Wynn-Williams' Careless People, which revealed embarrassing details from the life of Mark Zuckerberg, particularly his dealings with Chinese president Xi.

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · last mo.

It's funny how billionaires all claim to be staunch supporters of unbridled free expression—until the speech is focused on them. Then, they are *quite comfortable* with censorship. Read @passantino.bsky.social on Mark Zuckerberg's incredible hypocrisy on the issue: www.status.news/p/mark-zucke...

Tulsi Gabbard dumped a pile of docs & claimed they were evidence of a vast plot by Fauci to manipulate intelligence, cover up the lab leak, & conceal his role in creating Covid. They weren’t. In reality, Gabbard’s documents undermine her. Here’s what they say… www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tuls...

Tulsi Gabbard’s Fauci Files Don’t Prove What She Says They Prove

Gabbard’s declassification theater is a case study in politicizing intelligence.

lawfaremedia.org

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built. Think about that. At a time when electricity demand is rising,