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Canadian living in Chile, yeah baby!! 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 Cycling, yoga and human rights enthusiast, and also trilingual accordion player. Wish I could do more to unite people in kindness, fight fascism and save the planet. I love you so come and visit
Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterdayBanks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS
Sometimes, when you try to set someone else on fire, you end up burning yourself #lifelessons #schadenfreude
“Silicon Valley oligarchs are vulnerable right now,” says Durán. “People don’t like them. People are starting to rise up against data centres and this vision of an AI apocalypse that kills all the jobs and potentially kills all of humanity.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
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I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
“Bowe suffered injuries to her face, head, right knee, right arm and right hand. An MRI identified a kneecap fracture and torn meniscus…” www.newsweek.com/nurse-allege...
US nurse alleges ICE agents broke her kneecap in $500,000 legal claim
Norma Bowe, a nurse and professor, has filed a $500,000 claim against the government, saying ICE agents threw her to the ground.
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Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...
Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming
A Massachusetts farm is integrating solar panels above berry fields. This agrivoltaics project generates electricity while shading the crops. The elevated panels create a cooler microclimate, retain...
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
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Mexico to file criminal complaints in US over deaths of Mexicans in immigration enforcement
Fourteen Mexican nationals have died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and three more died in arrest operations, the Mexican government said.
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Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
I often hear that it would be "too expensive" to add bicyclist detection to new vehicles in the US - where new vehicles already average ~$50k But here's a $8,350 kei car in Japan that pulls it off because New Car Assessment has made it effectively standard www.automotiveworld.com/topics/softw...
Daihatsu Smart Assist adds cyclist detection to kei cars | Automotive World
Daihatsu Smart Assist now covers turning scenarios, on a car that costs less than a mid-range family hatchback
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“We’ve moved into the Age of the Oligarch which is defined by a network of the rich and powerful and the authoritarians they prop up. The group transcends national borders and has zero interest in the countries that elevated them to power.”
The Third World War Is Here
And it's not what you think
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Just a reminder that Canadian techbros are massive pieces of shit too. I’m glad I’ve never used his POS app. Fuck Tobi Lutke. #BoycottShopify #TechBros #Shopify #Fascism youtube.com/watch?v=TOdT...
The Mask Slipped: Shopify CEO Cements Place As Canada's Elon Musk
YouTube video by The Rational National
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. Unsurprisingly "The US could have averted 40% of the deaths from Covid-19, had the country’s death rates corresponded with the rates in other high-income G7 countries, according to a Lancet commission tasked with assessing Donald Trump’s health policy record" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies
The country began the pandemic with a degraded public health infrastructure, leading to more deaths than other high-income countries
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The Marvelous Spatuletail, found in just one valley in northern Peru and is one of the rarest hummingbirds on Earth. [📹Alex Fine] Original post
The police are allowed to beat lawyers now but keep thinking it won’t reach you. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
No criminal charges to be laid in alleged Oshawa courthouse assault of lawyer, investigation finds | CBC News
York Regional Police will not be proceeding with criminal charges against Durham Regional Police Service officers following an investigation into the arrest and alleged assault of a lawyer at the Osha...
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1/ Elon Musk ran DOGE while his own companies had 19+ open federal cases against them, including 10 at one agency, the NLRB. That same agency’s access logs got deleted before anyone could check them to see what was done to the data. Ask yourself why. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
This isn't news, but it's still a shocking sign of what Elon Musk has done to the platform formerly know as Twitter 2 identical posts 2x as many followers on X as on Bsky 100x more engagement on Bsky than on X
What an insane drawn out story, decades - and what a great singer and songwriter. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Pinochet-era soldier jailed for killing folk singer Víctor Jara 53 years ago
Nelson Haase Mazzei was sentenced for murdering Jara in 2023, but fled from authorities in Chile
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Albertans can pay for MRIs and... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... A provincial government has legalized two tier health care. When is the federal government going to either make them a) pay back their health transfers to the feds or b) shut this down as illegal? #cdnpoli
Albertans can pay for MRIs and other tests without a doctor's referral, as of Friday | CBC News
The new system, which has already sparked concern among doctors and some health care advocacy groups, has been in the works for months. It allows Albertans to self-refer and pay for MRIs, CT scans, ul...
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10 gigawatts is roughly the average power demand of NYC (~5.5 GW), LA (~3 GW), and SF (~1 GW) combined
Another greenhouse in Ontario #MucciFarms #Canada Credit to Cole Mucci - Buy Canadian 🍁💪🏻 Mucci Farms has also opened a facility in the US Mucci grows several products, details here www.muccifarms.com/who-we-are/o...
Trump Bribes, FDA firings and Taylor Farms denies bathroom breaks resulted in Thousands sick Donor diarrhea from Cyclospora parasite. Trump admin stop Cyclospora mandatory tracking. This is what happens when corruption is rampant encouraged #Donordiarrhea #TaylorFarms #TrumpDonor #USDemocracy
Father protests after ICE raid elementary bus stop. "I've never protested before in my entire life, But then I watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from their own government. I never want to see a child run away from our own government again."🇺🇸
Mark Zuckerberg's assistant at Meta, Josh Felker, who was responsible for Meta's "digital experiences for kids," was arrested after admitting he tried to sext a 13-year-old during an undercover sting. nypost.com/2026/07/20/u...
Exclusive | Meta worker who developed ‘digital experiences for kids’ admits to trying to sext child in undercover NYC sting
He admitted he had been grooming and sexting someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl during a sting by vigilante group Predator Poachers Long Island.
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ICE has STOLEN an Indigenous Tribal ELDER from NM, who was on her way to CHEMO. She stopped for gas, ICE then approached her, she showed all of her proper, legal documentation. They still stole her away. They're denying her of life saving CHEMO. When will it be enough. #ShedShed #ViVaHerAlliance
