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It's National Black Cat Day. Don't tell anyone but black cats are the best cats. They're the cutest too.

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

‘Ford’s promise for 58,000 new or renovated nursing home beds led to just 11,000 spaces’ www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

The press is covering up Trump's pedo rape scandal.

There's so much else wrong with this stupid lawsuit but on this specific point: despite being "busy" with "lives" and "jobs," Alaskans were able to spell M-U-R-K-O-W-S-K-I when they reelected her to the Senate as a write-in candidate in 2010 after she lost the GOP primary.

This is just perfection Wow ..

The privatization of education. A class action lawsuit suit to stop them might work.

Oh ffs.

"The Most Racist Election in Israel’s History" If Netanyahu stays, Israel will become a pariah state – so the Israeli establishment is doing everything it can to ensure that he loses. But a Gadi Eisenkot victory won’t help Palestinians either, writes Peter Oborne for Zeteo UK:

El-Sayed on Trump's cognitive tests: "I went to medical school...In my neurology unit, I would have to give that MoCA exam...The only people that you give a MoCA test to are people who you worry may have cognitive deficits. By definition, if you're taking one of those tests, something's wrong."

Man wanted in connection with two separate sexual assaults on Brampton Transit Züm buses

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…

COVID-19 circulates year-round, and surges can happen at any time. Prevention shouldn't be limited to periods of increased transmission. Whether you're trying to avoid infection or prevent spreading COVID-19 to others, taking precautions matters. (...)

Street near my house has bike lanes which no one uses. Today walking to vote, I had to move for two separate cyclists riding on the sidewalk. This isn't even a busy street. Before the bike lanes, I had no issue riding on it. But since the bike lanes, the only cyclists I see are on the sidewalk.

Air Canada blamed maintenance issues to deny compensation. Records show it wanted planes for other routes www.cbc.ca/news/gopubli...

A new cancer drug costs as much as a home down payment each month. Doctors say that's greed, not health care www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Persistence? Unwanted attention? Trying to reach someone on multiple platforms? Ignoring boundaries? Halloween is creepy enough. Don't be a creep!

Backfire.

"The same people who insist on policing public bathrooms to protect little girls from sexual predators are also smearing an actual child rape survivor." And not just that. The latest edition of Receipts from @crampell.bsky.social:

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

Sad to see. Someone should have told her this stuff before they got married.

Right?

we hate them so much that we all get together in our cars on the freeway to talk to each other in expletives about how much we hate cars

And we're not coming back

RFK decided to once again target maskers in a speech, laughing about going to LA and seeing people driving in their cars while masked. And I want to make sure people know that studies have shown that the reason someone might wear a mask in their car is that it's none of your fucking business.

This man was dead weight, hanging high above the ground after touching a high-voltage line. His coworker climbed up, held him in place, gave him mouth-to-mouth. Randall Champion survived—and lived another 35 years. Rocco Morabito’s photo, “The Kiss of Life,” won the Pulitzer Prize. True heroism.

Trump: "My uncle invented radar! Can you believe it?"

“ @mark-ungrin.bsky.social believes N95 masks should be worn in all hospitals, the spaces where people are often the most vulnerable or have a higher chance of spreading disease. ‘why aren’t we doing more of this in health care facilities?If it doesn’t get inside you, it can’t make you sick””

Obama: "That well-known evil empire Canada. That historical adversary of ours. Canada! *laughs* It's your neighbor. It's a few minutes' drive over the bridge! These are the people who gave us Martin Short and maple syrup. They are the nicest people! And someone we've gotten them so mad."

This is why it's dangerous to give rich people so much power over our lives. Sometimes, they are appallingly ignorant. The Nazis added the word "socialist" to their name purely as propaganda to appeal more to workers. But the party--and Hitler--hated real socialists and communists.

At least $50 billion for another pipeline. $82 billion in new military spending in 5 years. $300 billion in corporate welfare and mega incentives at an investment summit. But the cupboard is bare for Parks Canada.

Now that’s a headline

Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

An honest society would acknowledge that losing caregivers, teachers, community members, friends, health security, and trust in our political and social institutions would have a far greater impact on children’s mental health than a few months of school closures.

Poverty is a policy decision. Concentrated wealth is a policy decision. Inequality is a policy decision. Remember this.

Report: Elon Musk sabotaged Ukrainian Starlink by switching them to Rogers

Maybe you should focus on what your VP’s real name is.

The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.

Three months after resigning due to a hotel expenses scandal, Cho has been brought back into the fold by Premier Doug Ford, as a parliamentary assistant to Education Minister Paul Calandra.

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

No organ or system this virus cannot access and destroy ☠️ Endocrine complications of COVID-19: diabetes, musculoskeletal, thyroid, pituitary, adrenal, and gonadal disorders academic.oup.com/jes/article/...