Pragmatic Progressive NDP supporter Investing in *people* & the things people need to thrive is smart use of public funds. Tax the Rich *more* (Now on BlueSky)
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Flu season has arrived early in British Columbia too
Important to get your #FluShot as *early* as possible
Flu & COVID-19 vaccines are FREE in B.C.
Book an appointment online via the #GetVaccinated Booking Portal getvaccinated.gov.bc.ca/s/bo… or by calling 1-833-838-2323
#bchealth
Many thanks @PamelaBrownCNN for hosting me in @CNNSitRoom I’m in Wash DC this week for @IDWeekmtg today discussing the somewhat early rise of influenza in the west due to H1N1 and a variant known as D.3.1.1. The CDC reports that ferrets immunized with the vaccine strain of virus still neutralize these current strains, but recently the @PennMicro flu lab reported in @biorxivpreprint that some viruses in this group have a potential escape mutant. Bottom line is this: as far as we can tell the available flu vaccines will still be effective and now is the time to vaccinate. For adults remember that flu can be associated with heart attacks and don’t forget to vaccinate your kids. Last year flu caused 24,000 adult deaths in the U.S. and almost 200 pediatric deaths, overwhelmingly among the unvaccinated
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Oh. Good advice.
Stop what you’re doing, grab a coffee, put your feet up and LISTEN. Spend 10 minutes of your life to begin with a joke and end with HOPE.
Meet Noah Eckstein. If anyone ever tells you that wisdom only arrives once you’ve lived your life THINK AGAIN.
I want you to watch this commencement address to the class of 2026 at Harvard University, from the grandson of a Muslim and a Jew who fled the Holocaust.
No teleprompter, no notes, just a speech from the heart that EVERY politician who would seek to divide us would do well to learn from.
It’s profound in so many ways, but as an old man, Noah reminds me that there is still hope if we just learn to LISTEN.
🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZGdCTq6KK/
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Christianity’s global spread was marked by colonialism, forced conversions, destruction of Indigenous cultures and religious persecution.
International Religious Freedom Day should celebrate the freedom to believe or not believe, not the spread of Christianity.
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Brazil Runoff Turnout 80.8%
Hey BC: this is how you beat the fascists, not with 40.8% turnout.
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I get why white nationalists and Trump are celebrating BC Conservatives win, but I want to give @LDoerkson a chance to prove he won’t let the extreme wing of his party or staff cater to those views. I hope we see a clear and direct message of reassurance. 🤞🏽#bcpoli #cdnpoli
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The BCNDP needs to deliver a strong opposition in the legislature, listen to and learn from our members, our voters+former voters+commit to represent areas of the province that no longer vote for us in large numbers. We can+will be back. Global interview globalnews.ca/video/12122793…
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If anyone thinks the safety and staff retention issues will be resolved with a @BCConservative1 government they're dreaming. #bcpoli #bcunion #bclab @bcfed
More than 1,200 workers walk off job at B.C. copper mine after contract talks fail | CBC News share.google/UDqCP3guwyXIDHS…
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My late colleague and brilliant co U.S. Science Envoy with me in the Obama Admin the @Caltech Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Ahmed Zewail would disagree. God rest his soul he didn’t have to endure this, and of course RFK Jr forgets that it was the Arab scientists of the Middle Ages who kept Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen alive to hand it down in the Renaissance. My favorite books on this topic attached
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The next time someone tells you homelessness is caused by addiction, mental illness, laziness, poor choices, or generous social services, show them this.
Homelessness is a housing problem. Not ONLY a housing problem, but ALWAYS a housing problem.
We can address addiction, mental illness, and poverty, but if people still can't afford a place to call home, we haven't solved homelessness.
You cannot end homelessness without housing, it's that simple.
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Stop what you’re doing, grab a coffee, put your feet up and LISTEN. Spend 10 minutes of your life to begin with a joke and end with HOPE.
Meet Noah Eckstein. If anyone ever tells you that wisdom only arrives once you’ve lived your life THINK AGAIN.
I want you to watch this commencement address to the class of 2026 at Harvard University, from the grandson of a Muslim and a Jew who fled the Holocaust.
No teleprompter, no notes, just a speech from the heart that EVERY politician who would seek to divide us would do well to learn from.
It’s profound in so many ways, but as an old man, Noah reminds me that there is still hope if we just learn to LISTEN.
🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZGdCTq6KK/
The BC Conservative govt *must* maintain the ban on mink farming in British Columbia
I do worry about this, as only last year Lorne Doerkson advocated for the "cessation of this planned cull" at that ostrich farm during an avian disease outbreak
#BirdFlu
#bchealth
#bcpoli
2/n the reason mink are concerning is not just that they are another mammal but that they are a relative of ferrets the major laboratory animal used to study flu. Potentially an enzootic going unchecked among mink just as seasonal flu is accelerating means both H5N1 and H1N1 or H3N2 could reassert and generate a very serious new flu pathogens for humans
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Blah blah blah.
With a small majority and the 13 non confidence votes in the last two years, Premier hoped to get the Legislature out of stalled mode.
He was a great minister, has done terrific things for us. Many NDP voters assumed he’d win, not this bizarre crew.
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One of the men who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry last year was a Palestinian-American, Omar Yaghi.
Racist POS.
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ONCE AGAIN, Eby and the NDP defeated the BCLiberals under Christy Clark.
That party was Conservatives,
This is why you see her dancing around the Conservatives today.
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1/n Many thanks to @PamelaBrownCNN for hosting me on @CNNSitRoom explaining the recent history of H5N1 how it was introduced into the U.S. wild bird population in 2022; got introduced into hens and caused the price of eggs went up; then in early 2024 it transitioned into dairy cattle but transmission to humans was prevented through milk pasteurization. And now mink…
Viktor Orban...
FFS
New: Sources from three countries confirm that the Trump Administration has advocated Viktor Orbán for UN Secretary-General.
The US has encouraged Orbán to enter the race, even bringing him the initial idea of a joint U.S.-Russia-China candidacy.
WSJ:
wsj.com/opinion/viktor-orban…
#BirdFlu is running amok at a mink farm in Utah
In April 2023, the BC NDP Govt enacted a permanent ban on live mink on farms
Let's hope that the BC Conservatives don't reverse that ban
(Remember, Lorne Doerkson wrote an ill-advised letter to the Feds regarding the ostrich cull)
Under the BC NDP, British Columbia became the 1st province (& remains the only province) to ban mink farming
An immediate breeding ban in 2021
Banned live mink on farms in April 2023
Mandated that all remaining operations cease by 2025
#bchealth
#birdflu
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2021…
