NYC Mayor Eric Adams, who has been pushing a mask ban for NYC, has again tested positive for COVID. A timely reminder that now is a good time to wear a mask, and to call your representatives and tell them to speak out against mask bans.

COVID causes dysphonia in about 1/4 of cases. Broadway knows this too, because the Journal of Voice did a study on broadway singers specifically. So, it doesn’t matter how well trained you are. WHEN WILL VOICE WORLD WAKE UP AND TAKE THIS VIRUS SERIOUSLY?

Canadian government to spend tens of billions on CCS, with dubious climate benefit gasoutlook.com/analysis/canad…

Vivid and shocking description of what happened to a #UN convoy which was part of the polio vaccination campaign in #Gaza yesterday. UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric says: "Yesterday's incident involving a #UN convoy stopped by Israeli forces is the latest example of the

1. 🧵 So, I’m going to name and shame some journalism plagiarism — starting with work stolen from my current outlet, New Lines Magazine In May 2021 — we ran a feature on Arab Divas. The New York Times ran a nearly identical piece in July, complete with the same photos

1. As someone who has been sober for over 17 years, and obviously wishes to remain so, I understand the subtle, pernicious power of two phenomena all too well: normalisation and denial. Like many recovering alcoholics, I can spot them instantaneously in both myself and others.

COVID is everywhere right now. The person next to you probably has it and is knowingly breathing it into your face.

This photo needs to be the front page of every news paper in the world. 20 tents full of displaced families buried alive in Gaza.

AHS management pressured health-care professionals at two downtown Edmonton mental health clinics to transfer their patients’ prescriptions to Shoppers Drug Mart. theprogressreport.ca/exclusive_ahs_…

*NEW* AHS v 94.0! AHS Weekly ICU Numbers Updated Today Currently 176 (No Change) Admitted, w/ 223 "Open" Beds. "47" Estimated Beds AVAILABLE ICU Capacity 76%. Lets get this 'Unofficial CMOH Update on 690 days since Danielle said '90 Days and fixed!" lie' healthcare thread! /1

Doctors in New York just got a comprehensive email about Long COVID from the Dept. of Health.

Hey, folks, I am being told that Twitter has shadow-banned me, and that you can't find my account when you search for it. Is that happening to you when you search me up? Is this true Elon Musk Linda Yaccarino @support? I thought this was the home of free speech, lol.

I have heard the immigrants-come-to-town-and-eat-pets racist trope ever since I was a child. This is very old racism .

For the climate movement organizers upset about the moments VP Harris accepted the opposition’s frame and backtracked, I’d suggest getting together with people you trust, analyzing what power structures are in place that incentivized her to do that & make a plan to weaken them.

🚨12-hour-news-recap: ⚫️Eight people were KILLED in #Israeli_bombing of a house in Jabalia! ⚫️Eleven people were KILLED and 6 others WOUNDED in #Israeli_bombing of a house in Khan Younis! ⚫️Thirteen people were KILLED and 5 others WOUNDED in #Israeli_bombing of a house in Khan

Amazing. What Smith is telling Calgarians is she’s ok with commuter chaos. She’ll either build another line at-grade that blocks car traffic, or she’ll dump all the riders from Seton at one end of the existing 7 Ave line where they can watch packed trains pass them by. #yyccc