@mariesnyder
Mask and relax with an N95! I post and repost about covid, climate, conflicts, cycling, psychology, philosophy, and politics. Longreads at https://apuffofabsurdity.blogspot.com/ and https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/author/mariesnyder
This is terrible. The Ford government is splashing out cash to fund tunnels under the 401 and build shiny new convention centres on Toronto's waterfront and is harming the most vulnerable students to help fund it.
#OntEd #OnPoli
FLASHBACK: Six years ago, Donald Trump didn't want to wear a mask because it would smudge his makeup, so the Republican Party helped him kill a million Americans.
The Doug Ford government’s proposal to amalgamate conservation authorities received 14,000 public comments. Ontario now has a $20-million final plan to make it happen.
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Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"
The Trump–Epstein statue is back in D.C.
Keep talking about those Epstein files. 🔥👏🏽
#SheShed #Voices4Victory
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Ron Johnson isn’t the Johnson who believes humans rode dinosaurs to work - that’s Mike Johnson. Ron Johnson is the one who celebrated July 4th in Moscow. If you’re still struggling to keep your Johnsons straight, Lauren Boebert will be happy to lend a hand.
I just left another briefing on Iran.
Here's the only part of Trump's plan that is clear to me:
He won't spare a cent for the 15 million Americans who will lose their health care, but he'll spend a billion dollars a day bombing Iran.
“Girls Just Want to Have Fun” peaks at #2 today in ‘84
“We got every racial group of girl—mixed, Spanish, white, black, Asian,” said Lauper, “so that every little girl who looked at that video would .. understand that every young woman, older woman, every person is entitled to a joyful experience.”
BREAKING:
WASHINGTON (AP) — About 140 US troops have been wounded in the Iran war, including 8 severely and 108 who returned to duty, Pentagon says.
Are federal officers really being assaulted? Or is the government lying to us about the numbers?
You guessed it. They are lying.
Call Congress at 202-224-3121 today and demand accountability.
#ICELawlessness
Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."
The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.
Trump has now conducted 42 boat strikes, killing nearly 160 people.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
🏳️⚧️ “We are seeing a rise, to put it bluntly, in fascism. Transphobia is an arm of fascism,” - Olly Alexander speaking to the @wearequeeraf.com podcast
www.wearequeeraf.com/transmission...
Literally
BUSH: Maybe don’t play golf while Americans are dying in a war.
TRUMP: 7th service member dead, tee time confirmed.
‼️ George W Bush got one thing right: war and golf don’t mix.
The fact that Donald Trump is going to try to subvert the 2026 elections doesn't mean he will be successful. We have shown before that we can fight back in court and win. The key is that we must educate everyone about what is going to happen and what they can do as well to defend democracy.
SEVEN. That’s how many strikes hit near the Iranian girls’ school.
Video shows a tomahawk missile hitting a building next to the school. The kind of “precision” you get when an incompetent administration runs a war on outdated intelligence.
Don’t look away —we should all see the deadly destruction
Elias: "Too often, we treat Jan. 6 as an isolated event — the culmination of a failed effort to overturn the 2020 election. Too many see it as the day a new movement of election denialism was born. The truth is much worse. ... The failure to stand up against this democratic assault is far graver."
I’m hollering at my screen… yaaas!
Actress Sheryl Underwood, an Air Force Reserve veteran, is asking the questions we all want answers to.
“Why is this not impeachable? And where are the politicians that say, ‘this dude don’t have it all the way together, he cannot be the commander in chief?’” 🔥
Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard Hidden on page 744 of the farm bill the House Agriculture Committee passed Thursday is a provision that would condemn millions of pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates. Rebranded the 'Save Our Bacon Act,' it's a pork-industry play to wipe out every state law banning the sale of pork from crated pigs — laws the conservative Supreme Court upheld in 2023. Over 85% of Democrats and Republicans oppose these crates. Voters have backed ballot measures to ban them in state after state. The pork industry knows it can't win a straight vote on this. So it's burying the provision in an 800-page bill and hoping no one notices. Contact your senators and representative today and tell them: oppose the farm bill unless the Save Our Bacon Act is stripped out. You can reach them at http://senate.gov and http://house.gov — it takes two minutes and it matters.
This is hideous and horrible, and the people pushing for it deserve to spend the rest of their lives in a cage.
goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Being a sane American right now: It's like the United States is riding in the back-seat of a car and Dad is driving drunk. Mom is the Republican party, riding in the passenger seat: She knows Dad is completely sloshed but she goes along with it because she's afraid of getting beaten up again if she says anything. Some of your brothers and sisters are excited because they like carnival rides and think speed and chaos is entertaining. But you feel slightly insane because you're the only one in the car who understands the danger everyone is in and no one seems capable of stopping the maniac at the wheel.
I can so relate to this.
A++++++ question there
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
To all the radical women who have made the world better, especially those women who radicalized us, thank you.
John Oliver (on right) gestures with his hands as he speaks. On left, a ProPublica headline from December 15, 2025 reads: “Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.” An article excerpt below says: "... turning rows red, yellow or green every few seconds, never asking a single question.”
1/ On yesterday’s @lastweektonight.com about USAID, John Oliver cited several of our investigations.
First up was our reporting about how DOGE operatives had arbitrarily cut aid programs, in some cases by literally clicking through a spreadsheet: propub.li/4cCsSKP
