herid @herid@qoto.org

'Ontarians will always access the healthcare they need with their OHIP card, not their credit card'

Doug Ford made this healthcare announcement today in a Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacy.

Shoppers Drug Mart is a shareholder in the private tele-health provider, MAPLE.

#Chutzpah #SubtleAsASledgeHammer
#WhosHeKidding
#WearAMask #SickPeopleInAPharmacy
#Onpoli #OHIP

https://www.getmaple.ca/for-you-family/pricing/

Indicative of how closely Prigozhin coordinates with the Presidential Administration (i.e. not acting independently): prison inmates Prigozhin recruits are only released after Putin signs a classified pardon decree, preserving some bureaucratic formalism.
https://www.mk.ru/politics/2023/01/09/yuristy-raskryli-podnogotnuyu-pomilovaniya-vagnerovcevuchastnikov-svo.html

It probably also wouldn't cost much to do a clean-energy version of this kind of fuckery. Why don't green groups do it? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/climate/climate-propane-influence-campaign.html

As @dfenton@twitter.com said on the pod, these kinds of ads are not as expensive as you think. It wouldn't take much for green groups to run their own, to counter this absolute flood of API nonsense. Why don't they? https://www.volts.wtf/p/lessons-from-a-life-in-progressive#details

Democracy dies awash in fossil fuel propaganda.

They gonna dig up the dead bodies and sell their gold teeth for Elon's cash flow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/technology/twitter-user-names-elon-musk.html

The Submarines - You, Me, and the Bourgeoisie

https://youtu.be/bYvt0boSRXQ

#SongOfTheDay
#FavoriteMusic 56/

Tomorrow is my first day of class this semester at Duke University.

For my first year seminar I am asking the students to build and use an astrolabe. It is a great way to both get a physical understanding of the sky, and to really appreciate the sophistication of early astronomy.

The astrolabe was used for centuries to tell the time, navigate, etc. Now you can make and use one too by following the instructions here:

https://in-the-sky.org/astrolabe/index.php

#astronomy #astrodon #histodon #teaching

Peter Beinart writes,

"The problem isn’t that Republicans don’t win legislative victories. It’s that legislative victories can’t answer the party’s underlying discontent, which is less about government policy than about American culture. Democrats worry about voting rights, gun control, climate change and abortion — enormous challenges, but ones that congressional leaders can at least try to address."

#VotingRights #GunControl #ClimateChange #abortion #GOP

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/opinion/republicans-kevin-mccarthy-house.html

#Breaking #Poland's President Andrzej Duda says Warsaw is ready to send Leopard tanks to #Ukraine as part of an international coalition.

Jimmie Rodgers - Kisses Sweeter Than Wine

https://youtu.be/iulmZAz8XfY

#SongOfTheDay
#FavoriteMusic 55/

Strange how the Ontario government's approach to knowing that Bill 124 contributes to health worker shortages…is to appeal the court ruling which scrapped Bill 124.

It’s almost as if they want the health worker shortages to continue. 🙄