Michelle

anthropologizing cat herder with love for goat cheese and board games. Ramblings are mine and do not reflect my affiliations.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Anne Frank was forced into hiding in Nazi Germany because armed soldiers were going door to door demanding papers, and if your papers said you were Jewish, they captured you and sent you to a camp.

Today Anne would've been 99 years old. This was not that long ago.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

At a time of massive inequality, Trump's budget is breathtaking in its degree of cruelty.

It slashes funding for health care, housing & education that the working class desperately needs in order to pay for more tax breaks for billionaires & the Pentagon.

That is morally obscene.

[Michelle @MickeyMeow]

@HunterBoots you used to make great boots. These are garbage after a couple of years. What’s up?

[Professor Mark Maslin 👋 𝕏 @ProfMarkMaslin]

It is getting hotter ♨️♨️♨️

For all the deniers and bots - the science of measuring climate has NOT changed

Thank you @alexdeakin for an excellent video

#ClimateChange is real

There is NO #ClimateScam

[Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy]

Willie Nelson turned 90 yesterday.

So he’s almost as old as Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown LRT project now.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

To recap this week's news: Donald Trump and Clarence Thomas were both accused of public corruption but it's okay because neither of them used a bullhorn so Tennessee expelled two black guys who want to stop the NRA from murdering children Texas forces people to give birth to.

[DH @d0j0h]

Kara Ford, daughter of Doug Ford, took home $130k in 2022 managing public affairs at Runnymede Hospital with a two-year diploma in broadcast television. #Onted workers should feel free to share this information with anti-teacher trolls all up in their mentions.

[Naheed Dosani @NaheedD]

News flash: Cutting healthcare off for uninsured people will mean they won't get timely care upstream. Which means they'll get sicker without care. Which means they'll just end up very sick in our ERs.

This decision is more costly. It adds to wait times. And is downright cruel.

[Naheed Dosani @NaheedD]

Your reminder that private for-profit healthcare doesn't provide better care for patients. Doesn't save money for taxpayers. Doesn't reduce wait times for our health system.

Private for-profit healthcare does increase profits for shareholders though.

What matters more to you?

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

And now.....

..... there's not a dry eye in the house.

[Naheed Dosani @NaheedD]

BREAKING: A new report by Ontario's Financial Accountability Office has found the Ontario government is underspending on healthcare by $21.3 billion.

They're underfunding our public healthcare system so they can implement private for-profit healthcare.

Don't let them fool you.

[Lipstick, Booze & Backstage Passes @LizSeccuro]

So, without telling anyone, Dave Grohl brought his giant smoker and cooked/fed barbecue and sides for 500 folks at Hope Mission in L.A. during the storms. Paid for it all. Worked 16 hours. So, when the aliens get here and ask “who’s in charge?”, I think we take them to Dave Grohl.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

If you are blaming the East Palestine, Ohio train catastrophe on Pete Buttigieg or Biden, you are dead wrong. It may actually be Trump's fault. Let me explain.

- Trump literally rescinded Obama's requirement that trains carrying hazardous flammable materials must have ECP brakes.
- The National Transportation Safety Board, who investigated this accident, just said that the Ohio train was NOT fitted with ECP brakes.
- Ohio Republican Gov. DeWine said Biden & Buttigieg offered him whatever he needs, but he turned them down.

If this regulation wasn't rescinded by Trump, this train would have been required to have ECP brakes which would have likely prevented this accident.

Why are Democrats always cleaning up Republican messes?

[Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi @birgitomo]

White privilege is when the mayor of the largest city in Canada gets to preside over the city's budget after admitting to an affair with a former subordinate. White privilege is when 63% of his previous voters want him to remain in office even after he announces his resignation.

[Gil Penalosa @Penalosa_G]

Cute Horses or Warming Centers 24/7?

The budget matters. Most options are good, but there are not enough funds for all. In #TO4Everyone priorities are most vulnerable. With 25% fewer police horses, we can have warming/cooling centres. Tell Council what you feel is best.

[Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox]

imagine, and this is just an abstract theoretical, getting stabbed on a streetcar.

how helpful is $50 million dollars more to the police officers who arrive later to mill about while an under-resourced EMS team scrambles to get you to the nearest over-capacity hospital?

[Naheed Dosani @NaheedD]

How to privatize public healthcare:

Step 1: Underfund the public system.
Step 2: Make people frustrated with the public system.
Step 3: Introduce private for-profit options so people have no other choice.

This is what’s happening right now in Ontario.

It must be stopped.

[Jagmeet Singh @theJagmeetSingh]

Trudeau gives $775.5M to Ontario for surgeries backlog.

Doug Ford passes $24 million of it to CEOs of for-profit American-style care, instead of patient care.

Justin Trudeau remains silent.