J Hatcher Roberts

Co Director WHO Collaborating Centre on Knowledge Translation Technology Assessment for Health Equity. Bruyère Research Institute #promotingequity

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Hollywood legend Harrison Ford enrages MAGA world by torching Donald Trump in a fiery new takedown: "I don’t know of a greater criminal in history."

Indiana Jones never was too fond of Nazis...

Ford told The Guardian that Trump “doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the sh*t out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.”

“It’s unbelievable. I don’t know of a greater criminal in history," he added.

The Star Wars icon nailed it. Trump has absolutely no core principles, only base hungers. His sole goal as president is to seize as much personal power and wealth for himself as he can. Meanwhile, the world burns and the suffering of the American people multiplies.

Ford drew particular issue with Trump's ongoing war against efforts to combat climate change. Last month, Trump told the United Nations that climate change is "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world." Ford slammed Trump's position as "a clear expression of ignorance, of hubris and purposeful subterfuge” from a man who hates wind turbines because he "has just not seen a gold one."

As with most of Trump's hobby horses, it's easy to discern why he's so anti-climate science. It's the usual corruption. Trump raked in massive donations from the fossil fuel companies and has packed his administration with pro-petroleum crooks. Downplaying the destruction that Big Oil has inflicted on the Earth is Trump's way of paying them back for putting him in power.

Ford also pointed to the increasing number of climate-related disasters plaguing the planet as cause for concern.

“I knew it was coming, I have been preaching this stuff for 30 years,” he said. “Everything we’ve said about climate change has come true. Why is that not sufficient that it alarms people that they change behaviors? Because of the entrenched status quo.”

Even so, the Hollywood icon maintains an optimistic outlook for the future as more and more nations adopt cleaner formers of energy.

“He’s losing ground because everything he says is a lie,” Ford said of Trump. “I’m confident we can mitigate against [climate change], that we can buy time to change behaviors, to create new technologies, to concentrate more fully on implementation of those policies."

“But we have to develop the political will and intellectual sophistication to realize that we human beings are capable of change. We are incredibly adaptive, we are incredibly inventive. If we concentrate on a problem we can fix it most times," he added.

Please retweet and ❤️ to thank Harrison Ford for speaking out!

[Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna]

Great to return to @lawmcgill, at my alma mater, for the Patricia Allen Memorial Lecture. Thanks to Dean Tina Piper, Prof. @jenraso, faculty & students for a candid discussion about #RunLikeAGirl 🏃‍♀️ and using law as a tool to drive change.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

This mistakes we are making with our friends will be long discussed.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: RFK Jr. gets HUMILIATING news as six former U.S. Surgeons General join forces for a scathing and unprecedented warning that exposes his actions as "endangering the health of the nation."

And it gets so much worse for the disgraced MAGA Health Secretary...

"Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored," reads the opinion piece published in The Washington Post.

It was authored by the Trump-appointed Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello, and David Satcher and in it they accuse Kennedy of having “rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans.”

The Surgeon General is the leading spokesperson for public health in the American federal government and serves as he operational head of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

The six Surgeons General accused Kennedy of ignoring health experts, destroying crucial health panels, and fueling toxic anti-science misinformation that has "eroded public trust" in HHS agencies including the CDC, FDA, and NIH. In the case of the CDC vaccine advisory panel, Kennedy fired the 17 members and stuffed their seats with people "who often lacked basic qualifications."

“Instead of combating the rapid spread of health misinformation with facts and clarity, Kennedy is amplifying it,” the former Surgeons General wrote.

They went on to slam RFK's efforts to push vaccine conspiracy theories about autism, his debunked claims about the HPV vaccine, and the fact that morale at the HHS has become "badly damaged" under his stewardship with scientists feeling "silenced and sidelined."

"Repairing this damage requires a leader who respects scientific integrity and transparency, listens to experts and can restore trust to the federal health apparatus. Instead, Kennedy has become a driving force behind this crisis," they wrote.

The Surgeons General also pointed to Kennedy's utterly failed leadership amidst the "worst measles outbreak in more than 30 years" which resulted in "three preventable deaths and the first measles-related child death in the U.S. in over two decades."

"America’s public health systems are essential to the well-being of the nation," they continued. "We are clear-eyed about the fact that these systems need to be improved, including paying more attention to areas such as disease prevention, mental health and chronic illness. But reform must be grounded in truth, transparency and scientific evidence. Without this foundation, we risk not only halting progress but reversing it — costing lives in the process."

"Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans. The nation deserves a health and human services secretary who is committed to scientific integrity and can restore morale and trust in our public health agencies. Having served at senior levels in government, we know that politics are complicated. But this is bigger than politics. It’s about putting the health of Americans first," the Surgeons General concluded.

This is what courage looks like. These Surgeons General aren't concerned about playing politics, nor are they fretting about retaliation from this infamously vindictive White House. Their sole concern is the health and safety of the American people. We owe them our sincere thanks for speaking out.

Please retweet and ❤️ to thank them for speaking out!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Senator Chris Murphy pounces on Republican Senator Joni Ernst for mocking the idea that people will die from Medicaid cuts after she dismissively stated that "we’re all going to die."

This is the worst political PR nightmare in recent history...

"I think everybody in that audience knows that they’re going to die," Murphy said on CNN, referring to Ernst's already-infamous remarks.

When asked at a town hall about the fact that Republican cuts to Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will result in Americans dying, Ernst was unbothered.

"Well, we’re all going to die," she said. Ernst made matters even worse by doubling down in a later video in which she stated that that she "made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that, yes, we are all going to perish from this Earth."

"So I apologize, and I’m really, really glad that I did not have to bring up the subject of the tooth fairy as well," she added.

Senator Murphy had no patience for such callous comments—

"They would just rather die in old age at 85 or 90, instead of dying at 40. And the reality is that, when you lose your health care, you are much more at risk of early death," he said.

"And when rural hospitals close because of this bill, when drug treatment clinics close in Iowa and rural America because of this bill, more people will die at a younger age," he continued. "So the reality is this bill is about life and death and for what?"

"I mean I guess that's the problem here for many of us, is that they're cutting Medicaid, throwing 15 million people off their healthcare in order to fund a tax cut for the super wealthy and corporation," Murphy said.

"That is just fundamentally immoral. It's immoral and it's unethical," he continued. "I don't understand why they're doing it except that Donald Trump only really knows billionaires. He only knows corporate CEOs and so his instructions to Republicans are reward them, help them, and no one else."

"I wish Joni and others saw the immorality of what they're doing," added Murphy.

Unfortunately, Ernst's disregard for the lives of Americans is hardly surprising. In fact, it's emblematic of the deep rot that has taken root in the Republican Party. They no longer care about even pretending to stand for anything beyond cruelty.

Please retweet and ❤️ if you think that Ernst should resign!

[J Hatcher Roberts @Equityeffects]

He said he had cancer back then

[J Hatcher Roberts @Equityeffects]

@realDonaldTrump @DonaldJTrumpJr @RFKJr_Official https://t.co/4svXulX3E2

[J Hatcher Roberts @Equityeffects]

@BenMulroney @erinotoole It is called diplomacy ... staying at the table ...

[J Hatcher Roberts @Equityeffects]

@ChantalHbert She would be terrific . So smart, measured and fair . I am a long time Liberal AND I have deep respect for her lifetime of work for women's rights and climate action

[Yasir Naqvi 🇨🇦 @YasirNaqviCDN]

I’m Standing Up for Affordable Housing.

[Yasir Naqvi 🇨🇦 @YasirNaqviCDN]

I am committed to tackling the housing crisis by turning federal buildings into homes and using public land to build inclusive, sustainable communities. Renovating buildings rather than demolishing them is good for both affordability and the environment.

[Ben Perrin @profbenperrin]

Why I’m Endorsing Mark Carney and the Liberals

Canada is at a crossroads. Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals offer the experienced leadership Canada urgently needs.

My full statement:
https://t.co/NdRpj4i4Cw

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

BREAKING: A Russian scientist who opposed Putin’s war, fled Russia & found work at Harvard was detained at Logan Airport returning from a French academic conference and has been sent to an immigration detention center in Louisiana for deportation to Russia https://t.co/tHRM015aMP

[Yasir Naqvi 🇨🇦 @YasirNaqviCDN]

I work hard every day to deliver real results for Ottawa Centre.

Canadians deserve a Team Canada approach—one that stands up to Trump’s bullying, and doesn't back down. Poilievre's dangerous agenda puts everything we value at risk.

Stand up for Canada. Vote Yasir Naqvi today.

[J Hatcher Roberts @Equityeffects]

Trump administration threatening Canadian researchers https://t.co/8OapICD4o9

[Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna]

I love it. Strong women foreign ministers standing with @melaniejoly & Canada! 🤛💪🇨🇦

[J Hatcher Roberts @Equityeffects]

Excellent article John! Thanks

[John DeMont @CH_coalblackhrt]

worth resharing today I thought: my latest column in the Halifax Chronicle Herald.

https://t.co/U1lSEnENYV

[J Hatcher Roberts @Equityeffects]

Is it not US officials and law enforcement that are responsible for preventing g drugs getting into the US?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Kevin Hassett suggests Canadian authorities are covering up major fentanyl operations: "I can tell you that in the situation room I've seen photographs of fentanyl labs in Canada that the law enforcement folks were leaving alone. Canada's got a big drug problem."

[J Hatcher Roberts @Equityeffects]

@SGirardau His wife was beside him and on stage ...And he thanked her. Her name is Diane

[Fox News @FoxNews]

VICTORY: Former Central Bank Governor of Canada Mark Carney will become Canada’s next prime minister after winning the Liberal leadership race. Carney told cheering supporters that "Canada will never become part of America in any way, shape or form." https://t.co/cW5VeNnacd