Emily Spanton

Public & Mental Health | Politics & Policy.

Opinions Are My Own. Les opinions sont les miennes. 🇨🇦

[Emily Spanton @whatdoesntkillu]

Je ne ferai aucune déclaration concernant mon dossier @ECHR_CEDH contre la France - toute question peut être adressée à Sophie Obadia, d'Obadia Stasi, à Paris.
https://t.co/FAL2ul92ep

[Nina Deeb @deeb_nina]

Why groceries are so expensive

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

“We understand that you are scared because the future is so uncertain right now,” said Cedar Iahtail from AS7.

“But pushing unethical bills forward without proper due diligence is not the answer. Uncertainty breeds fear, and fear breeds hatred. Hatred breeds fascism.”

[Emily Spanton @whatdoesntkillu]

"Which means, somewhat paradoxically, that those who refuse the doxa and still dare to express nuanced opinions, and get called traitors for it, may actually be the most patriotic of the lot, those who believe in France the most."

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

A reminder for those who forgot recent history that there was a time - not that long ago - when France used to have its own independent view of the world.

A time when France's range of acceptable opinion on China was wide enough that its flagship news magazine (not at all known for its communist leanings) hailed Mao as "a giant of history, poet, strategist and prophet" on a 1976 cover 👇

And a time when a centre-right French president - Giscard d’Estaing - mourned him as "a beacon of world thought" (https://t.co/kamUSXk9Iq).

Today, saying something even remotely positive - or even neutral/nuanced - about China immediately gets you branded as a "CCP propagandist paid by China to bring down the West" 😅

I laugh but it's actually pretty sad when you think about it: not that France should go back to calling Mao - or Xi - a prophet, but, almost by definition, a country whose range of acceptable opinions has so dramatically shrunk in so little time has entered a new dark age, branding every dissonant voice a heretic and every attempt at understanding an act of treason.

Which means, somewhat paradoxically, that those who refuse the doxa and still dare to express nuanced opinions, and get called traitors for it, may actually be the most patriotic of the lot, those who believe in France the most.

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Australian actor dies after injecting peptides - in what is believed to be the nation's first death linked to the unapproved products https://t.co/xZYuLfbsgh

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Every day I wonder when Americans will collectively reach a breaking point with a system that views all of us as disposable and corporate profits as sacred.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Maybe some of you knew about those but it's the first time I've come across them and it blew my mind.

So we're on a beach in the Philippines and we kept seeing these egg-like green balls in the seagrass. At first I thought they were plastic because they looked kind of like plastic toy capsules.

But there were so many of them all over the beach that either some kid had lost the biggest toy collection in history, or something else was going on.

So I checked and turns out they're called "Sailor's Eyeballs" (Valonia ventricosa) and each one is a single-celled organism, one of the largest on earth. Yup, that's one cell: the "plastic" shell is its cell wall, and everything inside is made of nuclei and cell sap.

I never knew cells could get that big, I always assumed - wrongly, it turns out - that all cells were microscopic. You learn everyday!

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

An American journalist was beaten by settler terrorists in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces arrested HIM.

Where is the outrage or coverage? This isn’t newsworthy?

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

We won’t know until next Wednesday whether Donald Trump’s campaign strategy of talking nonstop about men’s asses and dicks is 4D chess or gay checkers.

[Adele Shoko @AdeleShoko]

UPDATE❗️: The lawyers finally spoke to Andrey and Jasper. They are both physically okey, but still under arrest.

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

Protesters take part in an anti-government demonstration calling for an end to the war in Gaza near the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, a day after Israel's election.

Israel's president said he hopes to avoid a second election after a hard-fought vote produced no clear winner, leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the opposition scrambling for options and making Israeli Arab parties possible kingmakers

📸 Ilia Yefimovich

[Emily Spanton @whatdoesntkillu]

Hanging around, downtown by myself 🎵

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

What's your favorite song that mentions candy?

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. Trump wants a standing ovation for passing a cognitive screening.

[Emily Spanton @whatdoesntkillu]

The results are interesting - with just over 2000 votes as I post this.

[The Don of Vaughan @DonofVaughan]

Since I have a decently wide political base, I’m curious: How much do you use AI?

[miki fern (covid 1, furious) @miki_fern]

a doozy off the ontario newsroom today.
ONgov & LOC have launched a Call for Investment to enable more than $3B in direct gaming investment in Niagara Region & support $600M+ in additional private-sector investment across different components of Destination Niagara Strategy

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” for Gaza has appointed @ShelleyGspan, a former AIPAC official, to oversee external relations.

The board is increasingly becoming a tool for advancing Israel’s agenda: erasing Palestinian national identity, denying self-determination, and entrenching Israeli control over Gaza.

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

We can blame the top 1% who contribute 17% to the global GHG emissions. On the other hand, it's worth noting that the next 49% contribute 75% of the net global GHGs. It's the bottom 50% who are getting fucked by pretty much anyone who can read this post.

[Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC) @ISAC_Ontario]

The Disability Tax Credit is now the gateway to the Canada Disability Benefit and many other programs. But it was built as a tax measure, not a disability eligibility system. ISAC & over 150 orgs call for a new approach to defining disability in Canada: https://t.co/pVkFDYu6v9

[socialist.ca @socialist_ca]

From the Unite the Fights rally in Toronto.
Indigenous land defenders and the Labour movement call to kill Carney's bill C-39.
#killbillc39

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

I'm joining Mark Carney's war on First Nations people on the side of First Nations people

[Edward Row 𓃡 @edwardrow]

to put this into perspective, based on their last quarter Rogers makes $15,000,000 in ~profit (revenue minus all expenses) every 2 days, 18 hrs and 55 mins - real teeth on this one https://t.co/RQ88ENiLbb