“The Conservative Party will shut down all government-sanctioned drug den injection sites, putting an end to this failed experiment that puts vulnerable children and families at risk.” “No, we won’t actually.” “Yes, we WILL!” “We should have been more clear...” www.nsnews.com/highlights/b...

BC Conservatives will not 'shut down' drug consumption sites after all

BC Conservatives sending mixed signals on whether they would close sanctioned drug consumption sites; some have operated since 2003 and won legal challenges to remain open

Musk is getting us government subsidies to help equip Russian drones with Starlink. www.newsweek.com/ukraine-star...

Ukraine discovers Starlink on downed Russian Shahed drone: Report

Iranian-designed Shahed-136 and the smaller versions of the attack drones have been a key tool in Moscow's arsenal.

Privatization: let’s hope patients at least get put in the right aisle, next to the painkillers, not the hair products. It’s all bad enough being in hospital hallways & waiting rooms for many hours, sometimes more than a day. www.theprogressreport.ca/exclusive_ah...

EXCLUSIVE: AHS pressured health-care workers to transfer mentally ill patients’ prescriptions to Shoppers Drug Mart

BC is still NDP, even though very conservative NDP, but complacency is dangerous given, say, even not very successful 'Christian' attempts to take over school boards. The extreme right is spread across such a wide array of people & activities...

3 Antifeminist, racist, persecution-laced vengeance on anyone not like yourself induce chaos.Alberta is a warning to us all: when ideology, not information, desire for power rather than commitment to democracy rule, ground-level certainties AND economic collapse follow. Daunting, repairing Alberta.

2 “Forced diversity,” ”violent antisocial trans extremists,” defunding universities hiring researchers on race & ethics,” “whites-only daycare”: read on. We need to see the people of the far right, Poilièvre’s base & have our facts at hand.

1 Killing Covid by hairdryer up yr nose, beer as “liquid panty remover,” govt “castrating kids’”& more: eyes on a range of socially-destructive Conservative performance art. pressprogress.ca/leaked-dossi...

Leaked Dossier Reveals 200 Pages of Conspiracies and Controversial Statements From John Rustad’s BC Conservative Candidates

BC United Party’s oppo research dossier raises new questions about far-right extremism inside the BC Conservative Party

Again, please do not feel guilty for not recycling your plastic, you've been lied to and most of it ends up incinerated or landfilled anyway. The problem that needs solved is bigger than end-user behavior, and there's been a sustained and concerted effort to blame consumers for plastic pollution

Ppropublica.bsky.socialSep 27, 2024 4:10pm

ExxonMobil Accused of “Deceptively” Promoting Chemical Recycling as a Solution for the Plastics Crisis The CA attorney general’s lawsuit, which cites ProPublica reporting, alleges that products made with Exxon’s process contain only a small fraction of the recycled plastic that they claim to have.

ExxonMobil Accused of “Deceptively” Promoting Chemical Recycling as a Solution for the Plastics Crisis

The California attorney general’s lawsuit, which cites ProPublica reporting, alleges that products made with Exxon’s process contain only a small fraction of the recycled plastic that they claim to ha...

I made a joke, years ago, about most fiction being 'pre-apocalyptic', but that's actually what 'Parable of the Sower' is. Right on the edge.

I'm reading Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower' and it feels like a Doomsday Clock: ninety seconds to midnight.