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California Billionaire Tax Has Enough Signatures to Land on Ballot, Backers Say

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/us/california-billionaire-tax.html

California Billionaire Tax Has Enough Signatures to Land on Ballot, Backers Say

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/us/california-billionaire-tax.html

Industrial disputes & news - 4 February 2026
Victorian #teachers; Tasmanian public sector; Victorian public #healthcareworkers; Harry Hartog & Berkelouw Books; UWU elections; SA #nurses & #midwives; Dynelec; Crown Sydney; SA public sector & more
(Thanks Sarah Missen)

https://disputesreport.substack.com/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-4-february

GENOCIDE WATCH for North America

"This is the war. If you do not wish to be challenged, leave now. Saturday morning cartoons await." - The artist formerly known as Prince

#genocide #smallpox #blackpox #antififa #vermont #bitcoin #bch #bitcoincash #minneapolis #Healthcareworkers #emergencymedicine #emergencymedicalservices #nurses #intensivecare #criticalcare

I'm attending.

Event info:

Experts from #UVic and #IslandHealth discuss safety, evidence, and patient impact of #ArtificialIntelligence (AI) in #healthcare and #research.

Free & open to everyone, but registration is required.

In-person event.
Virtual Option: Zoom link sent after registration.

Moderated #PanelDiscussion with Audience Q+A
Refreshments provided.

Panelists:

Dr. Elizabeth Borycki, University of Victoria

Dr. Andre Kushniruk, University of Victoria

Christopher Picard, Island Health

Graham Payette, Island Health

These panelists bring expertise from research, clinical care, and health systems to explore how AI can be used safely, ethically, and effectively in real-world healthcare.

Moderators:

Dr. Jodie Gawryluk, University of Victoria

Cindy Trytten, Island Health

Hosted by Island Health and the Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health at the University of Victoria.

Email [email protected] for questions or media inquiries.

#BCHealth #AI #Medical #HealthCareWorkers #MedicalPatients #HealthCareSystems #PublicHealth #MedicalCare #Educational #VictoriaBC #YYJ #CommunityHealthCare #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #AccessibleEvent

Industrial disputes & news - 30 July 2025

SA #doctors; QLD #nurses; #Komatsu; #Schindler; QLD #teachers; #BoomLogistics; QLD Dept of Transport & Roads; #GEAerospace; SA #healthcareworkers; #Infrabuild; Townsville City Council; #Glencore & more

(THANKS SARAH MISSEN)

https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-30-july?

#Australia #labormovement #organize #solidarity #unions

So much respect for Dr. Tanya Haj Hassan. Like most media in the West, the BBC is just complicit. This extremely rude and disgusting presenter illustrates that perfectly.

Must watch:
👇
BBC Israel Bias DESTROYED By Gaza Doctor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19Mq749FMEc
#BBC #media #Israel #TerrorristState #terror #IDF #warcrimes #healthcareworkers #targets #MedicsUnderFire #JournalistsUnderFire #Gaza #genocide #DrTanyaHajHassan #MAP #MSF #StopIsrael #ICC #ICJ #Palestine #JusticeNow #StopTheWar #FreePalestine

#HealthcareWorkers in #PortlandME are also taking to the streets today (yesterday it was #Teachers, #Students and parents).
#MaineResists #Resistance #ResistDOGE

The War on #Masks Has Taken on a New Meaning

This time, the masks have nothing to do with #COVID19.

By Henry Grabar
Feb 05, 20254:57 PM

"Last month, state legislators in New York introduced a bill that would create a new crime: 'masked harassment.'

"That, the law explains, is when you wear a mask 'for the primary purpose of menacing or threatening violence against another person' or 'placing another person or group of persons in reasonable fear for their physical safety.'

"If that seems like a bit of a niche offense—threatening violence is already a crime, after all—it’s because the language has been watered down to attract political support. It’s a sign of New York Democrats’ cautious new approach over masks in public life, and a retreat from last spring, when anti-Israel protests, on top of a widespread urban crime panic, pushed leaders from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to consider mask bans.

"In its original form, the New York bill would have banned masks at public assemblies entirely. But the outcry from #DisabilityRights advocates, #CriminalJustice reformers, #HealthCareWorkers, and #CivilLiberties groups was swift, and so New York wound up with this bill on 'masked harassment' instead.

"Elsewhere, the pandemic-era leniency on masking in public is over. #NorthCarolina Republicans overrode a gubernatorial veto last summer to once again #BanPublicFaceCoverings, except to stop the spread of contagious diseases. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost dusted off an old law to threaten #StudentProtesters with #felonies. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has asked the state’s Senate to consider a bill to #unmask #protesters this year.

"For Republicans, it’s a chance to kill two birds with one stone. They can strike back against the perceived overreach of pandemic-era #HealthDirectives and make it easier to arrest #demonstrators at the same time.

"In #Ohio and North Carolina, the original statutes were written in the 1950s to stop demonstrations by the #KuKluxKlan, but had been ignored or suspended during the #pandemic and the #GeorgeFloydProtests. Many lawmakers have cited the recent demonstrations in defense of #Gaza as a reason to crack down again. Defending the proposed mask ban in New York, Anti-Defamation League [#ADL] president Jonathan Greenblatt said the demonstrators were using '#KKK tactics' to intimidate Jewish New Yorkers.

"That instinct was bolstered by the sense among many city residents and elected leaders that widespread masking was a factor behind the pandemic-era crime spike. That led to #Philadelphia banning #SkiMasks in parks, on trains, and in public buildings. A more recent, high-profile example came in December with the Midtown Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO #BrianThompson by a #MaskedAssassin, which prompted New York Mayor Eric Adams to call for cab drivers and business owners to ask customers to remove their masks. The new New York bill has won over the liberal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who endorsed the 'tailored' approach. As the police say: #NoFaceNoCase.

"For what it’s worth, there are too many confounding variables and too little data to be sure if mask-wearing is associated with crime, said Ernesto Lopez at the Council for Criminal Justice, which collects crime reporting statistics from various cities. 'From a theoretical statement it makes sense that could occur, but it has not been demonstrated that’s the case,' he told me.

"But if all that weighed in favor of more mask bans, there was also widespread resistance. Disability advocates mobilized to defend the right to mask; North Carolina had to write a medical exemption into their bill at the insistence of a GOP House member. #PoliceReformers observed that #MaskBans have often been used for pretextual #policing and racial profiling against #BlackAmericans. (#AtlantaGeorgia tabled a mask ban for that reason.)

"What looms largest, as the second Trump administration begins, is the role of protest. As Semafor’s Dave Weigel has noted, masks have become a badge of left-wing protest culture. That’s in part an extension of politicized COVID-era concerns about health and civility, but at this point it is mostly a tactic to preserve anonymity in an era of #FacialRecognition, streaming video, and #doxing. Last year, the anonymous #ProIsrael website the #CanaryMission posted photographs of hundreds of students and faculty at campus protests and posted their names and photos online, labeling some as supporters of terrorism.

"'The concern takes on new urgency as Donald Trump pledges to revoke the visas of pro-Palestine protesters, and the Trump-Musk GOP embraces the naming and shaming of otherwise private citizens. A conservative group called the American Accountability Foundation has begun circulating lists of federal workers, many of them Black, who should be
'targets' for their alleged involvement in #DEI initiatives at work.

"Clearly, the masked protest does not always sit well with an older generation, many of whom cut their teeth in the protests of the pre-internet age. As Georgetown professor Michael Kazin told the New York Times last year: 'I do think if you are going to demonstrate, and it’s something you feel deeply about, you should be willing to stand up and be counted.'"

Source:
https://slate.com/business/2025/02/mask-bans-new-york-los-angeles-crime-protests-criminalize-face-coverings.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #SurveillanceState #SilencingDissent

#LongCOVID impacts #NationalOperations.

The national #healthcare system is overwhelmed, losing staff to burnout & #LongCOVID & visibly & palpably collapsing.

The #economy is taking a hit from the millions of people out of work & businesses closing due to the long-term, systemic impacts of #LongCOVID.

#Frontlineworkers (#military, #firstresponders, #healthcareworkers, #educators +) are dropping out of the #laborforce.

#LongCOVIDAD24 toolkit
longhauler-advocacy.org/longcovidad24