Just in time for spring weather, a creative student vastly improved my jacket with the cutest flourishes 🌼

This is no way to live, man

Bob Rae: "We've got to stop normalizing the Trump administration. It's not a normal administration. It's corrupt."

Trump is holding an entire nation hostage. But, somehow, the rest of the world continues on. The markets chug along. Congress continues to be in recess, with dissent confined largely to social media. It is hard not to feel like we have failed some critical test of the bounds of our own humanity.

“The courts have set a 20-day limit on how long children can be detained. However, the new data shows that since Trump retook office, ICE has detained more than 1,600 children for longer than 20 days.” "The longer a child is in detention, the more trauma they are likely to endure.”

and fools say bluesky is dying

When you throw in the towel after a campaign loss or failure, you lose momentum for your cause. Remember, you're never building your own thing. You're building a means for others to move forward. You're part of things, not the culmination of them.

Francesca Albanese: "Israel has been emboldened by the impunity that has historically been granted to it, but particularly in the last 2 years.. Israel is accelerating the genocide against the Palestinian people.. the end game is the ethnic cleansing of Palestine"

The immediate status quo, centrist attacks on Avi Lewis are precisely why he is effective and needed. In face of growing right wing escalation, an unbashadely left opposition that is anti capitalist & internationalist is both principled *and* realistic.

New article, the first to come from my research team's SSHRC funded project: You don’t need criminal law to make cops: Reading carceral care work into reproductive healthcare policies www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Avi Lewis: "When Israel commits a genocide in Gaza, we call them out. When the US and Israel start an illegal and reprehensible war against Iran that sets the world on fire, we say Canada should have absolutely no role in it whatsoever."

#Breaking: Avi Lewis to lead NDP after successful populist, left-wing leadership campaign

The push for sex verification tests is rooted in racism and they're explicit about it. Not a surprise they want to eliminate the 3 Black women in this photo.

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

Canada abstained

"Over the last few years, American tech oligarchs have become the greatest argument against their own existence. The sheer scale of their erratic behavior and political interference proves that extreme wealth concentration is a structural threat to society." -Joni Askola

The latest round of austerity cuts by Carney will make all our lives harder while he plans to spend a half trillion on the military. Libraries, Canada Post, Via rail… these are not targets we voted to gut.

The Carney government brings us destruction. A full-frontal assault on Indigenous peoples, the integrity of the tax collection system, foreign aid, and, apparently, the country's rail system, among many other things.

🆕 from me: To chop spending, Ottawa will cut science, tourism, foreign aid programs globalnews.ca/news/1173746... #cdnpoli

Toronto police really, really do not want to be investigated for corruption. The union represents the rank & file. This is their official stand. This is not in the public interest, the public service, the public protection.

Another academic who does not have the slightest grasp of what the point of being a professor is. Anyone who views graduate students as hired labour and as means to serve their own goals should not be advising students at all. Shame on Science for platforming this. www.science.org/content/arti...

Breaking: Ontario's Al Quds Day injunction application has been denied. An anticipatory and blanket injunction that interferes with Charter rights is not justified.

The Ontario government will introduce legislation that would exempt the Premier, cabinet ministers and their offices from having to respond to freedom of information requests, allowing them to keep documents and emails about their decision-making secret. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Ford government to stop funding all supervised consumption sites — including two in Toronto

How Doug Ford made the drug problem on the TTC worse #Opinion from @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social

Absolutely horrific. Canada’s massive border bill, C12, has been adopted after third reading at Senate. C-12 will become the country's largest machinery of deportation: deporting refugees without hearings, retroactive bars, and mass status cancellation. A mirror of anti-migrant ICE violence.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

My understanding is that AI companies want universities to embrace this tech so that profs and students help “train” it. Seems reasonable to ask university leaders whether their embrace of AI will use education to simultaneously refine this tech for all kinds of horrific applications.

congrats to those who worked hard these last months to manufacture consent for the us-zionist attack against Iran in the name of “feminism” and “the people”

I know Canada’s electorate is mainly focused on the economy right now, but the abject failure of the Carney government to offer even token support for international law should be a real black eye. A complete abandonment of Canadian values at a critical moment in global history.

Americans talk about how Iran oppresses its women then we bomb them.

Here's a little bit of art I created today. Thank you @prisonculture.bsky.social for shining your light & reminding us to hold onto our joy & resolve during these very hard days.

A police corruption scandal in Toronto once again raises the concern of cops’ access to our personal information. From street checks to stalking, @desmondcole.bsky.social Cole looks back on how personal data in police hands is ripe for abuse. youtu.be/gJ2gbh3IUkE

NEW POST: Danielle Smith is no separatist; she's much, much worse emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/danielle-s...

The country that Canada's Supreme Court calls "safe" for refugees...

Just regulate the grocery store cartels

Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person. Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines: zinelibrary.org

In 2019, Premier Ford substantially cut OSAP grants and axed the interest-free six-month grace period before graduates had to repay OSAP loans. He's again limiting grants as well as vastly increasing loans — a recipe for massive student debt, to begin being repaid immediately post-graduation.

ICYMI tonight’s livestream is now available in our public feed Death Panel x @haymarketbooks.org present ABOLISH ICE, ABOLISH THE BORDER Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social soundcloud.com/deathpanel/a...

This was a hard one to make — mostly because we shouldn’t even have to talk about this. We should be focusing on the victims. The families. The community. But some selfish, awful people are using this moment for their own political agendas. We can’t let them do that:

The way parents have been pushing back on divisive narratives and showing compassion for everyone impacted is a true show of community. It says so much about Tumbler Ridge.

York Regional Police to take over criminal investigation into cops accused of assaulting lawyer in Oshawa www.cp24.com/local/toront...

“Bill 11 brings two-tier, Amerian-style health care to Alberta. It will mean that Albertans will experience a system where those who have money will be able to pay to have access to quicker care, and the rest of us will be left waiting longer or go without,” reddeeradvocate.com/2026/02/10/a...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Today in @thenation.com, originally entitled No Quick Fixes for Fascism www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Skate Canada pulled all events from Alberta after the province banned trans women from women's sports. Can a figure skating organization's boycott change government policy? https://thewalrus.ca/the-sports-organization-that-stood-up-to-alberta/

Regarding Washington Post letting go of a third of its staff this is what PP and the Conservatives want to happen to CBC. They want to ghettoize the news to make the mainstream landscape the mouthpiece for Conservatism ripe with misinformation

Canada considers the US to be a safe country for asylum-seekers.

This is so real.