In #Gaza, rising energy prices are limiting access to fuel and food.   In February 2026 alone, UNRWA treated more than 3,700 children under five for malnutrition.  #UNRWAworks to detect and treat malnutrition early, but we could do much more if we were allowed to bring food into Gaza.

Et tu, Canada?

devastating for every young trans/queer person trying to find community amid irl social isolation

Your goals are to replace human public sector workers with AI so you can slash public services and to make your buddies at Brookfield even richer by spending public funds on AI infrastructure for private profit.

Meanwhile my university has bought licenses for CoPilot. Is a technology that "is for entertainment purposes only, which can make mistakes, which may not work as intended and cannot be relied on for important advice and has to be used at our own risk" so essential?

You love to see it!!! #LandBack #Nuchatlaht www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

The “main goal” of walking through a plate glass window while carrying a wedding cake may have changed, according to officials

MSNBC Journalist David Rhode reports: "Iran offered to give away ALL of its enriched uranium during peace talks in Geneva. The British thought it was a credible offer. Hours later, Trump started bombing Iran anyway. The US didn't want peace, they wanted war." So to recap... 1/2

The colonial state confers upon itself the right to determine who is Indigenous, and settlers who desire an Indigenous identity can easily weaponize these apparatuses to maintain their claims. I guess we need to be careful now to not claim folks are committing ethnic fraud...knowingly?

Every single day this administration finds ten new ways be the most evil people imaginable. Extortion is now national policy.

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

Jurgen Habermas, RIP www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

the state of israel, like apartheid south africa, like the jim crow south, like nazi germany, has determined that crimes against a certain type of person, no matter how heinous, aren't crimes because the victims are not people. there is no "but them first" defense of israel that can stand up to it

The political culture of the contemporary GOP is indistinguishable from that of the school shooter community

"Sloppelganger" is one for the ages

Knew my transition worked and that I was passing when I stopped getting badgered like women do

Perfidy is a war crime.

The Iranian Red Crescent has sent a request to the International Criminal Court calling for a criminal investigation based on the US/Israel's systematic attacks against civilians and civilian objects including: 6,668 civilian structures 5,535 homes 14 hospitals 65 schools

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Hence killing 100+ children on day one.

A woman of integrity and ethics. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Authors Guild is now offering "Human Authored" certification marks for literary works in which "the text itself was fully authored by one or more human beings and not generated by AI." What a time to be alive!

To understand what's happening in Iran today, you have to know about the history of Western intervention in the country. In the early 1900s, the British secured oil rights in the country until 1993, where they only agreed to pay Iran 16% of the total profits. This was seen as an unfair deal. 🧵

The WSJ is reporting that AI, specifically Claude, was used in targeting for the attacks by the Epstein Empire. That would mean the use of AI led directly to the massacre of 115 schoolchildren and 20 volleyball players. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

In response to reporting about deaths, province has decided to no longer produce data related to deaths globalnews.ca/news/1169038...

Tommy Douglas, Canada’s venerable socialist leader and the father of its single-payer health care system, died on this day in 1986. He is now revered as the “greatest Canadian.” But in his time, he was a radical and an enemy of the establishment.

As someone who grew up on (white) teen movies, I was struck by how much that Patel scene looked like something straight out of a spec script in the 1980s. The racialized minority over performing nationalism as white frat boys clearly broadcast to everyone but him that he is not really one of them.

W. E. B. Du Bois was born on this day in 1868. “Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.”

I always find the hallucinations very "creative"..."inventive", even

This is unacceptable.

Funny/not funny. Ontario government calls Ring of Fire minerals ‘the most ethical on Earth,’ while passing legislation that suspends treaty rights, species protections, and human rights — to benefit extractive industries. ricochet.media/indigenous/o... via @ricochetmedia.bsky.social

happy to see this news.. still mad that UCLA’s workers had to sue to stop this because our well-paid administrators were too spineless to fight for us

Eugenics. Disabled people have been saying this. It’s intentional.

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

trans women playing women’s sports

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

A new systematic review has found that trans women on HRT have the same level of fitness as cis women and don't retain any advantage in sports. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

An extreme Kansas bill will invalidate the drivers license of every trans person in the state. It was passed alongside a particularly extreme bathroom bill, meaning that the implications of every trans Kansan losing legal ID overnight has largely been missed.

Also very Japanese American internment. So many family homes and farms seized for pennies on the dollar by white neighbors

Well, that’ll wreck you. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

about as meaningless as the words "Nobel Peace Prize" now

It’s the latter. And it answers a question I kept posing: how do you punish people with complex bureaucracy if you dismantle…the complex bureaucracy that can punish? You can’t.

Potato Salad, Probably Megan LeForte 2023