Maria Dobrinskaya
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Politics and books. Cooperative overlapper. Hopeful collapsnik. She/her.
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
#vanpoli
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"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters."
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G. Willow Wilson
8 days ago
Good news, everyone
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Engaging with arts and culture can slow biological aging as much as exercise, study suggests | CNN
When it comes to slowing down our biological aging, engaging with arts and culture is as beneficial as physical activity, a new study suggests.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/health/arts-ageing-study-scli-intl-wellness?Date=20260514&Profile=CNN&utm_content=1778760116&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawRzRGlleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFTSWk0MlVPSVFnRXUzOVdLc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHm7NNRmN7i-5x9wKWNPzPxwmEibQ90IAFIjhqqWy9_MsRwTkdwti4X2E1jb__aem_0FPIOrvdduGxZd_qJi6UsQ
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“Nobody wants a parasocial bestie who shills for the plutocrats who are nullifying their votes, degrading their educations, jacking up their power bill, stealing their wages and rigging the system. There is no feminist case for scaring people into adopting A.I.”
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7 days ago
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦
10 days ago
If you thought "I bet Ken Sim is all in on AI", you would be correct
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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors
10 days ago
"Public lands have to be used for public housing. For non-market housing, there's some really important levers like community land trusts...So that the people that work in the city can stay in the city and build a life here.” -
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Two more candidates enter race to become Vancouver’s next mayor
Stephanie Allen will be acclaimed May 11 as COPE’s candidate, Colleen Hardwick nominated as Team for a Livable Vancouver’s leader
https://www.biv.com/biv-rss-linkedin/two-more-candidates-enter-race-to-become-vancouvers-next-mayor-12266943
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Andrea Woo
11 days ago
“Cheryl Weeks, a plaintiff and former Vancouver police officer, said she and other prospective class members have found it ‘astounding’ that their claims of sexual harassment are being compared legally to a ‘dispute over a pension plan.’” From Darryl Greer:
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B.C. policewomen want lawsuit, not labour arbitration, over alleged discrimination
Cheryl Weeks, a plaintiff and former Vancouver police officer, said she and other prospective class members have found it "astounding" that their claims of sexual harassment are being compared legally...
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/bc-policewomen-want-lawsuit-not-labour-arbitration-over-alleged-discrimination-12268018
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isabella zavarise
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“It would avoid us doing drugs in public, doing drugs around children, around elderly folks, just around people who don't want to be around drugs. Right now, we're on the street corners, we're on the sidewalk, and it's inhumane.”
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Vancouver mayor moves to block opening of downtown overdose prevention site
Vancouver Coastal Health plans to open site in June in building at 900 Helmcken Street
https://www.biv.com/biv-rss-linkedin/vancouver-mayor-moves-to-block-opening-of-downtown-overdose-prevention-site-12239530
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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors
19 days ago
“We need to dream bigger. We need to fight harder. We can win what people really need and do it with integrity.” -Stephanie Allen
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De Facto Journalism Co-op
21 days ago
This International Workers’ Day, we're putting media back in workers’ hands. De Facto Journalism Co-op is a new non-profit of 6 worker-owners producing in-depth journalism focused on justice issues and systems of power. To get our first investigations next week, subscribe here:
defactomedia.ca
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Five each from COPE, Greens, OneCity, plus three each (so far, I think?) from TEAM, Allam's Vancouver Liberals, and Bligh's Vote Vancouver, is a very crowded not-Ken-Sim's-party field.
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“The report says the costs associated with femicide totalled $27.6 million annually, while workplace sexual harassment “contributes an additional $86 million each year through reduced productivity and employment churn.”
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cait (and adonis)
about 2 months ago
in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing
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Michelle Cyca
2 months ago
"The panic now visible in British Columbia is not evidence that reconciliation has gone too far. It is evidence that reconciliation has begun to have material consequences."
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Canada’s Reconciliation Panic - Macleans.ca
Indigenous peoples are gaining territory and political and economic clout. Not everyone is ready for what that will mean.
https://macleans.ca/politics/canadas-reconciliation-panic/
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦
2 months ago
Sean Orr has filed legal action against Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim for saying to media without evidence that Orr was dealing drugs on Christmas Day
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦
3 months ago
Here’s my full video on Day 5 of the Ken Sim and Sean Orr saga. A bit of today’s news, a bit of historical context to the story, a bit of answering
@seanorr.bsky.social
’s challenge to me earlier this week. I *think* the story will recede now, but given the weirdness of it all, we’ll see!
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Drip, drip, drip… Ken Sim, in his lack of forthright disclosure, or what some might call lying, seems determined to keep this story going 🤔
#vanpoli
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I can’t overstate how strongly I oppose this. Yes, time change sucks, but if we’re doing away with it, ALL of the science says permanent standard time is the way to go.
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tamara nopper
3 months ago
Many suggest government’s role is providing assistance to people in (a) crisis, limiting our vision of public goods and the state. Like Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, "Public goods should never be means tested. That's the entire point of a public good! And should be as permanent as anything imaginable.“
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Bill Corbett
3 months ago
Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
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Shannon Waters
3 months ago
Amending BC's Declaration Act would "set back our collective reconciliation efforts by decades," say dozens of civil society groups and prominent Canadians in a joint statement "Now is not the time to cede ground to those who cynically spread fear and doubt about that vital work"
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Joint Call: BC must recommit to meaningful implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act | West Coast Environment...
Civil society leaders stand with Indigenous peoples in BC and call on Premier Eby and his government not to amend the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
https://www.wcel.org/media-release/joint-call-bc-must-recommit-meaningful-implementation-un-declaration-rights
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄
3 months ago
We do not have to fall over ourselves saying that we love technological progress. The onus is on them to explain to us why we should be excited about new technology while there are microplastics in every mother's breast milk and our rivers are drying up
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Adam Serwer
3 months ago
"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from
@nhannahjones.bsky.social
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The Transformative Power of the White ‘Race Traitor’
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/magazine/minneapolis-good-pretti-race-traitors.html
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Mark Histed
3 months ago
In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
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Michelle Cyca
3 months ago
it's incredible to contemplate the volume of civic funding and effort spent appeasing: - people who find the sight of poverty more offensive than evidence-based public health policy - drivers who think bad traffic is a human rights violation - residents who recoil from shadows like reverse-vampires
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LizaYuzda
3 months ago
Support…
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Peer support directory | Trans Care BC
Connect to peers in your community.
https://www.transcarebc.ca/how-to-get-care/peer-support
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Emily Nussbaum
3 months ago
Great politics should look like a party you want to join
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WCVB NewsCenter 5, Boston
3 months ago
#BadBunny's
performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the
#SuperBowl
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle
3 months ago
In case you missed the moment. Art is powerful
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I’ll be interested to watch how these sentiments & people play out in the upcoming BC Conservative leadership race. We’ve already seen people with despicable hate-based views elected as BC Conservatives. Shouldn’t have to say it, but new leader should have zero tolerance for it. We’ll see.
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Rebecca Solnit
4 months ago
‘HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS,’ EMILY DICKINSON famously wrote, and that often leads to pictures of doves sitting quietly and looking sweet, but what if hope is an albatross that can soar for years without stopping, or an osprey that can haul a thrashing salmon out of rough waters?
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Two that come to mind for me: It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding), Bob Dylan I Left My Wallet In El Segundo, ATCQ
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Merriam-Webster
4 months ago
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Heartbroken about Catherine O'Hara. Absolute comedic legend. I'm so glad that people got to see her genius in Moira Rose and that she was afforded that widespread deserved recognition later in her career. But my favourite will always be her roles in the Christopher Guest movies. Devastating loss.
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Shannon Waters
4 months ago
“We are here to ask the courts for ... further articulation of what press freedom means in this country,” Linnitt said. “And on the other side, we have a team of lawyers for Canada and a team of lawyers for the province who are here trying to prevent that from happening – on the taxpayer’s dime.”
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www.standwithminnesota.com
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
https://www.standwithminnesota.com/
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Annie loves Mpls
4 months ago
Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.
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Melissa Gira Grant
4 months ago
in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
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ashley fairbanks
4 months ago
this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
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Nicole Bedera
4 months ago
Watching these videos of ICE attacking children, I can’t help but think about how many of these men first practiced their violence in their own homes. Domestic violence teaches our oppressors to dehumanize the most vulnerable among us.
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Spencer Ackerman
4 months ago
“Preschooler’s detention marks fourth for district.” Total abolition of ICE and the entirety of the War on Terror apparatus that led to this point. Or there will be many, many more.
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Rebecca Solnit
4 months ago
“We didn’t do all that because we are heroes and saviors. We did it because we understand the meaning of our faith: that we are all connected. We join together. We are a part of a people, a body of humanity that is made in the image of a loving and beautiful God that wants all God’s children free.”
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David Kaib
4 months ago
Reminded again, radical means root. A non-radical solution is one that is superficial and leaves the conditions that produce the problems intact.
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God bless the dead as my son survive; We strive to teach the youth, baby, and stay alive RIP John Forté
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Wyclef Jean - We Trying To Stay Alive (Remix) (Official HD Video) ft. John Forté, Pras
YouTube video by WyclefVEVO
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“A friend of mine reminded me that the word encourage literally means to instill courage; we can do that or its opposite with how we speak, with what we say, with how we show up.“ All of this.
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Nicole Bedera
4 months ago
This is true across the board for men committing violence in our society. They are mostly men who just couldn’t figure out how to access power via merit. They turn to violence instead because our patriarchal culture will offer them power that way too.
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Liz Renzetti
4 months ago
Misogyny has been built into tech forever because it replicates the way we live, and it's a money maker. We need cultural change and the time to start was yesterday. Or twenty years ago. And the time for Canadian officials to get off X is now
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Elizabeth Renzetti: Big tech is misogynyst. How else to account for fake nudes attracting $20 billion? Here’s how we fight back
Canada needs to change the culture of digital design. Criminalizing deep fakes isn’t enough
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