This kind of work creates POLITICAL COVER for people (normies and politicos) to peel away from the fash and do hard but necessary work to recreate the public sphere. It's THE LITERAL EMBODIMENT of liberal pluralism in the BODY POLITIC.

Rallies like this bring together multigenerational groups and the playfulness can help create enthusasim for big tent politics against the monoculture of fascism.

When the conflict expands in scale & scope, the good feelings help propel people to do hard things. Shitting on the public rallies is fucking dumb. It's also ahistorical and lacks any serious engagement with the history of social movement successes in the US. It's just trashy demobilization.

The regime tried to scare people and failed. That's good.

Point 2 from Tim Snyder’s how to stop fascism, lessons from Nazi Germany: Coalitions are necessary…the left has to hold together with the center-left, and their energies have to be directed at the goal rather than at each other. #NoKings

Looking real good today, America. Keep it up. Land of the free, home of the brave. May it be so. #NoKings

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

Defense Metals, which owns the Wicheeda rare earth project in B.C., has been in discussions with the U.S. government & has brought on advisers with backgrounds at Lockheed Martin, the CIA & Tesla. @amandafollett.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

In an era when Canada is touting critical minerals as a way to lessen it's dependence on the United States, the U.S. government is taking direct ownership in Canadian critical minerals companies... And Canada isn't stopping it www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

Portland 🔥

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

Hear me out: What if it's both the hoarding and the havoc?

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

For @thewalrus.ca, I wrote about the state of reconciliation 10 years after the final report of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. thewalrus.ca/trc-introduc...

To single out abortion as the place for compromise is to ignore the political reality of the last three years. And in a moment when the stakes are so high—as women are literally dying—being both confidently wrong and hugely influential is straight up dangerous. jessica.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...

To put it in the terms of the most recent example, you can't get to where Ezra Klein (and white liberal progressives) want to go without passing through where Ta-Nehisi Coates (and Black Americans) have been, politically, historically and perhaps above all intellectually. Full stop. You just can't.

Affirmation by Assata Shakur

I feel compelled to note that voluntary treatment is far from accessible in BC, no matter where you live

Assata Shakur exchanged letters with Audre Lorde from prison, and Lorde wrote for her the poem "For Assata": I dream of your freedom as my victory and the victory of all dark women who forego the vanities of silence 👇Here's the whole poem

At the end of this brutal piece are some links set up by the Prince George’s County Immigrants Rights Collective to raise funds to support families impacted by state violence. If you’re in a position to help.

Mamdani serves a full, nutritious meal in an era where politics is either deadly poison or vacuous junk food. He uses the tried and true "we did, we can, we will" framework that helps abate cynicism but without papering over past harms or present injustice.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

“The science on the subject is pretty clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat."

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Beautiful thread from the city of angels. The people united ♥️✊🏻

The CEOs of the country's lowest-paying large companies made $17.2 million on average last year. Their workers made $35,570.

Bombshell reporting by my @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social colleagues here This reflects very poorly on the Vancouver Police Department, which isn't being forthcoming about questionable assault numbers continually promoted ahead of the last municipal election www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

"To legislate us back to work 12 hours after we started? I'm sorry, snowstorms have shut down Air Canada for longer than we were allowed to strike." Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order, remain on strike, union says www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

WOW! Federal spending on advancing gender equality in Canada to drop from $383 million in 2025 to just $60 million in 2027. See Table 7 in the Women and Gender Equality Canada's 2025-26 Departmental Plan www.canada.ca/en/women-gen... @rechievaldez.bsky.social

Our legal system is not a justice system.

tw sexual assault, hockey canada resharing the ontario coalition of rape crisis centres' brief regarding the myths perpetuated by the hockey canada trial. our justice system is broken and not built to support survivors. sexualassaultsupport.ca/sexual-assau...

Every day, I am reminded that I live in a society that will believe absolutely anything about a woman to ignore the obvious about men.

Read my latest:

An Okanagan-based group that supports survivors of abuse and brain injury is calling for "femicide" to be recognized as a criminal offence. globalnews.ca/news/1129751...

B.C. cabinet shuffle: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

one of the true gifts of parenthood is surrendering your illusions of control; no scientific advancement in the world can tell you who your child will be, how they'll resemble you or surprise you, what they'll be capable of, how much you'll love them. eugenicists refuse to accept this reality

look.

When you are feeling weary or despairing, remember that there are people in every corner of the world taking life affirming action in the direction of more justice. The fact that you can't see it all is a comfort because it means there is an excess of positive actions happening all at once. #onwards

Do we as a society withhold medical care during the palliative stage of life? Care that is recommended by their physicians, makes them more comfortable, and prevents complications? I didn't think we did. This is the exact opposite of what palliative care is about.

A society that withholds treatment that could ease a child’s suffering & possibly prolong her life reflects & reinforces a cruelty that doesn’t so much creep as it does march. A big boot just breached the threshold in BC. NEW post by me about Charleigh Pollock. open.substack.com/pub/mssineno...

This is stunning, and gutting - BC Health Minister openly saying 'buy your own expensive life extending medications' NDP advancing the end of public health #BCpoli www.timescolonist.com/local-news/d...

At a comedy show, Mahmoud Khalil told Zohran Mamdani, “I am excited about the possibility of raising my son in a city where you are mayor.” It was a stunning moment, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.

When people break the law, and their actions are righteous and appropriate, we should applaud them. When people abide by or enforce the law, and their actions are repugnant, we should condemn them. We should never pretend the law is a moral dividing line.

Not now. Not to anybody. open.substack.com/pub/thewhite...