"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 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

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

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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Great politics should look like a party you want to join

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

In case you missed the moment. Art is powerful

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. #bcpoli

‘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?

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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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.

“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.”

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.

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

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

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.

“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.

“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.”

Reminded again, radical means root. A non-radical solution is one that is superficial and leaves the conditions that produce the problems intact.

God bless the dead as my son survive; We strive to teach the youth, baby, and stay alive RIP John Forté youtu.be/KPV1InMNUf4

“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.

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.

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 www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

I reached out to more than three dozen X advertisers, xAI investors, politicians, and government agencies about the growing library of sexualized deepfakes generated with Grok—now including Renee Good. I only heard back from four, with three declining to comment. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...

"We have entered an even more dangerous period of American imperialism than many suspected...But its effects are unlikely to remain in one place."

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“Elbows up” means Canada standing up for the “rules-based international order” and publicly condemning violations of international law or arbitrary kidnappings of world leaders

A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

"The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how."

It is to Canada's shame we have not spoken out or supported a Canadian judge being sanctioned by the US Her life is frozen. She cannot use credit cards, travel, move money, or access email. This is not sustainable www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Honest to god, what is it going to take to get political / governmental accounts in Canada to stop using this deranged website? Other countries are launching criminal investigations into X, Canadian officials / political staffers seem more worried about their social media engagement metrics tanking

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

I know there’s lots of pop culture references to City Hall station but I want to add NK Jemisin’s The City We Became to the mix. The climactic battle scene that happens in the station is just epic. So much layered metaphor in the story that aligns with Mamdani getting sworn in there too. #booksky

Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries. Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.

Alt headline: How a wealthy Kwantlen man bought Simon Fraser's life — and potentially laid the foundations for B.C. as we know it. Canadian history is consistently more interesting than you think it is.

The radicalization of Silicon Valley is the subject of my forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War on Democracy." It exposes a decades-long campaign to use tech power to overthrow democracy and destroy nations. Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Geneviève Bergeron Maryse Laganière Hélène Colgan Maryse Leclair Nathalie Croteau Anne-Marie Lemay Barbara Daigneault Sonia Pelletier Anne-Marie Edward Michèle Richard Maud Haviernick Annie St.Arneault Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz Annie Turcotte #Dec6 #EcolePolytechnique

“Women and girls continue to be killed every two days somewhere in Canada, mostly by men. And the numbers continue to rise.” #femicide

New in PN: A war criminal without a war "We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."

I've got friends and family still dealing with trauma from their experiences with involuntary care growing up. Often young people turn to substance use in an attempt to cope or escape from high-control households. "Strengthening access to involuntary care" means empowering their abusers.

First Nations chiefs from across Canada pass emergency resolution rejecting any proposed exemptions to the federal ban on oil tankers off the northern coast of B.C. after Ottawa-Alberta energy MOU www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

“There are no clean demarcations between feminism and its backlash and the backlash to the backlash, between progress and regress. It was always fanciful to conceive of progressive victories as permanent, just as it was a shortsighted fantasy that edgelord heterodoxy would remain cool.”

This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec. You can find my full statement below.

The Ottawa-Alberta MOU is nothing more than a pipedream - Coastal First Nations "We have zero interest in co-ownership or economic benefits of a project that has the potential to destroy our way of life and everything we have built on the coast," says Heiltsuk Nation elected Chief Marilyn Slett

"Over a decade ago the community of Kitimat voted to oppose the Northern Gateway project. The Haisla Nation, who were firmly against that proposal at that time, still maintain that same position today” The mayor of Kitimat and Chief of the Haisla met with Danielle Smith www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...