A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.

US bars five Europeans over alleged efforts to ‘censor American viewpoints’ https://aje.io/tr548o

Trans Mountain is making big profits now, right? Actually, no. Thanks to accounting wizardry and a shell company, the pipeline has transformed Canadians' losses into gains on its balance sheets. My deep dive on this for @thetyee.ca: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Israel has been holding Palestinians captive, torturing and sexually abusing them. In a new interview with Middle East Eye, they are sharing their stories. “I wanted to die at that moment. I couldn’t take it.” https://ow.ly/cwRV50XMycj

This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status. These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.

“Babies Are Freezing to Death in Gaza. Israeli Policy and the World’s Inaction Are to Blame”

Olive grove by olive grove, sheep pasture by sheep pasture, village by village — over the past two years, Israeli settlers, often with Israeli military support, have escalated their unrelenting campaign to seize land and erase its Palestinian presence. Paywall free: nytimes.com/interactive/...

Note that OpenAI only took these down after being notified by the journalist rather than, oh I don’t know, not releasing a technology that made uses like this possible.

"DULF helped them stabilize." "When you witness the horror of someone you love dying, you don't want to see that ever again." "Having a safe alternative [to street drugs] is a solution to that." #BritishColumbia #Canada #Drugs #Healthcare #Courts #Policing

PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.

In the wake of the tragedy at Brown, online conspiracists rushed to pin the horrific mass murder on an innocent Palestinian student. One of them was Shaun Maguire, a partner at leading VC firm Sequoia Capital. www.fastcompany.com/91463942/seq...

Looks like they're right. Data Set 1 / Photo 468, the image from yesterday's Epstein files release that included photos of Trump in a drawer, was removed.

matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong. at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...

Then, @jonthompson.bsky.social was one of the first on the story looking at the ramifications of Canada’s push for critical minerals mining in Northern Ontario. #Ricochet2025 #climate ricochet.media/indigenous/i...

Last year, Alberta had the highest percentage of people living in food-insecure households of all the provinces. Only Northwest Territories and Nunavut were worse. proof.utoronto.ca/2025/new-dat...

Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody. That's 30 deaths since Trump took office. It's appalling & unacceptable.   ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.

"Why is everyone SO OBSESSED with the Epstein Files," whined the guy who is in the Epstein Files. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Residential school denialists - who hitched their wagon to OneBC (which has now imploded over support for a neo-Nazi who has openly denied the Holocaust) - are now trying to move on with their rage stunts without the OneBC baggage - but the damage’s been done.

Another officer has been caught snooping through private information in the files of the Regina Police Service. He was suspended for one day and is still on active duty. The police say he was 'going through some personal issues' www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Temperatures over global land areas so far this year are still the 2nd warmest on record (after last year)... 🫥 Data from www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

The IRCC's refusal to waive the biometric requirement for admitted students in Gaza is a massive moral failure: "The government made it very clear that these students were not a priority, and they weren’t going to move on it." universityaffairs.ca/news/univers...

"You Know Smotrich and Ben-Gvir. Now Meet the Dangerous Israeli Minister You've Never Heard Of" Amichai Eliyahu is helping lead one aspect of Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign: the stealing of Palestinian land for “archeological” reasons. By @dianabuttu.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/heritage-m...

TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.

This regime is making moves that indicate genocidal intent toward transgender Americans. That is not hyperbole.

York University continues its anti-Palestine bigotry. an artist was censored, and a curator fired. the reason is unconfirmed, but hard not to see the parallels between Jenifer Papararo being fired and what happened with Wanda Nanibush at the AGO.

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

Eugenicists seem to always go after trans folks. This is horrific and children will suffer and die because of it.

RFK Jr. has cancelled grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics because “they no longer align with departmental priorities”. The grants were on such topics as “reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, and mental health…” The AAP has criticized RFK Jr. That’s the real reason.

American Academy of Pediatrics loses government funding after criticizing RFK Jr https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/17/american-academy-pediatrics-funding-rfk 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending. UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.

"Carney did not answer when asked if there's an active recruitment campaign to poach MPs from other parties." " The Liberal leader wouldn't answer whether he'd accept MPs who hold anti-abortion or anti-trans views into his caucus." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

lol "Build Canada, funded by major Canadian tech and industry players... 'improve the governments' technical capabilities to accelerate AI adoption, strengthen defence capabilities, improve strategic procurement, negotiate optimal trade agreements and more'” www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/n...

Anti-immigration policies have been mainstreamed by the Liberals and the Conservatives, while no one planned for the economy to absorb population decline. Guess what happens next!

Tesla’s Robotaxi is crashing roughly once every 40,000 miles so far in Austin, and that's with a human safety supervisor in vehicle. For comparison, the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles. electrek.co/2025/12/15/t...

Tech whistleblowers say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives... They became isolated among their colleagues, suffered severe professional damage, or were pushed out of the industry altogether... www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... by @naominix.bsky.social

NEW Federal prisons are removing methadone and Suboxone opioid treatments, leaving only a patented once-per-month injection for prisoners. A large group of experts is raising serious concerns about harms to prisoners––and the corporate motivations behind the move. drugdatadecoded.ca/150-experts-...

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Don’t miss the opportunity to cast your ballot for Worst Person in Tech! Will Elon Musk and Peter Thiel find themselves facing off again this year, so will another asshole move into the top spot? You will decide.

Things we learn: 1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban 2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal 3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants And much more. Read it.

Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters. His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound. A true hero.

4D chess! So smrt! www.ft.com/content/e5a0...

We live in the stupidest possible timeline. www.404media.co/unauthorized...

Suffering of people in Gaza manufactured by Israeli restriction of aid, not weather, Oxfam says.

Desperate Gaza families already displaced by Israel’s war face deadly collapses and freezing conditions as storm hits.

One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.” Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.

In Khan Younis, southern Gaza, the Abu Jazar family awoke Thursday morning to find that their 8-month-old baby, Rahaf, had died of hypothermia caused by the severe cold, according to her parents and Gaza’s Ministry of Health.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, residential school denialism is a loser movement: it’s anti-Indigenous content created by losers for losers who want to denigrate dead Indigenous children on the internet rather than put truth before reconciliation.

5 people have been killed on the roads in Metro Vancouver in the last week, including a driver, a cyclist, and 3 pedestrians, one of whom was a young child. Each of them had lives, families and friends, aspirations and potential that will not be realized. Each of them could have been me, or you.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.