reminder that the provincial government is expanding involuntary care to address public disorder and homelessness vancouversun.com/news/how-bc-...

canada is totally fine with these war crimes www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Quiet as it’s kept, there are leftist versions of positive thinking. Sometimes it’s called theory.

COINTELPRO NEVER ENDED

When confronted on her legislation making it easier for separatists to create instability... Smith instead disavowed separatism, spun the story to the #ForeverCanadian movement with @lukaszukab.bsky.social and then blamed Trudeau. Drink! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

You don't have to be good at fascism to be good at it unfortunately.

Not paying people remains one of the biggest through-lines of Trump's career. That plus corruption, racism, and sexual assault. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

Aging seniors and those with chronic conditions have been able to rely on Medicare for home health care. Now, the benefit may be at risk, writes Debbie Stabenow.

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

"As Soledad hovered near death, she had entered a hidden medical netherworld, one where the failures of our healthcare system meet the cruelties of our immigration system." www.typeinvestigations.org/investigatio...

Watching alleged ICE agents break into people's home while declaring they don't need warrants definitely makes me feel safe.

On self-care, Sonia Sanchez said, "It hit us at some point, how in the world are you gonna come up against a country with words and actions if you're unhealthy?...we became very conscious about what we were eating...realized if we said, I am an activist and the body was dying.“

Many people living here today were alive when america, pre a very specific moment in the 1960s, wasn’t even a democracy; this moment represents a reversion or seriously attempted reversion to things we definitely shouldn’t revert to

When Toni Cade Bambara used the term “cultural worker,“ it was to challenge artists acting precious and to situate cultural work as labor and creators as part of the working class.

The one positive from the past two weeks is that also the establishment "moderates" are being exposed, revealed, and rejected by the majority. Includes Van Jones, Ezra Klein, The Abundance Crew, Friedman, Maher, Yglesias, and on...

checking in with Michael Barbaro:

If you have a better idea, you can just execute it.

He’s trying to provoke a war.

The large crowds of Alberta teachers and supporters in both Calgary and Edmonton today gives me hope that general strikes might be possible in this province.

This violence is the inevitable result of Donald Trump and other fascists cranking up the temperature in the aftermath of Kirk’s death. Blaming Democrats and pretending he was some kind of martyr instead of just another victim of senseless gun violence. Of course, radicalization was the point.

Pritzker needs to take some sort of demonstrative action against this. But nothing he does will stop this. Still, liberal voters and elected leaders are confronted by the fact that the police are not democratically accountable. They have no interest in protecting you or your rights from the feds.

A group of Chicago cops have been accused of bullying witnesses into falsely implicating suspects, & threatening to separate people from children if they didn’t provide favorable testimony. But prosecutors are failing to take a meaningful look back at people convicted bc of their testimonies:

It's not an *honor* to have your book banned.

All I ask is that you watch and listen for 2 mins. youtu.be/AxZDE8PBhFk

Another one bites the dust.

It’s so weird to come to social media to be like “how bout those Jays!” but simultaneously wade through the ongoing documentation of fascism in the country next door 🙃

There is a parallel to this in ecology. Rather than letting the ground lie fallow when depleted or pouring on more ‘fertilizer’ regeneration occurs when generative systems are implemented. Plant what is complementary & beneficial. Not only does it restore the earth it produces greater abundance

What I thought would solve moral injury: -Working harder -Caring less -Quitting my job What actually leads to healing: -Connecting with others who share my values -Making tiny choices that align with who I am -Seeking moments of ethical clarity amid the chaos We can't fix broken systems alone.

The parade of craven political sellouts is long. It must be taken from their electoral hides.

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

primary anybody who doesn't talk like this

I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life

Suppose we can ask whether game theory or complexity theory point to possible answers to these questions?

Blistering truths

Sometimes it’s hard to tell if the bad guys know they’re losing, so it’s important to read it when they say it out loud.

This is going to get so much worse

“Laurie Eckman, 84, said she and her husband Richard Eckman, also 84 and a Vietnam war veteran, were rushed by federal officers “for no apparent reason.” She said her husband was leaning on his walker and wearing his Vietnam veterans cap as he was pushed to the ground.”

As fascism becomes more entrenched, microblogging will become even less reliable and likely useful as a site for communicating. So many bots, bad actors and an inability to discern.

The Israeli & US governments have both built their foreign policy on precisely this logic.

The complementary tactic to requiring someone to be “grateful” is “see what you made me do?” They often are used together.

I bet some of you recognize the same behavior in your parents during your childhood and beyond. Once again, they don’t think it’s right. But it’s familiar. Most people are trained from birth to prefer familiarity or comfortability over moral correctness.

moral injury & witness trauma also hurt - not like a face full of pepper spray or teargas. but still.

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

27% of the population has disabilities. 1.7% of academia identifies as PWD. Peter MacKinnon feels that is the result of merit and not barriers. 🤔 nationalpost.com/opinion/an-a...

This is an outright lie.