every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

#ClimateChange deniers be like "it's a hoax". FFS, the planet would be -18°C (0°F) without greenhouse gases and we've added 50% more. You think it's not going to have an impact? If you were comfortable at two blankets and someone added a third, would you still be comfortable? How about two?

I tried the Beyond Steak "plant-based seared tips" today. 226g package is about CDN $11. Probably enough for three meals. Taste is like beef. Mouth feel is somewhere between fatty chunks of beef and yuba. I stir-fried it with broccoli, garlic, onions, mushroom sauce, and tamari. I ate too much. 😋

Hey America. When you helped Israel do aweful things to Palestinians without consequence, you created a culture of permission - that the strong may kill the weak because they can. That permission is spreading - to America. #Minneapolis

Does he wake up every day and ask himself "how could I most effectively vandalize the planet?"

"According to @UNICEF, Gaza’s newborns are entering the world already weakened by starvation, stress, and the total collapse of maternal care." #Gaza #GazaNews #GazaStrip #Israel #Palestine

The Drawdown Explorer is making it easy to find the best climate solutions — and avoid the ones that don't work. And it's 100% free! youtu.be/HRG4xJ49gdU?...

Why doesn’t Canada have an immigration agency like ICE? We enforce immigration law, but without routine raids, “papers please” policing, or an agency that seems to operate above the law. It looks like Canada is just more reasonable. #IceRaids #USPoli 🧵

Remember not just their courage, but the care we owe them — and the care we must demand when their lives are risked. #LestWeForget

TL;DR: Dems made a coordinated move to end shutdown but risk giving up power if they treat short-term deals as wins. GOP's internal chaos is deliberate - it shifts power toward the exec and weakens Congress. The fight is really about whether democratic institutions or Trump chaos controls the purse.

Americans sometimes ask how, as a Canadian, I feel about Mr. Trump. I generally reply that it must be tremendously reassuring to live in an age when so many of one's national problems have chosen to manifest themselves in a single individual. #USPolitics

"Israel has arrested former military prosecutor Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi over her leaking of a video showing Israeli soldiers abusing a Palestinian detainee at the notorious Sde Teiman military base last year." www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Ev... via @ostegrogno.bsky.social

Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones." cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...

The Democratic Party created Trump. They slipped right with the Overton window. And with it, for many, the American dream dissolved. When there's no hope under democracy, Trump’s loyalty pyramid looks inviting. He shows that impunity can trickle down. That's a heady drug to a powerless person.

The poison of tyranny is not fear but permission. When a leader teaches that power absolves, he releases millions from a burden of conscience. They mistake impunity for freedom, domination for strength, and chaos for destiny. So begins the undoing of the republic - not with tanks, but with applause.

Mexico Versus Nazis is a theme that’s really resonating with me of late

Seeing lots of chatter about Mahmood Mamdani casually calling his close relative “Aunt” - which got folks pausing. But here's the thing: calling someone from your parents’ generation “Auntie/Aunty/Aunt” doesn’t always mean blood relation. It’s a long-standing cross-cultural habit.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

When I ran a coal plant we kept 7 - 14 days of coal in the pile to accommodate rail volatility. When we got below 3 we started curtailment planning to ensure critical loads were served. Anyway, please tell me more about how PV can’t work because it requires overnight on-sight energy storage.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

#Gaza’s war: 2 years too long. 🔴 Over 66,100 people reported killed 🔴 Nearly all of Gaza’s residents have been displaced 🔴 Nearly 80 per cent of structures damaged or destroyed UNRWA continues to provide critical services. Read UNRWA response here:  www.unrwa.org/resources/fa... #UNRWAworks

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus. A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

Progressives: "I am because we are." Conservatives: "I am because I'm not them." #CDNPoli #MapleMAGA

I wonder about how full-scale wars like Russia's invasion of Ukraine are still happening. Why didn't Ukraine just put a $100 million bounty on Putin's head? Why isn't this legal?

Please Starmer, stop blaming immigrants and human rights lawyers. You are making this country into a sewer of hatred and division. None of our problems are because of too much kindness.

I often asked the question "if we had to choose someone to represent humanity in some higher court, who should that be?" My thoughts always went to Jane Goodall first.

Many people talk about the lawlessness of ICE being a classic example of fascism, but what we need to note is that their behavior is also _evil_.

If you dont understand the "sex is not gender" part: Think of sex as the hardware (chromosomes, hormones, organs). Think of gender as the software (identity, expression, role). Biology gives you the device. How people run it is more than the parts inside.

"I don't want to see Netanyahu destroyed by a missile along with his family," Boric told the UN General Assembly in New York. "I want to see Netanyahu and those responsible for the genocide against the Palestinian people brought before an international court of justice."

It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away. And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.

BREAKING: President Trump promotes unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence.

The brume closed in, erasing horizon and shore. The sun dimmed to a pale wound in the sky. Crows kept watch on the stones, as if they knew we live always at the edge of vanishing.

News on the flotilla has gone silent, other than on Al Jazeera. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

This is it, essentially. The core of it. The goal of ICE detention in the mass deportation system is to make people give up their case without fighting; to have an officer say “if you want to see a judge and plead your case, you’re going to be jailed for months and months, so why not give up now?”

This is amazing.

Trump’s next step will be formalizing censorship powers via FCC license threats combined with a new anti-disinformation law. A "foreign agents" law like Russia. #Kimmel

Stunning piece. A horror movie of sorts. Will be familiar to anyone on the left trying to navigate the centrist American legacy media, albeit made all the more difficult when your bosses and colleagues all assume your people are by default murderous barbarians. bidoun.org/articles/hou...

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

This morning, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded that the Israeli government is committing genocide — affirming what Palestinians and experts have been saying for nearly two years.

This is how they ensure political opponents can't escape when they start rounding them up. If you're in a position to leave, you should do so now before they close the door. theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

they literally want to round us up man. can democrats please get a fucking spine and stand the fuck up for us now? we literally cannot counter this ourselves when they want our voices and rights taken away. please do fucking something

To @moderation.bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @bsky.app : this vile story by the New York Post is actively attempting to incite mass violence against a vulnerable minority. The New York Post must not be permitted to remain on this service.

My conspiracy bent is that I have to ask whether the world's ills are interconnected. Israel's ethno-nationalist genocide, America's rekindled fascism, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, climate change denial and inaction, rising inequality. Something is broken. Everyone knows it. But nothing is done.

Googling "Horst Wessel"

America is Israel's mule. #Doha

There is no possible proof that MAGA would accept. They are the problem.

Just like anti-vaxers, people who dislike immigrants are a weird terrible fringe group and we should treat them like the weird terrible fringe group they are.

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.