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Prize for supporting genocide is go to jail, go directly to jail.

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It is "economies of scale" : donating cans of food, means you are giving most of your $$ to retailer profits. Gradually more people learn about this for food bank donations. Yet still so many organizations encourage people to give cans of food as part of their donation drives for the food bank ...

When "moderate" became the word used to describe bending the knee to fascism. (Remember the warnings about the Overton Window creeping right?)

Ottawa Atletico won the Canadian Premier League soccer championship for the 1st time last night - in heavy snow! Here's the 'icycle (bicycle) kick' tying-goal. David Rodriguez scored this one, PLUS the one to win in extra time. Congrats #AtletiOttawa!! (The 2017 Grey Cup here was also very snowy)

#StopBill60 #onpoli #Ontario

"Party whip" is not a meaningless term. It's like the story of the elephant who doesn't know the limitations of their captivity until they test the chains.

OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: “We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”

Your government being against doing anything positive about climate change while your country keeps bursting into flames - if that doesn't drive home the message that your "democracy" is fundamentally illegitimate and you should be an anarchist, what will?

i stands for intelligence

It is the elite who decide the wars, it is the regular people who pay the price.

Jesus Christ

There seems to be a shortage of CKCU posts on bsky, and about 3/4 of them are from people at the station! It's the annual funding drive, and later this month it's the 50th anniversary of the station, I think the first campus/community radio in Canada. Lia just moved back from Europe to direct CKCU

Hmmm, is Canadian government going to allow Canada Post to offer postal banking for people all across the country - especially in remote places where there's a post office but no bank outlets - to have better banking service options and less (/non-profit) fees? Or not that kind of competition?

"Wolverine Beard Style – How To Achieve It and Maintain It" #manosphere #TedCruz #Marvel #MenStyle

This sure feels like a (very scary) manufactured moral panic: "My sister works for a catholic school board. There is a mentally unstable woman spreading that she is transgender and having everyone pull their kid from school. My sister was born a female and is not transgender. What can we do?"

"It's a free country" must be by far the best way to conclude your quote about how you're currently governed by Hitler.

"NYC went socialist just like always!" -FOX

Cool article yesterday @niemanlab.org: "Journalists are souring on social media platforms" "[While] the journalistic community’s enthusiasm for social media platforms has waned over time, there has been no such change in the perceptions of the people actually using these platforms — the audience."

Remember boys and girls and non-binaries: People don't always mean exactly what they say, sometimes they say it the way they do because it will get a better reaction from people (It only took 11min to confirm my guess)

kinda sounds like they may be ... vampires? i'm sure they weren't born that way though...

If we expected it, an objective observer would expect us to have created a good plan for what to do about it, too. ... unless they already assessed that we don't make good plans.

I think of this in terms of the "courage and conviction" of Trump etc as well. If it does indeed work for whichever position you take, then maybe it does work - but maybe we need other ingredients too, depending on what we are looking to build and accomplish.

🎧 PODCAST: Looking inside Mark Carney’s ‘extremely Orwellian’ austerity budget From $60 billion in cuts to eliminating 40,000 jobs, Canadian Labour Congress Sr. Economist @dtcochrane.bsky.social shares his impressions of the Carney government's first budget live inside the media lock-up in Ottawa

Well I guess it is "important" to know what Trump says. Popular too, it seems. But seriously, how much of this do we need in our feeds and lives?

Always remember that the Tipping Point author, also the author of the book about how it takes 10,000 hours to become a genius at something, was nurtured in the right-wing media-sphere training grounds institutions. And Malcolm Gladwell also wrote Blink, an earlier, alt framing of Black Lives Matter

Looking for a budget summary and you aren't an oligarch or the owner of a mid-sized company? Check out what the @ccpa has put together: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

There's something of a Ukrainian kill list that includes Ottawa Citizen journalist David Pugliese - in polite terms from a Ukrainian official, "AN UNDESIRABLE PERSON" (capslock in original). Reporting something like this ⬇️ would fall in the category of the things they say 'abets Russian interests'.

Even the most simple request for clarification or the most reasonable question, like "what will disabled people do in an anarcho-primitivist society?" is treated as an attack on the whole value system & the person carrying it, & the questioner is treated as an enemy [of] the person engaging in wank.

Yves Engler appears to have grassroots support within the NDP, but then there are those in the 'left-media' commentariat who seem to go out of their way to be overly-dismissive. Not to mention the people who somehow got it in their heads that Engler is working for Putin or some conspiracy like that

The NDP actually wants ("RECOMMENDS") all their leadership candidates to be able to pay $100,000 running fee to the party before accepting any donations to fund the candidate's leadership campaign? Democracy for the wealthy or for the people

make speed cameras illegal make bike lanes illegal make there be no rent control take away all local democratic elements of schools behind closed doors, sell off green spaces to developers but use Ronald Reagan in a TV ad to oppose the national enemy, and you're lauded by too many as a good guy

I'm writing a piece on extremism and the military and I have never run into so many people wanting to be off the record before. This plus thr fact that so many of us have been pushed to the margins is bad bad bad.

wait till it sinks in that it's Fascism

I think this is actually a photo of people in NYC cheering for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social‬ Mamdani

Also need to acknowledge the work of people who for decades have built expertise in how we can't rely on corporate media, and have been working on alternatives - which mostly haven't worked out, relatively speaking, but still were a lot of work. But most people will always rely on dominant models.

🎶🎶 "we didn't vote to get in to this shit, so we won't vote to get out" 🎶🎶 aka, voting is not the solution to our problems bonus points for anyone who knows the song!

I know Trump says not to call them Nazi-like, and is looking into making a new law. But if people were saying in the early days of the Brown Shirts and the SS in 1930s Germany to remain peaceable in response, and trust they'd be made to be accountable for all their bad deeds... how'd that work out?

can you generalstrike though?

I heard it’s Godzilla Day :) #ゴジラ

If you don't consider he does propaganda for political purposes, you may be considered mentally missing out.

"bases loaded, one out, winning run 90 ft from home"😹

Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg (Algonquin) First Nation files land claim over large swath of western Quebec, including Gatineau Park www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9... KZ previously filed a claim in Dec 2016 for a very small area of Ontario, the area from Parliament Hill to Lebreton Flats. #ottnews #LandBack

In part, it means there is a failure from others to reach and connect with those young men in a meaningful way. Which leaves them vulnerable to those who will exploit them. "Alt-Right Masculinities" talk deals with this topic a bit: equitableeducation.ca/2024/alt-rig...

City of Ottawa planning committee is considering a motion to re-consider the Tewin development, approved in 2021. I'm presenting a delegation. Two Anishinabe Algonquin Chiefs have already presented. Here are my slides. 1/ equitableeducation.ca/2025/tewin-r... #ottnews #ottcity #IndigenousRights

How many miss that "spells" is literal?

"The only liberal democracy in the Middle East..."

Just sent my suggested correction in to @genocidescholars.bsky.social on their recent otherwise very good statement. I'm *fairly certain* the ICJ ruled that Palestinians in Gaza "plausibly" fit the criteria of a group covered by the Genocide Convention - but not that it is "plausible genocide." 1/

Fact checks: (1) The parade continued, minus those who choose to not oppose the genocide that is being permitted of Gaza. (2) "Most groups" didn't boycott Capital Pride last year Here is a list I created last year *for posterity* of groups' responses: equitableeducation.ca/2024/list-of... #ottnews