"The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference" "there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies" "2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year" A win!

In other news 🗞️ Cityboymoe flipped Trumps anti-Somali rants and pogroms into a rap banger. One thing about Somalis is that you’re never going to take our joy from us, we’re always going to have fun and laugh in the hating faces of racist chaos agents.

“We lost all trust. I’m not sure I can see how we exist three years from now.” Poor racist Nazi babies. Punks. #ICEGestapo #BothSiding www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Those elites are nurses, transit workers, housekeepers, taxi drivers, small restaurant owners and workers, teachers, nannies, work in low paying film and media jobs, sanitation and a gang of other city jobs. Bc that’s who yall are shitting on when using that word not the rich fucktards of the city

i want to boost this because it's facts but also, to put myself on main street for a second: i got a master's degree, live in NYC right now, and i am still solidly working class. i am as far removed from being a coastal elite as an apple is removed from a whale.

Well, that’s wonderful as a lower income consumer, thank you. But that means I’m getting my own tax dollars back. Perhaps a review of the increase in profits by major grocery firms and grocery distribution companies it might be something to look at.

Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president,” Young writes to fans. “My music will never be available on Amazon, as long as it is owned by Bezos

I don't think there's any other possible reaction here than extreme concern to the news that 18 000 Canadian federal public servants in health care, stats, environment, justice, immigration, archives, FNMI affairs, and more, will very likely lose their jobs: www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

It never fixes anything so why do we do it? You: Trying to pass my family on a bike to get to the school 5 seconds earlier Me: Yelling at you in front of my kids to not run us over.

check out all this cool new jargon that no one is going to adopt

Older Hungarian friend, who lived through Soviet control, said the regime’s lies were meant to say: we can lie completely, and do anything we want, and YOU can’t do a thing about it. The monstrous lies WERE a statement, yes. The more egregious the better.

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Also: British commentators need to realise that in African nations corruption is referred to as corruption while in white supremacist nations such as the UK and USA corruption through bribery and blackmail is referred to as “lobbying” and is legal. Corrupt white supremacist nations love corruption.

If someone is only just coming around to the idea that fascism is real, and that it’s bad, I want to know why. I don’t want to welcome them onto the ship. We got here because they helped steer us here. I want to know if they have sincerely learned anything about empathy and critical thinking.

"My ancestors came here legally!" So fun fact the laws saying you had to follow the current legal process to immigrate to the United States didn't exist until 1952, passed by a racist Jim Crow Congress over Harry Truman's veto.

Today's bonus pigeon is 70 years old and he's fucking angry (and he's fucking right). Greg Ketter of DreamHaven Books in the Twin Cities 💛

In case that’s too deep a historical cut for the non-Xers out there:

People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc (GFM in next post) www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...

I see poor old H**tsuite is in the news. I saw a job posting there for a tech support agent when I was desperately trying to do something employable and not minimum wage paying after my BA. Two interviews, one via iphone in a cafe, and they got pissed at me when I asked about pay. Minimum wage.

“Probably one of the biggest issues on how did we get here with these headlights being so bright is that Canada has long handcuffed itself to the U.S. regulations on how cars are built and equipped, and the U.S. regulations don’t care about headlight glare.” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Beaverton, with another banger.

I understand disagreements over policy positions, but it's a sickness of the soul to treat your fellow human like this, no matter their citizenship status. The current protesters are absolutely righteous in their action.

oh i see we have a new layout and some sort of sportsball playoff information from another country. Grand grand.

And a reminder that warmer weather and hopefully better/brighter days ahead are on the horizon (and on the needles). 🧶🌞 #showmeyourknits

When your sister is texting you about a woman in her 30s who has died of a heart disease…and ends it with “and of course she has the vaccine”. And it takes everything I have not to start the inevitable argument about actual science vs whatever YouTuber she’s been listening to in her “research”. /1

Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day

Calling all knitters to make a FUCK ICE hat: 100% of sales profits from this pattern will be donated to non-profit organizations supporting immigrants and refugees in Canada. 80% of sales on Etsy will also be donated. www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Man, I am not a fan of the internet being five sites, each just showing screencaps of the other four, but there is some divinity-grade fash cope happening over there.

I noticed this in the late 80s and 90s. Feelings like fear, sadness, and love were belittled by my peers, and adults were too passive to punish violent behavior or listen to both sides of a story. Now I’m not even shocked by any of it. #thoughts #memories #ThisIsFineDog

Please spread the word! Pandemonium Books and I have decided we really have to reschedule the book launch party that was to be this Sunday bc of the threat of serious snow. Thankfully they have an opening next week. So it'll be Friday, Jan 30th instead! Come on down <3

The same has happened in Australia. I don't celebrate Australia Day but it's as good an occasion as any to think about what a more honest version of this country would look like. One that did not deny the past but instead understood it, made amends and moved forward in new way. #auspol #politas

lol, fascinating interplay of public services

The original dialogue, in The Ultimates... wasn't great in anti-fascist terms.

Vancouver is putting 200 surveillance cameras in public spaces "for FIFA" and despite "protections" I won't be surprised if they test whatever new tech cops have got their hands on against anti-fascism protesters and retroactively oopsie when caught. Especially given Hootsuite's bootlicking for ICE.

Admission of weakness: I'm tired of it being cold and I want my ebike back from the repair shop. Sometimes just the thought of fighting up these hills and in this traffic on the hipster bike is just utterly joyless

And btw this is very much about people with influence and in the media. It was their job to pay attention, it was their job to notice, it was their job to tell YOU. I think many of us (including me) could do better at paying attention but... they should feel guilt and shame though and they don't

@stephenking.bsky.social Maybe??

One of the reasons I love Cap—he can NEVER be co-opted by fascists because he’s the ultimate symbol of anti-fascism and democracy! Every comics fan knows this! ✊🏽🇺🇸 #Resist #AbolishICE #CaptainAmerica #Democracy #Justice @Marvel

every time someone shares a shitty op-ed piece by a shitty writer in [insert legacy media org here] to dunk on it, they should have to share something made by someone awesome

But I need folks to understand that if they can see themselves in Alex Pretti or Renee Good, and they haven't been able to see themselves in Philando Castille or Breonna Taylor? If it feels different, now? I need you to examine that. It's not an accusation. I'm glad you're here with us now.

Saw this scorpion device on the back of a work truck on my morning bike commute. "Wear hi-viz" 🫠

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

I walk in the evenings in a bright yellow jacket wearing flashing red LED lights so I stand out. So many close calls anyhow. High vis doesn't work worth a damn if someone is looking at their phone instead of out through their windscreen.

It's not an "immigration crackdown". "Racist pogrom" is the expression you're looking for.

The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

Great family history chat with my Mom over dinner at the Gumboot. Discovered Great Grandpa Frank was not the first McKenna to settle in North Vancouver. Great, Great grandmother proceeded him leaving him in Brandon. She settled in Lynn Valley and died there. Her two other kids went to Seattle

Fatal bike crashes really draw the victim-blamers right in, like moths to the flame. To all our high-viz fans, don't make us tap the sign: