The people who wanted you to hate immigrants, Muslims and trans people will never be ‘happy’. There’ll never be a point where they say ‘great! The country is a perfect amount of racist and transphobic!’ They always require a scapegoat. It’s disabled ppl and Sikhs today. Tomorrow it could be you.

3/ The city of London, England recently canceled a contract with Palantir. Why is Canada handing nearly $50 million in public money to this creepy company?

Ken Sim couldn't use one of his 11 AI agents to at least pretend to be sorry? I can't help but notice this is happening as provincial & federal gov'ts announce antisemitism initiatives that obfuscate the definition as Sim did in his attack on Orr & ignore the rising far right.

happy pride month

‼️ Amnesty's new research exposes the anti-trans movement. They have a plan - first they're coming for trans rights and then for women's rights. We'll only defeat them by coming together.

Memo to my BC friends. Congrats to your conservative party on electing Temu Danielle Smith as leader. You need to do everything you possibly can to stop her from ever holding any power or you will descend into the same conspiracy brained hellscape we're living in here in Alberta. You've been warned.

Albertans fighting on a lot of fronts www.theenergymix.com/hundreds-of-...

As of today, the Vancouver School Board sent this document rolling out Copilot 13+ AI in schools. he same technology that has been consistently shown to damage critical thinking skills and isolate teenagers is now being rolled out to all Vancouver students above […] [Original post on socialbc.ca]

Agnes Varda - BOTD in 1928

"Vancouver’s Habitat 76 still delivering lessons in housing" feat @lidsville.bsky.social + many others as told by @goldinyvr.bsky.social via @theglobeandmail.com #cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre GIFT LINK: www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/...

Before I continue, here's a non-paywalled version of the article on Habitat '76: archive.ph/oP5Vc

In 2 days it will be the 50th anniversary of the opening of Habitat '76, the founding UN conference on cities & housing. Thanks to Kerry Gold for this article in the Globe: www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/... #vanpoli #bcpoli Few remember this massive Vancouver mega-event. Why is that? 🧵

If you want to read the Vancouver Declaration (which wil also be printed in full in my upcoming book), there's a PDF on the UN's website—hilariously a scan of someone's dogeared, coffee-stained, scribbled-on copy from 1976 unhabitat.org/sites/defaul...

In his keynote speech to Harvard graduates this week, @thedailyshow.com host Ronny Chieng said "Fuck AI!" Turns out you can talk about AI in a grad speech and not get booed. Watch our episode on these AI grad speeches: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE0E...

1/ Right now, a bill called C-22 is moving through Parliament. It would let police pull information on who you talk to, when, and where, all without a warrant. It's at committee this week. 🧵

5/ There's an official petition to withdraw C-22, sponsored by NDP MP @jennykwan.bsky.social. More than 2,600 Canadians have signed. We need more. Add your name and ask others to do the same while it's still at committee: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Apocalypse Now. Bored by it when it came out. Gave it a second chance 20 years later. Still bored. Read Heart of Darkness instead.

Albertans, make sure to sign the Water Not Coal petition. You can find out more info here. 15 days left to sign. Water is LIFE! waternotcoal.ca #WaterNotCoal #ABpoli #Alberta

www.politico.com/live-updates... republicans poisoned the smithsonian women's history museum bill because they're ideologically opposed to women, history, and museums in that order

The paper in question: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If Alberta separatists did manage to pass a referendum to separate(unlikely), they would (likely) be obligated to abide treaty, & probably kick off a legal & constitutional crisis between First Nations, province and feds. Alberta has no distinct, protected identity claim like Quebec does.

Different guy, same priorities for RECartel over local residents. Should be named Neoliberal Party. “Allam made a pledge to scrap the Vancouver building code in favour of the provincial code, almost two weeks before Sim announced his own motion to do the same.” #vanre #vanpoli

The responses to this suggest that people think there is a serious plan to put people in a rocket and send them to Mars. There is not. But you can see why Musk is such an effective grifter. He's fooled people who don't like him! He's not going to Mars. He almost certainly knows it's impossible.

video is from the flotilla, reporting sexual assault. Explains why Israeli officials finally slammed Gvir "please take to the streets"

Incredible enterprise story here via @rorywh.bsky.social. Alberta voter data found on website of US company linked to Centurion Project www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/20/i...

“In Danielle Smith’s Alberta, if the facts don’t support your argument, you can make up new facts.” #abpoli

Brexit lessons: - An insurgent populist right will be invigorated by a referendum, not vanquished - They don't care about Leave/separate as a real policy. They possibly don't even want it implemented. It's a vehicle for grievances, racism, and graft - Crypto and dark money will sink you

Brexit lessons cont: - The pro movement will make dry, factual cases for support that don't resonate - The Leave/Cede side will make emotive, wildly untrue claims that are actually about tapping into grievances and identity - Dark money will sink you

For my Friday Sick Burns post, I wrote down some angry thoughts about the UK bathroom ban announced this week by the allegedly left wing Labour Party. www.burnsnotice.com/there-has-ne...

One of the best songs of the post-Diana Ross Supremes

Wild story.. I signed up for the website of the US Republican group 10XVotes on Monday to test how it works. What I found was a search tool packed exclusively with the names and addresses of Albertans. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/20/i...

💥 Flotilla participants are arriving at Istanbul airport. This is what Israel military and prison personnel did to them. 5/21/26 @Heidi__Matthews

My article (with @bradhumphreys.bsky.social ) "Yes, There is an Economic Consensus That Professional Sports Facilities are Inadvisable Public Investments" is now published in Economic Development Quarterly. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

You gotta admit this turn from the EHRC is a good thing. At least now they’re admitting they’re fucking over trans people with discriminatory policies and not pretending that forcing us to organise campaigns for individual toilets is a completely normal thing

"It's illegal not to be my friend"

the two officers on trial had at least ten drinks each at the VPD GANG CRIME UNIT CHRISTMAS PARTY at a Yaletown nightclub before the alleged assaults took place

Interested in the history & legacy of the ambitious Habitat I conference in Vancouver, 1976? We were there. Allan Caine of @habitat_intl, & me, Lindsay Brown, author of upcoming book “Habitat ‘76 habitat76.ca @habitat76.bsky.social Come by Thursday morning! May 21, 10:15, Canada Pavilion #WUF13

The normalization of far-right ideas continues as Curtis Yarvin and Lauren Southern are invited to a glitzy tech conference in Vancouver - which several Canadian politicians also attended. Full story here, no paywall: thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

Ken Sim is once again trying to gut Vancouver's climate plan this Wednesday He wants to allow fracked gas for space and water heating in all new buildings After his previous attempt failed, he's now using vague claims and misleading statements to try to get it passed THREAD

Hoekstra is not real story here, it’s the investors who back this 10x company. It’s the laws this company has broken. Even IF, IF this was just Parker and some reckless useful idiots (and it’s not IMHO) this is going to be the biggest scandal in Canada US 5 eyes NATO relations in our lifetime.

Danielle Smith just spoke at a conference with Pete Hoekstra. www.rawstory.com/trump-267691...

Israeli soldiers have once again attacked a flotilla seeking to bring much-needed aid to Gaza. They attacked the flotilla in international waters. Gaza remains blockaded as a part of the ongoing genocide. For the Israeli government, simply considering Palestinians to be human beings is a crime.

Thread: The BBC is an international laughing-stock. Northern Ireland had a slow motion civil war. The Good Friday Agreement made peace possible & is guaranteed by the EU & ECHR. BBC reports on this peace treaty from its obsession with trans ppl! BONKERS! [1].

We keep hearing folks rejecting the warning bells about the trans genocide, saying “it’s not like there’s gas chambers & ovens”. Aside from the reality that the Holocaust didn’t start w/ gas chambers & ovens, this comes from an ignorant understanding of what a genocide is. Let’s talk about it. 1/15

Uhhh just let me say as someone who used to work in branch banking: DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, GIVE CHATGPT ACCESS TO YOUR FUCKING BANK RECORDS This is a TERRIBLE IDEA

This might also be the answer to "what radicalized you?" youtu.be/bi9VoeqcjaQ?...

This is a speech worth listening to, whoever you are currently supporting.

PRIVATE PROPERTY CREATED CRIME

We're here at the Vancouver Art Book Fair tonight until 9 and Saturday/Sunday 11 to 6. Books by artists, a couple of anarchist publications, some public domain books, and this banner and the Leopoldina Fortunati tour t-shirt are all here too