The struggle is very real.

1/ Hours after Iran and the U.S. reached a ceasefire deal, Israel launched one of its most devastating attacks on Lebanon to date. Over a hundred strikes in ten minutes - carnage in Beirut, where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are sheltering. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people. Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.

It's World Autism Day, and Day 2 of Autism Awareness Month, and I've already reached my limit with the absolute nonsense I'm seeing spread all over the internet. There's not enough Tylenol in the world for this. (A thread)

Blowback to the @avilewis.ca democratic socialism win in Canada. Not the right-wing meltdown: follow the excellent @rachelgilmore.bsky.social for that. I'm looking at the dissociative meta-response that cascades through the online mirrorworld. Amateur pundititis. youtube.com/shorts/28Aot...

What an incredible legacy Stephen Lewis left. Condolences and comfort to Avi and his family.

Who's legit crying happy tears over politics on a Sunday morning? This girl. Avi Lewis's win is a reason to be hopeful, and we need that right now. We wouldn't have most things worth having in this country, if it wasn't for the NDP.

Today, NDP delegates voted overwhelmingly in favour of a resolution calling on the federal govt to close the loophole that's allowed Canadian-made weapons to be used in human rights abuses abroad — as @jennykwan.bsky.social's Bill C-233 called for. I was proud to speak in favour of the resolution.

How do you catch a fascist? Well, anti-fascists like @montrealantifa.bsky.social keep telling us. We just need to listen. @letsgomathias.bsky.social wrote a book exploring these tactics and the way Antifa has continued to keep fascism at bay for generations. I spoke to him on today’s episode:

Our country needs a vision that doesn’t just take the world as it is, but fights for the world we need. Now more than ever, Canada needs the NDP. Our campaign is charting the party's comeback — throwing open its doors to the 99% to build the biggest tent it has ever seen. Cast your ballot today.

Good! Let's hope it sticks. Unfortunately, this won't reverse the damage that has already been done. It will take years, maybe decades to undo the harm that has been caused.

A group of people in Texas have been convicted for being part of an organization that DOES NOT, and has NEVER, existed. Antifa means Anti-Facist. I can't believe this is a thing that needs to be explained to anyone, but here we are. If you're not ANTI-facist, you're PRO-facist. Capiche?

Canada must call for an immediate ceasefire as the US and Israel continue their illegal and reckless war.  We should be demanding justice for violations of international law and war crimes, not tap-dancing around whether or not we support this disastrous Trump-led military adventure.

The cost of my reporting stared me in the face last week, when two Nazis showed up to try to intimidate me for my journalism on a private night out. But that’s far from the only fallout of my latest investigation. I took a few days, watching the reaction -- and now I’ve got much more to share:

Canadians need to come to terms with the fact that we are complicit in the killing, genocide, destruction, and illegal acts going on in the Middle East and elsewhere. Yesterday, 295 MPs proved that they're ok with contradicting our own country's values, and our (legal) obligations to human rights.

Uta Frith says masking isn't real. Huh. That's weird, because there's a whole academic book (among other things) written about it. Autistic Masking was published in 2023. Somehow, I doubt she's read it. Sigh. #AutisticMasking #AutismResearch #AuDHD

Nailed it. #IYKYK Gotta laugh to keep from crying. (Insert unhinged snorting laugh-cry here).

Excellent response! Also glad the article links to Dr. Monique Botha-Kite's response (which she has since added to with two more reels). #Autism #AutismResearch #AuDHD

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

The other 95% of autistic people certainly are suffering from something - Professors whose key work in the field of autism happened decades ago, and who cannot understand that research has moved on. Thank goodness we found the women, the adults, the Black and Brown people, etc. It's been a mess.

To all the women who have been told you are too much, who feel chronically misunderstood, invalidated, not enough, who labour in endless invisible, unacknowledged and unappreciated ways. I see you. I get it. You are not alone. #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026 #AuDHD #NeurodivergentWomen

Happy International Women's Day!

Today is International Women’s Day - a time to celebrate all the remarkable advancements made by women and gender-diverse people across the world. Today, we recommit to the ongoing fight for gender equality and human rights for all women and gender-diverse people in Canada and across the globe.

Planetary alignments from the past that are recurring in the sky now: 🪐 1953: Saturn-Neptune: US coup overthrows leader of Iran 🪐 1979: Eclipse in Virgo: Creation of current government in Iran begins 🪐 1989: Saturn-Neptune: Supreme leader of Iran dies 🪐 2025: Mars-Uranus square: 12-Day War in Iran

Thoughtful, intelligent, truthful.

I did not vote for this. They bombed a school, FFS. 80 kids and counting have died from that attack, alone. This government has turned out to be a giant disappointment. We just made another donation to the NDP.

She is stoking the flame of the exact same politics that has literally led to f*cism in the U.S. She's maniacal and hellbent on destroying this country. Her and Pam Bondi would be besties, I'm certain.

NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...

Despicable. How is anyone ok with this? How can anyone participate in this in any way? I don't understand. Then again, I've never been in a cult. If I believed in Hell, I'd say they're all going to it.

Wow.

All. Of. This.

Holy shit

Solidarity with @progintl.bsky.social as they embark on a life-saving mission to break Trump’s siege of Cuba. It’s time for our own government to follow their example and send the humanitarian aid that the Cuban people desperately need.

been on a total news blackout as well, so i only just learned about the school shooting yesterday in Tumbler Ridge, BC 💔 so here's another fundraiser (yes it's official)

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

Hope he stays there.

SERIOUSLY. How is anyone functioning right now?

And most of them also knew that they could do most of it poorly because they people they targeted were so dismissed by everyone else

If you want a sense of how bad the attacks on pro-choice speech are right now, read the latest issue of my newsletter. Prepare for a thread—because there are too many attacks to list here jessica.substack.com/p/texas-coll...

Every single person who kept in contact with, and/or who normalized or minimized Epstein's behaviour in any way, is complicit.

It’s easy to imagine agents of state violence — like ICE — as uniquely evil. But history shows, under the right conditions, most humans are capable of horrors. It’s only in confronting that reality that we can begin to inoculate ourselves against it. @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social helps explain:

Hey, Canadians. Democracy requires our participation.

A Canadian-made armoured vehicle was spotted on Minneapolis streets the day ICE murdered Alex Pretti. The company that sold ICE that monster as part of a $10 million deal? Roshel. What’s more: Canada’s government brought Roshel’s CEO on a trade mission SIX DAYS AFTER Renee Good was murdered.

"An ambitious and comprehensive blueprint for labour and employment law reform that is forward-looking and unapologetically pro‑worker... Lewis’s plan stands out amid NDP leadership pitches for squarely centring economic democracy.”  Thanks to Adam King for this comprehensive review. dub.sh/k5l

These far right extremists, which we also have in Canada, need to be dealt with. This cancer cannot be allowed to fester here, or we'll end up in a similar situation to our neighbours in the U.S. Most of whom never imagined that they would be living under a F*cist regime. www.cbc.ca/news/ice-rec...

In the speech heard round the world, PM Carney referenced an essay by Václav Havel. I read it for the first time, this morning. Definitely worth the time.

It’s posts like this that make Canada and other countries want to do deals with China and leave the United States all alone. This is the language of an abusive ex.

Exactly.

This is also truth we have to acknowledge.

No doubt we've all seen it by now, but, that was, um, unexpected.