Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

If Republicans were patriotic, impeachment proceedings would commence on September 2 for Trump and all of his co-conspirators.

One reason why AOC resonates with so many people is because she is in Washington - and has been now a few years - but she still is able to analyze the problems in Washington like a regular person, not some DC swamp creature that has lost touch with reality. #ResistTrump

She is trash, remove her to her country USA

We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.

It's not too late to make a difference! This school year I'm starting a bike bus with a few other families who live nearby, hoping to coordinate more soon.

To defend Trump’s illegal take-over of Washington DC, the White House has put out a “fact sheet” of scary statistics on crime in Washington, DC. No surprise, it’s “a bunch of brazen, lazy, easily disproven garbage. What’s surprising is they’ve actually linked to sources that disprove their lies.”

Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”

Not just an attack on “experts” or science. It’s an attack on facts, knowledge, education or anything that could support someone questioning their iron rule. The bedrock of totalitarian, authoritarian regimes and dictatorships. That’s what RFK Jr is calling for. Only the dictator knows “the truth.”

Washington DC used to be a place where diverse tourism was embraced for revenue and museums’ exposure everyone wished to see. Now it’s an occupied and militarized zone where it lacks tourism and the museums have to abide to a white washed monochromic version of our history. #OneNationDivided

A few reminders. Convention on the Rights of the Child "196 countries have become State Parties to the Convention as of October 2015. Only the United States of America has not ratified the Convention." www.unicef.org/child-rights...

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem. Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

Add this to your AI self defense kit:

Here’s a no-brainer going forward in Canada — change the law so that anyone seeking to be leader of a National Political Party should be specifically required to submit for and successfully receive top secret security clearance. Call it the Poilievre Bill.

Bang on.

Thank goodness I have no thought of visiting the U.S. How upsetting there are Canadians in ICE centres. I would probably be sent there based on my phone alone, lol. I am glad I visited the U.S. long before this horrible stuff started happening.

The confident way #BonnieCritchley saunters up to the podium! 👍🏻✊ Poilievre sould be VERY worried. Even if he wins, he’s considerably weakened as party leader. A candidate came out of nowhere & effortlessly made him look out of touch, weak & the archetypal entitled career politician. #NeverPoilievre

Good for the union. Bring back Community Connections! #Winnipeg

No worries there….

Correct.

'“City council seems unwilling to invest in anything that we know would actually make people safer, and that’s things like increasing the staffing levels, that’s things like Community Connections, that’s things like investing in the infrastructure.”'

The International AIDS Society had a 20-year boycott of the United States as a venue for their conference, because of the US travel ban on HIV-positive people. I promise you any international society that cares about access for its members can locate meetings elsewhere.

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is.

This should go without saying, but the best thing for Canada to do as the United States quickly spirals into fascism and corrupt autocracy, isn’t to try to seem more like the United States. It’s to quickly double down on being even MORE Canadian. That’s the big advantage, the big opportunity.

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Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office. 

NOT a Drag Queen

The highest crime rate in DC was on January 6th, 2021. Fact.

Imagine bringing in the United States military to address the homeless problem.

Can we remind Trump that 133 lbs of Fentanyl came into our country from the U.S. Our streets are littered with addicts screaming, yelling, harassing, sleeping on sidewalks, multiple overdoses a day. Across Canada. Because of American fentanyl. And we don't have the military running our streets

Guess which one of these vehicles has a motor that prevents it from going too fast for the safety of others?

Trying to write a summary of what's been happening with Winnipeg's downtown public library branch in the last few years, and it is just so depressing to even type out.

Someone died by suicide in a public way. Simple infrastructure changes weren't made. Someone ran into the Library for safety, having been attacked outside of it. The response was more Security guards. A very needed social connections space was finally implemented. The response was to shut it down.

Another person has died by suicide in the same way. According to the Mayor, the infrastructure still won't be changed, the social supports still won't be funded, the Library still won't be better staffed...

More Security guards wouldn't have helped ANY of these situations. Any actual obvious preventative measures have been ignored, as has the Library union and community groups desperately calling for the Community Connections space in the lobby to be reopened (closed due to being... too successful?)

A good reminder that Community Connections was killed by Scott Gillingham and Evan Duncan not for failing, but for succeeding at something they didn’t want — making Millennium Library more welcoming to, and a better service for, poor and marginalized Winnipeggers. They *want* to push people away.

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If he wants to empty the streets of DC, perhaps another birthday parade would do the trick😂

If you live in DC and are active on normie social media sites, you should be flooding the zone with videos of boring peaceful life in the city.

Remember the people who downplayed Project 2025, said “fascism” was an exaggeration, and argued that Trump wouldn’t be so bad, because he’s “good at business” (he isn’t, never was) and won’t really do what he was clearly planning to do. Remember those people.

The United States of America is in the process of losing its democracy to fascism, in reasonable part because of the willingness of their media to operate within a truly massive double standard in how they treated the candidates. Our media owes it to Canada to NOT make the same huge mistake.

Listen to people when they tell you this — the United States Government under Trump isn’t “becoming fascist, authoritarian and corrupt.” It’s already those things. The Trump Government is fascist, authoritarian and corrupt. The fact that it’s going to keep getting worse doesn’t mean that isn’t true.

“As mayors of 2 of the world’s great cities, we see every day how the climate emergency is already reshaping people’s lives…From deadly heatwaves & devastating floods to rising inequality & health crises driven by air pollution…” @annehidalgo.bsky.social & @london.gov.uk call out campaigns of lies.

Streaming makes up almost 80% of Canada’s music revenue, but most performers see pennies...or nothing at all. While CEOs cash in, artists can’t pay rent. It’s time to fix a broken system. Sign and share the open letter: bursttheirbubble.ca Let’s get artists paid for their plays!

Better headline: “New noise cameras protect residents’ comfort, health”

Republicans prevented climate action. Republicans are responsible, in part, for these fires in Canada.

I often get folks showing up in my timeline insisting that riding a bike on the road is perfectly fine - even safer - than riding in protected bike lanes. Yeah, no. Protected bike lanes enable families on the go. This is the Beach Avenue bikeway in Vancouver.