“It seems like the Olympics aren’t ready to be the positive force for change that they have the potential to be,” Norwegian skier Nikolai Schirmer said after handing 21,000 signatures over to the IOC. “So I just hope this can be a little nudge in the right direction, but we will see”

They have achieved 10 to 1 force superority over ICE

Photos de l’action-grève des organisations de défense des droits collectifs. 📍Métro Berri-UQAM, 4 février 2026.

YESSS!!! I just logged into my D2D account and successfully opted in to distributing my book to Bookshop, so it works!

Marty Baron's (a major player in uncovering the sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church) lukewarm praise for Epstein towards the end makes me angry. It's only now that Bezos is treating all his employees no matter their position the way Amazon delivery workers are treated that he's indignant.

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

The whistles are the entry point. But the long game is the community that is being formed every time someone who has never really been engaged before decides to do This One Thing that gives them a reason to talk to their neighbors. Community is what saves us in the end. That is my belief.

We had a lot of discussion early on about "what if someone requests 100 whistles and doesn't know how to use them effectively" but our inbox tells us that 100 whistles is also dozens of potential interactions with people in their community, along with a new feeling of agency and determination.

The hypocrisy is boundless. He fed and profited from American-style conservatism and torched Canada's social safety nets, and no government since has since stoppered the wound. But now that it's convenient for Harper to wag his finger, he's all for a cohesive national identity.

this stuff has really broken me. it's simply astounding that so many people who have been allowed to amass unimaginable wealth are so droolingly stupid, so unmoored from and in fact hostile to any sense of community or social responsibility, and oh by the way they love to constantly rape children

My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.

Boomerang, boomerang.

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Ça fait des années que je vote et donne mon appui à @quebecsolidaire.bsky.social mais l'annonce de la candidature de l'anti-TDS et personnage carcérale Roxane Milot en ce moment me sidère. Ce n'est pas parce qu'une personne est queer que ses politiques passent! Surtout pour le Village!

"The protests are bad because they won't let media follow them around and put them on camera!!!" sounds like a skills issue to me actually Have you tried having any ethics or standards in your previous reporting?

I understand why we're experiencing crises in international crises, domestic political corruption, economic decay, organized sex abuse, and climate disasters all at the exact same time, as those issues are all interlinked and correlated. But what I don't get is why it's coinciding with solar flares

i think its funny that at some point journalists stopped being allowed to understand a situation because any synthesis is, of coursed, biased towards the observable facts

I completely understand why this is being shared as an uplifting feel-good story and I do think these kids should have everyone rallying behind them. But this entire story is to me a horror: an example of the complete moral failure that is the American state. www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/u...

Un bon petit rappel alors que l'on parle #Epstein en ce moment. Nous sommes ici sur un réseau financé par :

y'all gotta stop putting fucking asterisks in "gaiman". people mute shit for a reason

This piece is phenomenal but oof this line hit me in the chest: "What is Substack, if not AO3 for underemployed journalists?"

For Bustle, I covered some of the biggest stories to watch heading into this year’s Winter Olympics, with insight from some winter sports insiders:

Over on Mastodon, people who own the domain names and server spaces that various Mastodon servers run on (since over there people join different servers, unlike on bsky where we all just joined bsky) are talking about what's going to happen to the servers if they don't come back from protesting ICE.

Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.

The current trans genocide push is planned, coordinated and carried out by megachurch pastors, nepobaby media barons, billionaire bigots, influential academics, tech magnates, literal aristocrats. That's been clear for awhile, but we're seeing more proof every day. The salt of the earth this ain't.

The Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports. Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...

This Jack Horner. Who’s been known to the whisper network for some time now. There’s a reason I have repeatedly turned down writing about his work or him.

(8) You DO NOT associate with people like this in any context. If your research hinged on him funding it, then maybe that research should not have been done. That is a moral failing of the highest order (and assumes this was only an attempt to schmooze for funding and nothing else happened)...

US companies owned up to 70% of arable land in Cuba, 90% of mining, and 90% of the utilities sector. That's what "freedom" is for them, freedom to own and exploit other people's countries.

The notion that the US would bring "freedom" to Cuba is actually obscene. The US effectively controlled Cuba for half a century before the revolution, and ran it as a dictatorship characterised by gangsterism, political repression, sex tourism, racial hierarchy and mass poverty.

"Online fandoms used to be kinder" buddy, when I was a teenager people used to build entire websites as "hate shrines" to specific characters they disliked, then get together and form webrings entirely devoted to hating that character. A puzzling number concerned the girlfriends of random X-Men.

The displacement of the working class & poor is a grim Olympic tradition. The year before the Paris 2024 Games more than 12,500 vulnerable people were forcibly removed from the streets of Paris. @edgeofsports.bsky.social & I wrote about it for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Chotiner shot that man right in the face with his own gun and he never heard the *click*.

100%. That’s why we have an Olympics Corruption Dashboard!

building a co-op game with @jdespland.bsky.social - watch this space for more.

I am so so excited for this!!!

That would be Claude Lévi-Strauss. But seriously, yes, breaking basic nearly-universal hospitality laws is just about the most antisocial act one can commit that is not directly violent.

“In the end we have Pierre Poilievre disguised as a Liberal Banker.” - Chantal Hébert on @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social

Shout out to all my Marx-studying friends who have been so carefully thinking about imperialism and economic systems and it turns out we should have just been pointing at the top and screaming "cannibal paedophiles!!!" this whole damn time. (This is a joke because we all knew)

Like you/we completely inverted an *entrenched* paradigm in this state in a matter of weeks or months. Why go to the county or nonprofit to apply to get housing or food support when you could get faster, more dignified, more useful assistance directly from your neighbors?!

It took 12 years but Instagram has FINALLY figured out I'm gay, showing me ad after ad of binders (the kinds transmasc people use, not the paper holders). This is an objective improvement over the 4+ years of "oh you have endo have you tried (totally not quackery fertility treatment)?"

Si l'extrême-droite passe, on aura pire que ICE, car les contre-pouvoirs sont encore plus faibles en France qu'aux Etats-Unis et la police y est au moins autant si ce n'est plus vérolée par le racisme.

Remembering when one of my respected uni professors in my dept told me to shut up about professors raping their students because, in their opinion, "girls who sleep with" their older professors do so to improve their grades and should live with their "buyer's remorse" after.

Wonder how many famous CanLit authors are in the Epstein Files.

I know Lawrence Krauss (physicist) is in the files and is Canadian. Do we have a list yet of other major Canadian universitaires, politicians, and other public figures that figure in the Epstein files?

tagging the guy in while you kick yourself in the dick trying to defend his appearance in The Fucking Epstein Files is absolutely incredible stuff

The wealthy have class solidarity and we'll only beat them when we have it too

An unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume angrily confronted Santa Clara city officials during a joint meeting of the City Council, city authorities, and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority on Monday, using his public comment to condemn the city’s stance on cooperation with ICE.