"I write about the 3 Americas: one built on AI speculation, one held together by healthcare, and one running on memes" Brilliant &brooding piece by @kyla.bsky.social that runs a thread through the american shatterbelt @katemac.bsky.social & I honored to be quoted! kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-hea...

Pickles are the bananas of a sandwich smoothie.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

We published our AI policy yesterday. It affirms our commitment to human-made writing, photography and illustrations. #journalism #localnews You can read more here: thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life

May we build worlds worthy of Alice’s memory. 💔 Rest in power @sfdirewolf.bsky.social

Nearly two decades of stagnant provincial funding, a seven-year freeze on domestic tuition, and federal cuts to international student visas have left many of Ontario's colleges and universities in dire financial straits.

Behind a 2018 mass eviction in Ottawa lies a broader shift in Canada’s housing system. Neal Rockwell investigates how rental housing has been transformed into a speculative asset class, driving up rents and displacing racialized tenants. breachmedia.ca/how-the-dism...

Founders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug trafficking Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24. pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...

Street drugs have killed more than 18,600 BCers. DULF worked with cops, health authorities, feds to try and source, test and sell drugs with a known purity and potency to reduce overdose deaths. Their strategy was saving lives. Today they were found guilty of trafficking. thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

The truth is this is a moment where many different possibilities for the future are opening, and they are opening at an extremely high cost. Solidarity to everyone who is trying to build a path to a better world for us all right now, amidst every loss and grief we are carrying. Solidarity forever.

This moment where everything is being broken is a moment about what we build to replace it, too.

AMTRAK CUSTOMER SURVEY: What could we have done better during your recent travel delay? ME: Seize America's rails back from private control.

“Perhaps most strikingly of all, he warned the worsening climate crisis appears to be on track to destroy capitalism.”

Fun fact: even as UCLA is being extorted for $1B by a fascist government, its administration is requiring all faculty to install a “security” program that surveils everything we do and shares that information with the federal government.

The fed gov cuts to pay for military and wealthy tax cuts have rapidly expanded. My new analysis shows that most of the cuts will now be on transfers to other govs, non-profits and people. A stunning 1 in 5 dollars is just cuts to FN govs for basic social programs. @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇

If you are a faculty member, researcher, postdoc, or staff at a university in Canada, please sign this letter demanding Canada issue study permit to Gaza students to be delivered to the Minister of Immigration by tomorrow afternoon. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This photo I took of a McDonald's under construction has the aesthetic they should always have.

“There was my dog, who, on the mornings I do not want to get out of bed, will rest silently at my feet + wait for me to slowly emerge from under the covers, + seeing her reminds me that I do, in fact, have only one lifetime in which I can ❤️ this animal. [We] will ❤️ each other only here, for a while”

Devastated to learn that EVERY SINGLE ONE of my former #DisabilityStudies colleagues at Liverpool Hope are at risk of redundancy. Lovely people and a brilliant team that has transformed the lives of so many students. If you know them please do reach out - things are very tough right now.

PSE spending as a percentage of total provincial spending, 2006-07 to 2025-26, Canada and select provinces. It's down everywhere, but the Alberta slump has been especially pronounced.

Change in overall provincial government spending vs. total provincial government spending on post-secondary education, Canada, 2006-07 to 2025-26 (2006-07 = 100). It's not austerity, it's the choices.

British Columbia - once a world leader in harm reduction - has reversed course under pressure from an organized right wing moral panic and is now doing the exact opposite of what we need to save lives. This will make things worse for us, but perhaps better for the gutless ghouls in office.

“As a culture, we always want this grand arc: rags to riches, gets the girl, gets the guy. I wondered if I could write a book that didn’t have improvement arcs… I’ve been interested in this idea of kindness without hope.”

Faculty at UT have voted for their pension plan to divest from companies connected to Israel’s war in Gaza and other conflicts www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d07989c...

“As part of the Federation’s strategic planning over the next several months, we will be asking difficult questions about the purpose of Congress and how it is delivered.” cha-shc.ca/announcement...

“By departing these advisory roles, I aim to speak more clearly in my own language about what they have become and what they ought to be. This is not an abandonment of loyalty to these institutions' missions, but rather, its highest expression.”

“No object or living being is fragile in itself. What matters is when, why, and by whom it is considered and treated as fragile: through which mode of attention, by which gestures and instruments, according to which collectives, in which situation, and among which interdependencies.” (p. 253) 🔥🔥🔥

Ottawa Public Health (OPH) is asking for input on what respiratory virus info is important, how you use it, and if they should keep funding wastewater monitoring. Please help let OPH know this information is important ( opinion.ottawapublichealth.ca?e=446587&d=e... ). 🧵1/

My drug war memoir / manifesto is avail everywhere. Its hard to punch thru the noise of a federal election, but this is exactly the time to read it - esp the chapter on the rise of the Canadian far right & moral panic against harm reduction. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700597...

Congrats to RFK Jr for bringing together ASAN and Autism Speaks (among others). autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/lead...

INBOX: over 50 NYU professors are taking their classes off-campus for the next week in a "Solidarity Picket" to protest "the University’s lack of commitment to protect international students in the face of the Trump admin’s attacks." some profs moved to in-person "sanctuary spaces," others online.

Canadian researchers should be very concerned by Poilievre's promise to politicize federal research funding in Canada by ending supposedly mandatory 'woke ideology.'

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

“The future success of Carleton requires prioritizing… the workers who provide the labour of research and teaching.” Add your name to @cuasa.bsky.social petition for equitable working conditions and fair negotiations actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...

“Burnout, I’ve come to believe, isn’t just about time or tasks. It’s about purpose, alignment, and whether you believe the system you work in deserves your sacrifice. In Canada, that belief feels more plausible. And that changes everything.”

“It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,” said Joan Scott, a historian & member of the academic freedom committee of the AAUP. “Even during the McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.” apnews.com/article/colu...

Read this 🧵. Understand the devastating impacts of policy being driven by disinformation and moral panic. This is not a game - people die from reactive and regressive policy. Shutting down SCS/OPS, restricting access to safe supply, deprescribing and forced tapering, it all kills.

“‘The pain we feel comes from them, not ourselves,’ said the banners, and people cheered, certain of all the certainty. But the next day they'd wake up and find that what had hurt in them still hurt.” —Kaveh Akbar, “Martyr!” #BookSky

NEW: Here's Mahmoud Khalil's first amended habeas petition. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Columbia expelled & fired the president of its student workers’ union today, a day before contract negotiations were set to begin, per UAW The union is calling it “part of a wave of crackdowns on free speech against students and workers who have spoken out…against the war on Gaza”

My child just asked if the x in SpaceX stands for explode. 😭

i wish i could explain to this cat that the weather out the back is the same as the weather out the front

A tourist crossing the border legally has been held indefinitely since Jan 25, including in solitary confinement. “After nine days, she says she started freaking out and punching the walls,” Lofving said. “There was blood everywhere.” #AbolishICE #AbolishCBP www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

“I only eat one meal a day, and a lot of people I know on ODSP only eat one meal a day,” said Trevor Manson, co-chair of ODSP Action Coalition, an advocacy group led by people who depend on the program.

Join author Dr. Patty Douglas in conversation with Drs. Meg Gibson and Mary Friedman as we celebrate the virtual launch of "Unmothering Autism: Ethical Disruptions and Affirming Care." Tuesday, March 4, 12-1:30pm ET. www.ubcpress.ca/virtual-book... About the book: www.ubcpress.ca/unmothering-...

York has given the consultancy firm, Nous, millions to "create efficiencies." It then suspended admissions into 19 programs, including gender studies & indigenous studies. Here, we talk abt unis & consultants, equity implications & how to fight. #academicsky www.academicaunties.com/episodes/fig...