Mark Carney is overseeing a massive expansion of AI data centres in Canada, and it’s raising all kinds of concerns. Marcus Werner reports on the fast-growing movement that’s rising against the wave of planned data centre projects—and in some cases, already winning. breachmedia.ca/inside-the-r...

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

Virtual Conference Announcement! The Society for Disability Studies is excited to announce our call for papers, themed Here and There, Then and Now: Disability Studies at the End of the World. sites.google.com/DisStudies.o...

We will never know or properly appreciate how many lives have been saved by librarians. The right book in the right hands at the right time. Astounding.

"Israel has razed large parts of the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023. The evidence points to systemic destruction" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...

Today! Discussing Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin in Montreal at 4th Space, Concordia with Anne McGuire, Natalie Kouri-Towe, Nashwa Khan, and Gracen Brilmyer. @nataliekt.bsky.social @anneemcguire.bsky.social @gracenbrilz.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social www.concordia.ca/cuevents/off...

living in the future has been a real fucking disappointment

Coercion isn’t care, and new laws that enforce treatment and confinement are dangerous

My book FOR THE LONG HAUL: HOW TO STAY IN THE FIGHT FOR A BETTER WORLD is now available for pre-order! In the U.S., order from @akpress.org. In Canada, order from @btlbooks.com. It will be out in September! Find all the info at www.writingwithmovements.com/long-haul/

“They’re targeting foreigners to establish the principle, but there’s no question it’ll be turned against all of us if they succeed.” - @jwdwerner.bsky.social Je suis Khalil. Incredible reflections from him. nymag.com/intelligence...

New books released this week! -Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: A call to remake our world through a new politics of disabled kin-making by @kellyfritsch.bsky.social and @anneemcguire.bsky.social -Two now in paperback: Beautiful MN biographies on architect Elizabeth Scheu Close and judge Miles Lord

Thrilled that Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival, collaboratively authored with @anneemcguire.bsky.social is now published with @uminnpress.bsky.social An open access version of the book can be found here: manifold.umn.edu/projects/fri...

Excited to be in conversation with @louhicky.bsky.social in Cambridge April 17!

Coming to @4sweb.bsky.social 2026? @kellyfritsch.bsky.social and I are organizing an open panel on 'Confronting Contemporary Eugenics" (see p. 72 of the accepted panels for details). We'd love to consider your submission! #STS #antieugenics #disabilityjustice #socialmovements

"Food Processor" might be the most ominous sounding kitchen appliance. What does it do? Subjects it to The Process. Your food will be Altered by the Process. Please do not resist.

Funny/not funny. Ontario government calls Ring of Fire minerals ‘the most ethical on Earth,’ while passing legislation that suspends treaty rights, species protections, and human rights — to benefit extractive industries. ricochet.media/indigenous/o... via @ricochetmedia.bsky.social

“In three known cases, palliative patients died without pain medications and one patient died without nutrition because supplies were delayed” #onpoli

"Almost a year after the report’s release, there is no plan to substantially act on any of the UN’s recommendations. Government officials guessed right: mainstream news outlets have largely ignored the report’s criticisms of MAiD. " @spichaksimon.bsky.social breachmedia.ca/canada-sides...

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

If only sociologists would stop talking about structure & agency.

I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:

Available for pre-order from @uminnpress.bsky.social: Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival, co-authored with @anneemcguire.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791973...

In news you may have missed in this miserable world, legislated poverty is real. The province (ODSP, OW) and the federal government (CPP-D, CDB, DTC) do not care. As one politician said to me, 'It would be easier if you didn't exist.' Such a nice thing to say and believe. Arsehat #OnPoli #CdPoli

Everything old being new again all at once is not a coincidence

Nothing new to say, plenty new to do, infinite solidarity with everyone else trying to do it

"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.