Important NYT piece by a lawyer who works with families in ICE detention. Note that ICE could release the kids (and past programs for undocumented families to avoid detention had compliance rates of 99%). They choose to keep them trapped in “hellhole” camps. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

Great example of framing effects! When lack of consensus framed as "scientists disagree," people show less concern on the issue. When it's framed as "there are gaps in our knowledge," level of concern stays the same.

… that’s the one thing you’re all talking about down there?

Hundreds of protesters in the pouring rain at Hootsuite headquarters in Vancouver over ICE contract youtu.be/ZeobfcYg18M?...

Line of the night from Cory Doctorow, speaking at @hotdocs.bsky.social with snowbound @superwuster.bsky.social: “I don’t know if Mark Carney believes in the Carney doctrine, but I believe in the Carney doctrine.”

If you’re in or around Vancouver, oppose #ICE violence, and want Canadian companies to cancel their contracts with Trump’s paramilitary, there is a protest at Hoosuite’s offices today at 3pm.

#tbt the Halloween I dressed up as Moira Rose and called everyone a disgruntled pelican. I might have to bring this one back now

I am so glad Catherine O’Hara got to go out on top with all the recognition she deserved, but what a god damn loss 💔

Breaking - Jim Pattison Developments say the sale of their warehouse for use as a proposed ICE facility will not be proceeding

NOOOOOOOO no no no no variety.com/2026/tv/news...

God, this image still breaks my heart. Glad to see the Hoito is making a comeback.

10/10 geopolitical dad joke

After all the slander directed at Palestinian doctors…

sounds like that ceo should be paid a trillion dollars

One time at a club in Bratislava I met an aide to a Slovak cabinet minister. He said: “I’ve met Robo Fico. He’s not right in the head.” This was not shocking to hear. So, game recognize game, I guess. Corrupt, thuggish, unhinged game.

LPC MP @kbardeesy.bsky.social posted on Instagram that he was “pausing” new posts on X, citing an algorithm that elevates “AI-generated sexualized deepfakes” among other things. www.instagram.com/p/DUCMJRYkSJ...

Horse shit. The OPP said the exact opposite yesterday: “obviously … there’s slippery conditions” and that the barriers are supposed to redirect vehicles onto the highway, “not launch them over the overpass” Were the OPP pressured to change their statement?

Journalist call out: has anyone seen any AI-generated videos featuring Mark Carney news on Youtube (maybe about Davos, or Trump?) in the last week or so? I hear some people are getting spammed with this, and would love some more examples. Please enjoy some of my fav C(AI)rneys as compensation:

Several states told us they're looking into how xAI may have violated child porn laws. We asked states with age verification laws how X and other social media companies factor in. Those who responded essentially said it's too difficult to calculate what percentage of X's content is pornographic

New from @regret.bsky.social and me: 35 state and territory AGs signed a letter demanding xAI remove all nonconsensual sexual images created by Grok and arguing that the company is treating them as a "selling point." www.wired.com/story/the-st...

Jeff Bezos paid tens of millions to license and distribute the Melania film, and is about to cut jobs at the Washington Post, and anyway, here is how the Melania movie is doing in early UK box office www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’ve been trying to find the words about the deep gratitude I’m feeling for Minnesotans and this piece captures it. They’re not abandoning their principles to win, they’re showing the strength of those principles. They’re modelling an effective resistance. They’re showing us there’s always hope.

The US administration's anti-vax position hurts everyone. New vaccine launches often aren't possible without access to the US market, because it's the most profitable Moderna confirms it's ending clinical trials because of US vaccine hostility www.biospace.com/business/mod...

New report from @policyalternatives.ca ➡️ The Last Mile: Provincial child care expansion at the five-year deadline

This needs lots of attention: the US government is now using new sonic and other directed-energy weapons not only in foreign operations (Venezuela) but domestically. This is the future of police response.

This extended dispatch is well worth reading, especially if you're curious about how these networks of resistance and aid are all actually working operationally and what is driving & sustaining them. "This is not disorganized chaos and randomness. This is, well, organized chaos and randomness."

A lot of replies and quotes about Black Lives Matter and #MeToo. And YES. Anything you saw people in power do in response to those movements? Those are the red flags of symbolic compliance. We need big structural changes that would fundamentally make our society less violent and more equal.

Important thread:

Oh this is rich. Sepp Blatter thinks the corruption has gone too far.

Put down like a tiny, yappy dog. But he can't be a scapegoat: keep working up the chain, with the eventual goal of prosecutions

This is what I am saying. The goal has to be a Biblical flood on ever MAGA issue, whenever possible. bsky.app/profile/bill...

Many of you have written in to ask about this, so I’m finally addressing the rumours… Yes, my sister Jenny Lewis was the casting director for Heated Rivalry, and I am so proud of her. Thanks to @theserfstv.bsky.social for asking the hard-hitting questions the mainstream media is too afraid to ask!

In December, the Canadian government gave $1 million to Ottawa's JSI Telecom to commercialize AI-driven data analytics. JSI, a wiretaps and investigation support firm, had a banner year in U.S. government sales in 2025, including a big new contract with ICE. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

Thanks to CBC for covering the People's Consultation on AI #PCAI & highlighting it's not just for experts! "[Aislin Jackson @bccla.bsky.social] said that generative AI tools, like ChatGPT and Google Gemini, can have quick and disproportionate effects on people's lives." We want to hear exactly how:

There is not a lot Canadians can do about ICE, but we can ask Parliament to investigate Canadian companies doing business with them, like Hootsuite. Call or email your MP - or contact the INDU House committee MPs. Will post link below. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Journalists would be wise to not lump in a bunch of randos who have never demonstrated popular support for an independent Alberta with Quebec, where the next governing party was founded to create an independent Quebec. Completely different realities.

just disgusting. if giving a shit about your neighbour and trying to help them up when they’ve been shoved down and pepper sprayed — for no reason — is “foolish,” then glory to the fools, all day and every day.

The National Basketball Players Association has released a statement on the killings in Minneapolis: “Following the news of yet another fatal shooting in Minneapolis, a city that has been on the forefront of fight against injustices, NBA players can no longer remain silent”

The inclusion of Kyle Rittenhouse in this @deadder.bsky.social cartoon really brings home the deep hypocrisy

I almost appreciate how Trump has exposed how vacant every single high profile conservative belief was: free speech, states’ rights, letting the market decide, NATO, the right to bear arms, democracy, all of it. It’s been an empty, malicious political project for decades and decades now

I can’t count the number of Trump supporters I’ve seen over the years carrying guns at demonstrations.

This is a heritage moment. bsky.app/profile/hrne...

One of the most beautiful things out of the Minneapolis resistance is the coming together of humans in real space, neighbours relying on neighbours, face-to-face co-operation replacing the false promise of technological connection. And all while it's colder than a well-digger's ass

🧵“How do seemingly ordinary people become agents of state murder?” This is one of the guiding questions I ask students in my graduate class on genocide/state violence. With recent events, it is a question many Americans are asking. I do not have a definitive answer, but here is a reading list: 1/

Message to fellow journalists (and anyone claiming to be one): do not “police-involved shooting” executions in broad daylight. Obfuscating language like that is completely journalistically unnecessary and, even worse, sanitizes reality. Words have meaning. Use the right ones.

This as nothing to do with China and everything to do with Trump being BIG MAD that Carney's speech was better than his. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Wrong decision @hootsuite.com You're shameful. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

For god’s sake, Shoppers, it’s JANUARY.

Just incredible scenes out of Minneapolis-St. Paul today amid the extreme cold. Coverage via: www.mprnews.org/live-updates www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

So based on this logic, they’re also going to protect trans youth, right? … Right?