When people have their basic human needs met, it frees up their lives for creativity, ingenuity, and enterprise. Imagine the potential that could be unlocked if everyone was guaranteed basic shelter and basic income?

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2 When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline. 109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

Get his ass!

As Netanyahu addresses the United Nations in New York City this morning, the world recoils in horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

The people standing up to the despicable ICE cowards are nothing short of heroes.

If you ever find yourself listening to someone who heaps the blame for all of society's ills at the feet of the people who have nothing, instead of at the feet of the people who have everything, then you are in the presence of a charlatan.

Ok I *just* realized who Pete Hoeskstra reminds me of. Too bad their similarity is only physical, and not intellectual.

Watching the CPAC stream from London right now, and Starmer's microphone is malfunctioning and turning his speech into garbled static, and honestly, it's a pretty significant improvement.

I actually hate checking bluesky first thing in the morning, and I don't know why I keep doing it. Going from being pleasantly half-awake to being fully enraged by all the disgusting fascism in the U.S. is not healthy for my endocrine system.

"Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies [of fascism] are at the same time too strong, and too weak." - Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism

A lot of people sent this to me saying “Lt Shaxs would love this car because he could eject the warp core” and they were correct.

Pretty dramatic contrast these days in terms of how the US is approaching trade deals (extortion/make-believe) versus how Canada is doing it (actually signing comprehensive economic and diplomatic agreements).

The kind of person who owns a farm, voted for Trump, got all their workers deported, watched their crops rot on the vine, and is now asking to be bailed out with public money to offset tariff losses, should not be afforded the title of "farmer".

Everyone speaking at the UN should be doing this.

I am not shy to say when I disagree with Sadiq Khan. But I also think it's important to say out loud when other politicians get it right. This is exactly what the leader of a diverse and vibrant city like London should say. Thank you Sadiq.

So basically...

I have zero fucking sense of humor about this rfk shit. besides the obviously gross misreprestation/othering/etc of autistic people it's catastrophic from any sound scientific POV. any doctor who consults governmental guidelines for anything at all under this admin is guilty of malpractice

Forced-birth ideology is deeply, deeply unpopular, and anyone who thinks that the Democratic Party needs to get on board with it in order to win elections should basically get laughed out of the room.

If Canada can avoid getting invaded, or following the U.S. into fascism, we are seriously positioned to thrive. We can attract the talent and investment that Trump is scaring off. We just need to make sure to address unaffordability and inequity, and stop the far-right grievance industrial complex.

Between the offshore wind project, tidal power, and advancements in solar and grid level storage, I am starting to get really excited about the future of renewable energy in Nova Scotia.

If you want a growing, multicultural democracy with a functional economy, you need robust immigration. Full stop. The collapse of America is giving us all a lesson in the consequences of allowing oneself to be deceived by the far-right into demonizing the very people who keep the country afloat.

Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine.   My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

This is the kind of unequivocal, plain-spoken moral clarity that the modern progressive electorate demands, and any politician who can't find a way to manage it is going to find themselves seeking new employment in the very near future.

America chose Fascism, and until they sort themselves out, there is no going back. Pete Hoekstra is engaging in some truly reprehensible gaslighting and DARVO. But the good news is, some conservative quislings notwithstanding, Canadians are united in our contempt for the despicable MAGA regime.

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

This is really good news. At a time when health science in the U.S. is regressing to a medieval level, having a fully Canadian vaccine supply chain is a matter of national security.

If your Dem candidates aren't putting themselves in harms way to try and protect defenseless people who have been kidnapped and imprisoned by a depraved fascist regime, then I humbly suggest that they aren't made from stern enough stuff to meet the current moment. @katmabu.bsky.social is, though.

45% of Conservative Party of Canada supporters are evil fucking idiots.

We need to do more. Way more.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights.

Turns out that building concentration camps, deploying masked kidnapping squads, bombing random civilian vessels, and threatening annexation of allied countries is not a super effective way of attracting tourism.

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

If the ambassador thinks that "elbows-up" is anti-american, the actual sentiments that the average Canadian holds towards the U.S. right now would probably make his head explode. Anyway. Bullies, and bully nations, can go to straight to Hell. Canadians are keeping up our boycott of the former USA.

Trump should be a global pariah. The people and countries who sacrifice their values to try and curry his favour are making a devils bargain that will never, ever pay off.

I do not expect it, because the kind of people who were sanctimonious scolds about how hysterical our Trump warnings were are not the kind of people who ever apologize about anything but I want extensive mea culpas from every last one of them, because I am a petty bitch and we were right

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Something that is worth pointing out loudly and often is that everyone who was sounding the alarm that Trump is a fascist menace has been proved 100% correct, and everyone who claimed that he was no big deal was wrong, and should never have their opinions taken seriously ever again by anyone.

The "Charlie Kirk wasn't *really* a bigot" narrative is definitely getting derailed by the fact that bigots all over the world are turning him into a White Supremacist Saint.

I wonder how the U.S. would feel if Canada started randomly bombing transport trucks as they approach our border, the same way that Trump has been bombing random civilian ships off the coast of Venezuela.

We’re like five minutes away from Jeopardy! being canceled because it had a category of the Civil War that featured correct answers

karl rove is writing op-eds about the right’s overreach karl rove! what the fuck! send us back through the looking glass immediately!

This is the sort of thing that should really alarm Canadians, given the bullshit rhetoric from Trump about fentanyl, etc. They could use this exact same rationalization to bomb a Nova Scotia lobster boat, and I wouldn't put it past them by a long shot.

New: U.N. experts condemn deadly U.S. military strikes on civilian vessels in the Caribbean: 📣 “International law does not allow governments to simply murder alleged drug traffickers."

Once again, a "detention center" or a "makeshift holding center" where kidnapped people are imprisoned without any legal recourse to challenge their captivity is called a concentration camp.

It is patently absurd for Canada to even *consider* buying U.S. made fighter jets that can be remotely deactivated by the U.S, when the U.S. is currently the biggest threat to Canadian sovereignty and security. Just....what are we even doing, here?

This. Anyone who honors and wants to protect human freedom can start with trans people, who dare and risk so much just to be themselves and find their place in the world

I distinctly remember when people were insisting that rich countries switching to renewables would be ineffective in fighting climate change, because places like China and Africa would still depend on fossil fuels for decades to come. In reality, those places are leading the world in solar power.

“There are too many Black people at these universities,” is free speech. “I think that statement is racist,” is hate speech. Very clear difference here.