You can always get funding and looter largesse if you support the goals of the looter class.

What on earth is this? Really? Guys, we just spent all year picking apart the whole concept of “abundance” (neoliberal deregulation & trickledown framed as some new source of prizes for us all). Now it’s touted by a group wanting to supply tools & messaging for many enviro groups? Just say no.

"It's Not Just You - The iOS Keyboard is Broken" We've been complaining about this in so many of my chats, and Android users are always (rightly) smug about it. Apple keyboard and autocorrect are trash, and getting worse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV...

When your typeface isn't up to what's actually going on in the world at the hands of your own country—& probably never was It seems emblematic, @newyorker.com, that you can't visually distinguish between a night at the theatre & deaths you've helped legitimate www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Stoked about Mamdani's win and want to build the same energy here in BC? RSVP for our AGM today - November 14-16th in Vancouver, link below. We'll dig into strategy, organizing and social media with the best brains in the biz. C’mon out! #bcpoli bcgreens.ca/event/novemb...

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

If so, it seems what's needed is a more honest reckoning with the fact that capitalist control over production and government ultimately prevents us from ending human deprivation, inequalities, ecological breakdown and war, or at minimum will radically slow our progress toward these goals.

As usual, those with zero agency are being hit the hardest by our society's callous public health decisions.

"In a time of political darkness, New York will be the light." And opening the speech with Eugene Debs... Barn burner of a speech.

Zorhan Mamdani challenges the Trump regime directly during his victory speech: “Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

“We have bowed at the alter of caution and we have paid a mighty price,” says mayor-elect Mamdani during his victory speech. DNC gotta be freaking the hell out rn

Mamdani wins...maps here! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

I don't know what's going on but I'm constantly being followed by US accounts who say they're Dems & also ex-military, even antifa (but no socialists) - anyone else? This is just weird. I'm a Canadian socialist yall

Friend who works in Kitsilano just texted me this. So Vancouver’s hellmouth is in Kits then “Eavesdropping on two heavily lip injected ladies discussing using chat GPT to strategize the best return on their short term rental offerings” #vanpoli #vanre

Don’t complain, get paid: Kitimat resident offered thousands from LNG Canada : thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-k...

As a former New Yorker on the ground during the Cheney years, and a writer, I endorse this message

hug your war criminals a little tighter today

That’s the end of the courageous political takes from Teen Vogue. It has been such a beacon for many so this is fairly tragic. Looks like they fired ALL the political staffers and removed the politics beat. Who leaned on Condé Nast? Or what happened?

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day. Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

BC has been subsidizing a largely US lumber industry for decades via low stumpage rates (royalties) & more, yet the companies keep closing mills because they've cut virtually all the old growth, & also their plantations in the US grow faster than the firetrap monocultures they replanted here #bcpoli

This is a great point. There's so much resistance to increasing ventilation/air purification in classrooms to lower levels of Covid & other illnesses for kids & staff, & so much resistance to masking in healthcare BUT they'll get busy ventilating chicken barns against avian flu because profit

"Treat count results show that rain and Blue Jays didn't damper Metro Vancouver's Halloween spirit" #treatcount2025 #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“Under the plan, bounty hunters may receive “monetary bonuses” depending on how successfully they track down their targets — and how many immigrants they then report to ICE.” Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.

Dave Eby and other centrist fauxgressives have to be watching this, no? #bcpoli "Poll predicts Keir Starmer will LOSE his seat to the Green Party at next election"

Halloween is the best holiday because it's all about people giving neighbors and strangers treats for free and telling kids how awesome they are.

Recent polling suggests this isn't a popular course for the Liberals. abacusdata.ca/canadians-wa... Great intel here from @davidcoletto.bsky.social

@christineboyle.bsky.social @seanorr.bsky.social @lucymaloney.bsky.social would council please direct police and fire to start enforcing this ban? I think people have had more than enough time to adjust to the five year old law.

Are kids going to trick-or-treat in this rain? (Also I cannot *believe* that major league baseball would do something as crass as a key baseball game smack at trick or treat time) Anyway, I'll be doing #TreatCount2025

"Vancouver loses 'a culinary community centre' with sudden closure of Floata Seafood Restaurant" feat @donnaseto.bsky.social as told by Dan Fumano via @vancouversun.bsky.social #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

Please help us save Chinatown's post office, closing (like many local businesses) due to exorbitant rents! Please sign and share. Thank you! #vanpoli savechinatownyvr.substack.com/p/help-save-...

USA Today Headline mentions Cuba but then story contains not a single mention of the situation in Cuba, skipping from Jamaica to Haiti. Why, @usatoday.com ? "Hurricane Melissa moves past Cuba after hitting Jamaica; death toll rises in Haiti" www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Chinatown businesses are closing one by one due to high rents. First Floata, my dim sum place, now our post office. I must pick up parcels on Commercial Drive now; how do disabled Chinatown seniors do that? Barely regulated speculation & financialization of real estate, everyone! #vanpoli #bcpoli

Vacancy control would block predatory landlords from hiking rents & evicting renters for profit. It would restore an essential guardrail for renters — championed by Barrett NDP govt in ‘74, then scrapped by conservative govt in ‘84. Next up: Freeze the rent & build social housing at scale⚡️ #bcpoli

Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.' We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them. Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse. Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The eye of the hurricane is hitting Jamaica right now. 66 knot winds - that's 124 kph Keep refreshing the Windy app www.windy.com?18.917,-75.1...

Friend on this Taylor Swift video: "I’m pretty sure Ophelia would rather stay dead than be resurrected into the madness of Taylor’s vulgar fever dream. It’s beyond shallow and fake, it's all fascist world-building. I can't believe people are attracted to this at this particular moment."

"Centrists laid the groundwork in the US and Europe." 'Abundance', De-regulation, and the Demolition of Democracy - by @annpettifor.bsky.social annpettifor.substack.com/p/abundance-...

Now there’s a surprise…inflated ratings? Who would have thought it possible? on.ft.com/48OKD7K

this is very satisfying to watch.

Regardless of statistics showing crime is dwindling, safety is a major concern for Calgarians—why? In my latest essay, i explore this question, alongside the implications of letting our bourgeois fears guide our city’s policy agenda.

Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.

I think my favorite thing about "every city reveals its inner character" era of ice protests is that people keep saying portland is weird or cute or nice or silly when one of the most common chants at the ice building is people looking up at feds on the roof and yelling "jump! jump! jump!" in unison

The skinny white luxury tower at 432 Park Avenue is disintegrating due to the developer's insistence that the concrete be pure white, which weakens it (strengthening elements add colour) This feels so historically fitting right now: insist on pure white, & your whole edifice cracks archive.ph/MiSkE

There's something classically colonial about both Eby & Carney's submission to Trump right now. They might as well be 19th C Hudson's Bay Company flaks obeying imperial orders. Carney is taking it to even greater heights with his new obsequiousness www.msn.com/en-ca/news/c... #bcpoli #cdnpoli

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. Shorter: FAFO What did Starmer actually think police crackdowns on speech & other hard-right moves were going to achieve, other than this? Right-wing voters will almost always vote Tory or Reform, & Labour voters will vote for a better 3rd party. Plaid, Green..

Please not Dr. Henry who has been more withholding of public health tools and information than any PHO in Canada. But the fact Carney has allowed us to go so long without a top federal health officer doesn’t seem like a great sign #cdnpoli

I'm writing a book on a 70s Vancouver topic & the news articles then were strikingly in-depth compared to today: news plus critical analysis. The only place I reliably see that now in MSM is Al Jazeera—like this wildly informative report on Ireland's presidential election. Worth a read.

A new report obtained exclusively by The Breach shows how Canada’s biggest landlords are profiting from racialized displacement—targeting Black and Arab neighbourhoods, evicting tenants, and driving up rents. breachmedia.ca/financialize...

Why are you platforming the Fraser Institute @ctvnewsatlantic.bsky.social? Also, it is not news that Canada lack doctors & scans. So: 1. don't give oxygen to a right-wing propaganda organ 2. if the Fraser Institute is banging on about it, mention they want to privatize health #cdnpoli