I wrote up a rare Saturday column about the NDP leadership French-language debate. And osti de marde c'étiat merdique. noraloreto.substack.com/p/is-the-ndp...

Call your MP. There is so much happening with so little pushback. Sober second thought. Peace, order, and good government. These are Canadian values. Beyond any party.

Remember the 800 times I’ve said you cannot contain the “let er rip” attitude to just covid? Humans don’t think like that. This was always an obvious consequence, and it’s their own damn fault.

I'm telling y'all. Authoritarian parenting primed our entire society for authoritarianism. Want to find a way out of this? Respect kids. Stop denying them full human rights. Honor their bodily autonomy and humanity. Punishment and coercion don't work. Non-authoritarian parenting IS resistance.

Prison nurse sees inmates with serious health conditions being dismissed by prison staff. She brings it up with management. She's quickly retaliated against and put in "prison jail" - sitting in a room monitoring inmate calls and emails. Comes across comms from Ghislaine Maxwell and says fuck this.

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The Notwithstanding Clause is something I've long called the ticking timebomb in the Canadian constitution. And this is why. I've warned trans doomers in the US who advocate fleeing to countries like Canada that the fight is global. This is the shape of things in Canada right now.

GAWKER! thou shouldst be living at this hour

This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke... Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.

I think medieval beekeeper outfits could be the strongest look in the entire history of fashion.

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

What do you mean the world's most famous living anarcho-syndicalist was buddies with Jeffrey Epstein. What do you MEAN

Next time you choke on forest fire smoke, just be thankful that some people are making seven figures.

I'm obsessed with candles. It hasn't reached the level of tea yet but it's getting closer, lol. I am considering making a zine about my favorite candles similar to the one I made with my comrade Rachael about tea: issuu.com/projectnia/d... - maybe just focusing on Black-owned candle businesses.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

I'll be here in the morning

It's not just the NHS (though that's a huge component) most care facilities rely on immigrant labor. Babies, seniors, you name it, and there's a layer of the labor force in the West (US, UK, Canada, etc) that is composed almost entirely of immigrants from lower income countries.

Your new motto should be: if it’s fine for disabled people, it’s fine for me.

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

What a preventable tragedy caused by a disinformation grievance industrial complex. Shameful.

honk honk

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

wild that the article does not mention that this is his second time being charged with sexual assault

I'm watching hockey and there have been multiple ads for nasal Narcan, aka naloxone, the med that reverses opioid poisoning. The commercials depict a young woman dropping while studying in a library, and her friends identifying the overdose and administering the nose spray. 10/10, excellent!

Mamdani just explicitly shouted out the trans community in his victory speech in saying that NYC stands with them

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What the Alberta government just did should worry all Canadians. When they legislated striking teachers back to work, they went a step further: They used the notwithstanding clause. This is part of a worrying trend. @emmettmacfarlane.com helped me break it down:

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

I am SO GLAD Melissa is back

1998

Don't break bread. Don't accept gifts. Make sure you spell their name right. If you're INSIDE the salt circle you're ON the record.

also: tv’s defaulting to motion smoothing… has this helped prime people to see AI slop as less offputting

New road safety messaging for the fall: "Wear bright clothing, walk single file, be at least 5'6" tall before leaving home"

I'd ask if they're aware that fentanyl is commonly used for anesthesia during surgery (and at this guy's age, something he's more likely than not to have had) but the answer is clearly it doesn't matter

White men facing consequences for their actions isn't purity testing when everyone else faces consequences for crimes they're not even committing.

I actually don’t find it particularly difficult to draw my personal line at “got a Nazi tattoo and never had it removed” when it comes to who to support politically. Like that seems like a pretty easy call

one thing about racism is the way people will ignore the most likely explanation for something like having a Nazi tattoo for 20 years. the most simple and obvious explanation was that he knew what it was and kept it. his excusers need to stop the embarrassing mental gymnastics.

If (big if) you get a nazi tattoo by accident, and you don't cover/remove it as soon as humanly possible after you learn the truth, what does that make you, exactly??? Unbelievable.

could do with a lot less open advocacy for ethnic cleansing in global politics tbh

shut the front door

Them: “no one had pronouns in my day” A TV Character from their day:

the thing about a lot of the wine moms who mobilized for the Women's March a decade ago is that they stayed mobilized all that time! my aunt's local Women's March Facebook group became an ongoing grassroots organizing effort to elect local pro-choice women Dems in her small North Carolina town

bro did you just challenge portland to express oppositional defiance in competitively creative ways bro

Every time I travel internationally I am reminded how powerful a Canadian passport is. Don’t take it for granted

Despair is the weapon of the enemy. I see so much of it on social media, saying nothing matters, all is lost, and hope is foolish. I disagree. I refuse to believe the battle for equality and liberation is over and we lost. I REFUSE.

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

it is far better to be in a country with a mass visible protest movement than one without it

Disabled folks feeling guilty for not protesting today: *it is not your fault* that organizers don’t make an effort to make protests accessible and don’t encourage masking And despite what folks on Bluesky would have you believe, there are MANY ways to resist and protests don’t have to be your way

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