Thursday’s decision could set the stage before the Supreme Court of Canada in a case where seven young people have challenged Ontario’s weakened climate target.

Read history. Oligarchs have owned and controlled our government before. They’ve attacked oppressed groups, gone after migrants, and enacted mass violence against workers who dared resist. But people kept fighting. They organized. They built power. What we need to do is not unprecedented.

www.aaup.org/report/again... “Unfortunately, troubling recent events suggest that some administrations are … engaging in what scholars of authoritarianism call anticipatory obedience—that is, they are acting to comply in advance of any pressure to do so.” Absolutely true. #AcademicSky

Not taking accountability, and throwing everyone else under the bus is this man’s legacy… so this is pretty on point

For all of you in the climate movement talking up @JustinTrudeau's #climate legacy. You missed the whole point of the #Indigenous #tarsands campaign. This guy did monstrous things to #IndigenousPeoples, abusing the power of #Canada's military apparatus for the #profits of #bigoil #NoPipelines

I definitely have zero interest in voting for nothingburger centrists… what passes for leftist politicians keep moving right in an attempt to gain votes they will never win and, in the process, lose the voter base they once had

As a disabled web accessibility practitioner. This pisses me off. Extremely. GENERATIVE AI DOES NOT AND CANNOT EVER REPRESENT DISABLED PEOPLE. Just fucking hire disabled people like me who know what they're doing. Believing AI over disabled people is ABLEISM and DEHUMANIZING. For fucks sake.

BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row. “Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

Every. Time. And still so much resistance to something that is wildly effective.

The 11th Indigenous person killed by Canadian police since AUGUST. This time it was a 17 year old boy.

Abortion bans are forms of state sponsored femicide - and it’s usually racialized, impoverished women who are most impacted.

And it becomes a way of enforcing gender conformity in all sorts of ways—it’s literally a Dykes to Watch Out For cartoon from 1995

Mass student strike happening in #Montreal at Concordia university. After a vote, students have voted to go on strike to demand divestment from the state of Israel by the university. In the 1980s, similar struggles helped push for divestment from apartheid South Africa.

Period

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A useful block list if you're looking for one.

Paraphrasing @pampalmater.com We can't let the media or politics talk us out of what we are seeing with our own eyes in Gaza.

“Maybe, to survive, we have to hold onto the fragments of our history, of our memories, no matter how much it hurts. Survival is less about enduring and more about holding on, even when your hands are shaking, even when you’re not sure you can do it anymore.”

Hey everyone - I am looking for a researcher who can work in the Ottawa area from January-June 2025 on a project that tries to understand how online narratives impacts gender based violence (or not!). Experience conducting interviews a plus! www.linkedin.com/posts/stepha...