The Attorney General defended her decision not to prosecute child sex traffickers by observing that the Dow is up.

To the first responders and teachers in Tumbler Ridge who acted immediately to help those in need — you are the best of Canada.

In a pretty grim decision - with one very considerable silver lining - the High Court has dismissed our challenge to the EHRC Interim guidance. A number of resources follow in a 🧵.

A new study has shown that miscarriage or induced abortion is NOT a potential risk factor for breast cancer, contrary to continued anti-choice propaganda. Even several abortions or miscarriages does not increase risk. The study used high-quality Finnish registry data.

Something that John Gardner once said to me, which has stuck with me, is that if you think someone who you respect has views that are bigoted and intolerant, then it it precisely out of respect for them that you should tell them that their views are bigoted and intolerant.

The Atlantic’s profile of Bondi has some wow. @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Wow who could have ever foreseen a white woman using tears to manipulate power! I, for one, am stunned. (Yes it’s good character detail.)

I know it's early and facts are few but - if I were @mark-carney.bsky.social, I would be looking into undoing The Long-Gun Registry Repeal Act.

Let's hope Canada - and Canadian media - reacts differently to this than the US did to Columbine (e.g., by not giving NRA talking points any degree of legitimacy)

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

A lot of people think this pertains to Russia. I have dibs on Qatar. Trump traveled to the Middle East in May 2025, including Qatar. I'm also going to assume that the "person close to Trump" is one of his genetic mutations. And because they cited Executive Privilege, Trump is implicated in a crime.

Greed

I really don’t like that @wyden.senate.gov reposted @dell.bsky.social not liking @wyden.senate.gov’s letter to ratcliffe

This was *entirely* avoidable. That the government and uuk think this is a ‘blueprint’ should appall everyone.

for over 3 weeks, I've spoken to ICE watchers and organizers across the country: first right after Renee Good's killing — then 2 weeks into my reporting, Alex Pretti was killed. ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them

Opened Bluesky. Saw this. Will now be closing Bluesky for the day.

They are not serious people.

They’re always consistent in the worst way

“Mommy, can I have pancakes?” Man fatally shot by federal agents. “Can you pass the syrup?” Civil unrest spreads. “I need more everything bagel seasoning on my eggs!” Is the US on the brink?

I know I won't have been the first person to mention this, but - I can't stop thinking about where we'd be if Alex Pretti were a POC, or if he were not a healthcare worker, or hadn't worked at the VA, or if he were out, or not cis, or didn't have a license to carry... it's depressing.

It has been a really unproductive 11 months 😬

A while ago there was that ‘what’s something obvious to experts in their fields but not civilians’ and I said it *used* to be that we don’t have a moral duty to obey the law because it’s law. Here is another upshot to that claim:

Four-time Grammy Award nominee Jesse Welles performs his song "Join Ice." Bob Dylan once said a single folk singer could defeat an entire army. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have our man.

Someone make a meme of clippy asking @chrismurphyct.bsky.social, ‘do you mean “any version”?’

"Mark Carney Just Announced that the West Lost the Second Cold War" Entrepreneur and commentator Arnaud Bertrand lays out why Carney's Davos speech may prove to be one of the most important speeches made by any global leader in the last three decades.

I spent the morning at the San Antonio immigration court. It’s out of control. Crawling with ICE - arresting legal immigrants showing up for court appearances. I asked one officer who they are prioritizing. His answer: everyone. I need to share with you what I saw.

Shabana Mahmood here, and the vibes are not getting better.

Received official notice today that my employer will be withholding 100% of pay for the next three weeks, to myself and all other members of @sheffielducu.bsky.social who refuse (as is our legal right, and our solidaristic duty) to reschedule classes cancelled due to strike action. Outrageous.

UK institutions of higher ed - like the one I left - constantly get away with double punishing those who take lawful strike action. It has to stop. Donate to the strike funds.

📢 This is all happening because the ‘adults’ in the room are too lazy to develop and teach robust online literacy to kids.

Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]

It is beautiful.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that this phrase (‘respect the biological sex of the [cis-gendered] claimants’) will (and should) come back to bite them in the ass as a grotesque empirical claim.

The nonprofit Trevor Project received a $45 million gift from billionaire MacKenzie Scott at the end of 2025.

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

I really miss having a faculty position. I miss the students, and the colleagues that become friends, and giving lectures, and the invitations that lead to more friends (invitations only come if you have a post I’ve since discovered). But I do not miss working in ukhe. At all.

BREAKING: Mother Jones is suing the Bureau of Prisons for Ghislaine Maxwell’s records. Because someone needed to.

🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter

That making fun of the home depot Oval Office gets more of a rise out of trump than yelling about ice killing people is not a one off.

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Honestly, I get their fear. Name me a more efficient group of people.

Femicide.

Everyone should probably pin this post for future use

It has become increasingly clear that X - a platform now actively producing explicit and abusive material against women and children - is not an appropriate platform to be using for our comms. I will keep pushing for action from the govt & relevant authorities in this area.

"The limbo of remand is often devastating to prisoners’ wellbeing. Government figures, for example, show that the rate of suicide among remanded prisoners is more than twice that among sentenced prisoners. Extreme periods of remand like these are an offence against justice."