“Israel has pushed responsibility for Gaza's civilians onto international aid groups, then smeared, restricted and ultimately barred many of them.” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Uh, Canada, you might want to say something definitive about respecting sovereignty of Arctic states sooner rather than later.

Careful complicity over the genocide in Gaza.

Where is this energy for Palestine?

UN Sec Gen Guterres statmt to the Council is shameless. Instead of characterizing/condemning US actions as a clear vio of the UN Charter, he focused on the post-aggression transition in Venezuela & claims abt 2024 election fraud. The UN is signing its own death warrant /n bsky.app/profile/msja...

Periodic reminder that you can disagree with someone without demonizing health conditions or behaviours or fallaciously pathologizing the person.

I don't know how many more examples we need of the entitlement built into men's hockey in this country.

CW: sexual violence

🇱🇧 BREAKING: Lebanon — Israel has carried out a wave of airstrikes across southern Lebanon & the Bekaa on sites it had publicly threatened earlier. Israeli warplanes struck a building in Kfar Hata (Saida) w/ at least five missiles, & hit a threatened site in Anan (Jezzine), where explosions were...

Gaza holds a mirror to the world, as Palestine has always done. When the Europeans fully allowed -egged on!- the US and its shitty little settler colony on the Med to engage in genocide, they basically paved the way to Venezuela and from there to Greenland.

Alberta passed Bill 11, allowing doctors to charge unlimited fees at for-profit clinics while working in the public system. True American-style health care.Other provinces may follow. I just sent a letter urging action to stop two-tier healthcare from spreading. Join me: share.nwmd.social/s/4x4hAFv5

Y’all are tripping. This is not new. Have you all paid attention to what the US has done to Haiti the past 21 years, beginning with the Feb 29, 2004 kidnapping of our elected president?!!! I’ve always said that the biggest GANGSTERS in the world are the US government and its western minions.

Encourage everyone to read up on Manuel Noriega's capture on January 3, 1990.

“My body was at war with me for no reason.” The province doesn’t fund nearly enough of these small electrical devices that interrupt pain signals before they reach the brain, say experts. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports.

Fidaa really needs rent so her and her kids don’t end up on the street

A photo taken a short time ago, but things have become so desperate since. They are struggling in ways I can't even share out off consideration, Jamal is very sick due to a lack of medicine. I worry about them all, Heba, Mohammed and Jihad. Donations have stopped, please help gofund.me/6cf17fe66

Cecil Rhodes, 1895, as he tried to overthrow Kruger’s South African Republic government: “in order to save the … inhabitants of the UK from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands … The Empire … is a bread and butter question.” See Saul Dubow’s chapter in amzn.eu/d/6zBAy2u

“Knowing who to be mad at is praxis.” - @prisonculture.bsky.social

Whether or not states like Canada lack the spine, let alone elbows, to say so, American actions in Venezuela are an unambiguous violation of the UN Charter’s prohibitions on the unilateral use of force. justiceinconflict.org/2026/01/03/v... #Venezuela

France at the UN Security Council: "The military operation which led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro runs counter to the principle of peaceful dispute resolution and the principle of non use of force. Violations of the UN Charter... chips away at the very foundation of the international order."

Please contribute if you're able or share the original if you're not. Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know

Meanwhile in Canada, we have to deal with Mark Carney aka Neville Chamberlain.

Ontario Public Health respiratory virus update January 5, 2026 Flu ⬆️ % positivity Covid 3.4 Flu 34.4 (up from 33.8) RSV 4.0 Entero/Rhinovirus 3.7 Parainfluenza 1.1 Masks, vaccination, ventilation and staying home when sick help to reduce spread. www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Data-and-...

Israel’s brutal blockade and genocide in Gaza have made winter lethal, as children freeze in tents and homes collapse under heavy rain, write Said Alsaloul and Ohood Nassar ⬇️

That is now 2 statements from Carney that have legitimized Trump's violent, extrajudicial overthrow & kidnapping of another country's leader. Our prime minister looks more Neville Chamberlain than elbows up rn. (He has also failed to speak directly to Canadians who might be feeling unsettled.)

This guy is going to appeal to the world to support Canada when the US comes for them but he continues to side with US imperialism when it targets others.

A lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.

"peaceful, Venezuelan-led transition of power"

He affirmed support for getting someone in Venezuela who will sell it off to the highest bidder. Trudeau hosted Guaido, now Carney is trying to legitimize Machado so the US doesn’t get the only crack at Venezuela’s resources.

Israel is still criminalizing life saving aid for 2million Palestinians in Gaza

The Israeli military continues to demolish structures in northern Gaza while also blocking the entry of aid.

About 230 male and female medical students from Gaza’s various colleges of medicine held a graduation ceremony in front of the ruins of the Al‑Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City on Saturday. The event was organized by Gaza’s Ministry of Health. Video: Abdulruhman Ismail via X (@a_abdulruhman)

This document is handed today to every Palestinian going for an interview at the US consulate, whether for a visa application or immigration paperwork. A silent document in form, but one that carries a harsh political message at its core.

Many people still think of poverty as something that happens when people don’t work. But the reality is different: majority of people who live in poverty in Canada are working or live in families who work. @gillianpetit.bsky.social and my 2026 chart to watch www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...

Originally posted on Jan. 1, 2026: A Reuters investigation details how Israel used repurposed M113 armored personnel carriers packed with 1–3 tons of explosives as ground-based truck bombs in Gaza City in the weeks before the Oct. 10 ceasefire. As Israeli forces advanced into central Gaza City...

Everything we accepted being done in places like Palestine will be done again and again elsewhere until we stop accepting it anywhere. We can't carve out exceptions where human rights don't apply and expect human rights to still apply everywhere else.

Israel has pushed responsibility for Gaza’s civilians onto international aid groups, then smeared, restricted, and ultimately barred many of them – because they witnessed to the truth.

“Audacious” is an interesting way of not writing “a violation of the UN charter and international law that is also a violation of US law”

Israel is waging a reproductive genocide against Palestinian mothers in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-waging-reproductive-genocide-against-palestinian-mothers-gaza

Every imperial power drums up paranoid fears to justify aggression and expansion. If one excuse looks too ridiculous to attempt, another will always be found.

I feel like everyone should be more aware of the Opium Wars as an outline of the ignorant, self-righteous, destructive, extractive nature of colonial empires. No, the resource involved doesn't really matter. It's the mechanisms. www.britannica.com/topic/Wester...

In the midst of *all this* today, please don't forget about Gaza. 🍉🍉 Please share and, if you can, contribute to help Adham and his family. 🙏🏽💜🍉

Again: Ta-Nehisi Coates was not wrong - people who do not draw a line at genocide, will not draw a line at democracy. They are extremists by their nature.

"I used to be able to work and provide for my family. But now, there is no life.”

See, it is possible to accurately summarize up the state of USian politics without engaging in ableism or mental health stigma. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

I hope historians discussing 19th-century U.S. history this term are including William Walker and the filibuster campaigns in Nicaragua in their lectures, if they aren’t already.

If laws only apply to "good" people they aren't laws. That's as true for international laws as it is for domestic.