The bitter irony of saying migration is evil to the “free world” …while celebrating white conquistadors & colonizers who brought terror and suffering to the free world

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

1/ Who owns ProPublica? In today’s media landscape, there are so many questions about who’s pulling the strings in a newsroom — is it wealthy owners, advertisers, politicians? Not here. 🧵

watching Robert Redford interviews on Indigenous allyship & corporate power with @democracynow.org “Stories that were worth telling were stories about what’s the truth beneath the truth that you’re given, or you think you know” www.democracynow.org/2012/1/24/ro...

With the alleged Kirk shooter in custody, those Wall Street Journal reports yesterday about "transgender ideology" on his bullets have been debunked. We have to talk about the media's breathless obsession with linking trans people to acts of violence like this xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

the website that lists Rachel first as someone allegedly celebrating Kirk's murder screenshots a tweet where she explicitly condemns violence & says she hopes he survives. for that she's receiving death & rape threats

“Violence has always lurked beneath the surface” of a country that has seen 4/45 presidents assassinated…and Reagan & Trump wounded in attempts. Bipartisan leaders warned “the country is headed to a place of particular darkness if it does not pull back” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"It's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the 2nd Amendment" "Our hearts go out to the victims…But we cannot allow them to emotionally hijack the narrative" www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk... rumble.com/v2heqnk-char...

There’s a special place in hell for Ticketmaster & their insatiable demand for password resets that must be (a) never used before in my life, & (b) far more secure than any I need for government tax logins and banking At this point I have no clue how I will remember this & won‘t store codes online

honestly this explains a lot “like putting the KKK in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Sudan” they’ve slaughtered 1,135 children, women and men just trying to get food www.bbc.com/news/article...

A masked officer asked LA-born US citizen Jason Gavidia his birth hospital; he did not know. He slammed Jason against a metal gate, twisted his arm and seized his phone. “Fearing for his life, Gavidia offered to show the agents his ID...They never returned his ID" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...

My original lede for this was "they caught him ridin' purdy" Man arrested after driving child-size Pink Barbie Keep through Prince George www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Resistance to Trump’s D.C. crackdown is taking many forms—art, banging pots, ringing bells in masked ICE officers‘ faces, heckling Many who live here say aggressive federal law enforcement tactics threaten civil rights and instill a sense of fear www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

I spoke with flight attendants about their (complicated) feelings on the tentative agreement, after their defied back-to-work orders My latest for Al Jazeera www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...

Israeli forces killed the Associated Press journalist 8 years after she filmed soldiers killing her own brother during a march to Gaza’s border fence, when 220 died, 9200 wounded “Her photography and reporting highlighted the humanity of her subjects” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

“This decision strengthens property rights by recognizing it has a deeper time frame in Canada, that pre-exists the country’s creation," said Indigenous law expert John Borrows But it sparked intense controversy among settlers, governments … and 2 other First Nations indiginews.com/news/quwutsu...

By any measure, it is the most dangerous time to be a journalist in recent history. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NEW: ITV and CBC journalists both went on Jordanian flights over Gaza. The ITV journalists recorded what they saw and broadcast it to the world. CBC, meanwhile, agreed with an Israeli censorship order and didn’t record any video. @alexcosh.bsky.social reports. www.readthemaple.com/cbc-agreed-t...

Committee to Protect Journalists says 186+ media workers were killed in Gaza, West Bank, Israel & Lebanon since the war began—the deadliest period since it began gathering data in 1992 CPJ accuses Israel of directly targeting & killing 20—a war crime www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

.... @brianstelter.bsky.social brought this quote over from Instagram.

My first byline in @aljazeera.com As Trump raises tariffs on Canada to 35% ahead of tomorrow’s deadline, I asked auto workers, economists and manufacturing unions about the human impacts is.gd/b2OSF0

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How do you tell important stories without exploiting the people at the centre of them? A lot of journalists are asking themselves this question. But it applies equally to organizations looking to get their stories into the media (1/x)

It comes on the heels of this judge’s scathing ruling on an RCMP raid on Wet’suwet’en land defenders just last week: indiginews.com/news/wetsuwe...

The RCMP's conduct towards Ricochet reporter Jerome Turner was "imperious, ill-considered, and arguably unlawful … a feature not a bug," of the operation's design — “a substantial and serious interference with the freedom of the press.” www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

earthquake day means not having to answer emails for the rest of the day

Epicentre on Sunshine Coast

BREAKING NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing First Amendment.

I would say that emergency alert system seems to work pretty well, alert came literally 3 seconds after shake The Earth is incredible I’ve never felt one before and am left with awe

My latest story for @indiginews.bsky.social on Haida master carver Christian White

Vancouver Island's @docs4saferdrugs.bsky.social will be back outside Royal Jubilee Hospital today and tomorrow with pop-up overdose prevention sites. They will be joined by former BC Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe, and have support letters from multiple groups eg BC Family Doctors and BC Nurses Union.

This is mind boggling censorship for reporting in Canada on government-corporate corruption. Beyond censorship… Imagine an entire media outlet being forced to close or be jailed? www.readtheorchard.org/p/muzzling-o...

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BC human rights commissioner Kasari Govender criticizing Education Minister Lisa Bear's firing of the Greater Victoria school board She notes the firing "effectively makes school police liaison officer programs mandatory" in BC without evidence they are needed or effective #bcpoli

Eulogio arrived as a teenager in 2001, leaving behind his village in Guatemala. After 24 years … he went to hug his sleeping children. “See you in the afternoon,” he whispered to each of them. The truth was he might not be coming back. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

There are several historic words for this amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...

Cypress Mountain summit timeline cleanse

Protesters gathered in downtown Los Angeles on 2 February in response to a recent increase in ICE raids and deportations under President Trump's immigration crackdown. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

“It was rooted in Jesus not a partisan agenda”—Bishop Budde “In God’s kingdom, immigrants and refugees, transgender people, the poor & the marginalized are not at the edges, fearful & alone. They are at the center of the gospel story”—Episcopal primate Rowe www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...

Detroit v Vancouver … this weekend’s booing tradition continues I do feel bad like it must have been hard to be this great singer who didn’t ask for a trade war but

Reupping this 20yo Propagandhi banger 🎶A new iron curtain drawn across the 49th Parallel/Cut all diplomatic ties as we expel/All American dignitaries…Goodbye to such sad childish refrains…like/“You can have my guns when you pry them from my cold dead hands” m.youtube.com/watch?v=2gfv...

CDC erased much of its adult immunization guidance & its survey of high school students on mental health, violence & substance abuse "People will get sick … where you cannot lose a day to treat, babies will die”—head of National Coalition of STD Directors www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/cdc...

The Inquiry Regarding the Treatment, Experiences, and Outcomes of Innu in the Child Protection System is set to wrap in 2025, amid efforts to reclaim jurisdiction indiginews.com/features/new...

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