This thread is a good reminder to write your MPP. Some good bullet points here.

If you live in Ontario and rent your home, own your home, bike, take transit, care about the environment, value democracy, don't want water to be privatized, are opposed to surveillance infrastructure... you are going to want to email your MPP about #Bill60: win.newmode.net/fightbill60

Doug Ford is ramming through #Bill60 without public hearings, bundling 16 unrelated laws together so MPPs can't properly debate gutting tenant protections. Send an email to your representative today—our democracy depends on it. win.newmode.net/fightbill60

This is a REALLY important story, Canada. The Carney government's push to AI our entire country is going to hurt so many people and cause SO much damage to our communities. The government isn't doing ANYTHING to try and mitigate the harms data centres are going to cause, either.

Canada’s next extractive industry: How #AI is following the fossil fuel playbook. Ottawa is betting on artificial intelligence. Just like #BigOil, Big Tech is building infrastructure that will be nearly impossible to dismantle. New from @terraloire.bsky.social: ricochet.media/climate/cana...

Does anyone know if you could walk into a Swiss chalet and buy just one roll and one chalet sauce cup to go?

Meet Emma Arkell, PressProgress’ New Labour Reporter Emma’s journalism is focused on centring the interests of workers and putting ‘working-class voices’ back in the news Follow 👉 @emmaarkell.bsky.social

wow, certainly no one in later generations was subjected to horrific live events on television with no counseling !

If you ever find me in the bowels of a heavily guarded laboratory, peacefully suspended in a large tube of bubbling liquid, please mind your own business.

Co sign co sign co sign. There’s also so much activism that should NOT be documented on social media for both strategic and safety reasons. People who throw these performative accusations back and forth are usually telling on themselves.

Reagan walked so Trump could run

NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

every group chat has: - the secretary of defense - the high ranking military official carrying out kinetic operations in a country we’re not officially at war with - the editor in chief of the Atlantic

“Early bird gets the worm” ok? Well if you watch birds you know the 3:30 pm bird also gets the worm? There’s a lot of worms. Calm down.

Brains are so interesting, because I just smelled a scent that smelled like the ice rink I went to as a kid?

I’m doing this specific type of sound therapy for my neurological disorder and just finished a session. Oh I don’t have anything insightful to share - thus is a heads up that I’m going to be a huge bitch for 18 hours.

In the past two weeks 5 people from the south riverdale community here in Toronto have overdosed and died. That’s only who we know. Some neighbours, columnists, politicians rallied to close supervised consumption sites & safe supply -our communities not theirs are dying en masse. I feel 💔.

This makes it sound like they’re being laughed at and excluding for not boning before marriage, and going to church….rather than, facing social exclusion of espousing hateful views. I am queer and have Christian friends, I do NOT have homophobe friends (Christian or otherwise).

A thing that I find incredibly interesting is the world is full of people who genuinely believe they have a *right* to be liked and for people to be obsequious towards them. I have seen it from a wide range of people, and it never ceases to amaze me. No one *has* to be your friend!

“You can grab the mayonnaise from the fridge - I’m sorry, WOMANnaise it’s international women’s day after all” - a real thing I just said

I now at the age where forgetting to fill my humidifier before bed will fuck me up 🥲

A must read 🧵 ONDP needs to address its racism if it ever wants to succeed

I went to work for the ONDP after the 2018 election which saw the existing caucus double with the most diverse members of any party and compelling experience to bring to the table. There’s been a lot of change. Electoral politics are not going to save us, but they still need a reckoning. #ONpoli

Even when predictable and I’m at home on my couch, election night always gives me a tummy ache.

Lola Petticrew’s acceptance speech for Say Nothing is everything.

HHS Secretary Dr. Leo Spacemen

Support Your Neighbourhood Shelter! The first batch of window signs and stickers have just dropped, and distribution is coming soon! Unhoused people are our neighbours 💕 Many thanks to Katie Carey for the illustration: katiecarey.ca

Huge congratulations to the Marxists on the total victory tonight

How I look watching tv shows I know are bad for my mental health but I’m invested in the characters so…

I grow weary of folks pointing out fascist people are acting like fascists as if it’s a “gotcha”. That maybe struck a chord ten years ago, but now…I’m afraid to say that it’s the appeal for many voters and supporters.

Whenever Harold Perrineau shows up I have the mixed reaction of “hell yes this is going be gooooood” and “oh no, he’s about to really go through it”.

Marc Kielburger rebranding with a biohacking wellness grift and using terms like “post traumatic growth” was absolutely on several bingo cards.

all I know is millennials deserve a formal apology

If Ford was so protective of Canadian interests he might stop selling off Ontario for parts to private companies in the first few place 🤨

Interesting he uses LCBO for a big swing while he’s in campaign mode after spending the last few years trying to weaken it.

Rediscovering why I found Sorcerer’s Apprentice terrifying as a kid. I hate it.

Currently fretting over something I know is OCD related, and logically is fine, but so far telling myself to just chill out hasn’t worked. I mean it’s never worked before, but I thought it was worth checking.

Very nice, go Montreal go! ricochet.media/justice/hous...

POV you’re normally an inbox zero person but Doug Ford called an election today

Network Theory of Care: Lessons from Los Angeles thelastwave.substack.com/p/network-th...

You might not think this impacts you if you don’t personally use it… But Ontario hospitals have been adopting Copilot and Generative AI alarmingly fast with little to no public scrutiny. Kevin Smith, CEO of UHN network is a huge AI cheerleader for example. #ONpoli

My 1st op-ed in TorontoToday as a regular contributor: with a looming Charter challenge and the evidence against closing supervised consumption sites, the Ford government has stooped to digging up hearsay as its only defence — and it's callous, cynical, and deadly www.torontotoday.ca/local/opinio...

“Make Canada the 51st State” “Canada is not for sale!” Here to remind you that rabid nationalism is a tool of Facism and we should reject it in whatever hat it’s wearing.

The reason “cute winter boots” is taking off isn’t because it’s some secret code (the code has already been revealed and all of MAGA tiktok has made videos on it) it’s bc using product-focused language allows users to circumvent algorithmic downranking. They’re hijacking TikTok’s e-commerce push.

If you and @nikostratis.com need a guest for Season 4 when Kevin Sorbo guest stars… I have words, I hate this subplot, I do NOT buy him as Ryan’s dad, the love triangle is stupid, and he has less charm than a pinecone.

A short political literacy tip for #ONpoli; a “leaked internal memo” is code for “carefully crafted messaging intended to go public, but for framing purposes shouldn’t come from the source”.