Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

incredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people

This interview with Dyab Abou Jahjah of the Hind Rajab Foundation is really good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Nl...

Just ticket more of the unhoused, that'll solve the problem 🙄 No mention of the removal of supervised consumption sites. No mention that police educating people on drug use is not what they are trained for. It does nothing. People understand what drugs do, what they need is a home. #abpoli #YEG

Trump created a crisis that could end the American Empire and destroy the global economy. Now he’s looking at a no-win situation and hoping someone or something will bail him out. This is what happens when you hand power to a monster like Trump. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-plot-i...

My coping mechanisms and habits are on heavy rotation in these shitstorm times. Loved this podcast episode from @deanspade.bsky.social and Holly Whitaker on bringing compassion (and a harm reduction lens) to our and others' addictive patterns. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/l...

Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"

Canada must help Cuba. Here is my latest about Canada's long and deep relationship with the island nation, and how Carney's Davos speech turned out to be all talk and no action. noraloreto.substack.com/p/canada-mus...

🧵“How do seemingly ordinary people become agents of state murder?” This is one of the guiding questions I ask students in my graduate class on genocide/state violence. With recent events, it is a question many Americans are asking. I do not have a definitive answer, but here is a reading list: 1/

My coping mechanisms and habits are on heavy rotation in these shitstorm times. Loved this podcast episode from @deanspade.bsky.social and Holly Whitaker on bringing compassion (and a harm reduction lens) to our and others' addictive patterns. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/l...

apnews.com/article/ai-f... police body cameras, once taboo, get tested on Canadian city's 'watch list' of faces

The solution to homelessness is housing The solution to poverty is reducing economic inequality through the redistribution of wealth The solution to the unregulated drug deaths is drug regulation bsky.app/profile/kwar...

cuz Canadian spies and law enforcement certainly remember jeff.doctor/blog/canada-...

seems like an important question the media should ask bsky.app/profile/jeff...

Forced abstinence it’s not the solution and will result in more deaths. Putting somebody through forced detox who is not seeking treatment or abstinence is akin to torture. #MBpoli #Drugsky www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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DULF winning this challenge could advance people’s liberation so quickly, all the SCS and service closures of the last years to appease police and profiteer tantrums will soon be laughed at as the final bleatings of the drug war in Canada. But first, funding: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati...

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Trump admin acting like ancestor settlers, traders who refused to give hungry Dakota (denied their hunting lands) supplies in warehouses. "Let them starve." Starving Dakota lashed out. The greedy settler state was happy to massacre & imprison while claiming to be moral & civil. Nothing is new.

I retired early from @ualberta.bsky.social out of disgust at how senior administrators and BoG have attacked Palestine solidarity activism and are fleeing accountability for investments in ethnic cleansing and genocide. @laurieadkin.bsky.social gives a tiny glimpse of how rancid things are.

Excellent new report: "Palestine at Canadian Universities: How Institutional Complicity in Colonial Genocide is Maintained." A reminder of the enduring shame of institutions like @UAlberta, which invest in genocide and apartheid while clamping down on opposition. www.institutionalcomplicity.ca

Searing truths about Israel, the West and complicity in genocide from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cool to see that @policingblack.bsky.social will be making a quarterly newsletter for @interruptcrim.bsky.social Canada. Sign up here: form.jotform.com/252826314847...

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Donald Trump is trying to criminalize opposition to fascism. What are the real threats—and how can people prepare for them? We've prepared a zine version of "Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression." Please print these out and distribute them widely! crimethinc.com/MakeReadyZine

I published this one year ago today, and the firings have continued. But so has the creation of a new Jewish communal infrastructure for those who feel uncomfortable with these large Federation, Hillel, and pro-Israel institutions. So expect my follow up on the emerging world of anti-Zionism Judaism

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

Soaring, moving film on climate change and climate grief at Metro Cinema on Oct 3 -- with excellent speakers too! #yeg metrocinema.org/production/t...

All right, I wrote about it:

More than anything else, the whole world runs on the disregarded suffering of children.

MacEwan University: refuses to disclose investments in genocide and ethnic cleansing. Their President refuses to even meet with Palestinian students. And admin has been vicious toward students demanding accountability. Just disgraceful. #MacEwanU www.theprogressreport.ca/inside_macew...