Hey Speaker Johnson, swear in Adelita Grijalva. Or are you too scared that Trump and your other GOP buddies are in the Epstein files?

RED ALERT: Ken Sim Plans to Drop HUGE CUTS on Vancouver's Public Services THIS WEDNESDAY That could mean cuts to: ❌ Libraries ❌ Community Grants ❌ Road Safety ❌ Homelessness supports ❌ Arts & Culture ❌ Reconciliation ❌ Climate change programs Write to council now: www.votecope.ca/stopsim

The government is officially shut down, and Trump is threatening war on American cities. Seth Meyers takes #ACloserLook at what comes next... youtu.be/2kYFtt3IYTA?...

“They are literally a captive population. It’s distinguishable from any other conflict, certainly in recent decades and probably in my lifetime.”

Abolish ICE. Now. www.newsweek.com/ice-detentio...

Musicians with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, members of the Vancouver Musicians’ Association, and Local 145 of the Canadian Federation of Musicians went out on strike this week. And COPE was there to show solidarity! #Solidarity #vanpoli #labour

Just finished Crackdown by @garthmullins.bsky.social It’s an essential piece of history and good sense policy on the failures of the drug war. I highly recommend to anyone, especially educators. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/700597...

Just in! The Union of B.C. Municipalities has passed the motion calling on the provincial govt to legislate Housing as a Human Right. In June, Vancouver unanimously passed a motion from @seanorr.bsky.social & @ptfry.bsky.social to bring this to UBCM. #bcpoli #vanpoli #HousingIsAHumanRight

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Oversight Democrats Release Third Batch of Documents from Jeffrey Epstein Estate, Includes Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Prince Andrew Mentions. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-r... #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinList #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Resist

Solidarity with Posties ✊🏼📬💌

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Ressa addresses the UN.

I just read that Dr Oz ( I hate to address him that way) owns stock in iHerb which makes the natural form of leucovorin. I bet they didn’t hold this press conference until they all figured out the grift they’re each getting out of this.

Shanah Tovah to all who are celebrating across our state of neighbors! May this sweet new year be one of renewal, filled with happiness, community, and hope.

Ben Mulroney is blurring the lines between journalism, business, lobbying and partisan politics The new host of Global News’ national political news show also works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted election events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives earlier this year

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

How a single measles case became 5,000 – and the lessons not learned, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0fc7a92... via @theglobeandmail.com

The Washington Post Fired Karen Attiah, But They Only Elevated Her The Post fired Karen Attiah, its last Black opinion columnist, because she posted about America's history of coddling white violence. Well, she's got a few things to get off her chest. thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-washin...

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

OMG Avi, please win and please get the NDP back on track!!! The working class and poor of this country need you. Basic human rights need you 🧡

Second, it’s worth reading this excerpt from Frederick Douglass:

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Correction: You need reporters. AI is not a journalist.

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

@washingtonpost.com fires @karenattiah.bsky.social @jimacosta.bsky.social leaves @cnn.com before he is fired.

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Legalize comedy. #LegalizeComedy

Ken Sim and ABC have voted to bury Lucy Maloney’s motion that would have brought six floors and corner stores to side streets across Vancouver, unlocking thousands of family-friendly homes.

"Antifa" is not, never was, and never will be an organization. It's a cause. Declaring "antifa" to be terrorism is making the viewpoint of being against fascism illegal. That includes anyone and everyone who opposes this administration. Things are about to get very very bad.

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

THIS IS WHAT FASCISM LOOKS LIKE. It is here.

Karen Attiah, an opinion columnist for The Washington Post, said she was dismissed from the paper for, “Speaking out against political violence, racial double standards, and America’s apathy toward guns.” The Post declined to comment. buff.ly/4fl16iE

Wear a mask please, I (and future you) am begging you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[Taps sign] "Violent far-right extremist[s] have been responsible for 94 of the 108 terrorism fatalities (87 percent) in the United States in the past five years. This included 2022, when 18 of the 19 fatalities occurred during far-right terrorist attacks." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

I really do think Ezra Klein needs to be held to account for why he gets to keep his columnist job, as a white man, for saying CK was "practicing politics the right way" while Karen Attiah, a Black woman, loses her columnist job for quoting what CK said about Black women. Someone, plz ask him.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The @washingtonpost.com has changed its slogan again, from “Democracy Dies In Darkness” to “Know Your Place.”

Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

If this isn’t a fucking come to Jesus moment for WSJ and frankly all mainstream outlets I don’t know what is

Sound familiar? The Reichstag fire was set by Hitler's goons, blamed it on communists and took absolute control shortly thereafter killing and jailing thousands of "regime enemies." Stephen Miller and Trump's recent pronouncements are basically admissions as to their fascist plans. #CharlieKirk

"Donald Trump knew all about Jeffrey Epstein. He was at least complicit in Epstein’s criminality. And eventually, we will know if he was more than complicit." www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...

The summer (and fall) of our COVID discontent. As eager as we are to forget, #COVID19 is still with us, and we need to mitigate our risk, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

We have state-run liquor stores but you tell me we can't have the government run a grocery store? I like a good drink but food does feel a bit more essential here.

Swept aside: Study links Vancouver’s ‘street sweeps’ of homeless to greater risk of overdose, violence. Many participants in the study lost essential items, including medications, ID, clothing and harm reduction supplies such as Naloxone kits: vancouversun.com/news/study-l...