Brishti's at the BC Supreme Court for the Drug User Liberation Front verdict

happy new danny brown album day to all who celebrate

BC's anti-SLAPP legislation was critical to keeping a meritless lawsuit @torimarlan.bsky.social and I faced to the "affordable" sum of ~$50k in legal fees. Journalists like Luke not protected by these laws have much higher exposure — even when, like us, they did nothing wrong.

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

BREAKING: The BC Labour Relations Board has ruled that all research assistants at Simon Fraser University are workers and members of the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU). TSSU successfully organized research assistants twice over the last six years. www.tssu.ca/grad-student...

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

More important to me than my identity, I am also the Vice President of the NewsGuild of New York, and targeting me with a blatantly retaliatory termination like this feels like an egregious shot against our union and against media workers as a whole.

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

Princess White Deer (Esther Louise Georgette Deer (1891-1992) of Kahnawake, in Broadway Brevities, the 'notorious' gossip rag of the 1920s. As PWD, Esther Deer was a very successful vaudeville actor, performing across stages, from New York to Paris. Labeled as one of 'the most beautiful women in...

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

@lukelebrun.ca and @dtcochrane.bsky.social break down what Mark Carney's austerity budget means for workers — both public and private sector — in the latest episode of Sources

🎧 PODCAST: Looking inside Mark Carney’s ‘extremely Orwellian’ austerity budget From $60 billion in cuts to eliminating 40,000 jobs, Canadian Labour Congress Sr. Economist @dtcochrane.bsky.social shares his impressions of the Carney government's first budget live inside the media lock-up in Ottawa

my colleague @stephenmag.bsky.social's reporting on the Alberta government sending teachers back to work, and the labour movement's response, en français pour @pivot.quebec

My piece from last week got translated into French! Than you @pivot.quebec

mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.

NBC, The New York Times, and most importantly @hellgatenyc.com call the NYC mayoral race for Zohran Mamdani.

The stream has begun. Join us: www.youtube.com/live/fKA4Vpk...

At the end of the day I'm not sure how much difference it makes. But it is striking to put out a budget that axes a luxury tax on yachts and adds a co-pay for refugee claimants accessing drugs and dental care.

Thinking ahead to tomorrow's federal budget and all the talk of Canadians needing to make sacrifices, I can't help but wonder when the wealthiest few might be asked to do that. Unfortunately I don't think that's part of the plan.

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

If wife’s directing their husband’s work is disqualifying then the entirety of all knowledge produced by American academia prior to the 1970s is suspect.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts. Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

watching journalists who you look up to get treated like shit by the ghouls who run media companies never gets any easier!

tbh if you can't handle Herbie Hancock at his robot voice political manifestos you don't deserve him at his keytar shredding

LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social

Tear gas deployed on Sunset, horses and cops appear to be retreating or regrouping

Those Ring of Fire ads during World Series broadcasts might have you thinking mines are up and running in the remote region in northern Ontario, but that's not the case and the Ford government should be upfront about it, writes @elaineanselmi.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/opinion-blue...

Cops going aggro on Sunset near Echo Park in LA after the Dodgers Win. Shooting people with less lethals from point blank range, horses running people and press down. Literally minutes before, fireworks in the street

it hurts to see Vlad cry

well, at least Drake lost a ton of money tonight

boooooooo

a game for sick freaks

noooooooooooooooo

Los Angeles, CA - The Douglas shit off the outside television playing the game. One man pulled out his laptop. They are chanting his name.

this is too much

GO BIRDS

In peak 2025 form, all the ads on City TV in Canada are about how how the Blue Jays are Canada’s team, and how we need to strip mine an area called “the ring of fire” in northern Ontario

ok that play was crazy, I get the appeal of this sport now

Go Jays. Free Palestine. Trans rights are human rights. Let’s go.

Happy Halloween from my first attempt at a Jadzia Dax costume

“Our members are highly motivated by the fact that the government treated them with the disrespect that they did, that they will be more than happy to engage in pushing back,” [Alberta Teachers' Association president] Schilling told PressProgress.

In response to Alberta’s use of the notwithstanding clause, labour groups are vowing retaliation. Danielle Smith's attack on bargaining rights has unions raising the spectre of a general strike: pressprogress.ca/alberta-labo...

happy halloween go birds fuck ICE free palestine

Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

behold, the power of video journalism

proud of @jackiedives.bsky.social for fighting this. it's so important to draw lines like this in an age where AI slop is ripping off artists' work for subpar imagery and text to replace human labour

"Circumventing the rights of photographers makes it impossible for us to continue making a living, and demonstrates a devaluing of the crucial contribution photojournalists make to your publications." I hope everyone in Canadian media takes the time to read this.