Bread and Roses being sung at the inauguration of the largest city in the United States

We’ve filed two more unfair labor practice cases against @baltimoresun.bsky.social, which has been refusing to bargain with us for over 4 months — instead choosing to threaten our members with new union-busting policies. Baltimore deserves better. We won’t be silenced.

I got a full-time job doing what I love after years of freelancing and contract work, went bike camping for the first time, and I valued myself enough to leave relationships, both long-term and short-term, where my needs weren't being met.

On a new @pressprogress.ca 🔴SOURCES🔴 @ericwickham.ca welcomes @emmaarkell.bsky.social @stephenmag.bsky.social @rumneeek.bsky.social @lukelebrun.ca and @goldsbie.bsky.social to talk scabs, separatism and the year that was on a very special holiday episode. pressprogress.ca/sources-podc... 🔶

PSA: You don’t owe anyone an explanation about the health reasons why you are wearing a mask. Badgering others about the tools they need to survive is stigmatizing and ableist, and should have no place in decent society.

we hates them, precious, we hates the sad winter tomatoes

Hello repro writers from the mid to late 20 teens - I just discovered Cosmopolitan at some point pulled almost every politics/repro story from the 5 years I wrote for them offline (except two, which they put under someone else's name and gave me "additional reporting" which it very much was not)

back home after the holidays, time to get a falafel plate and ugly cry to the Heated Rivalry finale

You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.

Mp3 players fucking rock we fucked up so bad putting everything on phone

We're at the point in the year where I have no idea what day of the week it is and I no longer care. This is freedom, this is the way humans are meant to live

Kīlauea episode 39 #kilauea

Occasional National Post contributor Michael Shellenberger?

Luther the cineaste

jumanji is a christmas movie

respectfully enamored with the woman wearing a pigeon-inspired sweater that she knit herself who just won jeopardy

Btw this is one of the biggest reasons why it’s not as easy as people think to start up independent newsrooms or just be an indie journalist on substack. If you are actually holding powerful and rich people to account, you WILL need legal representation. Not a matter of whether but when

a little holiday cheer and an overview of the wide array of stories we've covered this year @pressprogress.ca

When it comes to healthcare, Canada's provinces opt for risky experiments over proven solutions. Health reporter @brishti.bsky.social looks back on a year of policies on track for failure: pressprogress.ca/year-of-heal...

When they ask me what radicalized me

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

incredible metaphor for the state of the industry lol

"Substack and similar services expanded because layoffs and consolidation created a vacuum. What appeared to be freedom often isolated workers with the same risks and bills that newsrooms once shared."

Can’t overemphasize what seeing Vince Staples watching Videodrome on a flight would do to my brain chemistry

i've been thinking a lot about how much easier it is to go off and start your own newsletter than build something collectively. 'independence' is structured this way intentionally, and i think it's crucial for journalists to resist it and work together.

ending ep 5 of heated rivalry with that Wolf Parade song was diabolical, I'm sobbing, 10/10

Only awesome reports that people are very very proud of producing are released on the Friday before xmas because that’s when everyone gets together to read your report

Screw Anduril and Palantir... I want to start a company called Bombadil that just makes fun shit, staffed by people who enjoy their jobs and have plenty of time to smoke weed and laugh. I don't even know what they'd do but it'd be something _whimsical as fuck_ let me tell you

Sending out this #journorequest for a story I’m working on for @xtramagazine.com. I'm looking to hear from trans folks who can speak on what role their workplace situation, such as hybrid or remote, played in their ability to navigate their queer identity. DMs open or by email (in bio).

fuck these evil nerds and their penchant for naming their evil companies after things in Lord of the Rings

FOI filing spreadsheet is up to date and I'm discussing FOI tips and tricks with some student reporters so let's take a little look back at the year in FOI filings, shall we? It is truly a great and functional system that is definitely not turning my hair greyer by the day 🥲 #bcpoli

NEW: York University Censored Exhibition at Goldfarb Gallery then Fired the Curator Artist Amy Ching-Yan Lam was forced to change her 'Acceptable Protest' animation, removing a 'Free Palestine' sign and reference to a university president character. By @rdassaly.bsky.social.

It's especially wild because Amazon and other private courier companies were written about at length in the report that the government is basing its Canada Post overhaul on! pressprogress.ca/canada-post-...

Gaur að leita að Ísfirðingi, einhver ykkar að hlusta á hann?

[radio shock jock voice] Big Nick and the Wet Man

I was thinking of one journalist in particular when I gave this quote, but there are actually a few in Los Angeles who've gotten very good at this unfortunate skill. Hats off to all of them. Support your local journalists.

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Here's our guide to the many United Conservative MLAs facing recall, and why their constituents across Alberta say they want them gone: pressprogress.ca/ucp-mlas-fac...

Q: When you took this project on, what did your life look like? A: I was serving at The Old Spaghetti Factory [in] New Westminster. It’s like y’all’s version of an Olive Garden. I would argue less swanky, but I loved it there.

is heated rivalry's most toxic situationship really gonna make me cry right now???

Michelle Bryant-Gravelle knew it wouldn’t be an easy journey when she accepted a position at the City of Vancouver as its first senior director of Indigenous relations three years ago. She’s now stepped away from her role, due to a number of incidents at the city over the past year.

"Here are some of the ways federal and provincial governments intervened in labour disputes in 2025." "[M]ore often than not, governments across Canada sided with companies and corporations, not workers." #Alberta #Quebec #Canada #Labour

I would like a society to ridicule everyone who thinks a government should be run like a business into never sharing that opinion publicly ever again

VIDEO: and that's how you cook a whole turkey in a log cabin ME: what an informative and soothing time YOUTUBE: more videos from FrontierPatriot88 ME: oh, I did not read that name before-- FRONTIERPATRIOT88 VIDEO: how to homeschool your white children ME: ME: yeah my bad

Hello friends, I recently lost my health insurance + benefits & am currently looking at a bill of over $16,000 for which I cannot pay. This would not necessarily be an issue if I were not visually impaired and currently out of full time work, but I am humbly asking for assistance now. Any bit helps.

In late Nov. researcher @kwardvancouver.bsky.social pointed me to an OPCC investigation summary into now ex-VPD officer’s abusive relationship with a teenage girl. They met when he made a policing presentation at her high school & she expressed interest in being a cop. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12... 1/

Oh wow, absolute power corrupted you absolutely? That’s so weird, I got absolute power last year and my subjects say I’ve only gotten wiser and more virtuous

wrote a lil year-end round up about Canada Post, Air Canada flight attendants, and all the government interference we have to look forward to next year 🫠

Western Canada is about to get its first new medical school in decades. But if Simon Fraser gets its way, the school will be free of any unionized faculty. pressprogress.ca/sfu-medical-...