Back on here to post this thread from Geo Maher, who wrote two books on Venezuela’s revolutionary movements and history. He said ask him anything. I’ll likely deactivate soon, so please cut and paste the link, if you want. www.facebook.com/story.php?st...

The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking. It exposes that much of the world has been cowed. Most notable exception: the Latin American left. That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3

Calls to strip pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah of his British citizenship pile torment on top of torture. New piece by me on a dangerous and manufactured storm: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We need your help. We're still $5k away from hitting our fundraising target for this year. Make a tax-deductible donation now at redemmas.fund

They are $55,000 away from their goal. If they don't reach it by the end of the month, then they cannot open in the New Year.

October 25, 2025 Ep. 1031: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Thanks Leanne! @biidaasamose.bsky.social @youvechanged.bsky.social vishkhanna.com/2025/10/25/e...

Was invited to contribute to the Quarter Mark on significant moments of the first 25 years of this century. With thanks to DB and Rinaldo Walcott for reading and thinking with me. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Teuta Hoxha, “on day 43 of a hunger strike…could die in prison if the UK government does not intervene.” news.sky.com/story/fears-...

Sameer Project has a "Give Warmth to Babies" initiative to allow a doctor to provide advice to mothers on how to protect their babies from frostbite. It is an absolute tragedy and failure that the above sentence has to be written. Please support their initiative here: chuffed.org/project/1368...

Even with broad public support, no major museum has taken up the genocide in Gaza. No large institution I know of has put on an exhibition about Palestinian artists or Palestinian lives. www.equator.org/articles/how...

The alternative to the Substack model is collective ownership, where we can pool resources and redistribute capacity together. If you value worker and reader owned music journalism, consider joining New Feeling! Currently $5/month or $55/year. www.newfeeling.ca

These architectures are continuously morphing, adapting, redeveloping from the bottom-up, outside capitalism’s forced marriage between architects, clients, and financiers." Mahdi Sabbagh

Love to see more readers gaining access to this fantastic book, published in the U.S. by @uminnpress.bsky.social. If you haven’t read it, we recommend you do. Available here: bookshop.org/a/106297/978...

book of the day 🌲🌲🌲

***REPOST FROM SAMEER PROJECT*** 🚨🚨WE NEED YOUR HELP🚨🚨 The rain and flooding from Storm Byron has wreaked havoc on Gaza. Families are without shelter, without warmth. The death count is now up to 14 people in the past 24 hours. Preventable deaths!! chuffed.org/project/1491...

Isabella Hammad and Mirza Waheed discuss Palestine, Kashmir and their parallel histories. This was a live event recorded at London’s Southbank Centre and we’re glad to be able to share it with you now as the latest episode of the PalFest Podcast thepalfestpodcast.podbean.com/e/special-li...

This is depraved

Learn more about what mutual aid work looks like in Gaza post-"ceasefire" and how the Sameer Project's work has shifted with people returning home, the "yellow line," cratering donations, and working for 2 years through immense loss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVAE...

Fellow academics and cultural workers, please consider joining me and scholars like Robin Kelley, Angela Davis and Ruthie Gilmore in signing this important UAE boycott letter: spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...

Including @biidaasamose.bsky.social Live Like The Sky! “Remember to look up when fighting back”

Onigaming First Nation in northern Ontario says it’s done being ignored, as mining plans that threaten its water advance without its consent. For a community grieving multiple losses, it's one struggle of many. Via @jonthompson.bsky.social + @ricochetmedia.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/onigaming-fi...

For two years, a Sudanese paramilitary force has been massacring civilians—with Canadian-made weapons. @nisrinelamin.bsky.social and Ismail Adam join @desmondcole.bsky.social to discuss how decades of Canadian mining interests and weapons smuggling makes Ottawa complicit in the war in Sudan.

To All Those We Are Indebted To - a four book series in Arabic & English, each arranged around a dialogue between two critical thinkers. First in the series, 'the light through the shards', showcased here. We are so pleased to be working with Bilnaes Books to help distribute these -

Canadian weapons are being used by the RSF to commit atrocities in Sudan, but the complicity runs deeper Ismail Adam, @nisrinelamin.bsky.social and @policingblack.bsky.social call for an arms embargo to Sudan, increased aid, and a robust refugee resettlement program breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...

Hamilton tonight with Boyhood and Zoon supporting. ❄️❄️❄️❄️🎶

Celebrate Native American Heritage month by reading In-Na-Poets! Amber McCrary is a Diné poet, zinester, feminist and artist. She is Red House clan born for Mexican people clan. She currently lives on the Navajo Nation. Support Indigenous Poetry here: https://loom.ly/724Kxz0

Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

You know what’s actually inconvenient, Mr. King? Being an Indian who has to constantly deal with the damage caused by pretendians.

Qobuz is good if you want a non-genocidal (and less terrible for musicians) streaming service

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social wins the $75K #HilaryWeston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead, published by Alchemy by Knopf Canada. The prize is supported by The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation. #WTAwards #canlit

Huge congratulations to @biidaasamose.bsky.social for her brilliant Theory of Water!!!!

Congrats to Omar El Akkad & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson both shortlisted for the 2025 Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction ICYMI here are my 2025 conversations with each Omar: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar... Leanne: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean... @biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org

tania willard wins the sobey!

decolonialfutures.uva.nl/annual-lectu... @biidaasamose.bsky.social in the netherlands lets go!

Today's Featured #CanLit in-store is 'Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead' by @biidaasamose.bsky.social 💕🇨🇦📚💧 Visit us in person or online at tidewaterbooks.ca 💕🇨🇦📚 Feed the Algorithm Local! *Like*Comment*Share* #IndieBookstoreCA #ShopSmall

featuring @biidaasamose.bsky.social's new album on @youvechanged.bsky.social

"Unifies us across the occupied pond" Anishinaabe author Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (@biidaasamose.bsky.social) gets a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review from us for NOOPIMING: THE CURE FOR WHITE LADIES, out today via @andotherstories.bsky.social

Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.

"And I remember … trying to record with a cassette tape off the car radio… Joy Division, New Order, the Cure. Sometimes the music that you're listening to in high school and in your early years as an adult kind of defines you and takes you through adult life." 🎶 - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

New blog post! Wrote about new records from Sam Woodring @pretzlerecords.bsky.social, Cusp @cuspband.bsky.social @eisrecords.bsky.social, E.R. Visit, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social @youvechanged.bsky.social:

miigwech for the visit @vishkhanna.bsky.social

1031! Leanne Betasamosake Simpson hear Kreative Kontrol ⬇️ 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e... 💰: www.patreon.com/posts/ep-103... ☁️: overcast.fm/+AA3_ntAhFqQ vk: bit.ly/4ohFRo3 🌲: linktr.ee/vishkhanna @biidaasamose.bsky.social @youvechanged.bsky.social

Live Like the Sky is released. A sound track for all of those out fighting genocides, facism and colonialism. 💕🍉. On all the streamers. Cds & Vinyl on Bandcamp.

www.leannesimpson.bandcamp.com out by @biidaasamose.bsky.social today!

Official Release Day! @biidaasamose.bsky.social Live Like The Sky YC-068 LP/CD/Digital Listen now at linktr.ee/youvechanged...

@biidaasamose.bsky.social “Live Like The Sky” (@youvechanged.bsky.social) www.leannesimpson.bandcamp.com Warm chords slashed over fractured tabulated waves, Simpson swims in driving hybrids combining glancing tangents and slippery symmetry inside liquid, jet-propelled fusion.

So happy to have shared water stories with @biidaasamose.bsky.social and Candice Hopkins. Water becomings and Indigenous futures!