“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything to steer the future away from endless war and grinding down of the poor.Hope gives a future." -Rebecca Solnit

Under fire and unrepentant, Labour Minister David Piccini says he will keep handing out cash from Premier Doug Ford's controversial Skills Development Fund to preferred groups regardless of how low their applications score.

He's even off-putting to other Conservatives.

I keep wondering how much longer people can remain willfully unaware.

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

Three days after the UN inquiry declares "genocide" in Gaza the Carney government says they are still waiting for "all the evidence" before taking a stand. What an epic moral failure.

Bluesky reaches 39 million users bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Shocking to no one who has been paying attention for the past two years.

Here's the thing to know about vaccines: They work on the population level far, far better than the individual level. A vaccinated person in an unvaccinated community is much more likely to get sick than an unvaccinated person in a vaccinated community. 1/

100K Subscribers on Day 1 and this is just the beginning of us taking back the public space from fascist disinformation. Thank you, everyone, for helping to make this launch day such a success! We're gonna keep kicking at the darkness until it bleeds daylight.

Over 150 Canadians including toddlers have been kidnapped by ICE. Our government continues with the fiction that travel in the United States is normal. But Canadians are no dummies. The boycott remains strong. Las Vegas mayor complaining that Canadians just won't come back. Hasta la vista baby.

This needs to be screamed from the rooftops - there is no reason to believe anything she says, nor anything the Trump administration says, about this case. They are all liars.

George Clooney chose the Altec 639 B microphone for his stage performance of Good Night and Good Luck. Meidas Canada has chosen the same microphone. Good enough for George Clooney and Edward R. Murrow good enough for us in fighting gangster fascism. We launch Labour Day. @meidastouch.bsky.social

Another video. Always remember: There are not enough of them. This is why they're so desperate to hire. The country is too big. If people come out, they'll be run out of every city.

“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.

Welcome to the fucking stone age, England. Do you all have mould in your homes?

@mark-carney.bsky.social @liberalca.bsky.social @melaniejolycan.bsky.social This isn't a rhetorical question. I want an answer.

@mark-carney.bsky.social @liberalca.bsky.social @melaniejolycan.bsky.social Have you been lying to us? Stop this NOW. Canada cannot continue to be complicit to genocide.

Even if the world pretends it isn't happening Even if the politicians are silent Even if the doctors are being killed Even if there is no group for you to join Even if you feel helpless Even if people think you are crazy You can still do something. Kick at the darkness. #grandmothersagainstgenocide

Her life is worth more than three years.

Full on belly laugh, right here.

It's looking more and more like it might be time for Thiel and Vance to oust Trump.

Children are being targeted and killed by the IDF. Starvation is used as a weapon of war. Our leaders have pretend they can't see the genocide. But ordinary people are speaking up. Please join the many vigils for Gaza taking place in communities across the land.

Another day of the slaughter of children in Gaza. They are murdered at hospital clinics, when they attempt to get food, when they try to get water. Meanwhile silence from western leaders. Pretending there is no genocide makes you complicit in the genocide. edition.cnn.com/2025/07/13/m...

Did anyone think the fucker in the White House would do the right thing? He hates our nation because we are a democracy. Because we believe in the rule of law. Canada needs to be on a war economy of resilience and resistance. This is not going away. We need to hunker down for the long fight.

Whoever decided to do this needs to resign immediately. #Ottawa #cdnpoli

The White House on Carney: "It’s very simple, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada caved to President Trump." MAGA is not interested in negotiating trade they are into ritual humiliation. We gave up our right to establish domestic tax policy on tech oligarchs. Trump is now going after dairy.

Meanwhile, the oft-cited "Israel can't be an apartheid state, it has Arab lawmakers!" argument is crumbling, as it makes clear there is a double-standard: Jewish Israelis get real free speech, Arabs get a lesser version of it. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

And meanwhile the sound of crickets from western leaders over Israel's crimes against humanity in Gaza. Pretending that there isn't a genocide makes you complicit in the genocide. Here is my piece on how to join the grandmother's resistance to genocide. charlieangus.substack.com/p/grandmothe...

And if you're new to this story, here's a statement about the whole sordid saga on my website: effinbirds.com/post/7856233...

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SCOTUS is savagely beating the corpse that was once the rule of law in America. Another key turning point in what is now unequivocally a fascist state to our south. If you go to the United States, you do not enjoy any rights.

Concerned you may know an ICE employee? Use icespy.org to check. Just point your camera and press the photo button. This app checks against hundreds of ICE employee photos from LinkedIn and shows you the closest match. #3E #StopICE

Say it with me: The biggest predictor in belief in misinformation is not a lack of education, it's over-confidence in your own ability to determine the truth.

Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment. Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off. 📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.

Omg.

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Maybe give him 5 minutes in what has been very challenging times, before tearing him down, @thestar.com ?

What a buffoon, blaming Trudeau for something Harper did. Trump: This was a big mistake,” said Trump. In fact, it was Stephen Harper who was Canada’s prime minister when all seven other members voted to oust Russia, following its 2014 invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea.

Trump meeting with Carney on G7: "Barack Obama, and a person named Trudeau didn't want to have Russia in, then I would say that that was a mistake." Fact check: Russia was suspended in 2014 following its annexation of Crimea. Harper was the Canadian PM, not Trudeau. It was a joint G7 decision.

I promise y’all: marching in step is quite easy. Nothing difficult about it. That bad marching was intentional. I guarantee it.

And yet people keep electing Doug Ford.

...Ontario?

American wine sales to Canada have dropped 93%. There has been a huge uptake in wines from Canada and other jurisdictions to replace the American brands. Way to go Donald.

‪@erinburnett.bsky.social‬ Ohhh, you worked for Trump, that's why you are lying for him.

‪@erinburnett.bsky.social‬ This deserves an answer.

The day we've all been waiting for is finally here!

Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social These young people are going to Gaza to try and stop the murder of children. That they have to put their live on the line reflects the absolute failure of the west, the G7, Canada. Call the Israeli embassy and warn them not to harm these children. The world watches.