This is so spot on

I know, my friend, that at times you suspect you have a tendency to catastrophize, but know, my friend, the terror you feel upon seeing the headline “Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change,” is not catastrophizing, but an appropriate response.

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Thank you, Tod. Amid the heartbreak, I am profoundly grateful to be Canadian. I don't know if it can make a difference at such a searingly painful moment, but I hope the people of Tumbler Ridge are at least aware of how much love and caring is being directed their way by the rest of Canada.

These concentration camps are a threat to everyone, citizen or not. It was never about immigration. When dissent gets you put on a watch list, and due process has become near non-existent, no one is safe. If you aren't outraged, you really aren't paying attention. #Pinks #Resist

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

The Washington Post has laid off every reporter and editor covering the Middle East and Ukraine. Looks like Trump doesn’t want any reporting of those critical areas.

Approximately 40% of the American people approve of the fascism, the bigotry, the violence, the cruelty?! If this is accurate, it is breathtakingly bad.

This is powerful. Minneapolis is EVERYTHING that is good in America. I've said it before and I'll say it again. The people of Minneapolis, Minnesota are awe-inspiring. 🙌🙏🫶💪👏✊️👇

From a small 4-fan portable to a full size aluminum bodied, 6-fan, multi-speed powerhouse, we have kits for every budget! #cleantheair #airpurifier #CovidIsAirborne

i want this for canada too, and it will only come through dependable public funding of journalism along the lines that exist in some european (particularly nordic) countries. we need to stop letting conservatives and old-guard figures who arose in a different era try to discredit public funding.

Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025. Meanwhile, thanks to his new Tesla pay package, Elon Musk could stand to make $3 billion more per year than all 1.4 million elementary school teachers in the U.S. combined. See the problem here?

DTAH is revitalizing Seaton Park for the Bloor-Annex BIA! Share your thoughts to [email protected] by Sunday, Feb. 15, at 5 p.m. Learn more: www.bloorannex.ca/news-events/...

This Member of Congress finally got access to the Minneapolis detention center and her report is genuinely appalling. Please watch and share.

NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

He's not wrong. Too bad something like four multibillionaires, own all of the paper and TV news and are in his pocket. #trump #fucktrump #rape #sexualassault #potus #president #epstein

Yes, we had a major snow event. Yes, the city is triaging, and many sidewalks in particular still need work. But it's been a week and arterial bikeways are remain unrideable and worse appear to be dumping grounds for snow-clearing. What's the plan, Toronto? www.torontotoday.ca/local/transp...

Black History Month is a time to recognize the lived, shared experience of all Black folks who have fundamentally shaped, challenged, and ultimately strengthened America. It’s about taking an unvarnished look at the past so that we can create a better future.

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

I’m fond of Canadians who love many things about this country but balance that love with the recognition that we share a lot of the same systems of oppression with the United States and can’t simply reduce everything to Canada good, America bad.

“Doing nothing is often cowardice that we’ve dressed up to look like discretion.” Craig D. Lounsbrough

bUt nObOdY RiDeS BiKeS HeRe iN ThE WiNtEr Bike lanes are impassable. BikeShare stations are snowed in. Still nearly 2,000 trips.

One Big Grift.

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Everyone. PLEASE—call your senate reps now (about so many things) NOW about HJR 140. If they remove federal protection of the boundary waters all public lands could be at risk. We will never, literally never, go back from this. Please help me amplify this! #minnesota #bwca #publiclands

Good for him! Bravo!

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

If you'd like to escape our fraught reality (not to mention the bleak midwinter) for awhile, I highly recommend Tod Maffin's utterly charming new podcast, Mirror Falls. After listening to the first two episodes, I feel refreshed, like my soul has had a little holiday. ❤️

NEW: There are 2,400+ elections for DA & sheriff this year. These matter hugely to criminal justice & policing—including: *these are often officials who decide ICE collaboration.* So I took a dive into these 2,400+ races to identify early hotspots and battlegrounds. Read, & check out our maps:

"The whistle method: three short, fast bursts to indicate ICE is present. Three long, slow bursts to indicate ICE is actively harming or apprehending someone. If you're in a car use your horn. ‼️🚨" OP: www.threads.com/@thyme_is_ho...

Powerful Art!

If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.

I’m just going to leave this here.

In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.

We don't know the true count of how many times agents brandished their guns at people in Minneapolis yesterday. But it definitely happened in multiple locations near 26th/Nicollet yesterday morning. Should go without saying, but will say it anyway—and this was after they just killed someone.

This thread is heartbreaking.

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So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened

A vitally important point -- the people doing this (volunteer) work are incredibly brave:

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

Abolish ICE, abolish DHS, redistribute the other agencies, prosecute actual criminals, such as people who commit execution-style murders of Americans in broad daylight.

They are going down the list of amendments now. And the entire ICE action is the most obvious violation of the Fourth Amendment this country has ever seen.

The term “law enforcement” should not be used by media, except perhaps in quotations. It has sadly become an Orwellian term that is used to magically sanctify violence. Language matters. Be specific. Describe individuals with names and ranks. Say exactly what they did. Don’t repeat fascist hocum.

Trump is coming after all of us. All of us who oppose his tyranny and brutality. All of us who defy his dictatorship. All of us who seek accountability and challenge his murderous goons. All across America we must rise up against this oppression, as peacefully but as definitively as we can.

There is nothing we can't do together. #CanadaStrong ❤️🍁❤️