And MSM including @msnowreports.bsky.social is carrying on like evil, dangerous, demented Trump won something. Really, the Strait of Hormuz was open to all before Trump’s illegal war. And what about Traitor Trump’s threat to destroy an entire civilization, war crime threat?

here is a story we reported this story two years ago that remains very relevant.

Zheng Yi Sao led 1,800 ships and anywhere between 40,000-60,000 pirates before peacefully retiring on her own terms. www.jezebel.com/obviously-th...

It should probably be bigger news that there's a war between two of the largest countries in the world happening

Sharing ahead of Casey Means’ Surgeon General confirmation hearing tomorrow:

puberty blockers had been prescribed to trans kids, on the nhs, for 32 years before wes streeting banned them. over three decades.

The Supreme Court:

I'm so tired of this shit. Stop insinuating that people you don't like are gay as some sort of gotcha.

Wow did he sure crash out today..

Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

The last thing we need in an industry that's not exactly notorious for honesty is a writer with no conscience or capacity for shame who doesn't know when they're lying. We don't want this, we don't need this, and it only serves the rich who wagered all of our futures on a bet.

#Manitoba Rural hospitals might buckle under the pressure if measles spread continues: doctor Most would not have room to isolate patients suffering the airborne disease www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ProPublica published a devastating collection of letters and drawings from eight kids inside the Dilley Processing Immigration Center, which one politician has called a “monstrous machine." www.jezebel.com/dont-forget-...

In turns fascinating, terrifying, and deeply depressing, this series is must-read to understand how we got here.

Measles outbreak in DC linked to anti-abortion March for Life www.nbcwashington.com/news/health/...

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

It's actually pretty staggering watching the US news media slowly resign itself to the reality that there won't be any more federal elections.

Masking is not about doxing. That is the excuse. They are wearing masks so people cannot identify agents who engage in abuses, civil rights violations, and crimes. You can’t report someone or hold them accountable in any way if you can’t identify them.

Three-hundred Catholic leaders called on the Senate not to fund ICE and Customs and Border Protection in the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

After this week, I have no plans to return to the U.S. anytime soon. What's happening there is absolutely sickening. Sincerely, fuck Trump, fuck ICE and fuck every single person who's supported them. All of that is to say: publishers, please hold more events elsewhere, like Canada or Europe!

"I said this to the president: I meant what I said in Davos. It was clear it was a broader set of issues that Canada was the first country to understand—the change in U.S. trade policy that he had initiated—and we're responding to that," says PM Carney re: call with U.S. President Trump. #cdnpoli

The UCP government should simply do the right thing and respect human rights, respect individual freedom, and respect medical doctors’ autonomy and professionalism. Rescind this discriminatory and hurtful legislation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

DHS says it “has body cam footage of the Pretti incident.” If the agency had real, untouched footage worth seeing, we would have heard about it days ago…you know, when multiple bystanders released footage from multiple angles showing a man being executed by their agents.

“Join National Nurses United RN members in a week-long series of actions to honor Pretti and all who have been murdered by ICE, as well as demand that Congress vote to immediately abolish this violent, racist, and lawless agency that poses a dire public health threat to all of our communities.”

As a VA nurse, Alex Pretti was a member of AFGE. This union also reps Border Patrol, and may have repped Pretti's killer. I talked to VA workers who are furious and want Border Patrol out of AFGE. "For a union member to kill another is a fundamental betrayal of what a union is supposed to be.”

It's hard to figure out if I'll ever find the perfect balance between hope and despair, but here's the closest I've come. new on the blog.

Wolves have a moment of silence for Alex Pretti, after seven seconds of silence several fans yell "FUCK ICE"

Canada must pull out now. 🍁

We cannot wait anymore. The time to strike nationally is right. The. Fuck. Now.

"At least for myself, I don’t have a grand design for the future. I don’t even know if we’ll survive much longer as a species into the anthropocene. But I know when the apocalypse comes, I want to be able to say that I took at least some steps, no matter how small, to stop the end of the world."

IL congresswoman Delia Ramirez addressing now the crowd as well, calling attendees freedom fighters. Just to give a sense of scale for how many people are out here in the snow and cold, this is just the outer fringe of one half of a block of Congress Plaza, which is completely full.

Chicago stands with Minnesota.

“But the antidote to moral injury doesn’t usually start with grand gestures, it starts with recognizing our capacity to act in the service of our values in small ways that remind us we have at least some agency, even if everything in us is screaming that we have none.” Excellent piece.

Struggling to imagine who would go to this but someone should get a list up of theater numbers where it's being screen when they're up

Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research

A genuine hero. "Family members say the man killed by a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis on Saturday was an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about people and was upset by President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city."

Reminder: If the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, some of the ICE officers currently brutalizing Minnesotans may be reassigned to apprehend newborns from the hospital for immediate deportation. Just read the Trump administration’s own memo. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

Minnesota is a fucking inspiration right now

Today is the day. Right now hundreds of Minnesota businesses and institutions are shut down. Thousands of people are refusing to work. There’s a massive picket at the airport. Minnesota’s resistance to ICE today is changing the tenor our fight against fascism. www.jphilll.com/p/the-first-...

If all it takes is for good people to do nothing, stopping it begins the moment good people do something

Donate to MN NLG nlgmn.org/get-involved/

Feeling enormous, overflowing love for everyone taking part in today’s general strike. Abolish ICE now, solidarity forever.

Ontario public hospitals face austerity while the govt continues to expand for-profit providers Ontario has the lowest per capita hospital spending in the country “Ontario hospitals: $1 billion structural deficit” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

He knows there's already a "Board of Peace", right? It's called the "United Nations" and he's spent a year telling them to fuck themselves?

It really feels like we've learned absolutely nothing from the pandemic, mostly because we absolutely haven't. "That could have big impacts on commuters, especially around Toronto. And where do the Ford government’s highway plans fit in? What about emissions from all these extra cars on the roads?"

This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.

trump's gonna declare war on iceland now, just to cover up his cognitive glitch

The Tsilhqot'in National Government issued a statement saying a geotechnical report commissioned by the province after that slide found an "imminent" risk of rockfall into the river.