NEWS: Marco Rubio met with a U.S. Southern Command general earlier today and took a photo in front of a map of Cuba. Trump has frequently said he plans to invade Cuba next after the Iran war.

mhmm. vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/03/31/v...

Respectability politics will chew you up and shit you out - and it won't ever protect you anyway because the standards will always be tightened.

More here on the “how this all affects Canadians, too,” part: The United States of America (through the DHS) is using the fact that big tech companies are based in the US to request information about Canadians, including specific location information, that it would not otherwise be able to get.

The U.S has been in a cold (race and class) civil war, and few pundits have named it directly. One of its architects, Kevin Roberts, “listened & learned” his way to a PhD in African-American studies in order to dismantle civil rights. And Canadians, if you read your history, this will affect us too.

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

Today, the day of the Met Gala, the unionized workers of the Met posted this image to their Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DX64ioYjecG/

they did it. you're literally watching history and the end of Reconstruction play out in real time

The Cuban government has firmly rejected the recent sanctions levied by US President Donald Trump.

The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident

In order to get to this stage, they relied on white liberals co-opting the struggles of [all] Black peoples in America, by turning the framework of ”being woke” into a meaningless and actionless word that white liberals later quickly renounced and then blamed for the rise of facism they helped fuel.

The overriding goal of America's right wing is to restore chattel slavery so they can own Black people. That's it. Whether they will admit it or not, whether they'll even admit it to themselves, their goal is legal domination and subjugation through violence of Black people. Everything leads there.

I condemn the Israeli assault on the Global Sumud Flotilla, a peaceful civilian humanitarian initiative. The unlawful detention of flotilla participants in international waters violates international law. 1/2

Rajoub told reporters after he refused to shake hands with someone who is whitewashing Israel’s actions, adding that Suliman didn’t even acknowledge what is happening in Palestine in his remarks. “Could I shake hands with someone representing a fascist and racist government?”

In 2021 the Vancouver City Planning Commission (led by @mssinenomine.bsky.social and @ayasinvan.bsky.social) wrote a memo outlining how the City should respond to heat events. Very few actions were actually taken, and now the rest are being cut. People will die. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

NEW: The One-Hour City Conspiracy! “Here's the REAL conspiracy: Too many people are forced into car-dependent lives, with more health harms, crashes, noise, air pollution, social isolation —& less space for everything our streets should be giving us.” Thanks @usa.streetsblog.org #1HourCityConspiracy

Residents proved their tap water carries sewage and bacteria. Federal funding dried up anyway. https://capitalbnews.org/cahokia-heights-water-crisis-sewage-tap-water/

Everyday, with almost every trending topic, this app feels exactly like what it would be like to be banished and imprisoned in white-liberal suburbia purgatory.

There should be a Sandlot movie about this gang of multi-racial kids running through the streets of Pasadena, with one of them ending up in Japanese internment camp (while the neighborhood took care of his family home), and one of them ending up being Jackie Robinson.

China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week www.abc.net.au/news/science...

The French Jewish Union for Peace has filed a legal complaint against FedEx in France for allegedly facilitating the transport of components for U.S. military jets to Israel.

A reminder: Mandela was listed as a terrorist by Canada and the U.S.A due to his leadership in the armed struggle against the white-state terror and violence that is racial apartheid. Today, many in Canada celebrate him while simultaneously condemning similar liberation movements against apartheid.

World Cup games to have largest police deployment in Vancouver's history theprovince.com/sports/vanco...

I’m going to keep highlighting this because it matters. There’s a difference between solidarity and spectatorship. Some of you are so focused on feeling bad for oppressed people that you end up twisting yourself into positions that strip agency from those actually resisting.

B.C. First Nations leaders say they were informed Saturday by Premier Eby’s office that gov would table legislation Monday to suspend parts of DRIPA – a plan that was then nixed Sunday. Eby to hold news conference on next steps tomorrow. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

On this third year anniversary of the war in Sudan we woke up to the devastating news that our friend and comrade Muzan Al Neel has passed away. She was a brilliant revolutionary thinker, writer and organizer and a wonderful human. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un

I know Indigenous people in Canada who are scared to go to hospitals because anti-Indigenous racism is all too common in healthcare.

Louisiana Advances One of the Country’s ‘Cruelest’ Anti-Homeless Bills The bill requires homeless people to perform unpaid labor to pay for treatment, which advocates said "evokes debtor’s prisons, convict leasing, and the ugliest day of Jim Crow."

notice where income and housing costs become completely untethered from one another

I consistently repeat to folks that they do not in fact ever *succeed* on their own. Sometimes the assistance is visible, often it is submerged. None of the USian billionaires *succeeded* on their own. In fact, most of them continue to benefit from your money, labor, etc....

It costs the City of Ottawa $465/person each year to serve new low-density homes, over & above what it receives from property taxes/fees. On the other hand, high-density infill such as apartment buildings pays for itself plus an extra $606/person each year. Sprawl costs, infill saves. #UrbanTruth

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores. The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

NDP Premier Eby is accelerating his heel turn on Indigenous rights. After winning the last BC election by a single seat, the question is whether abandoning FN communities will cost him re-election, given that 5-7 ridings could swing on the Indigenous vote alone. open.substack.com/pub/adampols...

“What the past three weeks have demonstrated is that this Premier prefers to triangulate rather than lead.” INDEED. this piece by @khelsilem.bsky.social is essential reading

Indigenous communities shouldn’t have to defend their humanity and land rights every time right-wing politicians and so called “progressive” local party leaders (BCNDP) - who unsurprisingly saw DRIPA as merely symbolic, until it wasn’t - want to whip up the fury of the public to win some votes.

Doug Ford got rid of Toronto’s school trustees. At one school, things blew up. Parents say that while issues at Bowmore predated the provincial takeover, the ensuing "chaos" should stand as a "warning sign for the entire public education system in Ontario": pressprogress.ca/doug-ford-td...

There have been too many poorly thought out “streamlining bills” from the BCNDP and I’m glad to see this one being withdrawn. If you’ve ever worked for a municipality reviewing submissions, you’d know just how rare it is to receive complete submissions that meet most bylaw requirements.

Here is a (FREE) article by Dr. Sasa on "green colonialism":

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

South Korean members of the opposition woke up at 3AM to storm their capital and stop a despotic president from declaring martial law. That same president is going to jail. Anyone in US opposition on vacation right now should be at the same Hague trials if we get there.

something a little too on the nose about saying it's "non-negotiable" that he will be curbing a law that makes repeated use of the phrase "free, prior and informed consent"

“For Premier Eby to suddenly say changing DRIPA is ‘non-negotiable’ and will pass this session is an absolute betrayal of everything DRIPA and of our evolving relationship with the NDP over the last decade” Grand Chief Stewart Phillip #bcpoli cheknews.ca/premier-eby-...

One of FIFA’s demands has been to ensure that the cities that signed on to host would agree to a large local and sporting event blackout clause. This FIFA agreement is one of the worst deals for Canadian residents and tax-payers and will haunt the Canadian cities that agreed to host for decades.

There’s a long history of Black liberationists standing on the right side of history, not only when it comes to Palestine, but when it comes to domestic injustices and the injustices of western imperialism. Even when the system plays its divisive cards, it’s often Black ppl that stand their ground.

“The loss is not just transparency. It is responsiveness. Citizens can no longer tell whether anyone is actually listening. They cannot easily understand why a decision was made. And they often have no meaningful way to challenge it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/governing-by...

The world not screeching to a halt when the US killed more than 100 little school girls on the very first day of this "liberating war" led us exactly to this moment

"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen" - Lenin And we are, currently, in the weeks where decades happen.

Let Israel’s crimes radicalize you towards an unconditional and unapologetic resolve for justice.