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submitted 1 day ago • 578 comments

It's hard to understate how important Representative & former Speaker Hortman was to Minnesota politics - she was probably the most prominent woman politician & integral to the recent budget deal. She was also incredibly kind and a real person - Kiernan sold her girl scout cookies. It's horrifying.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

submitted 4 days ago • 709 comments

It is imperative to recognize and call out this regime's bigoted identity politics. Their treatment of nonwhite electeds amounts to Taneyism. To them, these officials hold no authority they are bound to respect. Padilla, McIver, Baraka are merely the latest. They are doing this to POC on purpose.

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

i somehow only just now learned that Zohran Mamdani made a rap song and recorded a music video... AND ITS A BOP??!? youtu.be/iQVsVNPkPmE?...

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

The lack of total outrage at the indictment of Congresswoman McIvey is truly frightening. Hakeem Jeffries ought to be causing high holy hell over this. She is indicted because she is Black. Half of the GOP caucus engaged in sedition and Garland felt arresting a member of congress went too far.

submitted 4 days ago • 525 comments

Two things are true: the defacement of the Holocaust Memorial in #Ottawa is unacceptable and antisemitic, and this move by the Canadian government is welcomed and necessary. Next move needs to be a complete two-way arms embargo. #cdnpoli

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Understanding Canadian Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) & Wildfire Smoke Wildfire smoke consists of toxic gases and particulate matter (PM) when breathed in gets into our lungs, bloodstream, and even our brain. 🧪🧵1/ #IAQ #IndoorAirQuality #wildfire #smoke #AQI #AQHI #Canada

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

If interested, I have a zine about the use(s) of tear gas by police against protesters in the U.S. issuu.com/projectnia/d...

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social we DEMAND a full and complete two way arms embargo NOW. #cdnpoli

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine if every Ontario school and bus had air quality monitors, N95s, and air cleaners. We’d have real-time data to inform timely decisions on using masking and air filtration to protect kids’ health when the air is bad, AND to mitigate airborne infectious diseases! #Wildfire #Smoke #OntEd

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

This free pattern is up in all the places now! Plus a tutorial video to go with it! youtu.be/tuX1vuaAX1Y www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... payhip.com/b/mq9M4 www.patreon.com/posts/130798...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

I am an addict in recovery and have many austitic friends neither autism or drug use make you a nazi. Stop it.

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

Pollution levels in Ottawa are very high from wildfire smoke. The particulate matter (PM)2.5 levels surpassed 140 ug/m^3 Thursday evening and are still above 130 on my VisiblAir Model X outdoor sensor ( visiblair.com ). 🧵1/ #iaq #wildfire #smoke #airquality

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

FYI📣: a Special Air Quality Statement has been issued for Ottawa. Please keep an eye on the AQHI and plan your activities accordingly. You can learn more here: www.airqualityontario.com/aqhi/today.p...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

It’s Flytrap Tuesday, and that means a new read! Don’t miss @tinavasquez.bsky.social’s poignant report on the flying of Mexican flags in her neighborhood in a time of brutal repression of immigrants theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/the-quiet-...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS

submitted 14 days ago • 59 comments

Smoke, like viruses, does not respect boundaries Nationalism and isolationism are doomed to fail in a highly connected and interdependent world

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Premier Moe has declared a 2 week state of emergency over wildfires burning much of the northern part of the province. Over 15 evacuation incidents, hotels in Prince Albert are full and evacuation centre has set up at the Exhibition Centre. #wildfires #skpoli

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

The most important lesson to learn right now is that centering the needs of those who have been pushed to the margins is the way to solve the most pressing problems of the moment.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

"Separating the art from the artist" is for people like Picasso, who was a total bastard a very long time ago but also an artistic genius whose work is actually important to human culture It is not for a mid tier kids' author that is actively trying to eliminate a whole group of people right now

submitted 18 days ago • 54 comments

the nora reed designs pride 2025 collection is here nora.jewelry #bsnm

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

Raise your hand if “Return to Oz” scarred you for life.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

The "Joe Rogan for the left" everyone is looking for isn't a podcast, it's a union.

submitted 26 days ago • 13 comments

Hey @parismarx.com, is generative AI like ChatGPT more environmentally harmful than the AI that is involved in @inaturalist.bsky.social or the technology that powers @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social's Merlin Bird app? If you don't have time to answer I understand. Thank you so much!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

The fascist win if you lose your compassion for other people. That's part of the war. You have to keep compassion.

submitted 25 days ago • 33 comments

excited to announce a revised, expanded version of Policing Black Lives (@fernpub.bsky.social /Duke University Press) now available for pre-order, out October 15. ft. two new chapters, a new preface & an expanded conclusion. US version now offering 30% off with author code E26MYRD.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

There's still time to sign up for my upcoming course, Domestication Syndrome. Check out the syllabus below. First session is June 1st. Sign up here: mimbres.org/courses/dome...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

The year is 2025 and white women are still comparing shit that happens to Black women to the handmaid’s tale because they refuse to read another book or watch another television series. It’s exhausting. Using Black women’s bodies for breeding. Remind you of anything nonfictional? Maybe?

submitted 29 days ago • 9 comments

eugenics = white supremacy.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I told my mom a dirty joke that made her laugh like this, which, to me, is essentially Wellbutrin.

submitted 88 days ago • 29 comments

As a worker-owned feminist media publication, we believe in being honest about how much running a business costs. So here's the truth: we haven't been able to pay ourselves for all the brilliant work we have put out, so we are doing a subscription drive! theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/state-of-t...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

oh I see, when the pope chooses a new name, Christians are all for it and address him as such, but a TRANS person chooses a new name—

submitted 39 days ago • 18 comments

If Pete Hegseth was running this show we'd already know the name of the new Pope.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Until they open the box, all the cardinals are simultaneously Pope and not-Pope.

submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

submitted 40 days ago • 118 comments

Feels like we should make a concerted effort to not lose sight of the fact that the president's answer here was not "no" or "never" or "that is a preposterous question" or "that is an abhorrent idea."

submitted 42 days ago • 10 comments

[Ottawa] Save our science — protect Ottawa’s wastewater monitoring! 📣 Take action! Send letters to municipal councillors. Use our online tool to send emails. stillcoviding.ca/en/take-acti... #Ottawa #COVID #CovidIsntOver #AvianFlu

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

After a long bit of toiling, we're proud to announce the launch of Gander Social—a project to bring a new kind of social to Canadians. Canadian owned and hosted, a feed you control, privacy-first, consent-based, respectful by default. Join the Early Access program: gandersocial.ca

submitted 55 days ago • 88 comments

It's hayfever season again so here's a reminder of my pro-tips for avoiding pollen as a plant ecologist who's allergic to the things I study at this time of year

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

"In this country, our crushed nonresident alien bodies tend to hold no value except as an ominous sign for what might befall an American, our cuffs a mere foreshadowing of hypothetical ones around a US citizen’s wrist." Crushingly honest and heart rending truth.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Need to address some misinformation: The question of who lives in Stornoway is set out in law, it’s not left to Mark Carney’s arbitrary discretion The Official Residences Act depoliticizes these questions and prevents prime ministers from using arbitrary powers to be ”petty“ to the opposition

submitted 45 days ago • 27 comments

Join @amnesty.ca for an online discussion with award-winning novelist & journalist Omar El Akkad, in conversation with host @pacinthe.bsky.social. Sunday, May 4, 7pm ET Register for the free Zoom presentation at octopusbooks.ca/amnesty

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Bird photography tips, an oldie that is hopefully useful for spring migration right now.

submitted 47 days ago • 159 comments

Shout out to the slogan king who lost his job and also the still-fun edmundlam.github.io/pp-slogan-ma... #cdnpoli #ByeByePierre

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments