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The Alberta Government is framing their abdication of public health measures as fiscal responsibility. It is far cheaper to give someone a vaccine than to keep them on a ventilator. Denying vaccines is one of the most most financially reckless things a government can do.

submitted 21 hours ago • 30 comments

@mark-carney.bsky.social campaigned on an assertion that if the US was unwilling to lead, Canada would. But Carney is simply towing the same ol' line "Israel has a right to defend itself," even when Israel clearly attacked Iran unprovoked. This is not leadership. It's corruption and cowardice.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

america is like siegfried and roy and fascism is like that tiger they kept around for years until one day it mauled one of them. people were like “ehhh it probably won’t happen” but deep down they knew it was only a matter of time. and now here we are in 2025. reading the siegfried and roy wiki

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

lol this is freakin perfect Share among your gym bros

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

i've been trying to see what the right wing platforms (even outside of X) are showing people regarding the protests in LA and i am not sure it can be overstated just how much the AI slop is being used to reinforce the idea that downtown is a post-apocalyptic war zone

submitted 3 days ago • 246 comments

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

submitted 3 days ago • 101 comments

You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

submitted 3 days ago • 227 comments

There is a maximum amount of time each day you're supposed to focus on the world's problems instead of your own, after which you have a legitimate need for therapy on your thought processes being self-destructive. At some point you have to stop scrubbing your hands you are bleeding into the sink.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

I think this is the first time I’ve seen Union Army regalia at one of these protests which is kinda fun. #iceout #protest

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I have been thinking about the idea of wrapping your movement in American history and the flag and I think there’s some merit to it I think for more revolutionary groups. It could be an interesting experiment to shield yourself in American history and the flag in larger protests. This has power.

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

We feed you. They hunt us.

submitted 4 days ago • 1250 comments

Greta Thunberg, describing the Gaza aid flotilla effort: "It's more important than ever because of the siege and because of the systematic starvation of over 2 million people and the full-blown, live-streamed genocide…we cannot accept just witnessing all this and doing nothing."

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Given that Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden all contributed to the foundations of what Trump is doing, I don’t see why any of them would comment now 🤷🏼

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

NDP Interim Leader Don Davies states: "Canada should join Ireland and other like-minded countries in taking a strong moral, legal and active stand to end the siege and bloodshed in Gaza and allow unimpeded humanitarian aid to stop this disaster." Davies directly calls out Carney: "how about you?"

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

The professional agitators are ICE.

submitted 5 days ago • 103 comments

🚨 Israeli forces have reportedly boarded the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Connection to the Madleen ship has been lost.

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

Live shot of the respectability police joining the protest discourse

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.

submitted 7 days ago • 124 comments

Bad shit happens when the military comes into to a volatile situation. This reminds me of a story from the 1992 riots in Los Angeles, to which some Marines deployed. I knew one of them and he told this story I also saw elsewhere — absent his telling it I would have assumed it was apocryphal. /1

submitted 7 days ago • 77 comments

People continue to act like disabled & covid caution folks want to return to lockdowns. We don’t. We want clean air in public spaces. Paid time off. Better access to testing. Free respirators and mandatory masking in healthcare. Those steps would drastically reduce spread.

submitted 29 days ago • 13 comments

What is this NASA you speak of, what does it do

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

LMFAO holy shit it is too

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

The craziest thing about this fight between Trump and Elon Musk is that Republicans are trying to take away health care from 16 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

submitted 9 days ago • 162 comments

Hey, chat, is it good when a judge begins a ruling by extensively quoting "The Trial"?

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

On a new episode of @broadbent.bsky.social's 🌅PERSPECTIVES🌅 @graceblakeley.substack.com explains how neoliberal capitalism has overruled democracy & why organizing is essential for taking back working-class democratic power. perspectivesjournal.ca/2025-ellen-m... 🔶

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

The EU is pushing a plan to give police "lawful access" to encrypted messages. But there’s no such thing—without breaking the encryption.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

To again quote @alicefraser.bsky.social on @thebugle.bsky.social, "If you can't afford to run your business while paying for the raw materials from which you make your product, you DON'T HAVE A BUSINESS! What you have in your hands is either an imperial project or a crime. Possibly both."

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

"I don't know what to say. If you can't afford to run your business while paying for the raw materials from which you make your product, YOU DON'T HAVE A BUSINESS. What you have on your hands is either an imperial project or a crime. Possibly both." @alicefraser.bsky.social on The Bugle, 05.03.2025

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

You hate 2°C it

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

Pretty wild to be living in a time when humans are being forced to work in order to even be considered deserving of life or even to be considered human at all, while simultaneously human labor is being systematically eliminated from the concept of work.

submitted 18 days ago • 106 comments

Say no to the golden handcuffs. This is a multibillion scam that will force Canada further into the military "protection" of the authoritarian regime in Washington. It is about making us a vassal state. We need to put the protection of our interests as top priority for military investments.

submitted 18 days ago • 459 comments

Suppose countries went back to requiring corporations to serve the public interest? Suppose countries went back to limiting the size of corporations, in order to preserve competition and enable smaller businesses to thrive? (Why would a functioning democracy allow anything else?)

submitted 20 days ago • 23 comments

Bee Everybody quiet down now and get some sleep. ‘Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you But in your dreams Whatever they be Dream a little dream of bees…’ #bee #goodnight #dream

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Spring walk through the Seaton Trail, Durham region, Ontario Canada. #nature #calmingnature #river #Forest

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Romantic Teen Stands Outside Crush’s Window Holding Up Peter Gabriel theonion.com/romanti...

submitted 22 days ago • 56 comments

For 7 years, Akasha Song ran secret labs that produced tens of millions of doses of DMT—one of the world's most potent psychedelic substances—and made a fortune selling it on the dark web. His story, in this 13,000-word piece, is one of the wildest I've ever told: www.wired.com/story/rise-f... 🧵👇

submitted 23 days ago • 22 comments