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Canadian, feminist, Hillary & Kamala supporter, politically liberal, Classics major, life-long fascination in Classical & Biblical Archaeology, adoptee, proud mother, loyal friend & voracious reader. I honour Black Women. 🇨🇦
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The administration gets closer to using the military to crush civilian dissent. Expect deaths, disappearances, and lawless detentions.

submitted 16 hours ago • 383 comments

They’re not behaving as if they’re in a four-year term. They’re behaving as if they’re in an everlasting dictatorship. Are we all clear on this?

submitted 19 hours ago • 554 comments

What a vile, wasteful, anti-American disgrace this is. No one who truly loves this nation or its people should abide it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 175 comments

To be fair it's easy to be vindicated when your commitment is "the border Gestapo are evil and should not exist" Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

Stephen Miller is privately raging over deportation numbers he deems too low. So he's shifting huge amounts of law enforcement resources away from fighting serious crimes and into his immigration crackdown. If voters knew about this, they'd recoil. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1961...

submitted 3 days ago • 1132 comments

NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya. The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science. www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

submitted 6 days ago • 85 comments

For weeks I have been arguing that the law firms that capitulated to Trump were not only immoral but made a bad business decision. Looks like I was right. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

submitted 6 days ago • 90 comments

Trump’s administration is putting zip ties on children. These babies dressed to go with their mom to court, bc she was doing the LAWFUL thing & our government ZIP TIED them 😩 I don’t want my tax dollars paying for babies to be zip tied, do you? It was never about protecting us from criminals.

submitted 9 days ago • 176 comments

From failing to publicize a major outbreak to scaling back safety alert specialists and rules, the Trump administration’s anti-regulatory and cost-cutting push risks unraveling a critical system that helps ensure the safety of the U.S. food supply, according to experts.

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

Pierre Poilievre campaigned on small government, small cabinets. What does he do, Appoints 74. Pierre is a dangerous lying hypocrite that under no circumstances can never ever become Prime Minister. Pierre criticized Trudeau for overspending, Yet Pierre spent $8.4 million, double that of Trudeau !

submitted 13 days ago • 25 comments

Citizens have been seized off the street and locked up on suspicion that they are undocumented migrants, and hemorrhaging moms like Porsha Ngumezi appear to have died because of abortion bans. Voters should know their names and see their photos. Gift article: 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

This is why Canadians will NEVER buy American dairy products. #cdnpoli Butter Recalled in 7 States Over Possible Fecal Contamination. www.newsweek.com/butter-recal...

submitted 14 days ago • 139 comments

A legal resident of New Hampshire was “violently interrogated” for hours, stripped naked, and forced into a cold shower. Given little food or water and prevented from taking medication, he collapsed and was hospitalized.

submitted 14 days ago • 26 comments

In times like this, integrity matters. Well done 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 Top lawyers walked out of Paul Weiss to start their own firm—right after the firm cut a shady deal with the White House to dodge an executive order that would’ve limited its business. Some folks still have a spine.

submitted 14 days ago • 648 comments

Grok is holding a grudge. 😂

submitted 14 days ago • 296 comments

The argument “young white men turn to hate because they don’t get enough empathy for the barriers they face” needs to square itself with the reality that men and women of color — and many white women — faced generations of barriers without turning to hatred in the same numbers. 1/

submitted 15 days ago • 201 comments

I don't want this to get lost: after RFK Jr. finished with his tantrum, he ADMITTED he is blocking BILLIONS in federal child care funding. That needs to change IMMEDIATELY.

submitted 18 days ago • 262 comments