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It takes a lot of hands obeying orders to keep the military machine running. But one single break in the link can start to turn the tides. Please sign to support port workers refusing to send arms to Israel! secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

This is incredibly powerful from the WHO’s Emergencies Director, Dr Mike Ryan, on the world doing nothing as the children of Gaza die. “This is an abomination.” (🎥 Middle East Eye)

Alberta First Nations issue cease and desist order against Danielle Smith's attempt to create a national unity crisis. Alberta is on treaty lands. Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.

This is a kind and moving tribute that all Canadians should read— to feel good about our country, but also to understand, thoroughly and viscerally, that Ukrainians fight and resist above all for the sake of dignity, freedom, and democracy.

The dark, ugly subtext of the Pete Hegseth fiasco is that Trump/MAGA want Hegseth there because they seem him as their guy to carry out MAGA imperialist designs and domestic crackdowns if/when Trump orders them. @juliettekayyem.bsky.social is good on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1942...

Keep paying attention and stay connected. Danielle Moodie continues to be such an important voice👏 www.youtube.com/live/jo-K3BE...

Protest changes the permission structure. It says fascists will not be allowed to proceed unencumbered. And if you didn't think there was anything to be done, a protest shows you many think otherwise.

Israel has killed more journalists in Gaza than in both world wars, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan combined, says Costs of War project aje.io/te831k

It seems ICE had a quota for Venezuelan gang members & filled it by picking up people with tattoos. Rose, hummingbird, soccer, mother, Autism awareness. For that people are taken from their families & sent to spend the rest of their lives in horrifying conditions. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

NEW: You'll want to learn the name Jerce Reyes Barrios. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZXS...

Unpopular opinion - I fucking love winter. With everything going on in the world, I only become more grateful to catch moments like this.

Habitat for Humanity. For fucks sake.