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Canadian COVID Forecast: Feb 1-14, 2025 SEVERE: ON VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, MB, North, QC HIGH: BC, NB, NL, NS, PEI, SK MODERATE: none About 1 in 42 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

submitted 28 days ago • 26 comments

Sex workers: sex work is work, and the best way to keep us safe is by decriminalizing our work. Some random person who's never done sex work and never spoken to a sex worker about this: Well, actually, what you need is a legalization model. Every time, without fail.

submitted 25 days ago • 14 comments

#OtD 30 Jan 1972 the Bloody Sunday massacre took place when British soldiers fired on unarmed civil rights protesters in the Bogside, Ireland, killing 14. Protesters had been opposing the policy of internment stories.workingclasshistory.c...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

On the good trans news front. The anti-trans youth changes to Policy 713 in New Brunswick have been revoked. This led to the ending of the lawsuit against the government of New Brunswick. Though a small victory, it means a lot to trans and gender diverse youth in New Brunswick schools.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

submitted 33 days ago • 1273 comments

I would watch this anime

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Every article on the Ontario election should being by pointing out that Doug Ford is wasting $175 million to hold an unnecessary election a year early. #onpoli #elxn2025

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers! Read, print & distro freely! Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social: itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...

submitted 34 days ago • 109 comments

This is my favorite picture of Stonewall. They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+. Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them. I think about it a lot in moments like this.

submitted 33 days ago • 383 comments

@gothnog.bsky.social #VERMIS

submitted 34 days ago • 168 comments

seeing a lot of folks talking about how conservative "pornography" bans are a pretense/prelude to targeting any & all queer or trans art, which is absolutely true also: banning & criminalizing actual honest-to-god porn is fascist in itself. say that too!

submitted 35 days ago • 27 comments

The remote work debate was funny because it forced the question "Is a job something valuable you do or is it a place you go to be watched like daycare" and the answer for a lot of them was yeah it's the daycare thing now come on inside recess is over

submitted 35 days ago • 437 comments

The same country that will make someone famous for pretending to spit in a dick is also making sexuality illegal 🤡

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

My mindset has shifted from "let's elect the best option to govern the country" to "let's vote to learn from Indigenous nations on how to live on this land without destroying it and each other" None of the mainstream options are serious about reconciliation 🤷🏼

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

On this day in 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada held that the abortion provision of the Criminal Code was unconstitutional and violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Let's learn more about the landmark R v Morgentaler case 🧵1/15

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

$2.237 billion on the Therme deal. $1.4 billion to move the Science Centre. $612 million on alcohol expansion. $3 billion on $200 bribe cheques. $103 million on government ads. $175 million on an unnecessary election. $7.527 billion in wasted public dollars. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

submitted 34 days ago • 19 comments

This goes so fucking hard dude

submitted 35 days ago • 23 comments

All media is political. Art is political. If you think your life isn't political, that's your privilege talking.

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#OtD 27 Jan 1913 the waiters and hotel workers general strike in New York was defeated, with IWW organisers advising strikers to return to work and organise a larger strike for the future. Learn more about the IWW at this time in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2018/...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Still more deadly than flu or RSV jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 35 days ago • 21 comments

If you share my deep concern that a fascist like Elon Musk could use the X algorithm to interfere with the upcoming Canadian election please write to Elections canada and demand a full investigation into X's interference in Canada. [email protected] www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

submitted 37 days ago • 343 comments

From populists on the right, but also from establishment figures desperate to bury their responsibility, there's an ongoing push to bury the harms of COVID. Long COVID alone costs 7M life-years (QALYs) and on the order of a trillion dollars a year in the OECD. www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issue...

submitted 98 days ago • 34 comments

This op-ed explains how to start an ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community. ⤵️

submitted 40 days ago • 119 comments

If you're looking for something to watch, may I recommend this hilarious mini series? youtube.com/playlist?lis... #WeirdCity

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I laid the wreathe for Canadians murdered by Nazis in the Abbaye d'Ardennes. Our young lie in fields all over Europe. They fought to free others from evil. For Elon Musk to give the fascist salute and say it's time to "get over nazi guilt" - Fuck him. And fuck those who say Canada should bend.

submitted 36 days ago • 136 comments

looking forward in two years to getting a push alert that american troops are bogged down fighting a quebecois nationalist insurgency in montreal

submitted 36 days ago • 739 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 37 days ago • 141 comments

HAPPY ERIC CANTONA DAY! 30 years ago today, Man Utd. star Eric Cantona responded to sieg heiling National Front/British National party supporter Matthew Simmons' racial abuse with a flying kick! To celebrate, we've done a ltd run of this image as stickers. Want some? DM us for details! #kingeric

submitted 37 days ago • 13 comments

Today in Australia is Invasion Day (aka: Australia Day). While for the colonialist state it marks the 1788 landing of the British First Fleet at Sydney Cove, for decades the date has been marked to mourn the invasion and colonisation by the British stories.workingclasshistory.c...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks Pascal 😹

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments