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Maps, History, Socialism Cape Breton deindustrialization Ask me about coal mining Alberta Advantage researcher and writer Calgary/Montreal
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Doing one of my favourite things this week, going down a mine.

The Progress Report is in a lot of funding trouble this month and at risk of closing shop. If that's all you need to hear, we'll just give you the donation link right up top—it's www.theprogressreport.ca/patrons. But if you'd like to know more about us and the situation, please read this thread 🧵

I do not thank border cops. No pigs in the union.

wait for the punchline

NEW: The RCMP, Canada’s federal police force, investigated me for my journalism about the Israeli military. Here’s what happened... www.readthemaple.com/the-rcmp-inv...

@iosegun.bsky.social, @camille-robert.info and Aparna Das take on the state and deindustrialization! #DePOT2025

Please help me save my family in Gaza. My name is Mohammed, and my family is living through unimaginable suffering—war, hunger, and no access to water or medical help. I'm doing all I can, but I need your support. Every donation, no matter how small, can bring hope and relief. gofund.me/345e1bc0

Me, telling a world leader the safest thing to do: run towards grizzly cubs yelling "I WANT TO TOUCH YOU!" and then pick the cub up and squeeze as hard as you can, because it's a "bear hug". Then wait for the mother to come and join the hug.

I wish it was easy to take your cats on a trip

France giving off big “Quebec of Europe” vibes

Extremely jealous of all the people biking around Paris while I have to walk like a peasant

I see Germany has yet to invent air conditioning since last time I was here 3 years ago

Passport control is absurdist theatre states like to pretend with

writing a foundation fanfic where hari seldon learns about the immortal science of marxism-leninism

Ugh 24 hr travel leg has begun

A reminder-the children's Tylenol deal, which they claimed they had to make because of the mass spread of viral illness, was $70 million dollars. Here, they are complaining about spending $21 million dollars on something that will actually keep people out of the hospital.

obviously it's important to distinguish the people in real uniforms who want to kill you for your political views from the people in fake uniforms who want to kill you for your political views

Just walkmogged some waitcucks at a traffic light’s pedestrian crossing. Enjoy the cold, dears - I’ll be over here, fifteen steps ahead of you and in touch with my city’s heartbeat

Riding this on Sunday. Very excited. youtu.be/l6umPyHxQio?...

Absolute disaster. Canadians voted against the Conservatives.

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Hey, I'm Alaa from Ga** and this is a story about my suffering. We are not scammers, spammers, or fraud . We are simply who we are living through gen@cide, starvation, oppression, and humiliation. I hope u all repost or quote it. This thread describes our story: 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc6hh8sa

The reality of counter insurgency is that the occupation will happen, it just takes a decade for the occupiers to realize they lowballed the estimate to succeed

judge: We have you on 90 counts of gnome slaughter me: that's nothing, i'm a gnome jihad veteran. i'll be out by lunch

My book list on fascism "Liberals use “fascism” to identify uniquely authoritarian politicians – exceptions to status quo neoliberal order. Rather than an aberration, fascism operates through everyday violences of colonial occupation, capitalist circuits of extraction & racial terror."

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Good resource! #davisday

At TCAF, I had the opportunity at my event for a public thank you to Toronto Writers Against the War on Gaza, & the No Arms in the Arts campaign. These artists work hard, at no small expense to themselves, to defend the lives of Palestinians, and to insist that arts funding is not also blood money.

One hundred years ago today Bill Davis was murdered by the coal company and the government. His death and the working class struggle paved the way for better labour rights in Canada, but we should not rest until capitalism itself is abolished. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

I appeal to you in the name of humanity. My son’s condition is getting worse and he has become weak and unable to move. Help me buy flour. The price of a bag is $600. chuffed.org/project/1263...

NEW EP: Pension Paradox: How deferred wages go to work for capital, with Tom Fraser albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/06/09/p...