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The public health infrastructure in both Ontario & Alberta are in a state of disgrace Politicizing public health turns out not to be good actually…

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Those concerned about violence might want to start with violence against immigrants, by ICE here, by illegal deportations to gulags and third countries, the violence against so many federal departments, against the law, the climate, the public lands, waters, civil rights, reproductive rights...

submitted 7 hours ago • 52 comments

This is, of course, true, but what it's missing is that centrist right-leaning folks don't hate street protests in the abstract, they hate the *people protesting, and want somebody to kill them.

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

The State never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. ~Thoreau

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Tom Nichols would have been a loyalist & taken a land grant in Ontario. Let their be no doubt

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

This is exactly the dynamic abuse victims are subjected to when the community elects to preserve ‘peace’ with their batterer. This is unreconstructed abuser logic

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

The State never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. ~Thoreau

submitted 11 hours ago • 15 comments

Don't listen to the people bleating on social media that "no one is doing anything." What they are actually saying is that THEY aren't doing anything. The reality is that folks are working in every corner of the world, doing so much to keep themselves and others alive, while building the future.

submitted 20 hours ago • 20 comments

When the people you are protesting against show up, go home. This is how we win.

submitted 19 hours ago • 80 comments

I tend to think about what is happening to America right now as the ongoing attempted murder-suicide of multiracial democracy by a white nationalist minority and it’s very frightening but what’s happening in LA feels like a good sign that we’re not going down without a fight

submitted 16 hours ago • 41 comments

A person who is an abuser (like the president) will find a reason. You cannot behave well enough. There is no way that you can behave that he cannot FIND a justification. So fight the fuck back if you are able.

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

One of the reasons I think “defund the police” is a great slogan is that you get to repeatedly tell people that studies show that police don’t actually solve murders, and in fact one-third of stranger-murders are committed by police.

submitted 21 hours ago • 67 comments

You fucking idiots this is coming here too. It'll just look more Canadian.

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

The thing about sending 500 marines in to LA is it isn't nearly enough troops to do fucking anything but it sure does definitively announce the end of the constitutional regime. The number of unforced errors they have managed to make in 140 days is astounding

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

I have a long-standing policy not to tell people whose bodies are on the protest line how to do it. You could be right but if you’re not in it, your feedback does more harm than good.

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

We confuse “you need to do something” with “I alone must be present for anything to be happening” Hell is already here. If people who organize don’t know you? You didn’t want to be known. You can change that. You cannot, however, choose to be unknown and then claim to not know what to do.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Listen to the street medics for more detailed info but one thing I can tell you for sure for sure is that COLD WATER is your first response to tear gas, pepper spray, and other chemical agents / pepper balls etc. just blast your face (and your whole body ASAP) with as much cold water as you can

submitted 11 hours ago • 39 comments

they are using guns and tanks for one part of the country and choosing slow death for their rural supporters through policy.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

The administration has declared war on certain parts of the country directly and they are also intent in murdering their supporters in rural towns. That's what's happening. THAT is the story but there is no mainstream press to cover it. Instead we get stories about college kids being too censorious.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

The MAHA fantasy of “health freedom” is just that, a fantasy. The wishful dream of health under capitalism is of being the exception. MAHA flatters into believing that if you hustle hard enough, if you’re not like them, you’ll survive. That’s not empowerment—it’s a trap.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Israel just carried out another act of piracy in the Mediterranean, preventing a humanitarian ship from delivering food to a starving population in Gaza. If you’re wondering who’s ACTUALLY stealing the aid, Israel just did it out in the open.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

how some of these bitches sound right now

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

LA has one of the strongest and most robust mutual aid networks anywhere. mutualaidla.org

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

Be on the side of protesters. Period.

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

Well, the government killed a lot of the people in those orgs. Red baited others into social death. There was that whole neoliberal turn where we said non-profits were more civilized than activists. Even with all of that, those orgs (even some of their people!) are still very much around.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

The people are in the streets getting brutalized by a fascist regime and the networks are having ex cops and military give “analysis” and focusing “extremists.” No protest voices. See this thing for what it is.

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

The complication with asking major national Dems or past Dem presidents/ candidates to say anything now is that they too actively expanded the reach of ICE + the militarization of law enforcement + endorsed crackdowns on protesters.

submitted 12 hours ago • 33 comments

When they say peaceful they mean not disruptive. They interpret any interruption of the status quo as violent

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

Self-driving cop cars on fire is about as symbolically concise as you can get when it comes to representations of US fascism in 2025

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

Elon Musk perfectly laying out the case against privatization in a single tweet

submitted 17 hours ago • 176 comments

Witnessing genocide in Gaza has been uniquely life-disrupting to many in the US and Europe because alongside constant images of cruelty enabled by their own governments, many have also realized for the first time that their own friends, families, mentors, and coworkers condone unbearable atrocity.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Remember the government’s answer to poverty is a militarized police state, it’s answer to homelessness is a militarized police state, & it’s answer to popular dissent against a large scale human trafficking operation is, yup, you guessed it, unleashing a militarized police state.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

don’t forget: waymos and other robotaxis are surveillance devices on wheels that police are increasingly tapping for footage

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

Keep track of every single motherfucker who sides with the fascists over the people. Every politician, every pundit, every personality. People are revealing themselves with every passing second. Look around. See it. And don’t you ever forget it.

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

Regular liberal people must come to understand that there is no way you can appease Nazis and especially that there is no way that you can shrink yourself so they won't hurt you. Their main goal is to hurt you.

submitted 15 hours ago • 40 comments

For all the pundits and politicians who are going to second-guess the protests in LA. The first order problem is Trump. As is the second order dilemma. And the third. It’s easy to punch down. Try standing up.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

We might call this American Exception-ism.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments