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jolenec.bsky.social
Swampy Cree (First Nations person) in Canada. Federal public service employee. Interests: decolonization, Reconciliation, social justice, animals, biodiversity gardening & remaining healthy in an ongoing pandemic. Views are my own.
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Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki have contributed so much to our art and culture. Their greatest contribution may be to sue the absolute bollox of that ChatGPT Ghibli generator thing and everyone associated with it. Really hope they do it. Artists deserve protection, not soulless cloning.

If you using Studio Ghibli AI ChatGPT—Miyazaki should personally get to hunt you for sport.

Friendly reminder to reach out to Indigenous people now for events in May and June. Don’t put off booking folx for your Red Dress Day, National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+, National Indigenous Peoples Day, & Indigenous Heritage Month events. /1

Current and former U.S. military pilots expressed bewilderment after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused to acknowledge that he should not have disclosed sensitive information in an unsecured group chat. “If you can’t admit when you’re wrong, you’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.

"Parents can't find food for their children... [as] Israeli Forces continue bombardment." No humanitarian aid has entered Gaza for more than three weeks, says UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini, the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/2brjf3

Carney says Trump reached out to schedule a call amid trade war, annexation threats

Beware of this. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

GOP Rep. Bacon: "We made a mistake. We passed legislation that gave the president some temporary tariff authorities. I think we should look back and maybe restore the power back from Congress and take away the authorizations."

Winnipeg police confirm the identity of Mashkode Bizihiki'ikwe (aka Buffalo Woman) as that of Ashlee Christine Shingoose, one of four First Nations victims of a serial killer now serving a life sentence. Hear that story on APTN News Brief: pod.fo/e/2bef16

Now in wide release, my latest YouTube episode, where @plagasse.bsky.social and I discuss the moving military procurement, including the F-35s, away from the US #cdnpoli

Choking, strangulation victims 750% more likely to be killed by abuser Took Andrew Tate two weeks back in the US to commit a violent crime against a woman www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/26/a...

President Trump on Thursday threatened to impose heavier tariffs on Canada and the EU if they work together to "do economic harm" to the U.S., hours after he said he would impose 25% tariffs on imported cars and car parts. Follow live updates.

🇨🇦 @timothysnyder.bsky.social is also coming to UofT.

Again, the surge in Liberal support is coming in large measure from the NDP and in Quebec, the Bloc. It is not committed support and can be eroded with blunders or policies that turn off progressive voters. I'm begging people to understand this. angusreid.org/canadian-ele...

Thousands rallied at Tufts University today in support of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish graduate student who was kidnapped by ICE outside her apartment on Tuesday and sent to a Louisiana detention facility in defiance of a court order. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Consider this. 6 people in plainclothes approach you, and begin to cover their faces. At least one appears armed. As they grab your phone and backpack, they do not prove who they are. They say they're going to take you, but they're not saying why. What would you call that?

So Trump is setting a 25% auto tariff today, effective April 3. April 2, "liberation day," Trump will unveil a whole new round of tariffs (including lumber.) Trump: "We're going to make it all countries. We're going to make it very lenient...We're trying to keep it somewhat conservative."

Israel may be paying the price for its prime minister’s political survival, Gershom Gorenberg writes: theatln.tc/6CoOdcmO

The Premier of Alberta has a speaking engagement tomorrow in Florida with Ben Shapiro, it’s a fundraiser for Prager U. Her trip is being paid for by taxpayers. Tickets are $1500.00. youtu.be/Xx9d4lzg2tI

NEW: I spoke with a Canadian eyewitness of Israel’s attack on Oscar-winning film director Hamdan Ballal. Anna Lippman describes what happened, and calls for more Canadian politicians to speak up on this issue during the election. www.readthemaple.com/interview-wi...

The Atlantic releases the entire Signal chat showing Hegseth’s detailed attack plans against Houthis

Depuis quand les Autochtones peuvent-ils voter? ici.radio-canada.ca/espaces-auto...

This is fascist propaganda. The 200% dairy tariffs only kick in after a quantity of tariff-free dairy sales to Canada each year are reached, then the tariffs kick in and they are not reaching that amount in any category of dairy so the dairy we trade with them is TARIFF FREE. They are LYING TO YOU

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Transphobes know that it's impossible to gauge someone's "sex" by looking at them. Their goal is to police the gender of *everyone* because they want a return to traditional gender roles where patriarchy reigns and the rest of us are pushed out of public life entirely. This is Exhibit A ⬇️

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says no Canadian would lose their federal dental care or pharmacare coverage under a government led by him. globalnews.ca/news/1109702...

The term critical minerals is being thrown around “without a lot of attention to what it means." @triofrancos.bsky.social True dat. ‘Metals are the new oil’: B.C. fast-tracks critical minerals projects to counter tariffs: thenarwhal.ca/bc-critical-...

www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Just like Anand, other Liberal MPs are deciding to run again. Change in the polls, change in their decision-making.

Israel’s far-right government is studying a military plan to take over and rule Gaza after withdrawing from the Palestinian enclave two decades ago, according to a news report by The Financial Times. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/cflkmv

Two Conservative insiders told @stephenmaher.bsky.social that Poilievre’s team discussed using Conservative candidate Jamil Jivani to send back channel messages to JD Vance requesting Donald Trump “distance himself from Poilievre”

🇺🇸🕯️ The former US attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia who was found dead Saturday morning had been in charge of some of the biggest cases targeting leaks in the CIA and Russian nationals (!) carrying out fraud in America, - NYP

This is the simple pattern in everything this administration has done: They don’t know what they’re doing. The chainsawing of agencies, the market-tanking stop-and-go tariffs, the war plans dumped unwittingly to a journalist on an open channel. They’re idiots. They have no idea what they’re doing.

The leaders of all of the federal parties in Canada accidentally added me to their group chat

A bird flu pandemic is looming. The virus has jumped to a sheep in Yorkshire, proving it’s adapting. With every spillover, the risk of human transmission grows. Time is running out swift action is our only defense.

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

We just had the first full day of the election campaign! How fun! Would you believe me if I told you things are already impressively stupid? We’ve got conspiracy dogwhistles. New flirtations with fresh disinfo ideas. Duelling tax cuts with unclear funding. It’s going to be a long snap election:

“We don’t know where Hamdan [Ballal] is because he was taken away in a blindfold,” said 28-year-old Josh Kimelman, who was at the scene. apnews.com/article/no-o...

A group of Israeli settlers just lynched Hamdam Ballal, director of the film No Other Land. They beat him bloody and bleeding and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in, took him, and no sign of him since.

In security this week, companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch US cloud services. Also, experts warn law enforcement could have sweeping authority to surveil people protesting against Elon Musk’s role in the US federal government. @evystadium.bsky.social has more:

Did Danielle Smith just admit she was helping the Trump Administration try to influence the Canadian election? Maybe. albertapolitics.ca/2025/03/did-...

Sask. has been a sea of blue in recent federal elections. Here's why it's worth watching this time around www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

JD Vance, "Denmark is not being a good ally" "If we need to take Greenland that is what President Trump will do because he doesn't care about what Europeans scream at us"

Politicians say every election is the fight of our lives. This time, it is, by Campbell Clark. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi... via @theglobeandmail.com

Canada to head to polls as Mark Carney calls snap election for 28 April

"President Trump claims that Canada isn't a real country. He wants to break us so America can own us. We will not let that happen," Liberal Leader Mark Carney tells reporters in Ottawa on threat from Trump administration as federal election gets underway. #cdnpoli #elxn2025