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Toronto 🍁 Cinema lover. 📽 Die hard Liberal. 🏳️‍🌈 Proudly Canadian. 🇨🇦 Lapsed Muslim. ☪️ Fighting to do my small part to leave this world a better place. Let's start by abolishing billionaires.
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"Do you agree or disagree that Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip?" Agree: 49% Disagree: 21% Unsure: 30% Leger / June 8, 2025 / n=1511 / Online

This is like when Russian oligarchs and, more recently, Chinese tech billionaires learned the difference between being a fantastically rich person and being in direct personal control of the state and its powers.

The Washington Post, which silenced its Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist and reduced its opinion pages to a defense of “free markets and democracy” alone, would like to lecture other people on the importance of a free and full exchange of all ideas.

Rewording my earlier post. RFK Jr will be testifying before Congress. I am interested in what experts and others think would be the best way to leverage this time and opportunity for the public good. If you were behind the dais for this hearing, what would you do? What do you want to see asked?

I talked to @haaretzcom.bsky.social about Palestine and Israel, generational trauma, and how the far-right is trying weaponize Palestinian, Israeli, and Jewish pain for its authoritarian own agenda: www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

Carney & the Liberal govt’s new border bill is tightening immigration laws, expanding security enforcement powers & limits refugee rights. Critics say it also risks violating Charter protections. Are we following the U.S.–Trump playbook on immigration? We tackle this on This Matters @thestar.com

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

Ohman nails it again!

“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told. “It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,” said another. (Published April 2025)

The mainstream/centrist punditocracy seems to exist in an alternate universe around discussing protests where 1) BLM happened while Joe Biden was President and 2) it resulted in an electoral wipeout for Dems

🇲🇽ARE FLYING THE 🇲🇽 FLAG AT THE CONSTRUCTION SITES ALL ACROSS THE USA 🇺🇸

WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social reacts to the Wall Street Journal reporting that Stephen Miller ordered ICE agents to target Home Depots and 7-Elevens.

Maddow: I also feel like there’s not very much about that that I don’t understand. Like, it’s the same everywhere. This is blond Berlusconi, you know what I mean? This is inarticulate Viktor Orbán, right? These guys are all the same. The authoritarian playbook is the same everywhere

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

Billionaires are consolidating around Cuomo because they know he will preserve the broken status quo. New Yorkers are rallying behind our campaign because they're ready for change. In two weeks, we will shock the political establishment and win a city we can all afford.

Men: what is happening here??

Laughing at these centrist idiots who think Elon's facist & infested with Nazis X is a superior platform than Bluesky. Get your head out of your ass people. Also, cancel your Washington post subscription already. #bluesky #Elon ##JeffBezos

Cops-- pathetic. Fuck off. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...

BREAKING: The UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand announce today for the first time ever sanctions against members of the Israeli government— in particular the far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Betzalel Smotrich.

!!!!! NEW: Canada just announced sanctions on two Israeli far-right ministers “for inciting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.”

This is an incredibly stupid way to interpret what happened. Twitter was bought by a fascist with the express purpose of crippling it as a tool for movements. He tweaked let neo-Nazis back on the site, tweaked the algorithm to suppress viewpoints and threw off critics.

When I was homeless a long time ago, I was able to occasionally rent a shower at truck stops but nowadays those are only allowed for people with CDLs. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: y’all can’t complain that unhoused people smell bad if you won’t let them clean themselves anywhere.

California AG Bonta: I, in partnership with Governor Gavin Newsom, are suing President Trump and asking the court to set aside the president's unlawful action federalizing the California National Guard.

I can't believe all these people like the founder of Latinas for Trump insisting that "mass deportation is not what we voted for." This is Trump in MAY 2024, six months before the election www.cnn.com/2024/05/01/p...

this speaks a bit to my argument about leaving twitter. it's not about ideological purity, it is about the fact that it's been turned into a political weapon for people who wish to use it to harm others. it's not the marketplace of ideas - you do not have to participate in this project! very simple!

Just days ago, he posted this deranged garbage. But you're giving him a softball interview, @steveinskeep.bsky.social?

“These people who are essentially trying to smuggle humanitarian aid into Gaza — you could say there's a bit of life imitating art.” 'Game of Thrones' star @liamcunningham1.bsky.social speaks with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social on how life imitates art in the case of Gaza and 'Game of Thrones'.

The bottom line on the Trump-Musk feud www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Last night, I reached out to Canada’s foreign affairs department, our prime minister’s office, and the French government (half of those on the Madleen are from France) to see if they’re going to do literally anything after Israel’s abduction of those aboard the Madleen. I’ll keep you all posted.

Canada will achieve NATO’s 2% target this year — half a decade ahead of schedule.   In an increasingly dangerous world, we will be ready to protect our people, our sovereignty, and our Allies.

Contact the Swedish Embassy and demand they work immediately to release Greta Thunberg from Israeli prison. More details at my human rights newsletter at www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe  Swedish Embassy in USA Phone +1 202 467 2600 Fax +1 202 467 2699  E-mail: [email protected]

Looked to me like Israeli drones sprayed the boat with some white paint-looking substance and then the IDF surrounded it, kidnapped the people on it and cut off their communications with the world. “Diverted” doing a lot of work here

When someone tells you buses could never be free, ask them how much they pay to take the Staten Island Ferry.

After repeatedly failing fact-checks year after year after year, the Toronto Sun is copy-pasting this 3 paragraph disclaimer to the end of their annual Tax Freedom Day write-ups acknowledging all of the Fraser Institute's numbers they just reported might be "incorrect and misleading":

Breaking: ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran "has been suspended pending further evaluation." This since-deleted tweet is the reason for the suspension:

You don't have to like her but when she cooks she's Anthony Bourdain