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Life in a glasshouse

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

We're in dire need to keep raising money because of the expenses of keeping all of the eSIMs topped up. For the latest about our project: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/01/29/c...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 15 hours ago • 417 comments

“The Disgraced One”

submitted 15 hours ago • 6 comments

Got the first of a two-part investigation looking at the University of Calgary’s decision to immediately call the cops on its May 9 Palestine encampment coming tmrrw. Subscribe to the Orchard to get it in your inbox first thing tomorrow. Www.readtheorchard.org

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1729 comments

Happy Black History Month

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The archetects of the US government are full blown and open Nazis and still media dance around this as if it's not clear. And in Canada, when our spy agency says that the antisemitic threat comes from the far right, CBC manages to blame Muslims and Palestinian activists: bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

York University has announced the temporary suspension of admission in 20 programs, including Religious Studies (in which I teach). The administration cannot shut down programs directly but they can starve them, which is clearly the intention. (1/5)

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

"Wakefield et al were guilty of deliberate fraud (they picked and chose data that suited their case; they falsified facts). The British Medical Journal has published a series of articles on the exposure of the fraud, which appears to have taken place for financial gain."

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submitted 3 days ago • 3105 comments

Jim Acosta: I think the AP should consider whether or not to sue the administration… and the rest of the press corps should start seriously considering whether it’s worth sending everyone into the Oval Office, onto Air Force One, or into the briefing room.

submitted 3 days ago • 1886 comments

NEW: The Trump admin is considering destroying 160 million COVID tests, worth half a billion dollars. This would be a horrible waste. COVID is still around, and causes high levels of illness and deaths throughout the year. Tests are expensive. The government should send them to people for free.

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

“It’s not the Americans fault. It’s our fault. We’re stupid.” ~ Pierre Poilievre. You cannot claim to be Canada first, when you call Canada stupid.

submitted 7 days ago • 61 comments

People do not understand how much damage Reagan's cuts to education have caused over the last forty years.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

That’s the problem. We’ve been standing by for too long.

submitted 4 days ago • 570 comments

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

submitted 4 days ago • 838 comments

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

submitted 4 days ago • 2645 comments

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 4 days ago • 810 comments

Horrifying Canadian higher ed news: York University, one of the country’s major R1s, is apparently suspending admission to a number of key programs (including GWS, languages, classics, and enviro biology)—very likely auguring cuts. This appears to be straight out of the West Virginia playbook.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Not sure, but I think Doug Ford maybe left a job off his high school resume here

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

Doug’s answer about whether he’d build on the Greenbelt. “I was pretty clear. I said I wouldn’t. Then I said I would. Then I said I wouldn’t. Then I apologized.” I. Sh*T you. Not.

submitted 4 days ago • 56 comments

This is going to get worse before it gets better.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Well. Seems that Anti-Racist Canada has been deleted by Blogger for some reason.

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

ARC is one of the extremely few records we have of the Canadian far-right in the 2000s and early 2010s. Its loss is literally erasing one of the very few historical sources we have to trace that past to the present. A horrible, horrible loss.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

"Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk have challenged decades-long approaches to political extremism that were designed to prevent another Hitler." cool www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

Poilievre's Indigenous policy looks a lot like a threat. This is him saying the feds will cut funding for ISC, replace it with tax room - and if we allow resource development in our territories, we can tax it to replace the money the feds took. I.E. let the pipeline through, or no drinking water.

submitted 6 days ago • 33 comments

Musk now has a well-established pattern of pursuing younger women and having children with them, only to humiliate them later and do whatever he wants with the kids, regardless of their wishes. Unfortunately, there will always be another woman who falls for it. The problem is him

submitted 6 days ago • 88 comments

Right now, for a lot of Canadians the temptation is to ignore Indigenous people because the threats from the US seem way more important. This turn to fervent and ignorant nationalism is a mistake. Don't alienate the people who know more about your "country" than you do. Find common cause instead.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments