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🇨🇦Retired RCN🇨🇦, social hand grenade. MU/SFx Artist, 420 enthusiast, transplant recipient living with PBC. Still making waves. Pjipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki/Halifax, NS
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If @MarshaBlackburn is pushing a law to make it illegal to name ICE agents… doesn’t that mean it isn’t currently illegal? So what are she and @AndyOgles investigating Mayor O’Connell for exactly? 🤷🏻‍♂️ (Also: if ICE agents are this ashamed, maybe stop?) nypost.com/2025/06/04/u...

America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

If any marginalized group has to fight for equal rights…then our systems and laws are NOT equal. Read that again. Take all the time you need.

Trump picked a 22-year-old with no experience to tackle U.S. extremism. Five years ago he was a gardener. Last year, he worked in a grocery store. Only the best people www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

I'm sure it's fine. Right?

You'd think that UN concluding that member of its own permanent security council committing crimes against humanity would be bigger news.

Not knowing about things doesn’t mean they’re not happening.

Stephen Miller is privately raging over deportation numbers he deems too low. So he's shifting huge amounts of law enforcement resources away from fighting serious crimes and into his immigration crackdown. If voters knew about this, they'd recoil. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1961...

If you had important information for voters, and kept it to yourself to sell books after it was too late, you’re not a hero. You’re an asshole.

How is this not surprising?

"It's a Yes or No Question"

Perfectly put.👇

Harvey Milk served his country honorably — first in uniform, then in public office. Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.

Look at this. Representative Rob Bresnahan said he would ban stock trading when he got into Congress in January. Since then, he's traded 530 times.

Sickening. Do these people believe they're the good guys?

NEW: Tarrant County, TX GOP leaders teamed up with a national anti-voting group and the national party’s top redistricting strategist on a gerrymander that reduces the power of minority voters. Our full report breaks it down. www.democracydocket.com/a-texas-gerr...

GPS hacking, power grid attacks, deepfake scams. You’re not ready for what’s coming next, but in this WIRED special edition, we take a look at the attacks of the future so at least you'll know what to expect: 🧵 wrd.cm/3FpD4YW

Minneapolis… San Diego… Folks are pushing back. This is only going to get worse.

This is outrageous. A federal worker at our DC town hall talks about how employees are being asked to write letters stating their support for Trump. Our loyalty is to country not any particular president. As the woman said, “what the literal fuck.” open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

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www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjV9HPpX/ That asshole’s admin is making federal workers write out an essay about their loyalty to TACO. That’s ILLEGAL AF, and violates the Civil Service Reform Act. But TACO has effectively sabotaged ALL avenues for federal employees to challenge it. But I am willing to try

That's why.

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

And women's healthcare hasn't gotten any better since.

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This statement from Jonathan Joss's husband is heart breaking. No, headline writers, he wasn't "killed in an argument with a neighbor." He was *deliberately murdered* for being gay right after his dog was decapitated. Bet the murderer calls himself a "Christian." THIS is why Pride is important.

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List of ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ removed from U.S. government website There is no sanctuary under an authoritarian government www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

Reason number 3957491918475 to never set foot in the US, especially the southern states. This is terrifying, but that's the point.

June 2, 1983: Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers died in a fire aboard Air Canada Flight 797 in Cincinnati. Born in 1949 in Hamilton, his music blended Canadian history and culture. Today, he is celebrated as one of Canada's greatest musicians. Learn more 👇 canadaehx.com/2023/05/23/s...

Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible. We have always been here.

Similarities between ICE & the Gestapo

"If what you're doing is legitimate and lawful, why do you need to cover your face?”

This part

This is America

I'm a better xtian than this........person.....and I'm an atheist. 🙅

“No! Mis hijos estan en La escuela! (My kids are in school!) Por favor!” Tennessee’s @davidwontshutup.bsky.social on a very difficult video to watch of ICE grabbing a mother outside immigration court in Texas.

Apparently states’ rights stop the moment women board a plane with autonomy in their carry-on.

Lesson complete....Any questions.......

If you’re sitting on the fence and you say “I was just following orders” it doesn’t get you off the hook! If you stand in opposition to the rule of law, the Constitution and the courts you WILL be criminally charged if you’re not standing on the right side of history! ⬇️⬇️ #USDemocracy

Wait. He......forged.....his OWN NAME? Really? And these people actually *believe* this stuff?? 🙄

Well, this makes me happy to be menopausal. 😳