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Post-secondary English instructor, political science minor, Trekkie/niner, settler/Canadian, Northern BC, nerd. A proletariat of the intelligentsia.
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This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

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I said it before and I’ll say it again: Target not only turned its back on diversity it spit in our faces. My wife and I haven’t been back since January — and we won’t be. We take our money where people like us are seen, valued, and respected. Solidarity ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏻

submitted 13 hours ago • 743 comments

Today is the 45th anniversary of when Terry Fox started the Marathon of Hope.

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"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson

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In 2008, Pierre Poilievre skipped out on the apology to residential school survivors to join an Ottawa radio station where he said Indigenous peoples need to learn the “values of hard work” rather than receive financial compensation for their trauma.

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Tired: The left should embrace a “pro-natal” politics which promotes birth rates. Wired: The left should construct a “pro-human” politics which promotes thriving communities and explicitly opposes oligarchy and AI control that replaces democracy and human agency.

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

"Humans are corndogs, tubes of meat with a hole all the way through. Some of us need to remove the stick." ~Martina

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Honestly the fact that neither Shapiro or Hagen mention eugenics in this is downright shameful. These people are eugenicists! You have multiple clips in here of them going over Eugenics 101!

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Canada, abortion is the canary in the coal mine. Restricting abortion is a tool of authoritarian regimes. Which party has the forced birth candidates? The conservatives! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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This is good reporting, lays it out clearly: “The Department of the Navy’s purge of 381 books there picked sides in the racism debate, and those that examine and criticize historical and current racism against Black Americans lost.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

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Kory Teneycke, Doug Ford's campaign manager, called the federal CPC the "Flat Earth Society campaign." 🤣 #CdnPoli

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I think we should tell the US, and their shitty, rent-seeking pharma companies, to go fuck themselves forever.

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The Trudeau government in Canada made the absolute worst decision at the absolute worst time to reduce the numbers of international students when we could be eating the US's lunch on this. New policy idea: allow international students formerly bound for the US to come to Canada to study. #CdnPoli

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Jesse Singal, a transphobic bigot who has dedicated a large portion of his career to spreading misinformation about LGBTQ+ people, is baffled that John Oliver would do a single episode debunking his life's work

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"Indeed, the rightwing critique of empathy is not an attempt to find a better way to achieve altruistic ends; it’s an excuse to turn away from altruism entirely. We are witnessing the construction of the ideological architecture to excuse violence and suffering on a mass scale."

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Remember that every time a conservative politician says we’re “cutting red tape,” they mean cutting government regulations that help prevent stuff like this 😬

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Why does Pierre Poilievre look so incredibly awkward whenever he smiles? It does not look a bit genuine. #CdnPoli

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this is literal idolatry and it's insane to me how they don't see this

submitted 2 days ago • 121 comments

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

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I'm a little concerned that some of you might not know that "IQ" as a measurement is pseudoscientific, racist, eugenicist rubbish. This is a very deep dive, but Taleb has definitely done the homework here.

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I've gotten more hate mail for this piece than any other, a reminder that people myths that give people meaning die hard www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 3 days ago • 69 comments

1. You may have heard about the anti-trans fencer kneeling and conceding to a trans opponent. Now, news has emerged that she collected a $5,000 prize for doing so, while saying her decision will "destroy her life." She also called her kneeling "god's will." Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 3 days ago • 127 comments

Good Law Project holds a copy of new NHS Guidance published yesterday and it is clear that Wes Streeting is continuing his war on trans people. Remarkably the national health service is now directing GPs to cause harm to the community. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

In Canadian election, top Conservative candidate vows to end ’woke ideology’ in science funding www.science.org/content/arti...

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