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Commercial and portrait photographer in Edmonton, Canada. See https://cyclopsphoto.com

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2026-07-14 04:21:44 UTC

In case this has eluded you, Meta's natural gas powered $13 billion AI data centre in Sturgeon Country north of Edmonton uses up nearly as much power each day as the entire city of Calgary (1.1B GW) or Edmonton (1.2B GW).
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #yeg #ai #climate #climatechange #climatejustice
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2026-06-17 20:23:48 UTC

“When they say Sharia-free, that means Muslim-free, no practices of Islam,” Hussein said in an interview with The Texas Tribune. “No one is calling for the state to implement Sharia laws.”
Hussein said he was in disbelief that he was told to convert or leave.
“I would strongly advise you to leave our caucus,” outgoing GOP chair Abraham George said to two Muslim delegates. “There is a Democrat convention happening in a couple weeks. Join them.”
“There’s no place in America for you”
“You’re going to find Muslims that aren’t being antagonistic or mean, at least not publicly. But I’ll guarantee, if they get power, they’ll cut your head off as believers of Christ,” said Dr. Rick Scarborough, a former Southern Baptist pastor and the president of Recover America, as he moderated a panel from the Judeo-Christian Caucus.
“You’re going to find Muslims that aren’t being antagonistic or mean, at least not publicly. But I’ll guarantee, if they get power, they’ll cut your head off as believers of Christ,” he said.
State Sen. Bob Hall, an Edgewood Republican, also repeated the accusation that Muslims are “required by Sharia to lie” in order to “stay below the radar of being aggressive.”
Scarborough, in an interview with The Texas Tribune, clarified that he thought Hussein should leave the country: “If you’re going to embrace the values and the teachings that you’re advocating for, there’s no place in America for you. That’s not assimilation. That’s taking over.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/texas-republican-party-convention-muslims-sharia-law/
Now when Hussein says that “No one is calling for the state to implement Sharia laws,” it's helpful to acutally understand what sharia is. Sharia are the lessons of the Prophet Muhammad, interpreted as the framework, or laws, for how Muslims should live their lives which call for fasting, daily prayer, modest dressing and charity. This is PERSONAL spirituality.
Christians and Jews can follow the Law of Moses as they please, while Muslims are not allowed any personal Freedom of Religion. Meanwhile, only Christian-Nationalists believe they can impose their own religious laws on others.
#uspol #fascism #religion #islamophobia #racism #hate #HateSpeech #cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg
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2026-06-16 21:51:47 UTC

"When I was 6 years old, Israel dropped bombs disguised as toys on us in Lebanon.
New report reveals that Israel left behind bombs disguised as toys in Gaza.
Today, a cluster bomb shaped like a small football found in South Lebanon.
But keep talking about Israel not targeting children."
#lebanon #gaza #westbank #freepalestine #freelebanon
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2026-06-13 20:45:16 UTC

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I should actually add that on my way home from this ride, a young person passed me in Railtown, did a double-take, then started screaming obscenities at me. They started with "Nice keffiyeh, fucker!" which I ignored and kept riding to the stop sign while they kept screaming behind me, "Get over here, mother fucker! I'm a Jew, right here, you mother fucking Jew hater! Come hate on me, mother fucker!" I ignored them the entire time, and didn't even give them a glance back (thankfully I could hear by their screams that they were a safe enough distance away that I didn't have to watch out for them jumping me from behind).
Now understand clearly what is happening here. I'm a complete stranger, minding my own business and riding home, when somebody sees me wearing an item of clothing of cultural significance. One which is worn by Arabs of many flavours, from Palestinians to Lebanese to Iranians, all of whom are targets of hate by Israel, and under Israeli occupation, apartheid discrimination. Simply seeing this article of clothing sends this person into a seething rage. Nobody is "hating Jews". Nobody has shown this person hate. Nobody has said anything offensive to this person. The hate is entirely one-sided.
It feels unfathomable, until you understand the incredible indoctrination that Israel has put on young Jews living in diaspora, claiming Jewish heritage as grounds to spread Zionist propaganda and Islamophobia. You need to get a taste for yourself the indoctrination that these people have been subjected to for generations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq6J7Q6L0yw&list=PLzGHKb8i9vTxldCgnpeGHd9gBLl5vK0lW&index=43&t=3687s
#yegbike #yeg #abpoli #ableg #freepalestine

2026-06-03 19:01:52 UTC

"Israel is explicitly warning Christian residents in southern Lebanon not to welcome Muslim residents among them, threatening to bomb Christian neighborhoods.
Israel is now searching for Muslims hiding in the attics of Christians. It’s not 1944. Read that again.
The goal isn't military. It's destabilizing social stability in Lebanon."
- Mohamad safa
#lebanon #islamophobia #freepalestine #christianity
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2026-05-31 22:24:13 UTC

Some pictures from yesterday's Great Ride of Return. Free Free Palestine!
#yegbike #yeg #abpoli #ableg #freepalestine
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2026-05-26 13:07:23 UTC

'Last month, I reported on the numerous testimonies from Palestinians who say the Israeli state used dogs to rape detainees.
Mainstream media outlets have overwhelmingly failed to report on this - just as they have largely ignored Israel’s industrialised use of sexual violence against Palestinians more broadly.
That has now changed, at least in part. The New York Times has published a piece by Nicholas Kristof, a twice Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign affairs commentator who represents as establishment a voice as it is possible to find in American journalism.
Based on the testimonies of 14 Palestinians, it’s headlined ‘The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians’.
It is, of course, welcome that this has finally appeared in a mainstream publication - even if it is a newspaper which has done so much to whitewash Israel’s genocide.
But there has already been an avalanche of testimony and evidence about the systematic use of sexual violence by Israel throughout the genocide - and indeed long before October 2023. It has taken all this time for such allegations to appear in the New York Times at all. And even now, they are not on the front page, but tucked away in the opinion section.
The article concerns the use of sexual violence by the United States’ key ally in the Middle East: a state armed to the teeth by Washington and given more US military aid than any other country on Earth. It plainly deserves vastly greater prominence. That it does not receive it tells you, yet again, everything about the value attached to Palestinian lives, wellbeing and suffering.
The piece notes that Israel has, in recent years, “built a security apparatus where sexual violence has become,” as a United Nations report put it last year, one of Israel’s “standard operating procedures” and “a major element in the ill treatment of Palestinians.”
It cites testimonies from Palestinians who say they were raped with rubber batons, metal rods and other objects, including carrots. They describe extreme pain, bleeding and fainting..
Others recount different forms of sexual abuse. One testimony describes a female guard squeezing a detainee’s penis and testicles until he screamed in agony.
They quote from the NGO Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor:
a 42-year-old woman who said she had been shackled naked to a metal table as Israeli soldiers forcibly had sex with her over two days while other soldiers filmed the attacks. Afterward, she said, she was shown photos of her being raped and told they would be published if she did not cooperate with Israeli intelligence.
The piece also documents the sexual abuse of children.
And it includes testimony about the use of dogs to rape Palestinian detainees. One Palestinian recalled:
“No one escaped sexual assaults,” he said. “Not all were raped, I would say, but everyone went through humiliating, filthy sexual assaults.” On one occasion, he said, the guards zip-tied his testicles and penis for hours while beating his genitals. For days afterward, he said, he urinated blood.
On one occasion, he said, he was held down, stripped naked, and as he was blindfolded and handcuffed, a dog was summoned. With encouragement from a handler in Hebrew, he said, the dog mounted him.”
“They were using cameras to take photos, and I heard their laughs and giggles,” he said. He tried to dislodge the dog, he said, but it penetrated him.
This builds on other such testimonies which I previously reported on.
The publication of the article has triggered a firestorm. Israel’s Foreign Ministry described it as “one of the worst blood libels ever to appear in the modern press.”
As Mahmoud Khalil - the Algerian-Palestinian activist detained by ICE in the US, facing deportation for his anti-genocide activism - says:
Everything is a blood libel. The ICJ ruling, a libel. The ICC warrants, a libel. The UN reports, libel. Amnesty, HRW, B’Tselem, libel. Survivors’ testimony, libel. Your own soldiers charged at Sde Teiman, a libel. Chants at protests, libel.
The only entity on Earth that never lies, apparently, is the one currently on trial for genocide.
Indeed, the repeated invocation of the term “blood libel” is absurd.
“Blood libel” has a specific historical meaning: the medieval antisemitic myth that Jewish people murdered Christian children for use in religious rituals. There is no evidence that this ever happened. It was a murderous fiction used to justify persecution.
But nobody disputes that Israel, a heavily militarised state, deploys violence on a mass scale, or that it has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza alone. Even Israel’s defenders do not deny that. To be absolutely clear: medieval Jews were not murdering children in ritual sacrifice. Israel, a state armed with one of the world’s most advanced militaries, has objectively killed vast numbers of people.
Yet “blood libel” is now routinely deployed to smear anyone who speaks out about Israel’s crimes as antisemitic. Netanyahu has even used the term against political opponents inside Israel itself - including figures who fully supported the genocidal onslaught against Gaza.
Pro-Israel apologists are now flooding social media insisting that testimonies about dogs being used to rape Palestinians must be false because such acts are supposedly biologically impossible.
That is simply untrue.
There are Holocaust testimonies describing how the Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie trained dogs to rape women.
In Augusto Pinochet’s Chile, a German shepherd dog named Volodia was trained to rape prisoners by Ingrid Olderock, a Chilean-German torture official known as “The Dog Lady”.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lawrence Wright has also written about evidence that Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak regime trained dogs to rape detainees.
There is already overwhelming evidence that Israel uses dogs to attack Palestinians. The Israeli army itself accepted responsibility in the case of Muhammad Bhar, a 24-year-old Palestinian man with Down’s syndrome who died after being attacked by an Israeli military dog.
There are, in addition, extensive testimonies from Palestinian detainees describing attacks by Israeli dogs.
We also know about the case of a Palestinian detainee allegedly gang raped by Israeli soldiers on camera - an incident that triggered pro-rape riots in support of the accused soldiers, attended by Israeli politicians. Reports at the time said footage was leaked by a senior Israeli military lawyer, who later resigned and reportedly attempted suicide.
All charges were dropped against the soldiers. They were transformed into national heroes. Netanyahu referred to them as “heroic warriors”.
It is also worth noting that the New York Times piece quotes Ehud Olmert, Israeli prime minister from 2006 to 2009 and a longtime former member of Netanyahu’s Likud party:
“Olmert told me he didn’t know much about sexual violence against Palestinians but was not surprised by the accounts I had heard.
“Do I believe it happens?” he asked. “Definitely.”
“There are war crimes committed every day in the territories,” he added.”
There is now overwhelming evidence that the Israeli state is systematically using sexual violence against Palestinians.
The silence surrounding these crimes once again underlines the extent to which Israel’s actions are whitewashed - and the extent to which Palestinian suffering is treated as though it simply does not matter.'
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By Owen Jones:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-197353960
#freepalestine

2026-05-24 23:14:02 UTC

via "We Stand with Francesca Albanese":
Why did the Ertzaintza act as if they were receiving prisoners at Loiu Airport?
Last Saturday, images from Bilbao Airport went around the world.
Members of the Global Sumud Flotilla, who were returning after being intercepted and detained by Israel, were received with unusual harshness by the Ertzaintza.
Baton blows, people being dragged, and a deployment that looked more like the reception of dangerous prisoners than that of peaceful activists returning home.
This behavior does not seem coincidental.
An Israeli-origin business group has a key presence in the security of Loiu Airport.
The company I-SEC Aviation Security, a subsidiary of the Israeli-capital group ICTS International, is responsible for a significant part of the security services at Bilbao Airport.
In turn, I-SEC has maintained relevant contracts with Basque institutions for years.
These include security and surveillance at the Ertzaintza supercuartel in Oiartzun and security services at the Basque Police and Emergencies Academy in Arkaute.
It also holds contracts with Metro Bilbao and the Basque Health Service.
The president of ICTS, Menachem J. Atzmon, was convicted in Israel in 1996 for fraud in the financing of electoral campaigns when he was treasurer of the Likud party.
Correlation, not causation.
It is impossible not to notice a correlation between the treatment the activists received in Israel and the treatment they received in Euskadi.
The same harshness, the same logic of strict control, the same image of “enemy” rather than citizen.
The fact that an Israeli company with historical links in the world of Israeli security has sensitive contracts with the Ertzaintza and with the airport where the events occurred invites, at the very least, reflection.
Does Israeli security doctrine influence the way certain conflicts are managed in the Basque Country?
No one claims that a direct order exists. But when the styles are so similar, and when the business and historical connections are on the table, it is legitimate to ask to what extent a model of managing dissent is being imported.
What happened in Loiu not only shames the Ertzaintza. It also forces us to take a closer look at security relations and the contracts signed in Euskadi with foreign companies, especially when it comes to a conflict as sensitive as that of Palestine.
References
El Salto. (2024, October 18). El Departamento de Salud ocultó al Parlamento Vasco dos contratos públicos adjudicados a la israelí I-Sec.
Gobierno Vasco. (2020). Servicio de vigilancia y seguridad en la central de la Ertzaintza en Oiartzun.
I-SEC. (n.d.). Aena adjudica a I-SEC los servicios de seguridad de 14 aeropuertos españoles.
#freepalestine #gaza #flotilla
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2026-05-21 17:26:24 UTC

The difference is that these are Westerners, while they consider Palestinians "human animals". They don't want us seeing how they treat our own, but they can't comprehend that we see Palestinians as humans too. That's why only this worries them, while we're outraged at the rest of it.
#freepalestine #abpoli #cdnpoli
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2026-05-20 22:18:38 UTC

About fucking time! Sanctions on Ben-Gvir. Now do the rest of them!
#freepalestine #sanctions #cdnpoli #abpoli #flotilla
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2026-05-09 18:28:10 UTC

No comment needed, although I will add that he is referencing I Samuel 15, which is the same in the Christian Old Testament as the Jewish Torah, but does not exist in the Muslim Quran (meaning it could not be verified). It's a blood feud between two sects of Canaanites, Amalekites and Israelites (which is not the same as Israeli). Palestinians are Canaanites too, but not related to Amalekites. Israel uses Amalekite to describe a completely different blood feud they started themselves when invading the Palestinian homelands in the modern era. There is no historical or biblical connection except to say, "These are people we hate, and we have killed people before." Like a radical preacher quoting scriptures that don't actually talk about what he's preaching, just to stir people up and weaponize religion for hate and division.
#hate #HateSpeech #racism #islamophobia #cdnpoli #abpoli
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2026-03-30 03:57:13 UTC

I thought Rachel Notley was awesome even though she was a pipeline queen, but she balanced oil industry compromise with strong green energy investments and got pipelines approved by ensuring climate-centered regulation. She made Alberta a more sustainable energy leader. Compromising with oil was still a (big) strike against her, but one I could live with.
Now our Alberta NDP is telling us that oil is the only thing Alberta can survive on and anybody who doesn't support oil is an enemy of Alberta. That is NOT the kind of "compromise" I can live with. This is the propaganda of Alberta Separatists and the UCP. It does not belong in the NDP tent.
#abpoli #cdnpoli #climate

2026-03-28 18:24:32 UTC

"To accelerate the destruction of Lebanese homes."
- Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz
https://x.com/trtworld/status/2035694229109002374
https://x.com/dylanotes/status/2035705062115213816
#FreeLebanon #freepalestine #lebanon #gaza #genocide #fascism #cdnpoli #uspol
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2026-03-15 14:14:19 UTC

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Oh look, another line I've heard before...
#freepalestine #lebanon
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2026-03-15 13:47:20 UTC

I've heard these exact words before. Same thing, different place.
#freepalestine #lebanon
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2026-03-09 17:54:50 UTC

"Netanyahu is the extremist who killed 75,000 in Gaza.
The extremist who said invading Iraq would create "enormous positive reverberations."
The extremist who has pushed U.S. presidents to go to war with Iran for decades.
Finally, he found a President who said yes.
Tragic."
- US Senator Bernie Sanders
#uspol #iran #War
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2026-03-09 17:30:35 UTC

According to HRW, the munitions were deployed over a residential area outside an Israeli-designated evacuation zone. “The Israeli military’s unlawful use of white phosphorus over residential areas is extremely alarming and will have dire consequences for civilians,” Ramzi Kaiss of Human Rights Watch said. “The incendiary effects of white phosphorous can cause death or cruel injuries that result in lifelong suffering,” he added.
https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7785/Artykul/3657741,human-rights-watch-says-israel-unlawfully-used-white-phosphorus-in-southern-lebanon
#War #WarCrime
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2026-03-04 18:08:12 UTC

By now most everyone has heard of the US and Israel claiming their war on Iran is a Holy War, and a "part of God's divine plan" to usher in the return of Christ, claiming that "President Trump has been annointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth".
A number of you have questioned the validity of this claim, so I'm showing you the receipts: OVER 200 calls from more than 50 military installations across all the services since Saturday, from service men and women complaining to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) about the religious zealousy presented by their commanders.
Because while US military leadership is 100% Christian Nationalist, the men and women who serve and lay their lives on the line to protect the Constitution, not somebody's questionable interpretation of Biblical prophecy, are not.
And if you had ANY doubt whatsoever that this war is 100% rooted in Islamophobia, read the public words of US and Israeli leaders such as Rubio, Hegseth, and Netanyahu in the 4th attachment (as quoted by Al Jazeera).
Jonathan Larsen substack, as referenced by the MRFF:
https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for
MRFF Inbox:
https://myemail.constantcontact.com/MRFF-Inundated-with-Complaints-of-Gleeful-Commanders-Telling-Troops-Iran-War-is--Part-of-God-s-Divine-Plan--to-Usher-in-Return-o.html?soid=1101766362531&aid=3OTPFAZxIrI
An Al Jazeera article which quotes some remarks from CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations):
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/4/why-are-the-us-and-israel-framing-the-ongoing-conflict-as-a-religious-war
#uspol #iran #War #islamophobia #racism #hate #HateSpeech #WarCrime #religion #military #cdnpoli #abpoli
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2026-03-02 21:56:15 UTC

Now consider how the world would react if ANYBODY were to bomb America and murder Americans and American children, with the excuse that "Trump is evil and Republicans must be overthrown".
While we all agree with that, nobody would ever consider that would justify the bombing of a (white) nation.
So why is it so easy for some to completely suspend any rational sense of humanity to justify bombing Iran's capital, killing in just one example well over 100 out of only 170 people from just one single girls school out of countless other targets, with the exact same justification?
The answer is chillingly simple: Islamophobia. Hate and division which allows us to see other people as "not people".
If this had anything to do with expelling "evil leaders" then the same justification could be used to bomb the US. The same justification could be used to bomb Israel. But it only applies when the people of the nation are "not like us".
Prime Minister Carney's statement on this matter reeks of racism.
#cdnpoli #abpoli #uspol #iran #War #racism #hate #HateSpeech #fascism

2026-03-02 19:35:52 UTC

Before I have to read another "hot take", let me make something clear: Nobody thinks Iran is harmless. We just aren't stupid enough to believe that ISRAEL and the USA are harmeless and get to decide who they want to overthrow with their "harmlessness".
#cdnpoli #abpoli #uspol #iran #War #fascism

2026-01-28 18:17:20 UTC

Actually, it doesn't matter if they "just lay there" or not. Either way they are considered resisting because the act of resisting law enforcement is not determined by the actions of the victim, but rather the actions of the LEO. If rhe LEO used brutality and violence without reason, then the victim is considered o be "resisting" even if they never move a muscle from a prone poaition.
In just one example of many (because once you become a target then until you move out of the district then every encounter is preceded with, "I read your file". In recent news, Alex Pretti's last encounter was his second), I had a more veteran cop use me as a dummy to teach a more rookie cop, by squeezing me as hard as possible on the back of the neck completely randomly out of the blue so she could show him, "See how the muscle tenses up in his neck when I do this? That's called resisting." Muscle tensing is an involuntary bodily response to pain. It is impossible for the recieving party to control. And they make absolutely sure you FEEL the pain. The more pain they inflict, the more guty you are.
People need to wake up and realise that the charge of "resisiting arrest" means only that unnecesary violence was used against a civilian, and has nothing to do with "resisting" or "arrest". In order to be charged with it, not only do you not need to "move" or "resist" in any way, but you don't need to be under arrest, being arrested, be charged with any arrestable crime, or even be considered for arrest. When there is no arrest being made, you are charged with "resisitng arrest" based solely on the fact that violence was used against you and the perpetrators cannot justify that violence in any other way.
I don't know how it works in the US, but in Canada a charge of resisting arrest cannot be challenged in court. If an LEO says it, then it's an automatic guilt based on their word alone with no proof or argument. This is why when cops here beat you up they scream "stop resisting!" at the top of their lungs with every single punch they throw on your prone, still body... just in case somebody can hear; to drown out your screams of pain, your pleas for help, and the unmistakable sound of human flesh being pounded mercilessly to a pulp.
Also, I have to add a positive note. A LOT has changed since George Floyd. I was in his exact position choking out the exact same words, "I can't breathe", to receive the exact same response, "I don't care", many years before his murder. I was lucky to survive, but when I heard his story it hit me hard knowing that would have been me a few seonds longer.
Thanks to him, I no longer live in the same fear and terror every day of my life, because of Black Lives Matter and the change and awareness they brought. All my experiences were pre-BLM, and pre-George Floyd. All of them were brought on by police discrimination, both classism and racism, and police intimidation; their uncontrollable desire for power tripping and violence. I still have trauma, but my life in the present has changed since and it had nothing to do with me. But yes all this pro-ICE MAGA shit opens up a lot of old wounds and trauma, especially when repeated by authoritarian UCP supporters right here at home.
We are going through all of this again, and it is vital that people reaist and apeak out against this tyranny and these brutal murders. We CAN change the world, but it takes some serious effort on everybody's part, not just the victims.
The first step we all need to do is STOP ASSUMING ANYBODY IS A CRIMINAL (or undesirable) FOR HAVING AN ENCOUNTER WITH POLICE. In this country, we are innocent until proven guilty, and police presence doesnt prove shit.
BLM, forever and always.
#blm #acab
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2026-01-26 23:08:29 UTC

The Rise (2012) and Fall (2026).
Artist:Yuumei
https://linktr.ee/YuumeiArt
#uspol #fascism
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2026-01-24 20:05:42 UTC

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This was an execution.
"They pepper sprayed the fuck out of that man’s face from close range. Then 8 dudes jumped him, THEY took his legally owned / has the right to carry in public weapon from its holster and tossed it aside. And then shot him in the head while his arms were behind his back and he was on his knees. And then shot several more times. And then clapped over his dead body."
#fascism #hate #hatecrime #uspol #ice
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2026-01-24 19:30:25 UTC

Another observer murdered by ICE today. Video shows an ICE agent pressing towards him while he stepped backwards holding his camera close.
'Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has just described watching a video of “more than six masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death.”
“How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end? How many more lives need to be lost before this administration realizes that a political and partisan narrative is not as important as American values?” Frey asked during a news conference moments ago.'
#fascism #hate #hatecrime #uspol #ice
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2026-01-23 19:18:30 UTC

"Take a moment to look at the inhumanity captured in this extraordinary photo running on the front page of tonight's Minneapolis Star Tribune. It shows federal immigration agents immobilizing a protester on the ground and spraying chemical irritant directly into his face. The scene reminds me of the brutality used against civil rights protesters in the 1960s. We look back at those old photos and wonder how the authorities could have behaved so savagely; many years from now, young Americans will look at these photos from 2026 and wonder how anyone could have justified shooting a woman in the head as she tried to drive away, arresting 5-year-old schoolchildren on the street, or holding a man down and spaying chemicals into his face.
Thanks to the Star Tribune reporters and photographers for documenting this work; they create accountability, they make democracy work, and they make all of us in journalism proud."
#uspol #fascism #hate #hatecrime #occupation #minnesota
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2026-01-20 23:09:07 UTC

The ruling party in the US "orders" all other legal authorities to "surrender". The US is under a military occupation.
#uspol #fascism
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2026-01-18 20:11:39 UTC

Living in a society it can be necessary to rein in the entitlement of the privileged to protect the rights of the marginalized.
The privileged will call this an "attack on their inrdividual freedoms". Rights and freedoms do not infringe on the rights and freedoms of others.
You cannot understand freedom until you can understand the difference between rights and entitlements.
#abpoli #cdnpoli #humanrights #freedomconvoy

2026-01-08 02:35:40 UTC

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'Her name is Renee Nicole Good.
She was just 37 and the mother of a 6-year-old child.
“Poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado; experiencing Minneapolis, MN.”
That’s how she described herself.
Her mom called her one of the kindest people she’s ever known: “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”'
#uspol #murder #ice #fascism #terror #terrorism #hate #hatecrime
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2026-01-07 19:25:09 UTC

An ICE agent attempted to abduct a 37-year old woman by pulling her out of her SUV, but she drove AWAY from the agents in terror while an ICE agent pulls a gun and shoots her dead in the head at close range. The SUV crashes into parked cars without a driver. This all happens in broad daylight with onlookers crying WTF?
This happens as Donald Trump sends 2,000 DHS troops to arrest 150 people in a single day in what ICE called the "largest immigration operation ever", with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accompanying ICE officers during an arrest and telling a handcuffed man, “You will be held accountable for your crimes.”
Governor Tim Walz said that the ICE officers were not cooperating with local authorities and were simply a “show for the cameras.”
Brazen murder and terror against "those others" as a "show for the cameras". Let that sink in.
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2008969048315310080/vid/avc1/1280x720/gy9FNSGh9kgHsun5.mp4
#uspol #fascism #terror #terrorism #murder #hate #HateSpeech
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2025-12-22 23:06:09 UTC

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Not leaked, but it has been bootlegged! Note the screencap with Kristi Noem. No wonder Trump didn't want it aired...
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment

2025-12-22 22:29:35 UTC

CBS installed an anti-woke, anti-diversity, genocide-denying Zionist Editor-in-Chief, Bari Weiss of The Free(dom) Press specifically to bring Conservative viewpoints in a bid to appease Donald Trump and acquire Warner Bros Discovery. And so the newly appointed Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment called "Inside CECOT", exposing conditions within the El Salvadorian torture camp where Donald Trump has been sending countless Americans of Venezuelan descent.
Here is the now-deleted teaser for this segment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1pspd74/this_is_the_now_deleted_teaser_for_the_60_minutes/
This is Sharyn Alfonsi's note to fellow 60 Minute staff regarding the last-minute takedown of the show:
"News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story.
If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a “kill switch” for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes “the government must agree to be interviewed,” then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that “low point.” By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.
We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of “Gold Standard” reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn"
The bottom line is, without Journalistic Independence and Journalistic Integrity, journalism is dead. If the public cannot trust the truthful content of 60 Minutes or any other media, there is no point to it.
Note that the Conservative Party of Canada from Erin O'Toole to Pierre Poilievre has been on a witch hunt to end the CBC for the exact same reason: Journalistic Independence, which the CBC, unlike CBS, has CODIFIED INTO CANADIAN LAW.
This threat of legislated Journalistic Independence in public broadcasting is the only bastion of Journalistic integrity which cannot be bought by media moguls such as US-OWNED PostMedia who controls over 90% of Canada's media outlets!
That is why the Conservative Party of Canada wishes to end it. They want what Trump has.
#uspol #cdnpoli #abpoli #fascism #censorship #freespeech
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2025-12-07 23:55:54 UTC

No notes.
https://substack.com/inbox/post/180641654?r=6f786o
#abpoli #cdnpoli #climate #coal #mining

2025-10-31 20:10:02 UTC

Today is a Halloween, and it falls neatly on a Friday so that we can enjoy our spooky night out then head into the weekend!
So I remind you that you have unions to thank for the weekends. Union members shed their blood and tears to give you 5 day workweeks, and 7 union members died for 8-hour days.
#Solidarity #union #unionstrong #LabourMovement #Labour
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2025-10-09 18:27:01 UTC

Haha! This is wonderful satire-.... er, what do you mean this isn't satire?
#uspol
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2025-09-24 15:33:36 UTC

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And yes, we are seeing it again.
#cdnpoli #abpoli #uspol #fascism
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2025-09-24 12:38:31 UTC

"The Party of Hate" hates only hatred, and is not tolerant of intolerance. We want a better future, and we need to stand up for it! Silence is complicity under fascism.
#cdnpoli #abpoli #uspol #fascism
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2025-09-18 18:23:48 UTC

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"The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany."
https://www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/archives/goebbels-ends-careers-of-five-aryan-actors-who-made-witticisms.html

2025-09-16 19:36:11 UTC

If you understand this, then you know it deeply in your soul.
#Hate #HateSpeech #racism #privilege
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2025-09-12 21:39:56 UTC

An excellent dive into the White Nationalist "Groyper Army" led by Nick Fuentes, which all of the clues tie into the alleged killer of Charlie Kirk, Tyler Robinson:
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/one-of-us-tyler-robinson-charlie
Nick Fuentes considers MAGA influencers like Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, and Laura Loomer to be "traitors" to the White Nationalist cause because they are not extremist enough. Yes, all that hate speech you've been hearing spewed by Charlie Kirk or in his support by Laura Loomer... that is all too moderate for the Groypers. Nick Fuentes was actually banned from attending Turning Point USA events. This divide in the far-right has been growing extra strong lately, as some commentators like Charlie Kirk and Joe Rogan have actually been questioning Israeli propaganda. And you should know by now that antisemitic White Supremacists support Israel, despite Zionists propagandists claiming that not supporting Israel is antisemitic.
So then steps in the Federal agencies under Trump's administration (who claimed Kirk was killed by "the radical left"), sending out notices to all law enforcement agencies that the bullet casings were engraved with "transgender and antifascist ideology". Turns out that all the sayings came from a game called Helldivers 2, where you play as a member of a Totalitarian regime and ironically call your enemies fascists, and from transphobic and homophobic memes originating from the online forums for games like this. In particular, I remember seeing the original news report which stated that a certain casing marked with an up, right, down, down, down arrow pattern was "transgender ideology". I was like, what? That's obviously a controller sequence for a video game. Turns out it's how you drop a 500 kg bomb in Helldivers 2, the source of every other engraving.
With absolutely no suspect, the Trump administration and MAGA following immediately blamed a "transgender antifascist" and HAD ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT looking for that person. Reminiscent of Charlie Kirk himself echoing Trump's lie that the American citizen sent toba concentration camp in El Salvadore with no due process was an MS13 gang member, based on him being a Latino with finger tatts.
It was the alleged shooter's father who told him to turn himself in, then called the US Marshalls on his son to arrest him. The Robinson family is deeply Republican, and they raised (sorry, groomed) their son with guns and celebrated his growth as a "gun-toting cowboy-loving" kid. So I guess Mr. Robinson did a real service to his country, because otherwise they would have been searching for a transgender leftist, based on their hateful profiling.
Images below include:
1st - WSJ retraction of the "transgender and antifascist ideology" remark received from a law enforcement notice by Federal law agencies.
2nd - The actual meaning of the arrows sequence to drop a 500kg bomb in Helldivers 2.
3rd - A post from Tyler Robinson's mom doting on his gun-toting ways, including a picture of Tyler with a large scoped rifle.
#uspol #fascism
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2025-09-09 23:23:20 UTC

Wrote this a year ago:
#humanrights #housing #humanity #human
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2025-08-29 17:56:30 UTC

#abpoli #bookban
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2025-08-28 18:01:51 UTC

Don't look away.
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/8/28/elderly-palestinians-starving-to-death-under-israeli-made-famine-in-gaza
#freepalestine #gaza #GazaStarving #gaza_genocide
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2025-08-26 11:28:35 UTC

Listen to those on the ground, not their Western bosses.
'For the past eight years I have worked as a stringer for Reuters news agency. My photos covering stories in the prairie provinces have been published by the New York Times, Al Jazeera, and other media outlets across North America, Asia, Europe, and elsewhere. At this point it’s become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.
When Israel murdered Anas Al-Sharif, together with the entire Al-Jazeera crew in Gaza City on August 10, Reuters chose to publish Israel’s entirely baseless claim that Al-Sharif was a Hamas operative – one of countless lies that media outlets like Reuters have dutifully repeated and dignified. Reuters’ willingness to perpetuate Israel’s propaganda has not spared their own reporters from Israel’s genocide. Five more journalists, including Reuters cameraman Hossam Al-Masri, were among 20 people killed this morning in another attack on Nasser hospital. It was what’s known as a “double tap” strike, in which Israel bombs a civilian target like a school or hospital; waits for medics, rescue teams, and journalists to arrive; and then strikes again.
Western media is directly culpable for creating the conditions in which this can happen. As Jeremy Scahill from Drop Site News put it, “every major outlet – from the New York Times to the Washington Post, from AP to Reuters – has served as a conveyor belt for Israeli propaganda, sanitizing war crimes and dehumanizing victims, abandoning their colleagues and their alleged commitment to true and ethical reporting.”
By repeating Israel’s genocidal fabrications without determining if they have any credibility – willfully abandoning the most basic responsibility of journalism – Western media outlets have made possible the killing of more journalists in two years on one tiny strip of land than in WWI, WWII, and the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine combined, to say nothing of starving an entire population, shredding its children, and burning people alive.
The fact that Anas Al-Sharif’s work won a Pulitzer Prize for Reuters did not compel them to come to his defence when Israeli occupation forces placed him on a “hit list” of journalists accused of being Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants. It did not compel them to come to his defence when he appealed to international media for protection after an Israeli military spokesperson posted a video making clear their intention to assassinate him following a report he did on the growing famine. It did not compel them to report on his death honestly when he was hunted and killed weeks later.
I have valued the work that I brought to Reuters over the past eight years, but at this point I can’t conceive of wearing this press pass with anything but deep shame and grief. I don’t know what it means to begin to honour the courage and sacrifice of journalists in Gaza – the bravest and best to ever live – but going forward I will direct whatever contributions I have to offer with that front of mind.'
- Valerie Zink, former Reuters correspondent
#gaza #freepalestine #media #press #genocide #gaza_genocide #GazaStarving #SaveGaza #westbank
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2025-08-22 00:22:33 UTC

But sure, let's call bike lanes a "waste of taxpayer money" and a hinderance to "affordability". If you care anything about public cost overruns and insanely high costs of living, then you need to care about the lack of inclusive infrastructure for all, and our culture of induced automobile traffic.
#yegbike #abpoli #cdnpoli #urbanism
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2025-08-21 17:34:06 UTC

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Stupid terrorists. Deadly violence is only legal to be used against vulnerable human beings, like defenseless women and children. Not inanimate objects that cost money! /s

2025-08-14 19:19:38 UTC

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Thanks!
Ack, I can't keep up with these name changes. That's 3 names in my time?
I looked it up, Supports For Independence (SFI) from 1990-2003, Alberta Works from 2003-2010, and Alberta Supports from 2010 to present.
Maybe even 4 names in my time? I don't know what came before SFI...
#abpoli

2025-08-14 17:48:23 UTC

"Mandating End to Lawless Tactics" :D
#ice #uspol
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2025-08-14 17:16:58 UTC

The UCP wants disabled people in Alberta to find jobs and work in order to survive. If they can't work, they shouldn't be allowed to survive. There may be some issues with that...
They are drastically cutting AISH by putting AISH recipients on a new program where they receive much less and must supplement that income with employment.
Note that we already have a social welfare program for people who are able to work, called Alberta Supports. There's a reason why the "severely handicapped" are separate and require "assured income".
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1668429643861891
#abpoli #disabilities #DisabilityJustice #cdnpoli #yeg #yyc

2025-07-31 21:05:44 UTC

Is it Trump's America or Smith's Alberta? I can't tell anymore. Their eugenics will kill us all.
'President Trump signed an executive order today directing states to criminalize unhoused people and institutionalize people with mental health disabilities and substance use disorder.
The order, titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on American Streets,” directs the Justice Department to expand indefinite forced treatment for people with mental health disabilities or substance use disorder, and those living on the street who “cannot care for themselves.” The order also purports to eliminate federal funding for evidence-based programs, like harm reduction and housing first, that save lives, and directs federal funds toward cities and states that criminalize substance use disorder, punish people for sleeping outdoors, or enforce other laws targeting unhoused people.
The order also calls for sweeping federal data collection on unhoused people and those with mental health disabilities, raising serious concerns about surveillance, privacy, and how such data could be used to justify further criminalization. Instead of funding services or support, the administration is prioritizing profiling and control.'
#uspol #abpoli #cdnpoli #fascism #eugenics
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2025-07-30 18:38:13 UTC

BREAKING: Ontario court rules that the Conservative government can't simply kill people they don't like to serve their political ideology.
#onpoli #cdnpoli #biketooter #yegbike #ontario #urbanism
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2025-07-30 18:15:20 UTC

Story by Heba Almaqadma
GAZA CITY—In Gaza, there’s a popular saying that has been passed down by generations of families, reflecting our resilience in the face of difficult conditions: “No one dies of hunger.” For the longest time, that was true. In the Gaza that we knew, people struggled because of poverty, unemployment, and the other consequences of the occupation, but no one died because they had nothing to eat.
Today, we are witnessing the unthinkable. Hundreds are dying. And the cause? Hunger. Behind the headlines and beyond the numbers, flesh and blood people are cut off from basic necessities, including food, clean water, and medical care. They are facing a slow, quiet, forcibly imposed death.
Starvation is not a looming threat; it is a brutal, daily reality. Children cry themselves to sleep on an empty stomach. Parents break under the weight of helplessness, watching their sons and daughters grow thinner, weaker. Bread, once a basic staple, has become a luxury. Vegetables, milk, eggs have become unimaginable for most families. Hunger has overtaken war as the cruelest weapon.
In recent weeks, thousands of Palestinians have been killed or injured risking their lives to try to find food. My cousin, Yousef Ala’atal, just 14 years old, was among them. Hunger pushed him to seek food from an aid distribution site managed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). He came back not only empty-handed, but with a bullet in his head, blood soaking his body, and lasting damage from the injury. Yousef asked his mother with a pain that a child’s heart cannot endure: “Am I going to stay like this?” After that question, silence overtook their family.
Children are the primary victims in this deliberate campaign of starvation; young ones can’t understand what it means that there is no food. Breaking their parents’ hearts with their hunger, older ones try to go to the GHF, which we refer to in Gaza as “death traps.” Many are killed, while others return injured, heartbroken, or sometimes find themselves detained.
Mohammed Dababsh, a 35 year old and father of two young children—Yazan and Masa—was killed on July 11 while trying to get food from an aid site run by the GHF. “He never wanted to go. He was completely against their humiliating and chaotic aid system,” recounted his wife, Ghandoura Abu Ziada. “But, one day, after they ordered us to evacuate from Khan Younis, he told me to take the kids and stay with my family until he could find us a safer place. He stayed behind in Khan Younis.”
As the family separated, the crushing burden of being unable to provide for his young children continued to weigh on Mohammed. This ultimately led him to try and risk getting food from a GHF site. “Masa has been asking for Indomie [instant] noodles for months. We kept explaining that bread and lentils are all we have, but her little mind couldn’t grasp it. While he was still in Khan Younis, his friends tried to convince him to go to the GHF, saying he might be able to get Indomie and biscuits for the kids.”
While Ghandoura was waiting for a regular call from Mohammed, she received one from his brother instead. He had been injured at a GHF site, he said, and was being taken to Nasser Hospital for treatment. Ghandoura rushed to the hospital searching and hoping to find him among the wounded. Half an hour after her arrival an ambulance arrived carrying his body.
“Our children still can’t understand. 'What do you mean he’s never coming back?' they ask. A few nights ago, Masa was going to the bathroom when she heard her grandfather’s voice and thought it was her father. She told me, 'Dad is here, let me go see him.' I told her he’s in heaven now, while my heart aches and cries,” she said. “They still wait for him. And so do I. I can’t believe it. I keep waiting for him to return. Mohammed was the one who provided for us. Now that he’s gone, everything has become even harder."
“We Don’t Want Them”
Sohaib Madi, a 24-year-old, was shot in the head while he was trying to get aid from the GHF for his family earlier this month. As a result, the right side of his body was paralyzed, and he lost his vision. He came to the GHF site desperate for food, and was transported to hospital still on an empty stomach. His mother cried for him for days. She feared losing him after she lost her daughter in January 2024, after being shot in the neck by a sniper while hanging laundry on a balcony in Khan Younis.
Palestinian women continue to bear a disproportionate share of the suffering in the Gaza Strip, enduring the same violence, displacement, starvation, and maltreatment as the rest of the population, but with the added burden of having to care for their families alone once male providers for their households are killed.
Last week, the GHF announced that they would dedicate a day exclusively for women to receive aid. The implied assumption was that women are not seen as a threat and, therefore, wouldn’t be targeted or killed while gathering aid. Yet this supposed extension of goodwill resulted in even more tragedy for Palestinian women.
Maria, a mother of seven who had lost her husband 10 months earlier, needed to secure her kids with food, and she had no choice but to go to one of the sites. Her daughter, Malak Sheikh El Eid, later recounted that her mother went twice and came back with nothing, having stared death in the face.
They pleaded with her not to go for aid again, but if she insisted, they asked to at least take them all with her. Their mother promised she wouldn’t go, but when they woke up, they found she had already left. Mariam recounted bitterly how, when she called her mother on the phone to check on her, a stranger answered and told her that her mother had sustained moderate injuries.
Later, Malak learned that her mother had been martyred with a bullet in her head, leaving behind seven orphaned children, who now have no father, no mother, and no food. Malak cried while recounting what happened in a video later posted on Instagram. Barely able to catch her breath through her tears, she said: “Close the GHF aid. We don’t want them.”
Survivors’ Guilt
Each day in Gaza we see dozens of people killed or wounded in the most humiliating way, while merely trying to obtain food for themselves and their families. Many Palestinian children now must live with the knowledge that their mother or father died while trying to secure them food, leaving them with a survivors’ guilt that will last a lifetime.
The deprivation from starvation and siege is visible upon people’s faces. People are looking hollow-eyed and tired. We are suffering not just from hunger, but from abandonment. Palestinians have been turned into symbols of suffering and defiance, whereas what we want is not only to survive, but also to truly live and feel alive once more. Instead, as the whole world watches, for nearly two years we have been brutally murdered and tormented in the most horrific and innovative ways that a human mind can devise.
The world is silent, but inside Gaza, there is no silence. There are the sounds of children collapsing from malnutrition, parents crying in frustration, communities trying to survive without food, fuel, or medicine. The suffering isn’t sudden: it is slow, deliberate, and devastating. As the expert on famine Alex de Waal said in a recent television interview, this starvation is the product of a “minutely engineered” Israeli policy aimed at breaking our ability to live.
We are not starving because of drought. We are not starving because of natural disasters. We are starving because of Israel’s decision to use starvation as a weapon against Gaza’s civilian population, and the world’s decision to permit it. Closing borders, shooting people waiting for aid, and turning away aid trucks has become acceptable, as long as it’s Gaza.
No political justification for this policy can erase the hollow look in a child’s eyes, the desperate hope in a mother’s voice, or the slow and cruel death of a people who are being starved in full view of the world. We do not need pity. We need pressure on those who are blocking food, those who remain silent, and those who still have the power to stop this but choose not to.
Because tomorrow, someone else will write another article. Another photo will circulate. Another child will die. And we will ask again: how many more lives must be extinguished before the world decides that Gaza deserves to live?
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-city-famine-israel-starvation-genocide-war
#freepalestine #gaza #GazaStarving #gaza_genocide

2025-07-29 21:23:31 UTC

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Big misstep from Zelenskyy IMO, but it's nice to see how strongly the Ukrainian people continue to stand up for all things democratic, even while being torn apart by war!

2025-07-28 05:04:08 UTC

Somehing my neighbors in Edmonton need to hear...
"I was today days old when I learned that a major use of restrictive covenants in Calgary (and elsewhere) was maintaining “community character” by prohibiting specific races from buying in a neighborhood and I feel naive but also why is this not part of the news stories?"
"Thoughts: 1. Restricting how your land can be used will hurt your land value down the line. 2. You want to fight homes for more people in a housing crisis? 3. Remember what restrictive covenants were originally for (racism)"
#yeg #yyc #abpoli
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2025-07-26 03:31:30 UTC

'Mr. Netanyahu had urged his citizens to remember “what Amalek did to you,” a quote many interpreted as a reference to the demand in a biblical passage calling for the Israelites to “kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings” of their ancient enemy. Government and military officials said they were fighting “human animals” and, later, called for “total annihilation.” Nissim Vaturi, the deputy speaker of Parliament, said on X that Israel’s task must be “erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth.” Israel’s actions could be understood only as the implementation of the expressed intent to make the Gaza Strip uninhabitable for its Palestinian population. I believe the goal was — and remains today — to force the population to leave the Strip altogether or, considering that it has nowhere to go, to debilitate the enclave through bombings and severe deprivation of food, clean water, sanitation and medical aid to such an extent that it is impossible for Palestinians in Gaza to maintain or reconstitute their existence as a group.'
https://archive.is/uuLoc
#freepalestine #gaza
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2025-07-25 21:08:36 UTC

'Israel attacked the Cairo Elementary School for Girls in central Gaza City just as people had gathered in the school yard for Friday prayers, according to multiple eyewitnesses. Many of the displaced in the school are from areas in northern Beit Hanoun, which has been nearly completely destroyed and emptied by the Israeli military. So far, Israel has not published even a perfunctory justification for the strike and the Israeli military did not immediately respond to questions submitted by Drop Site about the attack.
“During Friday prayers, they bombed the school with the worshippers inside,” Ibrahim Abu Amsh, an eyewitness told Drop Site at the scene. “Most of the injured were children—defenseless, hungry children. All of them were in a state of exhaustion, unable even to stand—they probably hadn’t slept all night due to hunger.”
Dead bodies lay in the hallways, some ripped apart and limbs torn off. People fled the building in panic carrying children and few belongings. Blood covered the walls and floors. People lifted the dead and wounded, some badly burnt, to ambulances outside using blankets. At least one baby was among the dead, with the left side of its body blown off and flesh torn apart, being carried outside by emergency medical worker Omar Abu Mohsen.
“The school is full of displaced people—full of children, of women, of men, and of the elderly. The enemy is merciless,” Abu Mohsen said. “This is an enemy that seeks the extermination of the Palestinian people.”
“Isn't it enough that they’ve starved us to death? Isn't it enough that they’ve slaughtered us?” Zainab Adwan, who was displaced from Beit Hanoun and sheltering at the school, said. “The Israelis can’t confront the resistance. If they were real men, they would go face the resistance fighters at the borders. There are no fighters here. Where are the resistance fighters? These are just civilians.”
Israel’s continued military assault on Gaza kills scores of Palestinians across the enclave on a daily basis. At least 89 were killed over the past 24 hours, according to the ministry of health. This follows 89 killed on Thursday. 113 on Wednesday. 77 on Tuesday. 134 on Monday.
Friday’s attack came as Israel’s campaign of forced starvation in Gaza has reached a tipping point into rapidly increasing cases of death. Over the past five days alone, at least 54 Palestinians have died, including over 20 children, as a result of starvation and malnutrition, according to the Ministry of Health. The widening famine is affecting the entire population in Gaza. People are arriving at emergency rooms in a state of exhaustion, hunger and dehydration. Doctors and journalists who care and report on the famine are themselves weakened and struggling to work. Hospitals have run out of key treatments and medicines to urgently treat the ballooning cases of malnutrition.
Remnants of the munition photographed at the scene of the Cairo Elementary School for Girls attack were identified as the rocket motor portion of a U.S.-manufactured Hellfire missile, according to a weapons expert who reviewed the footage.
“The lot number indicates it was made by Lockheed Martin in 2012,” Trevor Ball, a munitions researcher and a former U.S. army explosive ordnance disposal specialist, told Drop Site, who added that the specific designation was AGM-114K-2. “It is a precision weapon so it would hit where aimed unless there was a malfunction of some kind,” Ball said. “This specific variant features a fragmentation sleeve which increases the fragmentation generated by the munition to more effectively kill or injure people in its area of effect.”'
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-bombs-gaza-school-us-missile-displaced
#uspol #freepalestine #gaza

2025-07-24 20:50:13 UTC

'This is the grim choice every Palestinian medical worker faces: serve and be targeted, or flee and abandon your patients to die.
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a pediatrician from northern Gaza, is one of those still detained. He’s been imprisoned without charge since December. His family tells me he’s still wearing the same winter clothes he was taken in, now threadbare from seven months of captivity. He’s lost an alarming amount of weight on two spoonfuls of rice a day and faced severe abuse. He has no access to medication. No access to medical care. Dr. Hussam should be at a hospital helping to lead Gaza’s recovery. Instead, he’s in a prison cell.
What was his crime? Staying. He refused to abandon newborns on ventilators at Kamal Adwan Hospital. He stayed and saved lives in a hospital under attack. For that, he was kidnapped.
He is not alone.
Dr. Marwan Al-Sultan, one of only two cardiologists left in northern Gaza and director of the Indonesian hospital, was killed this month by a precise Israeli airstrike on his home in Gaza City that targeted the floors where he and his family lived and left the other parts of the block untouched.
Dr. Ahmed Qandeel, a respected senior surgeon and mentor, was killed just over a week ago in an airstrike in Gaza City.
Dr. Adnan Al‑Bursh, a well-known orthopedic surgeon, was abducted, severely beaten in custody (leaving him with broken ribs and unable to walk or use the toilet independently, according to his fellow detainees’ testimony), and found dead under suspicious circumstances in Israeli custody.
(Note from me: These "suspicious circumstances" is what other reports have called "likely raped to death". According to Israeli human rights organisation, HaMoked, "Ofer Prison guards dragged Al-Bursh and dumped him in the prison yard, naked from the waist down, bleeding and unable to stand. Some of the other prisoners carried Al-Bursh to a nearby room, and he died moments later."
The choice to say "suspicious circumstances" was no doubt borne out of extreme caution and fear of retribution.)
There are too many stories to recount.
As the UN Human Rights Office said, ''The killing, detention and enforced disappearance of health workers in Gaza, in parallel with the systematic attacks and destruction of hospitals and other medical facilities, has had a devastating impact on the people.''
Each time a Palestinian doctor is killed or detained, it isn’t just a personal loss – it’s a collapse of community care. Patients are left without treatment. Wards are left without leadership. Babies in incubators lose their only chance of survival. A respected and dignified member of society is stripped of protected status. The death of a physician in Gaza means dozens, sometimes hundreds, of preventable deaths in the weeks and months that follow.'
https://zeteo.com/p/israel-war-medical-system-doctors
#WarCrime #hate #freepalestine

2025-07-23 18:44:59 UTC

via News Eye @newseye.bsky.social‬
"🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it."
Full statement:
Without immediate intervention, AFP’s last remaining journalists in Gaza could die.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) currently works with one freelance writer, three photographers, and six freelance video journalists in the Gaza Strip — the only ones left documenting what’s happening on the ground. No international media has been allowed into Gaza for nearly two years.
We refuse to stand by and watch them die.
One of them, Bashar, has been with AFP since 2010. He started as a field assistant, then worked as a freelance photographer, and became the lead photographer in 2024.
On Saturday, July 19, Bashar managed to post on Facebook:
“I no longer have the strength to work in the media. My body is thin. I can’t work anymore.”
Bashar, 30, lives and works under the same conditions as every Gazan moving from one refugee camp to another to escape Israeli bombardments. For over a year, he has lived in extreme poverty and continued working despite immense risks.
Sanitation is a major issue; he suffers from severe bouts of diarrhea. Since February, he has lived in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, four siblings, and his brother’s family. The home has no furniture, no electricity, no water he survives on scraps from relatives.
On Sunday, he reported that his older brother “collapsed from hunger.”
Even though these journalists receive monthly payments from AFP, the salaries barely or do not at all cover the soaring market prices. The banking system has collapsed, and the intermediaries who transfer money into Gaza take commissions as high as 40%.
AFP cannot provide equipment or even fuel so they can travel for work. Traveling by car means risking becoming a target of Israeli drones so they walk or use donkey carts.
Ahlem, based in the south of Gaza, says she’s trying to “keep bearing witness” for as long as she can:
“Every time I leave the tent to cover an event, interview someone, or document a scene I don’t know if I’ll come back alive.”
Her biggest struggle, she says, is finding food and water.
We are watching them collapse.
They are young, but their strength is fading. Most can no longer move around Gaza to report. Their pleas for help have become a daily cry torn, desperate messages.
In recent days, their notes have grown shorter and weaker they no longer have the strength to even send us updates."
#freepalestine
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2025-07-23 18:13:02 UTC

Thomas Massie to Speaker Mike Johnson:
“Why are you running cover for an underage sex trafficking ring and pretending this is a partisan issue? MAGA voted for this.”
#uspol #epstein
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2025-07-21 15:14:52 UTC

There you have it.
Alberta's freedom currency will be a digital cryptocurrency which is not physically printed but is hard money you can physically hold, is free from centralized value systems but its value is centralized on the commodity of oil and gas, with value based on futures and speculation.
#abpoli #cdnpoli
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2025-07-11 16:34:38 UTC

Holding up cardboard signs and "disrupting the arms trade" with strikes and protests is now considered terrorism in the UK. Of course this law has nothing to do with the action of holding up cardboard signs, it has everything to do with the message that is written on them, that you oppose genocide and stand with Palestine for independence and sovereignty from military occupation.
Terrorism is a serious offense, for which Canada has considered (under Conservative governments, of course) stripping citizenship for. It should not be applied to holding up cardboard signs with "the wrong message".
This is a commonality of all authoritarian anti-protest legislation. Just like how Alberta has made it illegal to "block infrastructure" in protest as long as you're blocking oil corporations on Indigenous treaty land to force them to uphold their legal responsibility to consultation with Indigenous leaders, but not if you're white owner/operators in multi-million dollar trucks blocking a quarter billion dollars worth of trade for divisive politics, stockpiling assault weapons to use against the RCMP.
It has nothing to do with the fact that you're protesting or HOW you're protesting, but everything to do with WHO you're protesting or WHAT you're protesting for.
'“A total of 29 arrests were made during this afternoon’s protest in support of Palestine Action in Parliament Square. They remain in custody,” the Metropolitan Police wrote on X on Saturday evening.
In an earlier statement, the police force said the protesters were detained “on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act 2000”.
“They have been taken into custody. Palestine Action is a proscribed group and officers will act where criminal offences are committed,” it said.
Campaign group Defend Our Juries said in an earlier statement that a priest and a number of health professionals were among those detained. The protesters had held cardboard signs, reading: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
“We commend the Counter Terrorism police for their decisive action in protecting the people of London from some cardboard signs opposing the genocide in Gaza and expressing support for those taking action to prevent it,” a Defend Our Juries spokesperson said.
Passersby condemned the arrests as police intervened in the demonstration at around noon local time (11:00 GMT).
“Met Police, you are puppets of the Zionist state” and “leave them alone”, some were quoted as shouting by the Press Association, the British news agency.
Other supporters, not directly involved in the Palestine Action protest, shouted, “Who do you protect? Who do you serve?” and “British police off our streets”.'
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/5/supporters-of-banned-palestine-action-group-arrested-at-london-protest
#ukpolitics #cdnpoli #abpoli #fascism #hate

2025-07-08 16:31:11 UTC

Exactly this. Autos are useful tools of transportation, but the dependency on them is what has poisoned our infrastructure and continues to indiscriminately kill countless people from both car-dependent and non-dependent groups, making our cities unsafe for everyone in ways crime can't even compare.
#urbanism #biketooter #publictransport #yegbike
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2025-07-07 21:15:34 UTC

'Israel’s Manufactured “Looting Crisis”
Last November, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported the Israeli military was “allowing gangs in Gaza to loot aid trucks and extort protection fees from drivers.” Those looters were charging each truck a “protection fee” of $4,000 or taking over entire trucks and selling the aid in black markets.
Remarkably, the looting was happening at gunpoint while Israeli tanks and soldiers were positioned just dozens of meters away. Those troops usually shoot to kill upon the first sight of any Palestinian that comes within their scope, let alone stand in front of them with weapons.
Haaretz reported that Israel claims it refrained from action against those gangs “due to concern that harm to aid workers could provoke international criticism.” But in fact, Israel consistently bombed those same types of aid convoys on multiple occasions whenever local police or even unarmed volunteers carrying sticks approached to prevent looting. Cindy McCain, the World Food Program chief, has condemned Israel on multiple occasions for firing at or bombing aid convoys.
“It is clear there is collaboration between [the looting gangs] and Israeli authorities,” said Ayed Abu Ramadan, the chairman of Gaza’s Chamber of Commerce.
“Israel bombs anyone that gets close to the borders with weapons or even a stick, except for those gangs. They stop and loot trucks, then take cover in areas near the border and receive protection from the Israelis,” he told me.
Even more astonishing, according to an internal UN memo obtained by the Washington Post, these looting gangs established military compounds from where they launch attacks on trucks and reportedly set up warehouses with forklifts to unload looted truckloads and horde giant quantities of looted aid to drive prices up before selling some at astronomical prices. Those very warehouses are in Rafah, which the Israeli military has fully depopulated and rendered an extermination and destruction zone, meaning any Palestinian who attempts to enter is killed or kidnapped. Israel never raided or bombed Abu Shabab’s compound, prompting the UN memo to accuse Israel of providing “active or passive protection” to this gang.
According to Haaretz, the Israeli military said last November that the government considered putting those very armed gangs and the clans behind them in charge of aid distribution. This is despite the Israeli military admitting that “some of the clans' members are involved in terrorism, and some are even affiliated with extremist organizations like the Islamic State.” We are now seeing this strategy play out in real-time.
From Criminals to Mercenaries and Collaborators'
https://zeteo.com/p/who-is-abu-shabab-meet-the-gaza-gangster
#freepalestine

2025-07-07 18:21:35 UTC

Please.
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2025-07-07 18:13:00 UTC

RE: 'In one of the more chilling moments, Trump suggested that farmers should get to “vouch” for immigrant workers, describing them as people who “bend over all day,” hinting at a system where immigrants’ rights and futures would depend on the personal approval of farm owners. It was plantation logic repackaged for modern authoritarianism. It was, in fact, disgusting!'
That "plantation logic" is also known as "indentured slavery".
https://marygeddry.substack.com/p/the-farce-in-the-fairgrounds
#uspol #fascism

2025-07-02 21:29:14 UTC

- reply

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n3926pSPNwXd8j7I716CBJEzqT_vJjdab6cOQkFCCXk/edit?tab=t.0
Full text:
For all enquiries or if you would like your name added to the letter, please email [email protected]
An Open Letter to BBC Management, Written by BBC Journalists and Signed by Media Industry Professionals
A message to the BBC Director General, the Board of Governors and our BBC Colleagues.
We’re writing to express our concerns over opaque editorial decisions and censorship at the BBC on the reporting of Israel/Palestine. We believe the refusal to broadcast the documentary ‘Gaza: Medics Under Fire’ is just one in a long line of agenda driven decisions. It demonstrates, once again, that the BBC is not reporting “without fear or favour” when it comes to Israel.
We understand that a decision not to broadcast the investigation has been taken by senior BBC management despite the film’s content being signed off in accordance with BBC guidelines and editorial policy. This appears to be a political decision and is not reflective of the journalism in the film. A recent statement from the BBC said broadcasting the film “risked creating the perception of partiality".This illustrates precisely what many of us have experienced first hand: an organisation that is crippled by the fear of being perceived as critical of the Israeli government.
We are not asking the BBC to take a side. We are asking to be allowed to do our jobs in delivering facts transparently and with due context. For many of us, our efforts have been frustrated by opaque decisions made at senior levels of the BBC without discussion or explanation. Our failures impact audiences. As an organisation we have not offered any significant analysis of the UK government's involvement in the war on Palestinians. We have failed to report on weapons sales or their legal implications. These stories have instead been broken by the BBC’s competitors.
This hasn’t happened by accident, rather by design. Much of the BBC’s coverage in this area is defined by anti-Palestinian racism. The inconsistent manner in which guidance is applied draws into focus the role of Sir Robbie Gibb, on the BBC Board and BBC’s Editorial Standards Committee. We are concerned that an individual with close ties to the Jewish Chronicle, an outlet that has repeatedly published anti-Palestinian and often racist content, has a say in the BBC's editorial decisions in any capacity, including the decision not to broadcast ‘Gaza: Medics Under Fire’.
This conflict of interest highlights a double standard for BBC content makers who have themselves experienced censorship in the name of ‘impartiality’. In some instances staff have been accused of having an agenda because they have posted news articles critical of the Israeli government on their social media. By comparison, Gibb remains in an influential post with little transparency regarding his decisions despite his ideological leanings being well known. We can no longer ask license fee payers to overlook Gibbs’ ideological allegiances.
Since October 2023 it has become increasingly clear to our audiences that the BBC’s reporting on Israel / Palestine falls short of our own editorial standards. There is a gulf between the BBC’s coverage of what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank and what our audiences can see is happening via multiple credible sources including human rights organisations, staff at the UN and journalists on the ground. Whilst there has been some exceptional content from some areas of the BBC (within documentary and from some individual correspondents for example), news in particular has failed to report the reality and the context of the war on Palestinians. All too often it has felt that the BBC has been performing PR for the Israeli government and military. This should be a cause of great shame and concern for everyone at the BBC.
Despite these failings, there has been a major shift within public discourse in recent months. Increasingly the scale of Israel's crimes against the Palestinians are being understood by the public as well as many of our parliamentarians. The BBC’s editorial decisions seem increasingly out of step with reality. We have been forced to conclude that decisions are made to fit a political agenda rather than serve the needs of audiences. As industry insiders and as BBC staff, we have experienced this first hand. The issue has become even more urgent with recent escalations in the region. Again, BBC coverage has appeared to downplay Israel's role, reinforcing an ‘Israel first’ framing that compromises our credibility.
We, the undersigned BBC staff, freelancers and industry figures are extremely concerned that the BBC’s reporting on Israel and Palestine continues to fall short of the standards our audiences expect. We believe the role of Robbie Gibb, both on the Board, and as part of the Editorial Standards Committee, is untenable. We call on the BBC to do better for our audiences and recommit to our values of impartiality, honesty and reporting without fear or favour.
#freepalestine #ukpolitics #bbc #gaza

2025-07-02 21:23:54 UTC

- reply

'More than a hundred BBC employees have written a letter to the director general, Tim Davie, complaining that the Corporation has become a mouthpiece for Israel.
It was also signed by 300 other journalists and media professionals: one of them was yours truly. The BBC employees, as you would expect, are all anonymous, because otherwise they would face grave consequences to their careers.
The letter says:
We’re writing to express our concerns over opaque editorial decisions and censorship at the BBC on the reporting of Israel/Palestine. We believe the refusal to broadcast the documentary ‘Gaza: Medics Under Fire’ is just one in a long line of agenda driven decisions. It demonstrates, once again, that the BBC is not reporting “without fear or favour” when it comes to Israel.
It goes on to note that the decision not to broadcast the investigation was taken by BBC management despite the content being signed off in accordance with BBC guidelines and editorial policy, which it says “Appears to be a political decision”, adding that the BBC response shows the organisation “is crippled by the fear of being perceived as critical of the Israeli government.”'
- Owen Jones
https://www.owenjones.news/p/bbc-staff-were-forced-to-do-pro-israel
#freepalestine #ukpolitics #racism #fascism #bbc #gaza

2025-07-02 20:32:03 UTC

You can't get any more "impartial" than the forensic methodology of this documentary, but we've gotten to the point where any objectivity when it comes to Israel is considered "partiality" against them.
At least Channel 4 is airing the documentary, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, if my time zone calculations are correct, in about half an hour from now?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/bbc-gaza-documentary-channel-4-doctors-impartiality-b2781273.html
#freepalestine

2025-07-02 18:22:21 UTC

This is a MAGA loyalist gloating over concentration camp merch from Trump's "Alligator Alcatraz" distributed by the Republican Party of Florida to raise funds for "political spending".
I actually thought he was giving a sarcastic critique when I saw, "I repeat, this prison has merch. Things are going insanely well." Then I saw the video and discovered that he was legitimately gleeful over this concentration camp merch, calling it "drip".
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1940027896946471298
As Noah Garfinkel retweeted, "Begrudgingly, I must shout out 1940s Germany for realizing concentration camp merch would have been a bridge too far."
#uspol #fascism #hate #HateSpeech #concentrationcamp
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2025-06-30 19:46:31 UTC

BREAKING: Palestinians are being slaughtered by the dozens because there were too many explosive shells fired at them.
#freepalestine
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2025-06-28 19:20:59 UTC

This is what Trump calls "a 100% Communist Lunatic" and why Republicans ade calling for Trump to strip him of his US citizenship and deport him under the "Communist Control Act", while he White House blames his democratic election win as "evidence of uncontrolled migration". See how this all works?
#uspol #oligarchy #fascism
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2025-06-27 18:49:26 UTC

“Palestine Action is not an armed group. It has never been responsible for any fatalities and does not pose any risk to the public. Its methods do involve property sabotage, which is, obviously, illegal. But if killing 23 civilians at an aid distribution site is not terrorism, how can we possibly be expected to accept that spray-painting a plane is? Law-abiding protest has so far failed to stop the genocide. More than 50,000 innocent children have been killed or injured. In what circumstances could civil disobedience ever be justified if not now?
I can only say that I admire and support Palestine Action wholeheartedly – and I will continue to, whether that becomes a terrorist offence or not.”
- Sally Rooney
#freepalestine #ukpolitics
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2025-06-25 18:05:47 UTC

"Free Buses Would Mean 12% Faster Rides And 20% More Riders: Study
Want faster buses? Make them free. The benefits will end up paying for themselves, says Charles Komanoff."
Two caveats: 1) This is for NYC where people ALREADY rely on public transit. In a transit-dead city like #yeg, the increase in ridership would reduce automobile traffic much more, which would have a drastic effect on road congestion.
And 2) The difference in travel rate gained by all-door boarding has already been reduced significantly by the introduction of tap cards. The 12% figure you see here accounts for that reduction, otherwise it would have been 22%. Tapping still takes time though, and eliminating that fare would be significant, but even more significant would be the removal of front-door entry restrictions caused by fare payment.
Both these factors of increased travel speed and fare elimination would increase ridership greatly, but would also fund a much more robust public transit system and make it much more reliable and safer in every other way. More ridership would remove all the barriers of unreliability and drive out undesirable elements that make riders feel unsafe. The net benefit to all, whether they use transit or not, is a massive reduction in our public infrastructure costs which are strained by the inefficient use of automobiles, insane traffic congestion, and absolutely unacceptable levels of danger to survive in the city with all the automobile traffic.
It doesn't matter how you personally get around, EVERYONE will benefit from increased transit ridership, whether you're a parent who wants to survive a walk with kids to school, a cyclist who wants to survive commuting to work, an elderly person who wants to survive walking to the grocery store, a transit rider, OR an automobile driver who wants to get somewhere instead of being stuck in all the traffic caused by unnecessary car use!
#urbanism

2025-06-23 21:38:44 UTC

This is how Donald Trump deals with dissenters who dare to utter "no" to war. He will unseat you from office.
This is how Pierre Poilievre had run the Conservative Party of Canada as well, according to party insiders. Trump is just more public about it, with his Truth Social platform.
'Trump's team has launched Kentucky MAGA, a super PAC devoted to defeating Massie in the May 2026 primary. The organization will be run by Trump's senior political advisers, Tony Fabrizio and Chris LaCivita. LaCivita said the PAC would spend "whatever it takes" to defeat Massie.'
- AXIOS
#uspol #fascism #iran
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2025-06-21 19:57:11 UTC

"Here in Illinois, we don't hide from the truth, we embrace it," said Governor JB Pritzker. "Young people shouldn't be kept from learning about the realities of our world; I want them to become critical thinkers, exposed to ideas that they disagree with, proud of what our nation has overcome, and thoughtful about what comes next. Everyone deserves to see themselves reflected in the books they read, the art they see, the history they learn. In Illinois, we are showing the nation what it really looks like to stand up for liberty."
#books #bookban #freedom #learning #literature
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2025-06-19 06:18:29 UTC

Okay, so this is what happened to me tonight. On my way home I needed to stop at a neighbor's house. I approached the address and signaled to turn off to the left, into the nearest drive. I couldn't because this Ram Limited with Blackout Appearance Package (I used to make car ads, so I know these models by sight) is bearing down on me from behind and won't let me slow down or turn off. I'm frantically signalling left, but it turns out this moron doesn't even know what a hand signal is (yes, he actually said that!), and he keeps trying to push me forward with his truck, then tries to wedge his truck to my left where my outstretched arm is signalling.
I finally get off into the parking lane and he rolls down his window screaming at me that I'm "in the middle of the road!" and both him and the woman with him scream at me that "You're supposed to be on the side!" Now I must stress that this is a single lane residential road. There's "the lane" and there's parked cars. There is no "on the side" lane for bicycles to use. He just felt that my very presence in the lane meant he could run me out of it.
I tell him that I've been signalling left and show him my outstretched arm, so he says, "What is that? I don't know what that means! You're just an idiot on a bike!" then "Riding a bike is easy, any idiot can do it!"
How does he go straight from "I don't even know what a hand signal is" to "people on bicycles are idiots!"
He repeated this "idiot on a bike" accusation over and over, insisting that it's perfectly okay to hit me because I'm an idiot on a bike and signals on a bicycle aren't a real thing.
Then after telling me to get off the public road he approached me and threatened to take me out or put me down, while puffing out his chest in my face with his hands by his side in order to intimidate me while claiming to not be the instigator (typical angry white man move).
Edited to clarify: Hand signals are in the driver's manual in Alberta and are potential questions on the driver's exam. Always have been. This is "requisite knowledge" for getting a driver's license.
You also can't leave a hand signal on by accident, and you really have to bend over backwards to ignore one.
And not knowing that other vehicles can use the same road you do? I don't think they even considered a need to test people on that knowledge.
#yegbike
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2025-06-17 16:28:20 UTC

In case you missed it, the United States is at war with Iran alongside Israel. This is all closer than you think.
#fascism #War #uspol
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2025-06-12 21:54:52 UTC

Downtown Los Angeles 1937 via UCLA Library
#uspol
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2025-06-11 01:06:31 UTC

The reason they minimize this is that it's easier to diminish a life-saving humanitarian aid ship as a "selfie yacht" and a "publicity stunt" when there's a known celebrity on board. That ship was there to save lives; the very lives which Israel wants to end. Israel (Mossad) is the king of propaganda (reigning alongside the Kremlin) and gaslighting.
#freepalestine
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2025-06-10 20:00:44 UTC

George Takei (who was rounded up with his family into a Japanese-American internment camp during WWII) said this in 2020, and now we have been living it through 2025.
#uspol #fascism
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2025-06-10 17:15:59 UTC

The National Lawyers Guild Detroit & Michigan Chapter has this important PSA for protestors who get arrested. Shout out to Detroit attorneys Bill Goodman and Denise Heberle for this sound advice: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=719733147414199
#acab

2025-06-04 17:05:37 UTC

The Dutch have elected a far-right anti-Islam extremist into their coalition government, and now the government has collapsed, as Geert Wlders pulled his ministers. When will people learn to stop courting these extremists?
https://apnews.com/article/netherlands-election-candidates-prime-minister-wilders-9ed5752f49315517876f1646d4c2d4f2
https://apnews.com/article/netherlands-politics-wilders-elections-parliament-c18fd4e32cc1ab8668f159d6630cf89d
#fascism

2025-06-03 15:34:49 UTC

Gay couple in Texas: Lives in home for over two years with openly homophobic neighbors threatening to burn down their house, which the police refuse to respond to, return after neighbors have burned down their home to check the mail, to find the skull of their dog placed with its harness, and are confronted by a man with a gun who "starts yelling violent homophobic slurs" at them then opens fire and shoots one of them dead.
Police in Texas: Not a hate crime. How can this be related to his homosexuality? Release statement that "Despite online claims of this being a hate crime, currently the investigation has found no evidence to indicate that the Mr Joss's murder was related to his sexual orientation."
Jonathan Joss, the hero who saved his husband's life by pushing him aside while sacrificing his own life, was the voice of John Redcorn in King of the Hill, and played Chief Ken Hotate in Parks and Recreation. Rest in Peace, Jonathan. </3
https://www.facebook.com/share/16GvUubeMn/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rp3n54d98o
#homophobia #hate #hatecrime #HateSpeech #GayRights #acab
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2025-05-20 21:42:18 UTC

Wonder where it's going?
"i don't understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks. daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent's entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10/hr and need second jobs
college costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and puts students into debt for life and yet we have thousands of professors living in their cars.
everything we need is astronomically expensive and yet almost none of the money we pay is going towards the people actually doing the work and providing the services."
- @npub187e…38d4
#capitalism
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2025-05-19 00:08:40 UTC

Correct assessment.
#uspol #climatechange
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2025-05-16 05:12:30 UTC

Important image.
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2025-05-13 21:20:26 UTC

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I have used the contact link in the email.
"You recently sent me an email announcing a new Liberal cabinet.
However, your link sent me to your X post, which is NOT a public post accessible publicly by the Canadians who would want to read it.
I, along with many other conscientious Canadians, have deleted our accounts off Twitter (mine was over 14 years old) or later X, because of the incredible data insecurity created by Musk, and hostile anti-humanitarian environment under Musk. It is incredibly irresponsible for our government to make public announcements on such a platform.
Regards,
Ned Yeung,
A Concerned Public Citizen of Canada"
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2025-05-13 21:04:54 UTC

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Just tried to archive the page, but it still requires an X sign-in to read anything beyond the first post (which says nothing).

2025-05-13 20:58:22 UTC

Thank you, Liberal Party of Canada, for announcing your new cabinet on a platform that I can't read posts from without an account on X, which I removed thanks to Elon Musk, the same person who made posts on X no longer public. Why are you still using X, especially for important public announcements?
#cdnpoli #abpoli #xitter
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2025-04-30 19:08:15 UTC

#capitalism
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2025-04-29 11:33:25 UTC

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My last interaction with Kerry was about his long-ago desire to ban bicycles in Edmonton. He still claimed to support this move 100%. Then I had to block him to detach from his followers who piled me with threats and harassment for opposing it.

2025-04-29 11:26:47 UTC

I am so disgisted by the results in Edmonton, but that's probably because Kerry Diotte won his seat back and that's the most appalling thing that could have happened in #yeg. wtf is wrong with you, Griesbach?!

2025-04-23 18:50:37 UTC

Same line as the Conservative Party of Canada says about the $32/person which is spent on our public broadcaster, the CBC. All while gutting our public services to hand them over to privately owned middlemen.
#cdnpoli #abpoli #uspol #capitalism
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2025-04-15 20:59:43 UTC

RE: “I think this is the first time a politician in Canada has crossed that line to officially say they want to interfere to control research topics,” says Madeleine Pastinelli, president of the university professors’ union in the province of Quebec. “It could be a very terrible time for us.”
Wow, so I guess Danielle Smith's actions in Alberta have not reached the rest of the nation yet.
She came out in public and said that the scientific results of unbiased research does not produce enough "views" (as if scientific results are just an "opinion") which align with her Conservative ideology, so the Alberta government will step in to prevent Universities from receiving Federal funding on subjects which she finds to be "problematic", and could produce results which don't align Conservative views.
I don't know how people can be unaware of this absolute travesty of authoritarian anti-science overreach.
I only wish she were right, that this dystopian nightmare was not so real.
https://www.science.org/content/article/canadian-election-top-conservative-candidate-vows-end-woke-ideology-science-funding
#abpoli #cdnpoli #education #research #Science #stem
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2025-04-11 19:33:05 UTC

'“Concurrent with these agreements, the EEOC has withdrawn the March 17, 2025 letters to the Law Firms, and will not pursue any claims related to those issues,” Trump noted, referring to his intimidation of the firms.
The announcements come as part of Trump’s widespread attack on law firms, punishing them for filing lawsuits he disagrees with or hiring attorneys he doesn’t like. He’s issued executive orders penalizing some of the country’s top law firms, many of which have bent to the president’s will—including Wilkie Farr & Gallagher, the law firm of former second gentleman Doug Emhoff.
The total amount of free services pledged by law firms has now reached more than $900 million, a concerning statistic not only for other law firms but for the rule of law itself.'
https://newrepublic.com/post/193922/trump-law-firms-deals
#uspol #fascism

2025-04-11 18:08:24 UTC

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It is real. This is their response to "retaliatory tariffs" from all the countries Trump put tariffs on.
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1910058352278708638
Also, by "the before times" I assume you mean... like, last year. :(

2025-04-11 17:04:07 UTC

This is not a test.
#uspol #fascism
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2025-04-10 21:15:37 UTC

To Americans, pharmaceutical healthcare is nothing but dollars. Eliminating human need is an attack on US billionaires and their exploitive profits.
The "insulin industry" is particularly disgusting when you realize that when Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent because he felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives, so Banting’s co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a mere $1 since they wanted everyone who needed their medication to be able to afford it.
Americans profiteers then went on to patent every method of manufacturing this "free invention" for their own profit.
#healthcare #uspol
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2025-04-09 21:47:26 UTC

The problem is if they charge you 50 cents more for fries they won't be able to let go of that extra profit and release the funds back to the workers. They see profit and keep it. The only time they will give any of it to the workers is when they are forced to. As such, the only way workers can retain a living wage is through unionization and collective labour action. And the only way we can maintain our rights to job action and union activity, is by keeping union busters out of our government (which in Canada means no Conservatives).
There is more than enough profit going around for them to give a sliver of it to the people who make it. They don't need any more profit to treat workers fairly, they simply choose not to. You will never get any more of the pie by making more pie.
#cdnpoli #abpoli #union #unionstrong
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2025-04-08 17:10:51 UTC

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Haha!

2025-04-08 17:09:25 UTC

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Haha, yeah I noticed that after I re-read it. The date caught my eye first so I didn't notice the double-speak.