some things about becoming a parent are radicalizing in ways I expected - e.g being reminded viscerally how screwed we'd all be if childcare and other care work disappeared. but other things are radicalizing in ways I didn't - like experiencing constant spontaneous solidarity in ways big and small
little fella claimed to be "politically homeless" just last week
I’m sorry he got so blackout drunk they had to ask for SWAT door busting equipment?!
As the expiry date nears for two of Thomson Reuters’ contracts with the United States Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, one B.C. union is sounding the alarm over human rights concerns.
@isaacphannay.bsky.social reports. #uspoli #bclab
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NEW: RFK Jr. is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market.
History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters.
Things are not okay.
A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.
“The extent of Canada’s problem with far-right extremism stared me in the face on an ordinary Wednesday night.” 🇨🇦
After The Tyee published @rachelgilmore.bsky.social’s report on a white nationalist club meeting at a Montreal gym, today she reports the fallout.
Prosecutors will continue undermining press freedom until they’re held accountable with real consequences.
if you think the party that's funded Palestinian genocide every step of the way, that's passed every Trump budget and spending bill, won't hand him billions more for this illegal war, lol
lmao, even
I will also say that it’s a bit wild to me that no press freedom organization or professional journalistic association has tried to contact me or even put out a statement here.
I mean Jesus Christ. A little solidarity from institutions would be nice here!
RFK Jr: Families should make dinner together and that will cure the spiritual crisis in the U.S.
Mom: I would but I have to work two jobs to afford housing.
RFK Jr: I only have one “job” and I’m a millionaire, what’s your problem lazy daisy? I’ve made tens of meals for my kids over decades!
A DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools. @evystadium.bsky.social reports.
Story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...
Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable major medical advancements, including the polio vaccine.
They found him. He died.
Another murder by our immigration goon squads
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
I will die before I ever go to a Service Ontario in a fucking Walmart. Fuck Walmart and fuck Doug Ford.
do u think during the industrial revolution people thought the factory was their boyfriend
*rubs temples*
As I've spent the better part of the day explaining why I don't think Newsom should be the Democratic nominee for president, it pains me to "defend" this, but...
The governor of California is legally obligated to proclaim each Feb 6 Reagan Day per a 2010 state law.
Never mind, he is legally required to. Still fucked. Thanks @parkermolloy.com
I really don’t understand Newsome’s motivation to declare a “Reagan Day.” I guess maybe to court more “traditional” Republicans. A fucked idea, to be sure.
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NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know
