social housing units built by year in Canada, 1972-2010

- by number of units
- as % of all housing built

October 1, 2025

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Children ‘low-hanging fruit’ in fight to end trans care, official at pro-Trump thinktank says America First Policy Institute, which boasts close ties to president, discussed transgender policy ‘reform’ at DC event

Once again, the right is openly admitting that the entire focus on trans youth is to ultimately ban all gender affirming care for adults.

All the credulous reporters and institutions that helped launder this right wing project are responsible.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Sharp piece

Transgender Woman Defies Kansas's Extreme Bathroom Ban In Act Of Civil Disobedience At State Capitol "I am very sorry that you and others have been put in this situation," Gov. Kelly said.

1. Throughout history, leaders have committed acts of civil disobedience to challenge unjust laws.

Add Samantha Boucher to that list.

Boucher walked into the Kansas Statehouse bathroom in front of police, deliberately violating one of the most extreme anti-trans law in the country.

if you think age verification for social media is about protecting children I also have three magic beans i'm willing to part with for a bargain

The Ratchet In 2015, state legislatures across the United States considered 75 anti-LGBTQ bills, of which 27 targeted gender identity.1 In 2025, that total reached 1,059—with 851 of the current-session bills targ...

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe.

www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

I will always see a belief in the "Courtney killed Kurt" conspiracies as the best indication that a person has a serious fucked up misogyny streak. That shit is so far beyond fucked

I've heard tale so many times and it always changes my perception of the person telling it

Over the next few weeks, assuming the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, Americans are going to start to feel the pinch when it comes to higher prices and shortages of certain goods.

But that won't even be 0.01% of what the US govt has done to Cuba over the past 65 years and is doing right now.

A huge number of people vote mostly on their perception of morality

Pollsters sometimes ask voters to rank their policy priorities, and anything "foreign relations" comes far below economy & cost of living

But those polls do not include mortality, and on that measure, Israel is a litmus test

The US and Israel have destroyed over 36,000 homes and over 50 cultural sites in Iran thus far.

Nearly a million people are homeless in Lebanon.

Gaza is still being starved by Israel.

ICE is still kidnapping people off our streets based on nothing but their skin color or gender identity.

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
-Mussolini

You don't say?

I hope certain people will be upside down sometime soon.

Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

a rainbow flag is flying in the wind on top of a grassy hill Alt: a lesbian pride flag is flying in the wind on top of a grassy hill

I suppose, in fairness, it did turn out that I was gay, just not in the way they thought

Would sure be nice if people, in general, stopped insisting they know better about other people's identities. Gross behaviour

One of my least favourite parts of my long closeted period were the times folks pushed an opinion that I MUST be gay because of the feminine energy

Some (mostly older) men can become very aggressive when they assume you're gay and you politely turn away their advances by saying you're not into men

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

This image shows a post from Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) on X (formerly Twitter), which includes a quoted post from Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net). ​The text of the posts is as follows: ​Benjamin Ryan: "Caraballo raises a good point: Where are the national stories about the situation in Kansas with trans people’s driver’s licenses? On the flip side, why was the mainstream left-leaning media so generally uninterested in the detransitioner lawsuit win? I got about 20 interview requests to talk about my reporting on the case for @TheFP and they were all from conservative or heterodox outlets." ​Alejandra Caraballo: "A day later and no major national news org has covered what they're doing in Kansas. This is the flip side of the hyper focus on trans issues by the right. The national media ignores what's actually being done to trans people. This erasure is what contributes to the persecution."

Yeah, thousands of trans people losing their ability to drive and function in society is equivalent to nobody respectable wanting to talk to you.

Won't anyone think about poor Ben Ryan who is unable to book interviews with outlets that aren't right wing hacks and get the respect he deserves.

The nyt is a dishonest broker. Sulzberger and his lieutenants *also knew* this would happen.

They used flat-out fabrications (remember the gender clinic story in MO that was made up) and they pushed outright contempt (like its wholesale smear of trans ppl as “too much to endure”) to pave the way

still remember the "it's too early/hyperbolic/irresponsible to compare these guys to Nazi Germany" Reasonable Posters - whom, I imagine, are waiting for the renovations to be completed before they update their priors

Society will always be full of people who demand simple answers to complex questions, and complain when they don't get their preferred simple answer.

They are the voting base for every category of right-wing faux populism.

But it would be nice if they weren't the most powerful people in the world.

I never thought I'd meet my perfect other half.

The world may be a shitshow in countless ways, but pure joy is still real and still possible. Magic happens.

Your songs were incredible, my love. Happy Valentine's Day. 😘💕

And that’s the point. Bathroom bans are de facto bans from society.

🚨Hidden austerity is still austerity🚨

Corporations and billionaires are the winners of the BC NDP budget, while working people are forced to foot the bill.

Eby’s cuts abandon $10-a-day childcare, cancels public housing, and puts thousands of public servants out of work.

#bcpoli #bcbudget

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-...

The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.

I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.

When they make movies about this in the future they will tone down the cruelty of ICE and border patrol, like Spielberg did with Goeth in Schindler's List, because no one will believe they were actually this monstrous.

"i promise right now, years away from an election, to vote for an awful shitbag bigot because he isn't the other guy" shut da fuck up. you are making things worse

I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does.

Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision.

We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore.

This is something significantly bigger and scarier.