Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

What’s the Family Doctor Fix? Teams are a great place to start.

Transit Cuts Are Back On Council's Menu — Queen City Improvement Bureau Council will consider $12,150,000 in transit cuts during next week's budget debate. This is what that will look like. On the chopping block: • accessibility training for drivers • accessibilit...

In case you missed it… Here's a QCIB blog post on the massive cuts to city transit that council is considering. It ends on a pretty crusty note about the floral conservatory. queencityib.com/blog/2025/12... #yqrcc /1

“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything to steer the future away from endless war and grinding down of the poor.Hope gives a future."
-Rebecca Solnit

When The Levee Breaks feat. John Paul Jones | Playing For Change | Song Around The World YouTube video by Playing For Change

Coffee is made.

Torch is lit.

Good Morning, America!

Let’s see how the levy looks.

#RadioFreeAmerica

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Margaret W. Rossiter, 81, Dies; Wrote Women Scientists Into History

Saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Rossiter, who told the stories of the many forgotten and underappreciated women of science.

Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering.

RIP, Margaret.

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

On a Tuesday in March, Rümeysa Öztürk writes, “I was thrust into a nightmare.”

For VF, the Fulbright scholar details what she witnessed in the six and a half weeks she spent inside a South Louisiana ICE detention center.

Synchronized laziness, obviously.

There's nothing that pisses me more than when people are getting ripped off by their employers, by landlords, by banks, by Energy Companies, by Water Companies, by Supermarkets.

Then they decide actually the problem is immigrants or Disabled People.

How stupid can you be?

B.C.'s top doctor among British Columbians appointed to Order of Canada | CBC News "Having my name amongst this group of incredible Canadians is truly humbling," Dr. Bonnie Henry said in a statement. "To be recognized by my country for my life's work in health and public health is a...

“Dr. Bonnie Henry describes honour as 'humbling'”

She should be more than humbled, she should be ashamed.

After making a mess of SARS in Ontario, she gave inane advice from BC about COVID, like belitting masking + cheering ‘protective’ infections.

This is failing up!

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

Haven’t read this and won’t because:

1. ‘Soap and water’ do not combat airborne viruses.

2. ‘Common sense’ suggests everyone understands virology so, why bother writing this book if everyone knows anyway? Is common sense all we need to fly an airplane?

#deathofexpertise
#covidisairborne
#WTF

Wrote an article on the theme from the tweets below: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/heat-exhau...

I explained this in 2017; let’s see if it takes this time…

When the KKK Murdered My Childhood Friend | Robert Reich As the shortest kid in school, I was an easy target for bullies. When I was about eight, I befriended a kind teenager wh

61 years ago today, the Klan murdered three civil rights workers in Mississippi. One of them was a childhood friend. I'd like to share what he meant to me. https://youtu.be/u-kv3wdqqNo?si=Zc3Uh-CJOcODt-RW

Lisa is a Canadian treasure

Entire video:
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Hey @CBC you should stop using ALL lobbyists as panel pundits. They always have self interests that they push. Thinking of this often, but pretty appalled just now by Moe Sihota on the Early Edition. #Vancouver #CBC

Naheed Nenshi

Donald Trump increased tariffs to 50% on steel and aluminum, affecting Canadian jobs.

Danielle Smith's response? Restocking American booze back on Alberta shelves! She can’t do anything that Trump might not like.

She’s a terrible negotiator and can’t or won’t stand up for Canada.

Are you a journalist in a national Canadian newsroom who has felt institutional pressure when it comes to covering the genocide in Gaza?

I want to talk to you and can protect your identity.

Here’s my Signal. Pls include proof of identity so I can avoid the weirdos lol ❤️

Book cover (UK) for Herald of a Restless World. How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People by Emily Herring. A portrait of Henri Bergson (middle aged man with a moustache) appears swept away in swirls of abstract colour

Book cover (US) for Herald of a Restless World. How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People by Emily Herring.

Read my biography of Henri Bergson to find out about his philosophy of durée, his secret meeting with President Wilson during WWI, the experiments he and Pierre Curie conducted on an Italian medium, and why he caused the 1st traffic jam on Broadway!

Order your copy here:
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Image shows David Bexte, Conservative MP for Bow River, Alberta, speaking in the House of Commons today.

There's something surreal about watching this Conservative MP speak in the House about how "words matter" knowing the son he raised (Keean Bexte) called me a filthy whore last week lmao

Democracy Is Under Siege Globally. Canada Is Being Tested | The Tyee How the well-honed playbook for whipping up authoritarian populism is being employed here and around the world.

They are not a political party as we know it. There are a cult, just like the MAGA. If you are not familiar with IDU I suggest YOU educate yourself.
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Poilievre says Conservatives will fight for change in new session of Parliament | CBC News Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his caucus will be pushing measures to make Canada more affordable, safe, self-reliant and united, as Conservative MPs prepare to return to Parliament without...

Imagine CBC covering Trudeau so positively if he had lost his seat. They would be all over him for acting like he was elected, staying at Stornoway, having expensive by-election.

PP cosplays. CBC plays along.
PP is an unelected loud mouth sucking up the taxpayer dime!

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Private clinics in Canada are selling personal health data: study Private clinics in Canada are selling patients’ personal health data without their knowledge, according to a new study.

www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...