Part of why we remain here is that most people don't interact with the actual criminal punishment system, they are stuck in Law & Order land and fantasy land.

Downtown Eastside organizations admit: "We don't know where the money's going" | Daily Hive | Urbanized Larry Campbell says the deeper he looked into the Downtown Eastside, the more he realized the scale of the challenge.

dismantle all the service agencies, the nonprofits & charities and get the academic researchers and Vancouver Coastal Health the fuck out of here

you want to see something messed up? here

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Mural painted in West Bank, Palestine

Burnside Bridge, Portland, OR #NoKings

In the 30s, the government tried to get farmers to grow comfrey for fertilizer instead of using cow manure.
This was due to the runoff contamination in local waterways and wells.
Well,the petroleum industry killed that to develop chemical fertilizers and brainwashed farmers to think they needed it.

Bobby Sands for Robert Weaver I did not cry for Bobby Sands, but I almost did, thinking of my grandmother whom I loved, and who loved me, and of how her voice would break when she told me again how her grandmother died in a field in County Wexford with green stains on her lips, her hands filled with grass, and of how in that same year the English wagonso escorted by English troops carried Irish grain down to English vessels for shipment to England. Yes, yes, that was a long, long time ago; but somebody should remember Mary Foley, somebody should weep for her, even if it is only a drunken listener to lying ballads. Being human, we each of us can bear no more than a particle of pain that is not our own; the rest is rhetoric. Better to shed a tear for Mary Foley than to rant or babble about suffering that is beyond our capacity to comprehend. And what of Bobby Sands? We talk too much, all of us. In common decency, don't speak of him unless you have gone at least a day without food, and be sure you understand that he loved being alive, the same as you. Then say what you like. Call him a fool. Call him a criminal. You'll get no argument from me. I'll agree with everything you say in dispraise of gunmen. Oh, but Mary Foley's ghost was left in my keeping. I know in my heart that if he had come to me for a place to hide I could never have shut him out.

Alden Nowlan

Press Release from bc teacher union

The BC Teachers Federation, the province wide labour union representing over 40,000 teachers, has just passed a resolution in support of BDS!

The first province-wide motion to support BDS in solidarity with Palestine!!

“Stop the sweeps,”
Graffiti in Victoria, Canada, regarding the City's campaign to rid the city of visibly homeless people.

A fruit bat cover-up tattoo project from this weekend! 🦇

47 years ago today: Joey Ramone and Dee Dee Ramone of the Ramones performed at the Palladium in New York City on March 9, 1979.

Photo: Ebet Roberts

#punk #punks #punkrock #punklegends #ramones #joeyramone #deedeeramone #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Iran Resources This resource list was produced in March 2026, less than one week after the US and Zionist entity launched attacks against Iran — manufactured through lies, orientalist propaganda, sanctions, regime-c...

Weaving our Worlds has compiled resources and diverse left perspectives from and on Iran. Rather than reduce Iran to various intra-left ideological debates, these provide analysis based in the context, specificity and history.

www.weavingourworlds.ca/iran-resourc...

Love you Bodega cat 😘

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

The cops control municipal government and have essentially done so since the 70s. Once you understand this, everything else gets clearer.

A galaxy with a line-like nucleus and a horseshoe-shaped arc above it. The horseshoe points down, and the nucleus is in the center of the arc. It looks like an upside down power symbol, ⏻. Both the nucleus and the horseshoe are fuzzy, yellow, and dotted with star clusters, which appear as blurry blue dots.

Sloan Digital Sky Survey image of Arp 6, also known as NGC 2537 or the Bear’s Paw Galaxy.

The horseshoe structure may be the result of a shockwave from a nuclear starburst.

Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Source

The process is the punishment.

It is an incredibly effective way to prevent dissent - this kind of legal foolishness has a point. It ties up your life for a significant period of time and takes you off the playing board. And it's why others need to step into those empty spaces.

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

24 years ago today
'Don't Worry About Me' is the first album released by Joey Ramone as a solo artist, released posthumously on this day in 2002, less than a year after his death.

#punk #punkrock #punklegend #joeyramone #dontworryaboutme #history #punkrockhistory #otd

An all-black bird perched on the arm of a powerline. The view is from below, with the bird's tail to the right and its head turned to the right. The massive black beak is what stands out most to me. Its head feathers are slightly ruffled by the breeze. The sky behind is a uniform pale blue.

A common raven (Corvus corax) on a powerline in the Caja del Rio area west of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Photo taken on February 16, 2026.

#nature #naturephotography #birds

A bird on the bare ground. The bird is in profile with the head to the left and the tail to the right, but his head is turned back so gaze at the photographer. The bird has a pale yellow chin and forehead. At the top of the forehead is a black band ending on each side in a small feather "horn." A second black band extends back from the beak to under the visible eye and then down. The yellow area is bordered below with black. The rest of the bird is dull by comparison. The breast, back, visible wing, and folded tail are light tan. The belly is white. The short, slightly curved, sharp little beak is black, as are the legs.

A male horned lark in the Caja del Rio area west of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Photo taken on February 16, 2026.

#nature #naturephotography #birds

Only deeply sick societies spend obscene amounts on chains, cages, walls, and all-seeing cameras as opposed to stuff that fosters beauty, joy, health, people who can think, and a natural world capable of sustaining it all.

Embroidery with significant symbols and motifs in reds and green on a cream background

Palestinian tatreez is a deeply rooted, intricate form of traditional hand embroidery and cross-stitch (falahi) that refrences identity and heritage #WomensArt

it's incredible to contemplate the volume of civic funding and effort spent appeasing:
- people who find the sight of poverty more offensive than evidence-based public health policy
- drivers who think bad traffic is a human rights violation
- residents who recoil from shadows like reverse-vampires

Done!

Blue faience hippo statuette with black line drawings of lotus flowers and buds on stalks painted on its surface (including its face). In a way, it's like seeing the hippo through the marsh plants of its environment.

This #Egyptian faience hippo statuette is painted with lotus flowers and buds, found in its marshy environment. The lotus flowers - closing every night and reopening again in the morning - also represented regeneration and rebirth. 🏺 1/ @alisonfisk.bsky.social

1938-1539 BCE.
#BrooklynMuseum 📸 me

There is a reason that building the future must begin with centring the safety and needs of racialized trans and queer people. They are are most vulnerable relatives, and the violence inflicted on them will always expand and swallow us all.

The renegotiation of our agreement with Eby’s NDP was a litmus test on their touted pro-worker values. They failed. The BC Greens are the party to take on the 1% and fight for working people. Thread on our CARGA proposal for year two — that the NDP unilaterally vetoed /1 🧵#bcpoli

SECOND CLASS ANGEL there’s a part of heaven reserved for my kind. the sun don’t grow there. the money don’t shine it’s not about wings altho chicken today feathers tomorrow might be called a way of being periodically there’s a breakthru: one of us gets over polishing halos evidentially status has endless ramifications like an infinite pecking order which suggests the light one moves toward ascending in death is merely the non-reflective neon of God’s corporate boardroom

the money don’t shine

Wanda Coleman