Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha says he’s been suspended from Substack, a platform where white supremacists publish without issue. I can’t recall this happening to any prominent writers in the past.
Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in:
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
Just because you pretend it isn't genocide doesn't mean you aren't complicit.
Thankfully the Guardian is one of the few media outlets stepping up.
Thankfully in Canada the grandmothers are taking to the streets as our political leaders tiptoe around Netanyahu.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
The fear among pregnant immigrants who call Frontera Fund’s support line in Texas is palpable, Torres says. “People who are undocumented are scared to go anywhere, to do anything, to go to the doctor,” she says. “While that has always been the case, you can imagine how heightened it is now.”
"How about we give the cars erectile dysfunction? Screw it, let’s make it a common cultural practice in the Cars universe for them to eat their vehicle-placentas after a forty-month gestation period."
Monstrous:
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
Michele Bear is one week into a hunger strike outside the City of Regina Landfill.
The mother of Richele Bear, who was murdered by a serial killer in 2013, is only taking fluids as she camps outside to push for a landfill search.
Genocidal, in other words
Tweet from the Durham Bulls that reads "Y'all means all. #PrideNight"
Tweet from a user saying "Please delete," and Durham Bulls responding "No."
Tweet from a user saying, "Actually, no it does not! Stop dividing people." with a response from the Durham Bulls saying, "Inclusion's actually the exact opposite of division"
Tweet from someone saying "Maybe don't promote gay sex to children?" with the Durham Bulls responding, "Okay, sexyman159861581242902587231848675309"
11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls
So...they want a pause so that they can keep breaking the law until they've been given enough warning that those laws will eventually be enforced?
Do any of these people actually listen to themselves?
B.C. Premier David Eby says the growing spread of #measles across Canada is “the sadly predictable outcome” of the “recklessness” of anti-vaccination politicians, by @chuckchiang3.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti... via @theglobeandmail.com #antivax
Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.
Alberta as we know it today simply would not exist without the millions of immigrants and refugees who built it, who loved it, and who were proud to call it home - including my grandparents and my mum. This bitter xenophobia is as unAlbertan as it’s possible to be. I’m ashamed. I’m disgusted.
A reminder that Doug Ford has let ERs and hospital wait times get worse, is absolutely destroying the post-sec ed sector with a manufactured budget crisis, but is spending money on this:
“Mish tired himself out and decided after nearly an hour that he wanted to go back to bed”
WHOMST AMONGST US
CASE CLOSE
A goose wearing shades on a pink background with text that says "people pleasing is over, become unacceptable"
There's a heat warning in Waterloo Region today, and it's likely to continue throughout the week. Please stay safe and healthy. Check out the locations of local cooling spaces in case you need some relief from the ☀️
www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/health-an...
Oh my god why does he SUCK so BAD
Ontario heat wave prompts concerns about students, educators sweltering in schools, by @kkirkup.bsky.social
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #ClimateChange
Insert “we’re all looking for the guys who did this” banana.
DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases.
This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.
NEW: Contrary to his assertions, Carney’s housing plan does not replicate WWII-era housing policies. In fact, it does just the opposite. It continues the legacy of corporate welfare that replaced this nation’s heroic wartime housing efforts.
5. Wars are easy to start and hard to stop
About to board a flight to leave Cairo, Egypt. And all I can think about is my friend Muhammad in Gaza.
“We are here in Gaza. Our dreams and our children's dreams end here.”
“Horror. Fear. Hunger. Thirst. Death. We are not okay. I'm sorry to tell you these things. Excuse me.”
Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago.
Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away”
timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...
This #WorldRefugeeDay, we must speak out: the Safe Third Country Agreement is putting lives at risk.
Refugees - especially women, 2SLGBTQIA+ & racialized people - deserve safety, not more danger.
Canada must suspend the STCA now. #RefugeesWelcome
A screenshot of affidavit from Abrego Garcia's wife reading: 18. We got married on June 25, 2019, while he was detained. I coordinated with the detention center and a local pastor to officiate our wedding. We were separated by glass and were not allowed physical contact. The officer had to pass our rings to each other. It was heartbreaking not to be able to hug him. 19. Next came his final hearing on August 9, 2019, where it would be decided if he would be granted humanitarian protection or if he would be deported. The hearing lasted over five hours and focused on two things: the false accusations against Kilmar and the risk to Kilmar's life if he was deported to El Salvador. The hearing was continued until September because they could not get through everything. 20. During the first hearing, I began having contractions. Our son, A.A.V., was born two days later on August 11, 2019. It was a complicated c-section. However, A.A.V. was born and I instantly fell in love with him. A.A.V was born with microtia, a congenital ear deformity. Testing later showed that he is deaf in one ear. Kilmar missed A.A.V.'s birth because he was detained.
Another screenshot reading: 23. When I got the news that he was being released, I rushed to pick him up. It was the first time he held his son. He was emotional, as were our children when they saw him after school. 24. Although our family separation was hard, the love we have for each other and our kids has sustained us. Kilmar appeared to be a little more reserved and he now had a sadness about him that I didn't see before he went into immigration custody.
No matter what justice Mahmoud Khalil gets now and in the future, ICE will always have taken away getting to be there for the birth of his son.
It was same for Kilmar Abrego Garcia in 2019. After PGPD illegally handed him over to ICE, he was detained through the birth of his son.
ICE ruins lives.
I'm pissed!
Canadians like @yipengge.bsky.social tried to march to Gaza to break Israel's siege.
Despite the odds, the marchers still tried to save lives. That matters.
Or it should — but some folks with the largest platforms in Canadian media felt these marchers needed to be dressed down:
