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‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...

“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.

Poilievre is promoting “100 days of change” if he’s elected. Trump is nearly at 100 days and look at what he’s done. Pierre’s promise to quick march his far right changes is driving me even further away, if that’s even possible. Don’t give him the keys to power. #canpoli #cdnpoli

Makes me wonder what's really going on

Toronto shopping street

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car.

In fact, it was 4%.

And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%.

Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

Decapitation Strike Preserving America from Trump's Appointments

Just going to repost my essay "Decapitation Strike" from November. We are living through it now.
snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...

Grieving husband says "reckless" Texas abortion law led to pregnant wife's death Between 2019 and 2022, the maternal mortality rate in Texas increased 56% after the state outlawed abortions.

Porsha Ngumezi was killed by Texas’ abortion ban after doctors refused her a D&C to treat the miscarriage she suffered at 11 weeks gestation. She leaves behind a husband and two sons. www.cbsnews.com/news/grievin...

Ambient infrastructure Listen to Ambient infrastructure, a playlist curated by Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District on desktop and mobile.

Insomniac? Love infrastructure? The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org has your back.

"When the big men all repeat the same message–Misogyny wins!--it is no wonder that ordinary little men not only listen but flex their misogyny muscles on women they encounter in their day-to-day lives in a desperate attempt at power and relevance." ~ @monaeltahawy.bsky.social

Russia launches air attack on Kyiv hours after Zelenskyy agrees to 30-day US ceasefire deal – Ukraine war live Kyiv’s mayor says air defence forces are engaged in repelling the strikes; Donald Trump says he plans to talk to Putin about ceasefire

" #Russia launches air attack on Kyiv hours after #Zelenskyy agrees to 30-day US ceasefire deal – #Ukraine

Kyiv’s mayor says air defence forces are engaged in repelling the strikes;

👉🏼 #Trump says he plans to talk to Putin about ceasefire" 🙄

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

My heart breaks for people who are trapped in the system, either as unfairly charged innocents or as victims. I personally could pursue criminal harassment charges, but what would be the point? I'd just get retraumatized and the case would take years to ever happen.

What Doug Ford Has Done Since 2018 2025 | Art Blog This is what Doug Ford has done in ON since the election in 2018. Accompanied by the Conservative Party. This list began on Facebook in 2019.

Doug Ford has got to go.

Here’s an excellent compilation of all the things he’s done since 2018.

Worth the read to remind yourself why Ontario cannot afford Doug Ford.

artblogkathrynkaiser.ca/what-doug-fo...

How have the autocratic regimes evaded economic sanctions? Thanks to Autocracy, Inc.—a sophisticated network of international financial firms, and state owned enterprises from China, Russia and others—that continues to do business with autocrats using variety of schemes to save autocrats worldwide.

This is gonna be fun…

They ran on “not wanting World War 3.”

Trump’s not even sworn in yet and is explicitly promising World War 3.

No wonder Elon Musk wants to install Pierre Poilievre as Prime Minister.
He is the only opposition leader in history who won't or can't get a security clearance.
Hell you need a security clearance to volunteer at the library.
He also voted against multiple times against support for Ukraine.

Yep.

There's this potentially weird dystopian cyberpunk future where the Internet Archive loses all its copyright battles while OpenAI wins all of theirs, and our only record of the history of the Internet-that-was is locked up inside the unreliable narration of obsolete large language models.

Death threats, Jordan Peterson and me: My journey into the world of Pitchfork Politics Some on the far right are using the language of violence to intimidate people. Here’s what we should do, says NDP MP Charlie Angus.

Pierre Poilievre is leaning heavily into rage and disinformation.
His interview with Jordan Peterson speaks volumes about where he will take the politics of our nation.
I was once targeted by Jordan Peterson and the death threats I faced went off the charts.
www.thestar.com/opinion/deat...

Big update for the new year!!! Our big ol list of how the Doug Ford government has changed environmental rules now has a table of contents to make it easier to navigate! (we also added new info on Highway 413, bike lanes and more)

Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.

Featured story: Under owner Elon Musk, the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, has become a hotbed of white supremacist and neo-Nazi content. We revealed the real identities of four prominent hatemongers.

Elon Musk needs to be stopped. The EU and Great Britain should block Twitter X.

A graphic promoting a focus group to explore medical racism and ableism in healthcare. The large title reads: "EXPLORING MEDICAL RACISM & ABLEISM IN HEALTHCARE". The text emphasizes a call for participation in a focus group to address medical racism and ableism experienced by Black, racialized, and disabled individuals in Ontario healthcare. It states that the focus group will create an informative toolkit to combat these issues. The flyer lists two virtual sessions: December 3, 6-8 PM December 12, 6-8 PM Compensation: All participants will receive $50 for their time and insights. QR Code: A QR code is provided for easy registration or access to further information on a website. A link to register or learn more is included. http://tinyurl.com/36pyfh2p Contact emails (koubra@djno.ca and sabreina@djno.ca) are provided for further inquiries. The flyer also includes a logo and a name, Disability Justice Network of Ontario, in the footer.

Over the last few months, we have hosted several focus groups to connect with Black & racialized disabled folks across Ontario to better understand what their experiences with the healthcare sector have been like. We are hosting two virtual focus groups in the month of December to further this work!

I've survived thanks to the support of women. 💜

Children of Time is a kindle monthly deal this month!

"I began hesitating telling people about the assault because I often ended up comforting strangers who cried upon finding out." I relate to this so much. I found myself repeatedly apologizing to police officers who had done nothing to stop the reasons for my many 911 calls in 2024. Sigh.

Wrapped in a shroud of Burger King wrappers and gently placed in the trunk of a Cybertruck. And that's if Trump was trying to be respectful...

I didn't have "the next war in North America may be provoked not by conflict over access to the Great Lakes but by people fighting for the right to drink from sidewalk puddles" on my bingo card for 2025. But I'm adding it.

I re-read it during a period of grieving and felt validated and comforted by it.

I guess she doesn't own a refrigerator? Because daily trips make no sense otherwise.

Have you read "Nation" by Pratchett? It gets overlooked for not being Discworld but it is so so good.