many won't even acknowledge it once it hits them head on: infects loved ones, them; burns their home—so those of us who do have an obligation to help.
"Organizer Navneet Kaur noted...“In the face of so much state abandonment&neglect, it really is everyday people who are taking care of each other,'”
I’m addressing this in a more comprehensive way later but right now I am going to share some lovely people from Gaza who are getting ignored because Bluesky wants a three ring circus to distract everyone from their reprehensible policies around the voices of Palestinians
The good news is, you can always worry more.
Never trust Liberals with strategic voting. They’ll vote for their party every time. Even if their candidate is a long shot. Most splitting of the left vote happens because of Liberal selfishness.
!!! It’s. Wild.
💯 I’m seeing people be like “I love Blake what do I do!” And like, you vote Blake! This isn’t the US!
The Liberals should remember how anti Palestine policies worked out for the Democrats.
If Newsies taught me one thing it is that Joseph Pulitzer was trash.
"The Cassandras of the world who knew Trump was fascist and would govern like a fascist are at fault for sounding the alarm of impending fascism despite Trump not yet having power and not yet governing in a fascist manner.
Fascism can only be used to talk about it when it's too late."
Carney scraps ministries of women and gender equality and youth, seniors, and disability. Not looking promising for his purported @liberalparty.bsky.social values. globalnews.ca/news/1108172...
I hate these fascist motherfuckers with every cell in my body and with nearly equal timbre I hate the cowardice of the only people in a position to oppose them who treat it like they were playing crazy 8s over cocktails and watercress sandwiches
Say what you will about Trudeau but he had a gender balanced cabinet and Carney's cabinet doesn't even include Minister for Women and Gender Equality.
This does not bode well...
We said dropping masking was the road to fascism but watching the library go from lol “we don’t have to mask even when the children’s hospitals are overflowing” to “pride and TRC are ‘occasions’” and making employees remove their pronoun pins sucks so much.
Canadian flag in username 🚩
For people just learning this, please please please put on a mask. We are in a deadly and disabling pandemic and a mask is the best way to protect yourself and those around you.
"If cats could talk, to cops, they wouldn't"
Seen in Sydney
I’m a pessimist for thinking about Covid risks? Okay, kids! Don’t worry about sunscreen or seatbelts, either! Oh, that’s silly, you say? Well, there’s no difference in your failed approach to risk mitigation.
"Canadian Mining Companies Drive Congo Genocide"
Sticker seen in Surrey, British Columbia
if you, for whatever reason, decided to start some basic home preparedness today, and can only get to a few stores, here's what I'd tell you to get:
-walkie talkies for everyone in your family
-little portable power packs, one per phone
-a print road atlas
[...]
Today I'm hoping to have the courage of my convictions (reading my open tabs).
Photo of a handwritten free verse poem written on part of an envelope during a virtual writing meditation group exercise.
Remember
The song. The voice.
The soothing quality.
Remember is hard.
Remember is painful.
The memory is fuzzy.
It's unreliable, I know.
But remembering is what
makes us human, part of
the reason anyway.
#VirtualWritingGroup
#iamhere #StillCoviding
#CovidPoetry
#FreeVerse #Poetry
It is *very* important to understand that Jews were never the only target of the 1930s Nazis and they are not the only targets of today’s Nazis. A Nazi salute is not only antisemitic. It is also racist, ableist, and queerphobic.
Lately when people tell me "We have to live our lives," what I really hear is "I have to live my life & I don't want you to make me feel bad about doing that at the expense of vulnerable folks"
Hello, I am Jamal from Gaza. Unfortunately, everything was destroyed in Gaza. My university, my studies, my beautiful city, my dreams, and everything is beautiful. Our lives are also in danger and the destruction is still continuing. You can help me rebuild my life
gofund.me/2f77e0ba
Idk how I feel about this tbh 😭
Local woman wakes up, suggests no more donations to political parties, just mutual aid and non profits, makes oatmeal.
I was raised in a multi-generational organizing family and I can say with firsthand knowledge that 20th century organizers read theory and they studied history and literature quite closely
The need to do that hasn’t changed
If studying history isn’t part of your organizing work, change that
my latest @teenvogue.bsky.social
my heart broke watching Pasadena, Octavia Butler's hometown, where her middle school is named for her, burn. 5 schools have been damaged.
"Octavia knew"—so did Mike Davis—from studying history. denialism and targeting libraries got us here. what will we do?
ME: [extremely burnt out] I need to take the day off to relax
ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive
