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An Interview with Ba Jin – Philip Short (1977)
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Born on this day in 1904, Chinese anarchist novelist, Ba Jin.
"In the 20s, like many young Chinese intellectuals of his day, he went to Paris to study, and it was there partly out of homesickness, as he tells it, that he wrote his first novel Destruction [灭亡]."
"In the 20s, like many young Chinese intellectuals of his day, he went to Paris to study, and it was there partly out of homesickness, as he tells it, that he wrote his first novel Destruction [灭亡]."
You cannot get land "back" under Canadian sovereignty for the very simple reason that Canada was not here "back" in the day. You can get land forward that way, I suppose, but not land back.
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
You cannot get land "back" under Canadian sovereignty for the very simple reason that Canada was not here "back" in the day. You can get land forward that way, I suppose, but not land back.
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#tdih 1968 HS students in Cleveland walked out to protest poor cafeteria food, unsanitary bathrooms, inadequate science labs, powerless student councils, & abuse by security guards.
Demands not met, so they protested again, with even more demands.
From new book by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social ⬇️
Demands not met, so they protested again, with even more demands.
From new book by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social ⬇️
Nov. 25, 1968: John Hay HS Walkout
With a long list of grievances, more than 1,200 students at John Hay High School in Cleveland, Ohio, walked out of school and held an unauthorized assembly.
www.zinnedproject.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
#tdih 1968 HS students in Cleveland walked out to protest poor cafeteria food, unsanitary bathrooms, inadequate science labs, powerless student councils, & abuse by security guards.
Demands not met, so they protested again, with even more demands.
From new book by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social ⬇️
Demands not met, so they protested again, with even more demands.
From new book by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social ⬇️
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The Assembly of First Nations have concerns over Alberta’s use of the notwithstanding clause to “limit the rights of two-spirit and trans youth” in the province.
The clause allows Alberta to override parts of the charter of rights for up to five years.
The clause allows Alberta to override parts of the charter of rights for up to five years.
Assembly of First Nations have concerns over Alberta’s use of anti-trans limitations | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The Assembly of First Nations have concerns over Alberta’s use of the notwithstanding clause to “limit the rights of two-spirit and trans youth” in the province.
The clause allows Alberta to override parts of the charter of rights for up to five years.
The clause allows Alberta to override parts of the charter of rights for up to five years.
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Canada’s drug laws are facing a constitutional challenge from the founders of a Vancouver compassion club.
In trying to beat back a wave of toxic street drugs, "You feel lost and powerless, because you are," Jeremy Kalicum testified.
pressprogress.ca/drug-laws-fa...
In trying to beat back a wave of toxic street drugs, "You feel lost and powerless, because you are," Jeremy Kalicum testified.
pressprogress.ca/drug-laws-fa...
Canada’s Drug Laws Face Challenge from Founders of Vancouver Compassion Club
'You feel lost and powerless, because you are,' Drug User Liberation Front co-founder testifies on day one of weeks-long hearing
pressprogress.ca
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Canada’s drug laws are facing a constitutional challenge from the founders of a Vancouver compassion club.
In trying to beat back a wave of toxic street drugs, "You feel lost and powerless, because you are," Jeremy Kalicum testified.
pressprogress.ca/drug-laws-fa...
In trying to beat back a wave of toxic street drugs, "You feel lost and powerless, because you are," Jeremy Kalicum testified.
pressprogress.ca/drug-laws-fa...
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huge news I just found a folder of these that I forgot i had!!!!!!!
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
huge news I just found a folder of these that I forgot i had!!!!!!!
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Falcon hovering over Whidbey Island, Ebey's trail.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Falcon hovering over Whidbey Island, Ebey's trail.
Are you just gonna make wild nuanced argumentation like that? And expect me not to respond with abstract categorical refusal?
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Are you just gonna make wild nuanced argumentation like that? And expect me not to respond with abstract categorical refusal?
Anarchists will say they hate liberals, that anarchists are the opposite of liberals, but at the same time they'll promote people like Graeber (who campaigned for Corbyn) or the Ukraine army anarchists as if they're upstanding anarchists and not just spicy liberals.
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Anarchists will say they hate liberals, that anarchists are the opposite of liberals, but at the same time they'll promote people like Graeber (who campaigned for Corbyn) or the Ukraine army anarchists as if they're upstanding anarchists and not just spicy liberals.
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did i get anything done today? no. but did i relax? also no.
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
did i get anything done today? no. but did i relax? also no.
"An American-owned cargo barge sitting dangerously low in the water near Bella Bella has reignited coastal First Nations’ fears about the dangers that oil tankers pose for the B.C. coast."
Near-sinking barge off B.C. coast stokes fears over oil tanker threats
The hull was "compromised in several places."
www.timescolonist.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"An American-owned cargo barge sitting dangerously low in the water near Bella Bella has reignited coastal First Nations’ fears about the dangers that oil tankers pose for the B.C. coast."
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#OnThisDay in 1978, the first Day of Remembrance (of World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans) was held at the Puyallup Fairgrounds. historylink.org/File/9464 #DayOfRemembrance
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
#OnThisDay in 1978, the first Day of Remembrance (of World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans) was held at the Puyallup Fairgrounds. historylink.org/File/9464 #DayOfRemembrance
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#OtD 25 Nov 1940 a bomb exploded aboard the SS Patria planted by the Zionist paramilitary group Haganah, killing 267, mostly Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe. They were trying to stop Britain transporting the refugees from Palestine to Mauritius stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9777...
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
#OtD 25 Nov 1940 a bomb exploded aboard the SS Patria planted by the Zionist paramilitary group Haganah, killing 267, mostly Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe. They were trying to stop Britain transporting the refugees from Palestine to Mauritius stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9777...
I'm becoming more convinced each day that Americans aren't aware of how American they are, they think they're just *normal*
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I'm becoming more convinced each day that Americans aren't aware of how American they are, they think they're just *normal*
More and more people are saying this.
That might be the dumbest thing I've heard all month
November 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
More and more people are saying this.
You're not an internationalist if you're a Western chauvinist, you're a petty imperialist. Real internationalism, as the CNT said, is when you support freedom for the colonies, the colonies of your own governments in the metropole!
November 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
You're not an internationalist if you're a Western chauvinist, you're a petty imperialist. Real internationalism, as the CNT said, is when you support freedom for the colonies, the colonies of your own governments in the metropole!
Once we all have our own youtube channels and all follow each other we will be free. As long as one person is still not an influencer, I am unfree.
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Once we all have our own youtube channels and all follow each other we will be free. As long as one person is still not an influencer, I am unfree.
"How a teen street musician became the face of the Kremlin's crackdown"
How a teen street musician became the face of the Kremlin's crackdown
Diana Loginova, the 18-year-old student and street musician, has emerged as an unlikely — and perhaps unwilling — voice of defiance in wartime Russia.
www.nbcnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"How a teen street musician became the face of the Kremlin's crackdown"
"U.S. ending deportation protections for immigrants from war-torn Myanmar"
U.S. ending deportation protections for immigrants from war-torn Myanmar
The Trump administration said it would end Temporary Protected Status for nearly 4,000 immigrants from Myanmar.
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"U.S. ending deportation protections for immigrants from war-torn Myanmar"
"During the government shutdown, increasingly ICE targeted individuals with no criminal history."
Taking Stock: Trump Administration Record on Detention and Removals
tracreports.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"During the government shutdown, increasingly ICE targeted individuals with no criminal history."
"Immigration Court Asylum Grant Rates Cut in Half"
Immigration Court Asylum Grant Rates Cut in Half
tracreports.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"Immigration Court Asylum Grant Rates Cut in Half"
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Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
I'm determined to be the world's first person to both read and comprehend a post before responding to it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'm determined to be the world's first person to both read and comprehend a post before responding to it.
Reminder that the Years of Lead was already American, as in American-sponsored, it just happened in Italy. Meanwhile in America, in the '60s and '70, dozens of members or associates of the BPP and AIM were assassinated or incarcerated. You're not having or going to have your own Italian experience.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reminder that the Years of Lead was already American, as in American-sponsored, it just happened in Italy. Meanwhile in America, in the '60s and '70, dozens of members or associates of the BPP and AIM were assassinated or incarcerated. You're not having or going to have your own Italian experience.
Born on this day in 1904, Chinese anarchist novelist, Ba Jin.
"In the 20s, like many young Chinese intellectuals of his day, he went to Paris to study, and it was there partly out of homesickness, as he tells it, that he wrote his first novel Destruction [灭亡]."
"In the 20s, like many young Chinese intellectuals of his day, he went to Paris to study, and it was there partly out of homesickness, as he tells it, that he wrote his first novel Destruction [灭亡]."
An Interview with Ba Jin – Philip Short (1977)
historyiswhat.noblogs.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Born on this day in 1904, Chinese anarchist novelist, Ba Jin.
"In the 20s, like many young Chinese intellectuals of his day, he went to Paris to study, and it was there partly out of homesickness, as he tells it, that he wrote his first novel Destruction [灭亡]."
"In the 20s, like many young Chinese intellectuals of his day, he went to Paris to study, and it was there partly out of homesickness, as he tells it, that he wrote his first novel Destruction [灭亡]."