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Susan Kiddie 🍉
@susankiddie.bsky.social
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Pro-humanity. Anti-fascist. Anti-genocide. Human Rights. Covid conscious, history, social justice, disability rights. She/Her.

Keep your mental health stigma off my feed.

Dystopian living is not as much fun as people led me to believe.
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Susan Kiddie 🍉 @susankiddie.bsky.social · Oct 7
"There was a feast once, and it became the Last Supper of my people.
And the world, indifferent, learned, self-satisfied, did not attend.
But it must remember. Because if it does not, then we, the living, will have died for nothing, and the dead will have died twice."

#GazaGenocide
anjalienjeti.bsky.social Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · Oct 7
This is the kind of poetry that should never have had to be written. Tweet from Gaza doctor Dr. Ezzideen (@ezzinggaza).
Two years ago, on a Friday that now stands outside of time, my father prepared a feast. It was meant to honor life, my graduation, my return, the promise of a future. The table was full, not only with food, but with faith: the quiet, unspoken faith that tomorrow would exist. How easily we believe in continuity, in the mercy of another morning. We gathered as one family, laughing, speaking over one another, breaking bread with careless joy, pouring juice into glasses as though it were the wine of peace itself. Each gesture was a prayer, though none of us knew it. My father’s hands moved as Christ’s once did, blessing the bread, dividing it among those he loved. And somewhere, though no one could name it, there hung in the air that same fragile foreboding that filled the upper room in Jerusalem, when love spoke its last words before betrayal. The air trembled with that kind of happiness which only later reveals itself as farewell. And then, silence. The silence that only the dead can teach. When I look now at the photographs, I see the faces of the condemned, though they did not know it. More than half of them are gone, devoured by what men call war and what truth calls murder. The homes that once contained our breathing, our prayers, our smallest tenderness, crushed. The gardens that smelled of oranges and evening, erased. I walk in memory as one walks through ruins, touching the stones of vanished laughter. October 7 was not the birth of a war; it was the death of illusion. On that day, history tore itself open, and the wound has not closed. It bleeds through every surviving soul. And in that blood I see not only the crime of one nation against another, but the crime of humanity against itself, the old, endless betrayal that men repeat while invoking God. If justice still exists, it must weep. If God still looks upon this earth, He must avert His eyes. This day should be marked forever, not as an event of politics, but as a revelation of the human abyss. Let every flag descend into silence. Let every tongue fall still. Because what was taken from us was not only life, but the very rhythm of being alive, the rustle of bread torn by a father’s hand, the sound of a child laughing before she learns what grief is. They took from us the ordinary, and left us with eternity. And yet, I remain. I, who ate with them, who still taste that bread in my mouth as though it were guilt itself. I live, and I do not know why. Perhaps only to remember. Perhaps only to tell the world that history is not written in treaties or speeches, but in the trembling of hands that once passed a dish across a table, in the laughter that did not know it was bidding farewell to the world. There was a feast once, and it became the Last Supper of my people. And the world, indifferent, learned, self-satisfied, did not attend. But it must remember. Because if it does not, then we, the living, will have died for nothing, and the dead will have died twice. #GazaGenocide
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lukelebrun.ca
Doug Ford *falsely claiming* he has the power to audit his enemies when he doesn’t actually have that power is still a news story

But it’s kind of a different story than one uncritically accepting the premise that the Premier of Ontario can order the federal government to audit his enemies
November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
susankiddie.bsky.social
"All cruelty springs from weakness." - Seneca @dailystoic
November 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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leguinbot.bsky.social
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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lukelebrun.ca
It would have been nice if someone asked Doug Ford to explain how he plans to order these charity audits given charities are overseen federally by Canada Revenue Agency
Ford says he will audit ‘left-wing radical groups’ opposed to government legislation | Globalnews.ca
Ford's warning came after members of the tenant advocacy group ACORN interrupted the legislature to protest a controversial omnibus bill that shortens some eviction timelines.
globalnews.ca
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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indrapramitdas.bsky.social
Please help Adham's family stay warm & fed if you can. No donations for 2 days, support has slowed to a crawl since the 'ceasefire', & Israel's genocide never ends, & has left Palestinians with nothing but devastation:
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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dawn.duhado.com
Deleted yet another account of Adham's 🙄

Here is his gfm if you can contribute anything & you can read his latest update!
www.gofundme.com/f/AdhamMadi
November 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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mommunism.bsky.social
If you can help keep Mahmoud’s family in a tent ❤️
mahmoudhamed5.bsky.social Mahmoud Ham @mahmoudhamed5.bsky.social · 7h
I need $350 to pay for my tent rental in the displacement camp. Please, we don't want to sleep on the street. With your help, we will get through these difficult times. Please don't leave us. We go to the street💔🙏🏻
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chuffed.org/project/133274
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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mommunism.bsky.social
Kawthar and her husband both have disabilities and are trying to take care of five children in Gaza if you can help ❤️
mommunism.bsky.social Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 8h
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Kawthar. Kawthar has a chronic illness she needs medicine for and her husband has progressive hearing loss. They are trying care for their 5 children, 3 of whom were injured in a bombing Essa, 15, Sahar, 13, Naghma, 11, Dima, 8 and Mohammed, 5
November 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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young.me
#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with November 16 data
- Kingston, Peel, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario
- Also updated: AB, BC, NL, NS, PEI, QC, YT

wwater.ca

Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/
Wastewater Virus Signals graph for Ontario
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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princetonupress.bsky.social
A fascinating discussion with @milleridriss.bsky.social on ABC Radio National Breakfast this morning. If you enjoy this discussion, see Cynthia speak in-person at Gleebooks in Sydney this Friday (28 Nov)! Listen here:
'It's a major predictor': New book explores link between misogyny and violent extremism - ABC listen
Gender, misogyny and extremist violence are inextricably linked, according to a new book by renowned extremism expert Cynthia Miller-Idriss. She's currently visiting Australia to promote her book Man…
www.abc.net.au
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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leftistlawyer.com
I know this week can be really hard for queer and trans folks. So if that's you, remember that I love you and you are under no obligation to hide who you are for anyone. You're perfect. And if your family can't see that, it's their loss.
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
susankiddie.bsky.social
Life expectancy 2024 fell to nearly half the level expected without the war.
mpidr.bsky.social Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 1d
Gaza: Study Reveals Unprecedented Losses of Life & Life Expectancy
Researchers from MPIDR & the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) investigated the impact of the conflict in Gaza on mortality. Life expectancy 2024 fell to nearly half the level expected without the war. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/GazaLE
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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sofaptekar.bsky.social
Well this is very bad.
How Universities Used Counterterror Intelligence-Sharing Hubs to Surveil Pro-Palestine Students
Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.
theintercept.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
susankiddie.bsky.social
This cannot be reformed.
mguariglia.bsky.social Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 4h
Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.
Georgia police chief charged with using license plate readers to stalk and harass people
A police chief in suburban Atlanta has been arrested on charges of using the city's license plate cameras to stalk and harass people.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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shawnmicallef.bsky.social
Yet Cdn people were told austerity was needed during this rough period.
alexusherhesa.bsky.social Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 7h
Every 19th/20th century industry you can think of is getting subsidies.
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
susankiddie.bsky.social
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drinfosec.bsky.social Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 2h
🎯stated by Dr. Michael aka @internetuserf12 on Twitter:

"Being Covid-conscious is more than precautions and research. It’s grieving losses no one else will acknowledge, enduring mockery, protecting people who resent you, showing up for community the world says doesn’t..."

OP: x.com/internetuser...
Being Covid-conscious is more than precautions and research. It’s grieving losses no one else will acknowledge, enduring mockery, protecting people who resent you, showing up for community the world says doesn’t matter, and fighting for a future others already declared lost.
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
susankiddie.bsky.social
CW: torture
theimeu.bsky.social The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 2h
The Israeli military kidnapped and then tortured Palestinian activist Ayman Ghrayeb on an Israeli military base. He is now being held in Megiddo Prison, an Israeli torture camps that has killed at least 7 Palestinians since October 2023.
At settlers’ bidding, Israel arrests prominent Palestinian activist
Relatives say the detention of Ayman Ghrayeb, known for documenting forcible displacement across the West Bank, is intended to quell his activism.
www.972mag.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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donatemask.bsky.social
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November 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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shawnmicallef.bsky.social
It really has been interesting the last while to see Doug Ford's outbursts. The true Ford. From "get a job" to "audit orgs that might support left wing causes". The authoritarian belligerent bully that had no staff to muzzle him in City Hall days is still there. Does Ontario see? Do they care?
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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emmettmacfarlane.com
Carney has been so much worse than expected. It's like watching The Matrix sequels of governance or something.
alexusherhesa.bsky.social Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 7h
Every 19th/20th century industry you can think of is getting subsidies.
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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dianacmcnally.bsky.social
Beyond violating separation of powers and the Charter, Bill 75 will keep poor people in jail, longer. Ford is already pushing people into encampments, which he's also criminalized. Bill 75 will also impact poor people demonstrating against this government. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Ontario looks to revive use of cash bail, raising Charter concerns
Critics question whether proposal exceeds provincial powers and violates Charter of Rights and Freedoms
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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namshine.bsky.social
“Ontario recorded the highest number of wait-list deaths: 10,634, including more than 9,100 diagnostic-scan deaths where patients died before reaching the point of receiving or being scheduled for surgery.”

www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Tens of thousands of Canadians died waiting for medical care in the past year: report
A new report is raising alarm over growing wait-list deaths in Canada.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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donatemask.bsky.social
Exciting news! Donate A Mask’s Giving Tuesday fundraiser starts in one week! 🗓️

If you want to get an early start on the giving season, you can donate here: donatemask.ca/fundraiser 💙
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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joannehammond.bsky.social
Resource extraction at gunpoint, it’s the Canadian way
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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mr-madi.bsky.social
While you enjoy warmth in your homes, the people of Gaza are shivering in the open; their tents are flooded, and the cold is biting their bodies and preventing them from sleeping.
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM