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Vince
@vincetinguely.bsky.social
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I've been a writer since I was 11 (grade V). Spent a lot of time in the Montreal literary / performance / zine / arts scene. Moved to Winnipeg in 2019. Still writing!

I often post news pieces on social and environmental justice, and cultural information.
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'Led by Woods, the band now has new members: Estella Adeyeri of the Black feminist punk band Big Joanie, and the Thurston Moore Group’s Jem Doulton and Alex Ward.'
#punk #postpunk #rock #music #culture #feminism #lgbtqa+ #misogyny #UK
Au Pairs frontwoman Lesley Woods: ‘We were the antithesis to all that boy-meets-girl stuff’
Her post-punk trailblazers were a key influence on riot grrrl. Now, after decades working as a lawyer, she is taking the name – though, contentiously, not the rest of the band – back on the road. ‘I h...
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December 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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'Too often, though, liberals are responding with nostalgia for a court that cares about its high standing. There is a much better option: to grasp the opportunity to set right the supreme court’s role in US democracy.'
#law #usa #constitution #scotus #potus #authoritarianism #illegitimacy #politics
It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
vincetinguely.bsky.social
'“You remember they took all of our energy rights. They took all of our oil not that long ago. And we want it back. They took it – they illegally took it.” US oil companies dominated Venezuela’s petroleum industry until the country’s leaders moved to nationalise the sector.'
#oil #war #capitalism
US strike on alleged drug boat in Pacific kills four, as Trump accuses Venezuela of taking ‘our oil’
The announcement from Pete Hegseth comes a day after Trump issued a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela
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December 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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'In just the last two years, increasing extremes seen with “global weirding” have had an impact on agriculture, with wild fluctuations in rainfall attributed to a number of record low yields.'
#climate #environment #farming #crops #heat #flooding #drought #weather #agriculture #food
How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril - in maps and charts
From floods to droughts, erratic weather patterns are affecting food security, with crop yields projected to fall if changes are not made
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
vincetinguely.bsky.social
'Since last year, the federal government has used blunt tools to cut the number of people entering Canada, halving the number of study permits issued to international students, cutting the number of migrant workers issued work permits and increasing deportations.'
#canada #immigration #students
Canada’s population drop reflects souring of attitudes to immigration
A country known for welcoming newcomers has reversed policy as immigration becomes increasingly a partisan issue
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December 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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'By the late 60s the tide had turned again, and Basil was part of the counterculture. Her boyfriend at the time was the actor Dean Stockwell, which brought her into the orbit of Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda and artists such as Wallace Berman and Bruce Conner.'
#music #dance #film #art
The magical life of Toni Basil: how she taught Elvis, enchanted Bowie - and had a smash hit with ‘Mickey’
The woman Quentin Tarantino called ‘the goddess of go-go’ is one of the most connected and accomplished in Hollywood. At 82, she recalls working with Tina Turner, Bette Midler, Frank Sinatra, David By...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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'The Arctic is heating up as much as four times as quickly as the global average, due to the burning of fossil fuels, and this extra heat is warping the world’s refrigerator – a region that acts as a key climate regulator for the rest of the planet.'
#climate #warming #arctic #sea-ice #fisheries
Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’
Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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“By bringing on expert scientific leaders to partner in this launch, we’re strengthening collaboration and laying the groundwork for a modern public health infrastructure that will offer trust and stability in scientific data not just across California, but nationally and globally.”
#vaccines #CDC
Newsom appoints ex-CDC officials to lead California’s new public health network
Dr Susan Monarez to head PHNIX, a response to Trump administration’s dismantling of public health safeguards
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December 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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“This mighty glacier, a presence once so physically commanding, is shrinking into oblivion. ... To see this retreating giant is to understand impermanence, to understand the real and terrible results of industrialisation, of climate change.”
#climate #glaciers #melting #environment #water #weather
Glaciers to reach peak rate of extinction in the Alps in eight years
Climate crisis forecast to wipe out thousands of glaciers a year globally, threatening water supplies and cultural heritage
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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“When we name banks as culprits, we shift the conversation from ‘housing crisis as inevitable market force’ to ‘housing crisis as the result of specific institutional practices that can be changed.’”
#housing #canada #banks #policy #government #finance #investment #homelessness #politics #nonprofits
Canada’s Big Banks are a ‘culprit’ driving housing prices out of control ⋆ The Breach
Mortgage debt in Canada has ballooned to more than $2 trillion. According to a new study, the banks are largely to blame
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December 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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“When he did what he did, he wasn’t thinking about the background of the people he’s saving, the people dying in the street. He doesn’t discriminate between one nationality and another. Especially here in Australia, there’s no difference between one citizen and another.”
#bondi #australia #shooting
‘It was a matter of conscience’: Ahmed al-Ahmed’s family reveal why he risked his life to disarm alleged Bondi shooter
Family say al-Ahmed ‘doesn’t discriminate’ and would have done anything to save lives during the attack
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December 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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“Everybody and their brother is trying to get a piece of this,” one long-time contractor familiar with the process . “People are treating this like another Iraq or Afghanistan. And they’re trying to get, you know, rich off of it.”
#gaza #reconstruction #USA #DOGE #Trump #MAGA #politics #palestine
‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead
Exclusive: group behind notorious Florida immigration detention center created bid for reconstruction deal
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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“These companies are going to learn a hard lesson: if you continue to remove Black, Latino, Muslim and Asian American voices, those consumers are going to go elsewhere.”
#racism #DEI #usa #media #news #reporting #minorities #FCC
‘It’s not a coincidence’: journalists of color on being laid off amid Trump’s anti-DEI push
Black and brown former employees from CBS, NBC and Teen Vogue talk about the effects of being let go
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December 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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'She was also a communist who volunteered for the Red Cross during the Spanish civil war and an LGBTQ+ pioneer, living with the poet Valentine Ackland for decades in a quiet Dorset village, in a partnership they described as a marriage.'
#dorset #UK #lgbtqa+ #literature #culture #communism #feminism
Dorset to unveil statue of feminist writer and LGBTQ+ pioneer – and a cat
Tribute to Sylvia Townsend Warner follows campaign to nominate overlooked women
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December 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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'Low-carbon power makes up more than half of the generation capacity of China and India, with China’s emissions now flattening, and most developed countries on a downward trend.'
#climate #paris #renewables #carbon #treaty #science #china #india #environment #coal #oil #solar #economics #wind #COP21
‘A shift no country can ignore’: where global emissions stand, 10 years after the Paris climate agreement
The watershed summit in 2015 was far from perfect, but its impact so far has been significant and measurable
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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'Contrary to Trump’s ranting, the United States did in fact restrict admission to only include white, European immigrants by law through much of the past century. Racial quotas were only abolished through Black activism and the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s.'
#usa #racism #ideology #ICE
The ethnic cleansing of the US will destroy it | Heba Gowayed
Trump’s racist remarks on Ilhan Omar and Somali immigrants reveals his vision for the US as a white Christian nation
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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'Dave Campbell with the B.C. River Forecast Centre says up to 150 mm of rain has fallen since the atmospheric river made its way into the region Tuesday night. Campbell says another atmospheric river is expected to bring more rain to the region ...'
#climate #BC #canada #cascadia #flooding #weather
Floodwaters force new evacuation orders in Abbotsford as Highway 1 closes | CBC News
B.C. officials have expanded flood warnings and issued fresh evacuation alerts in the southern part of the province as river levels remain high — and continue to rise in some places — after an atmosph...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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'Photographer Janette Beckman and curator Julie Grahame have organized a one-time fundraiser for the ACLU that showcases images of musicians who have recorded protest songs or are known for their activism.'
#photography #protest #music #culture #activism #politics #sexuality #feminism #racism #ACLU
Sounds like activism: musicians who fight for change – in pictures
Photographer Janette Beckman and curator Julie Grahame have organized a one-time fundraiser for the ACLU that showcases images of musicians who have recorded protest songs or are known for their activ...
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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“It wouldn’t be as much of a problem if platforms’ appeals actually worked, but they don’t. And appeals are the basis of any democratic justice system.”
#abortion #meta #lgbtqa+ #socialmedia #censorship #repression #feminism #medicine #science #freedom
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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"Well, you know what?” he said. “We have three years and two months to go and you know what that is? In Trump time, three years and two months is called eternity.”
#trump #racism #immigration #omar #authoritarianism #maga #republican #politics #usa #propaganda
Trump rails on affordability ‘hoax’ and flings racist attacks in rally-style speech
President sought to rehab image after criticism of being out of touch, but speech aimed at midterms took different turn
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December 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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“This is an urgent call to transform our human systems now before collapse becomes inevitable. The science is good. The solutions are known. What is required is the courage to act at the scale and speed that history demands.”
#climate #oil #farming #environment #politics #policy #coal #carbon #lobby
‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’
UN GEO report says ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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“These political parties, they’re like shipwrecks: metal structures, they’re dead. Street protests, youth politics come into them like shoaling fish, to turn them into living reefs.”
#elsalvador #turkey #hungary #authoritarianism #trump #usa #resistance #politics #democracy #repression #tactics
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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“The rapid, largely unregulated rise of datacenters to fuel the AI and crypto frenzy is disrupting communities across the country and threatening Americans’ economic, environmental, climate and water security.”
#climate #environment #economy #inflation #data #AI #tech #politics #usa
More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters
Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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'Nation states are increasingly choosing a side: ignore the science and the growing floods and fires or choose “life over death”, as Gustavo Petro, the president of Colombia, said ...'
#climate #canada #alberta #petrostate #pipeline #oil #indigenous #science #environment #diplomacy #COP #politics
Canada’s environmental ‘realism’ looks more like surrender | Tzeporah Berman
At a time when the UK and other countries are finally taking bold steps for climate, Canada is preparing a new oil pipeline
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December 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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"Canada can create all the MOUs, project offices, advisory groups that they want: the chiefs are united. When it comes to approving large national projects on First Nations lands, there will not be getting around rights holders."
#indigenous #pipelines #oil #HaidaGwai #alberta #MOU #carney #AFN
Assembly of First Nations calls for withdrawal of Canada-Alberta pipeline deal | CBC News
Assembly of First Nations chiefs are demanding the withdrawal of Canada and Alberta’s recently announced new pipeline deal and expressing full support for First Nations on the British Columbia coast t...
www.cbc.ca
December 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM