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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 4h

"Israel intercepts new flotilla bound for Gaza, carrying 6 Canadians"

Israel intercepts new flotilla bound for Gaza, carrying 6 Canadians

Israeli forces have intercepted and boarded a new nine-vessel flotilla bound for Gaza and carrying food and medical supplies. About 150 people are aboard the vessels, including six Canadians.

www.cbc.ca

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 4h

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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 4h

🆘 @freedomflotilla.bsky.social crew have been illegally abducted by Israel. 6 crew members from Canada @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social

We call on: @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social @globalaffairs.canada.ca

to condemn this crime & demand immediate release of all abducted crew.

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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 4h

They must also put an END to Israel’s illegal blockade and ongoing g3noc!d3 in Gaza.

Take action NOW:

✉️Tag, email and call @globalaffairs.canada.ca
+1 800-2678376
E: [email protected]

>> docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#BreakTheSiege #SailToGaza #FreedomFlotilla

Tell the Canadian Government to Demand Release of Canadians

Tell the Canadian Government to Demand Release of Canadians on the ‘Conscience’ Crew Wednesday, October 8th, 2025 (last updated: 12:00PM ET) FIND SCRIPT ON PAGE 2 Israel’s interception of humanitaria...

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 5h

"Yellowhead Institute’s Mskwaasin Agnew detained, flotilla to Gaza ‘pirated by Israel’"

BREAKING: Yellowhead Institute’s Mskwaasin Agnew detained, flotilla to Gaza ‘pirated by Israel’

The Freedom Flotilla Commission said all boats delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza have been boarded by Israeli forces.

theeyeopener.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h

A tweet from Mayor Brandon Johnson says Trump has tried to unjustly arrest a Black man and he’s not going anywhere. A reply from Donald Trump says the Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12h

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

And in terms of politicians with national ambitions he has been the best. So where does this leave us?

* he's also been aligning with other blue states on health issues etc...

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

Pritzker is offering the following at the moment:

1. Trust the courts. [not a viable strategy]
2. "Film the cops"
3. Vote in 2026
4. Protest [peacefully]

And he knows this is not sufficient. Everyone does.

He will not address the local cops angle because he might be deposed...

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 8h

every day... "a kind of political Groundhog Day where white America wakes up over and over again surprised that the system the government created to protect them is now being used by someone who doesn’t care about protecting anyone, including them." bsky.app/profile/angr...

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 8h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

rewirenewsgroup.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 8h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

rewirenewsgroup.com

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 8h

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 9h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 18h

Footage from the Israeli Occupation Forces assault on #Conscience, shortly before dawn. In international waters, close to Palestinian territorial waters. Another act of state piracy by the rogue, lawless Israeli occupation.
www.youtube.com/live/PSQcbIw...

Live from Conscience Boat to Gaza, FFC & TMTG (Live 3)

YouTube video by Freedom Flotilla Coalition

www.youtube.com

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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 9h

Mskwaasin Agnew (Dene/Cree, Salt River First Nation) was among the humanitarians on board Conscience that was illegally boarded by Israel in international waters.
We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster)
#EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 8h

Nothing about this on either CBC or APTN news yet, by the way.

canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 9h

Mskwaasin Agnew (Dene/Cree, Salt River First Nation) was among the humanitarians on board Conscience that was illegally boarded by Israel in international waters.
We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster)
#EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 8h

"Prime Minister Mark Carney has said he wants to see a new oil export pipeline developed" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
export where I wonder? if only we had some sort of critical news coverage that bothered to ask that question

ANALYSIS | After losing billions of dollars on Keystone XL and tank cars, Alberta is pursuing another pipeline | CBC News

After months of Premier Danielle Smith vowing to find a company willing to develop a new oil export pipeline, the Alberta government itself is taking the plunge. The move is already drawing both prais...

www.cbc.ca

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 8h

"The project faced many obstacles in the U.S., including opposition from environmentalist and Indigenous groups."

wow, look at Rosemary Barton manufacturing consent by burying the key legal, moral, and physical resistance to this pipeline (and so many others)
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News

Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.

www.cbc.ca

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Keyah (banned era) @sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social · 3d

A Brief History of Canada's Role in the Colonization of Palestine - Yellowhead Institute

In what ways has Canada been complicit in the colonization of Palestine and the genocide taking place against Palestinians?

yellowheadinstitute.org

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 1d

Gitxaala producer and filmmaker Leena Minifie recently co-directed and produced the documentary The Good Canadian.

Tonight on Face to Face, she shares how the film highlights the ways Indigenous people are discriminated against from right from birth.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

Back in the day people used to have a slide at the end of their presentations saying "and that's how the brain works" as an inside joke about Hinton since he was known to talk confidently out of his ass.

Now, the Nobel committee brought this upon us like they give the peace prize to genociders.

⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 3d

anyway, here is 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics winner Geoffrey Hinton discussing what we know about large AI models on 60 Minutes.

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 23h

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 23h

To a privileged, out of touch, white dude like him, a hypothetical magical fairy tale scenario that both makes him a godmaker and justifies the current harms this endeavor results in, is clearly more important than real world issues the rest of us face.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 23h

To a privileged, out of touch, white dude like him, a hypothetical magical fairy tale scenario that both makes him a godmaker and justifies the current harms this endeavor results in, is clearly more important than real world issues the rest of us face.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 23h

They gave the physics prize to the dude who said that ChatGPT is the world's butterfly and GPT3 was a caterpillar.

The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.

These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

www.rollingstone.com

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 23h

I wonder if people take him seriously in part because of his Queen's English accent. It's extra funny that Canadians are obsessed with claiming him as one of theirs despite the fact that he obviously isn't from here, eh

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

Back in the day people used to have a slide at the end of their presentations saying "and that's how the brain works" as an inside joke about Hinton since he was known to talk confidently out of his ass.

Now, the Nobel committee brought this upon us like they give the peace prize to genociders.

⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 3d

anyway, here is 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics winner Geoffrey Hinton discussing what we know about large AI models on 60 Minutes.

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