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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 1d

Saugeen First Nation in Ontario joined together for some sun and sand to celebrate getting their beach back.

The fight to be recognized as the rightful owners of a popular beach ended a month ago after the Supreme Court refused to hear a case against them.

Saugeen First Nation celebrates getting their beach back

Saugeen First Nation is celebrating having a beach returned to it after a surveying error from the 1850s excluded it from the reserve.

www.aptnnews.ca

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 3d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

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Jeffers Lennox @jefferslennox.bsky.social · 3d

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Jeffers Lennox @jefferslennox.bsky.social · 4d

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AAUP @aaup.org · 5d

Check out AAUP’s statement denouncing the Trump admin’s compact and undemocratic loyalty oaths here👇

Universities Must Reject Trump Admin "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda is entirely corrupt.

www.aaup.org

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David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 5d

It would be nice to see privacy settings on Bluesky rolled out in response...

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 7d

This case … squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us.”

“The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do’.

— Judge William G. Young

#AAUPvRubio

Opinion

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Jeffers Lennox @jefferslennox.bsky.social · 12d

Reminder: Join a union! Form a union! Organize to win.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Patel on left-wing groups: "We are properly going to chase them down like the domestic terrorists that they are."

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Jeffers Lennox @jefferslennox.bsky.social · 15d

"It can only good happen."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump: "With Tylenol -- don't take it. Don't take it!"

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 15d

There’s nothing wrong with John Roberts that woundn’t be fixed by giving him dozens and dozens of new colleagues

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Jeffers Lennox @jefferslennox.bsky.social · 18d

A little more CCF in the NDP is a great way to start.

Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 19d

Canada's true crisis is the everyday emergency of just trying to get by in an impossible economy.

I’m running for NDP leader so we can transform a system rigged for the rich—together.

We need a government that serves the many, not the money.

Join in. lewisforleader.ca/

youtu.be/IVy99oiYszY

Why I’m running for NDP leader

YouTube video by Avi Lewis

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Jeffers Lennox @jefferslennox.bsky.social · 20d

This has been happening forever. It's fine. Just be nice while you're travelling and it's all good!

Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 20d

no we're not

stupid CNN headline that reads Some American travelers are "flag jacking" and Canadians are livid

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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · Sep 7

Featuring Ian Gavigan of @higheredlabor.bsky.social on how the bipartisan neoliberalization of higher ed laid the groundwork for Trump’s all-out assault. Workers must unite on every campus, articulate an alternative vision for the university, and fight to win it.

Class Struggle for the University w/ Ian Gavigan

Featuring Ian Gavigan on how the bipartisan neoliberalization of higher education laid the groundwork for Trump’s all-out assault. Workers must unite on every campus, articulate an alternative vision ...

thedigradio.com

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Jeffers Lennox @jefferslennox.bsky.social · Sep 5

Can I retire on this.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Sep 5

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit over its use of pirated books to train large-language models.

Anthropic to Pay at Least $1.5 Billion in Landmark Copyright Settlement

The settlement with authors covers 500,000 works that were pirated and used to train AI models.

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Jeffers Lennox @jefferslennox.bsky.social · Sep 2

Wait until he learns that in the 1790s enslaved people FLED CANADA into Michigan to attain freedom.

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Jeffers Lennox @jefferslennox.bsky.social · Aug 18

It's almost as if they're not the party of the working class.

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Jeffers Lennox @jefferslennox.bsky.social · Aug 8

Lauren Hill has entered the chat.

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Jeffers Lennox @jefferslennox.bsky.social · Jul 4

Swimming. Street parties. Prepping for a BBQ with friends. Fireworks later tonight.

We've spent the day celebrating that the Tour de France starts tomorrow. 🚲🚲🚲

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Cindy Blackstock @cblackst.bsky.social · Jun 21

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day Celebrate and take action and call on @mark-carney.bsky.social to take immediate action to stop the harms for First Nations children and ensure Canada fully complies with legal orders on Jordan’s Principle

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Jeffers Lennox @jefferslennox.bsky.social · Jun 15

POV: You're in the 3rd most popular band in your mid-size city and you go on a national tour.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · Jun 14

Quiet, empty street

Someone asks the secret service guy standing in front of us whether it's over. "Honestly I have no idea," he replies

Jeffers Lennox @jefferslennox.bsky.social · Apr 29

We don't miss factory work. We miss strong unions that made those jobs (and others!) bearable because at the end of the day you had a house, car, and your kids' education covered.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 29

Lutnick: "It's time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here. We let the auto plants go overseas."

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Jeffers Lennox @jefferslennox.bsky.social · Apr 25

Now do Propagandhi.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · Apr 20

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · Apr 20

oh hey welcome to your trial, blackshirts

Six men charged after forcibly removing woman from North Idaho town hall

The Coeur d'Alene City Attorney's Office has filed charges against six men involved in the forced removal of a woman at a Kootenai County town hall in February.

www.kivitv.com

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S. Sommers @printculture.bsky.social · Apr 16

OK I’m ready to admit my quote-posts should have been a thread. Here’s what you need to know: as of Monday afternoon 13 UConn students, including 6 undergrads have had their visas revoked.
ctmirror.org/2025/04/14/v...

Visas revoked from 13 UConn students, at least 40 others in CT

The visas were revoked by the Trump administration and are part of an effort that has left hundreds of students nationwide at risk for deportation.

ctmirror.org

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Jeffers Lennox @jefferslennox.bsky.social · Apr 13

You know, @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social told a group of us last weekend that the AAUP has the power to make a major difference over the next few years. EVERYONE JOIN. EVERYONE ORGANIZE. We can't lose if we don't quit. @aaup.bsky.social @ct-aaup.bsky.social

AAUP @aaup.org · Apr 12

BREAKING: Harvard AAUP & the nat'l AAUP have jointly filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump admin from demanding that Harvard restrict speech & undermine academic freedom or else lose $8.7 billion in federal funds. This action challenges the Trump admin's misuse of funds for coercion. Stay tuned.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Apr 10

In 2008, PP skipped an apology to residential school survivors and instead said on Ottawa radio that Indigenous peoples need to learn the “values of hard work,” not receive financial compensation for their residential school experience.

He is unfit for office.

canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

But what about Poilievre?

In June 2008, he skipped out on the apology to residential school survivors to join an Ottawa radio station where he spread anti-Indigenous racism, saying Indigenous peoples need to learn the “values of hard work” rather than receive financial compensation for their residential school experience. Harper dressed-down Poilievre for his comments, and he reluctantly addressed the House of Commons the next day saying: “I accept responsibility for them and I apologize.”

Since his 2008 controversy, Poilievre has avoided saying much about residential schooling—making it appear he learned his lesson. In 2022, the House of Commons, with Conservative MPs, including Poilievre, in attendance, unanimously voted to recognize residential schooling as genocide.

However, aligning with Gunn now proves that Poilievre is still part of the problem.

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