Jen M
@jenzilla.bsky.social
Today we are kittens. Tomorrow we are tigers. PhD student. Pluviophile. she/her. Yinka Dene. East Van.
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(UNINTELLIGIBLE SATANIC MANTRA)
March 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
(UNINTELLIGIBLE SATANIC MANTRA)
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Update: CPAWS says it has had no communication from Parks Canada regarding whether vital Indigenous Guardians programs will be continued following the lapse in funding.
Parks Canada braces for $450 million in cuts and lapsed funding
The agency expects to lose 800 jobs over the coming two years as its spending drops.
www.nationalobserver.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Update: CPAWS says it has had no communication from Parks Canada regarding whether vital Indigenous Guardians programs will be continued following the lapse in funding.
CBC’s sarcasm meter was going off alongside my ‘no lies detected’ meter.
I love a spicy take! 🌶️🌶️🌶️
I love a spicy take! 🌶️🌶️🌶️
If you are just waking up you MUST go find Torquil Campbell’s interview on CBC Vancouver’s Early Ed with @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social . It will be posted on Listen later.
March 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
CBC’s sarcasm meter was going off alongside my ‘no lies detected’ meter.
I love a spicy take! 🌶️🌶️🌶️
I love a spicy take! 🌶️🌶️🌶️
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"Look at the nature of the discussions I had. The Pres of France. The PM of the UK. The leader of the opposition would not be capable of having those discussions because he refuses to get his security clearance. It took me a few weeks to get, & he's been the leader of the opposition for 3 years."
March 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"Look at the nature of the discussions I had. The Pres of France. The PM of the UK. The leader of the opposition would not be capable of having those discussions because he refuses to get his security clearance. It took me a few weeks to get, & he's been the leader of the opposition for 3 years."
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The Ira Hayes that Johnny Cash sings about!!?!??!?!?!
The Pentagon purge of media it considers 'DEI' has expanded to stories about Navajo code talkers and Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who helped raise the US flag over Iwo Jima. w/ @jonswaine.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes web page on Iwo Jima flag-raiser
Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The Ira Hayes that Johnny Cash sings about!!?!??!?!?!
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A reminder that we don't know the value of the assets held by the leader of the official opposition either and we don't ask politicians to disclose what they used to own before having to make a disclosure.
This is all so stupid.
This is all so stupid.
March 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A reminder that we don't know the value of the assets held by the leader of the official opposition either and we don't ask politicians to disclose what they used to own before having to make a disclosure.
This is all so stupid.
This is all so stupid.
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A rapist celebrating a rapist in the People's House on a national holiday.
This is the darkest timeline.
This is the darkest timeline.
Conor McGregor, the mixed martial arts fighter recently found civilly liable for rape back in his native Ireland, is a St. Patrick’s Day guest of honor at the White House.
Trump to meet controversial Irish fighter Conor McGregor for St. Patrick’s Day
The former mixed martial arts champ — recently found civilly liable in Ireland for raping a Dublin woman — brings his anti-immigration message to the White House.
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March 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A rapist celebrating a rapist in the People's House on a national holiday.
This is the darkest timeline.
This is the darkest timeline.
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Today is the 40th anniversary of the Shamrock Summit. 40 years ago, Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan announced to the world that Canada and US aren't just neighbours, they're brothers, lead by sons of the Irish diaspora.
It was a pivotal moment that would upend our economic order.
It was a pivotal moment that would upend our economic order.
March 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Today is the 40th anniversary of the Shamrock Summit. 40 years ago, Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan announced to the world that Canada and US aren't just neighbours, they're brothers, lead by sons of the Irish diaspora.
It was a pivotal moment that would upend our economic order.
It was a pivotal moment that would upend our economic order.
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If we look to history, or to global contemporary movements, there is one constant: the only way to stop tyranny is through workers walking off the job.
And yet, the lack of union density in the US has primed it for a fascist take-over.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-only-t...
And yet, the lack of union density in the US has primed it for a fascist take-over.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-only-t...
The only thing that can stop Trump is a general strike
Unions are a bullwork against fascism. That means that Canadians have to build our labour militancy too.
noraloreto.substack.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
If we look to history, or to global contemporary movements, there is one constant: the only way to stop tyranny is through workers walking off the job.
And yet, the lack of union density in the US has primed it for a fascist take-over.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-only-t...
And yet, the lack of union density in the US has primed it for a fascist take-over.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-only-t...
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'Danish Viking blood is boiling.' Danes boycott US goods with fervor as others in Europe do so too nationalnewswatch.com/2025/03/17/d...
'Danish Viking blood is boiling.' Danes boycott US goods with fervor…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
March 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
'Danish Viking blood is boiling.' Danes boycott US goods with fervor as others in Europe do so too nationalnewswatch.com/2025/03/17/d...
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I can't stand CBC's The Current's partisan political panels. It's just tired talking point after desperate talking point. We deserve better
March 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I can't stand CBC's The Current's partisan political panels. It's just tired talking point after desperate talking point. We deserve better
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So Canada, how we feeling about having given US Homeland Security border screening rights in our airports, on Canadian soil?
March 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
So Canada, how we feeling about having given US Homeland Security border screening rights in our airports, on Canadian soil?
Chip Wilson wants the DTES cleared of Indigenous community residents.
A leaked report shows that Vancouver's mayor wants to make Vancouver a 'sunset community' where Native people aren't welcome. He has a plan to deport Indigenous residents of the city to their "home communities". www.bcafn.ca/news/regiona...
March 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Chip Wilson wants the DTES cleared of Indigenous community residents.
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America is under siege by a surprising force: losers.
America Is Under Siege by a Surprising Force: Losers
We’re not talking about this enough.
slate.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
America is under siege by a surprising force: losers.
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we're in legit first they came for territory and a lot of people have been failing at this test they cite all the time
if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
March 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
we're in legit first they came for territory and a lot of people have been failing at this test they cite all the time
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Just a foreign leader talking about killing US students on US soil
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett — who headlined an event at Columbia right before Mahmoud Khalil was detained — just joked at a Harvard event that he would give exploding pagers to students protesting his visit
March 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Just a foreign leader talking about killing US students on US soil
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My latest -- Carney has made his career (and his weath) by bending government to allow corporations to profit. We should all beware a Carner PM and organize to force him to do what will not come naturally -- take from the corporate class and redistribute wealth among everyone else.
A Carney in charge of the circus
Canadians in the bottom 50% income bracket should buckle up
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March 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
My latest -- Carney has made his career (and his weath) by bending government to allow corporations to profit. We should all beware a Carner PM and organize to force him to do what will not come naturally -- take from the corporate class and redistribute wealth among everyone else.
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I guess Peace by Chocolate has discovered the limites of pacifism.
March 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I guess Peace by Chocolate has discovered the limites of pacifism.
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its a good thing canada never did any of that to any other nations or we would sure look like hypocrites...*opens history book* uh oh
*frantically starts flipping through pages*
uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh
*frantically starts flipping through pages*
uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh
Canadian Prime Minister–designate Mark Carney:
"The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country. If they succeeded, they would destroy our way of life. In America, healthcare is big business. In Canada, it is a right."
"The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country. If they succeeded, they would destroy our way of life. In America, healthcare is big business. In Canada, it is a right."
March 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
its a good thing canada never did any of that to any other nations or we would sure look like hypocrites...*opens history book* uh oh
*frantically starts flipping through pages*
uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh
*frantically starts flipping through pages*
uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh
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Five years after the pandemic began, life has returned to normal for most. But those with #LongCOVID continue to suffer. 'I feel cut off from the world,' says 29-year-old reliant on wheelchair since being infected in 2022. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca #COVID19
Life has gone back to normal. But those with long COVID continue to suffer | CBC News
Since catching COVID-19 in 2022, Nathanael Rafinejad, 29, can't stand longer than a few seconds at a time and has relied on a wheelchair. They are one of thousands of Quebecers with long COVID, a chro...
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March 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Five years after the pandemic began, life has returned to normal for most. But those with #LongCOVID continue to suffer. 'I feel cut off from the world,' says 29-year-old reliant on wheelchair since being infected in 2022. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca #COVID19
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I have mostly saved all my political buttons since I was a teenager. This, friends, was a button from the 1988 Free Trade Election fight...
March 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I have mostly saved all my political buttons since I was a teenager. This, friends, was a button from the 1988 Free Trade Election fight...
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Wow, big news from Alberta just now on the CP wire: the government has appointed a federal judge to investigate the allegations of irregularities in health care spending.
March 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Wow, big news from Alberta just now on the CP wire: the government has appointed a federal judge to investigate the allegations of irregularities in health care spending.
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Good news everyone: i just wrote a book that does this.
Bad news though: it was wholly ignored by mainstrram media. Not a single interview or review.
Bad news though: it was wholly ignored by mainstrram media. Not a single interview or review.
Was discussing this with a smart politics person today. I think we need to fundamentally reimagine the country, from military to housing to resource extraction to infrastructure to alliances, and more. We need to hold onto our values, but to forge a different Canada. bsky.app/profile/jbro...
The challenges ahead are so monumental that we need nothing short of a new national policy, and a Royal Commission that helps to bring it to life.
And we need all of this yesterday.⬇️
And we need all of this yesterday.⬇️
March 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Good news everyone: i just wrote a book that does this.
Bad news though: it was wholly ignored by mainstrram media. Not a single interview or review.
Bad news though: it was wholly ignored by mainstrram media. Not a single interview or review.
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Anyone have the count of how many of these Senators voting in favour are child sexual abusers? Or sexual abusers in general? Because this seems like something only sexual abusers would get behind.
BREAKING - a bill mandating genital inspections to participate at all age levels of girls' and women's sports fails in the U.S. Senate. It needed 60 votes to move forward.
March 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Anyone have the count of how many of these Senators voting in favour are child sexual abusers? Or sexual abusers in general? Because this seems like something only sexual abusers would get behind.
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I wish more people knew about the 1920s Klan because they—perhaps more than European fascists—are the model for Trumpism.
This is a good summary and a nice reminder that they do a lot of damage, but in the end, fascists always lose.
This is a good summary and a nice reminder that they do a lot of damage, but in the end, fascists always lose.
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
February 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I wish more people knew about the 1920s Klan because they—perhaps more than European fascists—are the model for Trumpism.
This is a good summary and a nice reminder that they do a lot of damage, but in the end, fascists always lose.
This is a good summary and a nice reminder that they do a lot of damage, but in the end, fascists always lose.