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For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
January 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
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Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
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This is a good time to remind people that it took @godfrey.bsky.social 2 hours to point out all the misinformation and inaccuracies in this one hour “documentary”
pressprogress.ca/right-wing-g...
pressprogress.ca/right-wing-g...
Right-Wing Group Funded by Lululemon Founder Helped Promote Film Demonizing Vancouver’s Homeless
A group funded by Lululemon founder Chip Wilson sponsored an event that brought together Vancouver’s police union and right-wing political activists
pressprogress.ca
December 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This is a good time to remind people that it took @godfrey.bsky.social 2 hours to point out all the misinformation and inaccuracies in this one hour “documentary”
pressprogress.ca/right-wing-g...
pressprogress.ca/right-wing-g...
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Mark Carney has been literally slipping talking points put together by tech billionaires and the Build Canada group they founded into his speeches.
Grim revelation — and of course, the tech industry is thrilled about it.
Grim revelation — and of course, the tech industry is thrilled about it.
Mark Carney Took Speech Ideas From Billionaire-Founded ‘Build Canada’
The pro-AI and fossil fuel group tells DeSmog that it’s great to see its ideas “get taken up by government.”
www.desmog.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Mark Carney has been literally slipping talking points put together by tech billionaires and the Build Canada group they founded into his speeches.
Grim revelation — and of course, the tech industry is thrilled about it.
Grim revelation — and of course, the tech industry is thrilled about it.
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It was very naive how many STEM people thought Republicans would stop at the humanities
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
December 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It was very naive how many STEM people thought Republicans would stop at the humanities
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Never been so mad to publish something.
While I have a ton of time for Max's analysis, I think this is overlooking one major fact: Carney didn't need Alberta's approval to bring in an industrial carbon price. So he traded a litany of climate policies for nothing he didn't already have.
While I have a ton of time for Max's analysis, I think this is overlooking one major fact: Carney didn't need Alberta's approval to bring in an industrial carbon price. So he traded a litany of climate policies for nothing he didn't already have.
Mark Carney managed to trade a pipeline that will never get built for meaningful progress on industrial carbon pricing and electricity interties — both of which will get more wind and solar built.
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
The method to Mark Carney’s madness
The memorandum of understanding with Alberta might look like surrender. Look closer
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Never been so mad to publish something.
While I have a ton of time for Max's analysis, I think this is overlooking one major fact: Carney didn't need Alberta's approval to bring in an industrial carbon price. So he traded a litany of climate policies for nothing he didn't already have.
While I have a ton of time for Max's analysis, I think this is overlooking one major fact: Carney didn't need Alberta's approval to bring in an industrial carbon price. So he traded a litany of climate policies for nothing he didn't already have.
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I think this is an important Jason Proctor @cbcnews.ca piece to read
#bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
"'Cloud' of tension between Aboriginal title and private property ownership lands in B.C."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
"'Cloud' of tension between Aboriginal title and private property ownership lands in B.C."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
ANALYSIS | 'Cloud' of tension between Aboriginal title and private property ownership lands in B.C. | CBC News
Decades ago one of B.C.'s top judges described tensions between the legal concept of Aboriginal title and the reality of private property ownership as a "cloud." Last week, just as Southin predicted, ...
www.cbc.ca
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I think this is an important Jason Proctor @cbcnews.ca piece to read
#bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
"'Cloud' of tension between Aboriginal title and private property ownership lands in B.C."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
"'Cloud' of tension between Aboriginal title and private property ownership lands in B.C."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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I’m sorry, if someone has a birth certificate that proves they were born here but a mobile app with face recognition software disagrees, they will side with the app?
What?
What?
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I’m sorry, if someone has a birth certificate that proves they were born here but a mobile app with face recognition software disagrees, they will side with the app?
What?
What?
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Scientists have created a mushroom-powered toilet. Really qz.com/mushroom-pow...
Scientists have created a mushroom-powered toilet. Really
The MycoToilet, created by Canadian scientists, will turn human waste into nutrient-rich compost without using any water
qz.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Scientists have created a mushroom-powered toilet. Really qz.com/mushroom-pow...
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Hey,
If you have anything to share this morning, traffic tips, ferry news, transit delays, what you're having for breakfast, requests, suggestions, seriously - ANYTHING - text us: The Early Edition 236-330-2623
Stick the number in your phone for future use!
or email [email protected]
If you have anything to share this morning, traffic tips, ferry news, transit delays, what you're having for breakfast, requests, suggestions, seriously - ANYTHING - text us: The Early Edition 236-330-2623
Stick the number in your phone for future use!
or email [email protected]
September 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Hey,
If you have anything to share this morning, traffic tips, ferry news, transit delays, what you're having for breakfast, requests, suggestions, seriously - ANYTHING - text us: The Early Edition 236-330-2623
Stick the number in your phone for future use!
or email [email protected]
If you have anything to share this morning, traffic tips, ferry news, transit delays, what you're having for breakfast, requests, suggestions, seriously - ANYTHING - text us: The Early Edition 236-330-2623
Stick the number in your phone for future use!
or email [email protected]
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Interesting to see China packaging its Great Firewall to Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Myanmar, and others to assist with censorship and monitoring
interseclab.org/research/the...
interseclab.org/research/the...
The Internet Coup: A Technical Analysis on How a Chinese Company is Exporting The Great Firewall to Autocratic Regimes | InterSecLab
This research reveals groundbreaking findings on how Geedge Networks is selling an extensive suite of next-generation digital repression tools to client governments around the world.
interseclab.org
September 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Interesting to see China packaging its Great Firewall to Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Myanmar, and others to assist with censorship and monitoring
interseclab.org/research/the...
interseclab.org/research/the...
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“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”
—Iain Banks
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
—Iain Banks
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
Iain Banks: the final interview
Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”
—Iain Banks
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
—Iain Banks
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
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Here’s the thing: if you believe people like Charlie Kirk are just sharing “opinions,” you can’t, on the other hand, blame left wing rhetoric for his death. Either opinions are powerful and capable of fomenting hatred and violence, or they aren’t.
September 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Here’s the thing: if you believe people like Charlie Kirk are just sharing “opinions,” you can’t, on the other hand, blame left wing rhetoric for his death. Either opinions are powerful and capable of fomenting hatred and violence, or they aren’t.
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"We emailed Infidels MC for comment. In response, Mr Mulford instructed fellow leaders of the biker gang not to reply but included the BBC when he clicked 'reply all'—inadvertently disclosing email addresses and names of fellow Infidels MC members...working in Gaza." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites
BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.
www.bbc.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"We emailed Infidels MC for comment. In response, Mr Mulford instructed fellow leaders of the biker gang not to reply but included the BBC when he clicked 'reply all'—inadvertently disclosing email addresses and names of fellow Infidels MC members...working in Gaza." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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"at least 40 of about 320 people hired to work for UG Solutions in Gaza were recruited from Infidels MC"
Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites
BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.
www.bbc.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"at least 40 of about 320 people hired to work for UG Solutions in Gaza were recruited from Infidels MC"
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BC housing kept 117 PHS housing units vacant in the lead-up to the 2023 decampment, and no one can even say that anyone from the Hastings encampment received housing, per The Mainlander
themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...
themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...
Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment
Documents obtained via Freedom of Information requests show that BC Housing kept supportive housing units empty while thousands of people were left unsheltered.
themainlander.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
BC housing kept 117 PHS housing units vacant in the lead-up to the 2023 decampment, and no one can even say that anyone from the Hastings encampment received housing, per The Mainlander
themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...
themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...
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Middle East Scholars!
What are your favorite works that are academically sound and *also* just fun to read?
Any period. Any region. Just looking for things that will excite people who are new to the field...
Reply below with link and short description.
What are your favorite works that are academically sound and *also* just fun to read?
Any period. Any region. Just looking for things that will excite people who are new to the field...
Reply below with link and short description.
August 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Middle East Scholars!
What are your favorite works that are academically sound and *also* just fun to read?
Any period. Any region. Just looking for things that will excite people who are new to the field...
Reply below with link and short description.
What are your favorite works that are academically sound and *also* just fun to read?
Any period. Any region. Just looking for things that will excite people who are new to the field...
Reply below with link and short description.
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Breaking!
City of Burnaby just became first city in Canada to join arms embargo movement against Israel AND the first Apartheid-Free City, breaking ties with Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism.
We've been organizing for months towards this precedent in colonial Canada.
City of Burnaby just became first city in Canada to join arms embargo movement against Israel AND the first Apartheid-Free City, breaking ties with Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism.
We've been organizing for months towards this precedent in colonial Canada.
August 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Breaking!
City of Burnaby just became first city in Canada to join arms embargo movement against Israel AND the first Apartheid-Free City, breaking ties with Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism.
We've been organizing for months towards this precedent in colonial Canada.
City of Burnaby just became first city in Canada to join arms embargo movement against Israel AND the first Apartheid-Free City, breaking ties with Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism.
We've been organizing for months towards this precedent in colonial Canada.
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A shocking investigation, published in August 2024, revealed a well-funded, right-wing campaign to criminalize homelessness across the country. It’s a cruel and counterproductive effort, and looking at where we are today, it’s working. 1/10
Inside the Right’s War on the Homeless
How one Trumpist tech mogul pushed a crackdown on the unhoused all the way to the Supreme Court.
inthesetimes.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
A shocking investigation, published in August 2024, revealed a well-funded, right-wing campaign to criminalize homelessness across the country. It’s a cruel and counterproductive effort, and looking at where we are today, it’s working. 1/10
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this kicks ass
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...
www.openculture.com
July 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
this kicks ass
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A long and depressing piece, but the answers are all in there: high school and college writing are not going to be destroyed by AI unless teachers and professors let it or help. They will only be revived by structuring classes around process and paper.
What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?
The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.
www.newyorker.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A long and depressing piece, but the answers are all in there: high school and college writing are not going to be destroyed by AI unless teachers and professors let it or help. They will only be revived by structuring classes around process and paper.
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