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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h

Temporary Restraining Order to be granted tomorrow in the Chicago case filed by journalists, pastors, and others hit with riot control munitions by ICE!

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 3h

Ellis rules that the plaintiffs have standing for their case. She cites the "ongoing and sustained record of conduct" by federal agents gathered over the last month.

She further finds the plaintiffs have plausibly shown feds have "frustrated" efforts to "protect journalist safety."

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 1h

Come out as gay after living in Canada for a couple years, and want to claim refugee status because your country of origin is unsafe? Your country has a a massive change in regime? Something else sudden happens? You'd be out of luck! 😬

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 1h

🚨 Canadian immigration news, we have the juuuust-introduced C-12! 🚨

It involves less privacy invasion for Canadian citizens, BUT the same bad rules for migrants + refugees—for ex, a one-year retroactive to 2020 claim clock that starts after entry.

www.canada.ca/en/services/...

Understanding Strengthening Canada’s Immigration System and Borders Act, Bill C-12 - Canada.ca

The Understanding Strengthening Canada’s Immigration System and Borders Act (Bill C-12) proposes legislative changes to make Canada’s border security and immigration system stronger.

www.canada.ca

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 7h

We're going public today with a powerful new tool for researching, following and reporting on local governments across Canada.

It’s dragging cities and towns into the 21st century by making 550 municipalities’ public meetings easy to search, all in one place, for the first time.

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation

Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

www.nationalobserver.com

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CUPE 3912 @cupe3912.bsky.social · 5h

CUPE 3912 resolution was passed at CUPE National Convention with broad support! This means CUPE has to dedicate resources to lobby all levels of government for increased funding and a national education act and raise public awareness about post secondary workers and to fight cuts to protect our jobs

Success! CUPE 3912 resolution was passed at CUPE
National Convention with broad support!
This means CUPE has to dedicate resources to lobby all levels of government for increased funding and a national education act and raise public awareness about post
secondary workers and to fight cuts to protect our jobs.
Swipe to read the full text!

CUPE WILL

Renew campaigning through lobbying and mobilization of all levels of government for comprehensive, public post-secondary funding. In particular, CUPE will pressure the federal government to legislate a national Post-Secondary Education Act with statutory, accountable federal funding for post-secondary education.
Develop resources for locals and chartered organizations to raise public awareness of the value of CUPE’s Post-Secondary Education Workers, support efforts to fight post-secondary education cuts, and protect these members’ jobs.
BECAUSE
Post-secondary across Canada is in crisis, exacerbated by federal policies impacting international students and by chronic underfunding by both federal and provincial governments;
This crisis has led to ongoing job losses and increased precarity for academic, technical, trades, service and support staff CUPE members;
Stable and fair models of public funding are required to provide the education and research that drives the Canadian economy, supports families, and resources the country’s labour market, which are essential to supporting and retraining workers and communities impacted by the Trade War;
Inadequate public funding of the system results in poor quality education, cuts to the services students need for their success, and higher tuition fees that make education and training harder to access for working class families and young people.

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 7h

A really good overview of the heartbreaking, enraging COVID-19 vaccination situation in Québec. There is unclear messaging, a lack of public engagement, and a focus on vaccination as an individual thing (vs public health). It doesn't need to be this way.

www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chr...

Confusion autour de la vaccination contre la COVID

En santé publique, la clarté du message est primordiale.

www.lapresse.ca

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Oregon Justice Resource Center @ojrcenter.bsky.social · 1d

🧊Know Your Rights Training!

This year, our attorneys have conducted numerous Know Your Rights trainings to prepare Oregonians for potential encounters with ICE. We want to help as many people as possible prepare so we're offering an online training.

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Know your rights online training. What to do in encounters with law-enforcement or ice. Thursday, October 9 at noon. RSVP for a Zoom link.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 10h

Delighted to be giving a "France-Quebec Chair on Contemporary Issues in Freedom of Expression" talk at the University of Quebec at Montreal on the current crisis in free speech, democracy, and public media, on Dec. 2nd.

La liberté d’expression à l’ère de Trump 2.0 | UQAM

Trois tables rondes organisées par l’Observatoire sur les États-Unis et la Chaire COLIBEX dresseront un état des lieux.

actualites.uqam.ca

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 10h

I realized after the fact that your talk is streaming either way—but yup, one is part of the University of Québec system, one isn't, but both are brilliant public institutions that do great stuff! (I live in MTL, which is why I know this.) Congrats on the event, looking forward to attending!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 19h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 11h

This is exciting! It seems to be at UQàM, though? (Université du Québec à Montréal and Université de Montréal are, confusingly, named similarly but are two different universities in two different parts of town.)

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 18h

You could doomscroll, or you could literally go take a shower and then go to bed earlier than usual. One of those options will make you feel better than the other. You still deserve time to rest and recover.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 18h

“I didn’t mean to scare anyone or make it sound so serious … She’s been a little under the weather and I simply asked for prayers bc I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayers for her big sister. Thank you all for lifting her up.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 18h

DON’T SCARE US LIKE THIS, FREIDA www.wsmv.com/2025/10/08/i...

‘I didn’t mean to scare anyone’: Dolly Parton’s sister says after asking for prayers

Dolly postponed her first Las Vegas residency in more than 30 years late last month, saying she was dealing with health challenges.

www.wsmv.com

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 20h

The cowardice and fear of these guys is ongoingly jaw dropping.

In this case, they felt threatened by the chant “Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’”

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 19h

Who is out here trying to make wife guy (derogatory) happen, because it should simply be wife guy (complimentary)!!! If you think being a wife guy is bad, I hope you do not have a wife!!!

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 22h

A database of “public” cats that anyone can pet in New York City.

meowmap.nyc

Dare to fail gloriously

meowmap.nyc

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 22h

Either way I have an R biostats code workshop somewhere, will have a look later. The biggest suggestion I have though is to just start doing things! R has a learning curve, but the Rstats community is super lovely.

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 22h

OH HELL YES! I am not biostats, but I love R. A spreadsheet of some resources I love are here, and I have some more stuff at home (at a bar sneakily checking my phone). My university also runs workshops, which I found incredibly useful, which IIRC IU has? (Maybe?)

www.notion.so/2bd592acd777...

Learning R (And Data Organization) Resources | Notion

Hosted by Notion Sites — The easiest way to get a website up and running.

www.notion.so

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 1d

Coincidentally, some doxing resources for faculty landed on my desk today from trusted friends & comrades.

facultyfirstresponders.com
expertvoicestogether.org

None of these seem geared toward grad students—that's a big gap & a problem!—but they offer trauma-informed & P2P support for faculty.

Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 1d

One of many terrible parts of this is Rutgers' utter uselessness in helping Professor Bray. Rutgers isn't alone: universities are failing their community members—faculty, staff, and students alike—when it comes to doxxing and digital safety. And they've been failing them for years.

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 1d

We are getting a COVID-minimizing new public health director soon after the current dir leaves, who has also said "yeah maybe we will have free ones in Nov who can say," it's legitimately surreal (AB and QC are the only two provinces charging, I believe)

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 1d

The government's position is that not everyone "needs" to be vaccinated—emphasizing vaccines as an individual "choice" instead of a collective public health effort.

www.msn.com/en-ca/health...

MSN

www.msn.com

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 1d

Québec's COVID-19 vaccination campaign is now live.

For most in the province the vaccine will cost $150 - $180, and inclusion of those "at risk" and therefore eligible for a free-at-point-of-care vaccine does not include those with a diagnosis of long COVID.

www.quebec.ca/en/health/ad...

COVID-19 vaccination

Making your appointment, learn about types of vaccines.

www.quebec.ca

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 1d

I hope that's clarified in terms of past statements (below), and I'm also...it's wild to me to point to an AI and say "we actually don't provide any input." (I know moderation on a site this big is a massive thing, this is just wild to me, still.)

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Nov 15

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 1d

I really hope the above in contrast to the point below is clarified!

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Nov 15

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

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