Meg RW

One Long Year Later: It's Not Over, and We Haven't Surrendered I wrote an essay in the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election, an essay to encourage people to not give up and not assume that the Trumpists had won. It follows, after this prelude about where we a...

The biggest miscalculation of the Trumpists is about human nature. They assume we're all selfish and cowardly and can be cowed into silence or submission or surrender, which is to say they seem to base their version of human nature partly on themselves and partly on their scorn for the rest of us.

They don't and that's why we're going to win.

People can be good and caring is such a foreign concept to these people.

I think this is why we're seeing 'but they're paid protestors' about Minnesota (although even I, as a Brit, can tell that's a very distinctive local accent). They can't compute that people who could keep quiet and remain safe are going outside to face danger for neighbours they might not even know.

watching white settlers flip out about getting settlered on has been something.

Canada has been the same except now... uh...

What Is Trump Even Doing At This Point? Throwing it all away over the Mercator projection?

I really, really did not want to write anything today. And yet, here we are. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/what-is-tr...

I would love to be t hat organized. I think I could with Cameron's help. I hate taking notes.

Mine is a shoebox filled with sealed but loose paper baggies with dates on them. It wanders the house depending what time of year it is.

I purchased some native wildflower seeds so I can plant shaded loving pollinator plants for the back corner under the maple. I already have ferns there.

Listen: because I am hearing this a lot from folks who are in caregiving roles with disabled, sick, dying folks, elders, or children in their care:

You are not unable to do anything or unable to take action.

Care work IS justice work

Yours is so much neater than mine 😂

*And* petro imperialism, which is at its core, settler colonialism.

And the conservative Canadians thought climate change would be good for us not thinking about how it would make us vulnerable to invasion for resources. Fucking donkeys.

It's actually expensive and a national security risk to rely on oil.

Honestly all the shit happening right now is unsurprising to me except I didn't expect it quite this soon. It's the violent end of petro nationalism.

I am very much an inside agitator thank you very much

Even locally at council, people who step up in support of unsheltered folks are considered a handful of weirdos that have no jobs.

Don't let it stop you. The more people acting, the less they can say no one cares (or at least it's less effective). But it's not new.

It's rhetoric used by right and centre to describe people who are genuinely asking for justice.

I would like for people to realize that this isn't the first time protestors and advocates have been called "outside agitators." Happens all the time in Canada, whether it be protests for Indigenous rights or climate justice.

Protestors as fringe element not tied to the interests of actual citizens

YouTube video by Region of Waterloo Council Sustainability, Infrastructure, and Development Committee - January 13, 2026

Alright, we've got a water capacity issue in #WatReg and #WRcouncil heard from many delegates on January 13th about this issue. You can watch the meeting here and/or follow along on this (potentially very long!) thread. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZbM...

played Blood on the Clock Tower for the first time and my close friends first executed me when I was innocent and then executed me again because I was the imp and a terrible liar 🫠

Please, help. Donate if possible. Share in hope that the message will reach someone who can donate. And pressure your government to recognize Palestine as a rightful state and to end Nethanyahu's genocide.🕊️🇵🇸

Bare Oaks! 😂 The sign has been gone for a while but they're still going.

I hope all their furniture has covers.

At least I've never seen a great deal of black flies in the South. But I'm also from the North where they reign and the mosquitoes were a hundred times bigger than down here.

No blackflies in Southern Ontario! Northern Ontario, yes. No nudies in the North!

I was trying to explain to American friends the general difference, at least towards Quebec, in Canadian attitudes towards sex and sex on television.

I suspect it's seasonal. There was a sign for one on the highway outside of Toronto until later in the Aughts. Just found out it was still operating.

It was for research!

Just found out there are no less than 10 nudist colonies in Southern Ontario.

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I wear my hair long and I appreciate this advice. Thank you!

I have never wished harder for a thing in my life.