Allison 😣

If you don’t feel sick about this (waving arms around) then you ought to wonder when your human compassion died.

I wish I could be more profound in my response but my rage is in the way. This is bullshit. You are carrying water for Israel and the US. They bombed a school full of kids today. How do you sleep at night?

Just me, living here in Ontario Canada, appreciating the Green Party win in the Manchester riding of Gorton & Denton because it means not everyone is a racist knobhead. Congrats to Hannah Spencer for a hopeful outcome.

Opinion: By threatening to get rid of prison librarians, Canada is not going by the book Eliminating educational programs and the jobs of federal prison librarians hollows out potential rehabilitation services – not to mention Canada’s humanity

Another casualty of Mark Carney’s ideologically driven government spending cuts: prison libraries.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

New Release: 2025 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada - Campaign 2000 Investing in Tomorrow: A Future Without Poverty Campaign 2000 has released the 2025 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada, drawing on the latest national data to examine the state of child...

More Canadian children are living in poverty, including nearly half of children on reserve: campaign2000.ca/new-release-...

This is the thread I did not know I needed today. Thank you fellow used book purchasers.

Treasure trove!!

Sam Altman’s anti-human worldview OpenAI CEO downgrades humanity in pursuit of goal to merge with computers

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever.

One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

BREAKING: government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action under terrorism law ruled UNLAWFUL

This matters for everyone.

For years, the right to protest has been under sustained and deliberate attack.

Thousands of people have been arrested for something that should have never been a crime.

A massive CBC investigation has confirmed that the Canadian government knew our weapons were reaching Israel through the "U.S. Loophole", and they were quietly investigating the legal fallout while publicly lying to us about it.

Link in bio to email your MP about the "No More Loopholes Act".

Important paper. Schools are high-risk environments for respiratory disease transmission MAINLY because classrooms are underventilated. This problem has a workable solution - it just needs political will. Air quality is as important as water quality for public health. MT @martinmckee.bsky.social

"Tax the Ultra-Rich" slide. Text: "Implement a wealth tax on the top 1%, starting at 1% and rising to 3% on the largest fortunes, to generate as much as $40 billion a year. Create a new tax bracket for the top income earners. Treat capital gains the same as employment income. Tax wealth inheritance over $5 million."

Income inequality is at an all-time high in Canada.

Meanwhile, CEO pay keeps climbing. The top 1% richest families control almost a quarter of the country’s wealth. And the six biggest banks raked in $70 billion in profits last year alone.

It’s time to tilt the scales back towards the 99%.

One of the most effective things you can do right now to fight Trump and ICE is to cancel your ChatGPT subscription.

Reading educates us about each other, about history, about injustice. Thats why they came for the newspapers, they came for the books, they came for public schools. It was never, ever, about free speech. It was about strengthening their place as feudal lords and ours as their servants and toys.

There are no immigration crises, anywhere. There are governments deliberately under-planning for forecasted immigration and then using the strain to turn people against each other instead of against them.

And Canada still has deals with Palentir. Walking us right into Thiel’s ideal.

Yep. We are serfs and toys to them.

There are legtimate uses for AI. There are ways for AI to empower humans and level playing fields. It's just that they don't tend to make billionaires richer or let people be lazy, so that's not what is being forced on us.

Universal healthcare is a socialist policy so if that’s what you are most proud of as part of your Canadian identity, congratulations you have just discovered socialism. Its not scary here. On the contrary, it’s nice & equitable. #Canadasky

A 4th term will be the last nail in the coffin for publicly funded education and healthcare. Calling all educators, education workers, physicians, nurses, and healthcare workers to mobilize NOW. Contact your local Ontario NDP riding association and find out how to get involved.

Listen and share this song 🎵 and contact your MPP. @eslfairy.bsky.social I’m sending you a hug and a fist of solidarity. 🥰
They are cutting down public schools because they foster community, collectivism and shared goals. We need to push back. ✊

I’m thankful for books Ive read recently that inspire & inform about community action & change.

Moral Ambition by @rutgerbregman.com

Doppelganger by @naomiaklein.bsky.social

Crackdown by
@garthmullins.bsky.social

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”

― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

And classism. If we don’t reckon with and challenge the intention and purpose of unfettered capitalism and the rise of the oligarchy we will get nowhere.

Here here! 👏
The exceptionalism just helps us ignore the injustices longer so we learn nothing from seeing the more populated fast track version down south.

“Mass Assassination Factory”: Israel Using AI to Generate Targets in Gaza, Increasing Civilian Toll We look at a new report that reveals how Israel is using artificial intelligence to draw up targets in its military assault of Gaza. The report’s author, journalist Yuval Abraham, has found that the I...

Israel has been using AI to mass target Palestinians for years. It has used the genocide in Gaza to accelerate this technique, ramping up the speed of AI targeting to create what Israeli journalists called a “mass assassination factory”.

www.democracynow.org/2023/12/1/is...

Thank you, @avilewis.ca
Yet another reason you are the leader that @ndp.ca needs.

Israel’s Military Now Accepts 70,000 Killed in Gaza – But Why Did Our Media Let Them Get Away With Denying It for So Long? I have spent the past two years debating the credibility of the Gaza Health Ministry’s numbers with supporters of Israel. It turns out the Israeli military agrees with me, not them.

I’ve spent the past 2 years debating the credibility of the Gaza Health Ministry’s numbers with Israel supporters. It turns out the Israeli military agrees with me, not them.

My latest for Zeteo on how the media was also complicit in the genocide denial:

It seems that Acton’s quote is bang on - Absolute power corrupts absolutely.