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From the halifax community on Reddit: [Halifax Regional Municipality] On Tuesday, March 3, we will be holding an in-person Budget Committee meeting. The agenda is now available and public participatio... Explore this post and more from the halifax community

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From the halifax community on Reddit: Volunteers Needed Explore this post and more from the halifax community

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(NSHA) Request for public’s assistance in locating missing patient

** Release

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WSJ running the “Chesa Boudin playbook” on Mamdani:

Preemptive Blame: Link the progressive to crime before they get elected.

Fear Forecasting: Push a narrative of guaranteed doom if they win.

Distorted Coverage: Once elected, portray crime as out of control—even if the data shows a decline.

New It Could Happen Here @jamesstout.bsky.social talks with Inmn from the Live Like the World is Dying podcast about the basics of community and individual preparedness for disasters of all kind. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/community-preparedness-basics-with-live-like-288156408/

New It Could Happen Here

@jamesstout.bsky.social talks with Inmn from the Live Like the World is Dying podcast about the basics of community and individual preparedness for disasters of all kind.

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

The Problem of Disinformation (E334) QAA Podcast · Episode

What a fantastic episode featuring Dr Olivier Jutel from the Dept of Media, Film and Communications at the University of Otago (just a little bit south of where I am!).

Bonus points for the Videodrome reference.

From the union community on Reddit: Against Professionalism! How Unions Can Fight Against Professional Hierarchies in Educational Workplaces Explore this post and more from the union community

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From the Anarchism community on Reddit: theanarchistlibrary.org is free & you can go on there right now for more nuanced takes & takes from folk who are on the ground/in the situation you're asking ab... Explore this post and more from the Anarchism community

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I've just listened to the first episode of this, which is free to listen in the QAA podcast's regular feed. Like all of Liv's work, it's fascinating, well-researched and thoughtful, and I'm so happy she's got an opportunity to go deep on this important topic. Go check it out and subscribe for more!

@MichellCClark: they made healthcare a commodity, education a debt trap, and housing a speculation market-then told you that poverty is a personal failing. they privatized survival and called it freedom.

That last line hits hard

Doctors Without Borders releases a new briefing note: Five Months Under Iron Wall.

It highlights the toll of prolonged displacement and escalating humanitarian needs in the #WestBank.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-fi...

Death toll in Texas floods rises to at least 27 as search continues for many missing, officials say Crews searched through the dark early Saturday for two dozen children from a girls' camp and many others who were still missing after a wall of water rushed down a river in the Texas Hill Country…

Crews searched through the dark early Saturday for two dozen children from a girls’ camp and many others who were still missing after a wall of water rushed down a river in the Texas Hill Country during a powerful storm that killed at least 27 people.
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If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:

Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

i love that every rightwinger talks like this now

Read the first edition pamphlet of Frederick Douglass' famous 1852 “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?” speech. After he finished speaking there was “a universal burst of applause” and 700 copies of the pamphlet were subscribed to on the spot: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #July4th

this is the new normal. it's just going to be a never ending shit stream of race science and hysterical conspiracism in every info channel against anyone who ever suggests that we make the world a better place together.

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

It’s gonna get so weird that people are gonna hafta talk about how weird it is.

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

Misogyny Has Become the ‘Gateway Drug’ for Violent Extremism | The Tyee I read 100 manifestos from violent attackers. There was one common thread.

“These attackers may not belong to formal terrorist organizations, but their writings reveal consistent ideological patterns. Among them, one stands out: misogyny.”

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We are watching the end of American democracy - Halifax Examiner Things are about to get more terrible than we can imagine.

We are watching the end of American democracy
Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social

The Bezos- Sanchez wedding. God doesn’t approve.

Houston says Nova Scotia environmental racism report will be used to develop policy but won't be made public Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston reiterated that the report is being used to develop policy but would not say why it won’t be made public.

"The panel has completed its report and issued recommendations but the premier says that neither the taxpayer-funded report nor the panel’s recommendations will be released to the public"
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We’re giving away galleys of @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social’s BLACK HISTORY IS FOR EVERYONE at #ala2025