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NPR: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote

You know how people called women hysterical for predicting the right wing would take down Roe v. Wade (which they've done) and then attack access to birth control (which they're doing)?

Hear me when I say that women's very right to vote is next.

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The only reason you assassinate every Al Jazeera journalist left in Gaza is because you don’t want anyone to document the genocide you are about to accelerate.

Any politician and any journalist who cannot call this genocide for what it is, is complicit, and I hope history remembers you as such.

I don't see any way back from this. They're winning at consolidating all the levers of power under Trump and then using it to bend the culture and media to his will. It's succeeding and no one is putting up enough of a meaningful fight. Current efforts are arranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

I know it's unpopular to say but Trump's authoritarian consolidation is succeeding, mostly because of cowardly institutions. We're effectively past the point of no return and life will increasingly become dictated by Trump and the federal government. Democracy is lost for at least a generation.

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.

#JournalismIsNotACrime

Yeah it's creating a massive executive branch slush fund that makes Iran-Contra look like an elementary school bake sale.

Just 10 members of Congress have even dared to call Israel's mass murder in Gaza a genocide. Meanwhile, they're straight up murdering journalists. The gulf between what's happening and what most of our leaders will acknowledge is so remarkably vast.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

israel slaughtered 237 journalists and you barely heard a peep from the western media establishment

At the 0:53 mark of this video you can see photojournalist Nick Stern @plasticjesusart.bsky.social (shaved head and glasses) holding up his press ID before getting assaulted by an LAPD officers. When he turns there's blood pouring down his face.

Today, Gaza lost another brave voice. Journalist Anas Al-Sharif was killed while doing what he did best telling the truth the world needed to hear. For months, he showed you our hunger, our grief, our courage. He stayed when it would have been safer to leave, and now he is gone.."

In L.A., police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death | Will Bunch On Friday, LAPD cops allegedly battered and detained journalists at a protest — the ugliest of the many threats to U.S. press freedom.

10 journalists were put in cuffs and/or violently assaulted by LAPD on Friday night.

@willbunch.bsky.social wrote his Sunday @inquirer.com column about what this means for press freedom nationally.

My description: “Utter lawlessness by the LAPD... they seemed thirsty to crack skulls.”

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Sour news for pickle lovers: Bick's pickles no longer stocked at some Canadian retailers | CBC News Popular pickle brand Bick’s, which is made only for the Canadian market, is no longer on the shelves of some Canadian retailers, a consequence of the ongoing trade war between Canada and the United St...

So long Bick's pickles. Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. #ElbowsUp #cdnpoli 🇨🇦
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Israeli army spokesperson Avichai Adraee recently re-shared a video falsely accusing al-Sharif of being a member of Hamas’s military wing. They continue to murder journalists for telling the truth.

Sarah Kendzior comments on Gavin Newsom.

Sarah Kendzior comments on Gavin Newsom.

Sarah Kendzior understands what Newsom is all about. Don't be fooled.

Borns on stage in Victoria, BC.

Dragonette stole the show at Phillips Backyard Weekender on August 9, 2025.

Phantogram performing in Victoria, BC on August 9, 2025.

That day Vox Rea, Diamond Cafe, Dragonette, Borns, and Phantogram came to sleepy ol' Victoria. #PhillipsBackyardWeekender #yyj

#BREAKING | CNN’s Matthew Chance joins the Jordanian air force in a flight over Gaza and gets an aerial view of the widespread destruction caused by the Israeli military after almost two years of genocide war.

This is despite Israeli limitations on recording Gaza

Pretty troubling that hours after the CDC got shot up by a radicalized guy who thought the COVID vaccine injured him, the Trump administration reinstated Prasad, who has made a career fearmongering about the COVID shots, as top vaccine regulator.

Sarah Kendzior blog post.

As Sarah Kendzior likes to say, there are no red states or blue states. "America is purple - purple like a bruise."

Turns out wine with strong hints of fascism and bullying aren't popular in other parts of the world.
Monthly US wine exports plunge, down 96.8% to Canada YoY. China (-36%) and the UK (-6%) also down. Overall, US wine exports declined by $38.8 million (-37%) compared to June 2024. #EconSky #Wine

Canada, probably. There are some fine wineries in the Naramata Bench in BC, among many other areas.

Colored-pencil card drawing of Jen Pawol

Congrats to Jen Pawol, who today becomes the first woman to umpire an MLB game

A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military.

And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

Why would UCLA pay Trump $1b to restore $500m in annual govt funding? You really think it'll be there in 3 years?

No higher ed institution should be appeasing a fascist govt like this. Unethical, won't work.

The price rising highlights that. But some admins are seeing it as reason to get in early.

"Are the Yankees going to finish .500" is not an unreasonable question to ask here

A Bluesky post from Andrew Coyne reposting his column 'Continuing the Israeli military campaign in Gaza can no longer be justified, morally or strategically'. It's accompanied by a photo of the genocidal sociopath, Bibi Netanyahu.

I won't be sharing this because, at heart, it's cleverly written apologia for genocide. Atrocity denial that never should have made it to publication. Embarrassing for the Globe.

Sample:

"there is abundant evidence that the Israeli military goes to unusual lengths to minimize civilian casualties"

I can't agree more with this. Canada should be courting the Chinese automakers and getting factories set up here. Build a manufacturing base here while the US automakers are forced into irrelevance by their own government.

It looks like the home of a tinpot dictator -- oh, wait, never mind.

Odd, how South Park is covering Kristi Noem and her ICE hooligans more accurately than The New York Times.

B.C. residents reduce trips to U.S. for sixth straight month - BC News New data from multiple sources show that the trend of British Columbians travelling less across the border to the U.S. is continuing–by land and by air.

B.C. residents reduce trips to U.S. for sixth straight month (BC)