Sarah Rimmington

Tell the Canadian Government: Stop Funding Companies Supporting Trump’s Human Rights Abuses GardaWorld — a Canadian-based “private security company” — has million-dollar contracts to execute Trump's racist and inhumane immigration regime, which kidnaps people, tears families apart, and denie...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/te...

✨Circa 1885/2025 – Looking east towards Jarvis St from Lombard St, south of Richmond St E, in the Old Town, St Lawrence neighbourhood of Toronto.

👉More then and now photos at TorontoJourney416.com

Canada is not as far gone as the US but to those who think we're on a completely different planet: you weren't here for the G20 were you? Or you didn't pay attention. It's all on the books waiting to happen again. Barely anybody was punished for doing it. Liberals even made the head guy a minister.

A portion of John Quincy Adams' Amistad argument before SCOTUS: "I will not recur to the Declaration of Independence--your Honors have it implanted in your hearts--but one of the grievous charges brought against George III. was, that he had made laws for sending men beyond seas for trial. That was one of the most odious of those acts of tyranny which occasioned the American revolution. The whole of the reasoning is not applicable to this case, but I submit to your Honors that, if the President has the power to do it in the case of Africans, and send them beyond seas for trial, he could do it by the same authority in the case of American citizens. By a simple order to the marshal of the district, he could just as well seize forty citizens of the United States, on the demand of a foreign minister, and send them beyond seas for trial before a foreign court."

Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

After mass firings, the IRS will be forced to close audits of wealthy taxpayers.

Audits of rich individuals and corporations will soon be closed — without action — due to a lack of personnel to complete them.

Millions upon millions in revenue will be lost.

“All of a sudden, these cases…

Something special is happening, people. Ignore it or downplay it at your own peril…

AOC: In every single stop that Bernie and I have had in the past couple of days… every single stop has completely blown out all attendance projections.

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.

@jennacapeci.bsky.social this is a delightful thread xox

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

Colorado…

34,000 people showed up for the Fight Oligarchy rally today in Denver.

It's always wrong to vandalize personal property and that certainly includes Teslas, and also: your government is actively disappearing innocent people without due process, so, you know, that second one is taking up my empathetic bandwidth at the moment.

Elon Musk and the “Misunderstood” Genius Great men and the contingent theory of history.

"In 1999...an assload of people got insanely rich and that this distribution was tied exceptionally loosely to merit, intelligence, and value creation." This is the environment in which Elon Musk got rich. From the archives:

‘State Propaganda’: Anger Erupts Inside Univision Over Airing of Trump Ad The network wasn’t the only one to run the controversial spots urging deportations. But unlike Telemundo, officials there were already on edge.

"'Who are we to say we won’t wake up one day to a pronouncement from the administration that these Spanish-language stations are catering to DEI? Where does he draw the line?'"

A Tale of Two Bigots The stories of Marko Elez, Mahmoud Khalil, and the Camp Auschwitz guy show what the right means when it talks about “free speech.”

Just remember that testing the waters by going after an unsavory or unsympathetic person's civil rights is a tried and true authoritarian tactic.

Elon Musk Thinks He’s an Ayn Rand Hero. Nope: He’s One of Her Villains. Recent years have revealed the Silicon Valley venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs who worship Rand to be racists, fraudsters, and looters.

Well, Elon Musk *is* like Howard Roark in the sense that he's dynamiting his Tesla stock value

Trump Brought African-Style Political Thugs to the U.S. I spent a career watching African politics. I never expected to see the same dynamics in my hometown.

"What we see may be nothing most of the time, but instead, we may sense an invisible force field of menace that is hard to define, easily denied, but increasingly feared." That's new in our politics. New from @hollybfletcher.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-afri...

Columbia announced mass suspensions, expulsions, and degree revocations the same day it received a letter from the Trump administration telling them to do just that if they wanted to keep getting funding

Columbia administration email announcing DHS was on campus

Columbia administration email announcing DHS was on campus

Columbia administration email announcing DHS was on campus

NEW EMAIL FROM COLUMBIA ADMIN: DHS agents were in two university residences tonight — with two warrants

"I am writing heartbroken to inform you that we had federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in two University residences tonight."

No arrests made.

Letter to Columbia admin from Trump admin listing demands for them to continue a financial relationship with the govt

Letter to Columbia admin from Trump admin listing demands for them to continue a financial relationship with the govt

NEW letter to Columbia from Trump admin lists demands for “continued financial relationship” with the US government”:

—Suspend or expel students for Hamilton Hall protest
—“Time, place, and manner rules”
—Mask ban
—Address “anti-Zionist” discrimination
—Reform admissions
—MORE

This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid

Trump backed GOP into a big corner with his “balanced budget” point.

The ONLY way House GOP could even think about upholding their “no cuts to Medicaid” swing seat promises and their spending cut mandates is deficit spending and bad math.

Now they have to gut Medicaid & hand it to Elon in public.

the tesla protest might objectively be among the most successful in history already just in terms of immediate response, if you consider they forced the world’s most powerful person & its most wealthy to fully degrade themselves like used car salesmen on live TV while the whole world watched agog.

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

What too many people don’t grasp is that there a “fight” spectrum and an ideological spectrum. Many commentators and people in DC assume they pretty much line up exactly. This is not the case at all.

a man in a suit and tie is standing with his hands in his pockets . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing with his hands in his pockets .

I don't want to say the Schumer optics are bad but Gavin Newsom just invited him on his podcast.

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good

Trump and Musk are staging a coup.

We must not give our leverage away.