Chris Jones

28.10.2025

'This is in Mandeville, Manchester in Jamaica at the moment. The flooding looks catastrophic and it's just the beginning!'

via Volcaholic [X] #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Melissa

Director of Alberta Law Enforcement Training Centre charged with sexual assault

Inside the network funding Canary Mission, the shadowy website targeting pro-Palestine activists The latest episode of There is a List traces the funds from North American donors to illegal Israeli settlement expansion and the erasure of Palestinian communities

Inside the network funding Canary Mission, the shadowy website targeting pro-Palestine activists: ricochet.media/investigativ...

and so it shall be in this blessed season of global iconoclasm

Write to PM Carney: No Cuts to Pharmacare Funding Prime Minister Carney promised to protect pharmacare and expand it to cover everyone in Canada. Now his government is getting ready to cut $25 billion to pay for a growing defence budget, including…

Prime Minister Carney promised to protect pharmacare. Now his government is considering cuts to diabetes and contraceptive coverage to fund a growing military budget. Tell Health Minister Michel: no cuts to pharmacare canadians.org/analysis/car...

Another infuriating aspect of ICE roaming around D.C. that I hadn't thought about.

I just talked to a D.C. woman whose husband is undocumented and whose employer is refusing to pay him for work he's already done -- and threatening to call ICE if he keeps asking for the money he's owed.

The protest outside the White House is swelling by the minute. Trump’s talk of “marauding gangs” is racist code for Black lives. This is about white power in uniform.

We must fight back against racism & authoritarian rule.

Our democracy isn’t his to seize—it’s OURS.

HUGE victory for accountability & human rights in Colombia!

Is Genocide Happening in Gaza? [Melanie O’Brien is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Western Australia, President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and Visiting Scholar with the H…

"Whatever the exact moment was of ‘crystallisation’ of these crimes as genocide, it is without a doubt that we are witnessing a genocide now in Gaza..."

Melanie O'Brien, President, International Association of Genocide Scholars

opiniojuris.org/2025/08/04/i...

Israel’s new measures do nothing to stop the starvation crisis in Gaza, say aid workers Humanitarian workers say airdrops and corridors to allow trucks into region have done little to stop the rising death toll

Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other “fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted” into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.

Going with: for the same reason people thought it was a good idea to elect one as president?

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die July 21, 2025 AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024. Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years. We refuse to watch them die. One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness. Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.” Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%. AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

How to Steer People From Gangs to Colleges A grant-supported program found success transitioning young people connected to gangs into higher education—until the money stopped coming.

It’s hard to imagine a more ambitious goal than transitioning gang-involved youth to higher ed. A program pulled it off, until the money stopped coming. Please don't let Lalo's story get lost amid the shock & awe. My latest for @thenation.com & @hechingerreport.org. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Canada said it would stand up to Trump. Instead, it’s taking cues from him | Shiri Pasternak and Dayna Nadine Scott Federal and provincial governments are ‘flooding the zone’ with damaging corporate giveaways under the guise of resistance

"A common thread in this onslaught of new legislation is the creation of “legal black holes” and the dangerous centralization of discretionary power… Neither equity stakes nor more “consultation” alter the balance of power in these startling new arrangements." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Happy World Albatross Day!!

Did you know that the world’s oldest known wild bird is an albatross!?

After her mate disappeared a few years ago, we thought Wisdom, a now 74 year old Laysan Albatross who breeds on Midway Atoll, was done breeding bc they mate for life.

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Reports and video show flash-bangs thrown into piles of debris just before a car caught fire, strongly suggesting it was law enforcement, not protesters, who sparked it. More details are coming. Don’t let them control the narrative. Thank you to everyone sharing footage, always record everything.

Did your pension manager vote for better climate disclosure from Canadian banks? — Shift - Protect Your Pension and the Planet Canada’s largest pension managers describe their “stewardship” and “engagement” processes as critical elements of their climate plans. However, Shift’s analysis of recent shareholder votes reveals tha...

Canada Pension Plan: Voting against better climate disclosure from banks

Shift’s analysis of recent shareholder resolutions shows that our national pension manager has voted against calls for Canadian banks to be more transparent on climate-related lending, risk management and lobbying.

were they all still dressed the same?

Migrants are building Canada’s homes—while getting blamed for housing policy failures ⋆ The Breach Canada’s elite scapegoat migrants for housing woes—but they increasingly rely on them to build the homes they say will fix the crisis

Migrants are building Canada’s homes—while getting blamed for housing policy failures
breachmedia.ca/migrants-are...

As CPPIB backslides on climate, other Canadian pension giants remain committed to net-zero — Shift - Protect Your Pension and the Planet Last week, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) quietly abandoned its 2022 commitment to invest the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) in line with achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. The unaccep...

Seven of Canada’s largest pension funds remain committed to net-zero by 2050. Last week, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) quietly abandoned its 2022 commitment to invest the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) in line with achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.

Some advice to the doom and gloom crowd who wanna speedrun straight to armed rebellion/dystopic hoarding - if I can’t trust you to show up to city council meetings and give public comment, what the fuck makes you think I’m going to trust you with a weapon at my back?

BREAKING: ICE and private prison contractor GEO Group are refusing to allow Mahmoud Khalil to hold his newborn son for the first time, even after his wife flew them over 1,000 miles to visit.

We just asked a federal court to order ICE to grant Mahmoud's request for a contact visit with his family.

We strongly advise the public not to do this, it’s unsafe. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted photos of himself and his grandkids swimming in Rock Creek, a Washington waterway so contaminated with sewage runoff that swimming has been banned citywide for over 50 years.

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

Green Industrial Policy After 2025 YouTube video by JFI - Jain Family Institute

Planet is sizzling, Solar is booming, Markets are crashing &the US is imploding.
What is the future of global climate politics??
Video: @aabdenur.bsky.social , Sara Ahmed, @kyleichan.bsky.social
@Isabel_Estevez_, @StynesMichael superbly moderated by @adam_tooze www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

They have a pdf of the Costing of their platform www.ndp.ca/sites/defaul...

The most important thing you can do is visibly do things that make sense for you and who you are and where your skills and capabilities lie.

If someone sees you, they will think "oh, it's okay, I'm not alone."

Can courts compel social media platforms to disclose messages? Insights from Terrigno v Petzold | Miller Thomson This Alberta court decision has significant implications for how private messages on social media platforms may be accessed in litigation.

An Alberta court ordered Bluesky to produce all DMs held by that Theobius account

This is a reminder that Canadian courts can order tech companies to disclose all of your private messages, even if you’re not a party to a lawsuit

No messages are truly private / no one is really anonymous online

BREAKING: Days after a Louisiana judge ruled that the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil can proceed, thousands are holding an emergency Passover Seder at the ICE headquarters in New York City, saying: If you come for one, you face us all.