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‘It was very challenging’: the exhibition memorialising Black trans deaths across the US Artist Sage Ni’Ja Whitson found an unusual way to remember those who were killed or died by suicide between 2018 and 2025

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I went through and added up the total paid rents through our adopt-a-rent program, and it is 329 families for $463,217. All peer-to-peer, no fundraising. Just neighbors helping each other out.

If you want to adopt a family, and can afford to give $500 or more, signal me at asiniiwiikwe.72

The fact that Lockheed Martin’s stock rose since Feb 27th shows us that private companies trading weapons, mercenaries, airplanes etc are all increasing their profit margins as people from Sudan to Iran to Congo to Palestine are being murdered. Lockheed Martin is implicated in all four places.

Really necessary set of essay about this moment:

www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47192

Members of Canada's military may have been involved in planning U.S. strikes on Iran, retired general says | CBC News A retired Canadian major-general says personnel on exchange with U.S. Central Command were likely involved in planning and targeting airstrikes on Iran unless Ottawa explicitly barred participation. A...

"It is highly likely that members of Canadian military, on exchange with the US, were involved in planning and co-ordinating of airstrikes on Iran. It is long-standing policy to have Canadian service members participate in exchanges with US Central Command."

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

As Trump Bombs Iran, We Need to Reckon With the American War Machine We cannot afford to slip into despair. We must push back against militarism everywhere, at every turn.

This piece was written by Truthout's editor-in-chief Negin Owliaei, a friend and colleague I greatly admire. "Trump may be an authoritarian, but he is not entirely invulnerable, nor are the elected officials who have given him pass after pass."

Backpacks, schoolbooks seen amid rubble of Iranian girls’ school Rescuers dug through the rubble of a girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran after a US-Israeli strike.

www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

Updated figures are at 85 girls that the us killed today by bombing an elementary school. Another 15 people, including children killed by a us airstrike on a gym. But sure. Defend the people by destroying the state.

What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.

Iran

If you’d like to understand history of the country that US and Israeli imperialists are waging an illegal and unjust war against check out @thedigradio.bsky.social five part series with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran www.thedigradio.com/History%20of...

the same night that the US decided to slaughter dozens of Iranian schoolgirls in an unprovoked regime change war, Sam Altman announced a deal with the US military to let them use OpenAI products to kill people

A powerful decentralized campaign forced Scotiabank to divest from Israeli arms ⋆ The Breach A major bank sells its shares in Elbit Systems, in one of Canada’s biggest BDS victories to date

Canadian BDS activists just won a historic victory: Scotiabank, once the largest foreign shareholder in Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer, has dropped all its shares in Elbit Systems.

@desaima.bsky.social and Harrison Samphir report on the years-long pressure campaign that led to divestment.

Join Professor Robyn Maynard at the University of London, discussing their book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to Present.

Book your ticket here: buff.ly/wE7j6t5
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Nick Fuentes Wants Women in “Gulags.” Here’s Why That Matters. "Gender has always been an important throughline of fascist politics," says Shane Burley.

I talked with my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social about Nick Fuentes' recent rant about putting women in gulags. How seriously should we take Fuentes, culturally and politically? And what does rhetoric like this reveal about the broader trajectory of the movement he’s trying to shape? We get into it.

Harriet I was looking for a place to host some resources for the Tubman teach-in and decided to put it here temporarily. Here are two readings to prepare for our discussion: Harriet Tubman, Called Moses of…

I've read every Tubman biography at this point. For those interested, the materials from teach-ins I've facilitated about her over the years are here: radicalblackwomen.com/harriet/

cyclic diagram of impacts of AI from an Indigenous perspective

miigwech @honortheearth.bsky.social

Screenshot of sameerproject on IG Ramadan and Community: A Guide for Giving Back (P.S. you don’t have to be Muslim to participate) Zakat eligible Sameer Project x translating Falasteen

Can 20 people join us today in donating to the Sameer Project for Ramadan? $8 provides a meal for a family, and $32 can pay for groceries. You can also donate more to fund a water truck or a water desalination plant.

Pass this on, please.

See their IG for details: www.instagram.com/p/DUq5PoSjkK0

UCSD adds AI major Prospective UC San Diego undergraduates can now pursue a Bachelor of Science in artificial intelligence. The major is designed to allow interested students to explore AI in depth from their very first...

Unis adding AI to their genocidal colonizer toolkit. Faculty for promises that this is the solution to their funding woes. Rubber-stamping the destruction of the world so they can enjoy the petty spoils of their pathetic place in the imperialist machine. ucsdguardian.org/2025/10/06/u...

I posted on *three platforms* just over *20 minutes* after Radio-Canada first misidentified this innocent trans woman as a mass shooter on national television in a 6:00pmET broadcast.

I tagged Radio Canada and Patrice Roy.

They didn't issue a correction until after 2:00pmET today.

Unacceptable.

AI’s Imperial Agenda “Empire of AI” author Karen Hao on how Silicon Valley’s young AI companies parallel colonial empires of old.

“They’ve been able to accrue more resources — and critical resources — than pretty much anyone in history.”

Abolition Is Still the Only Way Out of This Forget the useless so-called “reforms” to ICE and policing currently on offer. We need much more fundamental change.

Today in @thenation.com, originally entitled No Quick Fixes for Fascism
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

How are we supposed to do all that with an average of $3,000 a day? We urge those with large platforms to support us to keep going. The ongoing genocide in Gaza is catastrophic and with no donations, Palestinians in Gaza will suffer even more.

***Emergency***
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Toronto! This Thursday.

I suppose I also take this personally bc attacks on craftivism land poorly with me as a Native person. Beading together, making regalia, sewing in groups — this is at the heart of how the women on my reservation gather to do healing work, political ed, and mutual aid. This has long been true.

Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind” “We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.

I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:

“All artists are involved in their time.”
Dionne Brand
A Map to the Door of No Return

From the Toronto Star- not only do the Toronto Police not FIRE police who use the database to stalk women who won’t date them and violate the privacy of their exes and others, the only consequence is that they are docked pay. Cut their funds and divert the $ to women’s shelters.

Following the wisdom of water to remake an unravelling world Listen to Ideas

theory of water on cbc ideas.

Fascism doesn’t rise by accident: it’s organised through capitalism, fear, and targeted wars on migrants, drugs, and people in poverty.

Read our State of Power 2026 opening interview with @harshawalia.bsky.social and Alberto Toscano. www.tni.org/en/article/l...

I have a new chapter in the 2026 edition of Policing Black Lives on how police reform has expanded police power to surveil, monitor and criminalize Black communities for 70+ years now. Did you know in Canada community policing (first in parkdale, in Toronto ) has been a “reform” since the 1960s?