Meghan Moe Beitiks

e232 meghan moe beitiks - angles of consequence

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My conversation with Meghan Moe Beitiks about the Angles of Consequence project created with reflected sunlight in key sites of climate advocacy and destruction.

A Concordia-directed artistic intervention uses sunlight as a material to highlight Montreal climate issues - Concordia University 3 site-specific performances challenge viewers to contemplate how fossil fuels affect the local environment

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WAS YOUR GRANT CANCELED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP?
The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is surveying the impact of the cancelation of awards. Confidentiality policies at the following link: democrats-science.house.gov/contact/whis...

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Stop reframing one country's successful liberation efforts, which resulted in no deaths, as a terrifying thing. If you're concerned about something frightening, focus on what is happening in Palestine.

Conservatives continue to deny the direct link between increased wildfires and climate change A large majority of Conservatives deny the scientific consensus linking increased wildfires to climate change.

“Climate scientists have warned that these wildfires will continue to worsen as the climate becomes hotter and drier in many areas around the world.”

Conservatives continue to deny the direct link between increased wildfires and climate change

A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mou...

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Drimonis: ‘Should I leave Quebec?’ A reader’s question resonates “I’m tired of always feeling like we’re the enemy.”

“I’m proud to be bilingual,” she says, “but sometimes I feel like no matter what I do it’s never good enough. Now the government pulls funding from organizations that help us find work. It feels like such a personal attack.”
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Nothing unites a country like a common enemy.

With Donald Trump doubling down on tariff talk, Quebec is cozying up to Canada. Contributing writer @mtltoula.bsky.social explores the province’s pragmatic and passionate responses to the brewing trade war: thewalrus.ca/trumps-tariffs-q...

Thinking of @moebeitiks.bsky.social today with my big pants on. Fuck you Trump, my pants are huge. 😘

FUCK YOU TRUMP MY PANTS ARE HUGE 💙💙

We just published a 3,000 word feature on Elon Musk's incursion into the federal government.

Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

Just spitballing, but things that could happen today:
*Court injunction protecting USAID
*Dems demand hearings on Musk's role
*Someone introduce articles of impeachment
*Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers
*Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved

It’s official: Elon Musk’s staffers have now illegally obtained classified information from the USAID office.

Here’s a recap of what’s happening:

Foreign Interference Report: "Disinformation is an existential threat to our democracy" Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue presented Canadians with a stark warning about disinformation on social media this week.

“Disinformation is an existential threat to our democracy. If we don’t find ways of addressing it, information manipulation has the ability to distort our discourse, change our views and shape our society.”

YouTube thumbnail featuring a syringe propped up between two vials of medication. Text reading "THIS VIDEO IS LEGAL (for now)". The backdrop is a trans flag.

DIY HRT: Everything I Can Legally Tell You

My guide to do-it-yourself hormone therapy, months in the making, is out now on YouTube. Tell your friends! xoxo

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Large majority of Canadians say increasing trans acceptance IS a sign of social progress A study by the Angus Reid Institute has found that a majority of Canadians believe that increasing the acceptance of transgender people is a sign of social progress.

“The vast majority of Canadians feel that trans people face heavy discrimination and that increasing trans acceptance would be a sign of social progress.”

Hey America, we are not cool. You have had a lot of opportunities to do better. Quit letting these assholes run your life. Accept your past, recognize your privilege, be kinder to your neighbours, and hold your terrible men accountable. I'm hanging out with Canada and warning them about you.

Lynne Taylor-Corbett, ‘Footloose’ Choreographer, Dies at 78 Striving to widen the audience of dance, she brought vitality to Broadway musicals like “Swing!” as well as ballets and Hollywood films.

Lynne Taylor-Corbett, a Tony Award-nominated choreographer and director whose career included commissions for New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater as well as Broadway musicals including “Swing!” and films including “Footloose,” died this month. She was 78.

I'm currently producing a series of site-specific performances with reflected sunlight at locations urgently relevant to climate change. Check it out: ofconsequence.org And follow @angles.of.consequence on Instagram. 💙

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Apropos of Nancy Mace's legislation to restrict bathrooms in the Capitol to "biological sex":

I used to train women's and feminist orgs on how to disrupt anti-trans feminist rhetoric and the real big eye-opener for a lot of these women?

The difference between comfort and safety.

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Who is having the biggest impact on the climate where you are, in both the positive and negative sense?