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#OtD 28 Feb 1972 the trial of legendary Black communist Angela Davis for murder, kidnapping & conspiracy began in San Jose, CA. Amidst a global campaign of support in June an all-white jury acquitted her of all charges. Davis tells her story in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Survival of Alberta children forced into abstinence is not monitored The Alberta government has yet to release its proposed Compassionate Intervention Act but indicated in 2023 that the Act would extend existing legislation for forced abstinence of children to adults. ...

What happens when parents and guardians can unilaterally obtain court orders to have their kids seized, rendered to isolation and subjected to potential torture, in some cases dozens of times before adulthood, for 20 years?

We don't know. Nobody asked.
drugdatadecoded.ca/survival-of-...

Brain injury after non-fatal overdose: A rising concern

As measures preventing drug poisoning injuries are under attack in Ontario and other provinces, this is an ever more important webinar.

Brain injury after non-fatal overdose: A rising concern

Register and listen to speakers who understand the issues.
www.catie.ca/brain-injury...

A romantic text I received this morning from my librarian boyfriend regarding a book he requested for me to write a review of 🥰 what is more sexy than public libraries and public sector unions???

www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

If you’re going to do illegal stuff under a fascist regime, please don’t tell the internet about it. ✨

Nice

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

Let me know if you ever want to go for one! I know your walks are shorter these days but it would still be nice!

MAGA and MAHA types love to say “do your own research” & “I’ve done my research”, but they only like “research” if it’s a chiropractor on a podcast talking about why vaccines are satanic or whatever. Peer review & ethics boards are too woke & gay I guess? Smells a lot like Nazi book burning

I saw another post that also included pregnant person and birthing person as prohibited terms

If you think this won’t happen in Canada…Alberta's Mental Health and Addictions Minister Dan Williams attends anti choice events & sponsored bill 207 in 2019 which would allow Drs to refuse services they disagree with, like abortions. UCP’s opt in sex ed will mean more kids are vulnerable to CSA.

turns out when transphobes said we need to “follow the science” what they meant is delete it and hide all traces of it

I talked with the Mycelium, it said you should lie down on the forest floor for a month and not move

Photo of yarrow plants in the snow in the foreground with evergreen trees and mountains in the distance

During the 11 years I was unschooled I went for daily morning walks with my sister, mom, grandparents, chosen fam and dogs in all weather. Here’s some snow capped yarrow I found this evening. It’s -25 C and there’s no such thing as bad weather just the wrong clothing.

If you mean abortion, say abortion 🩷

surely my incisive reply will change this hateful idiot's point of view

Ground News - Study finds India doubled its tiger population in a decade and credits conservation efforts BENGALURU, India (AP) — India doubled its tiger population in a little over a decade by protecting the big cats from poaching and habitat loss, ensuring they ha

Study finds India doubled its tiger population in a decade and credits conservation efforts

ground.news/article/why-.... #News #Wildlife #Environment

#HappyFriday with a bunch of BLUE 💙
one of my favorite things about NC is how blue the 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳 is. so amazing 🦋

#fungifriends #mushroom #northcarolina #fungi #hiking #photography #nature

Listening to Townes Van Zandt is like the closest I can emotionally get to chain smoking cigarettes without actually smoking one

Everyday I dream that I will somehow have an opportunity to (safely and ethically) pet a very big kitty or a baby big kitty

Use the term “touch grass” to indicate that someone needs to seek out reality, use the term “touch moss” to indicate that they need to seek out ancient forest magic beyond their mortal comprehension.

Two rosettes of blue and brown turkey tail mushrooms grow on top of a bare log in a winter forest All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis.

In 1933.

(Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.)

They always come for trans people first.

Stuff the Little Free Libraries with banned books. 📚