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Tapping this sign rather more often than would be ideal lately

This is gorgeous

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

Learning how to lift has been such a gift—I was really really sad today and I spent 50 min lifting ~12.3k lbs and then ate a pizza. It didn't solve everything, but it helped a lot, and I got a deadlift PR and a pizza.

I feel silly posting, and I'll have something better to say when I'm more than a few hours out, but:

1) Bluesky helped me fundraise when I found myself in a crunch and she needed surgery (THANK YOU)

2) Reading talk about pet grief as normal helped me a lot, maybe it will help you

Today I said goodbye to Willow (aka Willowcat). I am grateful to everyone who taught me about catlife (my first cat! first pet since I was 3!), and everyone who talked with me about pet grief after she was diagnosed with cancer in 2024.

I am also grateful to her for changing my life for the better.

YouTube video by The On Being Project “Wild Geese” — written and read by Mary Oliver

youtu.be/T_nKg3TBzpU?...

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Sept 17–19, 2026. Details coming soon. Save the date.

'The Pitt's' Rape Kit Storyline is Quietly Revolutionary The show’s real-time storytelling gives viewers a startling look at a process rarely captured on TV.

One thing I appreciate about The Pitt is its thoughtfulness in using the real-time format to reframe the tropes of the medical drama. The past two episodes' painstaking account of a sexual assault exam is a remarkable example.

It makes me really, really angry that governments are doing this stuff!

One of those in the CAQ leadership race (party in power here in Québec) is the Minister for Education, and he said that (paraphrasing) Muslim women who wear hijab "made their choice" to lose work. It's discriminatory!

This state court challenge is being led by @harperseldin.bsky.social

ICE protesters keep beating Trump in Chicago court, but the battles take a toll. 'It’s about intimidation' Cases against 17 of 32 people charged with crimes during Operation Midway Blitz have already collapsed, and no one has been convicted. But federal prosecutions are daunting, they carry the threat of p...

good story from the sun-time about the consequences of criminal charges—even if those charges are later dropped.

wish they would apply the same logic more generally to people facing things like gun charges, which get dropped all the time bc they’re bogus/illegal.

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Your Estimated Wait Time for a Work Permit Is … 173 Years? - Documented Immigrants’ application fees fund this government agency. They aren’t getting the service they are paying for.

New from me at @documentedny.bsky.social :

New Trump plan: stop processing work permits for asylum-seekers until the asylum application backlog goes down.

But they’re not gonna put more people on fixing that backlog. Which they estimate could take

173 YEARS.

documentedny.com/2026/02/27/y...

If you're in academia and you think we can just "ride this out," please read this #thread and think about how the current attacks on scientific research disproportionately affect junior researchers- who are literally the future.

Pastries, and also strawberries were on sale so

I think if you are really sad because of two big life things in three months, you shouldn't have to do things like emails or work. You just get...paid sad time.

it’s getting harder and harder to justify membership dues for all the professional organizations for academics as a contingent faculty member

Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim

There is no reform, there's no body cams, there's no amount of anything that is going to fix this. Abolition is the BARE MINIMUM.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Judge Quraishi says that if ICE keeps arresting people and detaining them without bond under the legal theory that has been rejected by hundreds of judges, and any of those cases come across his bench, he'll immediately order DHS and DOJ personnel hauled into court to explain themselves.

Higher education on the chopping block in New Brunswick New Brunswick’s universities are under threat. The province’s Liberal government is eyeing a 10 percent budget cut while freezing tuition, putting thriving institutions like Mount Allison and UNB at r...

The Liberal government of NB is proposing to sabotage our thriving higher ed sector.

It's hard to tell if this is incompetence, malice, or neoliberal disaster capitalism.

Regardless, it's not too late to turn back.

@kristiallain.bsky.social and I explain for @canadiandimension.bsky.social.

tl;dr The QC government is saying "wait *nine years* instead of receiving PR now" and is refusing the federal government's program for non-economic migrants. There should be a fight about this, I'm not sure there will be.

archive.ph/xu2lB

We now have QC saying they don't have to give status, and what appears to be the Minister for Immigration saying that's fine. It's not!

The federal government should be clear on the Canada-Québec accords, at very least because it impacts lives (also it's a governance issue).

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Throwing in a little context—to make the Liberals' levels plan more palatable, there was a one-off push to give a number of approved, in-Canada applicants for refugee status their PR.

QC isn't giving PR grants, even though this is outside the immigration QC has authority over!

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This is the worst case scenario occurring at almost all turns.

- Tased and struck over misunderstanding
- Stays in jail for a year because of slow wheel of justice and ICE fears
- PD screws up in releasing him
- Border Patrol release catastrophically screwed up
- PD blows off missing persons report

Sticker saying TRANSSEXUALS HAVE GOT TO GET MEANER

‘How can I start again at 68?’ Maria has spent 50 years in the UK – and is fighting deportation She left the Netherlands for Britain in the 1970s at just 17. Now, after receiving a short suspended sentence, she faces removal to a country she hasn’t lived in for five decades or visited since 1999

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Gross.

Canadian man in ICE custody says he thought agents were only focusing on ‘criminals and murderers’ A Canadian man being held inside a U.S. immigration detention facility is speaking out about what he calls abysmal conditions and prolonged separation from his family, as his loved ones launch a legal...

These are the kinds of stories that need to get to the people who think ICE is simply being too aggressive right now, but is generally fine

The submitted SOCI Committee report is a pretty good government-languagey, summary of what the government, civil society, NGOs, lawyers, etc think.

They asked for questions, incl about how C-12's data-sharing provisions impact Canadian citizens.

sencanada.ca/en/committee...