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Prominent legal scholar detained at Canadian border while on his way to a conference on Palestine | CBC News A well-known academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.

What the hell is going on when Canadian border officials detain and question a prominent US academic and international lawyer going to attend and speak at to speak at a forum on human rights violations against Palestinians. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group

ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭

it's hard to accept that power and wealth do not require you to be smart or savvy in some way both bc we're told they do and also because it's insulting, but. here we are.

I can attest this practice was common, and let me disabuse anyone who thinks practice went away because people realized the obvious unsafe working environment issues—it was Zoom that ended the conference hotel room interview.

Trans air force members sue Trump administration over denied pension Complaint slams government’s actions as ‘unlawful and invalid’ after air force revoked early retirement benefits A group of 17 transgender US air force members has sued the Trump administration for denying them early retirement pensions and benefits. The complaint, submitted in federal court, describes the government’s move against them as “unlawful and invalid”. Continue reading...

Trans air force members sue Trump administration over denied pension

The VPD 2026 increase request is
OVER FIVE TIMES LARGER
than the budget for ANCHOR's crisis intervention program.

FIVE TIMES!

#DefundVPD

Hey Vancouver!

Stop giving the VPD more money every year to make the city worse.

Address crises compassionately.
Address crises cost effectively.
#DefundVPD

A practice that helps me, & might be useful to you, is to ask myself sometimes, "what lies am I telling myself that help me avoid confronting the reality of fascism?" Trick is the most devious are those that pretend to righteously contend with it as a means of avoiding it.

Thank You Alice Wong Alice Wong has passed away and the disability community has lost a leader. I lost a mentor and a friend. The Disabled Ginger wouldn't exist without Alice and everything she taught me.

“She explained how much Covid could hurt her & how vulnerable it felt to be unable to wear a mask to protect herself.

She was a perfect example of why other people need to wear masks even if they don’t personally think Covid will hurt them”

If you want to honour Alice Wong’s memory, please mask up

May her memory be for a revolution that lights all of our way home. ❤️‍🔥

Ty ❤️❤️🫂

MTG is basically on an apology tour and the media is feeding into it.

They are complicit

a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! " ALT: a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "

Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME.

Here is a thread of my feelings

[reading the epstein emails] "ah, memories of a time gone by"

Report reveals how domestic abusers weaponize B.C.'s housing crisis, calls for more legal aid | CBC News A legal group's interviews with survivors of intimate partner violence show that many stay in abusive relationships because they can't find affordable housing. Following the interviews, a report from ...

Domestic abusers are weaponizing B.C.'s housing crisis, report reveals
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If a Famous Author Calls, Hang Up: Anatomy of an Impersonation Scam - Writer Beware You open your email program one morning. The usual work stuff. Some spam (annoying that it got past your filters!). A couple of newsletters (maybe later). You sip your coffee, scroll down. Wait. What’...

I've now heard from 3 authors targeted on X by a scammer impersonating Lois McMaster Bujold. Bujold impersonator refers author to "Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary", also an impersonation. Goal: to sell editing svcs. Scam is impersonating multiple authors & agents writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...

This makes me consider the countless women who dropped out of STEM departments/careers after men in authority told them they weren't good enough to progress.

We know that's pure sexism, but I've never quite put together before that "ew girls" was likely actually "ew, girls I don't want to fuck."

I swear to dog, if I have the flu after having to unmask for my brain scan while there were TWO MRI techs both unmasked in the room, I'm going to rage out at IHA. When my head stops hurting, ugh. 🤒😭

All But Lost in the Dark (Short Story) — A Topic for Another Time CW: mild aphobia Forty below, the best time of the year as far as Michelle was concerned. Not the coldest winter could get in this part of the world, but it may as well have been; past a certain p...

Good morning!

Why not start your day with a little story about community, winter, and monstrous northern lights?

stormblakley.com/blog/all-but...

Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:

Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.

So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

I live in Chicago, here are some tips for dealing with the Black and Tans: Keep whistles on you to alert the neighborhood of ICE activities. Distribute whistles if you can. Post signage where people are taken, "ICE kidnapped someone here" is a powerful message. Stand firm in crosswalks or use your vehicle to obstruct ICE movement. Invite friends and family from rural areas to enjoy your cities, show them the only violence there is caused by the federal government. Post signage to alert your neighbor of the ICE activity. Record everything they do. Ask for warrants. They won't have one, but making them admit it is important. If they are on your private property, firmly tell them to leave. Sell them nothing and don't let them use restrooms. Protests. Protest. Protest. Every delay is a life saved. Remember, people aren't being deported, they are going missing.

From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte

did you know Sunny writes really good books that are creepy and glorious?

The sense I am getting through all of this is that Larry Summers used his position to get a substantially junior colleague to listen to him whine about his marriage, then tried to get her to “have a drink with him” and stormed off when she was like no thanks I have a presentation tomorrow.

important reminder that, while we appreciate her sticking a knife in Trump at this present moment, Marjorie Taylor Greene is a committed antisemite and is not and will never be your friend

WILL IS FREE!!!!

Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51 The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social me...

Alice Wong died of an infection 💔
Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her

www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...

YouTube video by BillyIdolVEVO Billy Idol - Don't Need A Gun (Official Music Video)

Day 16: Smile #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Billy Idol - Don't Need A Gun
You can drive me through
That red stoplight
With a whiplash smile
youtu.be/Nd_GRy8SKII?...

I usually don’t like linking to the NYT, but I think it’s important to know that they wrote and published an obituary immediately for Alice Wong. (It selectively left out parts of her disability activism that they didn’t like, of course.)

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

Department of War @deptowar.b... • 7d To all narco-terrorists who threaten our homeland: If you keep trafficking deadly drugs—we will kill you.

okay so why is this post still up & account still existing? actual question. the account isn’t even verified like some of the other fed gov accounts either, but also it shouldn’t matter when they post “we will kill you” along with videos of them killing people.