Alexandra

Imagine you gotta be really dedicated to the white community to want to meet with the third paragraph people

Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order, remain on strike: union | CBC News Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage, the Canadian Union of Public Emplo...

You love to see it.

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The book cover for Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix. The cover revolves around a lava lamp with a red hand inside. The text is gold against a black background.

Have been a Grady Hendrix fan for a long while and this book is no exception. It is a departure from the gripping horror of his other books because its purpose is to tell a story we never read - of the hidden homes for pregnant teen girls before Roe v. Wade. With a bit of magic thrown in.

Our Culture is Addicted to Validation and the whole internet is Purdue Pharma

I feel both susceptible to this need for validation and endlessly exhausted by it, particularly in the world of work. Having to encourage people to solve problems that are theirs to solve as regular course of work and not as an over and above job function that will earn them praise is a drain.

There is no greater magic than seeing the #perseids over Bon Echo.

I can't stop thinking about this book for a lot of reasons but even the epigraph is seared into me.

"The real hell of life is everyone has their reasons." - Jean Renoir

It's about the power of a life giving friendship and how we hurt the people we love to stay who we believe ourselves to be.

A fast-paced and fashionable heist that errs just enough towards dystopia that it's deceptively eerie. A Very Good Book ™️.

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

"Gone are the old colonial fig leaves of spreading democracy or God’s word – when Trump covetously scans the globe, he is stockpiling for civilizational collapse."

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"This does not mean that we are in a hopeless situation. It does, however, mean that we must adjust our interpretation of the world, or be left behind. We must see things not for what we wish they were, or for what they used to be, but for what they are."

Memo to the President: Manhattan Economy Improving, Thanks to Congestion Pricing - Streetsblog New York City Lower Manhattan's economy has gotten an almost billion-dollar boost in just the first month of congestion pricing's existence, the MTA said on Wednesday.

“For all of the Chicken Littles out there, the economy in the congestion zone has been humming.”

🛍️ Retail sales south of 60th Street have been $900 million higher in January compared to last year.

🍔 Restaurant reservations are up 7% year over year.
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"...if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable, & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass. I am not deceived. It is the hardest world to make real."

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas 🌥

Chris Hedges: The Cost of Resistance This video is a recording of a talk given by Chris Hedges at the Kairos Club London on September 11, 2024.

"I do not, in the end, fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists."

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The Corporate Coup in Global Context Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Astra Taylor An Emergency Town Hall Monday February 17 at 5:00 pm ET Haymarket Books

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, & @astra.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on resisting the shock & awe politics of the far right & their billionaire enthusiasts

Monday, February 17 at 5:00 pm ET

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#TomRobbins has died so here's every quote in Still Life with Woodpecker that, no hyperbole here at all, changed my life.

Billions of property tax dollars are diverted each year to pay for provincial programs, driving up your tax bill. Billions of property tax dollars are diverted each year to pay for provincial programs, driving up your tax bill.

Great campaign from the Association of Ontario Municipalities to connect not with a political party but with the pain points we hear most about in the news, in Facebook neighbourhood groups, and at municipal councils. www.voteonqualityoflife.ca

New work on the walls by London, Ontario artist Jared Hendricks-Polak

Yes, It’s a Coup and Yes, It’s Targeting You January 6 was nothing compared to the current mob of thugs intent on tearing apart our country’s very system of government.

Daily Beast coming out swinging like this means something beautiful and real for this country's independent media.

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When Putin invaded Ukraine I knew it would give Trump ideas about Canada. I don't think he's joking. I think this is how his brain works: What is the point of having more weapons and money than everyone else if you don't use them to get even more?

The Canadian flag is about to go through a promising rebrand after the nonsense with the Freedom Convoy but it will be much harder to tell the difference from the normies and the unhinged again.

are billionaires incapable of being cool or are cool people incapable of being billionaires ?

Uninsurable Futures Adapting to a constrained American dream.

"The sweet promise of abundance has long been the thing that soothed the public’s disgust with inequality."

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i wrote about this
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i love how insane everyone is becomeing

A book lays open on a marble table. Next to it is a wooden tray with coffee in amber glass and a purple leather bookmark.

#Reading Wellness by Nathan Hill - whose last book I haven't ever really stopped thinking about and can tell already this one will be the same

idk, seems bad man

I was in New York when it stopped being allowed to smoke in bars. So much whining ahead of time, so many op-eds, and then one day we went to the bar and there was no smoke. Our clothes didn’t smell, the workers didn’t have to breathe it in every night. Everyone loved it, & there was no going back.🔌💡

How I became 'collapse aware' And started to imagine what comes next

I will be thinking about this piece for a long while. My collapse awareness has always had a cloud of doom. Perhaps it doesn't have to ☔

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If reports are to be believed and Trudeau resigns, I hope that means all the F🍁CK TRUDEAU flags and pick up truck decals also go away.

Why Revolution is No Longer Possible - Our World Capitalism's tough logic prevails at the heart of the sharing economy. And communism as a commodity spells the end of revolution, argues philosopher Byung-Chul Han.

After reading Naomi Klein's 'Doppelganger' I've been thinking about revolution and reality. This piece is a quick jaunt through the former, written before we really started to feel it. ourworld.unu.edu/en/why-revol...