Social worker who doesn't sit in circles

The Student Christian Movement in Canada and the US is collecting funds for our friends in Cuba affected by the hurricane. Please give and share!

I identify as the hipster trust fund socialist... Only without, like, the fund.

Quick glance at this and not surprised by the supportive housing comments.

Worth noting that supportive is not defined in legislation and that coolaid is financially strained, walked back unpaid breaks on their workers recently. It's a both grossly undefined & underfunded industry.

The Triumph of Liberation Theology

This week on the pod we talked about Pope Leo’s first apostolic exhortation, Dilexi Te.

Some have called the triumph of liberation theology. It’s more complicated than that, but we’ll take the W.

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Enough is enough: degrowth, capitalism, and liberation theology

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Libraries are closed on Sundays. We say “No more!” to ever expanding police budgets! #DefundVicPD and support community services! #yyj Defundvicpd.org

Disgusting

Loads of families are currently trick or treating from business to business and parking lot to parking lot along 26th Street in Little Village. There’s also loads of rapid responders with vests and whistles patrolling making sure families can enjoy the holiday in peace.

Every church should be doing this, and if your church isn’t, you’re at the wrong church.

Ye remember that time the Burins won in Vancouver... And it was a full moon?

Only Unionized Amazon Warehouse in Canada Starts Negotiating | The Tyee Both sides have unresolved legal challenges before courts and labour relations tribunals.

This Delta, B.C. site is the only unionized Amazon warehouse in Canada - and they're finally starting the collective bargaining process.

This comes after Amazon shut down all its Quebec facilities after a unionization attempt. Reporting by @isaacphannay.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Sorry but this is bullshit. Sympathy for weakness in Tolkien is limited by race: there’s no mercy or compassion for the Orcs

Follow the ball guys, come on.

What not just hold a referendum then? You've got a majority, why another election?

Well I think he appeals to a libertarian ideal. The anarchist element is converted into a convenient cynicism, the system is corrupt, as is every system you build.

During the pandemic I saw anti-vaxers reference him, he's easily co-opted.

This is the perfect comic. God, making fun, of himself.

Videographer Services Townley Visual Media $1968.75 Performance Services Honorarium x 2 $600.00 Shuttle VicPD – Gov’t House Wilson’s Transportation Ltd. $1331.79 Program Printing Metropol Industries Inc. $266.82 Venue Government House $13750.00 Staffing Victoria Police Department $4097.36 Total $22014.72

VicPD spent $13,750 on the venue, including catering, and $4,097 in staffing costs, trucking in officers "beyond their regularly scheduled duties" and paying them OT. They also shuttled their people to the event, and spent money to stream it, even though they don't stream their own budget meetings.

YOU HAVE A MAJORITY

Whoops.

our governments transferred the public wealth that built and maintained our social infrastructure (schools, housing, income support, healthcare) to police and prisons and private industry.

the police have defunded us. poverty is the crime

Comment: A small investment in libraries will yield big returns Provincial funding for libraries has remained unchanged for 15 years, leaving local municipalities to shoulder rising costs.

In Greater Victoria, residents made 3.5 million visits to libraries in 2024. Yet, provincial funding for libraries has remained unchanged for 15 years. #DefundVicPD and fund our libraries - We dont need new money! www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm... #yyj

Enough Is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism, and Liberation Theology Enough Is Enough argues that economic and theological direction offered by liberation theology gives a unique paradigm for Christians to question the hegemony of growth and orient themselves according...

A quick reminder that you can pre-order Enough Is Enough, the book I co-authored with @mattbernico.bsky.social on capitalism, degrowth, and liberation theology. It's out May 12, but it's not too early to pick up a copy, and/or ask your local library to get one!

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A blue background graphic reads: “Don’t agree with this? Well too bad. Doug Ford’s PCs have been elected to three majority governments even though almost 60% of voters chose another party. When one party can rule with only 40% support, corruption thrives.” Below is a tweet from Colin D’Mello describing executives and owners of organizations that received Ford government funding and then donated money back to the PC Party, followed by the caption: “With proportional representation, no party can win a majority unless they actually earn one. That means accountability and collaboration instead of corruption rubber stamped by a phony majority.”

Doug Ford’s donors give millions. Doug Ford’s friends get millions. All while his party wins “majorities” with only 40% of the vote.

When power is handed to a minority, accountability disappears.

It is time for proportional representation in Ontario.

No one says a word when land speculators drive up costs to displace low and middle income earners. BC runs on land speculation. But when an Indigenous nation unjustly loses their land & wants to reclaim *some* of it, it's framed as dangerous & destructive.

Screenshot from Dallas Brodie: Who knew defending western civilization could be so much fun?

Screenshot of this article: https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/opinion-who-counts-as-real-people-premier-ebys-comment-perpetuates-legacy-of-erasure

The white supremacy coming out of One BC is a real problem & I expect the NDP to push back. Instead, they employ language like "real people" to describe one side of a legal dispute, profoundly dehumanizing Indigenous people & Indigenous rights.

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Damn right I don't

(No offense to you, great journalist)

Blue graphic with white text reading: “Big-tent parties lead to big-tent infighting. That’s the reality of first-past-the-post, which forces the entire BC right into one party for maximum electoral advantage.” Below is an Angus Reid Institute headline: “Rustad's rocky road: Half of BC Conservative Party's 2024 voters say they want him to go.” The bottom text reads: “With proportional representation, the right in BC wouldn’t have to crowd under a single tent to avoid vote-splitting. Different parts of the right-wing spectrum could stand on their own and be represented fairly.”

The turmoil on BC’s right shows how first past the post traps different voices in one party just to stay competitive.

Proportional representation would let every part of the political spectrum stand on its own and be represented fairly.

Can Catholics be anarchists? | Renée Roden - U.S. Catholic On this episode of the podcast, journalist and Catholic worker Renée Roden discusses the history of Christian anarchism.

Dorothy Day represent!
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She's right, I do crave them.