Pierre 🐟🦑🦀🦈🐋

The trans, deaf man who is challenging obstacles in Japanese society Monkey Takano (54) is a sign language teacher, transgender man, and activist for the queer and Deaf communities based in Tokyo.

Monkey Takano (54) is a sign language teacher, transgender man, and activist for the queer and Deaf communities based in Tokyo.

www.wearequeeraf.com/monkey-takan...

Comme on dit en territoire catho-laïc : AMEN (rajoutez ensuite le terme patrimonial de votre choix) !!

(Merci Elise Gravel !)

#polqc #laïcité #PL21 #pl94

Fier d'être cruel, le Québec fait un pas de plus en direction de l'extrême-droite

Wally, the brown british shorthair, is a kitten and laying on the bed.

Stop for a moment and consider:

‘Bitterness and sadness’: Calgary disability hub closes, leaves gap for community An advocacy hub that has served Calgary’s disabled community for nearly three decades is closing after the province ended its funding contract a year early.

An advocacy hub that has served Calgary’s disabled community for nearly three decades is closing after the province ended its funding contract a year early.

www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

#Calgary #Alberta #abpoli

Poster which shows color photo scene of moving, a room with boxes and clothes sitting on the floor, a chair, and the end of a bed (white rails forming a headrest and a mattress with a red cover). The text of the poster is: "Impact (small logo top left)," "According to a new survey by the Movement Advancement Project, approximately 401,000 transgender people have relocated from one U.S. state to another since the 2024 presidential election." "The mass relocations in 2025 due to safety concerns, political conditions, and anti-trans laws nd policies have largely impacted conservative states across the country."

www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...

Georgia Is Letting a Railroad Seize Land a Black Family Has Owned For 100 Years Descendants of enslaved people are fighting an attempt to use eminent domain to carve a spur through one of Georgia’s largest Black‑owned farms.

In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his family’s generational wealth

Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers

It's depressing how this song is still so accurate and applicable today.

With Western Alaska salmon runs weak, managers set limits on the pollock fleet’s chum bycatch A measure years in the making will establish a cap for Alaska-bound chum salmon accidentally intercepted in trawl nets, addressing a hot-button issue that has divided the state’s fish harvesters.

Federal fishery managers have approved the first-ever mandatory caps on at-sea interception of chum salmon, a fish species critical to Indigenous communities along Alaska’s river systems. via @alaskabeacon.com

Again?

YouTube video by Aaron Overfield Nina Simone: Mississippi Goddam

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25...

😑

Supporters of Palestine Action celebrated outside a court in London after judges ruled that the UK gov't’s decision to ban the protest group as a terrorist organisation was unlawful.

so true bestie, so true

Uh oh, it is my special interest too. We'll have to be unbearable together😳

How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.

A great read on why centrism is a losing strategy for Dems *in this particular era,* from @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social. Plus illuminating responses, pro and con

www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

(The package prompted me to make a donation to @bostonreview.bsky.social)

A Canadian jury convicted a protester of criminal assault for sounding an electronic whistle at a Conservative MP:

"Superior Court Justice Charles Hackland told the jury there were no legal precedents for the assault charge: assault with a weapon normally involves touching someone with that object"

In light of Jean Chrétien's most recent denialist comments - story to come, basically he downplays the harm of the IRS system - I went down the rabbit hole researching how far Indigenous leaders lobbied him, as Minister of Indian Affairs in the 1960s and 1970s, to close the system 🧵

Evan Solomon Wants Canada to Trust AI. Can We Trust Evan Solomon? | The Walrus The journalist-turned-minister says the tech will make us richer and regulation should be “light”

Minister of AI Evan Solomon seems to be bending to industry pressure for "light" gov't regulation.

Data Centres are resource intensive. The billionaire tech bros behind AI are fascist-aligned. There is REAL cause for concern with his direction.

thewalrus.ca/evan-solomon... @katelunau.bsky.social

Canadians horrified by what ICE is doing should realize the RCMP uses the same tactics domestically against Indigenous people and yet barely anyone speaks up.

Journalists have been arrested just for trying to cover it

More than a dozen Canadian companies – including Thomson Reuters – have done business with ICE, Star analysis reveals Such contracts have become controversial as concerns mount that products or services sold to ICE could be used by the agency in activities that may violate human rights.

Turns out that the publisher of the property law textbook I use, Thomson Reuters, "holds a contract worth up to $22 million (U.S.) that began in May 2021 to provide ICE with access to a law enforcement investigative database subscription". Welp, new book time...
www.thestar.com/business/mor...

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has asked both the federal government and First Nations leaders to submit plans to finally end discrimination in the child welfare system.

But child welfare advocate Cindy Blackstock says the government’s proposals fall short.

Quatsino leads the charge on renewable energy | The Narwhal On Vancouver Island, Quatsino First Nation is completing a 150-kW solar project, piloting tidal power and partnering with a wind farm in its push for renewable energy

On Vancouver Island, Quatsino First Nation is developing clean, reliable sources of energy for its residents, from wind and solar to tidal power. It's all part of an effort to reduce costs and strengthen the remote community's energy independence. thenarwhal.ca/quatsino-ren...

This guy needs to stop being so damn likeable.

Huge win for environmental law today as Federal Court of Appeal reverses lower court by upholding federal listing of Plastic Manufactured Items as toxic. Expect fireworks from all sides politically, but this is a helpful step in clarifying this area of the law.

decisions.fca-caf.ca/fca-caf/deci...

California will enforce segregating a trans girl from playing sports with her friends but will not enforce reigning in the secret police a single millimeter. Got it.

😂

Calling the Gestapo “the Gestapo” is causing the Gestapo to act like the Gestapo.

A Law School Dean Signed a Brief Defending Trans Rights. She Lost Her Job Because of It The revocation of Emily Suski’s job offer at the University of Arkansas sends a chilling message to law professors everywhere.

A professor lost a job over her support for trans rights, but weirdly, the free speech crusaders have nothing to say about it