@riamarismith.bsky.social
Gross take. Do better.
10.10.2025 13:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Quote from Gov. JB Pritzker: Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
It's not normal for an American president to send troops to American cities in times of peace.
Chicago, document what you see and be loud for America.
The overall takeaway from the Epstein survivors’ press conference is that they are united and are no longer going to allow rich and powerful men to victimize, silence and intimidate them.
Including the ones in Congress and the perp in the Oval Office.
Students waited till 12:30. Seems someone came for last 1/2 hr of two hr class? Anyone else have profs not show up first day?
03.09.2025 14:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Genuinely curious. Family member went to first day of #Engineering at University of #Calgary yesterday, 2nd year. Both morning classes the professors did not show up. No explanation, students waited. How is this acceptable? Job action? What’s up? Not a great start to term. #uni #firstday
03.09.2025 14:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Could your also report on Air Canada staff doing unpaid work and the ongoing hardship caused by unfair wages?
18.08.2025 18:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"'Economy of Genocide': UN Expert Accuses Major Corporations of Profiting Off of Israel's Assault on Gaza"
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, releases report accusing more than 45 entities of making money from Israel's Gaza genocide and illegal occupation of the West Bank:
Decent people thank Ukraine.
28.02.2025 20:40 — 👍 14350 🔁 2228 💬 221 📌 67Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
The premise of American foreign policy to Ukraine, today, is one of grievance. It is worth patiently considering the proposals. They reveal little about Ukraine, but much about America in February 2025.
snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...
Conservatives, like Scott Moe, understand the Republican assignment— pretend the tariffs are about fentanyl and migrants. This is how conservatives traffic, in feelings, not facts. Whatever feelings will manipulate voters, that’s all that matters. Moe is weak.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
It would be nice if people could stop acting like DEI is an only a moral good.
DEI strengthens organizations. People from diverse backgrounds bring new ways of solving problems and serving people.
DEI isn’t a gift to diverse people. It’s a gift to the orgs that hire us.
The Alberta Government now wants to allow coal mining in the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
Coal mining.
COAL MINING!
IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS!
They tried this is 2020 but backed down due to huge public outrage. They’re now trying again.
Spread the word. Let them hear you.
Mexico denied a US military plane from landing with deported immigrants today, foiling Donold’s plans.
25.01.2025 00:26 — 👍 43105 🔁 5821 💬 1474 📌 464“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Watching @steveboots.bsky.social video about Poilievre apparently only knowing about two genders. He's lying. Wth is right. What are some other genders?
- intersex
- transgender
- two spirit
- non-binary
- pangender
Ignorance isn't an excuse to be a bigot, and feigned ignorance is even worse.
I’ve read many posts about insurance companies denying insurance coverage for wildfire in that region. Seems to be a recent change in policy. Not sure if that’s his situation.
09.01.2025 04:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder:
we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.
the climate crisis is here, all around us
Seeing many thoughts and prayers for LA. I understand the desire to appeal to a higher power. However what is needed is #ClimateAction. How about those that pray, spare a prayer for a better response to the #ClimateCrisis. It’s decades past the time we should have acted on this.
09.01.2025 04:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“The vast majority of Canadians are pro-choice, support gun bans and believe climate change exists. Despite what Pierre Poilievre and Jordan Peterson think, Canadians also acknowledge systemic racism.”
Canadian values are at stake in the next election
If I had the means to travel, I would do a coffee/cafe tour of the world. Here are some
japanese cafes. youtube.com/watch?v=j51H...
2024 Clawbies: Canadian Law Blog Awards www.clawbies.ca/2024-clawbie...
08.01.2025 04:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thou shalt not promise lower grocery prices and then deliver war against Panama, Canada, and Greenland.
07.01.2025 18:53 — 👍 27619 🔁 5533 💬 648 📌 202Same. Had a 1950s Maytag till recently (needs a part now, yikes) got an old pair off marketplace. I’m so done with garbage new appliances. Especially fridges.
06.01.2025 01:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My dog is at war with every noisy appliance in our house. They torment her. I actually have to print things at my coparents because the chaos is not worth having the convenience of printing here. We set up a ring doorbell today. Nightmare!!! (She’d made peace with the erratic 1927 doorbell).
06.01.2025 00:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Amen to this. And stop with the musical notes when we reach temp, when we add food, when we flip food (ninja grill) or time is done. Keep it simple and quiet!
06.01.2025 00:15 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 082% of Canadians distrust Jordan Peterson's opinions on politics.
There, I fixed it for you.
