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Tuesday, Aug. 12 | 5:15 p.m. - Crews are on the scene of an active wildfire in the Bayers Lake area. Please follow the municipality here on Bluesky, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/hfxgov and Instagram at www.instagram.com/stories/hfxmoments/ for updates.

Alberta is the only province clawing back the federal disability benefit. God, we are such huge assholes - rich and miserable.

Texas bill could punish bookstores for 'obscene' books A new bill in the Texas Legislature, authored by Rep. Nate Schatzline, would allow businesses to be held liable if a minor reports damages from "obscene" books.

It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books.

It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse.

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Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported

Reality check: Harper's conservatives canceled universal childcare. I requested relief to pay for both child care and my student loan. I was refused because my childcare was licensed. You read that correctly. Also, they increased my monthly payment.

I went on drugs, all right. Antidepressants.

Kids’ disability rights cases stalled as Trump overhauls Education Department It was obvious to Christine Smith Olsey that her son was not doing well at school, despite educators telling her to leave it to the experts. The second-grade student stumbled over words, and other kids teased him so much he started to call himself “an idiot.”

As President Donald Trump began to reshape the Education Department, investigations and mediations in disability rights issues came to a standstill.

Samuel L. Jackson, what a great actor who just says it like it is! I CANNOT believe that in 2025, we are still dealing with this crap!

Why can’t we just let people live their lives? Be who the fuck they want to be and if you don’t like someone, just ignore them!

I can hear Trump now: "Frank was a good guy, a decent guy. He made some tough decisions. Hey, whatever happened to that show? I'm going to sign an executive order to bring the show back."

But he whines incessantly about everything. He is always a victim.

AI has an environmental problem. Here’s what the world can do about that. The sprawling data centres that house AI servers churn out toxic electronic waste and are voracious consumers of electricity, which in most places is still produced from fossil fuels.

Think twice before asking AI for sourdough starter tips or to help you write your pretend resignation letter. AI tech centres produce toxic waste (e.g., mercury and lead) and to keep cool, the servers will soon use volumes of water on par with Denmark. Why Trump wants Canada: H20
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What does this even mean?

Old school folks will see this all as logical and self-evident. Those of us who thought we knew better and dismissed the need for these basic skills... we need to catch up.

I mean, really. How are our lives enriched right now? People working to the bone to barely afford real cheese 2x a year? The 100% capitalist model is depriving folks of their basic needs and dignity. The machine needs widget-makers and doesn't care about their lives. Worse: It's killing people.

It's never been more evident to me that we each need to learn and teach the next generation how to be as self-sustaining as possible. This means growing food, canning, building relationships with local farmers, and caring for each other. Family docs who do home visits paid by the community.

Who thought he wasn't serious? Trump never likes paying for stuff. Why buy minerals when you can engage in war, "legally" kill people and seize land, and then OWN the minerals?

I'm already contemplating getting my EU passport...

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do.

Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

White House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of Interest The White House said Elon Musk, the billionaire leading President Donald Trump’s government cost-cutting efforts, will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal s...

I just had to go through conflict of interest training for a volunteer position on a municipal disability commission but sure, give the world’s richest man/federal contractor/special government employee a pass. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Is the USA general strike on Thursday, May 1, 2025?

I'm sure others, perhaps especially children of immigrants, feel similarly.

Hi on BlueSky, Susan! What your much-appreciated sentiment looks like for me is not considering myself a failure that I wasn't able to get my dad a new car and otherwise provide for him financially on the salary I thought I would have. Letting go of that bar has been tough.

5 ways to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth (cause the fed govt doesn’t run your house)

1. Find out what Sojourner Truth REALLY said
2. Buy a Black horror, scifi or fantasy book
3. Listen to “Naima” by John Coltrane
4. Send the victims of the LA fires in Altadena a few coins
5. Get a library card

Screen shot of a Tweet by @blue62863 on January 30th: He reminds me of Scar in Lion King. No plan, no knowledge and will run our pride land into rubble.

I'm thinking this is not the first time someone has compared the current US president to Scar in Lion King. But it's the first I've seen:

Every woman killed since Brad Johns said domestic violence wasn’t an epidemic in Nova Scotia Ten women’s deaths in the province have been ruled as homicides since April 2024—and investigators have linked almost all to male relatives or partners.

Every woman killed since Brad Johns said domestic violence wasn’t an epidemic in Nova Scotia #NovaScotia #Femicide #HoustonGovtFail

Read more at: www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...

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I like this image. The show is still interesting.

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

#CriticalNotCynical

#CriticalNotCynical

Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

Have you also seen this? Everyone can sabotage fascism in their own little way: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184...

Costco's unionized workers vote to authorize nationwide strike The Teamsters union released the results of the strike vote on Sunday evening.

Costco's unionized workers vote to authorize nationwide strike

The company was rightly praised for standing firm on the importance of DEI, but how it bargains with/treats its unionized workers is important too