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PLAN C: Abortion pills by mail in every state Plan C is an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. Learn how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pill options online.

Time to prepare, beloveds. If you are considering stocking up, remember that these pills do expire eventually, and *do not* discuss your actions online or via unencrypted communication. Take no shit, and leave no trace.
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ABforAbortion | It's Your Choice. Volunteer-led, community-funded. This campaign is a love letter to all Albertans, because everyone deserves the freedom to choose.

They put up a billboard on Hwy 2 and it's beautiful.

#abpoli #abortionrights #healthcare #choice

abforabortion.ca

The moon and blue sky

The moon and blue sky.

Take a look up into the skies

Israel is starving us in Gaza. This is what that feels like | Aya Al-Hattab Because of the blockade, hunger is part of our daily reality now. It is deep and cruel, and there is no relief, says Palestinian writer Aya Al-Hattab

“It has been more than 30 hours since I last ate. At times, I go as long as two days without food”

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Suffocating from the lack of privacy The walls of a tent barely divide space, let alone protect dignity.

"Personal space no longer existed."

"The tents were so tightly packed into the Yarmouk stadium [..] that I heard every sound as if there were no barrier at all."

"I am just a woman who wants to close a door behind her and a space to be alone to cry in."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Housing #Genocide

Files documenting worst abuses at residential schools to be destroyed unless survivors ask otherwise | CBC News Despite a multi-year outreach, some residential school survivors say they didn't know they need to request their Independent Assessment Process files be saved or else they'll be destroyed in 2027.

"Files documenting the worst abuses at residential schools are set to be destroyed in 2027 and [..] some survivors say they didn't know they could opt to have their files preserved."

"[T]o destroy them is to destroy the truth of what really happened."
#Canada #Incarceration #Genocide

YouTube video by APTN News 17 Jordan’s Principle staff laid off in Manitoba | APTN News

Seventeen Jordan's Principle staff workers of the Cree Nation Tribal Health Centre have been laid off this week after the executive director says Indigenous Services Canada Jordan's Principle funding for tribal councils who serve off-reserve clients.

Key reports addressing violence against Indigenous women are gone from federal sites The removals came ahead of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Day of Awareness.

DOJ "website has removed at least two key reports about violence against Indigenous people."

"A widely cited 2016 study [..] showing that Native American women were more likely than White women to experience a slew of different types of violence is no longer accessible."
#USA #Policing

Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X Elon Musk’s AI bot is undressing women on X.

the state of Twitter: you can reply to any image of a woman with a request to Grok to undress her to her underwear and it will comply and post the reply in thread: www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...

92 years ago today, the Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute for Sexuality, where the first study of trans people was conducted, and burned all of its contents.

Fitting that today is also the day SCOTUS greenlights the project of the eradication of trans people from society in the US.

I wasn't able to attend the local MMIW/MMIR event today but I want to take a second to honor the Indigenous trans women who have been murdered or gone missing, as well as other Two-Spirit relatives, who are too often left out of our memorials. Savannah Ryan Williams, Aubrey Dameron, Nex Benedict...

Kinanaskomitin, love. You are kind. I hope your day is gentle. ❤️

"You need the ocean for this: to stop believing in reality. To ask yourself impossible questions. To not know. To cease knowing. To become intoxicated by the smell. To close your eyes. To stop believing in reality."
- Cristina Rivera Garza, The Iliac Crest

Switching things up a little over at my Substack, specifically the paid tier, and half of all proceeds are going to Gaza Funds. Also LOOPER fan art! For the full text, see the post here open.substack.com/pub/danieljo...
Thank you everyone!

Calgary police is monitoring social media of citizens As Chief Mark Neufeld announces his resignation, a ten-month investigation by Drug Data Decoded reveals extensive social media monitoring by his media relations unit that could violate privacy regulat...

To put this power back in people's hands, I've written a full freedom of information request that you can fill out, sign and submit for free to Calgary Police. [Other cities should do the same.]

The file and instructions are at the bottom of the story: 11/
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@desmondcole.bsky.social told the authors of a 2020 report:

"One of the most important features of surveillance is the way in which it alters our behaviour... It alters our mind, literally. It forces us to consider that we are being watched... to self-regulate."

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Calgary police is monitoring social media of citizens As Chief Mark Neufeld announces his resignation, a ten-month investigation by Drug Data Decoded reveals extensive social media monitoring by his media relations unit that could violate privacy regulat...

THREAD: How Calgary police is monitoring social media of citizens.

Yesterday, Calgary's police chief surprise-announced he is resigning.

This coincided with my story showing social media surveillance by his office that runs counter to rulings & CPS policy. 1/
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close-up of a white sticker on a pole. theres a monochrome brown badge shape, text in white (just centred) IMAGINE NO POLICE the sidewalk in the background is blurred out. the sky is bright. one figure is walking away.

East Hastings St
Downtown Eastside

Canadian writer Canisia Lubrin wins $150K Carol Shields literary prize The judges of the annual prize for female and nonbinary writers praised Lubrin's debut short story collection, Code Noir, for breaking "new ground in short fiction."

The judges of the annual prize for female and nonbinary writers praised Lubrin's debut short story collection, Code Noir, for breaking "new ground in short fiction."

Filipino Emergency Response - Request Form If you need support, please enter your contact information below. Please note, that this is not an immediate service and one of our members will try our best to reach out to you as soon as we can. I...

Much love for Filipinx comrades and community impacted by horrific violence during Lapu-Lapu Day celebrations.

For ppl seeking support such as meal train or counseling, you can access resources thru Filipinx-led mutual aid network coming together.

Share widely:

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Another way out: Doing what’s right isn't all about what’s legal Overemphasizing what’s legal and illegal is about returning to a normal where the screams were more easily muffled, distant, and ignorable for many

Legal forms of resistance and litigation strategies aren't the only ways to fight. Thinking so misrepresents the past and weakens the present. It also reveals a strong naivete about the supposed objectivity of oppressive laws. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2025/04/29/t...

As an anthropologist, if the only thing I ever did all day was remind people that before the privatization and commodification of land humans had way more free time and peace of mind, it would still not do a dent in how deep this myth has burrowed into people's colonized minds like a parasite

Image of a beautiful Black woman with black glasses and long grey locs head titled towards the camera and smiling, wearing cowry shell earrings. In yellow against black background the poster reads Workshops4Sudan The Soviets and Abolition, Monday, May 5th, 12-2 pm EDT. Virtual (via Zoom) Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a Writer, Abolitionist and Scholar from New Haven, Connecticut. Workshops4Sudan.

We are proud to introduce our next Workshop4Sudan w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore on May 5 at 12 pm (EDT). This wkshp will among other things allow 4 reflections on what internationalism frm below might look like, given abolition requires it + how we apply it to diff. contexts.
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Poilievre's actual announcement today:

he'd amend the Criminal Code to give police power to charge people for living in a homeless encampment or a tent city

He said these are places where "half-dead, contorted bodies lie on the ground on the verge of overdose from fentanyl"

Compassionate!! /s

Family of 4 jailed in U.S. for weeks after Canadian border guards turned them away | CBC News As the family of four from El Salvador walked over the Rainbow Bridge in March, hoping to cross into Canada to flee immigration uncertainty in the U.S., they had no idea they would instead find themse...

Canada’s Safe Third Country Agreement is state violence. “Canadian border guards sent the family back to the US where they entered a shadowy limbo — jailed in holding cells at the U.S. port of entry in Niagara Falls, NY without a breath of outside air for nearly two weeks” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is across party lines in Canada as well, with David Eby & Danielle Smith leading the charge.

BREAKING: Polls have yet to officially open but Walking Eagle News is projecting that a white male will be the next Prime Minister of Canada

Wayne Kramer arcs his back playing a guitar painted to look like an American flag.

Art is the only defense we have against the industrial nature of the State on our bodies.

- Wayne Kramer of the MC5

#photography #music