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What I see now is someone who, for all her billions, is evidently deeply unhappy and, I would say (I claim no professional expertise), carrying lots of unresolved trauma. Eg 👇🏻

I would say her obvious intention is to use her vast fortune to fund attacks on civil society organizations who are disinclined to bend to her will: a strategy Elon 'Nazi Salute' Musk would applaud (and may even have inspired).

She's going to extend her biology is destiny campaign to Ireland. Only a fool would bet against her extending it further.

... in combination with her published criteria that money she has earned from selling her books to children will be used to harm trans children.

Looks like all the money she is spending is hers which means...

JK Rowling has emerged from the shadows as a funder of the anti-feminist biology is destiny movement.

Oh, this is interesting.

I’ve not seen this before but she obviously has some really trauma related to gender and selfhood and really should get therapy

Juicy Fruit (1983)
Mtume

Your School House Rock moment.....

Fact check friday coming soon, to a new home 💞

Thanks @jameswsthomson.com and @nationalobserver.com for keeping this alive!!!

We're very excited to announce journalists @rachelgilmore.bsky.social and Emily Baron Cadloff are teaming up with National Observer staff for a biweekly election fact-checking segment.

First post coming tomorrow! Follow for updates.

A petition criticizing CTV for caving in to political pressure and demanding they bring back Rachel Gilmore’s fact-checking segment has received several hundred signatures:

www.change.org/p/petition-t...

"What we're seeing is the NDP's lunch get eaten by the Liberals. The party's support base is being hollowed out." — @shachikurl.bsky.social (@angusreidinstitute.bsky.social), tonight at 8/11pm with @davidmoscrop.com, @lobbygrl.bsky.social (Wright Strategies) & @jeyantvo.bsky.social #cdnpoli

Lil 💞personal news💞 today!

I’ll be joining @ctvyourmorning.bsky.social every Friday for the election to fact check the campaign.

SO stoked for this! Thank you for having me, CTV 🥰

Afropolitanizing the local: how cultural imperialism is rewriting the narratives of African entertainment industries In the last few years, Africa has emerged as a resurging force in global pop culture with artists from the continent and the diaspora working to bring African entertainment media to the rest of the...

Good morning! Just dropping by to share my second publication of 2025. 😊✨️

This essay examines Netflix's influence in Africa, focusing on Ghana and Nigeria. I focus my analysis on the representation politics of films like Azali 🇬🇭 and Lionheart 🇳🇬

More here
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Progressive Conservative Premier meets with Progressive Conservative Prime Minister

Two years ago, our edited collection "African Women in Digital Spaces" was published.

Proud of the range of perspectives and representations of Africa and her diaspora in this volume. 🌍 🫶🏿

Available here:
www.africanbookscollective.com/books/africa...

YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore Trudeau caught on a hot mic: Trump's 51st state threat is "real"

🚨!!! Canada's prime minister just got caught on a hot mic. What he said is, um, chilling.

Justin Trudeau thinks Trump's threat of annexing Canada is "very real" and is linked to our country's natural resources.

But even if Trump wants to absorb Canada, *can* he do it?

Let's talk:

YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore What it's like to watch a democracy fail

The United States, to hear some tell it, is currently experiencing a “plutocratic coup.”

Its democracy is in decline, reports have warned.

In light of that, I’d like to share a slightly personal story -- one that keeps me up at night:
youtu.be/VDccQaYgwNk

YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore Pierre Poilievre's lavish evening with a private healthcare profiteer? Uh oh

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre spent Monday evening at his $1,750-per-plate fundraiser hosted at a mansion so large it has its own postal code.

Oh, and the guy who owns that place?

Yeah, looks like he profits from privatized healthcare facilities in the United States.

Let's talk about it:

Doug Ford doesn't need a mandate — he needs an excuse Far from a response to Trump, Doug Ford's apparent plan to call an early election has been brewing for months. Rather than delivering stability, it will throw the country's biggest economy into uncert...

Ontario doesn't need an election. It's a cynical play from a crooked government. Don't give Ford and inch. Send him packing.

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/23/o...

On the Other Website (twitter) someone shared my recent reporting about Pierre Poilievre's fundraiser with the following caption: "The LEFTIST BITCH IS BACK" which is frankly iconic

lol, iconic i fear

Terrifying

Good morning!

I recently joined the newly formed editorial collective at ICA's CCC journal & here is our statement in solidarity with Palestine & calling out Israel's genocide in Palestine 🇵🇸

Please read & share: academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-...

Open Access here: www.cracs.nyu.edu/ccc

Sun-Kissed.

#art #blackart

Ceasefire and a story I should have told sooner Listen now | On the day a ceasefire deal has reportedly been reached, I want to share with you the story of one incredible, trailblazing Palestinian-American journalist.

On the day of a ceasefire deal, I want to share with you the story of a trailblazing Palestinian-American journalist.

She was shot dead in 2022, almost certainly by the IDF, as she reported in the West Bank.

My newsroom wouldn’t publish the story.

Here it is: open.substack.com/pub/rachelgi...

YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore Why you SHOULD care about the TikTok ban, actually

You SHOULD care about the TikTok ban, actually

TikTok could be banned in the United States within the next week.

This is bad for all of us -- even if you don't care about TikTok.

Let me explain why.

youtu.be/7Z09OJiTRfE

Sadness Dawns.

#art #blackart