Liberal Backlash to Carney’s Invite to an Architect of Project 2025 | The Tyee ‘Mind-boggling,’ says a former top Trudeau adviser, echoing outrage from two unnamed, sitting Liberal MPs.

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It has a rocking chair!!

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Zohran Mamdani says he would arrest Netanyahu if he visits New York City — if elected mayor.

Stop stop, there’s only so much good news I can take 🫦

Opinion: Resist the gentrification of the Downtown Eastside Proposed shift to the Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan to enable market towers will increase speculation and displace community members

Gratcartucke from first united vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

I was so sad to hear of Trey’s passing today. I spoke with his colleague/friend Sarah Blyth - she said he had so much to live for.

Judge Sides With The Associated Press In Fight Over Access to Trump A federal judge ordered the White House to restore the outlet’s access to certain White House events and agreed that it had been singled out over its editorial decisions.

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop barring the Associated Press from the White House press pool, finding that it had discriminated against the outlet over its editorial decision not to adopt “Gulf of America” in its news stories.

More details coming:

Who Will Care for Infants With H.I.V. Overseas? (Gift Article) The consequences of mother-to-child transmission can be enormous, a new study suggests. But the U.S. has dismissed experts working to solve the problem.

SCOOP: The Trump administration has dismissed all health officials who oversaw care for some of the world’s most vulnerable people: more than 500,000 children and more than 600,000 pregnant women with HIV in low-income countries.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/h...

Sean won!

Capitalism can't be reformed. It needs to be abolished. The sooner that happens, the less needless suffering.

Opinion: Defending Vancouver from billionaire greed and political takeover | Urbanized At every door we knock on, at every event we attend, the message is the same: Ken Sim and ABC don’t have their best interests in mind.

I forgot that Ken Sim created a Chip Wilson Day. I guess Chip Wilson is Vancouver’s Elon Musk just as Ken Sim is our Donald Trump. #VanPoli

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Great article

Ice requests Cornell student who sued Trump administration to ‘surrender’ to immigration authorities Momodou Taal, dual citizen of the UK and Gambia, received email from homeland security days after filing lawsuit A Cornell University PhD student earlier this month sued the Trump administration seeking to stop the president’s order aimed at foreign students accused of “antisemitism”. Days later, the Department of Homeland Security emailed to request that the student “surrender” to immigration officials. Momodou Taal, a dual citizen of the UK and Gambia, is one of three Cornell students who are plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to block the enforcement of Trump executive orders aimed at deporting foreign university students and staff involved in pro-Palestinian protest. Continue reading...

Ice requests Cornell student who sued Trump administration to ‘surrender’ to immigration authorities

Important article

Episode 50: The Toll — Crackdown Podcast It’s the end of an era in Canada. On March 10th – after nine years in power – Mark Carney replaced Justin Trudeau as Canada’s Prime Minister. We mark the occasion by looking back at Trudeau’s legacy o...

🚨New @crackdownpod.bsky.social ep. Trudeau's gone, but what's his legacy for drug users? 50,000 dead. Those losses left us bereft, haunted & traumatized. We all have PTSD. We all have ghosts. Our movements are disorganized, with missing leaders & empty chairs. www.crackdownpod.com/episodes/epi...

We Are Asking the Wrong Questions About Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest The only relevant question is not “How can the government do this?” It is “How can we who oppose this fascist regime?”

I can (and do) explain the "law" behind Mahmoud Khalil's unlawful abduction and rendition to a for-profit concentration camp.
But if you're waiting for the law to stop this, you've got it wrong. Dictators always make their crimes "legal"
My latest in @thenation.com
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Get more from Crackdown Podcast on Patreon creating a radio show made by drug users about the war on drugs.

Whichever side of the 🇨🇦🇺🇸border drug users live on, our governments consider us expendable. We are a nation of the bereaved, united in resistance. As always, @crackdownpod.bsky.social is free. There are no tariffs. You can help us keep going www.patreon.com/crackdownpod

The tariffs will hurt bad, but Fentanyl is a front. The drug war ain’t about drugs. Never was. It’s always been a proxy fight to attack specific communities. Targets change, but the principal remains the same. It’s theatre, political kayfabe. “Fentanyl Czar” - sounds like a wrestler.

GArth for czar!!

Mayor Kim's plan might change the DTES, but it won't improve residents' lives "Community flourishes here, in spite of every crisis."

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The Trump Administration Keeps Citing an Untrue Stat as It Targets Federal Workers A “survey of our niche audience for our niche audience” was the source for the claim that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices. The number isn’t true. Why do…

It’s said that we live in a post-fact society. We disagree.

Now, more than ever, facts matter, and ProPublica is going to continue to track how and when patently false statements are injected into conversations about the country’s future.

By @sengelberg.bsky.social

Mayor Kim's plan might change the DTES, but it won't improve residents' lives "Community flourishes here, in spite of every crisis."

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Trump receives widespread backlash to social post calling himself ‘king’ US president made comparison after administration rescinded New York City’s congestion pricing plan Donald Trump is receiving widespread backlash after he likened himself to a “king” on social media following his administration’s decision to rescind New…

Trump receives widespread backlash to social post calling himself ‘king’

YouTube video by CBC News Canada to appoint ‘fentanyl czar’ as part of tariff pause

As Canada’s Fentanyl Czar, I would create a massive safe supply program that would starve organized crime. Why score lethal street crap when the czar can hook you up with a script to the good pharma shit? Where do I apply? m.youtube.com/watch?v=CfBo...

Ken Sim Is Wrong. We Need More Supportive Housing, Not Less | The Tyee A plan to halt housing solutions will hurt people, businesses and the city.

thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025.... We wrote about Sim’s DTES plan.

Hi all just trying my first Bluesky post.

Why Greenland? How Trump Learned to Love the Bomb As Donald Trump takes office, he has revived one of his most audacious ideas: acquiring Greenland. When asked directly if he would rule out using military force to take Greenland from Denmark, Trump r...

#Greenland, global rivalry and the terrible implications of an ‘American Iron Dome.’

Opinion | James Carville: I Was Wrong About the 2024 Election. Here’s Why. (Gift Article) Perception is everything in politics, and a lot of Americans perceive Democrats as not feeling their pain or caring too much about other things.

Food for thought: #CanPoli www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...