Sheila McManus (they/them)🍉

This me also but I still hold hope in my heart

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Eric’s black and white comic Panel one A smirking Danielle Smith is digging with a shovel, “Remember when I was first campaigning to be Premier of Alberta and I was all vaccine freedom means if you want it: get it, and if not: don’t? Seems like a long time ago, eh? Ha ha” Panel two Smith has a lump of dirt balanced on her shovel: "Its pretty wild that we find out Alberta is on track to set a flu deaths record in the same week that we learn…” Panel three Smith holding empty shovel, “…the APP’s Dennis Modry claims that I confirmed to him that I’d prefer the title of Prime Minister of a separated Alberta! There’s even a recording of his claim!” Panel four We move further away to see Smith dig into ground with shovel. She has been digging a grave. Behind her is a casket. In front of her are a number of other filled in graves marked with crosses. “My only regret is that these one hundred and ninety-seven Albertans died before they could find out the truth about whether I prefer Prime Minister of Alberta or President of Alberta."

It's only TUESDAY.

That there are five #ICE offices in Canada - in Ottawa, Calgary, Montreal, Toronto, & Vancouver - is not only morally reprehensible but a public security issue.

They are not law enforcement; they're the paramilitary branch of a fascist leader.

Their operations in Canada must be ended.

More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In. See a map of the graduate programs they're planning to attend, if the government finally processes their visas

New from me: More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In.

A List Of Journalists Who’ve Taken Sponsored Israel Trips These Canadian media figures went on trips sponsored by the Exigent Foundation, a pro-Israel organization

NEW: I compiled a list of 27 Canadian journalists who have gone on sponsored Israel trips organized by a Zionist group whose co-founder previously worked for an Israeli intelligence firm.

The list includes some of Canadian media’s most-senior editors.

www.readthemaple.com/a-list-of-jo...

You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed.

ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos.

9 TOTAL.

ABOLISH ICE.

🚨Urgent appeal🚨
We are freezing to death in Gaza. We are shivering. We are homeless. The heavy rains destroyed our tent. My family's dream today is to live in a tent.
We appeal to you to donate to us🤲
We need €200 to buy a tent and blankets.
Help⬇️
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@mommunism.bsky.social

can I just get clarification on who "we" is in this sentence, because it seems to me that the person who invented the resource-guzzling shit extruder and profits from the resource-guzzling shit extruder is surely the one who needs to come up with a purpose for the resource-guzzling shit extruder.

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My family in Gaza cries every day, from the intensity of their suffering. Last night, the rains flooded our tent, and we couldn't sleep.
We plead with you to rescue us
We plead with you to donate & support us so we can buy a tent that costs 100$
chuffed.org/project/1580...

@mommunism.bsky.social✔️

A selfie of Mahmoud, a young Palestinian man, embracing his little siblings, a girl and a boy, all looking back at the viewer. They have tired eyes and wear light clothes not fit for winter.

cannot describe the pain of tonight…
My little children didn’t sleep because of the cold, and our tent was flooded, turning the mattress into a lake.
We need $150 for blankets and clothes.
Please help us, don’t leave our children alone in this deadly cold. 💔🙏
chuffed.org/project/mahm...

Opinion: Universities face a financial crisis. The key to survival is the scholar-entrepreneur Institutions can help students create jobs of their own in one of the toughest job markets in a generation

Don't fund public education, just rely on pie-in-the-sky 'entrepreneurial' bullshit that don't even reflect what universities should be. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

"should we have a meeti-" NO. No, we should not have a meeting.

A man squatting down on wet sand

Diseases are spreading in Gaza and medicine prices are extremely high. We urgently need $400 to survive. The situation is dire and unbearable. We are exhausted by illness and fear. Please help us and do not ignore our cries. Every minute matters. Please act now!!!!

gofund.me/78acabc1

For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order. We join its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability. And because of that, we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection. We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, and we knew that international law applied with varied rigor, depending on the identity of the accused or the victim. This fiction was useful, and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.

If nothing else, pretty amazing Canadian PM Carney said the quiet part out loud today: international law has never been real and the ‘rules’ of the international order have never applied to the US and its allies.

This may indeed be the actual death of neoliberalism.

globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

Great!

Urgent🚨
My family is living in darkness in Gaza
We are suffering immensely. We are homeless & without a tent. The storm destroyed our tent completely⛺️
📍We are appealing to you to donate & support us so we can buy a tent to live in. It costs $100.
chuffed.org/project/1580...

@mommunism.bsky.social✔️

Lebanese fear US has given green light for Israeli escalation Israel has attacked south Lebanon dozens of times recently, as locals fear a renewed military escalation.

"On Sunday alone, Israel launched around 25 attacks on south Lebanon" www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

People who say, "I support Israel but I don't support this" do indeed support this.

Donate to Save Ahmed's family, organized by Kawthar Jad Help a Family of 14 Evacuate from Gaza and Access Urgent Medical Aid Hello, I am Kawthar Jad al-H… Kawthar Jad needs your support for Save Ahmed's family

Please don't forget Hadiah and her family
She has children including a baby
Serious medical needs as well
www.gofundme.com/f/save-ahmed...

On King and America “Begrudgingly meeting the moment” One of the beautiful things about Martin Luther King Jr, on this day of days, is always that I’m struck by how infinitely quotable he is…

I wrote this years ago and it pains me to say the "imagine what we could appreciate about King if we we bothered to memorize more than that one quote from that one speech" part is even more true today than it was 3 years ago.

medium.com/@gwhiz07/on-...