Stephen Karr

A Real Place Deserves Real Rights Statehood for Washington, D.C., is a matter of justice.

"There really is one crucial, unbridgeable difference between Washingtonians and other Americans: You have more power than we do—a lot more power"
Statehood for DC!
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"Do not forget Gaza. And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance." This is heartbreaking

Madonna, can you throw us one more? 🙏

I can’t help but notice the Wall Street Journal stopped getting Epstein leaks after Todd Blanche met with Ghislaine Maxwell and she was moved to a minimum security resort.

I like "Homeless Jesus"but I hate the American Jesus and everything he stands for.
A friend from Texas told me American evangelicals loved to say "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus" but never quoted him. They liked Paul and judgemental old testament prophets.
Serving the poor and mercy wasn't their thing.

‘A deadly scheme’: Palestinians face indiscriminate gunfire at food sites Investigation based on visual evidence, bullets, medical records and testimony appears to show sustained pattern of Israeli shootings

Israel is using the food distribution centres for starving Palestinians as sites for deliberate mass shootings.
Any Canadians serving in the IDF must be investigated as to whether they participated in these killing squads.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

YouTube video by Charlie Angus TRUMP INVITES WAR CRIMINAL PUTIN TO USA - CHARLIE ANGUS

Donald Trump invited an indicted war criminal Vladimir Putin onto American soil. This man has stolen over 19,000 Ukrainian children. This is an international war crime. Trump wants to kiss this gangster's ring.
We need leaders speaking up for the stolen children.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yo1...

Creating Meaning and Purpose to Fight Capitalism: Audio From A Collapsing State We're not just facing a political battle. Our present moment requires us to reinvigorate a sense of calling and belonging

Fascism feeds off despair and hopelessness and America has been primed by years of capitalist exploitation and corruption.

To defeat authoritarianism and make a better future, we'll need to foster a sense of meaning and purpose based on shared struggle

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/creating-m...

Opinion: As a Jewish Canadian, I want my community to speak out about the horrors in Gaza Many of us are aghast at what is unfolding, but are rendered silent

Oped: As a Jewish Canadian, I want my community to speak out about the horrors in Gaza.

Very well said piece here by David Paperny...

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Prison bosses make room for possible influx before planned protests across England Exclusive: Possible arrests at protests against Palestine Action ban and asylum hotels likely to stretch prisons

Let's empty the jails so we can fill them with octogenarians who care about genocide.
Because that's the real threat to society.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

As an historian, I think it's bad when "blood libel" goes from denoting a very specific part of anti-Jewish history rooted in particular forms of medieval Christian anti-Judaism, to just meaning any criticism of Israel. A whole generation won't understand just how bad the actual blood libel was!

How do we talk about redistricting? We did a comprehensive research project on how to make people understand and care about what could seem a technocratic banality! Of course this was far before MAGA power grab, but principles on making topic accessible apply:
drive.google.com/file/d/1aibw...

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, it was such an honour to meet you, after years of witnessing your remarkable leadership in the lifelong fight to protect these lands, waters and Indigenous sovereignty. @ubcic.bsky.social

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

- 1984, George Orwell

Odd, how South Park is covering Kristi Noem and her ICE hooligans more accurately than The New York Times.

it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

Good morning. Illustrating this piece's points, a thread: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A political party tries to court your vote. A fascist regime tries to keep you from voting and pick which voters to hear and which to silence. Shoving more MAGA rule down our throats via stealing seats in TX is yet another fascist play. TX Dems are fighting back for us all.
#DrawTheLine

FNLC Expresses Profound Disappointment with the Passage of Bills 14 and 15 Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights

“There is overwhelming opposition from First Nations all over the Province to Bills 14 and 15. With the Province’s forced closure of the Bills last night, reconciliation in B.C. is having a near death experience." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip www.ubcic.bc.ca/fnlc_express... #bcpoli

As the day Omar El Akkad predicted is slowly becoming a reality -- that “one day" when "everyone will have always been against this," people might forget what institutions, employers and peers did to those who really have always been against this.

This new report helps to remind us:

Oh dear. Old man boxing meme is not a good choice.

Is Dean Cain joining ICE to try and erase his heritage?

He's half Japanese. His family were in internment camps.

He's no Superman, he's in a cult

Join the revolution! Only 2 days left to join the BC Greens so you can vote for Emily!

Such a strong endorsement! I've registered for the BC Green Party so that I can vote for Emily, you can register here if you'd like to vote in the leadership race too! tiny.cc/ffgp001 #BCPoli needs candidates like Emily!

Virginia Giuffre’s brother: Calling it a hoax is a complete disgrace to everything that my sister has worked for, everything these survivors have worked for and continue to fight for… And that feels very uncompassionate coming from somebody that’s the leader of our country.

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

Two animated characters discuss a vague statement regarding the Epstein files, while a fat orange pedo figure stands in the background pm a rooftop.

The video is obviously fake -- the lips don't match the words, and the words are things like "fun bags" -- but come on, man, the House went into recess two weeks ago.

You'd think someone who pretends to be a political reporter would be aware of that?

Majority of Canadians support Palestine recognition even if Trump objects amid trade dispute: survey A new Angus Reid Institute survey reveals that a majority of Canadians support recognizing Palestine as a state even if it complicates negotiations with the U.S.

New poll shows over two thirds of Canadians support recognizing Palestine even if it means the US punishing us for it.

A solid majority of Canadians also support retaliating in kind to all of America's economic assaults. Even if it brings on further retaliation.