Amina
@ayasinvan.bsky.social
Former WNBA player•anti-imperialist Pan-African•BAP•former Vancouver Planning Commissioner #newwest
🏗️cities are capitalisms playground for race-class struggle, and yet I love public housing, parks, trains, libraries, bike lanes & benches when we get them
🏗️cities are capitalisms playground for race-class struggle, and yet I love public housing, parks, trains, libraries, bike lanes & benches when we get them
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Amina
@ayasinvan.bsky.social
· Sep 14
Life is 1/3 exciting, 1/3 boring, 1/3 a nightmare, do with that what you can.
White-supremacy is always at war with itself and other movements of chauvinsim. Trumpism is fascism functioning within a history of racial regime capitalism. In America it’s Republican v Democrats. Those in the periphery are FORCED to choose the version of white supremacy they’re willing to stomach.
January 7, 2026 at 12:21 AM
White-supremacy is always at war with itself and other movements of chauvinsim. Trumpism is fascism functioning within a history of racial regime capitalism. In America it’s Republican v Democrats. Those in the periphery are FORCED to choose the version of white supremacy they’re willing to stomach.
Canada’s complicity in anti-democratic regime change is as Canadiana as Mark Carney’s “elbows up” corniness. Carney as the head of the Bank of England also blocked Venezuela from accessing $1 bil of its own gold after coordinated pressure from Washington and the far-right Venezuelan opposition.
Mark Carney’s silence on Venezuela reveals complicity
On September 2, the US military bombed a boat in the Caribbean, killing 11 civilians. Regional leaders denounced the attack as murder, but Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney remained silent. His stan...
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January 6, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Canada’s complicity in anti-democratic regime change is as Canadiana as Mark Carney’s “elbows up” corniness. Carney as the head of the Bank of England also blocked Venezuela from accessing $1 bil of its own gold after coordinated pressure from Washington and the far-right Venezuelan opposition.
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If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
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For decades, Canadians eagerly rushed onto US tech platforms and services. But now the drawbacks of that dependence are on full display.
For @policyalternatives.ca, I explain the economic and political consequences of a US-dominated internet — and why digital sovereignty is imperative.
For @policyalternatives.ca, I explain the economic and political consequences of a US-dominated internet — and why digital sovereignty is imperative.
Every data centre is a U.S. military base - CCPA
Understanding how the United States uses its tech companies to serve empire
www.policyalternatives.ca
January 5, 2026 at 8:52 PM
For decades, Canadians eagerly rushed onto US tech platforms and services. But now the drawbacks of that dependence are on full display.
For @policyalternatives.ca, I explain the economic and political consequences of a US-dominated internet — and why digital sovereignty is imperative.
For @policyalternatives.ca, I explain the economic and political consequences of a US-dominated internet — and why digital sovereignty is imperative.
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You could not ask for a more perfect illustration of the failure of neoliberalism — and of liberalism in general — than what we are seeing today
![Post from Adam Bienkov: “Kier Starmer’s spokesman, asked if government will still use X now [that] it posts indecent images of children, replies, “We always keep communication cahnnels under review to reach [the] public in [the] most appropriate way possible. Operators are under obligation to act appropriately. We always hope they would do."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kbrkp6gp6cbkj6opfi6xsa6x/bafkreibhlfbuisylavhnczwy4ebyxzqpvtawcck4amcqskymivlkc6eas4@jpeg)
January 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
You could not ask for a more perfect illustration of the failure of neoliberalism — and of liberalism in general — than what we are seeing today
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The government has orchestrated a violent coup in a sovereign country? Well, we just hope the party responsible will step up, and if they don’t, voters might get mad.
A private company posts thousands of CSAM images a day, will the government keep using it? Well, we hope they do the right thing.
A private company posts thousands of CSAM images a day, will the government keep using it? Well, we hope they do the right thing.
January 5, 2026 at 4:40 PM
The government has orchestrated a violent coup in a sovereign country? Well, we just hope the party responsible will step up, and if they don’t, voters might get mad.
A private company posts thousands of CSAM images a day, will the government keep using it? Well, we hope they do the right thing.
A private company posts thousands of CSAM images a day, will the government keep using it? Well, we hope they do the right thing.
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Please don’t skip. Share and help if you’re able to.
I have 5 kids and a wife who suffers from mitral valve prolapse. We are facing severe cold without blankets or bedding; my kids sleep shivering, and my wife’s pain worsens with the cold
I am asking for only $200 to buy blankets and bedding
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I am asking for only $200 to buy blankets and bedding
Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
January 5, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜
January 3, 2026 at 11:38 AM
My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜
We never left the stage of heightened American hypocrisy and failures of Canada to condemn white chauvinist imperialism from its allies along with the failure of international law. The attack on Venezuela is a repeat of Panama+. We are stuck in the era of “failed states” due to American aggression.
January 4, 2026 at 1:58 PM
We never left the stage of heightened American hypocrisy and failures of Canada to condemn white chauvinist imperialism from its allies along with the failure of international law. The attack on Venezuela is a repeat of Panama+. We are stuck in the era of “failed states” due to American aggression.
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Not coping well w/ the events of the world. My therapist says empathy, just like anxiety, has to have boundaries. Otherwise both spin out of control. He said empathy’s boundary is compassion & compassion is actionable. We’re not meant to physically FEEL the pain of EVERYTHING around us. It’d kill us
January 4, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Not coping well w/ the events of the world. My therapist says empathy, just like anxiety, has to have boundaries. Otherwise both spin out of control. He said empathy’s boundary is compassion & compassion is actionable. We’re not meant to physically FEEL the pain of EVERYTHING around us. It’d kill us
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Current state of Canada’s elbows:
January 3, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Current state of Canada’s elbows:
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Here’s how Trump invading Venezuela also F***s Canada 🇨🇦
January 3, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Here’s how Trump invading Venezuela also F***s Canada 🇨🇦
Landed in Morocco from Paris to find out that the weeks of white chauvinist ethnoracial fear mongering of Somalis was another distraction for Trump’s America 1st plans to illegally strike a nation, kidnap its leader & steal their oil. Meanwhile, ppl still believe Somalis were pirates, in their seas.
The US has attacked a country, kidnapped its head of state, and is seizing its oil. Trump has invoked the Monroe Doctrine.
This is a moment for Canada to stand up: condemn this act of imperialism. Reject impunity and the politics of brute force.
This is a moment for Canada to stand up: condemn this act of imperialism. Reject impunity and the politics of brute force.
January 4, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Landed in Morocco from Paris to find out that the weeks of white chauvinist ethnoracial fear mongering of Somalis was another distraction for Trump’s America 1st plans to illegally strike a nation, kidnap its leader & steal their oil. Meanwhile, ppl still believe Somalis were pirates, in their seas.
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hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.
January 3, 2026 at 6:41 PM
hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.
The French in Africa are despicable. They really don’t know how to check their arrogance, esp in “former colonies.” I’m in Morocco and the way French tourists behave is nasty, they still believe locals exist to serve them and other visitors, especially other Africans and Muslims come second to them.
January 3, 2026 at 7:23 PM
The French in Africa are despicable. They really don’t know how to check their arrogance, esp in “former colonies.” I’m in Morocco and the way French tourists behave is nasty, they still believe locals exist to serve them and other visitors, especially other Africans and Muslims come second to them.
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Trump, after bombing Nigeria on Christmas: “MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists [sic].”
These are the words of an evil man whom Christ does not know.
These are the words of an evil man whom Christ does not know.
December 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Trump, after bombing Nigeria on Christmas: “MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists [sic].”
These are the words of an evil man whom Christ does not know.
These are the words of an evil man whom Christ does not know.
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The Trump admin is clearly only doing this for two reasons:
1) to get oil,
2) to energize their base by bombing people seen as less-than to distract from the fact that Donald Trump is a pedophile who was part of the Epstein child sex trafficking ring.
Trump doesn’t care about Nigerian Christians
1) to get oil,
2) to energize their base by bombing people seen as less-than to distract from the fact that Donald Trump is a pedophile who was part of the Epstein child sex trafficking ring.
Trump doesn’t care about Nigerian Christians
December 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The Trump admin is clearly only doing this for two reasons:
1) to get oil,
2) to energize their base by bombing people seen as less-than to distract from the fact that Donald Trump is a pedophile who was part of the Epstein child sex trafficking ring.
Trump doesn’t care about Nigerian Christians
1) to get oil,
2) to energize their base by bombing people seen as less-than to distract from the fact that Donald Trump is a pedophile who was part of the Epstein child sex trafficking ring.
Trump doesn’t care about Nigerian Christians
The “only democracy” in the ‘Middle East.’ The more I hear western states use the term democracy to describe what Israel is doing, the more I understand precisely why people have lost faith in democratic processes, when this politically violent entity, supported by Canada, is upheld as a democracy.
"We’re monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment. We have warned you."
Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.
Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.
December 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The “only democracy” in the ‘Middle East.’ The more I hear western states use the term democracy to describe what Israel is doing, the more I understand precisely why people have lost faith in democratic processes, when this politically violent entity, supported by Canada, is upheld as a democracy.
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40 changes in Paris in two minutes, 2023. Note that the "after" images often have little greenery. At the time, there were no accusations of "Photoshop" on Twitter. Since then these streets have become greener, but AI now exists, and opponents on X will claim the new, green images are retouched :)
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
40 changes in Paris in two minutes, 2023. Note that the "after" images often have little greenery. At the time, there were no accusations of "Photoshop" on Twitter. Since then these streets have become greener, but AI now exists, and opponents on X will claim the new, green images are retouched :)
“You don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.” JD Vance
Can anyone point to a time in history when white people ever had to apologize for ‘being white?’ When slavery was abolished the white slave owners were paid reparations. The French were paid after Haiti won their Independence. So when?
Can anyone point to a time in history when white people ever had to apologize for ‘being white?’ When slavery was abolished the white slave owners were paid reparations. The French were paid after Haiti won their Independence. So when?
December 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
“You don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.” JD Vance
Can anyone point to a time in history when white people ever had to apologize for ‘being white?’ When slavery was abolished the white slave owners were paid reparations. The French were paid after Haiti won their Independence. So when?
Can anyone point to a time in history when white people ever had to apologize for ‘being white?’ When slavery was abolished the white slave owners were paid reparations. The French were paid after Haiti won their Independence. So when?
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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
December 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
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“Back in June, medical researchers discovered a similar racial bias in large language model (LLM) psychiatric diagnostic tools. In that case, results showed AI tools often proposed “inferior treatment” plans for Black patients whenever their race was explicitly known.”
December 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“Back in June, medical researchers discovered a similar racial bias in large language model (LLM) psychiatric diagnostic tools. In that case, results showed AI tools often proposed “inferior treatment” plans for Black patients whenever their race was explicitly known.”
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this heralds the Time of Comeuppance, when grifters who have been hauling in cash pretending to be qualified for their jobs start getting their asses handed to them, shown to them, fed to them
December 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
this heralds the Time of Comeuppance, when grifters who have been hauling in cash pretending to be qualified for their jobs start getting their asses handed to them, shown to them, fed to them
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"The lives of the Palestine Action-affiliated remand prisoners now on hunger strike are at growing risk. On Friday, two reached day 48 without food. (In 1981, one IRA prisoner – 29-year-old Martin Hurson – died on the 46th day.)" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the Palestine Action hunger strikers: the government is trying to ignore this protest | Editorial
Editorial: Doctors have warned that the lives of these prisoners are now in danger. Pretending this is not happening is not good enough
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
"The lives of the Palestine Action-affiliated remand prisoners now on hunger strike are at growing risk. On Friday, two reached day 48 without food. (In 1981, one IRA prisoner – 29-year-old Martin Hurson – died on the 46th day.)" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m so over these periodic white zealot existential panics the entire racialized world has to suffer through every 30-40 years. Whitelash politics are not only dangerous but they’re also f*cking boring and tedious. Reasserting race science every few decades isn’t going to save your broken economies.
December 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I’m so over these periodic white zealot existential panics the entire racialized world has to suffer through every 30-40 years. Whitelash politics are not only dangerous but they’re also f*cking boring and tedious. Reasserting race science every few decades isn’t going to save your broken economies.