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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 4h

Razing Palestine: Punishing Solidarity and Dissent in Canada
Punishing Solidarity and Dissent in Canada

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Razing Palestine: Punishing Solidarity and Dissent in Canada - Baraka Books

As the Israeli Army pummelled Gaza, those who spoke about the carnage were punished by censure, sanction, smearing and worse.

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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 4h

Remember the Hillel BC‘Contractor’ Who Spread “I ❤️ Hamas” Stickers Framing the SJC at UBC? Turns Out He Had Been Hillel BC’s Advocacy Officer & President of UBC’s 'Israel on Campus'

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Remember the Hillel BC‘Contractor’ Who Spread “I ❤️ Hamas” Stickers Framing the SJC at UBC? Turns Out He Had Been Hillel BC’s Advocacy Officer & President of UBC’s 'Israel on Campus'

A BC Supreme Court ruling reveals how a former Hillel BC advocacy officer orchestrated a deceptive Hamas-smear hoax that triggered threats, fear, and a failed defamation case.

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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 6h

UBC Geography Colloquium Series – Avery Everhart and Jasbir K Puar: You Can’t Pinkwash a Genocide: Sex/Gender/Fascism

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UBC

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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 8h

Obviously never.

E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 14h

Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers, according to testimony in a TV documentary.
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Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians

IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy

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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 14h

MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in Vancouver

Expert says event exemplifies worrying overlap between martial arts and extremism

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MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C. | CBC News

This summer in Vancouver, dozens of people gathered to attend a conference organized and attended by some of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist organizations. CBC’s visual investigations team l...

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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 1d

Governments that silence teachers hurt students

What these premiers don’t understand or are unwilling to acknowledge is that teacher strikes are rarely about pay alone. They are acts of advocacy for the conditions that make real learning possible.

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Opinion: Governments that silence teachers hurt students

What these premiers don’t understand or are unwilling to acknowledge is that teacher strikes are rarely about pay alone.

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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 1d

Palestine Under (Cease) Fire: The Struggle Continues

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 | 5:00–7:00 PM
LEW FORUM, ALLARD HALL (UBC)

#freepalestine #UBC #UBCFaculty4Palestine

E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 2d

Trump's authoritarian economics -- the marketplace of obedience and the merger of political and economic coercion.

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When the Market Bows to Power: Trump’s De Facto Nationalization of Private Enterprise

The Steady State | Steven A. Cash

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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 4d

"Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive as a thunderclap. It arrives as a series of adjustments the public learns to live with."

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Autocracy: The Warning Signs I Saw in Panama Are Emerging in America.

The Steady State | by Martha Duncan

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4d

When you desperately want to starve Americans:

E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 4d

Zachary Foster: The eugenist history of the Zionist movement

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The eugenist history of the Zionist movement — Palestine Nexus

The Zionist leadership rejected persecuted, disabled, destitute, sick, diseased and elderly Jews because they were persecuted, disabled, destitute, sick, diseased and elderly. This is the eugenist h...

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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 5d

China-critical UK academics describe ‘extremely heavy’ pressure from Beijing - Reliance on overseas students’ tuition fees under scrutiny as scholars describe chilling effect of being targeted

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China-critical UK academics describe ‘extremely heavy’ pressure from Beijing

Reliance on overseas students’ tuition fees under scrutiny as scholars describe chilling effect of being targeted

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 5d

Canada: Budget cuts international student permit targets by 65 per cent in 2026 -- Carney government also proposes $1.7 billion to recruit international researchers.

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Budget cuts international student permit targets by 65 per cent in 2026 - University Affairs

Carney government also proposes $1.7 billion to recruit international researchers.

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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 5d

Michael Kazin on the Socialism’s Far-Reaching Influence on American Thought

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A Brief History of American Socialism

“America will never be a socialist country,” declared Donald Trump in his 2019 State of the Union Address, given to a joint session of Congress. The president clearly believed that fear of such a r…

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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 5d

Carney and the Liberals table a Conservative budget with big cuts for public programs and big gains for foreign defense contractors.
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The Military Wins and Public Programs Lose in Carney’s Budget | The Tyee

But will the Liberals find enough support to survive a non-confidence vote?

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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 7d

F4P is a voluntary association of over 100 UBC full and part-time faculty and staff who share a commitment to support the struggle for Palestinian liberation from Israeli Apartheid and Occupation based on the principles of anticolonialism, anti-racism and social justice. #UBC #FacultyForPalestine

E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 7d

UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China -- Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities #SheffieldHallamUniversity

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UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China

Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities

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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 7d

Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report

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Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report

Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap

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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 9d

'There's no due process': ICU nurse, army veteran among U.S. citizens caught in ICE dragnet
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'No due process': L.A. nurse, veteran among citizens forcefully arrested by ICE amid immigration crackdown | CBC News

Two U.S. citizens whose forceful arrests by ICE were caught on video say federal agents violated their constitutional rights. As backlash against the administration's escalating immigration raids grow...

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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 10d

COV axes important and extremely important community event for no good reason.
#allsouls #rememberingthedead

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City of Vancouver axes Mountain View Cemetery memorial event after 20 years

The All Souls event began in 2005 but is not being held this year. Find out more

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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 10d

Pete Hoekstra Needs to Go
#gangsterdiplomacy

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Charlie Angus / The Resistance

Stories and strategies of resistance in this new dark age. Click to read Charlie Angus / The Resistance, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 10d

WELL GENERAL, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?

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WELL GENERAL, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?

IT IS FAIR AND REASONABLE TO WONDER ABOUT THE STATE OF WORRY AMONG OUR SENIOR OFFICER CORPS, AND WHERE THEY THINK THE COUNTRY IS HEADED.

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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 12d

New poll shows public support for Smith, UCP has dipped amid teachers' strike -- Meanwhile, 61 per cent of respondents said they feel the province is headed in the wrong direction, which is a 10-point increase from the spring #ABed

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'Reputational challenges': New poll shows public support for Smith, UCP has dipped amid teachers' strike

Response to teachers' strike appeared to sour some Albertans' opinions of Premier Danielle Smith and the UCP, suggests new survey from Leger

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 12d

Rogers execs on Sportsnet+ World Series crash: “You can’t expect a streaming service that only costs $30 a month to work every time”

Rogers execs on Sportsnet+ World Series crash: "You can't expect a streaming service that only costs $30 a month to work every time"

TORONTO – With the Sportsnet+ app failing for many viewers during the Blue Jays victory in Game 4 of the World Series, Rogers execs have come forward to say that “honestly, this is kinda your guys fau...

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E. Wayne Ross @ewayneross.bsky.social · 13d

Rogers, "proud owners of the Blue Jays" (and SportsNet), crashes the app in the middle of the 7th inning of World Series game just as Jays are mounting a rally.

This is the kind of service you get from Rogers a month after they raised the SportsNet subscription price 30%.

#GoBlueJays #FuckRogers

The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 13d

Rogers crashes Sportsnet app during World Series to remind consumers that most of their products aren’t as functional as the Blue Jays

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 13d

Is Sportsnet down? Blue Jays fans complain of outages just as team rallies in Game 4 of World Series

The Blue Jays were busy scoring four runs in the top of the seventh when people started reporting issues with Sportsnet’s streaming network called Sportsnet+.

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 13d

Dear Rogers Sportsnet, you have one job: make the TVs show the sports. Goofs.

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