joannerochester.bsky.social
@joannerochester.bsky.social
A tiny flicker of hope, this guy.
This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors.

youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40
Welcome The Stranger
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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February 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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MY FELLOW CANADIANS

I humbly request you all go sign the petition for e-6982 which will help the federal government ensure funds provided to provincial governments for health and education are ACTUALLY being used appropriately.

(Alberta and Ontario especially)

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-6982 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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If you have to travel to Detroit - take the tunnel. Do not give Trump's oligarch friends any money.
Refuse to travel on the Ambassador Bridge.
Take the tunnel.
Better yet don't travel to the States at all.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Take the tunnel, Windsor city councillor says as Ambassador Bridge owners lobby against new bridge | CBC News
A city councilor in Windsor, Ont., is encouraging Canadians who want to buy Canadian to travel from Windsor to Detroit through the Windsor-Detroit tunnel instead of crossing the Ambassador Bridge.
www.cbc.ca
February 14, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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Hi friends,

As many of you know, ICE is operating in ways that tear families apart, enter homes without warrants, and traumatize innocent people. This is not law enforcement — this is terror and an abuse of power.
February 13, 2026 at 6:10 PM
The EU, Canada, Aus/NZ, Japan, South Korea, the Gulf States — these can step up. The US is what, 5% of the planet’s population and 15% of its GDP.
February 13, 2026 at 5:38 AM
It is time for Canada to suspend the Safe Third Country Act as far as the USA is concerned.

They are deporting people with protected refugee status, people with green cards, people with valid visas, and now citizens.
Once again, a reminder that you now live in a country where there are two classes of citizenship, & approximately 26 million of us are being reminded on a regular basis by the far right authoritarian party that we have the lesser kind.
cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?
February 12, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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Europe is prosecuting those connected to Epstein - as the Trump regime chooses to do NOTHING
February 12, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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The world’s richest dickheads have bet enormous sums of money on a perpetual motion machine that few people like or want, and even fewer are willing to pay for. So now, they are going to lose a gajillion dollars. Hopefully it doesn’t also tank fuck out of pension funds or similar.
February 12, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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"If remembering the fallen is a violation of the rules,then silence about their killers is complicity”

Ukrainian footballers at the Russian‑destroyed Lokomotyv stadium in Kyiv showed their support for Vladyslav Heraskevych,who was disqualified before the first run of the 2026 Olympic skeleton event
February 12, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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February 12, 2026 at 4:05 AM
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It is objectively true, as some of these posts highlight, that because publications have been gutted and have laid off fact checkers and editors, they are now way more vulnerable to running AI generated stories from artificial freelancers. this perpetuates a slop ouroboros.
February 11, 2026 at 8:18 PM
the column is certifiable. 71% of Albertans did not support separation in the Angus Reid poll, but that apparently doesn’t mean they don’t support separation, because only 29% of Quebecois want separation and they have a whole separatist party!! Dear gods.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
But Canada is responsible for the flood of drugs into America, right? Right?
February 11, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Because of course the US is entitled to half of a bridge that’s been entirely funded by Canada. Because, apparently, they own everything.

Can we just close the border? Completely? To everything?
Grandpa off his meds, again. Today he announces his intention to block any roads and bridges between the US and Canada, and he reveals a perfidious Chinese plot to steal the Stanley Cup and shut down ice hocker forever.
February 9, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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Some colleagues in my old department in Trondheim are recruiting a PhD candidate in Gender Studies and/or STS on the "Imagining Positive Energy Futures" project. 3 years, fully funded. Norway's a good place to do a PhD and Trondheim's a nice place to live!
PhD candidate within Gender Studies and/or STS: Imagining Positive Energy Futures (294972) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: PhD candidate within Gender Studies and/or STS: Imagining Positive Energy Futures (294972), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, March 15, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
February 9, 2026 at 5:34 AM
And the 80s was, I dunno, 20 years ago? 25?

I want Gens Y and Z to stop snickering right now, because *glares bodingly* it will happen to you too!
Stop saying the American Idiot album came out 21 years ago and that Billie Joe Armstrong is 53. You're lying. It was just a few years ago. Please.
February 8, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
More plagues, courtesy of the forced birth people!
February 8, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Oh how excellent!!
Just because good news is worth celebrating:

There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.

HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 1:48 AM
A small explainer on the Canadian/US auto industry.

youtube.com/shorts/MNQWs...
A Brief History of Canada’s Car Tariffs (sketch)
YouTube video by The Goose
youtube.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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February 2, 2026 at 2:06 PM
This is, exactly, what February feels like. Fortunately there will be crocuses at the end of it.
Montreal's Groundhog Day weather: Fred la Marmotte predicts an early spring montrealgazette.com/news/weather...
February 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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1/5🧵 #Russia #Ukraine #Trump #US #Europe

To be clear;

There are no negotiations taking place, but a theater.

Here's a sum up of the goals of the three parties, and the degree these goals are acomplished⤵️
The second round of trilateral talks between Ukraine,the US&Russia will take place in Abu Dhabi on February 4-5,Peskov said
"The second round of work by the security issues group was initially scheduled for last Sunday,but additional coordination of the three parties' schedules was required,"he said
February 2, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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Like so many acts of this administration, it doesn't just undermine the functions of government but inverts them.
February 2, 2026 at 1:34 PM