kevin
@kevinharding.ca
Public policy nerd, co-op believer, photographer, wannabe polyglot. I talk a lot about co-ops, policy, laws, legislation, economies, and more.
📍 Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish land
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📍 Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish land
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Views here are my own and do not represent my employer.
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January 25, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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January 25, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.
Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 PM
It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.
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January 25, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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I really hope that Americans are waking up.
January 25, 2026 at 12:48 PM
I really hope that Americans are waking up.
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All the traits that you have been taught to value and look for in special individuals - courage, intelligence, strength - are actually collective traits. There is no genius or hero coming to save us from our problems. We solve them together or not at all. Socialism or barbarism.
I have never witnessed such a spiderweb of collective action, just average everyday people showing up. Not the heroism we’ve been sold by the movies but collective heroism, a fabric of care and resistance to fascism.
January 25, 2026 at 1:52 PM
All the traits that you have been taught to value and look for in special individuals - courage, intelligence, strength - are actually collective traits. There is no genius or hero coming to save us from our problems. We solve them together or not at all. Socialism or barbarism.
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Good stuff from @gregsargent.bsky.social.
I think we tend to overemphasize, esp. w/ Trump's mush-brain at the top, that their fascism is a kind of purely id-driven emotional impulse. But it's a real ideology w/ real theorists and tenets. Miller isn't an evil genius, but he has a real evil worldview
I think we tend to overemphasize, esp. w/ Trump's mush-brain at the top, that their fascism is a kind of purely id-driven emotional impulse. But it's a real ideology w/ real theorists and tenets. Miller isn't an evil genius, but he has a real evil worldview
The Dark Ideology Behind Stephen Miller's Immigration Crusade: Part II
He believes immigration threatens Western civilization itself, echoing the same xenophobia once directed at his own ancestors
www.theunpopulist.net
January 23, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Good stuff from @gregsargent.bsky.social.
I think we tend to overemphasize, esp. w/ Trump's mush-brain at the top, that their fascism is a kind of purely id-driven emotional impulse. But it's a real ideology w/ real theorists and tenets. Miller isn't an evil genius, but he has a real evil worldview
I think we tend to overemphasize, esp. w/ Trump's mush-brain at the top, that their fascism is a kind of purely id-driven emotional impulse. But it's a real ideology w/ real theorists and tenets. Miller isn't an evil genius, but he has a real evil worldview
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M. Gessen, gift link: The soviet secret police too "were ruled by quotas... Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works. The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive"
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:55 PM
M. Gessen, gift link: The soviet secret police too "were ruled by quotas... Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works. The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive"
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I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed.
When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL
I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.
The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL
I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.
The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
January 25, 2026 at 4:55 AM
I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed.
When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL
I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.
The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL
I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.
The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
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Imagine. Just fucking imagine. 😳👇
January 10, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Imagine. Just fucking imagine. 😳👇
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There are just the loveliest little candlelight vigils for Alex Pretti being held all over Uptown right now. People building little candle memorials on street corners in the snow. This city is in pain but we will win together
January 25, 2026 at 1:41 AM
There are just the loveliest little candlelight vigils for Alex Pretti being held all over Uptown right now. People building little candle memorials on street corners in the snow. This city is in pain but we will win together
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It’s crucial that networks with Sunday morning shows not let Republicans lie about what happened today. Interrupt them, cut their mics, cut away. It’s reckless and inaccurate to let them spin a murder. The video is clear. I don’t expect this to happen, but the journalistic imperative is clear.
January 25, 2026 at 4:28 AM
It’s crucial that networks with Sunday morning shows not let Republicans lie about what happened today. Interrupt them, cut their mics, cut away. It’s reckless and inaccurate to let them spin a murder. The video is clear. I don’t expect this to happen, but the journalistic imperative is clear.
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Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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"If you release the voting information we need to cheat the upcoming election, I am confident these simple steps will help bring back law and order to Minnesota."
In the wake of another fatal shooting in Minneapolis.
AG Pam Bondi sends Gov. Walz a letter today making several asks including:
"Allow DOJ Civil Rights division access to state voter rolls"
AG Pam Bondi sends Gov. Walz a letter today making several asks including:
"Allow DOJ Civil Rights division access to state voter rolls"
January 25, 2026 at 2:48 AM
"If you release the voting information we need to cheat the upcoming election, I am confident these simple steps will help bring back law and order to Minnesota."
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Apropos of nothing, remembering the old Chinese author Lu Xun:
“Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.”
― Lu Xun
“Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.”
― Lu Xun
January 25, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Apropos of nothing, remembering the old Chinese author Lu Xun:
“Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.”
― Lu Xun
“Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.”
― Lu Xun
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January 25, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Instead of rendering aid to the person they shot, the ICE goons were counting bullet wounds.
BREAKING: A young doctor who lives near where Alex Pretti, a nurse, was killed by ICE says in a declaration he saw the shooting, went out to help, was not let through at first then patted down before being let by, and was apparently the first to try and provide any medical assistance to Pretti.
January 25, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Instead of rendering aid to the person they shot, the ICE goons were counting bullet wounds.
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Originally posted on Facebook here @monsterbeard.bsky.social www.facebook.com/reel/1705089...
6.9K views · 3.6K reactions | RIP Alex Pretti,
he was my Dads ICU nurse, he read my dad’s final salut at the VA after he passed away. Never wanted to share this video but his speech is very on point....
RIP Alex Pretti,
he was my Dads ICU nurse, he read my dad’s final salut at the VA after he passed away. Never wanted to share this video but his speech is very on point. Also my Fathers final words.....
www.facebook.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Originally posted on Facebook here @monsterbeard.bsky.social www.facebook.com/reel/1705089...
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Text of the video posted by Mac Randolph “Never wanted to share this video but his speech is very on point.”
January 25, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Text of the video posted by Mac Randolph “Never wanted to share this video but his speech is very on point.”
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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Alex Pretti was a union member of AFGE Local 3699
His murder increases the likelihood of another general strike in Minneapolis.
My newsletter looks at what’s next as labor responds to his murder by ICE agent
His murder increases the likelihood of another general strike in Minneapolis.
My newsletter looks at what’s next as labor responds to his murder by ICE agent
Alex Pretti Was a Union Member - Another General Strike Now Likely - NBA Game Cancellation Could Spur Player Walkout Again
Alex Pretti was an ICE nurse at the Minneapolis VA and, according to AFGE, a union member of AFGE Local 3669.
paydayreport.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Alex Pretti was a union member of AFGE Local 3699
His murder increases the likelihood of another general strike in Minneapolis.
My newsletter looks at what’s next as labor responds to his murder by ICE agent
His murder increases the likelihood of another general strike in Minneapolis.
My newsletter looks at what’s next as labor responds to his murder by ICE agent
My god
They have a tape of him doing last goodbye to a dead vet!
From the Military community on Reddit: Alex Pretti - who DHS labeled a domestic terrorist - honoring a veteran that passed away in the ICU.
Explore this post and more from the Military community
www.reddit.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:36 AM
My god
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