Rome Demands Stone
@romedemands.bsky.social
Yes, it's me. The cocktail loving, board game playing, data librarian with a wall of games🇨🇦🍁
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“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
—Anne Herbert
Support your public library in any way you can—this includes using it.
“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
—Anne Herbert
Support your public library in any way you can—this includes using it.
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A new statement from Epstein survivors:
"Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous."
"Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous."
January 30, 2026 at 10:33 PM
A new statement from Epstein survivors:
"Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous."
"Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous."
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Here's an opportunity to support the other journalist arrested today; Georgia Fort, who will have far fewer resources available to her than Don Lemon.
Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon.
A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website:
www.georgiafort.com/support
A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website:
www.georgiafort.com/support
Support Independent Journalism | GF
www.georgiafort.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Here's an opportunity to support the other journalist arrested today; Georgia Fort, who will have far fewer resources available to her than Don Lemon.
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Rest in peace.
a woman in a black sequined jumpsuit is walking through a foggy forest .
Alt: Catherine O’Hara in a black sequined jumpsuit is walking through a foggy forest .
media.tenor.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Rest in peace.
I *really* want to see what The Critical Drinker & Pitch Meeting do with this
UPDATE: "a gilded trash remake of The Zone Of Interest" is the absolutely savage review of it at The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
January 30, 2026 at 8:46 PM
I *really* want to see what The Critical Drinker & Pitch Meeting do with this
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I just wrote to our Director of Communications at #SFU asking them to cancel our contract with @hootsuite.com unless they drop their contract with ICE. I've been asking them to stop using X for years, and asked again. You can do the same. #AcademicSky
January 30, 2026 at 8:30 PM
I just wrote to our Director of Communications at #SFU asking them to cancel our contract with @hootsuite.com unless they drop their contract with ICE. I've been asking them to stop using X for years, and asked again. You can do the same. #AcademicSky
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Six days ago federal officers murdered a man in the streets of Minneapolis and we still don't know their identities. Is there any modern precedent for this?
January 30, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Six days ago federal officers murdered a man in the streets of Minneapolis and we still don't know their identities. Is there any modern precedent for this?
Here’s a win for us all. Public pressure does wor!
Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Developments says it will not be selling a Virginia warehouse property to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which had said it wanted the site as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility.
B.C.-based Pattison says ICE warehouse sale won’t proceed
Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Developments says it will not be selling a Virginia warehouse property to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which had said it wanted the site as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility.
cheknews.ca
January 30, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Here’s a win for us all. Public pressure does wor!
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Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Developments says it will not be selling a Virginia warehouse property to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which had said it wanted the site as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility.
B.C.-based Pattison says ICE warehouse sale won’t proceed
Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Developments says it will not be selling a Virginia warehouse property to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which had said it wanted the site as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility.
cheknews.ca
January 30, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Developments says it will not be selling a Virginia warehouse property to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which had said it wanted the site as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility.
Catherine O’Hara. Sigh. 💔
January 30, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Catherine O’Hara. Sigh. 💔
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The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
January 30, 2026 at 4:44 PM
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
Is—is he talking about himself?
Trump on the Virginia governor: "I don't know how they get elected. The get elected because they cheat, if you want to know the truth. If they didn't cheat, they'd have no chance."
January 30, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Is—is he talking about himself?
I’d really like to see Australia’s “Country of Origin” labelling adopted in Canada
www.cbc.ca/news/marketp...
www.cbc.ca/news/marketp...
Think you're buying Canadian? That grocery item may actually be from the U.S. | CBC News
The push to buy Canadian is loud and clear, but are those local-looking products the real deal? CBC Marketplace exposes how some popular foods that seem Canadian are actually made in the U.S. Experts ...
www.cbc.ca
January 30, 2026 at 5:27 PM
I’d really like to see Australia’s “Country of Origin” labelling adopted in Canada
www.cbc.ca/news/marketp...
www.cbc.ca/news/marketp...
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President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.
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January 30, 2026 at 12:56 AM
President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Open Visualization Academy launches TOMORROW MORNING (EST) openvisualizationacademy.org with 7 courses; we'll release 1-2 more/month beginning in February.
Sneak peek at our website, designed by @vsueiro.bsky.social and Melissa Strong #dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics #dataJournalism
Sneak peek at our website, designed by @vsueiro.bsky.social and Melissa Strong #dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics #dataJournalism
January 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM
The Open Visualization Academy launches TOMORROW MORNING (EST) openvisualizationacademy.org with 7 courses; we'll release 1-2 more/month beginning in February.
Sneak peek at our website, designed by @vsueiro.bsky.social and Melissa Strong #dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics #dataJournalism
Sneak peek at our website, designed by @vsueiro.bsky.social and Melissa Strong #dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics #dataJournalism
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University of Lethbridge researchers are looking for participants for a study about returning—successfully or unsuccessfully—to sport after COVID. #ParticipateInResearch
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January 29, 2026 at 6:33 PM
University of Lethbridge researchers are looking for participants for a study about returning—successfully or unsuccessfully—to sport after COVID. #ParticipateInResearch
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Canada: 2,600 of the 7,600 foreign affairs ministry staff have received layoff notices
There’s still no foreign policy or national security policy
But Carney did a pivotal speech at Davos so there’s that
cheknews.ca/union-questi...
There’s still no foreign policy or national security policy
But Carney did a pivotal speech at Davos so there’s that
cheknews.ca/union-questi...
Union questions why Global Affairs issuing layoff warnings before policy review
Thousands of employees at Global Affairs Canada have been issued notices warning they may lose their jobs, months before a foreign policy review is completed to give the department updated priorities.
cheknews.ca
January 28, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Canada: 2,600 of the 7,600 foreign affairs ministry staff have received layoff notices
There’s still no foreign policy or national security policy
But Carney did a pivotal speech at Davos so there’s that
cheknews.ca/union-questi...
There’s still no foreign policy or national security policy
But Carney did a pivotal speech at Davos so there’s that
cheknews.ca/union-questi...
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As Canada finds its sovereignty threatened by the U.S., Trump plays the villain.
But it is #BigTech that rules the world and poses its own threat to Canadian sovereignty.
And nothing the Mark Carney government has proposed is likely to blunt its efforts.
Donald Gutstein writes. #uspoli #canpoli
But it is #BigTech that rules the world and poses its own threat to Canadian sovereignty.
And nothing the Mark Carney government has proposed is likely to blunt its efforts.
Donald Gutstein writes. #uspoli #canpoli
How Big Tech Spearheads the US Threat to Canada | The Tyee
American digital giants are deeply entrenched here, making the building of Carney’s ‘sovereign cloud’ near impossible.
thetyee.ca
January 29, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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You know who else could stop the sale?
HAPPENING NOW: Hanover County in Virginia unanimously opposes sale of warehouse property owned by Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Developments to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be used as holding and processing facility. The local gov can't veto it, but hopes DHS will reconsider. Story to come
January 28, 2026 at 11:50 PM
You know who else could stop the sale?
What. A. Bunch. Of. Dicks.
The U.S. Embassy in Denmark removed 44 Danish flags honoring Danish soldiers killed in Afghanistan outside the building, drawing outrage from the country’s veterans amid heightened tensions between Copenhagen and Washington.
https://wapo.st/4rfbSOz
https://wapo.st/4rfbSOz
Removal of flags for fallen Danish soldiers at U.S. Embassy sparks backlash
There was no malicious intent in removing the flags, said a State Department spokesperson, who added that the flags had been replaced.
wapo.st
January 29, 2026 at 12:12 AM
What. A. Bunch. Of. Dicks.
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HAPPENING NOW: Hanover County in Virginia unanimously opposes sale of warehouse property owned by Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Developments to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be used as holding and processing facility. The local gov can't veto it, but hopes DHS will reconsider. Story to come
January 28, 2026 at 11:48 PM
HAPPENING NOW: Hanover County in Virginia unanimously opposes sale of warehouse property owned by Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Developments to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be used as holding and processing facility. The local gov can't veto it, but hopes DHS will reconsider. Story to come
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Calling all #DataRescuers! As the federal administration begins removing #NPS signage and information, we need your help. It's not too late to get out there and #SaveOurSigns. Check out this @washingtonpost.com article (linked below) for sites currently at risk.
wapo.st
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Calling all #DataRescuers! As the federal administration begins removing #NPS signage and information, we need your help. It's not too late to get out there and #SaveOurSigns. Check out this @washingtonpost.com article (linked below) for sites currently at risk.
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On Jan. 28, 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the abortion provision of the Criminal Code was unconstitutional and violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The R v Morgentaler case was a landmark ruling in Canada.
This is the story.
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The R v Morgentaler case was a landmark ruling in Canada.
This is the story.
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January 28, 2026 at 3:04 PM
On Jan. 28, 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the abortion provision of the Criminal Code was unconstitutional and violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The R v Morgentaler case was a landmark ruling in Canada.
This is the story.
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The R v Morgentaler case was a landmark ruling in Canada.
This is the story.
🧵 1/12
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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UFCW 1518 has written to the Jim Pattison Group about the decision to sell a Pattison-owned warehouse for conversion into an ICE processing facility.
We stand firmly against practices that dehumanize people anywhere — including the harms reported by victims impacted by ICE.
We stand firmly against practices that dehumanize people anywhere — including the harms reported by victims impacted by ICE.
January 28, 2026 at 1:09 AM
UFCW 1518 has written to the Jim Pattison Group about the decision to sell a Pattison-owned warehouse for conversion into an ICE processing facility.
We stand firmly against practices that dehumanize people anywhere — including the harms reported by victims impacted by ICE.
We stand firmly against practices that dehumanize people anywhere — including the harms reported by victims impacted by ICE.