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canadiandimension.bsky.social
Noam Chomsky can no longer offer apologies to Jeffrey Epstein's victims. But that does not relieve us of the responsibility to do so, part of which is acknowledging that someone who had such a huge impact on so many of us made such profoundly disturbing moral choices.
Chomsky, Epstein, and the responsibility of intellectuals
Burning down houses and raping their female inhabitants is the kind of imperialist standard operating procedure that Chomsky spent his life condemning in East Timor, in Iraq, in El Salvador. But when ...
canadiandimension.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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policyalternatives.ca
When we crunch Canada Post's numbers, we don’t see a system bloated by high costs—and when we look at comparison countries, we see that budget cuts and falling revenue go hand-in-hand. By Ryan Romard @policyalternatives.ca #canlab
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Canada Post is already one of the world’s most cost-effective postal systems - CCPA
There’s a common narrative about why Canada Post is in such bad shape—the company’s financial difficulties lie in excessive spending, and that the decline of letter-mail has made Canada Post too costl...
www.policyalternatives.ca
December 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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aljazeera.com
Video footage shows Israeli bulldozers forcibly uprooting hundreds of Palestinian olive trees in Qaryut, a village south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
December 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
“…six years after leading body camera maker Axon Enterprise, Inc. said police use of facial recognition technology posed serious ethical concerns, the pilot project — switched on last week— is raising alarms far beyond Edmonton, the continent’s northernmost city of more than 1 million people.”
AI-powered police body cameras, once taboo, get tested on Canadian city's 'watch list' of faces
Police in Edmonton, Canada, have started a pilot project using AI-equipped body cameras to detect faces on a "high risk" watch list.
apnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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parismarx.com
Russia was removed from Eurovision in 2022 over its invasion of Ukraine, but Israel is still allowed to compete despite being an apartheid state committing a genocide in Gaza.

Good on Spain, Ireland, and the Netherlands. I’m sure they won’t be the last to announce a boycott.
Spain, Ireland and Netherlands to boycott Eurovision after Israel retains place
Major European nations pull out of song contest after calling for country’s exclusion over conduct of war in Gaza
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"For nearly a decade, [the European Union] pursued a strategy of “externalising” migration control, directing aid, training, and equipment to African states ostensibly to reduce irregular migration towards Europe."
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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jennycohn.bsky.social
Prospera Honduras is a Zone for Employment & Economic Development (ZEDE) backed by Peter Thiel. Trump plans to pardon the former Honduran president who championed ZEDES b4 his drug trafficking conviction. Honduras current outgoing president has tried to eliminate ZEDES, an obstacle for Prospera.
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Prospera: Honduras' Bitcoin City Project
Prospera is Honduras' Bitcoin City project. Located on the island of Roatan in the Caribbean Sea, it faces several challenges.
colombiaone.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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policyalternatives.ca
"Earlier this fall, @policyalternatives.ca reported a Hamilton resident would have to earn $29.16 an hour — or about $60,652 a year — to comfortably rent a one-bedroom apartment in the city." #canlab www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...
New non-profit aims to fill Hamilton’s ‘missing-middle’ rental gap
Gather Community Homes hopes to raise $15M through bonds for development.
www.thespec.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
Dave Snow is out here telling a government committee that racist researchers are being sidelined.

But that's not the best part.

The best part is that the government committee is treating this as constructive feedback.

www.ourcommons.ca/documentview...
Dave Snow: I think that's exactly right. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research, CIHR, whose definition of research excellence includes language of inclusivity and diversity on its research excellence framework page, has that research is excellent when it's inclusive, equitable, diverse, anti-racist, anti-ableist and anti-colonial in approach and impact. Now, probably most of us would say, “I'm not ableist. I'm not racist. I'm not a colonialist,” Those are good things, but these terms in academia.... I am familiar with progressive academia. These are very specific frameworks, often unfalsifiably formed, that have a particular way of looking at the world and are not, first and foremost, about knowledge creation. They're built on particular assumptions about how society is governed and how it ought to be changed. When you adopt that as your framework for all health and medical funding across the country, you are going to necessarily discourage certain forms of knowledge creation and encourage activist research that is not designed to help us achieve better medical and health outcomes and knowledge. I heard a presentation earlier today about how we don't want to leave anyone on the sidelines. Well, this is leaving on the sidelines scholars who don't use an anti-racist, anti-ableist and anti-colonial approach in their hard science research on health and medicine. If I had one recommendation of what should go within the agencies, it would be that component of that research excellence framework from the beginning.
October 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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mondoweiss.net
READ: Gaza isn’t an anomaly. It’s a mirror.

A live experiment in AI warfare, forced famine, and global indifference—coming soon to all of us if we don’t act. Omar Aziz’s must-read essay on the moral collapse of our world—and what comes next: mondoweiss.net/2025/05/huma...
Humanity is being buried in Gaza. We must rise up to save our collective future.
Gaza is not an anomaly. It is a mirror. A reflection of our world as it really is today. And for many, a preview of what is to come.
mondoweiss.net
July 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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youcaughtscott.com
Toronto city council ignored confidential legal advice to restrict the bubble zone bylaw. Excellent reporting by Mahdis Habibinia [Pay-walled]
Behind the scenes of Toronto’s ‘bubble zone’ debate: The confidential legal advice city council was given about limiting protests
The Star has obtained a confidential legal report city council was given before its bubble zone debate last week.
www.thestar.com
May 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
angeldrool.bsky.social
dropsitenews.com Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · May 25
NEWS | Gaza Media Office: 80 Days of Blockade Caused Hundreds of Preventable Deaths

Video: Gaza Civil Defense Chief
May 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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mommunism.bsky.social
We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first.

You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
[CLICK here if you would like your name added to this letter] النسخة العربية من هذه الرسالة متاحة أدناه. Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza The signatories of this letter are all members of the Bluesky community, many of us have actively participated on the platform since its inception. We came to Bluesky because it was a breath of fresh air, a place that felt different from many of the other social media platforms. The lack of a central algorithm, the ability to build and use custom feeds, and the lack of penalty for link promotion contributed to an environment that allowed diverse and interesting voices to find their footing and community on Bluesky. While some of the signatories of this letter have had no issues with speaking their mind publicly on Bluesky, unfortunately that is not true for all the signatories because many are Palestinians currently living in Gaza. These Palestinians are journalists, artists, engineers, teachers, grandmas, entrepreneurs, a man who owned an ice cream shop, a pediatrician who has been featured on CBS Morning News, aid workers, architects, waiters, pharmacists, students–and perhaps most essential to the backbone of Bluesky, posters. All of these people provide unique and interesting voices to the Bluesky community. However, unlike the other signatories of this letter, these Bluesky community members have struggled to keep their accounts on the platform. Most of them have lost multiple accounts and/or have had their accounts labeled as spam. Some cannot even make an account without it immediately being removed from the platform. Gazans undertake immense efforts to simply be on Bluesky. Sometimes, they walk for miles just to have access to the internet. They scale rooftops where they are exposed to potential military attacks just for the opportunity to get better cell signals–one signatory of this letter tragically lost her brother this way. They use what little money they have to pay … Gazans have also been aggressively targeted and unfairly reported by bad actors. Many accounts openly encourage the reporting and targeting of any Palestinian. Several groups exist for the express purpose of looking for Palestinian accounts to report. We believe Bluesky owes Gazans, and the entire community who benefits from their voices, a greater duty of care especially in the context of the horrors they are enduring. We ask Bluesky to implement the following changes: Provide information on all Bluesky-affiliated websites in Arabic that explains the rules and expectations of the site in clear language. Investigate the accounts that are mass-reporting Palestinians on Bluesky. The mass reporting of Palestinians on Bluesky is a group effort to render the platform a hostile place for a community based on their ethnicity. As such, it is racism, and should be understood as such. Reports against Palestinians who have broken no community guidelines must be understood as racism, and the accounts that submit those reports should be disregarded in the future. Many Bluesky users encourage Gazans to tag or reply to them, and this is not always understood as unwelcome behavior. If an account is reported as Spam for tagging or replying to others, treat only reports from the tagged/mentioned account as legitimate, seeing as they were the only ones who received a notification. Send emails regarding disciplinary action every time it is taken. Gazans do not always get an email explaining what they did wrong, and those that do are required to parse a language they do not speak in order to understand their violation. Have these emails contain an easily visible link to information about their violations in Arabic. Respond to appeals in a timely fashion, many Gazans simply never hear back from Bluesky after they appeal a decision. In addition to removing Gazans for alleged spam behavior, Bluesky has also sometimes indicated that they are deleting an account for being a scam or … End IP bans on any account from Gaza and allow them to make new accounts where they can comply with Bluesky rules and continue to be valued members of the community. We understand that even if all these changes are made, many Gazans may still violate Bluesky rules in the future, but we hope that Bluesky will abandon their punitive approach to these violations and instead embrace an attitude of education, cooperation and community care– one that works to ensure people in Gaza can participate in a way that keeps their voices heard. We also call on the Bluesky community to help and support these accounts however they can. We want to continue to build a healthy community with better community members and this cannot be done if Gazans continue to be shunned. We can use this as an opportunity to show how to protect all vulnerable groups in the future. We hope that Bluesky does not follow the path of other social media platforms and instead forges ahead with a different philosophy. After all, that is the reason so many of its users are there. Bluesky's ethos of "No Caesars” should apply to all members of its community. [To add your name to the list of signatories, click here.]
May 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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aljazeera.com
Outrage after an Israeli attack kills nine of a Gaza doctor’s children while she was at work, aged seven months to 12 years, with two still under the rubble aje.io/i7m1nb
Outrage, horror after Israeli attack kills nine children of Gaza doctor
The young victims, two of whom remain under the rubble, range in age from seven months to 12 years old. .
aje.io
May 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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mondoweiss.net
The Trump administration's assault on Palestine activism may seem unprecedented, but the parallels to the post-9/11 "War on Terror" are chillingly familiar. However, this attempt to quash dissent will fail, because you cannot deport a movement.
Trump is repackaging the ‘War on Terror’ to stop Palestine activists, but you can’t deport a movement
The Trump administration’s assault on Palestine activism may seem unprecedented, but the parallels to the post-9/11 “War on Terror” are chillingly familiar. However, this attempt to quash dissent…
mondoweiss.net
May 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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intifada.bsky.social
A monthly digest of key developments in Palestine showcasing powerful images by photojournalists. electronicintifada.net/content/pale...
Palestine in Pictures: April 2025
A monthly digest of key developments in Palestine showcasing powerful images by photojournalists.
electronicintifada.net
May 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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intifada.bsky.social
We should never let the West's leaders lecture us again. // Analysis by Dalal Yassine electronicintifada.net/content/gaza...
Gaza and the end of humanitarian law
We should never let the West's leaders lecture us again.
electronicintifada.net
May 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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janus.bsky.social
Sinners was v good go see it
May 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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dropsitenews.com
“He went to bring flour so we could eat.”
The family mourns for 14-year-old Fayez Abu Samra, killed by Israeli forces while trying to bring flour home to his sisters.
May 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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aljazeera.com
“Israel must be stopped, and so [should] the states supplying it with weapons.”

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory, has called for an end to arms transfers to Israel.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/do0fw7
April 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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danaelkurd.bsky.social
"...listed the keffiyeh, a black and white scarf emblematic of Palestinian identity, and the watermelon, which shares the colors of the Palestinian flag, as examples...that “incite hatred, violence, or discrimination against Jewish individuals or communities.”

jewishcurrents.org/training-nyp...
Training for NYPD Officers Categorized the Keffiyeh and Watermelon as…
Experts say the training reinforced a police culture that treats Palestinians and their supporters with suspicion and brutality.
jewishcurrents.org
April 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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aljazeera.com
An Israeli missile hit Gaza’s Durra Children’s Hospital, damaging the ICU and destroying its solar power system, according to the Health Ministry.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/iglroq
April 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
Mahmoud Khalil asked for permission to attend the birth of his child under any conditions.

His request was denied within 30 minutes.

apnews.com/article/mahm...
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal immigration authorities denied Mahmoud Khalil’s request for a temporary release from detention to attend the birth of his first child, who was born Monday in New York, according to emails shared with The Associated Press. Khalil, a Columbia University activist who has been held in a detention center in Jena, Louisiana for six weeks, requested a two-week furlough on Sunday morning, noting that his wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, had gone into labor eight days earlier than expected. His lawyers said he would be “open to any combination of conditions” to allow the release, including wearing an ankle monitor and attending regularly scheduled check-ins with immigration authorities. Around 30 minutes later, Mellissa B. Harper, the New Orleans Field Office Director for U.S. Immigrations and Customs, wrote back: “After consideration of the submitted information and a review of your client’s case, your request for furlough is denied.”
April 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM