Emma Bainbridge
@eksbainbridge.bsky.social
Freelance journalist based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang (Montreal) and London (UK not Ontario).
Go read my article on @theflytrapmedia.com for free!
Maps are fundamentally political, so as freelance writer Emma Bainbridge explores, the Orange Wig's obsession with reshaping maps is simply another way of legitimizing repression.
Maps Have Always Been A Colonial Tool of Expansion—Techno-Fascism Is Making It Worse
How are the colonial applications of cartography, mixed with growing techno-fascism, helping Donald Trump's expansionist agenda?
f.mtr.cool
October 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Go read my article on @theflytrapmedia.com for free!
African countries have the opportunity to do the funniest thing with the Louvre heist 😏
October 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
African countries have the opportunity to do the funniest thing with the Louvre heist 😏
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New resource⚡ How to Clean Up Copaganda
We're pleased to share our new resource for journalists, communicators, and organizers responding to law enforcement disinformation.
Check out this online guide written by IC Abolition Journalism Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social, here: bit.ly/CleanUpCopag...
We're pleased to share our new resource for journalists, communicators, and organizers responding to law enforcement disinformation.
Check out this online guide written by IC Abolition Journalism Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social, here: bit.ly/CleanUpCopag...
How to Clean Up Copaganda — Interrupting Criminalization
bit.ly
October 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
New resource⚡ How to Clean Up Copaganda
We're pleased to share our new resource for journalists, communicators, and organizers responding to law enforcement disinformation.
Check out this online guide written by IC Abolition Journalism Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social, here: bit.ly/CleanUpCopag...
We're pleased to share our new resource for journalists, communicators, and organizers responding to law enforcement disinformation.
Check out this online guide written by IC Abolition Journalism Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social, here: bit.ly/CleanUpCopag...
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Reading this and sobbing at the thought of that terrified 7 year old begging for a place to hide so she isn't taken away by the Ghestappo
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Reading this and sobbing at the thought of that terrified 7 year old begging for a place to hide so she isn't taken away by the Ghestappo
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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🌳🪶 En français : La mobilisation – et la victoire – des gardien·nes du territoire autochtones et de leurs soutiens contre la Loi 97 de la CAQ.
⬇️Texte de @eksbainbridge.bsky.social
⬇️Texte de @eksbainbridge.bsky.social
Un été de résistance dans le territoire des Nehirowisiw – The Rover
La mobilisation – et la victoire – des gardien·nes du territoire autochtones et de leurs soutiens contre la Loi 97 de la CAQ.
therover.ca
October 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🌳🪶 En français : La mobilisation – et la victoire – des gardien·nes du territoire autochtones et de leurs soutiens contre la Loi 97 de la CAQ.
⬇️Texte de @eksbainbridge.bsky.social
⬇️Texte de @eksbainbridge.bsky.social
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Writing at @therovermedia.bsky.social Emma Bainbridge explains how Indigenous land defenders and allies mobilized against the CAQ’s Bill 97 and won in Nehirowisiw Territory.
therover.ca/a-summer-of-... 🔶
therover.ca/a-summer-of-... 🔶
A Summer of Resistance in Nehirowisiw Territory – The Rover
How Indigenous land defenders and allies mobilized against the CAQ’s Bill 97 — and won.
therover.ca
October 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Writing at @therovermedia.bsky.social Emma Bainbridge explains how Indigenous land defenders and allies mobilized against the CAQ’s Bill 97 and won in Nehirowisiw Territory.
therover.ca/a-summer-of-... 🔶
therover.ca/a-summer-of-... 🔶
I've spent the past month trying to understand what's going on behind the scenes at Ottawa's Capital Pride after they mysteriously removed their Palestine solidarity statement. Thanks to @theleveller.bsky.social for publishing this!
Queers For Palestine #Ottawa organized a demonstration within the #CapitalPride parade. For weeks, Palestinian solidarity activists were organizing - so were politicians and pro-genocide institutions. We explain what really happened in the run-up to these events.
leveller.ca/2025/09/putt...
#ottpoli
leveller.ca/2025/09/putt...
#ottpoli
Putting the Community Back In Pride - The Leveller
By: Emma Bainbridge For many spectators, Ottawa’s annual Capital Pride march took an unexpected turn when Queers 4 Palestine Ottawa (Q4P) and their allies stopped the parade on August 24 to make deman...
leveller.ca
September 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I've spent the past month trying to understand what's going on behind the scenes at Ottawa's Capital Pride after they mysteriously removed their Palestine solidarity statement. Thanks to @theleveller.bsky.social for publishing this!
Reposted by Emma Bainbridge
Queers For Palestine #Ottawa organized a demonstration within the #CapitalPride parade. For weeks, Palestinian solidarity activists were organizing - so were politicians and pro-genocide institutions. We explain what really happened in the run-up to these events.
leveller.ca/2025/09/putt...
#ottpoli
leveller.ca/2025/09/putt...
#ottpoli
Putting the Community Back In Pride - The Leveller
By: Emma Bainbridge For many spectators, Ottawa’s annual Capital Pride march took an unexpected turn when Queers 4 Palestine Ottawa (Q4P) and their allies stopped the parade on August 24 to make deman...
leveller.ca
September 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Queers For Palestine #Ottawa organized a demonstration within the #CapitalPride parade. For weeks, Palestinian solidarity activists were organizing - so were politicians and pro-genocide institutions. We explain what really happened in the run-up to these events.
leveller.ca/2025/09/putt...
#ottpoli
leveller.ca/2025/09/putt...
#ottpoli
In January, I was verbally harassed and accused of anti-police prejudice by an officer when checking in on an unhoused man being harassed by police in the Montreal metro.
Removing people from metro stations doesn't fix homelessness, and police actively harm the vulnerable people they interact with.
Removing people from metro stations doesn't fix homelessness, and police actively harm the vulnerable people they interact with.
🚇 Experts say the STM "move-along order” in metro stations marginalizes the city’s most vulnerable citizens by pushing them back onto the streets.
"We’re not ending homelessness, but we are ending homeless people." -David Chapman, director of Resilience Montreal
⬇️ By @emeliafournier.bsky.social
"We’re not ending homelessness, but we are ending homeless people." -David Chapman, director of Resilience Montreal
⬇️ By @emeliafournier.bsky.social
Montreal Metro Order Represses and Displaces Homeless, Experts Say – The Rover
Vulnerable people are being expelled from their 'shelter of last resort.'
therover.ca
August 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
In January, I was verbally harassed and accused of anti-police prejudice by an officer when checking in on an unhoused man being harassed by police in the Montreal metro.
Removing people from metro stations doesn't fix homelessness, and police actively harm the vulnerable people they interact with.
Removing people from metro stations doesn't fix homelessness, and police actively harm the vulnerable people they interact with.
There's no way we can "reform" this institution #acab
The cop who punched Abdirahman Abdi to death in Ottawa, Daniel Montsion, was the highest paid officer in Ontario in 2024. His salary is nearly double the other highest salaries, at a stunning $410,710.
August 13, 2025 at 3:13 AM
There's no way we can "reform" this institution #acab
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Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City.
"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."
It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...
"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."
It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...
The Israeli Assassination of Journalist Anas al-Sharif and Five Colleagues in Gaza City
“We understand these are our last days.”
www.dropsitenews.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City.
"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."
It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...
"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."
It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...
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Pride season in Montreal usually means drag shows, outdoor parties and community get-togethers. This year, though, it began with a boycott.
Pride alternatives pop up in wake of Fierté Montréal controversies | Xtra Magazine
Amid calls for a community-wide boycott, LGBTQ2S+ groups in the city are celebrating on their own terms
xtramagazine.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Pride season in Montreal usually means drag shows, outdoor parties and community get-togethers. This year, though, it began with a boycott.
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HOME OFFICE DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN OVER PALESTINE ACTION BAN EXPOSED
@declassifiedUK has revealed that Home Office insinuations that Palestine Action supports violence and receives funding from Iran were refuted by its own internal assessments.
In full: www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...
@declassifiedUK has revealed that Home Office insinuations that Palestine Action supports violence and receives funding from Iran were refuted by its own internal assessments.
In full: www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...
Revealed: How Palestine Action was banned
Exclusive: Documents seen by Declassified reveal serious concerns within the UK government and MI5 about proscribing Palestine Action.
www.declassifieduk.org
July 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
HOME OFFICE DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN OVER PALESTINE ACTION BAN EXPOSED
@declassifiedUK has revealed that Home Office insinuations that Palestine Action supports violence and receives funding from Iran were refuted by its own internal assessments.
In full: www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...
@declassifiedUK has revealed that Home Office insinuations that Palestine Action supports violence and receives funding from Iran were refuted by its own internal assessments.
In full: www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...
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A Palestinian activist who helped film the "No Other Land" documentary, Awdah Hathaleen, was shot and killed by an Israeli settler on Monday. Locals identified the killer as Yinon Levi, who was sanctioned by the U.S. and the EU for “regularly leading groups of violent extremists” in the West Bank.
Activist Who Helped Film “No Other Land” Shot and Killed by Israeli Settler
Israeli violence in Masafer Yatta has intensified since the film won an Oscar.
buff.ly
July 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A Palestinian activist who helped film the "No Other Land" documentary, Awdah Hathaleen, was shot and killed by an Israeli settler on Monday. Locals identified the killer as Yinon Levi, who was sanctioned by the U.S. and the EU for “regularly leading groups of violent extremists” in the West Bank.
International energy companies, such as BP and Chevron, are becoming increasingly involved in Israel's energy sector and therefore fuelling the genocide of Palestinians. This article offers a really good explanation of Israel's "energy diplomacy" strategy!
Energy exports play a central role in Israel's campaign to normalize relations with its neighbors and avoid accountability for its ongoing genocide of Palestinians. An energy embargo on Israel should go hand-in-hand with calls for an arms embargo.
mondoweiss.net/2025/07/how-...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/07/how-...
#Palestine #Israel
How Israel’s energy diplomacy is fueling the Gaza genocide
Energy exports play a central role in Israel’s campaign to normalize relations with its neighbors and avoid accountability for its ongoing genocide of Palestinians. An energy embargo on Israel should...
mondoweiss.net
July 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
International energy companies, such as BP and Chevron, are becoming increasingly involved in Israel's energy sector and therefore fuelling the genocide of Palestinians. This article offers a really good explanation of Israel's "energy diplomacy" strategy!
Love when my work allows me to dig into fossil fuel lobbyists.
In a recent National Post article, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute argued that climate is no longer a priority for Canadians, so Carney should reverse Trudeau’s climate policies. Let’s dive into who they really are and why they want us to think that Canadians don’t care about climate. 🧵#ClimateSky
July 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Love when my work allows me to dig into fossil fuel lobbyists.
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🔥A masterclass in holding cities accountable for greenwashing by @toenviro.bsky.social
"When weighed against landfilling using the latest green energy technology, like methane gas conversion, the emission rate of incineration is as much as six times more."
www.torontotoday.ca/local/enviro...
"When weighed against landfilling using the latest green energy technology, like methane gas conversion, the emission rate of incineration is as much as six times more."
www.torontotoday.ca/local/enviro...
City misleading public about climate benefit of trash incineration: report
The city has claimed burning Toronto’s trash would result in less greenhouse gas emissions than landfilling, but a new report says that’s not true
www.torontotoday.ca
July 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🔥A masterclass in holding cities accountable for greenwashing by @toenviro.bsky.social
"When weighed against landfilling using the latest green energy technology, like methane gas conversion, the emission rate of incineration is as much as six times more."
www.torontotoday.ca/local/enviro...
"When weighed against landfilling using the latest green energy technology, like methane gas conversion, the emission rate of incineration is as much as six times more."
www.torontotoday.ca/local/enviro...
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One thing we’ve talked about on @theflytrapmedia.com is allowing people to sponsor posts and looking at all these amazing freelance pitches we will have to reject for purely budgetary reasons I feel like I gotta ask…anyone want to sponsor a post at The Flytrap?
July 6, 2025 at 2:11 AM
One thing we’ve talked about on @theflytrapmedia.com is allowing people to sponsor posts and looking at all these amazing freelance pitches we will have to reject for purely budgetary reasons I feel like I gotta ask…anyone want to sponsor a post at The Flytrap?
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In other news, I spoke with @xtramagazine.com about how lesbian communities have responded to the UK transphobia, and the importance of solidarity and collective action in the face of state-mandated persecution.
Hope lies with Dyke News, with Dyke Pride, and with the Lesbian Avengers!
Hope lies with Dyke News, with Dyke Pride, and with the Lesbian Avengers!
U.K. lesbians are resisting state-mandated transphobia | Xtra Magazine
In response to the U.K. Supreme Court’s ruling excluding trans women, lesbian organizers are committed to keeping their spaces inclusive
xtramagazine.com
June 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
In other news, I spoke with @xtramagazine.com about how lesbian communities have responded to the UK transphobia, and the importance of solidarity and collective action in the face of state-mandated persecution.
Hope lies with Dyke News, with Dyke Pride, and with the Lesbian Avengers!
Hope lies with Dyke News, with Dyke Pride, and with the Lesbian Avengers!
Meanwhile the government of so-called Canada is literally trying to pass Trump-esque legislation to deport refugees and exploit Indigenous lands without consultation 🤡🤡🤡
Beautiful idea from some of my @thirdactorg.bsky.social colleagues
July 1 is Canada Day, and so they'll be outside Canadian embassies/consulates serenading them with O Canada and other tunes, all to show that most of us really truly like our neighbors to the north
actionnetwork.org/events/ameri...
July 1 is Canada Day, and so they'll be outside Canadian embassies/consulates serenading them with O Canada and other tunes, all to show that most of us really truly like our neighbors to the north
actionnetwork.org/events/ameri...
O Canada! Americans Celebrate Canada Day
On July 1, Americans will celebrate Canada Day by gathering outside the Canadian embassy in Washington DC at noon for a pop-up sing-along of the Canadian National Anthem and other songs reflecting the...
actionnetwork.org
June 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Meanwhile the government of so-called Canada is literally trying to pass Trump-esque legislation to deport refugees and exploit Indigenous lands without consultation 🤡🤡🤡
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“We need intentional, aggressive, extremely homosexual non-compliance.” @notrightruth.bsky.social speaks to @eksbainbridge.bsky.social about how lesbian communities are responding to the U.K. Supreme Court ruling.
U.K. lesbians are resisting state-mandated transphobia | Xtra Magazine
In response to the U.K. Supreme Court’s ruling excluding trans women, lesbian organizers are committed to keeping their spaces inclusive
xtramagazine.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
“We need intentional, aggressive, extremely homosexual non-compliance.” @notrightruth.bsky.social speaks to @eksbainbridge.bsky.social about how lesbian communities are responding to the U.K. Supreme Court ruling.
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NEW: For @prismreports.org, I wrote about my beloved Los Angeles, an American city unlike any other, where there is an unspoken understanding that our place and our people must be defended at all costs:
ICE raids in Los Angeles are a declaration of war
ICE sent the city a message when its agents showed up in full force, and that message was responded to in kind by the people of Los Angeles
prismreports.org
June 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
NEW: For @prismreports.org, I wrote about my beloved Los Angeles, an American city unlike any other, where there is an unspoken understanding that our place and our people must be defended at all costs:
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🔴‘My Partner Turned Out to Be an Undercover Cop – Now I’m Exposing the Truth’
The activist who helped expose Britain’s ‘spy cop’ scandal discusses her new book on state-sanctioned betrayal, and why she thinks politicised policing still continues today
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/02/m...
The activist who helped expose Britain’s ‘spy cop’ scandal discusses her new book on state-sanctioned betrayal, and why she thinks politicised policing still continues today
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/02/m...
'My Partner Turned Out to Be an Undercover Cop – Now I'm Exposing the Truth'
The activist who helped expose Britain's ‘spy cop’ scandal discusses her new book on state-sanctioned betrayal, and why she thinks politicised policing still continues today
bylinetimes.com
June 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
🔴‘My Partner Turned Out to Be an Undercover Cop – Now I’m Exposing the Truth’
The activist who helped expose Britain’s ‘spy cop’ scandal discusses her new book on state-sanctioned betrayal, and why she thinks politicised policing still continues today
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/02/m...
The activist who helped expose Britain’s ‘spy cop’ scandal discusses her new book on state-sanctioned betrayal, and why she thinks politicised policing still continues today
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/02/m...
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It’s Flytrap Tuesday, and this week we’ve got a brilliant freelance piece by @eksbainbridge.bsky.social on the political nature of maps and how, in contrast to what the fashy tech bros are doing, we could use that aspect of maps for good
theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/maps-have-...
theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/maps-have-...
Maps Have Always Been A Colonial Tool of Expansion—Techno-Fascism Is Making It Worse
How are the colonial applications of cartography, mixed with growing techno-fascism, helping Donald Trump's expansionist agenda?
theflytrap.beehiiv.com
May 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
It’s Flytrap Tuesday, and this week we’ve got a brilliant freelance piece by @eksbainbridge.bsky.social on the political nature of maps and how, in contrast to what the fashy tech bros are doing, we could use that aspect of maps for good
theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/maps-have-...
theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/maps-have-...