@jeanswanson.bsky.social
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We’re more than halfway there! 🤩☄️
Tyee Builders contribute the largest part of our budget and enable us to ensure our independence to report hard facts while others shrink or shut down.
Will you become a Tyee Builder today and help us fight disinformation?
support.thetyee.ca?utm_source=b...
Tyee Builders contribute the largest part of our budget and enable us to ensure our independence to report hard facts while others shrink or shut down.
Will you become a Tyee Builder today and help us fight disinformation?
support.thetyee.ca?utm_source=b...
December 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We’re more than halfway there! 🤩☄️
Tyee Builders contribute the largest part of our budget and enable us to ensure our independence to report hard facts while others shrink or shut down.
Will you become a Tyee Builder today and help us fight disinformation?
support.thetyee.ca?utm_source=b...
Tyee Builders contribute the largest part of our budget and enable us to ensure our independence to report hard facts while others shrink or shut down.
Will you become a Tyee Builder today and help us fight disinformation?
support.thetyee.ca?utm_source=b...
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Zohran Mamdani says he would arrest Netanyahu if he visits New York City — if elected mayor.
Stop stop, there’s only so much good news I can take 🫦
Stop stop, there’s only so much good news I can take 🫦
June 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Zohran Mamdani says he would arrest Netanyahu if he visits New York City — if elected mayor.
Stop stop, there’s only so much good news I can take 🫦
Stop stop, there’s only so much good news I can take 🫦
Gratcartucke from first united vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
Opinion: Resist the gentrification of the Downtown Eastside
Proposed shift to the Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan to enable market towers will increase speculation and displace community members
vancouversun.com
May 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Gratcartucke from first united vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
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I was so sad to hear of Trey’s passing today. I spoke with his colleague/friend Sarah Blyth - she said he had so much to live for.
when a person who has saved so many people's lives (and in many different ways) dies, something in all of us (and in all of you, whether you know or not) dies too
love drug users while we're alive
beautiful work ↓ by dan fumano
vancouversun.com/news/obituar...
love drug users while we're alive
beautiful work ↓ by dan fumano
vancouversun.com/news/obituar...
'Boundless care and compassion': Trey Helten was on a mission to help others in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
"There is nothing to replace him." The sudden death of Trey Helten has shocked the Downtown Eastside, where he was widely known and loved.
vancouversun.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I was so sad to hear of Trey’s passing today. I spoke with his colleague/friend Sarah Blyth - she said he had so much to live for.
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BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop barring the Associated Press from the White House press pool, finding that it had discriminated against the outlet over its editorial decision not to adopt “Gulf of America” in its news stories.
More details coming:
More details coming:
Judge Sides With The Associated Press In Fight Over Access to Trump
A federal judge ordered the White House to restore the outlet’s access to certain White House events and agreed that it had been singled out over its editorial decisions.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop barring the Associated Press from the White House press pool, finding that it had discriminated against the outlet over its editorial decision not to adopt “Gulf of America” in its news stories.
More details coming:
More details coming:
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SCOOP: The Trump administration has dismissed all health officials who oversaw care for some of the world’s most vulnerable people: more than 500,000 children and more than 600,000 pregnant women with HIV in low-income countries.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/h...
Who Will Care for Infants With H.I.V. Overseas? (Gift Article)
The consequences of mother-to-child transmission can be enormous, a new study suggests. But the U.S. has dismissed experts working to solve the problem.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration has dismissed all health officials who oversaw care for some of the world’s most vulnerable people: more than 500,000 children and more than 600,000 pregnant women with HIV in low-income countries.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/h...
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Capitalism can't be reformed. It needs to be abolished. The sooner that happens, the less needless suffering.
One queasy #capitalist lemming won't change the fact that the profit system, with its unstoppable drive to accumulate, is incompatible with a sustainable relationship with the natural world. #ClimateChange
www.commondreams.org/news/capital...
www.commondreams.org/news/capital...
Capitalism Eating Itself by Fueling Climate Mayhem, Warns Capitalist | Common Dreams
If humanity stays on current course, warns top insurer, the "financial sector as we know it ceases to function. And with it, capitalism as we know it ceases to be viable."
www.commondreams.org
April 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Capitalism can't be reformed. It needs to be abolished. The sooner that happens, the less needless suffering.
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I forgot that Ken Sim created a Chip Wilson Day. I guess Chip Wilson is Vancouver’s Elon Musk just as Ken Sim is our Donald Trump. #VanPoli
dailyhive.com/vancouver/se...
dailyhive.com/vancouver/se...
Opinion: Defending Vancouver from billionaire greed and political takeover | Urbanized
At every door we knock on, at every event we attend, the message is the same: Ken Sim and ABC don’t have their best interests in mind.
dailyhive.com
March 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I forgot that Ken Sim created a Chip Wilson Day. I guess Chip Wilson is Vancouver’s Elon Musk just as Ken Sim is our Donald Trump. #VanPoli
dailyhive.com/vancouver/se...
dailyhive.com/vancouver/se...
Great article
“To me, the defining aftertaste of this book isn’t rage or anger, it’s uncertainty.”
@harrisonmooney.bsky.social interviews Omar El Akkad on his new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.”
@harrisonmooney.bsky.social interviews Omar El Akkad on his new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.”
For Gaza, with Outrage and Hope: Twenty Minutes with Omar El Akkad | The Tyee
The Egyptian-Canadian author’s new book invites readers to re-examine how they know what they know.
thetyee.ca
March 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Great article
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Ice requests Cornell student who sued Trump administration to ‘surrender’ to immigration authorities
Ice requests Cornell student who sued Trump administration to ‘surrender’ to immigration authorities
Momodou Taal, dual citizen of the UK and Gambia, received email from homeland security days after filing lawsuit
A Cornell University PhD student earlier this month sued the Trump administration seeking to stop the president’s order aimed at foreign students accused of “antisemitism”. Days later, the Department of Homeland Security emailed to request that the student “surrender” to immigration officials.
Momodou Taal, a dual citizen of the UK and Gambia, is one of three Cornell students who are plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to block the enforcement of Trump executive orders aimed at deporting foreign university students and staff involved in pro-Palestinian protest. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Ice requests Cornell student who sued Trump administration to ‘surrender’ to immigration authorities
Important article
The fight to free Mahmoud Khalil is not merely about preserving First Amendment rights, it is about whether we will allow our government to criminalize resistance to its complicity in human rights abuses and genocide. mondoweiss.net/2025/03/when...
When speaking up for Palestine becomes a crime
The fight to free Mahmoud Khalil is not merely about preserving First Amendment rights, it is about whether we will allow our government to criminalize resistance to its complicity in human rights abu...
mondoweiss.net
March 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Important article
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🚨New @crackdownpod.bsky.social ep. Trudeau's gone, but what's his legacy for drug users? 50,000 dead. Those losses left us bereft, haunted & traumatized. We all have PTSD. We all have ghosts. Our movements are disorganized, with missing leaders & empty chairs. www.crackdownpod.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 50: The Toll — Crackdown Podcast
It’s the end of an era in Canada. On March 10th – after nine years in power – Mark Carney replaced Justin Trudeau as Canada’s Prime Minister. We mark the occasion by looking back at Trudeau’s legacy o...
www.crackdownpod.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
🚨New @crackdownpod.bsky.social ep. Trudeau's gone, but what's his legacy for drug users? 50,000 dead. Those losses left us bereft, haunted & traumatized. We all have PTSD. We all have ghosts. Our movements are disorganized, with missing leaders & empty chairs. www.crackdownpod.com/episodes/epi...
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I can (and do) explain the "law" behind Mahmoud Khalil's unlawful abduction and rendition to a for-profit concentration camp.
But if you're waiting for the law to stop this, you've got it wrong. Dictators always make their crimes "legal"
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
But if you're waiting for the law to stop this, you've got it wrong. Dictators always make their crimes "legal"
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
We Are Asking the Wrong Questions About Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest
The only relevant question is not “How can the government do this?” It is “How can we who oppose this fascist regime?”
www.thenation.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I can (and do) explain the "law" behind Mahmoud Khalil's unlawful abduction and rendition to a for-profit concentration camp.
But if you're waiting for the law to stop this, you've got it wrong. Dictators always make their crimes "legal"
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
But if you're waiting for the law to stop this, you've got it wrong. Dictators always make their crimes "legal"
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Whichever side of the 🇨🇦🇺🇸border drug users live on, our governments consider us expendable. We are a nation of the bereaved, united in resistance. As always, @crackdownpod.bsky.social is free. There are no tariffs. You can help us keep going www.patreon.com/crackdownpod
Get more from Crackdown Podcast on Patreon
creating a radio show made by drug users about the war on drugs.
www.patreon.com
March 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Whichever side of the 🇨🇦🇺🇸border drug users live on, our governments consider us expendable. We are a nation of the bereaved, united in resistance. As always, @crackdownpod.bsky.social is free. There are no tariffs. You can help us keep going www.patreon.com/crackdownpod
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The tariffs will hurt bad, but Fentanyl is a front. The drug war ain’t about drugs. Never was. It’s always been a proxy fight to attack specific communities. Targets change, but the principal remains the same. It’s theatre, political kayfabe. “Fentanyl Czar” - sounds like a wrestler.
March 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The tariffs will hurt bad, but Fentanyl is a front. The drug war ain’t about drugs. Never was. It’s always been a proxy fight to attack specific communities. Targets change, but the principal remains the same. It’s theatre, political kayfabe. “Fentanyl Czar” - sounds like a wrestler.
GArth for czar!!
As Canada’s Fentanyl Czar, I would create a massive safe supply program that would starve organized crime. Why score lethal street crap when the czar can hook you up with a script to the good pharma shit? Where do I apply? m.youtube.com/watch?v=CfBo...
Canada to appoint ‘fentanyl czar’ as part of tariff pause
YouTube video by CBC News
m.youtube.com
March 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
GArth for czar!!
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It’s said that we live in a post-fact society. We disagree.
Now, more than ever, facts matter, and ProPublica is going to continue to track how and when patently false statements are injected into conversations about the country’s future.
By @sengelberg.bsky.social
Now, more than ever, facts matter, and ProPublica is going to continue to track how and when patently false statements are injected into conversations about the country’s future.
By @sengelberg.bsky.social
The Trump Administration Keeps Citing an Untrue Stat as It Targets Federal Workers
A “survey of our niche audience for our niche audience” was the source for the claim that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices. The number isn’t true. Why do…
propub.li
February 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
It’s said that we live in a post-fact society. We disagree.
Now, more than ever, facts matter, and ProPublica is going to continue to track how and when patently false statements are injected into conversations about the country’s future.
By @sengelberg.bsky.social
Now, more than ever, facts matter, and ProPublica is going to continue to track how and when patently false statements are injected into conversations about the country’s future.
By @sengelberg.bsky.social
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Trump receives widespread backlash to social post calling himself ‘king’
Trump receives widespread backlash to social post calling himself ‘king’
US president made comparison after administration rescinded New York City’s congestion pricing plan
Donald Trump is receiving widespread backlash after he likened himself to a “king” on social media following his administration’s decision to rescind New…
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Trump receives widespread backlash to social post calling himself ‘king’
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As Canada’s Fentanyl Czar, I would create a massive safe supply program that would starve organized crime. Why score lethal street crap when the czar can hook you up with a script to the good pharma shit? Where do I apply? m.youtube.com/watch?v=CfBo...
Canada to appoint ‘fentanyl czar’ as part of tariff pause
YouTube video by CBC News
m.youtube.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:06 AM
As Canada’s Fentanyl Czar, I would create a massive safe supply program that would starve organized crime. Why score lethal street crap when the czar can hook you up with a script to the good pharma shit? Where do I apply? m.youtube.com/watch?v=CfBo...
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025.... We wrote about Sim’s DTES plan.
Ken Sim Is Wrong. We Need More Supportive Housing, Not Less | The Tyee
A plan to halt housing solutions will hurt people, businesses and the city.
thetyee.ca
January 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025.... We wrote about Sim’s DTES plan.