MaryAnna FlapJack
@mafj.bsky.social
Mankind is my business. Onondaga Mohawk.
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Canada is uniquely positioned to break the siege of Cuba—we should be leading a regional coalition to ship oil and aid to Cuba, and prevent the humanitarian crisis that U.S. regime is attempting to deliberately trigger.
I wrote about it, and the history of the blockade, for @policyalternatives.ca
I wrote about it, and the history of the blockade, for @policyalternatives.ca
Send Canadian oil to Cuba - CCPA
The United States is attempting to deliberately trigger a humanitarian crisis in Cuba. Canada must act in concert with regional allies to defy the blockade.
www.policyalternatives.ca
February 12, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Canada is uniquely positioned to break the siege of Cuba—we should be leading a regional coalition to ship oil and aid to Cuba, and prevent the humanitarian crisis that U.S. regime is attempting to deliberately trigger.
I wrote about it, and the history of the blockade, for @policyalternatives.ca
I wrote about it, and the history of the blockade, for @policyalternatives.ca
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23-year-old Tyresse Roundsky was killed by a police officer last year in Wapekeka First Nation in Ontario.
SIU concluded the officer did not commit a criminal offence, however Roundsky is the third in his family to have been killed by a police officer.
SIU concluded the officer did not commit a criminal offence, however Roundsky is the third in his family to have been killed by a police officer.
Update on third First Nations family member to die by police shooting in Ontario | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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February 12, 2026 at 8:00 PM
23-year-old Tyresse Roundsky was killed by a police officer last year in Wapekeka First Nation in Ontario.
SIU concluded the officer did not commit a criminal offence, however Roundsky is the third in his family to have been killed by a police officer.
SIU concluded the officer did not commit a criminal offence, however Roundsky is the third in his family to have been killed by a police officer.
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I am Canadian. So I can. And did. Please do so as well.
Found this on the bad place. I'm from the US, so I can't, but if you’re Canadian, I urge you to sign this House of Commons petition, then share with your friends & family. It calls to ban Canadian companies from working with ICE and ban ICE from operating in Canada.
ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7146 - Petitions
ourcommons.ca
February 11, 2026 at 9:52 PM
I am Canadian. So I can. And did. Please do so as well.
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If a brown singer at a halftime show offends you enough to protest but white men raping young girls doesn’t, then it isn’t family values you defend it’s white supremacy and sexual abuse.
February 8, 2026 at 8:20 PM
If a brown singer at a halftime show offends you enough to protest but white men raping young girls doesn’t, then it isn’t family values you defend it’s white supremacy and sexual abuse.
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Excellent day to note that BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans (covering ~775,000 British Columbians) have big $$ invested in PALANTIR, which is enabling the ICE secret police and its horrific terror campaign.
Time to divest from fascist-friendly firms!
(See posts👇 from our awful advent calendar.)
Time to divest from fascist-friendly firms!
(See posts👇 from our awful advent calendar.)
December 25: BCI has ~$48.88M in Palantir Technologies Inc, the US tech giant whose AI-powered data-analysis is used by the Gestapo/ICE.🎄 In 2025 it won a $30M contract to build a platform to “streamline” immigrant identification + deportation.🔔 Other clients include the Pentagon, police depts, …
Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir
For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how...
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Excellent day to note that BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans (covering ~775,000 British Columbians) have big $$ invested in PALANTIR, which is enabling the ICE secret police and its horrific terror campaign.
Time to divest from fascist-friendly firms!
(See posts👇 from our awful advent calendar.)
Time to divest from fascist-friendly firms!
(See posts👇 from our awful advent calendar.)
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Especially on this website. They’re allowed to run rampant here. You’re all surrounded by supporters of a regime that’s exterminating human beings.
February 7, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Especially on this website. They’re allowed to run rampant here. You’re all surrounded by supporters of a regime that’s exterminating human beings.
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Recall: Stephen Harper joined ex-spymasters in company investing in Israeli security tech
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Stephen Harper joined ex-spymasters in company investing in Israeli security tech | CBC News
Former prime minister Stephen Harper is working with former leaders of three major intelligence agencies — the Mossad, the CIA and MI5 — in a Canadian private company.
www.cbc.ca
February 6, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Recall: Stephen Harper joined ex-spymasters in company investing in Israeli security tech
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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LNG Canada’s facility in Kitimat, B.C., burned more than 1.7 million cubic metres of gas on a single day in September.
While that day was an outlier, documents obtained through a freedom of information request reveal the facility consistently burned 15 times more gas per day than expected.
While that day was an outlier, documents obtained through a freedom of information request reveal the facility consistently burned 15 times more gas per day than expected.
February 6, 2026 at 3:34 PM
LNG Canada’s facility in Kitimat, B.C., burned more than 1.7 million cubic metres of gas on a single day in September.
While that day was an outlier, documents obtained through a freedom of information request reveal the facility consistently burned 15 times more gas per day than expected.
While that day was an outlier, documents obtained through a freedom of information request reveal the facility consistently burned 15 times more gas per day than expected.
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BC legislators passed the law UNANIMOUSLY in 2019, when EVERY MLA from EVERY party voted for it as a route to reconciliation. Eby's plan to rewrite DRIPA and have the Supreme Court put limits on it is a shameful betrayal of First Nations and an unacceptable return to the colonial status quo.
![Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (Declaration Act) establishes the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [151KB PDF] (UN Declaration) as the Province’s framework for reconciliation, as called for by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action.
Passed unanimously in the B.C. legislature on November 26, 2019, the Declaration Act came into force on November 29, 2019. B.C. is the first jurisdiction in Canada to formally adopt the internationally recognized standards of the UN Declaration.
screen cap from https://declaration.gov.bc.ca/
The Declaration Act mandates government to bring provincial laws into alignment with the UN Declaration and to develop and implement an action plan to achieve the objectives of the UN Declaration in consultation and co-operation with Indigenous Peoples.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m37osdt5t2a4fqxgr2c7uuxl/bafkreihleon4du3rz5mhskpfdauqvgbrpv66m4albilxavmtf5wuz6re3m@jpeg)
February 6, 2026 at 9:46 PM
BC legislators passed the law UNANIMOUSLY in 2019, when EVERY MLA from EVERY party voted for it as a route to reconciliation. Eby's plan to rewrite DRIPA and have the Supreme Court put limits on it is a shameful betrayal of First Nations and an unacceptable return to the colonial status quo.
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Children have the right to be heard and to take part in decisions that affect them. Students showed powerful leadership during the human rights case for First Nations kids, speaking up for fairness.
👉 Learn about children’s rights: https://bit.ly/SpiritBearGuide
👉 Learn about children’s rights: https://bit.ly/SpiritBearGuide
February 5, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Children have the right to be heard and to take part in decisions that affect them. Students showed powerful leadership during the human rights case for First Nations kids, speaking up for fairness.
👉 Learn about children’s rights: https://bit.ly/SpiritBearGuide
👉 Learn about children’s rights: https://bit.ly/SpiritBearGuide
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Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
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Thread.
Shitty people can make good and even great art. Likewise, dropping a favorite artist after you realize you can no longer support them can feel like a divorce or a friend breakup because they and their work were just that important to you. That shit hurts, even when it's necessary for you.
Shitty people can make good and even great art. Likewise, dropping a favorite artist after you realize you can no longer support them can feel like a divorce or a friend breakup because they and their work were just that important to you. That shit hurts, even when it's necessary for you.
A tough one to sit with--but we must--is that some people's ability to make good art in part derived from, or was protected by, the fact that they were enabling or doing terrible things. See also: We Need to Talk about Cosby doc. Even more troubling on this score: Read deep reporting on Alice Munro
"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.
February 3, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Thread.
Shitty people can make good and even great art. Likewise, dropping a favorite artist after you realize you can no longer support them can feel like a divorce or a friend breakup because they and their work were just that important to you. That shit hurts, even when it's necessary for you.
Shitty people can make good and even great art. Likewise, dropping a favorite artist after you realize you can no longer support them can feel like a divorce or a friend breakup because they and their work were just that important to you. That shit hurts, even when it's necessary for you.
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Good thinking. Much more accurate. “White Narcissism” means whites who arrogantly and falsely claim their skin color means they’re better.
Going forward, barring super specific circumstances, I'm retiring the term "white supremacy" to describe Trump & his sycophants—because there's nothing "supreme" about them.
Instead, I'll use the term "white narcissism," because they arrogantly and falsely think their skin color makes them better.
Instead, I'll use the term "white narcissism," because they arrogantly and falsely think their skin color makes them better.
February 3, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Good thinking. Much more accurate. “White Narcissism” means whites who arrogantly and falsely claim their skin color means they’re better.
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A troupe member of Bill Cody's 'Buffalo Bill' Wild West Show: collection of Roland Bonaparte, photographed during the Paris World Exposition of 1889, during the show's European tour.
© Musée Du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac collections
© Musée Du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac collections
February 1, 2026 at 6:57 PM
A troupe member of Bill Cody's 'Buffalo Bill' Wild West Show: collection of Roland Bonaparte, photographed during the Paris World Exposition of 1889, during the show's European tour.
© Musée Du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac collections
© Musée Du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac collections
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Canadians horrified by what ICE is doing should realize the RCMP uses the same tactics domestically against Indigenous people and yet barely anyone speaks up.
Journalists have been arrested just for trying to cover it
Journalists have been arrested just for trying to cover it
Carol Linnitt, co-founder and editor-in-chief, provides an update on The Narwhal’s court case against the RCMP. Amber Bracken finished cross-examination late Jan. 28. It took more than 12 hours.
To learn more about the trial visit www.thenarwhal.ca/press-freedom
To learn more about the trial visit www.thenarwhal.ca/press-freedom
January 30, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Canadians horrified by what ICE is doing should realize the RCMP uses the same tactics domestically against Indigenous people and yet barely anyone speaks up.
Journalists have been arrested just for trying to cover it
Journalists have been arrested just for trying to cover it
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Award-winning Palestinian journalist regains account with 1.4 million followers after surprise removal from platform.
Gaza-based journalist Bisan Owda regains TikTok account after outcry
Award-winning Palestinian journalist regains account with 1.4 million followers after surprise removal from platform.
www.aljazeera.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Award-winning Palestinian journalist regains account with 1.4 million followers after surprise removal from platform.
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Al Jazeera denounces YouTube's submission to the ban of its broadcast in Israel and calls for adherence to international conventions.
January 29, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Al Jazeera denounces YouTube's submission to the ban of its broadcast in Israel and calls for adherence to international conventions.
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They’re still sitting at $350USD remaining. I missed a day of boosting it because of a family emergency so I’ll keep sharing it here all day. Please send them a donation today if you’re able to. Help this Native mother and child stay housed. They really need your help right now.
January 29, 2026 at 5:22 PM
They’re still sitting at $350USD remaining. I missed a day of boosting it because of a family emergency so I’ll keep sharing it here all day. Please send them a donation today if you’re able to. Help this Native mother and child stay housed. They really need your help right now.
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Please read and share
"Paywalls don’t just limit the reach of news; they create a void often filled by lies and deceit," writes FPF board member @johncusack.bsky.social.
"Whatever business model journalism settles on is sure to depend on public trust. Paywalls undermine that trust."
"Whatever business model journalism settles on is sure to depend on public trust. Paywalls undermine that trust."
Paywall-free news coverage of ICE raids, deportation campaign aids those who need it most
Paywalls create a two-tiered citizenry — one that can afford to be informed, and one that cannot, actor and political activist John Cusack writes.
chicago.suntimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Please read and share
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A reported meeting between Alberta separatists and U.S. officials isn't sitting well with at least one premier at the First Ministers meeting in Ottawa.
www.aptnnews.ca?p=282914
www.aptnnews.ca?p=282914
Eby calls meeting between Alberta separatists, U.S. officials 'treason'
British Columbia Premier David Eby told reporters before the first ministers' meeting on Thursday it's completely inappropriate
www.aptnnews.ca
January 29, 2026 at 6:10 PM
A reported meeting between Alberta separatists and U.S. officials isn't sitting well with at least one premier at the First Ministers meeting in Ottawa.
www.aptnnews.ca?p=282914
www.aptnnews.ca?p=282914
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A court-approved settlement claim for former Indigenous patients that attended federal Indian hospitals is now open.
Those who experienced abuse while admitted at one of these hospitals can now submit a claim for compensation.
Those who experienced abuse while admitted at one of these hospitals can now submit a claim for compensation.
Federal Indian hospitals settlement claims now open for former Indigenous patients | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 7:21 PM
A court-approved settlement claim for former Indigenous patients that attended federal Indian hospitals is now open.
Those who experienced abuse while admitted at one of these hospitals can now submit a claim for compensation.
Those who experienced abuse while admitted at one of these hospitals can now submit a claim for compensation.
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Gaza does not need another phase or “Board.” Gaza needs legal redress for an Israeli system of cruelty. It must be granted unimpeded ingress and egress by land, sea, and air. Gaza must not be condemned to survive as a managed humanitarian dependency, rationed by aid and policed by donors.
January 28, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Gaza does not need another phase or “Board.” Gaza needs legal redress for an Israeli system of cruelty. It must be granted unimpeded ingress and egress by land, sea, and air. Gaza must not be condemned to survive as a managed humanitarian dependency, rationed by aid and policed by donors.
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Please help if you’re able to. They need your donations to help them survive. Shares are always free.
January 28, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Please help if you’re able to. They need your donations to help them survive. Shares are always free.
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For those wanting to boycott Pattison Group for their support of ICE, a list of Pattison's companies:
Car dealerships
www.jpautogroup.com/get-directio...
Billboards
www.pattisonoutdoor.com/en
Groceries
(See graphic for the companies)
#cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli #yeg #yyc #WestVan #BoycottPattison
Car dealerships
www.jpautogroup.com/get-directio...
Billboards
www.pattisonoutdoor.com/en
Groceries
(See graphic for the companies)
#cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli #yeg #yyc #WestVan #BoycottPattison
January 27, 2026 at 6:54 AM