Lumine R-H
@mark-rh.bsky.social
Writer of queer fantasy, Dad, feminist, antifascist. Thinking a lot about what we can endure and what we must not tolerate, even facing the end. Settler in Moh'kinstsis, Treaty 7. Genderfluid. Land back, ACAB, trans rights, never use AI.
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The UCP is liable for the murder of trans youth all across Alberta.
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The UCP is liable for the murder of trans youth all across Alberta.
Does anyone really take Smith seriously, with all her past comments, that this is about improving access? I would be more suspicious that it’s about allowing the rich to jump the line while the rest of us have to deal with reduced capacity.
November 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Does anyone really take Smith seriously, with all her past comments, that this is about improving access? I would be more suspicious that it’s about allowing the rich to jump the line while the rest of us have to deal with reduced capacity.
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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I already signed and RSVP’d for the call, but thanks! Action makes me a bit better so it’s always worthwhile. I encourage other folks to do it too.
November 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I already signed and RSVP’d for the call, but thanks! Action makes me a bit better so it’s always worthwhile. I encourage other folks to do it too.
I don’t know if I can physically handle doing either of these things but I guess I’d rather keel over and die while getting signatures than live with knowing I didn’t try.
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I don’t know if I can physically handle doing either of these things but I guess I’d rather keel over and die while getting signatures than live with knowing I didn’t try.
I might also sign up to get signatures for Corb Lund’s petition about coal. That feels more achievable.
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I might also sign up to get signatures for Corb Lund’s petition about coal. That feels more achievable.