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The spreadsheet liberals will hate me for this but If you ever get contacted by a pollster (including exit polls), always tell them youre not going to vote for anti-trans Democrats regardless of your actual plans. This can have more of a material impact than voting does, because of the statistics

It’s incredibly important to recognize that Democrats running up the score so high they exceeded the margins of fuckery is not a sign of democratic health. It is a time-limited reprieve to secure the government before we lose it. This was the failure of the Biden Era that cannot be repeated.

also, it's open enrollment season, so it's a great time to remind parents of trans kids to update their beneficiaries so their kid is not deadnamed or misgendered at future medical/dental/vision visits. 🩷🩵

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I urge people in Britain to consider what happened here when there was a completely open, heavily choreographed and disastrously worse wrecking campaign than this running for at least two years, a thing that the people running it have been quite happy to talk about sotto voce for several years now.

Leah Greenberg X& @leahgreenbe... • 2h
A medium-hot take: Stevens/Turkish have spent the last few months swimming in circles with centrists who hate El-Sayed and are low-key hoping he loses, it led them to grievously misjudge how well an open sabotage attempt would go, and they are genuinely confused why those people aren't with them now 1/2
The Daily Beast• @thedailybea...• 6h
Haley Stevens' fiancé made a round of late-night phone calls to explain why she had flipped to support a MAGA candidate.
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Josh Turek says he didn't vote for a Democratic ticket, and instead voted republican for several races. And yet trans people are vilified for doing the same to him?

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C’est parti! Six élections partielles ont été déclenchées pour le 7 décembre, et le NPD est prêt à passer à l’action. Mais nous avons besoin de votre aide pour remporter ces gains et envoyer nos champions de la classe ouvrière au Parlement. Prêt·e·s à vous impliquer? Inscrivez-vous ⬇️

a little browsing on skilledworkersUK subreddit tells you that people's lives are upended for no reason. it's hard to imagine anyone who's not limited by family or relationships is not gonna leave. "I'm going home, so I guess the reform voters won".

And there it is, prominent gender critical TERF / Sex and Race Realist Kathleen Stock begins the drumbeat on re-normalizing conversion therapy and abuse of lesbian and gay kids. It was never going to stop at trans people.

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Hey so Liberal MPs are straight-up lying to their constituents who raise concerns about what Bill C-39 does to the right to strike. Abhorrent levels of misleading information, sent directly to a constituent's inbox (who shared it with me). Really unethical, gross, and stupid.

Email screenshot reads:

"Thank you for your email. 

I want to be clear that I support the right of workers to organize, bargain collectively and, where necessary, exercise the right to strike. The labour provisions in Bill C-39 are intended to strengthen collective bargaining and help parties resolve disputes earlier, not eliminate or override the right to strike. The legislation would require earlier bargaining in complex disputes, provide more time for mediation, and create additional mechanisms to help unions and employers reach negotiated agreements before a strike or lockout becomes necessary. 

I also understand the concern surrounding Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code and the possibility of ministerial intervention. Bill C-39 does not simply give the Minister an unrestricted new power. It would introduce additional guardrails around the use of Section 107, including requiring the Minister to consider the report of an independent Special Mediator and assess the national-interest impacts of a dispute before exercising those authorities. The objective is to bring greater transparency and accountability to a power that already exists under the Canada Labour Code. 

The legislation also contains measures that strengthen protections for workers more broadly, including the addition of 100 health and safety officers, 26 additional staff at the Canada Industrial Relations Board to address backlogs in worker complaints, and increased enforcement against worker misclassification. 

I do not agree that Bill C-39, as proposed, amounts to removing workers’ right to strike. The government’s objective is to strengthen the collective bargaining process while ensuring that negotiated agreements remain the preferred outcome.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
 
Sincerely,
Yvan
 
Yvan Baker, MP
Etobicoke Centre"

policing and fare enforcement has skyrocketed at finch west station and on the finch LRT since it opened. communities on finch are already overpoliced. their priority? boarding trains and waiting at stations during after-school hours to go after kids, mostly black and brown, over $2 in fare.

fare enforcement officer walking down aisles of a lightly loaded LRT train
Rodney 🚧🚇@chanface.bsky.social · 2d ago

Teens 13-15 arrested with excessive use of force causing a fractured arm. All of this over allegedly not paying a $2.35 TTC youth fare. It has already been documented that Toronto police and fare inspectors use excessive force disproportionately on Black people and clearly it’s not improving.

Appalling and scary. Striking workers shouldn’t have to worry about someone driving their car through their picket line. I’m in Ontario but if you’re near Surrey, please head to 3601 Nico Wynd Dr at 9am tomorrow to stand in solidarity with these workers as they fight for the fair deal they deserve.

SEIU Local 2@seiulocal2.bsky.social · 3d ago

🧵 BREAKING: Incident on the Nico Wynd picket line! On day 31 of the strike at the Nico Wynd Golf Course workers, a Strata resident at the strata-owned golf course drove through the picket line. @rohiniarora.bsky.social @seiu.org @canadianlabour.bsky.social @bcfed.bsky.social

‘Sex’ as an immutable binary political category, as referring to sex assigned at birth is a dead end. It’s a no from me. The fundamental logic is transphobic and not productive, and I wish cis people who are not necessarily transphobic would stop using it!

Hormones are fake if you're a fucking illiterate weirdo piece of shit. I think we should be shaming these fucking people, I'm so tired of engaging with them as if they're human beings. I have nothing nice to say to them, if you don't know where tits come from, shut the fuck up!!