I sat next to my mother yesterday for a 12 hour shift as poll workers, which gave us plenty of time to chat. I told her I was attending another protest this week, she got a little concerned and asked what it was for. “Early Childhood Education costs”, I replied. childcareontario.org/care-counts-...

Care Counts: Rally for Early Learning and Child Care - OCBCC

Ontario has signed a four-year extension to their child care agreement, but advocates are slamming the new plan for freezing wage improvements, stalling fee

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A lesson on what it's like to be an anti-capitalist organizer out in the world, and how to deal with the emotions that interactions bring up when the stakes are life and death—and the person that you're talking to does not necessarily know that:

A political candidate in Toronto made me angry. Here's what happened | Hilary Agro

A voice note, from me to you, about an interaction with a Toronto political candidate's team that made me angry, and how we (sort of) worked

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Finally home from working the polls all day - decent turnout (at least where I was!), which is always nice to see for municipal elections. I briefly considered turning around and heading to my favoured mayoral candidate’s potential victory party, but I’ve been out of the house for 13 hours, so

Election Day, Ontario municipalities! I’ll be working the polls all day (so my phone will be diligently tucked away, per policy), but I hope you all have a wonderful day and, if you haven’t already, get out there today and VOTE! ☑️🗳️

They called the cops on this 3-year-old Black boy because he was kickin the white kids' ass on the soccer field.

nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen!!!!

Among my favourite characteristics of our celestial companion is that I can be walking and simply appreciating her ghostly beauty and I can come inside and see other people from all over appreciating her too.

audrey bowler@audbowler.bsky.social · 2d ago

love her sm

For @ms.now I wrote about Josh Turek's proposal for trans health... ...only it was 10 months ago when the Trump administration proposed the same policy. They later backed off the proposal. www.ms.now/opinion/tran...

Opinion | The looming disaster for trans health care

Katelyn Burns: How the GOP is using its anti-abortion playbook against trans health care.

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The prospect of a sleepless night is particularly galling given how busy my next couple weeks should be. Alas and alack, we find ourselves off to a suboptimal start. Staring at this glowing rectangle will surely help. (Love and solidarity, everyone 🫶)

"The queer and trans community are anticipating that a B.C. Conservative government would ban health care for trans youth." "In 2022 Maahs said teaching sex and gender ideology was 'for sure grooming' children." #BritishColumbia #Alberta #Canada #Healthcare #Apartheid #Voting

Queer Organizations Sound Alarm over Conservative Anti-Trans Rhetoric

MLAs have tried to pass legislation that would strip away human rights and limit access to health care.

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I've come to the conclusion it's fine to just be blanket anti-AI right now. We can have the nuanced discussions about local models, limited usage, etc. later. It's simply not possible to have those discussions right now. The current emergency is AI as fascist movement. We need to fight that.

if you ever happen to see someone post a joke you don't understand or discuss a subject you aren't familiar with, you are well within your right to complain, and perhaps even scold them if necessary. you are their customer and you have rights

I made a video talking to the version of myself that sometimes can't get out of bed. Maybe it'll help you too.

Watch this when you can't get out of bed.

YouTube video by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD

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Of all the things to nearly make me fedpost I am in a mood today!

Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · 4d ago

For fuck’s sake

‘Something big is coming’: climate advocates say Bill C-39 is a new version of an old issue www.aptnnews.ca?p=296693

Climate advocates say Bill C-39 is a new version of an old issue

Advocates say a bill approaching its third reading will fast-track impacts that First Nations have already been feeling for decades.

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i do mean this in the best way but if one more ostensibly leftist person brushes off the trans genocide i'm gonna go postal

“In the face of outrageous repression, a radiant youth.” !!!! New on Antidote Zine dot com: an open letter from prisoners of the ongoing uprisings in France. antidotezine.com/2026/10/23/w...

"We are the people fighting to suffer no more." | Antidote Zine

Those in power cannot establish a “typical profile” of the insurgents. They try to divide us, to categorize us as protesters, vandals, looters, scum, or the ...

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i don't care how jk rowling is justifying her murderous bigotry today actually. over 600 transgender ppl have died in the uk in the last 18 months bcos of policies she demanded the british government implement. she is a monster. i don't care how much you like harry potter.

this is the funniest thing i've ever seen in my life

If I can offer something, as an anthropologist: humans have always learned by listening to other people speak out loud. There are massive problems with social media and critical thinking/literacy decline, but video/audio formats aren't inherently anti-intellectual. Capitalism is the problem

grimm 🎃@mugrimm.bsky.social · 4d ago

I'm sorry if it makes me lib as hell but I do think it's a serious issue a lot of people in power have worked tirelessly to disempower education and journalism and that people are reading significantly less and that information is increasingly disseminated by video formats speaking authoritatively.

Maple, a baby pygmy hippopotamus at the Toronto Zoo, knows her rights - they may *want* her to go inside, but legally they can’t force her to 🤭 youtube.com/shorts/RQGuy...

I cannot stop laughing at maple, she reminds me so much of mars, the keepers were sooo good about

YouTube video by Mswizzle1105

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so it begins.

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 4d ago

👀 WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration sues to block Alaska Senate race certification if Republican loses, citing candidate name confusion.

That time I desperately needed to vomit but couldn't, so a Yawanawá shaman blew some tobacco up my nose to get the demons out—and other stories:

How to prevent burnout! And reconnect with your ancestral culture! And so forth!

YouTube video by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD

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This morning I had an interaction with a political candidate's representative in Toronto that made me angry. I recorded a voice note about what happened:

A political candidate in Toronto made me angry. Here's what happened | Hilary Agro

A voice note, from me to you, about an interaction with a Toronto political candidate's team that made me angry, and how we (sort of) worked

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Gotta say, it really messes up my timeline and also me, psychologically, to realize that the billionaires are at the “bio-engineered war dogs” of endgame capitalism.

It is being hailed as a historic gathering. Next week, First Nations and the prime minister and premiers will sit down together in Ottawa. What should we expect to go down at the meeting? That is one of the topics this week on Truth & Politics.

What to expect from historic gathering of First Nations, prime minister, premiers | Truth & Politics

It is being hailed as a historic gathering. Next week, First Nations and the prime minister and premiers will sit down together in Ottawa. What should we expect to go down at the meeting? That is…

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*Pauses, stops writing e-mail.* I’ll bet someone else has already asked Lou Bega by now.

“Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services.”

Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process

Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...

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To my indigenous siblings, two exciting things about this event: 1) There is a tranche of tickets set aside that are available for free for indigenous people (around the globe!), and 2) Remember that knowledge is power, and refreshing how colonization happened can help us reverse it!

Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄@hilaryagro.com · 5d ago

Ever wanted to reconnect with your European roots without being a weird fascist about it? Join my workshop at this online conference! People who've been racialized as white who don't super love that and would like to reawaken who you are deep down, let's gooooooo: