Toronto GDC

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Mutual aid and community defense in Toronto. Feeding and supporting our community as the Apple Crisp Action Brigade--if you'd like to help out, subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/applecrispactionbrigade

#Sep11 “Bin Laden was born neither in Kandahar nor Kabul, nor anywhere on this soil. He was a guest who dragged his host to the grave…An entire nation was punished for the crimes of an uninvited guest—a logic applied with such ruthlessness nowhere else in the world, to no other nation…

نگر آنارشیسم . Anarchism Perspective@anarshism.com · 2d ago

مردی که مُرد، کشوری که هنوز دارد می‌میرد.. www.anarshism.com/fa/man-who-d... #افغانستان #القاعده #بن_لادن #طالبان #مهاجرت

New: Treesit Blocks US-Mexico Border Wall Construction for Six Weeks in Arizona For more than a month, land defenders have been blocking construction of Trump's two-layered border wall. Hear from people on the ground about what's been happening in our latest story unicornriot.ninja/2026/treesit...

Treesit Blocks US-Mexico Border Wall Construction for Six Weeks in Arizona - UNICORN RIOT

Santa Cruz County, AZ – On a cool, cloudy morning in the San Rafael Valley in Southern Arizona, a young person popped their head over the edge of a platform in a tree, perched fifty feet above the rol...

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Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

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For those arguing the PM plans to learn from the 'mistakes' of the past this is who Carney appointed as principle advisor: “If we really want to end the violence & depravation that plagues Canada’s remote Aboriginal communities, we need to help them leave these communities, forever,” Scott #CDNpoli

Carney’s pick for advisor, Scott Gilmore raising eyebrows

Earlier this month, a number of media sources reported Scott Gilmore would soon be moved into the role of Carneys' principal advisor.

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Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 4d ago

Naturally, it’s being received exactly as expected (and intended)? Gross. The same month as TRC day btw!

The world has gone mad! Folks getting arrested under the UK Terrorism Act for holding a sign that said "I oppose genocide" 🇬🇧 That is fucked up! The majority of those arrested have been pension aged women, often with disabilities. Do these folks look like terrorists? Shame on you England. #Free 🇵🇸

Spoke with some of 600+ people who were punished for Charlie Kirk-related speech over the past year — about the anxieties they’ve faced, the crazy reasons they were fired or even arrested, and what their life has been like since:

A Year Ago, Charlie Kirk Was Killed. Meet the People Who Were Fired for Speaking Out About Him

In the year since the murder of the far-right commentator, those who were punished for comments about his death have met mixed fortunes. Over in Dallas, the GOP’s mad midterm Trumpapalooza began.

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the images are screenshots from this article, showing the two bullet-point lists of all the personal and sensitive data the site steals from you if you try registering thru them; and the data it steals just for going to the site.

The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org

The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.

popular.info

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 3d ago

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

So to summarize: One of the largest private corporations in Canada that’s been found guilty of fixing prices, is using drones to pollute the night sky, to promote the use of an AI chatbot to disclose sensitive personal information, and is part of the privatization of the Ontario health care system.

BREAKING! "Saddle Lake Cree Nation is asserting its Treaty rights and jurisdiction to provide safe refuge for those seeking and providing gender-affirming care. Any Albertan will be able to access gender-affirming care on Saddle Lake Cree Nation reserved lands and territories"

"It is more accurate, more useful, and more true to understand politics as a battleground between capital and labor than as some Democratic vs. Republican thing. This is why it is so frustrating to be a person who assumes that voting the correct way will result in properly regulated capital."

Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 6d ago

The declining labor share of income is the class war crystallized and everything progressives want is downstream of putting the power of capital on a leash. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/capital-is...

FFS. “The new report, which was not published by a scientific journal and did not undergo peer review…links those who say they support trans individuals with supporting authoritarianism and political violence.” The corruption of public knowledge continues apace.

‘Nakedly political’: US attempts to link trans support to authoritarianism in new health department report

HHS releases report linking ‘gender ideology’ to political violence – a study scientists say was poorly conducted

theguardian.com

🇫🇷 U.S.-based journalists at Le Monde are on strike this Labor Day! Journalists at the largest national newspaper in France are protesting several unfair labor practices and asking for management to negotiate in good faith and take its proposals seriously.

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Germany, Infratest dimap exit poll: Saxony-Anhalt regional parliament election AfD (ESN): 44.5% (+23.5) CDU (EPP): 18.5% (-18.5) LINKE (LEFT): 9.5% (-1.5) GRÜNE (Greens/EFA): 9% (+3) SPD (S&D): 8% ... +/- vs. last election Fieldwork: 06 September 2026 ➤ europeelects.eu/germany

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