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@alisonbraley

Associate Professor at Brock University teaching labour law/policy/the Charter, moonlighting as singer and stage performer.

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NEWS: CBS blocked Stephen Colbert from airing an interview with Texas State Rep. James Talarico and ordered him not to mention the cancellation over fear of FCC chair Brendan Carr.

Colbert went on air and revealed it anyway.

“He was supposed to be here, but… 1/

17.02.2026 09:39 👍 7475 🔁 2597 💬 314 📌 219
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Cartoon by Nick Anderson

13.02.2026 18:31 👍 5262 🔁 1436 💬 147 📌 74
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🎧 listen this is heartbreaking 💔

@coldfishstix on TikTok for the whole track

30.01.2026 21:53 👍 2124 🔁 1046 💬 138 📌 168
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

28.01.2026 17:02 👍 97507 🔁 40890 💬 4301 📌 5364
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Honk honk, eh. The new Cons are nothing but cave artists.

16.01.2026 19:45 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🔥 @markruffalo.bsky.social : “I gotta be honest, I’m not feeling so great. Renee Good was murdered... stormtroopers running around terrorizing. As much as I love all this, I can’t pretend all this crazy stuff isn’t happening. We have a president who says laws don’t apply to him- this is crazy.”

12.01.2026 14:00 👍 21016 🔁 6494 💬 628 📌 455
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It’s 2026. Organizers are still being jailed for defending workers. Lee Cheuk-yan, a longtime CLC ally, is imprisoned in Hong Kong for leading peaceful assemblies.
 
Silencing organizers anywhere threatens workers everywhere. #FreeLeeCheukYan

Join us: www.ituc-csi.org/free-lee-che...

09.01.2026 14:15 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Make it viral.

08.01.2026 03:22 👍 47647 🔁 21394 💬 360 📌 528
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WITNESS: "I just can't let this narrative of self-defense go any further. That’s absolutely not what it was… ICE agents didn’t let anyone help her for 15 minutes, then medics couldn’t get through with their ambulance.”

08.01.2026 03:35 👍 19301 🔁 8391 💬 661 📌 380
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This is the 37yo mom Trump’s trigger-happy ICE goons killed today

07.01.2026 23:21 👍 1578 🔁 715 💬 91 📌 55
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Why Canada needs better data on strikes, unions and other labour issues Canada does a poor job of gathering labour relations information. In a period of rising inequality and renewed workplace conflict, stakeholders need better data.

A very helpful contribution by @profsavage.bsky.social and Adam King.

07.01.2026 18:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mark the inauguration of New York City Mayor #ZohranMamdani with Brock Labour Studies!

Win Prof. Simon Black’s Social Reproduction and the City—on welfare reform and childcare struggles in NYC.

Like❤️, RT🔄 & follow @brocklabour.bsky.social to enter! 3 copies up for grabs. Contest ends Jan 5.

31.12.2025 19:12 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

LLM’s will be training themselves on stolen slop generated by other LLM’s

They’re not going to destroy humanity by nuking the earth, they’ll do it by making the internet so stupid we off ourselves.

07.12.2025 16:22 👍 156 🔁 28 💬 13 📌 2

The idea of an elected judiciary is a fundamentally sophmoric view of democracy, one that equates--and, indeed, reduces-- the many "inputs" into a whole, comprehensive democratic system, to nothing more than the fluctuating will of the (sacrosanct) 'electorate', at any given moment.

07.12.2025 01:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The fact that Melon Musk is seriously butthurt about this means that we absolutely have to repost it, continuously.

11.11.2025 13:31 👍 56 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 0

Given news of Canada's lost measles-elimination status, it seemed à propos to circulate this 2022 article from McGill Journal of Law and Health 15(1). In it I argue that parental right to refuse routine childhood vaccination is not well grounded in moral theory or law.
canlii.ca/t/tvtq

11.11.2025 14:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

14.10.2025 17:25 👍 10478 🔁 5201 💬 890 📌 1529
Comedians react to Pam Bondi’s ‘cheat sheet’ during Senate hearing
Comedians react to Pam Bondi’s ‘cheat sheet’ during Senate hearing YouTube video by CNN

'Comedians react to Pam Bondi’s ‘cheat sheet’ during Senate hearing'

Arrogant, Incompetent, Unprofessional, Unprepared, Aggressive, Vulgar, Ridiculous, Lying, Corrupt ...

Do you know what these words have in common?

Pamela Jo Bondi

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2nE...

12.10.2025 07:14 👍 332 🔁 131 💬 13 📌 6
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Here’s the CBS News report about ICE making bogus 911 calls and filing false police reports in Chicago.

ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social

06.10.2025 21:20 👍 1830 🔁 917 💬 63 📌 62
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Let us in. Hold ICE accountable. Tear down the fence.

This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less.

Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.

03.10.2025 19:04 👍 13733 🔁 4537 💬 357 📌 197

And again, why are these agents kitted out like they are going into Mogadishu?

19.09.2025 14:36 👍 3314 🔁 1029 💬 196 📌 71
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Academic Staff Associations and Vaccination Mandates in the Canadian University Sector – Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations Un article de la revue Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

New publication by #BrockU professors @alisonbraley.bsky.social & @profsavage.bsky.social "Academic Staff Associations and Vaccination Mandates in the Canadian University Sector"

www.erudit.org/fr/revues/ri...

#canlab #cdnpse

24.08.2025 18:47 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Department of Labour Studies Labour Studies is a dynamic field of study distinguished by its focus on work and labour relations. Work affects everyone and everything — our work determines how we spend many of our waking hours and...

Know someone who is applying to university this year? Make sure they check out what the Department of Labour Studies at @brocku.ca has on offer.

brocku.ca/social-scien...

#Brocku #cdnpse #canlab

02.08.2025 16:29 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Registration is open for the Fall/Winter terms. Consider LABR 4P41: Labour Law and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

brocku.ca/labourstudies

22.07.2025 01:57 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Lucy Ends Uncertainty With Promise Regarding Football, Charlie Brown Says

24.07.2025 18:56 👍 2090 🔁 335 💬 63 📌 6

What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky.

So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵

09.07.2025 15:49 👍 3953 🔁 1474 💬 150 📌 433
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Danielle Smith, Queen of Measles | The Tyee Alberta leads the continent in stoking the disease’s resurgence. The province’s former top doctor lays blame.

Danielle Smith, Queen of Measles via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

08.07.2025 13:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This

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11.06.2025 11:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OH! Canada. Our ice is better without the arresting.

09.06.2025 19:41 👍 2523 🔁 356 💬 3 📌 8