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The arc of the moral universe only bends toward justice when we make that happen. Rights for refugees, abolition of War Dept, prisons and police, fund a caring economy.

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Mother urges Canada to swiftly repatriate her son after reported transfer to Iraq OTTAWA — The mother of a Canadian man says she fears for his safety behind bars in Iraq after receiving word from Canada’s foreign ministry he may have been transferred there from detention in northea...

bring them all ome now. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/03/04/m...

04.03.2026 12:54 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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That Joury & her brothers had to share their deep, heavy emotions today at all is a shame on Canada's government, which forces such children to bear their traumatized souls before media & the nation for the simplest of pleas: bring our mother here now. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

26.02.2026 23:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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They Were Convicted of Killing Their Abusers. A New Law Offered a Second Chance at Freedom. An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

www.propublica.org/article/okla...

22.02.2026 15:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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More Immigrants Are Challenging Their ICE Detention Than Ever Before Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court. This total is more than were filed under the last three administrations combined — including Tru...

A ProPublica analysis of habeas cases shows that immigrants have filed more challenges to their detention in the first 13 months of Trump’s second term than in the last three administrations combined — and the number keeps rising.

12.02.2026 14:00 👍 440 🔁 150 💬 7 📌 5

Hard not to read this and feel that what @bardcollege.bsky.social president Leon Botstein found morally urgent and emotionally effecting in the Epstein story was not the women and girls who were abused, but the rich man who was embarrassed.

10.02.2026 07:01 👍 280 🔁 75 💬 5 📌 0

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

05.02.2026 00:26 👍 15254 🔁 2919 💬 127 📌 0
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Olivia Dean: "I guess I want to say I'm up here as the granddaughter of an immigrant, I wouldn't be here... I'm a product of bravery and I think those people deserve to be celebrated"

02.02.2026 02:09 👍 7393 🔁 1366 💬 45 📌 41
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Jason McKay admits he intended to kill his wife Jenny, enters guilty plea to Regina murder | CBC News Jason McKay pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on the eve of his second trial, which was scheduled to begin this week in Regina Court of King's Bench. He now admits he intentionally killed his wif...

When we talk about abusive men weaponing the legal system, this is what we mean.

He not only viciously murdered his wife. He then tortured her poor loved ones by dragging things in court for YEARS only to finally admit "Yeah, I did it and I did it on purpose."

02.02.2026 15:16 👍 73 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 0
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ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child.

ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.

the family is here legally.

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

24.01.2026 00:06 👍 23632 🔁 11509 💬 1100 📌 708
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Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.

He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael.

At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.

Wael died on Friday at age 30.

ICE caused his death.

They didn’t get to say goodbye.

24.01.2026 03:01 👍 20733 🔁 11050 💬 890 📌 963
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Days after Mark Carney gassed on about international law, Canada is on the edge of once more becoming complicit in an act of extraordinary rendition to torture. homesnotbombs.blogspot.com/2026/01/fami...

22.01.2026 16:46 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Jack Letts has been arbitrarily detained without charge under horrible conditions in NE Syria for 8 years. Also held illegally for years are 15 other Canadian women, children & men. Sign and share to bring them home: chng.it/C5tc5vHN

16.01.2026 14:47 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Jack Letts has been arbitrarily detained without charge under horrible conditions in NE Syria for 8 years. Also held illegally for years are 15 other Canadian women, children & men. Sign and share to bring them home: chng.it/C5tc5vHN

15.01.2026 15:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Jack Letts has been arbitrarily detained without charge under horrible conditions in NE Syria for 8 years. Also held illegally for years are 15 other Canadian women, children & men. Sign and share to bring them home: chng.it/C5tc5vHN

14.01.2026 19:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Chomsky, Epstein, and the responsibility of intellectuals Burning down houses and raping their female inhabitants is the kind of imperialist standard operating procedure that Chomsky spent his life condemning in East Timor, in Iraq, in El Salvador. But when ...

Epstein’s victims have been largely cast aside in these discussions as mere backdrops whose suffering is occasionally acknowledged but then followed by endless caveats trying to contextualize and diminish Chomsky’s normalization of a child predator.
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

24.12.2025 22:23 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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Sign the Petition Stop Silencing Survivors: Ban National Security Secrecy in Violence Against Women Cases

We only need 1,200 more to reach 10,000. Please sign and share to ban the use of national security secrecy to silence survivors in male violence against women cases. www.change.org/p/stop-silen...

14.12.2025 23:40 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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“Alejandro Was Murdered”: Colombian Fisherman’s Family Files Claim Against U.S. over Boat Strike The U.S. military said Thursday that it blew up another boat of suspected drug smugglers, this time killing four people in the eastern Pacific. The U.S. has now killed at least 87 people in 22 strikes...

“This is not how a civilized nation should act, just murdering people on the high seas without proof, without trial.”

08.12.2025 03:01 👍 1119 🔁 445 💬 29 📌 18

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05.12.2025 15:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Scott Galloway Always Gets It WRONG
Scott Galloway Always Gets It WRONG YouTube video by Therese

good critique of Galloway who seems like a refined Jordan Peterson. youtu.be/IkHROCErJyg?...

05.12.2025 13:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Canada's cuts to The Global Fund will fuel reversal of progress on HIV, TB, and Malaria | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ... Canada's reduced pledge to The Global Fund reflects recent aid cuts, a shift from its previous leading role in fighting AIDS, TB, and malaria.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/canadas-cuts...

24.11.2025 18:37 👍 33 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 5
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Sign the Petition Stop Silencing Survivors: Ban National Security Secrecy in Violence Against Women Cases

National security secrecy should never be used to silence a survivor of male violence against women. Sign and share to ensure this never happens again! www.change.org/p/stop-silen...

20.11.2025 02:53 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Sad but unsurprising from institution that for the first time invoked national security secrecy to silence a survivor and protect an abuser in May 2025. Please sign/share to ban use of state security secrecy in cases of male violence against women: c.org/bfVCLQvZtF

11.11.2025 14:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sign the Petition Reject Drone Warfare Testing in Downtown Ottawa: No Canadian City should Host War "Games"

Unless we stop it, Ottawa will host drone warfare testing the final week of November. We need to stop – not normalize – the terror that afflicting civilians in Gaza, Ukraine, Somalia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and countless other spots on the globe. Please sign/share: www.change.org/p/reject-dro...

09.11.2025 19:55 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

I object to both

05.11.2025 12:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks for sharing this!

03.11.2025 02:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Stop Silencing Survivors: Ban National Security Secrecy in Violence Against Women Cases

c.org/zMgtm7HttP

02.11.2025 15:35 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Sign the Petition Stop Silencing Survivors: Ban National Security Secrecy in Violence Against Women Cases

When the full details of a devastating assault on a woman’s personal security can be disappeared from the public record in the name of Canada’s “national security,” it poses yet another obstacle to women coming forward. www.change.org/p/stop-silen...

30.10.2025 17:05 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Sign the Petition Stop Silencing Survivors: Ban National Security Secrecy in Violence Against Women Cases

For the first time in Canadian history, in May 2025 national security secrecy was invoked to silence a survivor in a catastrophic case of male violence against women. Let's make sure that never happens again. Please sign & share: www.change.org/p/stop-silen...

29.10.2025 14:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sign the Petition Stop Silencing Survivors: Ban National Security Secrecy in Violence Against Women Cases

Case of Canadian soldier charged with catastrophic assault of his spouse shockingly shut down in May 2025 for undisclosed "national security" reasons, silencing a survivor & setting a dangerous precedent.@SeanFraserMP must ban state secrecy in such cases
www.change.org/p/stop-silen...

28.10.2025 13:06 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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White supremacy is so insidious. This from the home page of the Weather Network.

23.10.2025 20:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0