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Family seeking $1.3M owed by Alberta separatist leader Dennis Modry after court order | CBC News Relatives of a prominent Alberta separatist who met with U.S. officials are upset that he has failed to pay back more than $1.3 million that he owes from a court order issued almost a year ago. A B.C....

A BC court found an Alberta separatist movement leader misappropriated $1.3 million of his elderly aunt and uncle’s money. Their niece says Dennis Modry hasn’t paid it back.

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Rio Police Chief & Congressman Convicted in Assassination of Socialist Rio Councilwoman Marielle Franco The court found that the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio State Auditor General Domingos Brazão, were responsib...

"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts."

massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social

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C'mon Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Honor your commitment.

Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization Hosted by the Department of American Indian Studies, this symposium responds to the global phenomenon known as self-Indigenization, pretendianism, or ethnic fraud.

What are the strategies for addressing "self-Indigenization" in our institutions?

Join UMN American Indian Studies for Holding Our Ground, a hybrid symposium on Indigenous Ethnic Fraud. March 18-19, 2026. Minneapolis + Online. Register: cla.umn.edu/ais/news-eve...

The Actual Star: A Novel Amazon.com: The Actual Star: A Novel eBook : Byrne, Monica: Kindle Store

I think The Actual Star ebook is really going to be $3.99 all month. Lucky you!! Go get it before February ends!

Saskatchewan's pronoun policy is driving teachers out of the profession Teachers in the province are struggling to choose between protecting children and following the law.

Bill 137 "forces teachers in Saskatchewan to tell parents if a student under 16 asks to go by a new name or pronoun."

"Saskatchewan Coalition to Repeal Bill 137 [..] is gaining momentum. The event in November had a packed venue."
#Saskatchewan #Canada #Education #Labour

Opinion: Little evidence of EDI hiring policy in practice at the U of A The U of A’s recruitment data does not show any signs of progress in EDI, let alone patterns of reverse discrimination.

🧵In this new op-ed in the Edmonton Journal, @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I debunk the myth that EDI hiring and “reverse discrimination” happened at University of Alberta.

In actuality, the U of A has not made any advancement in EDI hiring.

The response to Toronto police corruption shouldn't be a $90 million dollar raise

Tell the mayor and city council to boost city services like recreation, long term care and shelters, not policing

visit anothertoronto.ca to take action right now

The University of Alberta released their new values statement emphasizing a "spirit of community" that guides every decision they make

In January they slashed 100% of the affiliated child care budget that had been in place for decades despite every union on campus in opposition

U of A looks to remove EDI from hiring policy | CBC News The University of Alberta is proposing to eliminate Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) from its hiring policy, a year after the school initially said it was moving away from the term.

New emails obtained by CBC through access of information show that before announcing the end of EDI at the University of Alberta, the president sent his announcement to the UCP before publication.

How's that for institutional neutrality?

U of A looks to remove EDI from hiring policy | CBC News The University of Alberta is proposing to eliminate Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) from its hiring policy, a year after the school initially said it was moving away from the term.

“Emails obtained by CBC through an access to information request show that Flanagan’s newspaper letter was sent by the university’s government relations department to staff at the Ministry of Advanced Education before it was published.” By @emilyawilliams52.bsky.social #AbPSE #AbLeg

I braced myself and have completed the book. the last 30 pages are like nonstop stuff happening and things all coming together as time and characters and storylines blend in amazing ways. Magical realism. Have to go back again to make sure I caught all I needed to catch as I read. Cheers.

Does a “reform” further empower your enemies or take power and resources away from them? Some of you need to sit with this question.

A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all.

Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.

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Prepping for the Apocalypse Means Building Community “These sorts of things aren’t something you can outrun,” says anthropologist and survival instructor Chris Begley.

I'm 30 pages from the end! It has been an amazing read. I will be telling many of my friends to read it.

ps. bought the book b/c Kelly Hayes talked about it in one of my favorite episodes of Movement Memos truthout.org/audio/preppi...

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat on a bus, has died Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, at the age of 15, has died.

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Video Shows ICE Agent’s Fatal Shooting of Civilian in Minneapolis Video from the scene of the Minnesota ICE shooting contradicts DHS’s narrative that locals were rioting and threatening agents’ lives.

Video Shows ICE Agent’s Fatal Shooting of Civilian in Minneapolis
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Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

Anyone who has read Copaganda knows that we are in the crucial early moments of virality after an extra-judicial police murder. It's extremely important for ICE that the media plays along with the idea that what happened is contested and there are multiple perspectives.

#UAlberta #abed #abpoli

THREAD. With everything going on, I want to share a bit of good news. As of the end of 2025, we have sent over 2,000 free copies of Copaganda into prisons and into schools where students can't afford it.

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Massive Attack remove music from Spotify to protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in AI military The band cited a ‘moral and ethical burden’ placed on artists by revenue from their work ultimately funding lethal technologies

Finally had a chance to cancel my family Spotify subscription.

I moved to Qobuz for music.

Moved to Apple for podcasts (for now).

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

I want to draw especial attention to the treatment of AI—artificial intelligence—in these narratives. Think of Ex Machina or Blade Runner. I spoke at TED two years in a row, and one year, there were back-to-back talks about whether or not AI was going to evolve out of control and “kill us all.” I realized that that scenario is just something I have never been afraid of. And at the same moment, I noticed that the people who are terrified of machine super-intelligence are almost exclusively white men. I don’t think anxiety about AI is really about AI at all. I think it’s certain white men’s displaced anxiety upon realizing that women and people of color have, and have always had, sentience, and are beginning to act on it on scales that they’re unprepared for. There’s a reason that AI is almost exclusively gendered as female, in fiction and in life. There’s a reason they’re almost exclusively in service positions, in fiction and in life. I’m not worried about how we’re going to treat AI some distant day, I’m worried about how we treat other humans, now, today, all over the world, far worse than anything that’s depicted in AI movies. It matters that still, the vast majority of science fiction narratives that appear in popular culture are imagined by, written by, directed by, and funded by white men who interpret the crumbling of their world as the crumbling of the world.

YES to that last repost from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. Relatedly, I gave this talk all the way back in 2018.

(Back then, ‘AI movies’ meant movies about AI, not movies made with AI 🥴)

Canada’s population fell in third quarter, driven by drop in non-permanent residents: StatsCan | CBC News Canada’s population decreased over the third quarter of 2025 — driven by a drop in non-permanent residents, according to new data from Statistics Canada.

we’re shooting ourselves in the foot because we’re letting racists shape the immigration and housing crisis discourses instead of taking on landlords and developers through mass public housing construction

Today is your last chance to grab a slice of the Loblaw bread price-fixing settlement. Here’s how much you can get Dec. 12 is the deadline for Canadians to submit a claim and get a piece of the $500-million bread price-fixing class-action settlement.

Today is your last chance to grab a slice of the Loblaw bread price-fixing settlement. Here’s how much you can get

LOL.
all good. Now this weekend I will probably go into a deep dive of the best performances of the year... and include Doechii!