"The First 36 Hours of War Consumed Over 3,000 U.S.-Israeli Munitions. Replenishing stockpiles depends on vulnerable critical mineral chains." foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/i...
This chart of Government support to Ukraine: By month, speaks for itself. Ukraine is now clearly a European project.
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Houston unbalanced the books with unwise tax and toll rollbacks, then used massive deficit to rationalize slashing crucial programs and public services
By @joanbaxter.bsky.social
We should cut HRP and give Halifax Fire an increase.
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PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.
As House Democrats walked out of a closed-door briefing tonight over the United States’ military campaign against Iran, many expressed exasperation with the Trump administration.
Don’t let this government tell you this was just a small group of “professional protestors.”
This was massive collective action.
Keep going #nspoli
Palantir’s Maven and Anthropic’s Claude slaughtered 168 school girls in Iran. They want to use AI because bots can’t be brought to The Hague for war crimes.
a map of openai's influence on other media companies
Amazing site here via @timnitgebru.bsky.social - a map of big tech influence on media and media companies.
imo this goes a decent way to explaining why coverage of AI specifically has been so shockingly bad recently. Very useful resource!!
nananwachukwu.github.io/media-captur...
Sea level rise across the world under estimated - coastal areas already at risk. @naohun.bsky.social @eeb.org @unep.org @nature.com #environment www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"I want new surface areas of expression" is such a beautiful way of putting the hunger we all have for something different out of the social (hell, the web) experience
Just in case you missed the rally in downtown Halifax today: www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
A War for Oil: Economist Michael Hudson on U.S. Quest to Control the World’s Oil Trade
And council just keeps making the same bad decisions year over year because no one wants to be the one to tell their constituents that they need to start paying their fair share. They've been subsidized for so long the fair share is now fucking huge. Which of course it is, that's what scams are.
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The Trump DOJ has been taking down Epstein files.
The massive tranche of files the Justice Department currently maintains is more than 65,000 pages shorter than what the agency initially released, according to a CBS analysis — and the number continues to fluctuate.
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.
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The ongoing saga of Const. Renato Greco, an officer in the Hamilton Police Service and, apparently, an active white supremacist.
Not a great look for HPS, especially considering the rise of violent neo-fascist extremist groups in the region.
#HamOnt
🌟An ode to being radical🌟
In this edited extract Radical Justice, human rights lawyer Nani Jansen Reventlow teaches us that we have power to change the course of history.
Read our latest blog post by Nani Jansen Reventlow:
www.plutobooks.com/blog/an-ode-...
Digital privacy is one of the most important terrains to fight for freedom from state violence. We have to wake up & get serious about our smartphones.
AI health #misinformation is getting harder to spot. Canadians are falling for it, expert warns www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic... via CTV News
Me: “And very recent studies tell us that when AI images are included in content, we’re more likely to fall for misinformation.”
"The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all" #moralpanic www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Full answer at 13:15 -->>
"It's data centers and it's nothing but data centers. And the people who start trying to muddy the waters with EVs and electrification, that's not true. Absolutely not true. There's no data to support it. It's it's not true. Our data shows that it's data centers"
this will be a public health disaster.
We could end the transmission of HIV this year. That has been true for a decade. That we have not done so is a public policy choice.
NS' 2026 Budget was released last week and we have some thoughts...
You know what also prevents traffic fatalities & reduces injuries? A properly functioning & funded #VisionZero Strategy! ICYMI, here's our media release begging @hfxgov.bsky.social councillors to invest in what we know works to save lives drive.google.com/file/d/1OXim... #RoadSafety #visionzeroKH
In the past 24 hours, we've had reports of missile and drone strikes on the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, among other Middle Eastern countries. Why are so many places being bombed?
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/why-did...
There is a great resource on here that hides screenshots from X so you don't have to see that shit if you don't want to. I subscribed and it is awesome. And free. bsky.app/profile/did:...
