It should probably be bigger news that there's a war between two of the largest countries in the world happening
27.02.2026 18:11
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It should probably be bigger news that there's a war between two of the largest countries in the world happening
Sharing ahead of Casey Means’ Surgeon General confirmation hearing tomorrow:
puberty blockers had been prescribed to trans kids, on the nhs, for 32 years before wes streeting banned them.
over three decades.
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.
The Supreme Court:
I'm so tired of this shit. Stop insinuating that people you don't like are gay as some sort of gotcha.
Wow did he sure crash out today..
Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️
The last thing we need in an industry that's not exactly notorious for honesty is a writer with no conscience or capacity for shame who doesn't know when they're lying. We don't want this, we don't need this, and it only serves the rich who wagered all of our futures on a bet.
#Manitoba
Rural hospitals might buckle under the pressure if measles spread continues: doctor
Most would not have room to isolate patients suffering the airborne disease
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
ProPublica published a devastating collection of letters and drawings from eight kids inside the Dilley Processing Immigration Center, which one politician has called a “monstrous machine."
www.jezebel.com/dont-forget-...
In turns fascinating, terrifying, and deeply depressing, this series is must-read to understand how we got here.
Measles outbreak in DC linked to anti-abortion March for Life
www.nbcwashington.com/news/health/...
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
"look what you made us do" - Tom Homan
It's actually pretty staggering watching the US news media slowly resign itself to the reality that there won't be any more federal elections.
Masking is not about doxing. That is the excuse. They are wearing masks so people cannot identify agents who engage in abuses, civil rights violations, and crimes. You can’t report someone or hold them accountable in any way if you can’t identify them.
Three-hundred Catholic leaders called on the Senate not to fund ICE and Customs and Border Protection in the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
After this week, I have no plans to return to the U.S. anytime soon.
What's happening there is absolutely sickening.
Sincerely, fuck Trump, fuck ICE and fuck every single person who's supported them.
All of that is to say: publishers, please hold more events elsewhere, like Canada or Europe!
"I said this to the president: I meant what I said in Davos. It was clear it was a broader set of issues that Canada was the first country to understand—the change in U.S. trade policy that he had initiated—and we're responding to that," says PM Carney re: call with U.S. President Trump.
#cdnpoli
The UCP government should simply do the right thing and respect human rights, respect individual freedom, and respect medical doctors’ autonomy and professionalism. Rescind this discriminatory and hurtful legislation.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
DHS says it “has body cam footage of the Pretti incident.” If the agency had real, untouched footage worth seeing, we would have heard about it days ago…you know, when multiple bystanders released footage from multiple angles showing a man being executed by their agents.
“Join National Nurses United RN members in a week-long series of actions to honor Pretti and all who have been murdered by ICE, as well as demand that Congress vote to immediately abolish this violent, racist, and lawless agency that poses a dire public health threat to all of our communities.”
As a VA nurse, Alex Pretti was a member of AFGE. This union also reps Border Patrol, and may have repped Pretti's killer. I talked to VA workers who are furious and want Border Patrol out of AFGE. "For a union member to kill another is a fundamental betrayal of what a union is supposed to be.”
It's hard to figure out if I'll ever find the perfect balance between hope and despair, but here's the closest I've come. new on the blog.
Wolves have a moment of silence for Alex Pretti, after seven seconds of silence several fans yell "FUCK ICE"
Canada must pull out now. 🍁
We cannot wait anymore.
The time to strike nationally is right. The. Fuck. Now.
"At least for myself, I don’t have a grand design for the future. I don’t even know if we’ll survive much longer as a species into the anthropocene. But I know when the apocalypse comes, I want to be able to say that I took at least some steps, no matter how small, to stop the end of the world."
IL congresswoman Delia Ramirez addressing now the crowd as well, calling attendees freedom fighters.
Just to give a sense of scale for how many people are out here in the snow and cold, this is just the outer fringe of one half of a block of Congress Plaza, which is completely full.
