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Amina

@ayasinvan.bsky.social
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Urban Planner•PanAfrican•BAP•former Vancouver Planning Commissioner• #newwest 📚 🏗️cities/‘hoods are capitalisms playground for race-class struggle and yet I love public housing, parks, trains, libraries, bike lanes & benches when we get them

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 14h
Jeannie Ehaloak shared some of her experience as a survivor of residential school, including being so young that by the time she returned home for the summer after her first year at the school, she had forgotten who her parents were.
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Jenny Kwan @jennykwan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Liberal MP Sean Casey was demoted by Mark Carney last week after voting in favour of Jenny Kwan’s Bill C-233, the No More Loopholes Act. When will the Liberals stop punishing MPs for doing their job—and finally act to close this loophole?
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 24/09/2026
International human rights organization Amnesty International has called for the abolition of ICE for the first time in a new report alleging human rights abuses in the Trump administration’s immigration operations.
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Amnesty International calls for abolition of ICE for the first time in new report • Minnesota Reformer
International human rights organization Amnesty International has called for the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a new report alleging human rights abuses in the Trump adminis...
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 26/09/2026
Adam Abdullah first spoke with MPR News on Sept. 8, during one of the 10-minute calls he was allowed each day from the prison at the U.S. naval base.
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Man arrested in St. Paul among 8 deported to Somalia from Guantanamo Bay
U.S. immigration authorities on Thursday deported a group of eight Somali men who’d been held for about a month at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Among them was Adam Abdullah, 31, who has no criminal record an...
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m just wondering out loud here, but if white anglo-nationalists in Canada are writing manifestos about “nationalism,” “ancestry,” and “remigration,” shouldn’t they be the first ones to lead by example and remigrate back to their ancestors peasant lives in England, Scotland, Ireland and Germany+++?
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/09/2026
The lie that privatization will reduce wait times is already being exposed, but that won’t stop political leaders from continuing to try to destroy our public healthcare system.
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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am disgusted by the appearance of white nationalists on the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc reserve. This is happening just days before the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation. I stand with Indigenous communities & all marginalized communities in the fight for a future free from racist intimidation.
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Apparent white nationalist gathering spotted on Tkʼemlúps reserve Sunday
TK'EMLUPS - A post on social media appears to show a group of masked individuals gathered on the Tkemlps te Se...
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The MAGA (Trump/Miller) cult got swept into believing if they ran with reviving pseudo-race science that they’d be handed Black and other non-white racialized people’s jobs, homes and businesses. Instead, they got AI slop, data centres in their backyards, and another war raising the cost of living.
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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sean Casey was punished for doing the right thing - standing up against Canada's arms shipments to facilitate genocide. Bravo to all 15 Liberal MPs who did so. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Liberal MP says he was demoted for supporting NDP bill targeting arms export controls | CBC News
Charlottetown MP Sean Casey says he was removed from his position as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs because he voted against the government and supported an NDP private me...
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 25/09/2026
Exactly zero of the people who continue to scream "ITS NOT GENOCIDE," have the courage or integrity (or ability) to refute my fact based arguments proving Israel IS committing genocide and Netanyahu IS a war criminal. Why? Because Facts Are Stubborn Things.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal and his government has committed genocide in Gaza. The United States should stop all military assistance to Israel. Saying this is not antisemitic. (I’m Jewish, by the way.)
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ATP I wouldn’t be shocked if the federal gov under Carney moves towards defining anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism as “hate speech,” under Public safety Canada guidelines. Carney isn’t just selling Canada off, he also continues to capitulate to violent anti-Indigenous and anti-Palestinian racism
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Canada defines anti-Zionism as antisemitic

Government
Gouvernement
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Public Safety Canada
National Commitments to Combat Antisemitism - Summer 2026
Progress Report
Intended outcome
Institutions across Canada have increased access to tools, guidance, and training to support the recognition, understanding and response to contemporary manifestations of antisemitism, including anti-Zionism, as outlined in the Canadian Handbook on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism.
Public Safety Canada is promoting anti-Palestinian racism and distorting Jewish history
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Canada consistently stays in the room to support and applaud [white] settler-colonial war criminals.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canada stayed
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is Prime Minister Carney a climate denier? My latest newsletter explores the concept of "the new climate denialism": sethdklein.substack.com/p/is-prime-m...
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Is Prime Minister Carney a climate denier?
Unpacking “the new climate denialism”
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Legal Defense Fund is calling for accountability in the investigations of suspicious deaths of Black people across the country. Over the past year, at least 10 Black people have been found hanging from trees, with some deaths ruled suicides that families question. bit.ly/3SOrltz
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A Series of Hanging Deaths Has Black Families Demanding Answers
Over the past year, at least 10 Black people have been found hanging from trees, with some deaths ruled suicides that families question.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canada had a legal duty to arrest Netanyahu as he crossed Canadian airspace www.ctvnews.ca/world/israel...
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Netanyahu crosses Canadian airspace with arrest warrant in effect
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled through Canadian airspace on Thursday, despite facing an international arrest warrant.
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A Vancouver-area First Nation has issued a travel advisory for the US, after members were detained by ICE.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sorry but even though it’s an unpaid position, this strikes me as extremely weird!!!! Appointing his own wife? Seriously?
CBC headline reads: Diana Fox Carney appointed Canada's 1st ocean envoy, chair of Our Ocean Conference

Halifax to host international conference on ocean conservation in 2027
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“It is driven not only by the far right’s openly fascist answers to these crises but also by the supposedly liberal centre, which has internalised and normalised new forms of anti-migrant state racism, partly out of conviction and partly out of panic.” The centre is strengthening the fascist AfD.
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I miss when blackness was a politic, not a phenotype. Within seconds, I knew he'd name HOA nations. That's how attuned I've become to this revival of racial pseudoscience from within the Black "community." ATP white ppl could disappear tomorrow and this shit would still flourish, finding new hosts.
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is wild to me that in 1985 a route connecting Alberta’s 2 largest cities was discontinued in, & that in 1990 a service was discontinued that used to serve Canada’s 5 largest metros. How has the country gone the better part of 4 decades without ANY rail service to its 3rd largest city?
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Normalize believing when IOF soldiers, Israeli officials, and Israeli citizens repeatedly - in their own descriptions and accounts - make it clear that they are in the process of annihilating Palestinians. www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...
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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Genocidal entity is asking the world to “look away.”
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Quite the polarizing masterclass in deflection. Through this ad Sim/ABC are consolidating his base, racializing the political conflict between ABC and COPE while mining for a specific, information-isolated segment of voters who will see themselves in his story and never learn about his record.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 23/09/2026
Poorly disguising masks have fully fallen and fascists are no longer pretending to be anything else and yet our public discourse is still filled with hedging takes around "anti-immigration activists", "legitimate concerns" and "populism"
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
B.C. is having another political crash out season. Municipal elections Oct 17, provincial election Oct 24, Ebys own ministers fleeing the set. This might be the BCNDP’s season finale, it’s been a painful watch and I can’t recall living anywhere else that aired back-to-back election seasons like this
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: Canadian Oil Giant Enbridge Builds Unauthorized Pipeline Bypass Following 1.3M Gallon Spill After the largest oil & gas spill in WI history, Enbridge's defiance of legalities raise serious questions about the state’s ability to regulate large, multinational corporations. Article at our site.
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
All of this tracks. Most white journalists cant conceive of white nationalism as anything but fringe, so they report the open white supremacy of the MAGA movement as something else (economic anxiety!) as they did with the tea party. Tough to admit that it's just the same old basic white nationalism.
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 22/09/2026
Carney, like Keir Starmer, is having police arrest senior protestors demonstrating against his agenda.
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There’s been a lot of talk about 🇨🇦 sovereignty, but true sovereignty means having control over our own public infras. If we sell our non-profit public operating airports to private investors without debate, we’re giving away our sovereignty piece by piece. This isn't democracy; it's a backroom deal.
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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 22/09/2026
Something I feel folks don't talk about enough, is how Black liberals CONSTANTLY have to put on a show of stupidity for the white capitalist ruling classes. It's all part of "securing the bag" for them. Cos you can't tell me Black liberals don't understand systemic oppression. They actually do!
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
My theory about Black athletes taking up golf as hobby making them dangerously proximal to the most soulless capitalists on earth & completely eroding their understanding of social responsibility remains undefeated
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I am told all the time by folks affiliated with the fossil fuel industry that Asian demand for LNG will grow "for decades". Yeah, about that:
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Edgar Allan Poe really ruined it for anyone who just wants to show their bitter enemy something cool in a catacomb.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I spoke to a man who found himself on a deportation flight one dawn having no clue where he's going, after spending nearly two years in ICE detention. The purpose is to delete people. I am being quiet as to who they are and where they went because the US government targets those who speak up.
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fascism has been revived in the U.S and is reemerging across Europe and the U.K because of the socio-cultural disease of white nationalism and the deference to whiteness as authority and religion across Euro-American societies, incl Israel, not because of a single ‘charismatic nationalist leader.’
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New from Nikole Hannah-Jones: In fighting for every Black child, Did I betray my own? ‘A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge NYC’s unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice’
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It is embarrassing to watch two black people - performing for a white liberal audience - get schooled by a Turkish-American streamer about systemic oppression. Non-violence is violence! As Fanon argued only violence can dislodge a regime that is itself established and maintained through violence.
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wild watching #vanpoli media ignore Kareem Allam’s behaviour. When questioned on electing right-wing figures, he accuses voters as being racist and asks if they’ve “eaten bugs.” His refugee parents don’t exempt him from scrutiny over working to elect right-wingers who worsen life for many residents.
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Lindsay Brown @Lidsvil... 2026-08-16 X And yet you chose to work to elect people who push austerity and directly contribute to widening inequality and poverty. It's straight neoliberalism, and in Ken Sim's case, worse. Nice try not owning what you have supported here.

Kareem Allam • @kare... 2026-08-16 S ...
Coward. You don't know real poverty. You never ate bugs to live.
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A list of Canadian genocide deniers. This list would mean something in Canada if it weren’t a nation that’s historically been on the wrong side of history. Canada is also a nation that in its foundations has found Indigenous people to be disposable, and in modern history, Muslim people too.
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Davide Mastracci @davide.readthemaple.com · 16/09/2026
NEW: Here’s a list of Canadians who signed an open letter denying the genocide in Gaza. It includes people associated with Canadian institutions as well, such as professors. www.readthemaple.com/a-list-of-ga...
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A List Of Gaza Genocide Deniers In Canada
Thousands of people signed an open letter denying genocide in Gaza.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If I were currently looking for a place to live, this would turn me into the Joker. Or some anti-AI-themed vigilante. www.youtube.com/shorts/olKww...
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AI Staging is Out of Control
YouTube video by Millennial Moron
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The wealthiest often sidestep tipping because to them it’s irrational to part with money to support a workers livelihood for servicing them. Meanwhile, lower-income and middle-class people will often tip more generously as a percentage of their income, because they’ve worked in the service sector.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ms. Rachel: “I will match Macklemore's donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza. Over 20,000 precious Palestinian children have been killed and children continue to be killed every day.”
Ms. Rachel Instagram:

“I will match Macklemore's donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza.
Over 20,000 precious Palestinian children have been killed and children continue to be killed every day.
We have a moral obligation to use our privilege and platforms to protect children and human rights.”
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Carney is a fascinating 🇨🇦 PM to watch on the world stage, he’s not unique, but he is quite good at playing at being “at war” with Trump. His ability to reassure the billionaire class as an asset manager while making the poor believe he’s wholesome “fighting with hockey stick in hand,” is astounding.
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
While everyone wants to blame Trump for America’s psychosis of superiority, and the current affairs of the world. Behind him stands many American presidents who are terrors on this planet. Incl Obama, who bombed Yemeni children leading to today’s Yemeni uprising and reclamation of the Red Sea Coast.
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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Paris is a city that's been WINNING the WAR ON WALKING. In the past decade city leaders built 300+ School Streets, launched a 15-minute city and reclaimed their downtown waterfront. It's a place people can enjoy an evening outside on what used to be a car freeway. This is what every city deserves.
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 12/09/2026
The simple act of booking a campsite has become big business in Canada. Writer Cameron Fenton reports on Parks Canada’s $70 million contract with an American tech juggernaut and why the current system is so bad for Canadian campers: thewalrus.ca/the-ticketmaster-of-ca…
On the left: an image of rows of camping icons featuring tents and trees on a light grey background. The icons are a darker grey apart from one in the top left corner that is bright blue. On the right: text that reads “The Ticketmaster of camping: a US company is raking in millions in fees. Long queues. Rising prices. What’s a hike worth in a Canadian park?”
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
He's doing racist revisionist history of a white supremacist who starved Indigenous children to death. Even by the standards of the time John A Macdonald shocked parliament by openly stating the "superiority of the aryan race" and that Indigenous and Asian people were a "different species"
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