Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 4mThe Memorial Cloth is a 60-metre commemoration the honours the names of thousands of children that died as a result of residential schools in Canada. It is displayed each year as part of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation event on Parliament Hill. 097
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Our platform is out. Here's a sample. Read the whole thing here: www.votecope.ca/platform 48624
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Dr. Devyani Singh @devyani.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Get your very own Devyani sign! If you're with me on building a solidarity city, one that's actually on your side, I'd love to personally hand you a sign for your lawn or window. And if you live on an intersection maybe you need a bigger sign of the amazing COPE council team!! 272
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Taxing the rich is climate policy. 162
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The Climate crisis is already hitting us. How we respond to it will determine how hard we get hit going forward. Instead of backsliding and cuts under ABC, we can fund our climate programs and create a Climate Defence Strategy that saves lives and takes the fight on climate to the super-rich. 1305
Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'm #323 on the ballot for Vancouver School Board. Numbers were determined by random draw. I'm a fan of #23🐐 With 23 days left in this campaign, incl Oct. 17th E-Day, I thought I'd start a list of 23 reasons to vote for me and my fellow COPE candidates Suzie Mah, Melanie Cheng & Gwen Giesbrecht. 2195
Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A must read for everyone in British Columbia www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 020
Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026He closed renters' office, banned supportive housing, cut public services to give wealthy property owners $ they don't need, caused the eviction of countless renters ... ABC just voted for $18B asset manager Nicola Wealth's eviction of working families at Myron Manor. Now playing victim. Unreal. 0144
Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Amidst all the confusion of having every election all at once, there is at least one extremely funny and satisfying thing: The first day of advance voting in Vancouver's municipal election is Oct. 3rd, the date Ken Sim proclaimed as Chip Wilson Day. 162
Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The real existential threat to society & democracy is the disproportionate power of the ultra-rich. We aren't getting out of the crises we're in without getting to the root causes. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caJimmy Pattison optimistic about Donald Trump | CBC NewsB.C. business magnate, investor and philanthropist Jim Pattison is confident U.S. president-elect Donald Trump will be able to use his business acumen to run the country. 0111
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Gotta love a government that sees labour rights and environmental protections as barriers to overcome because sovereignty or something like that. 47020
Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The first advance voting day is October 3rd, the date Ken Sim declared Chip Wilson Day in Vancouver. Plan ahead to celebrate Chip Wilson Day: vancouver.ca/election/202... 1123
Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026On School Board, ABC had trustees who barely ever bothered to show up to Board and committee meetings. So no surprise Ken Sim's party is no-showing community-organized forums and debates. Let's save them the trouble of skipping out and just vote them all off the Board. 0174
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”orlandosentinel.comDocs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI... 9555432157
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹clnzjay 🌱 🐶 🇨🇦 @clnz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026There is not rock bottom with the Trump regime. 3218
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Universal free school breakfast and lunch is a great proposal. www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-...thebulwark.comEXCLUSIVE: The Next Big Dem Proposal: Let Kids Eat FreeSchool lunches were free to all kids during the pandemic; a prominent think-tank wants to bring back the idea and make it permanent. 16887141
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio. 16637111036
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 16/09/2026Our much-anticipated Vancouver City Council full term report card is here! 📝 We look back over 4 years of council votes and give the mayor and each councillor a grade, backed up by solid numbers. How did your favourite councillor do? visionzerovancouver.ca/2026/09/16/v...visionzerovancouver.caVancouver City Council Full Term Report CardVancouver heads to the polls in October to vote for its Mayor and Council, so we’re looking back on how all the incumbents voted on road safety measures over the full 4 year term. 34121
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Notice served. One month til election day. Ken Sim and ABC have been working for their super-rich backers, while the rest of us get left behind. COPE is fighting to make the city more affordable, reverse the damage of Ken Sim, and to give power back to the people. Vote the COPE slate on Oct 17. 26522
Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Police out of politics. In 2022 ABC's campaign manager Kareem Allam said, "We are extremely honoured to have the endorsement of the VPU." That was a dangerous precedent. Glad it's not happening again this election. 1213
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Cinema Tropical @cinematropical.com · 15/09/2026In Memoriam: Chilean master documentarian Patricio Guzmán (1941–2026). Read our tribute.cinematropical.comIn Memoriam: Chilean Master Documentarian Patricio Guzmán (1941—2026) — Cinema TropicalPatricio Guzmán, Chilean filmmaker and master documentarian, passed away today in Paris at the age of 85. Known for a profound body of work tied to landscape, human rights, and political memory, he wa... 02313
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026With any luck it will be the 'former mayor' who stands trial for the defamation of his colleague. CBC News share.google/r68osw6q5as0...share.googleVancouver Mayor Ken Sim's defamation trial set for January 2028: court documents | CBC NewsVancouver Mayor Ken Sim has changed the way he's depicting a media briefing where he told reporters a councillor "handed out illegal drugs" on Christmas Day in 2025, with an amended legal filing in th... 051
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Solidarity: the only way to win 222594581
Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Like they said they would, Ken Sim and ABC have run Vancouver like a business. More specifically, they've run it like a private equity aquisition they've slashed while giving themselves and their super-wealthy backers bonuses and handouts. 0172
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Robert Kraft is in the Epstein Files. 14543131184
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹LawrieBhoy 🍀 @lawriebhoy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026You can tell a lot about someone’s character by how they feel about the government providing free school breakfasts for children. 572285314
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Toronto Blue Jays @bluejaysbot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026🇨🇦 Congratulations to OUR @vancanadians on winning the Northwest League Championship! 🏆 05813
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Éditions Libertalia @libertalialivre.bsky.social · 11/09/202611 septembre. ¡Allende vive! 17631
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Total global immiseration. The only possible ways through are ones we make together. 05516
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 08/09/2026‘A good critic is a kind of lightning conductor who picks out the energy in what they read and passes it on to others.’ Colin Burrow on Helen Vendler and the uses of criticism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukColin Burrow · Good Weird or Bad Weird: Uses of CriticismLiterary criticism is a supremely occasional skill, where you have to be bold enough to operate where there aren’t any... 1135
Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"Where technology short-circuits the productive struggle of learning, it will undercut students' development." finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...finance.yahoo.comSchool Students Who Use AI Get Worse Test Scores, OECD WarnsStudents who do not use AI chatbots for schoolwork are outperforming those who do, according to the OECD’s flagship educational report, providing some of the widest-ranging evidence yet that the techn... 020
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 09/09/2026*gesturing to everything* the market that did this??? 131
Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This is blatant disinformation, sadly ;) 150
Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026UBC Business Mayoral debate on housing is a bit of a snorefest so far ... but Colleen Hardwick did come out as supporting Ken Sim's reversal of the ban on gas heating in new builds. "Let's the market decide." Clarifying. 340
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"This movement isn't about me or about COPE. It's about the people of Vancouver. And the people need us to defeat Ken Sim's right-wing government and reduce the harm being done by the sociopathic system we’re up against." - @stephanieformayor.bsky.social 0215
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I'm thrilled to share our new chapter on green social housing, looking at Vienna *and* Uruguay. It was super fun to put state- and movement-led housing projects in dialogue. It's in the brilliant @joobilly.bsky.social's new book, Building Postcarbon Futures. 1237
Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Thanks to William Azaroff for putting himself out there over the past year and putting his ideas for Vancouver forward. Glad the unity deal was honoured. Now it's go time. We're gonna defeat ABC & elect a progressive majority at City Hall and on School Board & Park Board. #VancouverInCommon 090
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Andy Yan @ayan604.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Going to the PNE this weekend? Remember to stop by the new Japanese Canadian Hastings Park Interpretative Centre! 1-6 pm A reminder of how fragile Freedom can be. #cdnpoli #bcpoli #Vanpoli Here's the story on opening of the Centre: vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/08/28/v...vancouver.citynews.caMemorial honours Japanese Canadians incarcerated at Hastings ParkFor Daniel Tokawa, the pain of having his community ripped apart by prejudiced policies from eight decades ago is finally beginning to heal. 0197
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Maria Dobrinskaya @mdobrinskaya.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Good for her. She was my preferred mayoral candidate, by a long shot, but something had to give in this messy political environment and I’m not surprised that she’s the one showing leadership here. Hopefully this ignites some necessary movement. #vanpoli 1519
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 04/09/2026nice quote from Mandami comms person Emilia Rowland to the New York Times 312570542
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it. 14120823350
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/09/2026Mamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schoolsmotherjones.comMamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schoolsKids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday. 420536
Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It's a shame the People's Primary never really happened. Would've been cool to see a real battle of ideas and policies ... even now it's mostly horserace stuff based on polls commissioned by Liberals and Conservatives. 2111
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 02/09/2026I am a scientist – and the answer is climate change. Yes, there is nuance. Yes, it could take a long time to identify the precise mechanisms. But there is no question why ice and snow-related disasters are on the rise. Our planet is warming at an unprecedented rate, and humans are responsible. 392326824
Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026We need a ban on AI chatbots in classrooms here in Vancouver too. ABC, ex-ABC, and Green trustees on School Board allowed Big Tech hype to go unquestioned. Time for change. @aicaution.ca 2100
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/09/2026New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year moratorium on AI use for elementary and middle school students on Wednesday. Kids “need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York’s mayor said Wednesday.motherjones.comMamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schoolsKids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday. 15674183
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Portman Doe @portmandoe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I realize they are being strategic, but I think Stephanie Allen would have been incredible as our next mayor and is my favourite candidate for the position. 041
Reposted by Derrick O'Keefe 🌹Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...theintercept.comThe U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.” 22661842177