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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Registration Link for the Toronto launch. September 15, 2026. Thinking from Black: A Lexicon. Come out. Join us! www.eventbrite.ca/e/launch-of-...
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Launch of THINKING FROM BLACK: A LEXICON
Join us for the launch of The Practicing Refusal Collective's THINKING FROM BLACK: A LEXICON.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Also hold the date. The fifth(!!!!) Alchemy Lecture will be on October 29, 2026 at York! 5-8 pm. Audra Simpson Thandi Loewenson Lorenzo Pezzani Torkwase Dyson. ScALE Registration and links to come.
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hsmyth1.bsky.social @hsmyth1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Grassy Narrows Webinar - 150 Years of Resistance 23 July 2026 7-9 pm on Zoom With Chrissy Isaacs @surj_toronto
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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Goodnight, Zuri. Our newest orphan elephant at our Nairobi Nursery, fast asleep at the end of a long day, trunk tucked into her mouth. What burning question would you like to ask us, or a member of our field teams? Put it in the comments below and we'll answer as many as we can.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
the real story behind this viral photo is even more heartbreaking than the one the public created.
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The Woman in the Photo Wanted to Be Alone. Instead, She Went Viral.
America saw what it wanted to see on the face of its newest icon. And everyone saw it wrong.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Make the fundraiser go viral. Her name is Bernita and she is the black woman photographed on public transit in DC surrounded by fascists. gofund.me/8a99f2902
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Donate to Support Bernita and Her Family in Tough Times, organized by Paul Chosen one
I would like to get help for my sister and family she need ls she is a t… Paul Chosen one needs your support for Support Bernita and Her Family in Tough Times
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 27/05/2026
1/ Right now, a bill called C-22 is moving through Parliament. It would let police pull information on who you talk to, when, and where, all without a warrant. It's at committee this week. 🧵
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hsmyth1.bsky.social @hsmyth1.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canada's new asylum law leaves 2SLGBTQ+ claimants fearing deportation | CBC News
Ahmed came to Canada as an international student planning to return home — until falling in love with another man forced him to confront the dangers he says he faces in Pakistan. Now, a new federal as...
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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Leading today is Mageno – dependable, kind to all, everyone's favourite big brother. Somewhere in that line: Toto, Natibu and Mwinzi. Days into life at Ithumba. Already walking like they'd always been there. Meet the Ithumba herd: www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/orphans
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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Elephants are afraid of bees. A line of hives along a boundary is one of the most effective deterrents there is. We manage 222 beehives, including a women's beekeeping group in the Kibwezi Forest. When people and wildlife coexist, everyone gains: www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/projects/com...
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
“Stay silent when children sleep, not when they die”. We must never be silent in the face of injustice and oppression. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸
Yipeng standing in front of boats adorned with Palestinian flags, wearing a vest that reads: “stay silent when children sleep, not when they die”.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Please be careful what you feed your dog. Some human foods can be very harmful and even deadly to your best friends
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Flock is a controversial AI surveillance company running automated license plate reader cameras, and shares that data with local law enforcement who share further with ICE. Dozens of US cities have cancelled Flock contracts, but a wealthy Toronto neighbourhood now wants to roll out Flock in Canada.
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Row over ‘virtual gated community’ AI surveillance plan in Toronto neighbourhood
Rosedale residents considering car licence plate-scanning Flock system in bid to tackle property crime
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
1. Elahe Mohammadi’s reporting on the funeral of Jina Mahsa Amini — which ignited the Woman, Life, Freedom uprisings — led to her being imprisoned by the regime for 17 months. God only knows what she endured while in prison. So I hope you’ll read her message below.
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hsmyth1.bsky.social @hsmyth1.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
A disgusting display of smug power in response to Ms. Isaacs speaking on behalf of those poisoned at Grassy Narrows, and in step with Carney's and Ford's pushing mining and oil projects without free, prior, informed Indigenous consent
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hsmyth1.bsky.social @hsmyth1.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
"when you look into the evidence that props up these policies, often it does not actually exist...Every woman ...who has been flagged under gender verification policies since 2009 is a Black or brown woman from the Global South...This mission falls squarely within a core argument of eugenics"
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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
declassified RCMP files confirm Canada's domestic intelligence agency infiltrated and sought to disrupt legitimate political Indigenous organizations in the 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, informants and countersubversion www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement | CBC News
A CBC Indigenous investigation has found the Cold War-era RCMP Security Service had a widespread and intrusive surveillance operation targeting at least 30 legitimate Indigenous political organization...
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This week I had the privilege of witnessing a historic moment in student organizing in Nova Scotia.
A sign that reads “NS STUDENT STRIKE: Meet our demands for you’ll be square in the red” with a Palestinian flag next to the sign.
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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Just in case you need some good news today: researchers at U of W have figured out how to turn plastic waste into acetic acid (primary ingredient in vinegar) using the sun. This has the potential to really help us reduce plastic waste. uwaterloo.ca/news/media/w...
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Waterloo researchers turning plastic waste into vinegar | Waterloo News
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a way to turn plastic waste into acetic acid, the main ingredient of vinegar, using sunlight. The breakthrough offers a promising new approach...
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
New Eid matching campaign by the Refaat Alareer mobile library - matching up to $5k for the Sameer Project. Can we help them turn $5k into $10k? Through Open Books: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/b4g...
Bookshop for Gaza Eid matching campaign - turn $5k into $10k for the Sameer Project by Atlanta-based Refaat Alareer Mobile Library. Tatreez design by Hala Saleh
bit.ly/match4pali
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Absolutely horrific. Canada’s massive border bill, C12, has been adopted after third reading at Senate. C-12 will become the country's largest machinery of deportation: deporting refugees without hearings, retroactive bars, and mass status cancellation. A mirror of anti-migrant ICE violence.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Living Words Mon, March 30, Commemorating Yom Al Ard PWYC, suggested $20 -$40+. ALL funds to Gaza. Evening of multilingual poetry and cultural expression centering on land and resistance. We hope the poetry and time spent together serves as balm in face of raging fascism and imperialism.
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Living Words: Multilingual Poetry Commemorating Land and People
Living Words: Multilingual Poetry Commemorating Land and People 🗓 Mon, March 30 at 5:45 pm 📍1803 East 1st Ave. xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh & səlilwətaɬ lands ⏰ Doors at 5:45 pm. Starts with light meal....
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Reporter: You promised the Iranian people you would help them. Trump: Will I help them? I'd like to, if they can behave, but they've been very menacing,
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It is horrific that Palestinian students from Gaza, admitted to Canadian universities, are not being granted student visas to Canada. Amidst an ongoing genocide and occupation, denying Palestinian students is continuation of same violence and anti-Palestinian racism. truthout.org/articles/can...
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Canada’s Visa Requirements Are Forcing Students in Gaza to Put Dreams on Hold
Students accepted by Canadian universities struggle to figure out how to leave Gaza and comply with strict visa rules.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 26/02/2026
Very much not the point but listing sex at birth on a document meant to identify you right now is utterly useless from a security standpoint. but of course this is about cruelty and forced outing of queer private lives.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
THERE IS AN ENTIRE THREAD KEEP GOING KEEP GOING
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hsmyth1.bsky.social @hsmyth1.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
'If I read Lorde alongside the Combahee River Collective, I can imagine that creative victories sustain and transform relationships. Not, “I disagree with you, so I must destroy you,” but “I disagree with you, so we must use the creative energy of our differences to imagine something else together"'
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hsmyth1.bsky.social @hsmyth1.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
"I now know that the care of strangers is a powerful testament to pain. I have to believe the care of our global community could at least partially restore fragments of childhoods stolen by war & atrocity. As L Herman reminds us: 'Trauma dehumanizes the victim; the group restores her humanity.’"
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hsmyth1.bsky.social @hsmyth1.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Tashi delek!
Photograph of white horse in Tibetan plateau with message reading 'celebrating Tibetan Losar 2153 Year of the Horse' and the url machik.org. Tibetan writing at top of image.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Organizing against borders can seem utopic, but there are many concrete fights: 1 Mutual aid networks 2 Rapid Response actions 3 Stopping PIC construction & budget fights 4 Ending agreements w/ local enforcement 5 Non cooperation of public institutions (hospitals etc) w/ immigration 6 Status 4 All
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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Tenure-track professorship in Anglophone Lit / New Media Studies in Göttingen, actively looking for people who can teach Comparative and World Lit 👀 uni-goettingen.de/en/695692.html
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W1-TT-W2 Anglophone Literature / New Media Studies - Georg-August-University Göttingen
Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
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hsmyth1.bsky.social @hsmyth1.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Oh dear www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'He was a man on a mission': Eddie Carvery remembered for keeping memory of Africville alive | CBC News
Eddie Carvery, the activist who lived in a trailer on the site of the former town of Africville for over 50 years, has died. Carvery used his decades-long protest to call for reparations for the forme...
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 14/02/2026
This is Lexa. She really hopes you’ll be her valentine. Wouldn’t want to waste this look on just anybody. 14/10 (IG: bambiandlexa)
a tiny brown & tan chihuahua in a pink sweater is sitting, looking up at the camera. two white strands of hair stick out the top of her head. they’re curled into a perfect heart.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/02/2026
This is a travesty. African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin has been one of the best programs in the country. And for historical context, this is explicitly about reversing the gains of student movements in the 60s and 70s. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
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UT to consolidate gender and ethnic studies programs into one new department
Affected departments include those that focus on African and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican American Studies, Women and Gender Studies and American Studies.
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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
CUPW, one of Canada's largest unions, released a statement condemning the fuel blockade against Cuba. www.cupw.ca/en/cupw-stat...
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) stands in solidarity with the Cuban people and the international trade union movement in unequivocally condemning the US government fuel blockade of Cuba.

This is a blatant and unjustifiable assault on the Cuban people, who are entitled to dignity, self-determination, and freedom. It represents a clear violation of international law, the United Nations Charter, and Cuba’s sovereignty. 

The US government’s escalating threats of economic and military aggression toward Canada, Greenland, and numerous countries across Latin America, along with its continued aggression against Cuba, are undermining global peace, destabilizing international relations, and eroding multilateral cooperation. 

This fuel blockade is not only an act of economic coercion, but also a form of collective punishment that places the health, safety, and survival of the Cuban population at risk. Such measures are inhumane, unlawful, and indefensible. 

CUPW firmly believes that the future of every nation, including Cuba, must be decided by its own people, through peaceful and democratic means, free from foreign interference, coercion, or imposed agendas. 

CUPW demands that the Government of Canada call on the US Government to stop the blockade and to reaffirm that the UN Charter must apply equally to all member states, without exception. 

CUPW urges the Government of Canada to condemn these violations and reject collective punishment of civilian populations, and all forms of economic warfare and political coercion. The Government of Canada must also provide immediate humanitarian assistance to Cuba, free from political conditions or coercion.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
This Valentine's Day, set up an adoption for your special someone and introduce them to our world of elephants, where every member of the family is treasured. They'll receive an adoption certificate and monthly email updates on the orphans in our care. Find out more: www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.o...
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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
How can MPs block exports of arms to ICE, you ask? Well, they are debating a Private Members Bill (from NDP MP Jenny Kwan) that would allow them to do just that act.greenpeace.ca/en-ca/no-mor...
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No more armoured vehicles for ICE!
Sign the petition to demand Canada stop exporting military equipment fuelling human rights abuses.
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Audre Lorde, in a 1989 commencement address, said, "Remember this, despair is a tool of your enemies. That rumor, 'You can’t fight City Hall,' is circulated by City Hall. Facing the realities of our lives gives us the motivation for action, it gives us the power to change. You are not powerless."
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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Great piece by longtime movmement homie Mostafa Henaway on social movements and what we are facing in Canada — neoliberalism, mass deportations and militarism www.midnightsunmag.ca/crisis-as-cl...
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Crisis as Class Strategy
Mostafa Henaway on the emergence of the Carney doctrine in Canadian politics: elbows up and austerity for the many.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This is Dr. Alireza Golchini, a general surgeon. He was detained by Iranian government forces for providing medical care to protesters. The charges he faces puts him at risk of execution. Our medical colleagues are being targeted for doing their jobs of caring for patients in Iran.
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