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Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes. And I speak for myself (views are my own). She/her. 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️🕊️

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ATP @permanentnomad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"I don’t want to be protected. I just want patriarchy to stop protecting and enabling men and male violence. I don’t want to be protected. I want to be free." ❤️👇
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the Heroic Protector Fantasy is rarely of real use to women, it's just wish fulfillment about male posturing and it frequently exacerbates violence it's also much easier to imagine yourself kicking the ass of an obviously villainous stranger than to to actually intervene where you have influence
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Blanchet, on Carney reportedly moving to weaken the right to strike: “I fear that it is one more token placed on the table in order to attract huge foreign businesses in Canada, telling them that there will be no more environmental regulations, much less work regulations, and things will be easy.”
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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/
A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27
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ATP @permanentnomad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“First Nations will continue to demand justice, respect, and the fulfillment of the Crown’s constitutional and treaty obligations to the original relationship. Trust must be built before any investment can be made in our territories,”
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our response to the ban on trade with illegal settlements and a call for Canada to do more to support human rights in Palestine. www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-res...
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NDP response to the ban on trade with illegal settlements
NDP Foreign Affairs Critic Heather McPherson issued the following statement:
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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Picard management tip: Regardless of what time travelers tell you, the future hasn't been written yet.
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Alexa Gilmour @alexagilmour.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is not ok, and to dismiss this shocking behaviour speaks to the premier's deeply entrenched misogyny and patriarchal attitude that continue to excuse and normalize the targeting and intimidation of women in public life.
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
No newsroom needs a board to ensure editorial independence. Editorial independence only arises one way: the editorial side of the outlet makes a list of demands in a contract and their bosses sign it. That's it! Anytime you hear of the creation of a special board to ensure it, remember: it's fake!
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
There’s another epidemic we’re doing nothing about. If we don’t bust some myths, it’s going to get worse. Abuse is still cloaked in shame and fear; we must shine light on it and bring it out into the open, by @lizrenzetti.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... via @thestar.com
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Elizabeth Renzetti: There’s another epidemic we’re doing nothing about. If we don’t bust some myths, it’s going to get worse
Abuse is still cloaked in shame and fear; we must shine light on it and bring it out into the open
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/07/2026
In Nepal, HIV outreach workers left jobless by U.S. foreign aid cuts turn to sex work to survive, walking the streets alongside the very people they once fought so hard to help.
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Sex work or starve: Aid workers in Nepal left jobless by USAID cuts turn to sex work to survive
After the United States slashed its foreign aid funding last year, more than 280,000 aid workers worldwide lost their jobs.
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A year after shutting down USAID, the human cost is impossible to ignore. Millions are paying the price through hunger, poverty & preventable disease. The world is less safe, healthy, & stable. Canada should be stepping up, not cutting international development. ricochet.media/internationa...
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One year after Trump’s aid cuts, the world’s poorest people are paying the price
A collapse in foreign assistance by wealthy countries has put millions of lives at risk. Canada, despite its global reputation, has followed a similar retreat from poverty reduction and human rights
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
In a sane world there would be International Arrest Warrants naming every Oil, Gas & Coal billionaire for climate crimes against humanity
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
washingtonian.com/2026/06/13/k...
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Kennedy Center Sign Frenzy Misses the Point - Washingtonian
The Trump sign was bad. It's not the main issue.
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 10/06/2026
For the $380 million it costs to host six World Cup games you could build 20 new community centres across the city, almost one in every ward. thelocal.to/fifa-world-c...
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An Illustrated Guide to the FIFA World Cup in Toronto | The Local
How many private jets could this pay for? Seven illustrations to make sense of the costs and payoffs of hosting the World Cup.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.
The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on ­ post-
­ traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a ­ moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”
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Steven Chase @stevenchase.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Canada part of global retreat on foreign aid: www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
theglobeandmail.com
Wealthy countries, including Canada, cut foreign aid
OECD says 2025 marked historic decline in aid as countries face economic strain
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ATP @permanentnomad.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Shellene Drakes-Tull: I’m struggling and you may be, too. Here is what we need to do to lift us all up
Community is creating spaces where everyone feels welcome and, when we see people suffering, we step in to help. Community doesn’t happen by accident. It’s created with intention and purpose.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Gift article. Very much worth your time: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...
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Opinion | This Is the Formula That Defeated Orban. It Would Defeat Trump, Too.
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ATP @permanentnomad.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"It is especially urgent that Canada act, given the Trump Administration’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization and the closure of USAID – two actions that are already having devastating consequences for global health."
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ATP @permanentnomad.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Another story that show how the drastic cuts to global humanitarian aid are devastating millions of lives. All of the talk about "system reform" or "unlocking private capital" feels meaningless in the face of such unbearable suffering. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...
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Catastrophe Is Emerging in the World’s Most Vulnerable Places
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Michelle Moore @trebula.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
"Because the operational definition of “nation-building” embedded in $25 billion of sovereign wealth fund capital and $6 billion of workforce strategy is steel-toed, hard-hatted, male-coded, and extractive."
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 25/04/2026
But Rubio’s talking points says no one has died.
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Uganda sees spike in disease-related deaths after elimination of USAID
In 2025, the Trump administration dissolved the $40 billion U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. Days later, an exemption for "life-saving humanitarian assistance" was issued. But what...
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Jonathan Bohan @jonathanbohan.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
New Tom Waits with Massive Attack. Devastating. youtu.be/L-57FrioeuE?...
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Massive Attack, Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground
YouTube video by Massive Attack
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ATP @permanentnomad.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Still cannot believe that USAID was taken down by this bunch of absolute losers. May the ghosts of the people they murdered haunt them forever.
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Birds of a feather 🏳️‍⚧️ @robinyourgrave.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The difference between these two is racism
Russia plans to illegally annex lands it invaded, even as its military falters.

Israel Plans to Control Large Parts of Southern Lebanon, Defense Minister Says
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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 28/03/2026
Headed out to a No Kings protest today? Know your rights before you go and share with your friends and family attending!
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 07/03/2026
“Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender.” 💯 - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
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Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 03/03/2026
Thanks so much to the (MIS)Treated podcast and @namshine.bsky.social for hosting this very important and timely conversation!
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Why is it so hard to get care for the menopause transition? | (MIS)Treated
YouTube video by TVO Today
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ATP @permanentnomad.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
“It’s an abandonment of a long-standing element of our foreign policy.”
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
What good can you do today? What trouble can you cause? What suffering can you ease? What needs to exist, and can you help build it?
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
"Without feminism, the sequence of events that led to Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest would never have happened. It’s a reminder that feminism is powerful and important and even transformative, which is why there’s so much pushback..."
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ATP @permanentnomad.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
"But you also need to understand — and this is equally important — that we’ve already won. The reward is right now, this minute, this moment. "
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 12/02/2026
“The fact that this tragic event in #TumblerRidge immediately inspired calls for restrictions on gender-affirming care and trans rights at large in Canada should raise huge alarm bells for trans people and our allies.”
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As Tumbler Ridge Mourns, Anti-Trans Misinfo Spreads | The Tyee
No good will come from the conservative rush to weaponize the shooter’s identity in this story.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 12/02/2026
"Why Is the World Silent When the Gaza Genocide Is Not Over?" @dianabuttu.bsky.social on how Israel continues to kill, starve, and imprison Palestinians as the world remains distracted by the words ‘peace’ and ‘process’ and ‘boards’ and ‘plans.’ READ: zeteo.com/p/why-is-the...
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Why Is the World Silent When the Gaza Genocide Is Not Over?
Diana Buttu on how Israel continues to kill, starve, and imprison Palestinians as the world remains distracted by the words ‘peace’ and ‘process’ and ‘boards’ and ‘plans.’
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I’m furious at AI because it steals our work, consumes vast resources and produces mediocrity, but along the way it also traumatises the people - mainly in the developing world - who are paid a pittance to train it. Theft, abuse, environmental destruction, all to make rich men richer. Burn it all.
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‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The Frank Stronach trial will soon start. I wrote about how to actually help survivors of sexual violence: through paths outside the courtroom, and by not cutting off their funding www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Elizabeth Renzetti: High-profile names like Frank Stronach get all the attention. But this is how to really help victims find justice
Alternatives to trials may better serve victims of sexual violence.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Watching these videos of ICE attacking children, I can’t help but think about how many of these men first practiced their violence in their own homes. Domestic violence teaches our oppressors to dehumanize the most vulnerable among us.
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NPR @npr.org · 11/01/2026
A recent Israeli decision to bar Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups means international staff and aid can no longer enter Gaza or the West Bank. Local staff must rely on dwindling supplies and no international expertise.
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Inside a Gaza medical clinic at risk of shutting down after an Israeli ban
A recent Israeli decision to bar Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups means international staff and aid can no longer enter Gaza or the West Bank. Local staff must rely on dwindling supplies and no international expertise.
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 10/01/2026
To paraphrase Margaret Atwood…”men are afraid that women will laugh at them, women are afraid that men will kill them”
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 02/01/2026
More than 1 billion women and children were exposed to violence worldwide in 2023. On our first cover of 2026, a Comment highlights the urgent need for preventive measures to address this crucial public health priority and save lives. Read this & more: spkl.io/63322Alsfi
Cover of The Lancet's Jan 3, 2026 issue. Quote on cover reads: "Importantly, [intimate partner violence and sexual violence against children] are preventable."
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 08/12/2025
If they hadn’t burned all the witches and midwives back in the day, we’d probably know more about perimenopause and menopause right now. We know fuck all about a condition that half the population goes through because men are a bunch of plonkers* *not all men** **but most of them
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Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
So happy my girl @supriya.bsky.social is out here opinionating again: "When Canada walks away from feminist policy, it abandons a key driver of poverty and strife. And when Canada appears to bow to bro-signalling ... it has joined the league of polite misogyny." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Supriya Dwivedi: Mark Carney is giving in to the bros
Fighting poverty and violence around the world means embracing feminist ideas.
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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 27/11/2025
Anyway there's an NDP leadership debate tonight and hooboy if there were ever a time for the NDP to offer up some alternatives, this is it
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 24/11/2025
"The 'ceasefire' is a diplomatic sham – a cover for the continuing extermination, displacement and erasure of the Palestinian people in Gaza and a distraction for the international public and the media." — #AJOpinion by @yarahawari.bsky.social ⤵️ aje.io/p14911
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No, there is no ceasefire in Gaza
Israel’s bombing of Gaza is not a ‘violation of the ceasefire'. It is a continuing genocide under diplomatic cover.
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ATP @permanentnomad.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Fascinating story and a good reminder of why, in the age of AI-fueled grift, if it sounds a bit too good to be true, then dig deeper...
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ATP @permanentnomad.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Transgender Awareness Week is a time to protect, advocate for, celebrate, uplift, understand, and honor our trans community. ❤️ open.substack.com/pub/thosener...
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What is Transgender Awareness Week?
Transgender Awareness Week is a time to protect, advocate for, celebrate, uplift, understand, and honor our trans community.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
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