Reposted by Beth LSam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 25/04/2025In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation... 311206458324 0
Reposted by Beth LHeather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 25/04/2025This is what scares me. The weapons grade tsunami of #CdnDisinfo & propaganda unleashed against #MarkCarney, from 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇺🇸🇮🇳, has been an attack on 🇨🇦’s democracy, without most people even realizing it. Constant talk of MC winning, may make people complacent & think they don’t have to vote. #StopPoilievre 210447 0
Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Amid the election noise I missed this: Rachel posted this a day a go, it hit r/Fauxmoi and since then Jamroz appears to have stepped down from ROM already. We have got to make it unpalatable for anyone to be part of this travesty. 010 0
Reposted by Beth LAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/04/2025This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too. 17662562211363 0
Reposted by Beth LSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 15/04/2025I am once again begging people to realize that the law is words on paper and is not self executing. "That's illegal" is not and has never been synonymous with "that's impossible" or "that can't be done." "That's illegal" means "you might get in trouble for that depending on who you are." 11571551792 0
Reposted by Beth LCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/04/2025“.. judging only from price action, we are suddenly witnessing a comprehensive turn away from US assets (stocks, USTs, corporate credit and the dollar). this is the single most important theme to monitor over coming weeks. .. for the moment capital is flowing out of the US.” - GS Desk/Pasquariello 23768142315 0
Reposted by Beth LArzeena Hamir @arzeena.bsky.social · 13/04/2025It's simple. The NDP are the only party that can beat Aaron Gunn and the CPC in our riding. Tell your friends. #DroptheGunn #ComoxValley #CampbellRiver #canpoli 22811 0
Reposted by Beth LDiane Ademu-John @junkyardmessiah.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Turns out Ireland could single-handedly put a stop to this entire nonsense. 13958421157 0
Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 06/04/2025The election just got spicy. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...cbc.caParliament Hill on lockdown after man 'barricaded' himself inside East Block, police say | CBC NewsA lockdown was declared on Parliament Hill after a man "barricaded" himself inside the East Block on Saturday afternoon, Ottawa police say. 110 0
Reposted by Beth LPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/04/2025“What did they expect?” is kind of a misleading question. The people who supported them didn’t expect something very specific. They expected to own the libs. They expected people they resented to suffer. The expected the world to burn. It wasn’t about specifics. 21983801309 0
Reposted by Beth LAnna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Today marks 40 years since Canada's Supreme Court said the Charter of Rights and Freedoms applies to everyone physically present within Canada - including asylum-seekers. decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-...decisions.scc-csc.ca Singh v. Minister of Employment and Immigration - SCC Cases 224737 0
Reposted by Beth LAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 04/04/2025It sure looks like they’re going all in on the “the executive branch can ignore court orders if it thinks the court lacks jurisdiction” thing 665109222765 0
Reposted by Beth LJacob Gardenswartz @reporterjacobg.bsky.social · 04/04/2025BREAKING: Md federal Judge Paula Xinis GRANTS preliminary injunction, rules from the bench that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was apprehended "without legal basis" and removed to El Salvador illegally, "without any legal process." He's to be returned to the U.S. by 11:59 on Monday, 4/7. 12648901207 0
Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 04/04/2025my reflexive need to respond with "i'm doing great, how are you?" when I really don't care to inquire at all is my daily undoing. 000 0
Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Yikes. @canadaland.com #PPdroptheGunn www.facebook.com/share/p/1EYA...facebook.comRedirecting... 000 0
Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 02/04/2025We’re cooked. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...subscriber.politicopro.comE&E News: Big banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potentialMorgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree goal. 000 0
Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Cory Booker about to explain his favourite Severance season 3 theory any moment now. Or maybe Choreography and Merriment will take to the Senate floor. 010 0
Reposted by Beth LWillow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 31/03/2025People have been talking for years about the 4 chan to mainstream culture pipeline and this is what was always going to be the end state. 29417 0
Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 01/04/2025I thought he was one of the smart ones. Apparently, nope. 030 0
Reposted by Beth LTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...snyder.substack.comTwenty Lessons, read by John LithgowKey selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing 26591474383 0
Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Canada should be rolling out the red carpet for all the scientists and academics who need to flee … 010 0
Reposted by Beth LJay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 23/03/2025"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist 364144833089 0
Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Your Sunday read. Non paywall link in comments. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...theatlantic.comAmerica Is Watching the Rise of a Dual StateFor most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t. 100 0
Reposted by Beth LJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23/03/2025The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...time.comWhat the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador ExperiencedExclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S. 803152406082 0
Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 21/03/2025I miss the days when satire was … satire. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-...mcsweeneys.netWe Are Free-Speech Absolutionists, Unless You Say Something We Disagree With, In Which Case, You’re a Terrorist“President Trump’s promised immigration crackdown is here. Over the past two weeks, his administration has pushed against the limits of executive p... 000 0
Reposted by Beth LMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/03/2025BREAKING— Trump’s executive order dismantling the US Dept. of Education just dropped. “Closure of the Department of Education would drastically improve program implementation in higher education.”whitehouse.govImproving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and CommunitiesBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to enable parents, teachers, and 59509171 0
Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 19/03/2025The us travel boycott is really kicking in. Not only is the plaza premium lounge at Gate E not at max capacity, but there are clean, comfy seats available during the mid day lunch rush. 😅 010 0
Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 18/03/2025“I can’t promise that if we all act like this problem is manageable, it will prove so. But I can promise that if we all act as though this problem is not manageable, it will not be.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...lawfaremedia.orgThe Situation: The Full-Scale Situation Two Months InHow is it going? 000 0
Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 17/03/2025That’s a 14% swing - completely unsurprising tho. #elbowsup 000 0
Reposted by Beth LTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that. 702300478388 0
Reposted by Beth LPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16/03/2025A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity. Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists. 250138623204 0
Reposted by Beth LEnrique Bedlam @enriquebedlam.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Working in immigration law is like people finding out the Mad King is feeding his enemies to a secret minotaur hidden under the Palace and you need to explain that, no, you knew about the minotaur and the feeding has happened for years but it used to be decided by lots who got fed to him. 135598 0
Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 15/03/2025The same people that did their research on vaccines and fluoride are now bringing their intellect to bear on the topic of flavour profiles of non-Kentucky bourbon. 000 0
Reposted by Beth Lnuxi @nuxi.bsky.social · 14/03/2025"My roommate described Republicans as the mass shooter and Democrats as Uvalde cops, and I can't get it out of my head." -jaycatt7 217231 0
Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Pretty sure Thom was singing about perimenopause on Let Down: And one day I am gonna grow wings A chemical reaction (You know where you are) Hysterical and useless #radiohead #peri #meno 010 0
Reposted by Beth LAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/03/2025WTF?!? Elon Musk reposted this on X before quietly deleting it: “Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.” 66879112401 0
Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 08/03/2025So far I’m learning weed, cheezies, cheese and maple syrup are Canadian. I think we’re gonna be ok. 010 0
Reposted by Beth LLawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 07/03/2025"Mejias and Couldry offer a very readable and powerful account of Big Tech companies’ extractive practices and how they build on colonial extraction." @chinmayiarun.bsky.social reviews "Data Grab" by Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry.lawfaremedia.org‘Data Colonialism’ and the Political Economy of Big TechA review of Mejias and Couldry, “Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back” (University of Chicago Press, 2024). 3359 0
Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Um, no. Not US =/= good. Here’s a radical boycott strategy: go hyper local as much as you can. Embrace the 100 mile diet. Eat seasonal produce. And consume less of everything else as much as possible. Even outside of the Trump-induced end times, it’s the right thing to do. 000 0
Reposted by Beth LBurrow erupted feral from the woods $30/200 @burrow.northsky.social · 06/03/2025I’ve been laughing all day. To all my Canadian friends 🫡 515339 0
Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 05/03/2025He's not wrong here. Yet: "the ultimate question here, though, is what happens if and when a court says no to Trump or Musk and they say the court’s order is illegitimate." www.lawdork.com/p/donald-tru...lawdork.comDon't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracyTrump and Musk are testing the limits, trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so. 000 0
Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Also explains PP supporters and the constantly and noisily aggrieved people in our local fb groups. 000 0