Brief thoughts on AI chatbots: policyalternatives.ca/news-research/…

Dockworkers went on strike across 113 ports in 22 countries to disrupt the transport of weapons of war, in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

New Yorkers stand with them. When working people unite in their power, we build a better world.

Dockworkers do not work for war.

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A new normal of the gradual destruction of Saudi, a semi-permeable Strait, a deepening genocide in Gaza and Lebanon, and rising prices of staples in the West is... fine for them. Won't touch their billions and they consolidate wealth in depressionary periods.

there is no comparison between the way mike rogers has talked about all muslims and arabs vs the way abdul has spoken abt jewish michiganders. abdul has been kind courteous and actively spoken against hatred of all forms. anti israel sentiment is not anti semitic, it's the most popular position amongst democrats. this entire media narrative trying to find some kind of parity is INSANE.

i think its very clear that she doesn't have staff and thought the classic fuck hasan lines would work on cnn after she endorsed mike rogers. its not working and she's flailing.

With ongoing RN layoffs in Ontario, we’re seeing situations where ONE nurse is caring for TEN patients in acute care. It should be one nurse to four patients. This is not sustainable for nurses or patients. Nurses are bearing the brunt of these cuts, but patients pay the price too. We need safe staffing, not more pressure on nurses to do more with less. Are we really going to keep watching this happen and do nothing? #onpoli

The radio silence and complete isolation of my father is unbearable.

Let us speak to him. Let us know he’s alive. Have some humanity.

Free Imran Khan.

Florida currently has four Holocaust museums, with plans for four more announced since October 7. That would bring the total to eight Holocaust museums in a state with the second-largest Black population in the country, where politicians banned Black history!

THREAD. When people like Haley Stevens or Fetterman begin openly endorsing fascism, it's helpful to step back and see their role in the counterinsurgency and propaganda ecosystems because it relates to other Democratic Party politicians, pundits, and non-profits.

In my view Stevens did absolutely the most rational move.

She clearly had ambitions of being a senator, and if Abdul wins, as is projected, she could never become a senator again.
As long as the race was close, she had a shot, but once Abdul became the more likely winner, she had no chance anymore.

By endorsing Rogers, she completely torched her future in the Democratic Party, but she didn’t care at this point about that, because it didn’t match her ambitions anyway.

But she proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, that she’s a loyal soldier of the Israeli lobby. And she will be rewarded well for her loyalty. As soon as her time in Congress ends, she has a career ready for her inside the Israel power machine.

Abdul basically said I got 99 problems but that bitch ain’t one.

toronto police fractured a child’s arm and assaulted two others for what they say is suspected fare evasion of which they have provided no evidence of - then charged the children with indictable offenses thestar.com/news/gta/polic…

“The cape is actually my favorite element because I'm just gonna keep wearing it on the daily.” 😂

Wemby breaks down his favorite Halloween costume!

A heartfelt tribute to Patrick Stewart from Q himself (@johndelancie)

The discharge by 11am policy is absurdly simplistic.
Focusing on throughput over quality w/o consulting patients or care professionals - so unwise.
But unwise is pretty much the #UCP brand.

Absolutely 💯 for every critic rejecting the bait. Also: instead of letting these texts continue to vampirically drain political energy, there’s an urgent need for more critical assessment of this phenomenon without giving in to the narcissistic impulses that mobilize it.

When you talk about reparations, some of the first people who come to oppose them are ignorant Africans whose confidence far exceeds their intellect telling you, “We don’t need reparations.”

Do you people even understand what you are rejecting? Do you think reparations mean a workers’ compensation cheque, that we are all going to queue at the bank and receive $100 or $500 for the suffering inflicted on our ancestors? Or that those our corrupt leaders receiving a $1billion check to acquire their next mansion in Dubai or Monaco? Is that really the extent of your imagination?

Reparations mean repairing structural harms left by the slave trade and its immediate child colonialism and it takes multiple forms.
Economic reparations include changing trade laws and agreements that keep formerly colonised economies supplying cheap raw materials while making it difficult for them to develop industries of their own. They can include preferential access to markets, removing tariffs that penalise processed goods, supporting local manufacturing, and changing procurement rules so African businesses can compete for valuable contracts.

Reparations can include tax advantages for building businesses: tax credits for productive investment, relief for new enterprises, incentives for research and manufacturing, and measures that help businesses owned by affected communities accumulate capital. They can include debt cancelation, investment funds and ownership stakes that help people build lasting wealth.
They can include returning identifiable stolen assets, millions of acres land, mines, confiscated gold reserves ( More than 2/3rd of the French gold reserve was taken from African countries since the colonial era).

Cultural reparations can mean returning looted artworks, sacred objects, royal treasures, manuscripts and human remains ( The German are still holding onto tens of thousands of African skulls they massacred in Namibia for ex), with the resources necessary for their preservation under the authority of the communities to whom they belong. You cannot steal somebody’s heritage, charge admission to see it, and then present a temporary loan as generosity. Repair can also include funding museums, libraries, publishing houses, theatres, film and cultural institutions whose development was obstructed or whose work was treated as inferior.

Historical reparations can mean opening colonial archives, returning records, identifying burial sites, documenting atrocities and supporting research led by the communities concerned to restore the names and lives of people reduced to numbers in those shipping registers.

Linguistic reparations can mean investing in reinstating African languages as languages of education, science, administration and intellectual life. That includes training teachers, producing textbooks, and recovering knowledge that colonial institutions dismissed because it was transmitted in a language they refused to respect.

Our nations have been so tied by debts that the IMF and our western debtors slash our educational budgets leaving our schools underfunded, making such reforms financially impossible. And this was intentional!

Reparation means our Children should be able to learn through their own languages and acquire other languages without being taught to despise the first words through which they understood the world.Reparations means revising our school curriculums, both in formerly colonised countries and in the countries that profited from their subjugation.
These measures require negotiation, enforceable commitments and public accountability.

But listen to how quickly some of you ignoramuses dismiss the entire demand before making the smallest effort to understand it. The ignorance is sickening !

Explosive admission!

The head of the Mossad, David Barnea, admits that Israel used ordinary Iranians as tools to protect Mossad operatives in the country.

Rarely will you find a more crude admission of how Israel deliberately and carelessly put thousands of people it claimed it sought to liberate in harm’s way:

In June 2025, the Israeli spy agency deliberately published multiple videos in real time of its agents acting against in Iran to compel the Iranian government to arrest as many people as possible.

“We wanted to make sure they arrested so many people in Iran that they wouldn’t be able to distinguish the wheat [the actual Mossad agents] from the chaff and would eventually release everyone,” he said.

“You have to imagine that when you arrest 21,000 people, even if you’ve caught an agent or two, eventually you have to release them... the IRGC would have no way of knowing who was a real agent with such a vast number of detainees."

Barnea added that many of those arrested or executed by the IRGC as “Mossad agents” had nothing to do with the agency.

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Kemi, congratulations on leading a major British party as a Black Woman. It takes real talent to rise to where you are and deceit is what it takes to rise as a Black leader in a western Conservative Party.
It is a pity the climb did not leave room for a history book and since you chose to argue in the language of history, let us do the history. Let’s dissect your verbal diarrhea point by point.

Everyone participated." Slavery existed on every continent. So did war, and nobody calls a village feud the World War. The transatlantic trade ran for 366 years (1501 to 1866) and put about 12.5 million Africans on ships, of whom about 1.8 million died before they saw the Americas, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. It ran through joint-stock companies, chartered monopolies, Lloyd's underwriters and acts of Parliament. It was hereditary, because the law made the child of an enslaved mother property from birth. It was racial, because a whole continent was defined as chattel. No other system in history combined those features at that scale. Dissolving all of it into "people from every continent" is far worse than intellectual dishonesty.

Britain was a market leader, not a participant. British ships carried about 3.2 million Africans, second only to Portugal and Brazil. The Treaty of Utrecht (1713) gave Britain the asiento, a thirty-year monopoly to supply 4,800 enslaved Africans a year to Spanish America. The Royal African Company, chartered in 1672 and headed by the Duke of York, later James II, branded its captives "DY". During Edward Colston's years in its leadership it shipped about 84,000 people, and roughly 19,000 died on the way.

You say British taxpayers should not answer for what happened before they were born. They did. In 1833 Britain borrowed £20 million to compensate slaveholders, and taxpayers serviced that loan until 2015, including the descendants of the enslaved. So the principle you invoke was not applied when the cheque went to slaveholders. It only appears when the cheque changes direction.

"Navel-gazing" is a curious charge from someone whose party spends more energy on the past (Empire nostalgia, culture war crusades) than most of those you accuse. Defend Britain if you must. But do not use your Nigerian name as the permission slip for arguments Nigerians know better than anyone.

She was only 17, a child, when Nazis murdered her; here we see the very last seconds of her life - Lepa Radic, a Yugoslav partisan. When offered to live in exchange for names of her comrades, she famously shouted: "You'll know them when they come to avenge me!"
And so they did!

Gaza City is literally living through its final days, and every passing day makes life here more difficult and unbearable.

We are losing what little remains of our resources and capabilities, with no alternatives available. Dozens of essential goods and raw materials are still prohibited from entering. Every basic necessity of life is gradually disappearing from the city. I am not exaggerating; this is the reality we are living. Things you take for granted in your everyday lives, things you barely think twice about, are simply unavailable here.

It has reached the point where even lighters are no longer available. Wood, iron, cement, and all other construction materials are prohibited from entering. Bakeries, water stations, and shops are shutting down one after another because of shortages of fuel, oils, and raw materials. Even the agricultural sector has been almost entirely destroyed after approximately 70% of agricultural land was seized.

We are not simply facing a shortage of goods. We are gradually losing everything that allows a city to function, survive, and sustain life.

What is happening is pushing Gaza City towards complete dependence on external aid, rather than allowing it to produce its own necessities and provide for its people.

Write, share, and speak about what is happening. Do not stop amplifying our voices.