First up, Alberta premier Danielle Smith is using the Notwithstanding clause to discriminate against trans youth. And its Trans Awareness Week. The Toronto Star writes:
...The limits passed last fall are some of the most restrictive changes to policies for transgender youth in the country. New rules banned puberty blockers for those younger than 16, gender-reassignment surgery for those under 18 and required parental consent when a student under 16 wished to use a different name or pronoun at school.
Amateur sport organizations were also required to limit participation in women’s and girls’ sports to athletes who were born female.
This anti-trans law is opposed by: - the Canadian Medical Association - Alberta teachers - Civil rights groups - the Canadian legal system - roughly half of the polling public in Alberta It is supported by: - Danielle Smith - the "Danielle Smith can do what she wants" loophole
— ℳatt (@matttomic.bsky.social) November 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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If you are against trans people, you're on the wrong side of history. Even Pope Leo recognizes this:
Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
— Them (@them.us) November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Next, Poilievre - he messed up the budget vote because he is messing up as CPC leader:
CPC must think Canadians are very stupid, that we wouldn't notice Reid and Scheer hiding during the budget vote so they could abstain if it looked like the Liberals would lose and would have to call an election.
Evan Scrimshaw writes:
When it came to the choice Pierre Poilievre had to make last night, allowing a couple of abstentions and keeping Scott Reid and Andrew Scheer back (only to vote after the results were certain) was probably the correct one. It was almost assuredly the best choice Poilievre had with the information available to him Monday. But, it being the best available option does not make it a win for Poilievre, for a simple reason - you can’t divorce the broader macro context from the micro of that choice in that moment.
The Conservatives, or more accurately their dumbass supporters on the Internet, are trying to spin that an election would have been bad for Poilievre, so this is the right way of voting No while ensuring there wasn’t one. It does limit their ability to attack the NDP for that same choice, but in the specific circumstances, I agree with the mouth breathers! But the reason an election now would be bad for Poilievre is Poilievre’s own fucking fault.
If Poilievre had spent the summer and fall putting the CPC onto an election winning front foot - strengthening the party’s economic offer, coming up with a better attack on Carney than lying about the carbon tax, and focusing on their offer of what a Conservative government would do on issues that they think matter to Canadians. The Conservatives have talked a lot about how they oppose the harm reduction approach to drug issues and want people to get treatment, so where was the big national offer to the provinces for more treatment beds? The Conservatives claim to be the party that cares about making our cities safer and cleaner - did I miss Federal incentives to provinces to get encampments cleared and to make transit better?
Would I love those ideas? No, but I’m a staunch progressive, and therefore not the target. The Conservatives claim that the Liberals are a mess, and that there is some silent majority that is itching to toss Carney overboard. And if there was there would have been an election triggered last night, because the Conservatives and NDP would have leapt at the chance to take Carney out at the knees. There’s not, and that’s on the Opposition Leader.
The job of an effective Opposition Leader is to do two things - drag the Government’s popularity down and boost his own party’s. Since the election, Poilievre’s been unable to do either of those things. ...
The misogyny is the point
— Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) November 18, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." – FDR "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country" – JFK “When one of us falters, we all falter. When one of us rises, we all rise.” – Barack Obama "Quiet, piggy!" – Trump
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) November 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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— darren32359.bsky.social (@darren32359.bsky.social) November 18, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Governor Newsom knows how to respond to Trump:
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) November 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
And as usual there's other Trump craziness going on too:
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A journalist asked the Saudi Prince what he could tell Americans about why we should trust him after the assassination of Khashoggi, & Trump reacted by saying, “Things happen” & that the Prince knew nothing & it was rude to ask him about it. Khashoggi was killed for criticizing the Saudi govm’t.
— Jane Voter (@janevoter2018.bsky.social) November 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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And this fucking Epstein guy too:
Jon analyzes that 18-word sentence from Epstein’s emails that broke the internet
— The Daily Show (@thedailyshow.com) November 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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And of course, the ICE gestapo guys:
Is this losing? Feels like losing
— Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) November 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...
— Rachel Maddow (@maddow.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Garrett Graff writes:
...The Border Patrol retreated from Chicago in defeat, not victory. Writing about the Border Patrol a decade ago, I referred to it as a “fiercely independent agency—part police force, part occupying army, part frontier cavalry,” and watching Bovino’s tactics, I’ve come to believe the analogy has even more truth in the current moment. Bovino is basically leading a rebel cavalry, a la Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who raided and terrorized communities in Kentucky and Tennessee in the Civil War.... Bovino’s shock troops have the most in common with the Klan “night rides” of the Reconstruction and Jim Crow era South, where hooded Klan members on horseback — often “respectable” leaders of the White community like the local sheriff — terrorized Black families and abused their civil rights. Bovino seems focused on becoming the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump immigration era, complete with the blatant racism, illegal tactics, and ignominious losing place in history.
Today, Bovino is leading a mounted raiding unit that descends, unwanted, on targeted communities, terrorizes the residents, and then — unable to break and defeat the hostile residents and ill-positioned to fight a sustained losing battle — withdraws, always trying to stay just a couple steps ahead of the judicial orders and court showdowns that have blocked its worst tactics. We’ve seen this pattern now unfold in Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, and now Charlotte, as well as smaller raids in places like Sacramento, and Bovino’s force has been defeated in each of them. There’s a national trail of court orders left behind in each jurisdiction finding and enjoining their tactics as illegal, unnecessary, and overly violent. In neighborhood after neighborhood, they face resistance and then, literally, pop tear gas canisters and retreat.
In fact, while the trauma and terror that Bovino’s unit instills is certainly real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how ineffective the force has turned out to be. Time and again, these agents — and the broader DHS and White House policies behind it — are being exposed not for their strength, but their weakness. Ordinary Americans are stronger — braver and better....
Americans are sharing their anti-ICE tactics across the US
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
— Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) November 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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The Catholic Church is stepping up against ICE - I haven't seen such activism in 60 years, since priests marched against the Vietnam War:
US Bishops have responded to attacks by Border Czar Tom Homan: “The bishops of the United States have spoken together and in unity with Pope Leo XIV.”
— Rich Raho (@richraho.bsky.social) November 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…” Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) November 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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The racism agents are just stupid, aren't they:
A former career DOJ guy told me a few weeks ago that prior to Trump, the FBI was the varsity team, DHI and ICE were junior varsity, and Border Patrol were like a drunken office softball team. And under Trump, the drunk softball guys are now in charge.
— Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) November 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
— Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy (@bitterkarella.bsky.social) November 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say. "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
— Sanho Tree (@sanho.bsky.social) November 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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