Seeing some folks asking why the Ottawa police aren’t doing more to stop the truckers. If you’re wondering, here’s a quick explanation:

Even though we say “Law and Order”, the “law” part is the secondary role of the police: dissuading folks from committing crimes, taking reports, driving around etc. The MAIN job of the cops is maintaining the social order

All the posts coming out of Gaza suggest Israel's genocide has escalated significantly in the last 24 hours.

As children we were taught that 60,000 people died in the Vietnam War. As adults we learned that actually 1.3 Million people died — but only the lives of 60K American soldiers mattered to those who wrote our history books.

Must read.

US complicity in the genocide in Gaza, rampant corruption, systemic police brutality, accelerating wealth inequity, and the impending ecological collapse are all culminating into the perfect catalyst for a revolution.

Palestinians are saying this is the worst phase of the genocide yet.

On this day in 1985, 39 years ago the Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood, specifically on the house of a Black Liberation group called MOVE, ki!!ing 11 members, including 5 children, destroying 61 homes and leaving 250 people homeless.

Forget about left and right, the only division that matters now is ”with the empire” or “against it.”

At this point we should all just #BlockJoanne

Who do we know who's running (incumbents and challengers) in the upcoming Halifax municipal elections?

Andy Fillmore? The guy who forced the Nova Centre on us? The guy who wanted to spend millions of our taxed dollars on a private stadium for some rich bastard in Arizona? Might as well spend our money on a monorail.

Chewbacca is just Bigfoot with a laser gun.

Are there any fiction writer's groups in Halifax that meet to crit each other's works? I've checked the WFNS page and it seems there's only one, and it's dedicated to sci-fi.

There's one of these on the wall of the grocery store in Bridgetown and it's so f'n funny