This is your permission slip for continuing to fight.

Rick Bell: No Danielle, not THAT kind of fascism!

Takes us 40min to get around to Bell but here's a cathartic Big Shiny Takes for those of you fed up with Calgary's fastest-backpedalling.columnist.
bigshinytakes.com/episode.php?id…

Also journalists and others should read this publication. The Authoritarian Playbook protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/upl…

Opinion | It's hard to be a fan of these university encampments. If I wanted to stop the war in Gaza — which, to be clear, I don't — I would protest in a more effective, undisclosed other way.

Living in Alberta is a comorbidity.

Taken by Jelani Cobb, dean of Columbia Journalism School, inside campus

this is all to…keep investing in israel?

Euan Thomson Not subsidizing transit fares means more reasons for arrests. More customers for the private prison industry in Alberta’s “recovery-oriented” [caceral] system of care.

We need to understand, urgently, that we either divest from imperialism or we get fascism. The ruling class is eagerly ushering in fascism at home to defend their fascism abroad. And we have to reject all of it, right now.

Important piece from Jared Wesley
'if Albertans want to push back against the UCP’s creeping authoritarianism, they’ll need to get off the couch. Make a commitment and a plan to stand up. Democracy demands that of us, from time to time.'
drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/the-ucp-is-a…

.Benny Polatseck, a staffer in Mayor Adams' office, has deleted this tweet.

Washington Post confirms that the cops entered Hamilton Hall with guns drawn

As a Jewish alumni of McGill who cares deeply about antisemitism, I call bullshit.

I spent time at the encampment this weekend and can say McGill is cynically smearing these students to justify the police violently clearing an entirely legitimate protest. twitter.com/kinsellawarren…

WKCR-FM NY reports that NYPD threatened to arrest student journalists -- and even Columbia Journalism School Dean jelani cobb -- if they left Pulitzer Hall.

After the university's shelter-in-place order, reporters wanted to leave to see the events unfolding on the main lawn.

This is what the violence we're seeing on campuses is designed to defend.

Democratic governor. Democratic mayor. Democratic super majorities in the state senate, state house, and city council.

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Uh..... Lawrence O'Donnell O'Donnell doing very weird pro-police propaganda to open his show tonight, praising how kind, gentle and 'professional' the NYPD has been tonight in its treatment of Columbia protesters.

Dude. C'mon.

Placing cops in schools, revoking low-income supports, denying safe supply, refusing mental health regulation...

Alberta is building feedstock for a privatized prison industry.

Watch for 'therapeutic living units' to become standard lexicon.
drugdatadecoded.ca/recovery-capit…

This day is going to fully break my fucking brain

EXCLUSIVE: A Global News investigation uncovered a tangle of business dealings between federal minister Randy Boissonnault and a lobbyist that were not obvious to government officials or the public.

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