@ashtrey5, Corwin and I made a video on “How to spot and reverse an overdose” but TikTok deleted after it got 100k views. So here it is for Twitter land. Part 1:

Commuter cycling is only an option for a small subset of well off workers and its advocates routinely treat their hobby as if it were the answer to poverty and climate change. Mass transit is the answer, not more bike lanes for sweaty software engineers on $3000 road bikes.

Every justification for Israel's campaign in Gaza I hear or read, I append "...and that's why its okay to kill those children." Collateral damage, human shields, acceptable losses, urban combat. All are a maze of euphemism. Assert reality. War kills children.

A deep dive into the Broadway Plan. "Tenants have inevitably felt the stress and uncertainty of the proposed demolition and redevelopment of their homes. I am one of those tenants. I have lived in my apartment at 25 E 12th for 13 years..." themainlander.com/2024/03/16/bro…

Come for the article, stay for the comments where people repeat their prayers to 'supply and demand', the only economic principle they understand.

CRAB PARK UPDATE: City of Vancouver Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation Vancouver Police have put up fences around the CRAB Park Tent City. Legal Observers and advocates not allowed in (under threat of arrest). Media not allowed in. Residents still in their tents. City has begun destroying homes. 1/

Please sign and share the open letter that lays out residents' demands - let’s get it to 1000: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… 7/

“Following nearly 6 months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied #Gaza, it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of & to present my findings: 'the Anatomy of a Genocide'.” — Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt at United Nations Human Rights Council. #HRC55

An opinion columnist, a discredited psychologist and a recovery centre that harboured a sexual predator have successfully allied with the conservative party of Canada to get thousands of drug users killed in order to gain public funding and a free labour force.

the transit police are $53M/yr

Corporate landlords looked at mining and said: maybe we can do this with low-income people. An endless supply of rental income that they can mine and mine and mine.

You have power in our society if your comfort is valued more than another person's life.

HBO should fund my idea for a limited miniseries of 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' that in no way resembles Blade Runner and features Deckard as he is in the book, a despised loser and slave catcher. You want a tax write off, I'll give you a tax write off.

An often overlooked reason to support public housing and co-ops and is that money is power in our society. By funneling so much wealth towards landlords we increase the power of the most useless people in the social strata. That just seems destructive to our social fabric.

REPOSTING THIS‼️ "Drugs aren't the problem they're an attempt to solve a problem" For many the gateway to addiction and mental health issues is trauma, poverty and homelessness. We would have much healthier communities and improve people's mental health if we address poverty

and we need to be honest about what politics are ... we not having disagreements about tax policy we are disagreeing about humanity

Other people mourned the loss of irreplaceable items like ashes. In Portland, we spoke to Teresa Stratton, who told us her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal. She said she hopes “he’s not in the dump.”

As the rent gets higher more and more people are pushed into homelessness with difficult odds of getting out of it. And all of this just to make sure that landlords can extract maximum profit.

Canada's smug reaction to the US election is hollow. We're on the same road, just a bit behind, as usual.

"For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret power behind the scenes attract the very worst." -Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism