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@josephinelee

And you better believe a conservative government in Canada would do that too.

Also, you better believe that a Carney liberal government would do that too, because Trudeau's already been doing it for months. His focus on getting international students out of the country, maybe accidentally or intentionally defunding universities who depend on inflated tuition from them, has been fuckery for a while now.

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If your doctor gives you a blood work requisition labeled #Lifelabs, just take it to the hospital.

That is a super easy way to boycott America, and private for-profit Healthcare.

And health authority should be promoting the existence of their outpatient labs all the time, but I think they don't because they don't want to be seen as competing with the private labs. And not just Lifelabs, the other ones too.

newsroom.questdiagnostics.com/

As we #boycott American fascism, we also need to boycott Lifelabs.

It was just bought by an American company, and it has been a Canadian privatized health-care diagnostics company for decades, competing with the public healthcare system for profit. These fuckers need to go.

Where should you get your lab work done? Your local hospital outpatient lab...such labs are rarely promoted to the community.

Quest Diagnostics NewsroomQuest Diagnostics to Acquire LifeLabs from OMERS, Enhancing Diagnostic Services for CanadiansQuest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), a leading provider of diagnostic information services, today announced a definitive agreement with OMERS to acquire LifeLabs, a trusted provider of community...

An active-duty serviceman in the US army is openly following a proscribed neo-Nazi terrorist group, the Base, on social media, one that has vowed to recruit soldiers in preparation for a so-called race war.

Note that in February, the DoD issued a memo halting a major counter-extremism initiative rooting out white nationalists and far-right influences among servicemen, citing that it was not in line with Donald Trump’s executive orders.

#antifa

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

The Guardian · Fears over extremism in US military as soldier revealed as neo-Nazi TikTok followerBy Ben Makuch
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#FreeZaid #FreeAllAntifas #KeineAuslieferungnachUngarn

"Seit dem 04. Februar sitzt der 21-jährige Nürnberger Zaid in Auslieferungshaft in der JVA Köln. Zwei Jahre lang war der junge Antifaschist untergetaucht und stellte sich am 20.01.2025 ebenso wie sechs weitere, im sogenannten Budapest-Komplex Beschuldigte, den Behörden. Zwei Jahre lang hat er sich dem Szenario entzogen, dass er und so viele andere befürchtet haben: eine Auslieferung in das rechtsautoritäre Ungarn. Eine Auslieferung in ein Land, das selbst vom Europaparlament nur noch als „Wahlautokratie“ bezeichnet wird, weil rechtsstaatliche Prinzipien, Pressefreiheit und der Schutz von Minderheiten nicht mehr gewährleistet sind. Für Zaid also eine doppelt gefährliche Situation: gegen ihn besteht lediglich ein Haftbefehl aus Ungarn und nicht aus Deutschland. Zudem hat er als einzig hier lebender Beschuldigter keine deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft...."

de.indymedia.org/node/502983

Mehr über die Kampagne, sowie weiteres zum #BudapestKomplex

alleantifa.noblogs.org/

Was ist eigentlich mit dem Spiegel los? Seit wann ist die Befindlichkeit des Führers schlagzeilenwürdig? (War bei Spiegelonline vor 20min an erster Stelle.) Was soll überhaupt so eine Normalisierungskampagne? Als nächstes betonen wir wie lieb er zu Hunden war. Eigentlich doch ein guter Kerl. Ne?
Bewusst? Unbewusst? Who the f*** knows?
Richtig ist, dass das Böse nicht übermenschlich ist und auch potentiell in einem selbst ist. Falsch ist, das Böse zu normalisieren.
#wtf #politics #politik #antifa

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@dedicto

Still stunning when I talk to Americans about how elections.ca exists.

Like, they don't know that actual political parties running elections is inherently corrupt and is not even close to democracy.

We are in a federal election now, and no one is going to #hangingchad us or #jan6 us.

This isn't brain surgery.

elections.caElections Canada On-line - Élections Canada en ligneElections Canada is the independent, non-partisan agency responsible for conducting federal elections and referendums.
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Practical thing for do for fight triad of abuse/rape culture and fascism?

- believe survivor/victim and support
- foster athmosphere of respect of boundaries, limits, feelings, needs and wants
- #ConsentCulture be of import and be for sex and for nonsexual thing as well
- practice respect of body and bodily autonomy for self and other
- celebrate joy of life!

more concrete example:
- someone say "not can do task"? you not push. task maybe important for cause, but friend/comrade IS cause!
- someone upset, sad, have strong emotion, dissociate, leave suddenly? offer help if can guess what is needed, go after person for offer support, ask how help and then do
- make sure everyone (include you!) have food and rest and check in regular, make habit of check in: Need of body?
- have snack on table in in-person meeting or living space
- be connect to body of self and other (if consent) and be good friends with. learn and practice communicate with own body and other (if/when wanted)
- learn own body signal for distress or need or enjoy, learn friend signal, learn what different stim of autistic friend mean
- make space accessible, ask of accessibility need, normalise talk about, respect conflicting needs and invite creativity for find way of handle
- learn listen to instinct/ gut feeling/ vibes! this very important and no substitute for, because abuser good at twist word, like (fascist/enabling) politician
- if person give bad vibe, or you notice feel worse in body or mind if person around? GET AWAY from person, no matter who, even mother. catch breath. reflect. talk with trusted friend if possible. then decide if still be let bad vibe person in life.
- support self and other for cut contact with abuser, even if parent, and unlearn feeling of obligation to abuser (is same as unlearn loyalty to unjust government)
- listen to vibe be process of learn. bring feeling of vibes together with other sense, with feeling of body, with emotion, with knowledge and logic and with what other ppl know. make choice base on all those
- be you and obey only own value, not any authority you not trust. support other in do same, even if they be wrong, even if they question YOU. you stand by own opinion but respect friend have other view
- admit mistake and learn and grow and support other do same
- no shame to make friend change, no shame to shut down or cut off friend from group - goal be reconnection (unless it not friend but abuser)
- celebrate weirdness, craziness, difference, surprises in how people are or feel or act
- value fun, celebration, joy, light heartedness and childishness

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I want point out tho: This not make fight harder, or add more different fight to fight against fascism, because:

BEST and MOST POWERFUL and MOST RESILIENT and FEARLESS of antifascist comrade and activist and warrior be SURVIVOR WHO HAVE SUPPORT NOW.

This interconnectedness of abuse culture, rape culture and fascism not mean "oh no, antifa work already hard enough, how I ALSO fight fight against abuse/rape" — no it mean you have better understand of enemy and see clear: Be good person and nourish athmosphere of respect in (found) family, friend, social, religious/spiritual, or activist/political group be double effective.

You already want that, you not want be in athmosphere of abuse. So it not extra burden, it be of free for you and nourish and help thrive and FEEL GOOD for you too.

Is aspect of selfish, but I not lie, is also hard. Face fact of abuse and hurt and suffer of relative, friend, comrade (whenever it come up), is emotional labour. Is good for whole of group, which include you, so is good for you.

You be scared of issue of rape/abuse, not know how handle, not want do/say wrong thing, feel like not be expert, feel disempowered, feel like other people should handle? WRONG. Not need be expert. Not need be perfect. Not need special, scarce skill. Just be ally, be accomplice, be friend, just be HUMAN — or entity of choice .

Do not dis-able own movement by make hostile to most valuable fighters! That DOES, AUTOMATICALLY and inevitably make environment friendly for abuse, for ppl who drain of energy, even for rapist and for wannabe fascist.

Not can be neutral in question of abuse, rape OR fascism. And that GOOD THING!! Because that mean each choice have double impact.