Rene Millward
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Rene Millward
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I am a Severely Normal Albertan with interests in science, history, politics, human rights & especially disability rights. Also public policy in general. I am NOT looking for a relationship & am NOT able to sponsor anyone’s path to citizenship. NO DMs! 🇨🇦
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Food, water and housing are basic human rights … yet many people will be struggling to keep a roof over the heads and food on the table with SNAP funding cut off.

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens is trying to ease the burden.

He’s paused evictions and water shut offs through Jan 31st 2026.
Atlanta pauses evictions, water shutoffs as SNAP funding lapses
Mayor Andre Dickens ordered a citywide pause on residential evictions and water shutoffs.
www.fox5atlanta.com
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This guy’s a Christian pastor, in case you think Diocletian didn’t have a point.
Evangelicals are hot for starving kids.
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In realistic trauma recovery we need to remember that neither our comfort zone nor our desire for comfort is our "enemy."

Growth happens when we push ourselves, then give ourselves time & fuel to recover-- & that recovery & rebuilding happens where we feel safe & comfortable.
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The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
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www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
"... It isn't ICE. It isn't CBP. It's a Frankenstein force, stitched together from multiple agencies but loyal to none. Its purpose is to create a community response designed for social media clicks, rather than to keep communities safe..."
This is fascism
Opinion | The White House's sweeping overhaul of ICE is creating a Frankenstein force
The recent wave of ICE senior official reassignments has a clear motive.
www.msnbc.com
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It’s the first of the month. That means tenants in Los Angeles have officially been on utility strike for 6 months. They are refusing to pay their RUBS (ratio utility billing system) utility bills while they demand transparency for their high monthly bills.
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I feel like this is a microcosm for our current situation.
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Tom and Daisy from the great gatsby literally try to convince Nick of eugenics during dinner
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Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"
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There are bonafide monsters stalking the earth eagerly and enthusiastically distributing suffering to anyone they please. And with no recourse on our end but to film them and shout and beg for anyone with power to stop them. How convenient that the monopoly on violence always also acts as a shield.
Every headline is a moral injury
Every single post is like a punch in the face. Every headline is a moral injury. Could be I’m extending too much grace here but it occurred to me recently that maybe all of the people who “don’t pay ...
www.welcometohellworld.com
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It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years!

Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...

Applications due December 5th!
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Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!

Lots of fresh info in my new piece:

newrepublic.com/article/2025...
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Let them not eat
Apparently there was a Gatsby party at Mar a Lago, while Trump is trying to kick 42 million off SNAP
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Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”
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I gotta be real, I did not suspect we would reach "roving mobs of white folks chanting "shame" at ICE" within 9 months, and it really feels like a sign of how much more horrifying it must be on the ground than those of us not there can even imagine.
Video taken by Jay Shefsky at 12:20 p.m. after the crash happened, Oakton Street/Asbury Avenue in Evanston, IL
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A federal judge in Florida has ordered the arrest of a former Green Beret accused of plotting to invade Venezuela in 2020 after he failed to show up to court for a hearing on whether he should be taken back into custody for violating the conditions of his pre-trial release.
Judge orders arrest of ex-Green Beret tied to failed Venezuela raid after court no-show
www.stripes.com
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this is giving “extremely drunk old men in south korea go absolutely nuts to stop the attempted coup” energy
Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Days after she became first Alberta premier to invoke notwithstanding clause, Danielle Smith wants it used again.
By the feds.