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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 2h

Retired RCMP cop Darrell Johnson charged with sexual assault

SiRT Charges Retired RCMP Officer with Sexual Assault

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The Director of the Serious Incident Response Team (SiRT) has reasonable grounds to believe that a now retired RCMP officer committed criminal offences.

This investigation involved conduct that was alleged to have occurred when the officer was a member of the RCMP as well as after his retirement. As a result, a parallel investigation was conducted by SiRT and the RCMP, including their Street Crime Enforcement Unit and the Interview Assistance Team.

Following the investigation the SiRT Director has determined that there are reasonable and probable grounds to believe that retired Sgt. Darrell W. Johnson committed criminal offences against a female known to him.

On October 15, 2025, Darrell W. Johnson was charged with three counts of sexual assault contrary to s. 271 of the Criminal Code.

Darrell W. Johnson will appear before the Nova Scotia Provincial Court at 15 Kennedy Street, Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia on November 13, 2025, at 9:30 a.m.

As the matter is before the courts, and in consideration of the fair trial interests of the accused, SiRT will not provide further comment on the investigation.

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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 2h

The community has put in an incredible fundraising effort for DULF, now totalling nearly $300k for the legal defence.

They need $350k, the annual salary of one police chief. Consider supporting right now — court is in session.
dulf.ca/dulf-aid-2/

Legal Aid Fundraiser II

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 2h

If you identify the genesis of US fascism as Trump’s entrance into politics, your analysis will fail every time. Fascism didn’t come to the US—it was born here! In the garrison-colonies of the British and Spanish, in the genocidal westward expansion, in the slave ships bringing misery and wealth.

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 3h

Ben Gvir personally oversaw the torture of Greta Thunberg, as reported by Aftonbladet.

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 5h

We don't have to defeat Trump. We have to defeat the systems that nurtured, created, and empowered Trump.

Many of those systems are built around the comfort of white people, cis people, and abled people, at the expense of everyone else.

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 1h

All of the people in Gaza need to be treated for malnutrition because Israel is intentionally starving them.

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Sasha the Furious Ghost 👻 @sashafury.blackskycomra.de · 2h

I can't remember ever seeing a @winnipegfreepress.com article focused on the experiences of Palestinians as subjects, rather than just a mass of bodies to be referred to in general.

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Sasha the Furious Ghost 👻 @sashafury.blackskycomra.de · 2h

Mainstream journalists do not seem to offer the same attention to the traumas of Palestinians who've been enduring genocide not only for the last two years but for the whole of their lives. Why do such publications not attend to Palestinian subjects as they do Israeli ones?

(Not actually asking.)

Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 2h

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — They will be treated for malnutrition, lack of sunlight and the trauma of wearing leg chains for months. They suffer from unexplained pain and unresolved emotions, and they will have to relearn how to make everyday decisions as simple as when to use the bathroom.

After months in chains and darkness, freed Hamas hostages begin their long road to recovery

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — They will be treated for malnutrition, lack of sunlight and the trauma of wearing leg chains for months. They suffer from unexplained pain and unresolved emotions, and they will have to relearn how to make everyday decisions as simple as when to use the bathroom.

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

Also have to note the way the entire framing shifts the focus away from the actual racism on display to how people feel about being associated with racism they’re supposedly disavowing.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

I think this is the difference in understanding racism as an organizing principle in society vs understanding racism as the use of a few particular slurs.

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 1h

If I had children, they would be homeschooled primarily to avoid bullying, to teach them bodily autonomy, and that they can set boundaries.

If schools were to work, they would be small, and integrated (as you mention) into the rest of the community.

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Elegant Sledgehammer FREE LINK @tinyteerex.bsky.social · 2h

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- schools as specifically isolated sites, disconnected from community at large, is really fucking weird and off-putting. Why aren't schools connected with elder care centres, community hubs, child care spaces? We're leaving opportunities to encourage & develop empathy on the ground, it's silly!

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 1h

Okay, but have you seen the "Communism is race mixing" placard photos with angry white people? These leaked chats come from people with the same fundamental belief/behavior. They may have hidden it at times, but they haven't changed.

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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 19h

ICE is randomly targeting peaceful protesters because the point is to terrorize the public into accepting martial law.

Indiscriminate attacks send the message that there’s nothing you can do to stay safe.

The regime wants you to cower at home and cede the streets of your city to their control.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 11h

I only just recently realized that philanthropy comes from the greek philo (to love) and anthropos (mankind), so in a literal sense, the meaning should probably be similar to humanitarian, rather than reputation-laundering via bribery.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Given what has happened in Lebanon I think it's abundantly clear that the US vision of a ceasefire is that the Arabs cease and Israel continues to fire.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 1d

It’s funny how black people are expected to reach across the aisle to voters like these, while no one ever expects them to reach across the aisle to black people. Amazing who gets to be human, and who doesn’t.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 12h

Morning At Dotonbori, Osaka,
Kawase Hasui, 1921

www.artic.edu/artworks/538...

a river in the morning, a few boats are visible and a could of houseboats. the shore is lined with darkened buildings

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shtum entity victim #BringBackLink @rifka.bsky.social · 12h

lol

Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 17h

THE DNC AND ITS OFFICERS DO NOT ENDORSE IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS —PERIOD!

THE DNC IS NOT FOR— OR— AGAINST YOUR FAVORITE CANDIDATE. WE SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES CHOSEN BY VOTERS.

WE FOCUS ONLY ON BEATING REPUBLICANS SO GOVERNMENT WORKS FOR US.

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 12h

YOU CAN TELL IT'S TRUE BECAUSE IT'S IN ALL CAPS, lmao

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 12h

If Trump had written this, only HALF the WORDS would have been ALL CAPITALS.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 21h

I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 19h

Imagine if Justin Trudeau had implemented electoral reform as he'd promised, and when Pierre Poilievre lost his seat in the election, there was no "safe riding" for him to run in because electoral reform allowed people opposed to him to defeat him in any riding?

Thanks, Trudeau. 😮‍💨