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📍Halifax, NS • 🏳️‍🌈 • she/her • Newbie cyclist "I can hardly describe to you the effects of these books" -Mary Shelly, Frankenstein
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The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!
estibass.com esti @estibass.com · Jun 25
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
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I also think we all need to recognize: the battle against Mamdani, because of what he represents, won't end with the election.

If he wins, the billionaire-aligned voices will stop at nothing to discredit his ideas, to show they fail. Every mistake will be amplified.

He'll live gamergate every day.
Honestly there is no surer sign that politicians like Mamdani actually have a shot at reversing the massive and growing plague of income inequality than the way the billionaire class is absolutely shitting its pants right now.

Their fear gives me hope change is actually possible! More Mamdanis now!
every most evil person is coming out of the woodworks to try and stop zohran mamdani from winning, his victory will be so delicious watching the meltdowns
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The government just dropped its budget — which could see us plunged into another election this year, if it doesn’t earn the support of at least two opposition MPs.

Right now, it doesn’t have that support.

But that could change — especially after a Conservative MP just joined the Liberals:
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Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
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a great article from the UK outlining the human cost of amazon orders
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In many places, these covenants banning multi-unit housing served to perpetuate exclusion and class segregation after racially discriminatory clauses became unenforcable. They continue to keep apartment dwellers out of some of Halifax's most walkable, centrally located neighbourhoods.
As Halifax deals with a housing crisis, some of the wealthiest Haligonians have a different concern. Residents of some south-end peninsula neighbourhoods are concerned about “losing single-family density”

(Aside: I would definitely not call these the “final” hurdles to development)
Halifax has removed the final hurdle to development in some areas — and neighbours are fighting back | CBC News
A wealthy Halifax neighbourhood with tree-lined streets and grand homes on the Northwest Arm has become one of the latest battlegrounds in the city’s push to build more housing.
www.cbc.ca
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As we await the federal budget, a reminder that social programs, access to basic needs like housing, food, etc. are not "Good to have" - they are essential.

"We'll get to addressing violence, poverty, homophobia, racism, etc. once we deal with the tariffs" is bad economic policy AND absolute BS.
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It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.
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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?

great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
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New paper is out tomorrow, grab it at Alantic News or @kingsbookstore.bsky.social.

Cover by @acbzw.bsky.social on last week's HalifACT update.

On the back @landofsticks.bsky.social writes about Police and Snow clearing.
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This is some psychotic, McCarthy-esque bullshit.
The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.

As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
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Thank you for towing our music along! Great playlist, loved the timing of the Stranger Things theme playing as we went across the boardwalk
Props to you for riding one handed with the sword for basically the whole ride!! Yall had an awesome cohort of costumes
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We’re launching Automatic Federal Benefits — pre-filing taxes for up to 5.5 million Canadians, so they get the benefits they’re entitled to.
Does anyone who uses an app/other tracker know how many kms the ride was this evening?
This is absolute insanity. Can the publishing industry not just admit defeat and *actually* make NA a real, defined, marketable category so we can utilize it to differentiate texts? This shit drives me crazy as both someone who has just barely aged out of YA & is a bookseller myself...
Had a blast at the Halloween Bike Party & Critical Mass ride tonight! All the passerby seem to have thought our music & costumes were fun. It was lovely to see so many people have a touch of joy brought to their evening. Thanks as always to the organizers & ride marshals! #BikeHFX #CriticalMassHFX