Lisa Kadonaga
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'Gives us some hope': Afghan women at risk of deportation due to USAID cuts look to find home at U of R | CBC News
The University of Regina and a Vancouver-based non-profit are looking to raise $500,000 to bring 25 Afghan scholars facing deportation in Qatar to Saskatchewan
www.cbc.ca
Please circulate -- U of Regina has stepped up to host displaced female Afghan students, with a safe place so they can complete their degrees and not be sent back to Afghanistan from school in Qatar. (Lost funding due to destruction of USAID.)
Hoping to raise $500k.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Hoping to raise $500k.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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New — In light of WV guard member Sarah Beckstrom’s death, a call has gone out to all National Guard members in the DC area asking them to come to the Eisenhower Memorial to line the procession from the hospital.
November 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
New — In light of WV guard member Sarah Beckstrom’s death, a call has gone out to all National Guard members in the DC area asking them to come to the Eisenhower Memorial to line the procession from the hospital.
Reposted by Lisa Kadonaga
This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
Love the wampum symbolism.
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@niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social
“Animikii is happy to announce the release of the #DataBack eBook, written for Indigenous-focused organizations and governments to transform data governance through advanced tools, principles, and practices.”
#DataBack | Recognize and Reclaim Indigenous Data Sovereignty
— Animikii Indigenous Technology
Data are essential for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples to inform policies, make better decisions, and ensure a better future for the next generations. So what does this look like in practice?
animikii.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Love the wampum symbolism.
@niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social
@niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social
It's nice that the human performers from the movie get to be on camera
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It's nice that the human performers from the movie get to be on camera
These people are not our friends.
“Rather than reinvesting those profits in the Canadian economy, the four companies paid out $79.7 billion in dividends and share buybacks, nearly ¾ of which went to foreign shareholders, including 62% to American shareholders.”
www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty
Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are sending a large share of their profits out of the country to their shareholders in the United States, the CEO of the Trottier Family Foundation warns in an opi...
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November 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
These people are not our friends.
They had to photoshop the pic to repost this year, because none of these guys have friends who want to spend the holiday with them.
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
They had to photoshop the pic to repost this year, because none of these guys have friends who want to spend the holiday with them.
This is a lie. Vance isn't a reputable historian -- let alone an expert on Indigenous cultures. It would be hurtful at any time of the year, let alone on the Thanksgiving holiday.
Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is a lie. Vance isn't a reputable historian -- let alone an expert on Indigenous cultures. It would be hurtful at any time of the year, let alone on the Thanksgiving holiday.
I wonder if this is one of the earlier depictions of Uncle Sam with a beard (his forerunner Brother Jonathan was beardless) -- remembering @therealtony.bsky.social 's livestream about this last year
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I wonder if this is one of the earlier depictions of Uncle Sam with a beard (his forerunner Brother Jonathan was beardless) -- remembering @therealtony.bsky.social 's livestream about this last year
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
Happy Thanksgiving to my family and friends in the US.
I'm thankful for you!
I'm thankful for you!
November 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Happy Thanksgiving to my family and friends in the US.
I'm thankful for you!
I'm thankful for you!
Mice in armour!
Like the tiny knight in Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy World
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2d6...
Like the tiny knight in Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy World
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2d6...
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Mice in armour!
Like the tiny knight in Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy World
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2d6...
Like the tiny knight in Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy World
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2d6...
I remember reading about the time Al Gore tried to cook a turkey in the fireplace, at their Harvard dorm in the 1960s. Tommy Lee Jones was his roommate then, and backed up the story.
Great 🧵
Firsthand account of one's time in Peace Corps.
Firsthand account of one's time in Peace Corps.
Maybe I’ll tell y’all about Thanksgiving in Uzbekistan, where I was in the peace corps 2000-2001.
I lived in a town; nearest American lived in a qishloq - a true village. A few of us somehow figured out to meet there. (How? No internet, no phones. No recollection of how we planned anything.) 1/
I lived in a town; nearest American lived in a qishloq - a true village. A few of us somehow figured out to meet there. (How? No internet, no phones. No recollection of how we planned anything.) 1/
November 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I remember reading about the time Al Gore tried to cook a turkey in the fireplace, at their Harvard dorm in the 1960s. Tommy Lee Jones was his roommate then, and backed up the story.
Yes. Also it sounds like Robert was having problems before his father was murdered, then that probably had a deep impact on him -- before the drugs. There are lots of people with addictions and trauma, who aren't being terrible in their relationships or making harmful decisions at work.
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Yes. Also it sounds like Robert was having problems before his father was murdered, then that probably had a deep impact on him -- before the drugs. There are lots of people with addictions and trauma, who aren't being terrible in their relationships or making harmful decisions at work.
"In 1851, the Victorian social commentator Henry Mayhew calculated that 436,800 sandwiches, all of them ham, were sold on the streets of London each year. [...] Sainsbury’s [...] now sells that number every 36 hours."
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A classic example of being too close to the source! But I always look forward extended family dinners where I can listen to buccaneering tales of outwitting the French on sandwich bread. Needs to hold a soggy prawn cocktail and also ham/cheese. This is the classic www.theguardian.com/news/2017/no...
How the sandwich consumed Britain | The long read
The long read: The world-beating British sandwich industry is worth £8bn a year. It transformed the way we eat lunch, then did the same for breakfast – and now it’s coming for dinner
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November 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
"In 1851, the Victorian social commentator Henry Mayhew calculated that 436,800 sandwiches, all of them ham, were sold on the streets of London each year. [...] Sainsbury’s [...] now sells that number every 36 hours."
@swordsjew.bsky.social
@swordsjew.bsky.social
Heads up -- southern Ontario and Quebec too
A cross-country storm could dump heavy rain and accumulating snow across more than 1,000 miles of the country this weekend.
Read more: https://cnn.it/49CdI6J
Read more: https://cnn.it/49CdI6J
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Heads up -- southern Ontario and Quebec too
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November 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I suspect this includes people who helped act as translators etc. for American troops and government agencies in Afghanistan, and are now threatened by the Taliban.
November 27, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I suspect this includes people who helped act as translators etc. for American troops and government agencies in Afghanistan, and are now threatened by the Taliban.
There's a lot of talk about "needing" AI to fix the climate crisis, but at the best it would just repeat what scientists have been saying for decades. Guess they'd rather hear it from a machine than from human scholars, especially if they're women, Black, Indigenous, etc.
People are more interested in the welfare and sentience of ChatGPT than they are in the welfare of actual human beings and it’s so fucking bleak
can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
There's a lot of talk about "needing" AI to fix the climate crisis, but at the best it would just repeat what scientists have been saying for decades. Guess they'd rather hear it from a machine than from human scholars, especially if they're women, Black, Indigenous, etc.
Sex between consenting adults is a whole different situation, in my view, from ethical breaches by professionals.
“As she later revealed to me during hours of conversations, Olivia did this regularly throughout 2024: canvassing sources who trusted her, obtaining their opposition research on Bobby, and then feeding it directly to the candidate.” — Ryan Lizza
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Sex between consenting adults is a whole different situation, in my view, from ethical breaches by professionals.
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Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.
With luck, Trump will hear "Quiet, piggy" as he's marched off to prison.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
With luck, Trump will hear "Quiet, piggy" as he's marched off to prison.
Reposted by Lisa Kadonaga
President Trump said that he is barring South Africa from participating in the Group of 20 summit next year at his Miami-area club and will stop all payments and subsidies to the country over its treatment of a U.S. government representative at this year’s global meeting. https://to.pbs.org/3Ki4fXO
Trump says he's barring South Africa from participating in next year's G20 summit
President Donald Trump also said he'll “stop all payments and subsidies” to South Africa over its treatment of a U.S. government representative at this year’s global meeting.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
President Trump said that he is barring South Africa from participating in the Group of 20 summit next year at his Miami-area club and will stop all payments and subsidies to the country over its treatment of a U.S. government representative at this year’s global meeting. https://to.pbs.org/3Ki4fXO
Reposted by Lisa Kadonaga
An underrated part of the discussion of how to fund Vancouver's Celebration of Light is that a generation ago, big businesses spent tons of money on local culture because it was an efficient form of advertising.
And today, when everything can be targeted through online algorithms, they don't.
And today, when everything can be targeted through online algorithms, they don't.
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
An underrated part of the discussion of how to fund Vancouver's Celebration of Light is that a generation ago, big businesses spent tons of money on local culture because it was an efficient form of advertising.
And today, when everything can be targeted through online algorithms, they don't.
And today, when everything can be targeted through online algorithms, they don't.
As of 5 PM Eastern -- it looks like the 2 West Virginia National Guard members who were short, are in critical condition. I hope they make it.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
2 National Guard members shot in Washington, D.C., are in critical condition: FBI director | CBC
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November 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
As of 5 PM Eastern -- it looks like the 2 West Virginia National Guard members who were short, are in critical condition. I hope they make it.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...