Lala M 🇨🇦
@lalalime.bsky.social
I believe the world needs more baby goats.
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If you want to do your part for Canadian digital sovereignty from the US, then drop OneDrive, Dropbox, and whatever the hell Apple users use, and get Sync, the Canadian cloud service. I've been using it for a few months and it's just as good as the others.
France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the U.S.
France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the U.S.
Around Europe, governments and institutions are seeking to reduce their use of digital services from U.S. Big Tech companies and turning to domestic or free alternatives.
www.thestar.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:04 AM
If you want to do your part for Canadian digital sovereignty from the US, then drop OneDrive, Dropbox, and whatever the hell Apple users use, and get Sync, the Canadian cloud service. I've been using it for a few months and it's just as good as the others.
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Petition e6679 was read in Parliament on Feb 2 2026
politicalhonesty.ca/2026/02/02/p...
It was short but sweet. The government has 45 days to respond. Please email your MP to support the petition so we get a favourable response
politicalhonesty.ca/MP-lookup-wi...
Help protect Canadian democracy
politicalhonesty.ca/2026/02/02/p...
It was short but sweet. The government has 45 days to respond. Please email your MP to support the petition so we get a favourable response
politicalhonesty.ca/MP-lookup-wi...
Help protect Canadian democracy
Petition e6679 was Read in Parliament February 2, 2026
Link to video: Petition e6679 (now Petition No. 451-00438) read in Parliament In brief, e6679 (now Petition No. 451-00438) addresses:- Warranted and unwarranted accusations of MPs making false statem...
politicalhonesty.ca
February 3, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Petition e6679 was read in Parliament on Feb 2 2026
politicalhonesty.ca/2026/02/02/p...
It was short but sweet. The government has 45 days to respond. Please email your MP to support the petition so we get a favourable response
politicalhonesty.ca/MP-lookup-wi...
Help protect Canadian democracy
politicalhonesty.ca/2026/02/02/p...
It was short but sweet. The government has 45 days to respond. Please email your MP to support the petition so we get a favourable response
politicalhonesty.ca/MP-lookup-wi...
Help protect Canadian democracy
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The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
February 3, 2026 at 5:27 PM
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
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Really wanted to write about this part but cut it. This is the widespread theft and privatization of the collective human effort to create a digital commons of all of humanity's knowledge. I'm so incredibly disgusted by all of it. www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...
Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself
Grokipedia, the copycat of Wikipedia launched by Elon Musk isn’t just a string of AI generated slop, it is a weapon. The launch of "grokipedia" is a calculated, strategic escalation by the billionaire...
www.thedissident.news
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Really wanted to write about this part but cut it. This is the widespread theft and privatization of the collective human effort to create a digital commons of all of humanity's knowledge. I'm so incredibly disgusted by all of it. www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...
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Israeli forces abuse Palestinians returning to Gaza at Rafah checkpoint - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-subjects-palestinians-heavy-restrictions-abuse-rafah-crossing
Israeli forces abuse Palestinians returning to Gaza at Rafah checkpoint
Witnesses say they were seized by Israeli-backed gangs and taken to the army, where they were blindfolded, handcuffed and abused
www.middleeasteye.net
February 3, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Israeli forces abuse Palestinians returning to Gaza at Rafah checkpoint - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-subjects-palestinians-heavy-restrictions-abuse-rafah-crossing
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What to know about Alberta’s Bill 11: It creates a private health insurance market for services that are publicly insured under the Canada Health Act. This encourages US investment interests to establish a for-profit health care system in Canada. #cdnpoli
www.policyalternatives.ca
February 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM
What to know about Alberta’s Bill 11: It creates a private health insurance market for services that are publicly insured under the Canada Health Act. This encourages US investment interests to establish a for-profit health care system in Canada. #cdnpoli
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Alberta’s two-tier health care bill is designed to kill public health care – a new report shows how. albertapolitics.ca/2026/02/albe...
Alberta’s two-tier health care bill is designed to kill public health care – a new report shows how - Alberta Politics
Despite its name, Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025, is not health care legislation. The purpose of the law that was granted Royal Assent on Dec. 11 last year is to destroy public health ...
albertapolitics.ca
February 3, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Alberta’s two-tier health care bill is designed to kill public health care – a new report shows how. albertapolitics.ca/2026/02/albe...
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Definitely worth reading, this, if you want to understand the people driving a lot of the horrors right now.
ps if u want a sense of why people seem so zealously to believe themselves to be pure, just, & right while carrying out acts of unimaginable cruelty, do i have a book for you
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
bookshop.org
February 3, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Definitely worth reading, this, if you want to understand the people driving a lot of the horrors right now.
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"The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police."
I testified Friday before Gov. Pritzker's commission studying abuses of ICE and CBP and tried to explain how the agencies went so far off track. It's actually way worse than I ever realized. Please read and share my testimony as Congress considers reform: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 2, 2026 at 5:59 PM
"The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police."
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Schumer saying yesterday, as he has said publicly for at least a decade, that his job is to keep military aid flowing to Israel:
Video of his remarks where he says, verbatim, that one of his jobs as leader is to funnel more aid to Israel
75% of Democratic voters oppose sending Israel more military aid, as do 66% of independents and 60% of Americans overall according to recent polling
75% of Democratic voters oppose sending Israel more military aid, as do 66% of independents and 60% of Americans overall according to recent polling
February 2, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Schumer saying yesterday, as he has said publicly for at least a decade, that his job is to keep military aid flowing to Israel:
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This documentary was made by a French television crew when I was still an MP.
I am in the last third of the film. This is a heavy and dark story of the abuse of Indigenous rights. But it must be told.
Canada must know its history in order to move forward.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jnA...
I am in the last third of the film. This is a heavy and dark story of the abuse of Indigenous rights. But it must be told.
Canada must know its history in order to move forward.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jnA...
Canada’s Dark Secret: The Inhumane Treatment of Indigenous Peoples | ENDEVR Documentary
YouTube video by ENDEVR
www.youtube.com
February 1, 2026 at 8:48 PM
This documentary was made by a French television crew when I was still an MP.
I am in the last third of the film. This is a heavy and dark story of the abuse of Indigenous rights. But it must be told.
Canada must know its history in order to move forward.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jnA...
I am in the last third of the film. This is a heavy and dark story of the abuse of Indigenous rights. But it must be told.
Canada must know its history in order to move forward.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jnA...
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Here it is: the inside story of how the Eglinton Crosstown LRT went off the rails.
This was the result of months of work, research and sourcing.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/off...
This was the result of months of work, research and sourcing.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/off...
Off the rails: The inside story of how the Eglinton Crosstown LRT went from transit dream to cautionary tale
Over the past decade and a half, the Crosstown has cast a shadow on a swath of Toronto and becoming, to many, a symbol of the city’s inability to fulfil its potential.
www.thestar.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Here it is: the inside story of how the Eglinton Crosstown LRT went off the rails.
This was the result of months of work, research and sourcing.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/off...
This was the result of months of work, research and sourcing.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/off...
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Canadian-built Roshel armored vehicles are being used by ICE right now in Minneapolis, including in today's operation where ICE murdered someone else.
I wrote about this company in December. And we know this thanks to the work of World Beyond War Canada.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/canadian-b...
I wrote about this company in December. And we know this thanks to the work of World Beyond War Canada.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/canadian-b...
Canadian-built machines of war
“As we move from fighting the war to fighting the peace, I think we really have to see this as an opportunity for an economic renaissance" - Chrystia Freeland
noraloreto.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Canadian-built Roshel armored vehicles are being used by ICE right now in Minneapolis, including in today's operation where ICE murdered someone else.
I wrote about this company in December. And we know this thanks to the work of World Beyond War Canada.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/canadian-b...
I wrote about this company in December. And we know this thanks to the work of World Beyond War Canada.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/canadian-b...
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You know why this pisses me off, why did former PM Mulroney (Conservative) allow the sale of our Canadian salt mine (the largest in the world) in 1990 to an American company?
This is one of many reasons Cons should never be allowed power, they sell off our assets.
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
This is one of many reasons Cons should never be allowed power, they sell off our assets.
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Canadian road salt is being shipped to the U.S. while Ontario municipalities run low
Goderich, Ont. is home to the world’s largest underground salt mine, and yet Ontario municipalities are grappling with dwindling supplies of this essential winter commodity.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 30, 2026 at 10:23 PM
You know why this pisses me off, why did former PM Mulroney (Conservative) allow the sale of our Canadian salt mine (the largest in the world) in 1990 to an American company?
This is one of many reasons Cons should never be allowed power, they sell off our assets.
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
This is one of many reasons Cons should never be allowed power, they sell off our assets.
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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The Minister of AI having an "ongoing engagement" with the government of Israel on technology and AI is deeply concerning. No, it’s just plain wrong. It makes Canada vulnerable to international legal consequences, and it takes Canada far down the wrong path.
January 31, 2026 at 3:00 AM
The Minister of AI having an "ongoing engagement" with the government of Israel on technology and AI is deeply concerning. No, it’s just plain wrong. It makes Canada vulnerable to international legal consequences, and it takes Canada far down the wrong path.
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The US Ambassador to Israel and close friend of Joe Biden, Jack Lew, personally blocked the distribution of a cable written by USAID which accurately described the situation in northern Gaza
Another banger from Jonathan Guyer, who's been on the USAID-Gaza beat for a few years.
If anyone wonders why I really, really hate Joe Biden and his administration? It's because I had to work for them on Gaza. They're evil, evil people who deserve prison.
If anyone wonders why I really, really hate Joe Biden and his administration? It's because I had to work for them on Gaza. They're evil, evil people who deserve prison.
January 30, 2026 at 5:42 PM
The US Ambassador to Israel and close friend of Joe Biden, Jack Lew, personally blocked the distribution of a cable written by USAID which accurately described the situation in northern Gaza
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“The staff reported seeing a human femur and other bones on the roads, dead bodies abandoned in cars and “catastrophic human needs, particularly for food and safe drinking water.”
Exclusive: Early warning of 'Apocalyptic Wasteland' in Gaza blocked by US envoys to Israel
The U.S. ambassador to Jerusalem, Jack Lew, blocked the cable from wider distribution within the United States government because they believed it lacked balance.
www.reuters.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:05 PM
“The staff reported seeing a human femur and other bones on the roads, dead bodies abandoned in cars and “catastrophic human needs, particularly for food and safe drinking water.”
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“Those of you already in ICE and CBP, take your retirement while you can,” Riley said. “Get out before funding cuts, lawsuits, criminal trials. Do not volunteer for assignments.
“Think about your family’s future. Forever is a long time. People will not forget.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
“Think about your family’s future. Forever is a long time. People will not forget.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Antifa used to unmask neo-Nazis, now it’s exposing ICE: ‘Predators don’t get anonymity’
Following in a long American tradition of identifying fascists, a network of leftists has set out to name and shame Trump’s immigration agents
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:12 PM
“Those of you already in ICE and CBP, take your retirement while you can,” Riley said. “Get out before funding cuts, lawsuits, criminal trials. Do not volunteer for assignments.
“Think about your family’s future. Forever is a long time. People will not forget.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
“Think about your family’s future. Forever is a long time. People will not forget.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs."
Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
January 29, 2026 at 5:55 PM
"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs."
Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
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Responses to ICE Violence Reveal a Racial Double Standard The deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good are getting national attention. The brutality against primarily Black, Latino, and Asian immigrants has not triggered the same outrage. buff.ly/ZxhLSgY
Responses to ICE Violence Reveal a Racial Double Standard
The deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good are getting national attention. The brutality against primarily Black, Latino, and Asian immigrants has not triggered the same outrage.
buff.ly
January 30, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Responses to ICE Violence Reveal a Racial Double Standard The deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good are getting national attention. The brutality against primarily Black, Latino, and Asian immigrants has not triggered the same outrage. buff.ly/ZxhLSgY
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Settler-only IDF units functioning as ‘vigilante militias’ in West Bank
Settler-only IDF units functioning as ‘vigilante militias’ in West Bank
Exclusive: ‘Regional defence’ settler units are escalating violent displacement of Palestinians, Israeli reservists and activists say
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Settler-only IDF units functioning as ‘vigilante militias’ in West Bank
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NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler
A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
www.motherjones.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:42 PM
NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:55 AM
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
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The corporate complicity in the spread of American fascism needs to be called out. Glad to see this truth teller who was willing to quit her job rather than support the fascists.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
A resignation and call to conscience at company owned by Maga billionaires
Uline employee says she can no longer work for people who helped ‘America descend into fascism’
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:07 PM
The corporate complicity in the spread of American fascism needs to be called out. Glad to see this truth teller who was willing to quit her job rather than support the fascists.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...