Seán Carson Kinsella (they/he)

Director, the Eighth Fire @CentennialEDU. Supposed Master of Education. Indigiqueer/aayahkwew êkâ ê-akimiht nêhiyaw/otipemisiwak/Nakawé/Irish. Poet.

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

Also keep in mind that the far-right in Canada is similarly trying to rehabilitate imperialists, enslavers, and genociders with deranged kids content. Like this little book, by Lindsay Shepherd, wherein the ghost of John A. Macdonald explains to some kid all the evils of woke.

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

Trump’s #AlligatorAlcatraz is on Miccosukee land. During World War II most Japanese internment camps were on reservations.

Ppl have a hard time seeing tribal sovereignty as relevant to other social issues, but it’s all connected.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

In 2005, Canada became the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
The process to get the landmark Act passed included calls for boycotts of Famous Players, lots of debates and speeches.
This is the story.

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[Debbie, Member of the House of Merciless Savages @ironbow]

Land Back 🪶 everywhere

[Grant Certiorari @GrantCertiorari]

Libertarians took over a town in New Hampshire. They gutted the government, slashing every “wasteful” service.

Including garbage pickup.

Due to this, the town was soon overrun by bears. The libertarians fled.

That failed experiment is now happening on a national scale.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

We went from “what good are the humanities?” to “suddenly, no one can read” in about a year, and the answer to the first question is the disinformation and lack of critical thinking you see all around you. *That* is why you need the humanities. This is what they prevent.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

In 1890, the Tariff Act came into place in the United States. It placed tariffs on imports of up to 50%.
While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired.
Let's learn more.

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[Brandi Morin @Songstress28]

URGENT: The human cost of mining in Ecuador is much higher than you think 💔

In my latest investigation via @ricochet_en we reveal how Canadian mining companies are exploiting rural Ecuadorian communities, all while a new free trade deal claims to protect human rights.

My team traveled to Las Pampas, where we met Juan Carlos Carvajal Silva, who has faced kidnapping and death threats for defending his community’s water and land. We also spoke with Mesías Masapanta, who was shot in the face by military forces during protests and now lives with permanent disfigurement, unable to work or support his family.

“They don’t want me to speak, nor do they want me to give my version,” Masapanta told us. “They said that I am like this because I have fallen, I have stumbled, but I did not fall. It was the bullets.”

Over 100 farmers and families face terrorism charges simply for protecting their ancestral lands and water sources.

This is the third part of our Ecuador series. Read the full story and share widely at the link below. These voices deserve to be heard.

https://t.co/gtOLjvi7A2

#IndigenousRights #ClimateJustice #Ecuador #HumanRights #Journalism #InvestigativeJournalism

[Seán Carson Kinsella (they/he) @SeeSeanTweet]

how did they capture my two literal threads of fashion?!?

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

what a day to be online

[mer ✧ sapphic age gap slasher era @venusafeather]

As I’m being obsessed with Scully’s make up and I’ve done my research, I’m gonna make a thread of some keys to achieve this look in any skin, because I’ve been doing my makeup like this and I’ve never felt prettier in my entire life. Let’s go! 🧵

[hussan @hussansk]

We have an affordability crisis because of intense greed of billionaires not because they're too many people or too many immigrants.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

From a UCLA scientist 💔

[Frances *Deadly SoverAuntie* Danger @FrancesMFDanger]

I had some things to say about this because of course I did. 🧵

"I'm Mvskoke and Semvnole. We lived in wooden long houses traditionally. They were permanent housing centered around a town square. We had at least 50 Tribal Towns which were organized into the largest governmental

[Vittorio @vittorioangelon]

A bunch of right wing dweebs are trying to say this conductor is “inappropriate and distracting”

As a former orchestral musician, for once I actually know what I’m talking about on here so let me take this opportunity to be the insufferable expert (xpert?) in the room:

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[TheDisabilityEnthusiast @twitchyspoonie]

of people who are completely disconnected and alienated from everything around them, from other lifeforms to the land to the people. That's the only way to keep the destruction going. If we don't even know the struggles of everyone around us & think it has nothing to do with us.

[TheDisabilityEnthusiast @twitchyspoonie]

I think at some point we have to realize that it's not just a loneliness epidemic. A lot of us are deeply disconnected from the world around us and the people still trying to connect and care are isolated further as punishment. Colonialism and capitalism demand societies full...

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

Covid depletes cells that are key to the immune system and getting covid regularly means you'll be sick more often and this will not strengthen your immune system it will progressively weaken it and you'll end up dying younger. You were lied to because you had to get back to work

[Chelsea Hart ۴۰۳۰ @chelseahartisme]

Not only did the Haka suspended New Zealand’s Parliament so the bill couldn’t be passed, several non-Māori parties stood up in respect for the Haka throughout the entire ordeal. The protest achieved exactly what it was intended to achieve and it was brilliant.

[hooks bot @hooksbot]

bell hooks: "We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.”