Treader on the Bleakest Timeline

Teaches painting and drawing at Mount Allison University. Interested in politics, history, philosophy. Husband, dad, settler, he/him. Retweet ≠ endorsement.

[Treader on the Bleakest Timeline @cdown2]

This is a good decision

[Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb]

The Dalhousie Faculty Association has passed a motion calling for BDS.

We truly love to see it.

https://t.co/40T7s9H5FA

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

happy to be of service 🫡

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

Historian of schooling here to remind everyone that public universities are not, in fact, businesses.

[Treader on the Bleakest Timeline @cdown2]

agreed

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

I don’t want to see any of the people who’ve dominated our politics the last half century unless we’re prosecuting them for crimes committed while in office.

We do another 24 years like 2000-2024 & we won’t make it. I don’t mean America, I mean humanity.

[Treader on the Bleakest Timeline @cdown2]

Proud to be the 12,059th 😎 on @BackerKit for The MCDM RPG. Thanks @hellomcdm https://t.co/VWWNqWD2JT

[Treader on the Bleakest Timeline @cdown2]

Re: Loblaws, Bell, Rogers,

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

It's not just because that makes them more money in the short term from our interest payments and penalties. It's because it *de-risks* their lives: monopolies and cartels can pass on any extra costs to consumers, who'll eat shit and take it:

https://t.co/BDNWMJPgHN

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[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Being in a constant precarious state makes people *lose their minds*, and capitalists know it. That's why they work so hard to precaratize the rest of us, saddling us with health debt, education debt, housing debt, stagnating wages and rising prices.

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[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

This genocide is changing history.

Longstanding narratives are being laid to rest, buried in the rubble of Gaza.

⛔️Israel guarantees Jewish safety
🙅🏻‍♂️The IDF is "the most moral army in the world"
🚫Canada is an honest broker

My thoughts from a recent @FacultyJewish event:

[NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop]

A newly-formed chapter of Independent Jewish Voices in New Brunswick hopes to bring greater nuance to discussions about Israel and its war in the Gaza Strip.

https://t.co/aMqdygi3gK

[Radical Graffiti @GraffitiRadical]

"The wrong Amazon is burning"
Sticker spotted in Anchorage, Alaska

[Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention @LemkinInstitute]

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention is deeply concerned by the decision of a coalition of several nations – the United States and Germany, in concert with Australia, Austria, Canada, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Romania, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom – to suspend funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). This is a serious escalation of the crisis in Gaza and follows the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) first ruling in Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel), which many hoped would slow the genocide. Further, it represents a shift by several countries from potential complicity in genocide to direct involvement in engineered famine. It is an attack on what remains of personal security, liberty, health, and dignity in Palestine.

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (LIGP) acknowledges this decision may have been taken in haste, or without proper advice to national leadership, and if so we urge a reversal. If no reversal is forthcoming, we condemn the decision to defund UNRWA, and in doing so, we join a growing consensus of practitioners of international law and scholars of genocide in pointing out that this action is tantamount to increased participation in the on-going genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and constitutes both a violation of the ICJ’s recent ruling and of the participating nations’ responsibilities under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (‘the Genocide Convention’). We further warn that withdrawing funding for UNRWA functions as a fulcrum by which genocidal acts against Palestinians will spread from Gaza to other critical, endangered zones for Palestinian life. During a period of famine, to implement either permanent cancellation or a pause of funding potentially puts states that have previously committed funds in violation of the Genocide Convention.

[Treader on the Bleakest Timeline @cdown2]

"Canada unequivocally condemns the October 7th attack on Israel" and pretends to be blind and deaf to everything that has happened before or since.

[Treader on the Bleakest Timeline @cdown2]

"Does your blood not move?"

[Eglinton-Lawrence + Don Valley West 4 Palestine @ELDV4Palestine]

Open letter to @HonAhmedHussen from his family

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

Canada does not accept the premise of the genocide case brought by South Africa because Canada’s model of colonial confinement of Indigenous peoples through reserve & pass system was adopted by apartheid SA and later imported by Israel.

Canada & Israel are partners in genocide.

[Treader on the Bleakest Timeline @cdown2]

The Liberal Landlord Party of Canada thinks international students are the problem?
https://t.co/Y2yzlg2MfR

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Must-watch interview with Dr. @NimerSultany about attacks on education in Gaza.

The flattening of schools & universities and the widespread killing of teachers and academics threatens to end education in Gaza.

It's an attack on Gaza's future.

#StoptheGenocideNow

[Treader on the Bleakest Timeline @cdown2]

@DThom_ @CAUT_ACPPU Just Neutrality Crickets from Canadian educational institutions/orgs