conor ding dong the witch is dead

Every Child Matters, Black Lives Matter

[Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁 @ShreeParadkar]

Never have I felt the chasm with my industry more deeply than with the coverage of queen Elizabeth. For orgs that claim such emphasis on “balance” to offer such one-sided coverage, bits of critique appearing coz we insist… phew. I did my bit. Pls read:
https://t.co/9gnHxSqYfX

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

Every US news network is running the funeral of the Queen of England, after 10 days of nonstop coverage of her, meanwhile this is the US colony of Puerto Rico

[agent ndn @TheAgentNDN]

Settlers need to watch this.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

The Patagonia founder has donated the entire company, worth $3 billion, to fight climate change.

The privately held company’s stock will now be owned by a climate-focused trust and group of nonprofit organizations, called the Patagonia Purpose Trust and the Holdfast Collective.

[The Progress Report @ProgressAlberta]

NEW: Documents show EPS had plan to mass-arrest counter-protestors during February Freedom Convoy demonstrations #yegcc https://t.co/D5sGaNnRVx

[Wendy Goodes @WendyGoodes]

Updated @fordnation’s attendance at Queen’s Park QP with the next shutdown of the Legislature. Anything green means they’re not sitting. We have an ongoing healthcare crisis, education negotiations occurring, no holiday on the 19th, so sure hope MPPs are in their offices.

[CBC Pitchbot (Satire) @CBCPitchbot]

IN-DEPTH: Is Pierre Poilievre a fascist?

Fascism is a far-right ultranationalist political phenomenon which seeks to resolve all social contradictions caused by the existing social order with repression and violence.

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

The attempted rebranding of the monarchy as an institution for public service is nauseating, and must be resisted.

https://t.co/1BekIkEb3D

[leesh @heybiiighead]

Today Russia shot at a school in Ukraine on a school morning.

49 deaths in 1 night.

No, That was actually Azerbaijan on Armenia.

[conor ding dong the witch is dead @conjdoran]

ceremonial democracy

https://t.co/2XoPqfnMOS

[First Nations Think Tank @first_tank]

Queen Elizabeth's legacy in Canada:

1. Head of the Anglican Church which ran almost half of the Indian Residential Schools in Canada. She never apologized on behalf of the Anglican Church for genocide, child slavery, and sex crimes at her Anglican Indian Residential Schools.

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

Saying "the monarchy is just symbolic" then arresting a guy who rhetorically asks who elected the King is giving mixed messages

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

UPDATE: The nation's largest railroads have started to snarl the supply chain over a refusal to give workers sick leave.

Rail unions called this "corporate terrorism."

The railroad companies want workers to accept a contract with ZERO sick days.

[JEDWARD @planetjedward]

Abolish the monarchy and give the people real democracy!

[Eric @EricDOwens]

So the monarchy can’t be abolished because it’s essential for the British government to function, but also the monarch has absolutely no power or influence and can’t be held even partially responsible for any bad thing the British government may do. Do I have that right?

[CP24 @CP24]

Members of some diaspora communities call for Canada to break ties to Crown https://t.co/jkj7jOgyjJ

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

“We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relinquishes the royal rights of his ancestors; but as long as he claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, he must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes.” —James Connolly on George V

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

If you downplayed the queen's power, here's a reminder she successfully lobbied to be exempted from the law of transparency. Parliament also needed the "Queen’s consent" before legislature that would affect private interests could be approved. She had more than symbolic power.