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Canadian. Public space & art, social justice, political economy, participatory development, alternative pedagogy, high & low culture, and interwebs enthusiast.

[Sandy Hudson @sandela]

1/ The CBC needs more Black producers. And to cut the crap. #BlackLivesMatter
#JusticeForRegis
I was tapped yesterday to appear on The Current this morning to discuss "George Floyd and Amy Cooper."

When I asked if we would also talk about Regis Korchinski-Paquet, I was told:

[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

Hong Kong protests are in their fifth month despite an escalating crackdown. How? One surprising answer: the fate of China's Uyghurs. Many talked to me about it. They watched and learned. They've decided that they "may as well go down fighting." My latest. https://t.co/edewjfj1DU

[William Gibson @GreatDismal]

He was optimistic about our having gotten our shit together by now, in a number of crucial ways we increasingly evidently haven't.

[CNN @CNN]

While campaigning for Stacey Abrams, Oprah calls out nonvoters, saying: "For anybody here who has an ancestor who didn't have the right to vote, and you are choosing not to vote... you are dishonoring your family." https://t.co/bu2BkTkkNt

[Ryan Broderick @broderick]

It's been almost two years since the US election, almost three since Brexit, and the only thing that seems to be changing with Facebook and their "family of apps" is the PR strategy.

[ProPublica @propublica]

Facebook is rejecting a @Reveal story as "political content." It's about children at detention centers allegedly being drugged.

Share it.

https://t.co/AJdSzLEIUv https://t.co/lI7fZyhAWq

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

Fascinating @Politico finding that totally affirms what I saw on the ground in 2016: Trump heavily outperformed both Hillary and Romney in places where the presence of local newspapers was weakest. https://t.co/khfm6jW6tq

[W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell]

My friend @harikondabolu made a beautiful & powerful film. It took guts to do it. He knew he was going after a sacred cow. (Pun intended.) He knew many people would just watch the trailer or see the poster or just hear the title & immediately just hate on it & him.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Assistant AG Povilaitis says final takeaway from case is "we as a society need investigative journalism more than ever." Without @IndyStar and Rachael Denhollander, she says, Nassar would still be practicing medicine.

[Ireland / @ireland]

Ok.

Im going to explain in detail why Churchill is a villain. For the 31% of you who voted as a positive just read this and tell me afterwards. https://t.co/EMeIzDK3JN

[ProPublica @propublica]

1/ @serenawilliams nearly died after giving birth to her daughter Olympia. She identified her own symptoms of potentially deadly complications and told the doctors what she needed before it was too late.
https://t.co/3FAIOlasTo

[igorvolsky @igorvolsky]

Right now at Trump's DC hotel!

[Samuel West 💙💛 @exitthelemming]

50 years ago they tried to stop Katherine Switzer running the Boston Marathon. Yesterday, at 70, she ran it again, wearing the same number.

[Platform @PlatformLondon]

@NaomiAKlein Outrageous ruling just in: UK court rules Shell won't answer for Niger Delta oil spills https://t.co/IGPTyClXnT …

[Claudia Blume @Claudia_Blume]

MSF debunks "facts" in @pfizer ads attempting to mislead public on R&D costs https://t.co/cAI74mD2H5 #pharmamyths

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

India's telcoms regulator says it will ignore Facebook's astroturf army
https://t.co/M4jmsiPHp4

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Residential school documents to be publicly available for first time https://t.co/n7XTbaZY26 @GlobePolitics #cdnpoli

[Hands Up United @handsupunited_]

We will not be silenced.
#HandsUpUnited #FergusonIsEverywhere #AssaultatSpringValleyHigh #MckinneyPoolParty