Intersectional. Canadian, US, UK & global politics; trans, LGBTQ+, human rights, economic, social, racial & reproductive justice. See pinned for other places.
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I'll be posting very little here because this app strangles this account to about 5 interactions a week from 3 people who look for me. Find me on bsky, masto and FB.
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Mercedes Allen retweeted
Absolutely disgusting how legacy media outlets let slide this psychotic piece in the National Post that apparently put Avi Lewis in danger.
NDP Leader Avi Lewis receives RCMP protection thestar.com/politics/federal…
New brightly-filmed, wholesome, moralizing Batman incoming...
In the podcast, the incoming head of the DC movies at Warner brothers says how much he hates all the arthouse movies and occult r-rated horror movies. He then praises an insanely bigoted anti-abortion propaganda movie and whines that we need to make more PG films.
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Mercedes Allen retweeted
Jake Lang thought he was outing a furry convention, turns out it was actual cats.I hope he donated to the event for shelter cats.
The DC movies will now be overseen by a guy who tells Pat Robertson's CBN that his guiding principle is, "would my grandma like it?"
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Mercedes Allen retweeted
Canada has a Democratic Socialist Party - one that will tax the uber-rich and increase help to everyone else, just like Bernie, Mamdani, AOC etc
You don't have to vote for a party that's not liberal enough
Mercedes Allen retweeted
Hope Britain’s anti-trans campaigners are proud of themselves!
They’ve succeeded in:
- creating a hostile environment for trans people
- having women with alopecia booted out of women’s toilets
- with no improvements in the lives of women
What a triumph!!
Gateshead woman with alopecia accused of being male while using female toilet at Tesco
chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor…
Mercedes Allen retweeted
"Gender ideology is like a mutant virus."
"Gender ideolog" is simply how transphobes describe trans people existing. And terms like "mutant virus" are classic dehumanising terms when you want to mark a minority out for erasure.
Mercedes Allen retweeted
The lowest federal income tax rate for individuals is 14%, more than twice of the corporate tax rate Champagne highlights here.
The Liberals are taxing corporations less than they are taxing us.
Budget 2026 present the most comprehensive suite of business incentives in half a century.
At the heart of it, is the new Productivity Mega Deduction, which will boost Canada’s Investment Supercycle.
Over the next 10 years, this should expand Canada’s productivity capacity, by adding about $22 billion a year to GDP and supporting up to 80,000 jobs.
We are making for businesses, small and large, to choose, invest and stay in Canada.
Mercedes Allen retweeted
Avi Lewis: "The gender analysis page is surreal. The gender analysis of this government seems to be left over from a previous age when they were performing sensitivity to things like gender equality, where it's clearly not part of their economic agenda."
R.I.P. Cybertruck.
And TBH, it always just looked to me like a monstrosity that junior high students made when learning to bend sheet metal in shop class.
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Mercedes Allen retweeted
The LGB Alliance is campaigning AGAINST a comprehensive conversion therapy ban, dismisses the existence of young LGB people and aligns itself with homophobic and biphobic figures, including architects of Section 28. They claim to represent LGB people. THEY betray us.
I have a request.
Please don’t support the organizations that have betrayed homosexual people.
Gay rights is about sexual relationships. That’s it. Some people are only attracted to people of the opposite sex. They are straight. Some only to people of the same sex. They are gay or lesbian. Some to both. They are bisexual.
Every single “LGBTQ+” organisation in the world has abandoned those clear definitions and has betrayed gay, lesbian and bisexual people.
If you don’t believe a straight man can call himself a “lesbian” and demand access to lesbian spaces if he “identifies” as a woman, please stop supporting “LGBTQ+” organizations.
If you don’t believe a girl who says she is a boy should be “affirmed” in that belief — and given access to puberty blockers and testosterone, and at 18 allowed to have her (healthy) breasts surgically removed, please stop supporting “LGBTQ+” organizations.
We need to return to a state of sanity. Please help.
Mercedes Allen retweeted
In case Canadians forgot, we DO actually have a real progressive option (since our two largest parties are right wing).
The NDP came out today proposing a wealth tax that would apply to people worth more than $10 million to pay for public grocery options, housing and healthcare.
Mercedes Allen retweeted
The sad part about the blue wave in the US is that Liberals don’t care enough to properly protect marginalised communities.. they care about the status quo.
Existing as a trans person will still be difficult, which is why Democrats need to lock in and stop enabling transphobia.
Mercedes Allen retweeted
90% of the good stuff Canada has is due to 4 main forces
1. Unions
2. The NDP
3. The old-school Parti Quebecois
4. Progressive social movements
Mercedes Allen retweeted
I usually feel like Canada trails the United States, and what happens there will hit us in a few years, but I think leftwing Americans would be wise to learn about the Mark Carney revolution because he's figured out how to do DOGE for the Democrats.
Mercedes Allen retweeted
If you're a gay or bi person who supports the "gender critical" movement, when they are saying that your sexuality is a possible phase, I would speak to your therapist about self-hatred and sociopathy. They're coming for gay rights, as we said they would, and you're helping them.
Mercedes Allen retweeted
Instead, the fringes of Lethbridge are distributed out literally across three of Alberta's larger rural constituencies.
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Mercedes Allen retweeted
We have the maps!
And yes! It's gerrymandering!
(Especially for Lethbridge and Banff-Kananskis)
Let's take a look!
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Mercedes Allen retweeted
The UCP's proposed electoral maps just dropped. Check out Lethbridge. If this isn't gerrymandering, I don't know what is.
#ableg
