BREAKING: Signal, the #1 privacy protecting messaging app many of us rely on, is saying they will pull out of 🇨🇦 ENTIRELY if they're scoped into #BillC22 without large changes.

This should be our final alarm bell: we can have digital privacy or we can have legislation this broad and broken, not both!

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-signal-warns-it-would-pull-out-of-canada-if-made-to-comply-with-lawful/

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/10/narges-mohammadi-nobel-laureate-smuggled-memoir-details-beatings-neglect-iranian-prisons
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/10/nobel-peace-prize-narges-mohammadi-solitary-confinement-excerpt-writings-prison-iran

Narges Mohammadi, Iranian human rights activist, wrote a memoir which describes beatings, solitary confinement, and denial of medical treatment. She is dying in prison, and those cruel state actions are part

mutual aid request please 🌱



(i’m sorry to have to ask but) i’m a disabled, chronically ill and autistic nonbinary sculptor living with my husband and our two cats, one of whom also has chronic illness. my business has been decimated since the introduction of the tariffs last autumn, and the recent global economic situation has only made everything worse. i’ve had one sale so far this month.



worse is that i’m realistically too ill to work now. i’m finishing things off this week, but i’ll have to have a … pause? slow down? after, for how long i don’t know. husband has been telling me for a while that i need to stop, given the state of me / my hands every night, but we have so many bills and he can’t work enough for us both and. i don’t know what to do. and i have zero medical care: we live in a “medical desert” in france where literally no drs are taking patients. i keep trying as i desperately need help, but so far, silence. 



so if anyone is able please to help us out with some basic expenses like food, rent, cat food and meds, the supplements, etc., i use to try to keep myself afloat, that would be beyond amazing.

going forward, i’m hoping i can get disability benefit (and treatment!), but until i get a GP, there’s no way.



thank you for reading, and i wish you comfort and a lovely day.



take care of you  

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#MutualAid

Y'all already heard that Canada has decided that Canadian citizen can pass, retroactively, from parent to child for more than one generation -- so that if your parent, or grandparent, or great-grandparent was Canadian, you can get Canadian citizenship. (And if you didn't know that, look at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/dual-citizenship-eh-under-new-law-millions-of-americans-may-now-also-be-considered-canadian and https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/become-canadian-citizen/eligibility/already-citizen.html)

But the NEW news is, Canada is moving citizenship applications from transgender USians to the top of the queue. So -- if you're trans, you have Canadian ancestry, and you think that you'd like to be Canadian, get that application in!

More about the trans part: https://www.cicnews.com/2026/05/canada-is-fast-tracking-citizenship-certificates-for-trans-americans-0575258.html

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Every woman is reading this right now going “sounds about right.”