Anti-Racism Kingston

02/09/2025

In the days leading up to April Fool’s Day, Indian Agent Thomas Quinn invited First Nations band members to his ration house, where and when he promised to restore rations to the people who had been held restricted in starvation. On, April 1st, 1885, Quinn has quite the laugh.

As mother, father, elderly, and child lined up to receive Indian Affairs treaty provision, relief from famine. Indian Agent Thomas Quinn opened the ration house door and proclaimed “April fool’s!” to the devastated, bewildered, and starving mass of families seeking relief.

Sorry for this dark cloud on an otherwise entertaining day of tomfoolery, but it’s like colonizers go, “let’s wreck every single thing for Indigenous People.”

After Thomas Quinn’s April Fool’s day ration restriction prank, Wandering Spirit (kâ-papâmahcâhkwêw) and Iamases (âyimisîs) decide enough is enough and got rolling with ‘Big Lie Day’ in April 2nd 1885, their response to the deaths inflicted by starvation and Indian Agent privation/predations

These leaders ‘stormed’ the Indian Agent’s residence and ‘raided’ the ration house, where their Treaty provisions were supposed to be stored. Quinn and associates had already hauled provisions away to ensure starvation. Finding nothing at all, the return prank turned more serious.

The ex*****on of Thomas Quinn followed swiftly, with the commencement of the ‘Frog Lake Massacre,’ a precipitated response to breech of Treaty which colonizers have tried in earnest to associate with the Batoche Resistance ever since #1885, although FN sympathized with Métis.

Big Lie Day was a reaction to something much more insidious and intolerable. For too long the devastation of John A. MacDonald’s policy has remained untold, while the reactions of the target of that infliction have remained spectacles of fantasy – even legitimizing continued genocide.

Historians and anthropologists remember and commemorate this tragedy as but for the descendants of survivors, this was the aftermath of a callous insult known as .

02/09/2025

“Taking its title from the shape of the sw****ka, ‘Crooked Cross’ was immediately recognised as essential reading and widely praised...

Once a rare remaining copy was found, it struck that such an extraordinary and important novel could have been lost to history, a spokesperson for the publisher said.

‘To have the ­opportunity to rescue this literary masterpiece from being entirely lost is an immense privilege. As the lessons history has taught us seem worryingly close to being forgotten, now feels like the right time to share it with the world.’”

(Link below).

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02/09/2025

02/09/2025

“Stephen Miller, the hollow-eyed goblin who feeds on despair, has been engineering the chaos like an evil, hairless Santa Claus—delivering legal nightmares to everyone except the rich. This isn’t just about policy changes; it’s about blowing up every norm and process that slows Trump down. Courts? Too slow. Congress? Worthless. The media? Distracted. Before anyone can sue him over one unconstitutional order, five more have already hit the streets. Sensory overload isn’t a side effect—it’s the entire strategy.

The Democrats, bless their hearts, are trying. They’ve called press conferences, filed lawsuits, and—my personal favorite—made very stern tweets. But they’re learning a hard lesson: you can’t fight a tsunami with a bucket.

The problem with flooding the zone with bu****it is that no one knows where to start cleaning up. If there was just one crisis, we could focus. But there isn’t just one. There’s fifty, all happening at once. The sheer volume of insanity makes opposition feel futile.

Steve Bannon, fresh off his prison vacation, must be watching all of this and nodding like a proud father. His once-theoretical idea of media manipulation is now fully weaponized statecraft. The Democrats are exhausted, the media is overwhelmed, and half the country is too brain-fried from the last eight years to process what’s happening. This is no longer just a political strategy—it’s a fundamental restructuring of how power works in America.

The second coming of Donald J. Trump has not been subtle. It’s been a blitzkrieg of bad ideas, executive orders scribbled in crayon, and Elon Musk running a shadow government agency with the legitimacy of a cryptocurrency scam.

Steve Bannon once said the best way to deal with the media was to “flood the zone with sh*t.” Well, mission accomplished, Steve. The firehose is at full blast. The reporters are drowning. Congress is gasping for air. And the American people? They’re just treading water in a sea of authoritarian nonsense, too exhausted to figure out which crisis they should be panicking about today.

Trump has wasted no time. By the end of January, he had already signed 46 executive orders—more than some presidents sign in a full term. The policies range from transgender bans to tariffs on Canada to some vague declaration about taking over Gaza, as if America was a Monopoly board and he just landed on an open property. And while Trump signs orders like a kid doing a coloring book in the back of a restaurant, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been gutting federal agencies like a maniac with a chainsaw. Thousands of career bureaucrats have been replaced by Musk’s handpicked Silicon Valley libertarians—people whose idea of public service is optimizing government websites so they load 0.2 seconds faster while also selling all your personal data to Tesla.

Stephen Miller, the hollow-eyed goblin who feeds on despair, has been engineering the chaos like an evil, hairless Santa Claus—delivering legal nightmares to everyone except the rich. This isn’t just about policy changes; it’s about blowing up every norm and process that slows Trump down. Courts? Too slow. Congress? Worthless. The media? Distracted. Before anyone can sue him over one unconstitutional order, five more have already hit the streets. Sensory overload isn’t a side effect—it’s the entire strategy.

The Democrats, bless their hearts, are trying. They’ve called press conferences, filed lawsuits, and—my personal favorite—made very stern tweets. But they’re learning a hard lesson: you can’t fight a tsunami with a bucket. Trump and Musk have gone full-speed ahead with their governmental demolition derby, and the opposition is still checking the rulebook to see if this is allowed. Trump is firing FEC commissioners with no legal authority, Musk is embedding his people deep in federal agencies, Biden’s security clearance is gone for reasons Trump probably made up on the spot, USAID has been shut down like an old Blockbuster, and for some reason, Trump is now talking about taking ownership of Gaza.

The problem with flooding the zone with bu****it is that no one knows where to start cleaning up. If there was just one crisis, we could focus. But there isn’t just one. There’s fifty, all happening at once. The sheer volume of insanity makes opposition feel futile.

Steve Bannon, fresh off his prison vacation, must be watching all of this and nodding like a proud father. His once-theoretical idea of media manipulation is now fully weaponized statecraft. The Democrats are exhausted, the media is overwhelmed, and half the country is too brain-fried from the last eight years to process what’s happening. This is no longer just a political strategy—it’s a fundamental restructuring of how power works in America.

For Trump and his inner circle, the goal isn’t winning individual battles. The goal is to remake the entire battlefield so no one else can even play the game. Courts, agencies, watchdog groups, and journalists—they’re all stuck reacting to the last disaster, never able to stop the next one. It’s authoritarianism at hyper-speed—a digital-age coup, where the dictator doesn’t wear a uniform but instead just tweets out his orders while eating cheeseburgers in bed.

At some point, the courts might step in. But the courts move slower than a Trump speech at half speed. By the time they rule on anything, the damage will be done.

And let’s be honest—this is only the beginning.

The true horror of the second Trump term isn’t what’s already happened. It’s what hasn’t happened yet.

The real question is: what happens when this guy realizes he can get away with literally anything?

Because right now, the answer seems to be: whatever the hell he wants.

02/08/2025

“An alarming trend of residential school denialism is gaining ground – and pouring salt on the wounds of Indigenous survivors, their families and their communities.

When people deny our stories, they're denying my truth.

They're denying my abuses that I experienced in residential school – the mental, emotional, physical, spiritual and sexual abuse that I experienced.

They're trying to share a fake, different story about Canada's history, and they're denying our truth.”

(Link below).

02/08/2025

OTTAWA — As U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats rattle Canadian investors, the head of a group representing thousands of Indigenous businesses is calling for governments and Canadians to boost their support of First Nations firms that have strong ties to the land and are less likely to move south.

“We have relied on foreign investment and foreign actors to come to Canada to set up shop to manufacture, and the government highly subsidizes this. But what is the return on investment from doing that?” said Shannin Metatawabin, CEO of the National Aboriginal Capital Corporation Association.

“Support Indigenous businesses that are looking to actively create manufacturing facilities on their First Nation, utilizing their members. That’s a direct impact for Indigenous people that supports the Canadian economy.”

Trump has threatened to impose 25 per cent across-the-board tariffs on all Mexican and Canadian imports — with a lower 10 per cent tariff on Canadian energy. He called it an economic penalty to compel America’s two geographical neighbours to stop illegal flows of fentanyl across the border, though he has also tied it to trade, complaining that both Canada and Mexico export more to the U.S. than it exports to them.

The tariffs were to begin Feb. 4 but Trump pushed that back to March 4 after speaking to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about Canada’s border strategy. Trump is now looking for a new economic negotiation, which could involve renegotiating the same continental trade deal he renegotiated with Trudeau during Trump’s first term in office.

Governments of all levels and political stripes in Canada are looking to shore up Canada’s economy to make it less vulnerable to an American shock. That includes looking for alternatives to the U.S. for export markets and breaking down internal trade barriers that have made many businesses find it easier to do business north-south than east-west within Canada.

Metatawabin said what First Nations businesses need to succeed is investment from governments and support from Canadian consumers.

“If we’re going to respond to the threat from the U.S., it requires a wholesale change in how Canada operates its economy,” Metatawabin said.

Statistics Canada estimated the size of the Indigenous-run economy at $56.1 billion in 2021 — about 2.4 per cent of Canada’s gross domestic income. Indigenous gross domestic income has been increasing at a rate faster than the national economy.

But First Nations sometimes struggle to take advantage of business opportunities because the Indian Act bars First Nations communities from leveraging their land for loans.

Deep infrastructure shortfalls — including inadequate roads, housing, internet connectivity and access to clean water — also undermine growth. The Assembly of First Nations and Indigenous Services Canada believes it would cost $349 billion to close that gap by 2030, an investment the AFN and the Conference Board of Canada say could boost Canada’s GDP by $308 billion over seven years.

Metatawabin said the Indigenous economy could be hit hard if Trump follows through on his tariff threat — especially the construction, retail and natural resource sectors, which account for about 45 per cent of his clients.

And since most of those businesses only have between one and five employees, he said, the impact could be seismic.

Bill Lomax, CEO of the First Nations Bank, said Trump’s tariffs could be the first instance of an economic shock that affects First Nations businesses to the same degree as the rest of the economy.

“When we look at history, First Nations in particular have not had the same kind of impacts from recessions that the broader community has had. Oftentimes, it was because things just weren’t that great for them already,” Lomax said.

“What’s changed now is the participation rate in the broader economy that First Nations have that they didn’t have before,” he said, citing growing Indigenous ownership in the hotel, forestry, fisheries and metal manufacturing sectors.

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse is warning that any response to Trump tariffs that includes Canada’s natural resources, cannot be done without First Nations. Many provinces are looking to ramp up resource extraction, including oil, natural gas and critical minerals — as an economic boost.

Woodhouse Nepinak said as most of those resources are found on First Nations land, First Nations have to be at the table.

“Provinces don’t trump First Nations,” Woodhouse Nepinak said.

“These territories hold vast deposits of critical minerals, forests and fresh water supplies that fuel industries and sustained (Indigenous) communities on both sides of the border.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 7, 2025.

02/08/2025

PSA: autism does not cause one to become a N@zi.

02/08/2025

Best “F’d around and found out ever!”