I think we underestimate the extent to which the right wing has eroded civil society simply by pulling stunts like this that make any public participation extremely unpleasant.

At Cornell, the Dean broke policy and ignored the disciplinary committee's findings that there wasn't evidence of discrimination, and forwarded the complaint to the Provost anyway. The Provost then opened an investigation.

Yup.

This is the shit. IRL participatory civil resistance is *the* thing that every anti-Trump leader should be calling for.

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I feel like it would have been both easy and anti-inflammatory to put the word "Incorrectly" after our Glorious Conservative Leader's name in the title, given the data present in the article, but what do I know www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

The city already has 700 families living in shelter, mostly in hotels and motels. The federal government has a responsibility to refugees and asylum seekers. They are not giving these people any viable options and churches are picking up the slack. For shame.

It's clear enough. They can easily imagine themselves as Kirk, so it hits home for them in a way a school shooting, which won't ever touch them personally, doesn't.

Sincerely, fire whoever wrote this statement. It’s atrocious. Not just as a piece of political messaging, but as English. It is dull, lifeless, and spends a lot of time saying nothing at all. This doesn’t inform or inspire. Not least because who would want to read all of it?

Trump demands Microsoft fire its head of global affairs

Don't like this terrifying dystopian reboot of Pee Wee's Big Adventure one little bit.

In the 60s, 70s and 80s much of Hollywood (but not all) boycotted South Africa. Some did not and they also claimed it unfairly affected black South Africans. What is undeniable is the key role that boycott played in the eventual dismantling of apartheid in South Africa. youtu.be/aopKk56jM-I

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Canada Post is not a goddamn business and it's infuriating that the government keeps talking like it is. We never hear about how much money the army loses, or how deep in the red Environment Canada is. But the Canada Post, it never stops. And it's bullshit.

This should be everyone’s focus. The enablers.

This is worth a read.

Still stuck on MSF's announcement. Their MO is to work where no one else can, to set up shop in danger zones. Now they're leaving Gaza City.

‘Recognition of Palestinian statehood is the corrective to this chaos. It is an act not of concession, but of discipline and clarity. It formalises the reality that Palestinians live on this land, and that we will continue to live here.’ Leila Sansour on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

People who are vulnerable and hurting will often use whatever crutch enables them to indulge their worst impulses. Big AI’s platforms seem to be amongst the worst possible tools to put in their hands. futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

It looks like Trump's hand picked Supreme Court isn't going to stop him from rescinding money that Congress already agreed to use. How can Democrats agree to a Republican budget that lets Trump delete the parts of it he doesn't like?

I look forward to purchasing my new and less fascist Smartmatic pillows.

If these companies had such a great and inevitable product, they wouldn’t have to spend billions, and create astroturf think tanks and consultants to convince everyone of their greatness and inevitability.

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

This is pretty unhinged. “Change requires pain, and you’re either taking it or inflicting it.”

Just when you think we’ve crossed the Rubicon, another larger Rubicon appears before us.

We’ve launched a petition calling on #Canada to protect civilians, hospitals, staff and patients in conflict zones around the world. Over 18,000 Canadians are demanding that Canada uphold International Humanitarian Law. Join them. Sign now: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/now-more-tha...

We urge world leaders gathering at the UN General Assembly to end the genocide against Palestinians in #Gaza. Our staff in Gaza are doing all they can to save lives while weapons of war continue to maim and kill Palestinians. Doctors can’t stop this genocide. World leaders can.

Israel has terrorized fucking Doctors Without Borders out of Gaza. Are there seriously still people who refuse to acknowledge that this is straight up genocide?

Sinclair is caving and bringing back Kimmel. Money, folks. Public pressure. They dont have the numbers. Remember this and increase the efforts.

This is theft from charities. People buying these think it is 50% to winner and 50% to charity. Why is the Edmonton Oilers organization stealing money from kids with cancer?

I will reserve my judgment of this article until I get a chance to view the full study and data. Byman is a seasoned scholar and has produced exceptional work over the years. With that said, in my view, the insistence that “far-right” always equals “pro-Trump” is a mistake. 1/

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

As Netanyahu addresses the United Nations in New York City this morning, the world recoils in horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Totally awesome Slovenian president Nataša Pirc Musar serves the truth burger ice cold to Netanyahu. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Two lawsuits allege that Jay McGraw, son of Dr. Phil, is the “principal beneficiary” of tribal lender Minto Money. CreditServe, a company that McGraw plays a key role in, controls the operation while “the Tribe is merely a front,” the suits said. (Published May w/ @adn.com)

As I understand it, he doesn't actually have the power to set tariffs--that's a Congress thing--except in the very narrow case of national security emergencies. A functioning opposition would keep bringing that up, and making him explain the "national security emergency" in upholstered furniture.

"I'm not political" is a thing only said by people who are so right-wing they can't even imagine people who have different views to their own.

You know it’s a ‘motivated’ article when it’s not behind the paywall. Don’t re-subscribe to Disney+ yet. Make them lower their price first…

Casey DeSantis didn’t treat her cancer with ivermectin. She’s just another craven opportunist. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Who could have guessed that in the reboot four decades later, Alex P. Keaton would be the warm, caring, beloved philanthropist—literally saving lives—while Mallory is the selfish, greedy, calculating liar, her cravenness reducing her to a soulless, ghoulish husk complaining in code about minorities?

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Sunstein opening to Chotiner by saying his book on Liberalism was focused on saints not monsters, and then being unable to reconcile how figures like Hayek did not fit within his broad liberal paradigm, is at least as telling as the Kissinger stuff. Sunstein is incurious! Contradictions? Unresolved.

“.. I absolutely couldn’t care less what he [Trump] thinks about me … He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.” @time.com time.com/7319963/bruc...

so this is what counts as an intellectual for the modern right, huh

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Going to repeat myself, but a functioning society needs mechanisms to impose consequences on powerful people who lie and bear false witness.

Exactly right @mcuban.bsky.social

Nope, not numb. Makes me just as sad and mad as always. However it seems the media are the ones who have decided that the truth sells less than the lie.