“We have to wonder: should we just abandon ‘reconciliation’ altogether?” thewalrus.ca/trc-introduc...

I know that I sound like a broken record saying this, but the reality is the federal government is now openly waging war against all of us, and it is only a matter of time before you feel the impact of this in your life whether you openly push back or not.

The federal government declared war against all of us this afternoon. Not just Portland.

Going to put together videos from anywhere I find them this evening as things move into the evening hours across the country. bsky.app/profile/unra...

"Why do you talk about genocide at parties" "Why do you talk about genocide with kids around" "Why do you talk about genocide during work calls" "Why do you talk about genocide with people who have their own shit going on" Why do you talk about genocide when... BECAUSE there is a GENOCIDE.

Press being arrested alongside protesters in Chicago--

Happening now: at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago, Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino and other CBP/ICE agents emerge to patrol Beach Street and escort a vehicle out. They ordered people out of the street, walked to the end of it and then back to the fence.

New boycott list has dropped www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

From runaway slave lists to Canary Mission, the state has long deputized citizens to enforce its will. New from Shiri Pasternak:

If you've ever found your name on a list, or feared landing there, you're not alone. Today, doxxing is imbued with terrifying state powers, but it's an old strategy of deputization that has terrorized people for centuries. The power of lists is division, but we can draw from histories of refusal.

Indianapolis residents have shut down a proposed Google data center. The tech giant wanted to build a massive 500 acre facility, but people got organized and stopped them. The $1 billion data center would've used one million gallons of water a day. www.youtube.com/shorts/bhOHy...

Updates: Now three of the six activists targeted by DHS have filed motions to quash the administrative subpoena, which sought data about their Instagram accounts. And two federal judges ordered Meta not to hand over the data, for now. theintercept.com/2025/09/24/c...

“To say the military leadership is anxious would be an understatement,” one defense official told The Intercept.

"[Officials] speculated about the purpose, wondering if it might foretell a culling of general officers; a significant reorganization of the military command structure; a threat to eschew contact with the press; or a loyalty oath about putting Trump administration priorities above all else. "

Trump and Big Oil’s narrative that only fossil fuels can power AI’s projected ramp-up in the race with China is “100 percent wrong.” Read DeSmog’s groundbreaking story on why. buff.ly/aazY0La

The…very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do.None of this is necessary. —Toni Morrison

"Microsoft told Israeli officials late last week that Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency, had violated the company’s terms of service by storing the vast trove of surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform, sources familiar with the situation said." Wasn't that was the sales pitch tho?

lol @ the next headline on the page www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/25/n...

Surveillance companies justify helping ICE and Trump with ‘democracy’ “It's not my job to play the ethics game because our elected officials will eventually figure that out. I have full faith in the American people to decide who to elect and what to vote on.” 🔗 www.404media.co/how-surveill...

In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, the far-right, led by the Trump administration, has doubled its efforts to crackdown on transgender people. My latest article in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m sure kidnapping more Korean nationals on work visas and shackling them for the world press to see will help

For my Burns Notice newsletter, I wrote about what it was like being a trans person and see the entire right wing try to incite pogrom on us over the last several weeks. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...

Canada, France, and the United Kingdom recognized Palestine as a state this week but continue to fund Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

We must move past a simplistic view of techno nationalism and embark on the challenging work of establishing digital infrastructures that are powerful, participatory, transparent, and fundamentally accountable to the people they serve, writes Vaibhav Chhimpa.

I was part of a working group on AI and Fraternity assembled by the Vatican. We met in Rome and worked on this over two days. I am happy to share the result of that intense effort: a Declaration we presented to the Pope and other government authorities coexistence.global

Vigilantes lynching and murdering poc in police custody was a core part of Jim Crow, this form of terror is old in Texas

The proper framing here is Canada has more robust privacy protections than many countries despite lobbying by cops and the security state. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

BREAKING — Notices for the Disney+ price increase went out at noon ET today, confirming my scoop from last night. Details: www.vulture.com/article/disn...

A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.” 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

a golden age for doing bullshit and creating problems for your coworkers www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

To honour Refaat al-Areer’s memory on his birthday today (September 23), I recorded myself reading his poem “If I Must Die”. Thank you for the suggestion, @mosababutoha.bsky.social.

Refaat Al Areer would have been 46 today. Yet Israel killed him (with encouragement from Bari Weiss) in an airstrike because he was an outspoken Palestinian critic of them and a famous poet.

ICYMI: Ellen Gabriel and I published a new piece on resisting Canada's "elbows up" colonialism, for @canadiandimension.bsky.social: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Today! We launch the first episode of a new investigative podcast. There Is A List, by journalist Zahra Khozema. Check out the trailer and don't forget to subscribe! shorturl.at/Pz3ez

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

Even down to how they exploit the changes in diagnostic criteria to suggest there's some "contagion" or "epidemic." What those changes actually point to is a move away from a model of suppression to a model of acceptance, and that's what actually terrifies them

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

This does not mention that the Supreme Court has *twice* ruled that lawful access is unconstitutional, which is pretty important to note when law enforcement whines that they can't access your data without a warrant, and turns this story into stenography.

My hot take is that much of Carney's bluster at the UN this week is a gaslighting move to make sure the rest of the world doesn't recognize the authoritarian monster that he is at home.

It’s bloodthirsty, imperialist, capitalist, and white supremacist western liberal democracies trying to wash their bloodstained hands before history condemns them. But their strategy will not work. We will ensure that the shame and guilt find them. That justice finds them. Cos fuck all of them!!

Now, with the UN finally stating clearly that israel is committing genocide, they scramble for cover — pretending recognition is justice. But what is there to “recognise” as Gaza lies in ruins, hundreds of thousands murdered, and entire neighbourhoods erased? This isn’t solidarity. It’s optics.

Western liberal democracies like the UK, France, Canada, and Australia recently “recognised” Palestine — but it’s all a hollow, symbolic act. For decades, these same countries armed, funded, and politically shielded israel as it carried out occupation, apartheid, and now genocide in Palestine.

“Decarbonized pipelines” “Zionist Palestine” Id be laughing a lot more if these ridiculous phrases were not uttered by the prime minister.

So I'm assuming that financial journalists are hard at work figuring out who in the administration shorted Kenvue today, right?

Breaking news: fascists says anti-fascists are bad

I find it utterly infuriating that we're taking about political violence, NOW, after two years of the same conservatives and liberals supporting a GENOCIDE and ethnic cleansing in Palestine. And this is while currently suppressing and brutalising anti zionist and anti genocide activists.

To these western liberal and conservative bastards, it's only "political violence" when someone or a group of oppressed peoples fight back. It’s not "political" nor "violent" when the violence is done on behalf of the status quo. Or when oppressed peoples suffer systemic violence everyday!

Y'all should read 'Red Star Over the Third World' by Vijay Prashad for a good intro. Also, anything written by Mao Zedong on imperialism, capitalism, etc., especially during the period of the Chinese Cultural Revolution explains this amazingly well. Also read Che Guevara's Guerilla Warfare.