Any contradictions and cognitive dissonance in this McCarthyism is by design--they don't care that they're being hypocritical. They see an opportunity to deal body blows against people that they have deemed as the "enemy", and they will stop at nothing to take full advantage of this opportunity.

It's crucial to view current events as what they actually are--a concerted effort by the Right to kneecap higher education, free press, and media figures deemed to be 'enemies'--this McCarthyism has all the hallmarks of authoritarianism and fascism.

My great-grandfather who killed Nazis during the war? AntiFa. Captain Von Trapp ripping up that Swastika flag? AntiFa. When Richard Spencer got his bell rung and then disappeared from public life? That's AntiFa, babyyy The opposite of being anti-fascist is being fascist. It's that fucking simple.

It’s gonna be a great conversation! Might even get a paper out of it 👀

Because you can't say "We are succeeding at manufacturing consent"

I've got a new website! Thanks to Man Kit Lam for design, and @knifewitch.bsky.social and @soranasantos.bsky.social for photos and encouragement! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern joanneedge.co.uk

Excited to invite everyone to attend a launch for "Settler: Identity and Colonialism, 2nd ed" at Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford ON, on 6 September at 2:30pm. Emma and I can't wait to share our work with folks in one of our favourite places. Please share far and wide!

Everybody hates Dave Matthews but he's a pacifist quaker that renounced his South African citizenship rather than have to join the military in opposition to apartheid (being active against it), gives a lot to charities and causes, and has been pro-palestine anti-netanyahu for years and years, so

CBC’s visual investigations team reveals where some of Canada’s white nationalist 'active clubs' gather to prepare for violence.

“It's f–king unacceptable,” said Kevin Mans, the owner of Niagara BJJ in Welland, one of the martial arts studios CBC identified. “I have built a team that is pluralistic… these guys are scum.” The story also includes a quote from Morgan Guptill, pride of Grand Manan 🙄

I saw yesterday someone comment that the summary of a summary of a summary AI answer is Douglas Adams’s 42, which is assured to be a perfectly precise and accurate answer, but nobody has a clue what it means. An answer that is useless without a wider context.

If this had happened six months ago, it would be a key update to the second edition of “Settler”.

The Carney Doctrine: fuck Indigenous peoples.

This "summit" is just a distraction from this hard reality: bsky.app/profile/davi...

Normalize this. I left in the middle of a second year field trip when I heard my girl, Xena, was dying and didn’t speak to anyone for a week after. Why? Because I wouldn’t have been good for anything under those conditions anyway. (I also got her paw tattooed on my shoulder.)

I open my email 30-40 times a day hoping for a job offer (or just an invite to an interview) that’s never there.

One day people will read 40 year old (or older) critiques of electoralism and centrist liberal politics and think “how did no one listen?” If anyone is still around who can read.

The fed gov cuts to pay for military and wealthy tax cuts have rapidly expanded. My new analysis shows that most of the cuts will now be on transfers to other govs, non-profits and people. A stunning 1 in 5 dollars is just cuts to FN govs for basic social programs. @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇

So... I got laid off this week. If anyone knows of any job openings in general realm of marketing / commutations / administrative stuff in Philly or Toronto... Let me know?

Georgian Bay is beautiful.

And people wonder why I’m childless by choice…

Blooduzz Ohio would be on repeat.

dress for the job you want

I am again reminded that, when people talk politics with me, they don’t want to hear my thoughts - they want me to reassure them everything will be okay and there’s an obvious way to make everything better without sacrificing anything substantial. I keep forgetting this which is why suck at parties.

also super duper extra insulting considering that Ottawa is currently blanketed in wildfire smoke from the very territories that Carney and Co want to steal more stuff from ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...

anyone else find it extra insulting that he's hosting the meeting at the Canadian Museum of History? Altho maybe it's fitting considering how much stolen stuff they have

Very happy to see my interview with Ellen Gabriel reprinted by @indiginews.bsky.social only weeks before the 35th anniversary. #Indigenousrights #Canada #Quebec indiginews.com/features/kat...

Watching someone with a much higher profile than me getting huge kudos for saying almost the exact same thing I first wrote over ten years ago, while knowing there’s nothing I can say or do without looking like a petty arse.

[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad

I am very tired. So very tired. Things are hard. But here’s a Gabby photo. Good things exist too. Mostly in dog form.

I’ve been getting no traction on job applications in academia, training, research, or anything else in my areas of expertise, so decided to lower my aims. Today I got a “going with a more qualified candidate” rejection for a position working checkout and stocking shelves at the liquor store.

Seeing so many people talking about how they hate having to work through the summer days, and can’t help being jealous of their “problems”. I’m spending my summer trying to find any kind of employment. All the effort, none of the security, compensation, or credit. Just unrelenting stress.

WATCH THE REST OF THE VIDEO HERE: youtu.be/O_KUCTwaBNY?...

Tonight, Bill C-5 — the bill that allows the government to fast-track major projects it deems are in the “national interest” — became law. No new amendments were added. That is really, really bad:

That is 17% of the population

Okay, that was a level of prescience so uncanny that it actually borders on rude.

Check out Emma and I with Sandra Bender of the @nctr-um.bsky.social talking about Canadian nationalism, American annexation threats, and calls to expand resource extraction across Indigenous territories. It was a really great chat - thanks to the NCTR for hosting us! www.youtube.com/live/xDflIF0...

Any law and gender people currently looking for work might be interested in this: please share

This is 10-12 tenure-track assistant professors’ salaries at many places. A whole academic program’s worth of money, pissed away, In Times of Austerity, on rent-a-cops going after students who dared speak. Nobody behind this should have a career.

20 mph is a 32 km/hr speed limit. This is basically where the linear relationship between reducing speed and pedestrian fatalities ends (below this the rate of decline levels off). This should be the speed limit in most urban areas.

Via, @danrueck.bsky.social: a land acknowledgment acknowledgment. Definitely a first but probably not a last. You've heard of land back. But what about land back back?!

Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

These people are just wrong about literally everything.

Jonathan Joss' (actor from King of the Hill and Parks and Rec) husband has released a statement that amongst other things claims his murder was part of a homophobic attack. A high profile hate crime at the very start of Pride. Absolutely heart breaking.

Yep it was a hate crime 😡🤬 bsky.app/profile/aubr...

Am I the only one who finds it slightly galling that premiers are pitching major projects to an open-eared prime minister right now -- including pipelines -- as a province burns around them and people are forced to evacuate????? As a result of wildfires which are exacerbated by climate change???

Anyone saying ‘DEI’ here in the UK is telling you very directly where their hate is imported from.