New to the Allygned blog: Emma Battell Lowman writes about the mental load of decolonization, settlers weaponising incompetence, and why “what do Indigenous people want?” isn’t an appropriate question: allygned.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/w...

My latest reprinted in @truthout.org. "One group member admitted that she followed ICE vehicles while honking loudly so often that her car horn broke."

Again, I'm glad I wrote why this team sucks eggs. I'm glad you're going to the State of the Union because it'll be fun to see you squirm as you become openly aligned to this regime. History won't be kind. awakhttps://www.thenation.com/article/society/us-hockey-olympics-gold-trump/

Why is “corporate spokesman lobbies for his company’s product in predictable commitment to self interest” being reported as news?

I’m so sick of Olympics nationalism that I kind of want Canada to get knocked out here so I can stop hearing about it. But that will just initiate post-loss hand wringing which is nearly as bad. Maybe the roof will just fall in and they can cancel the rest of the games?

got you (it’s longer but who cares you’re here to see caleb go apeshit)

You know that creative struggle you have in your head when figuring something out and trying to write it out? That’s called thinking!

Monaco resident says what now?

just the same thing over and over. "it's over for artists" "it's over for writers" "it's over for mcdonald's workers" no wonder everyone is sick of this shit

A leading historian of decolonization, Fred Cooper, on the uses and pitfalls of the inflationary invocation of decolonization. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The only thing more powerful than hate is love ❤️ And I fuckin LOVE Bad Bunny for his bravery tonight. Holy shit what an icon

just keep this going, we don’t need a second half of that anyway

It’s February so that means it’s America’s favorite secular holiday – Black History Month! Psyche! We live in a racist moral slum, so the actual favorite holiday is the Super Bowl, a crass four-hour cavalcade of TV commercials interrupted briefly by a football game aligned to a fascist regime.

Yes!! I just noticed that @iwriteok.bsky.social and Behind the Bastards are doing episodes on “The Queen of Canada”, one of my favourite weirdo, delusional cult leaders! She literally came up during my lectures this week! I can’t wait to listen to these. open.spotify.com/episode/5fFc...

Chuck Shumer thinks this is “common sense”. The rest of the world thinks this is “lipstick on the fascist pig”. America, if history will judge you by your opposition to fascism, you better be sure they don’t think Shumer’s Democrats are considered “opposition” or you will be judged harshly.

i would be overjoyed if the U.S. had a president as ethical and even-tempered as Chancellor Gowron

Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.

Just approach *every* rationale the right provides for its actions, by assessing what it would expect if its opponent was itself... and the logic is far more clear. (apologies for the tortured sentence structure)

This is fucking appalling. This is university-administrators’-heads-should-roll appalling.

There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree

it reveals pretty plainly that "merit-based hiring" means "you belong to the correct class and hold the right set of identities"

in case you think you need to personally like everyone you organize with during a disagreement at a conference another speaker shot malatesta in the leg and he was pretty much immediately like its cool man we all get heated sometimes and went back to organizing

been thinking about the malatesta quote “not whether we accomplish Anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards Anarchism today, tomorrow, and always” constantly since the election

Well, obviously. Gritty is antifa.

This is a tough read - and I’m no fan of the NYT - but probably necessary.

These two putting the satirists out of work.

When Cowman talks about actions & consequences to skirt the fact one of his dog lackeys performed the action of unloading a clip into a person producing the consequence of that person being dead, he is expressing a fascist tenet that their violence can never be subjected to law; only create it.

some of y'all are going to need to come to grips with the fact that being a citizen of the evil nazi hegemony threatening to start a world war is enough for people to get angry at you, personally, sight unseen, and there's no dignified way to get defensive about that.

Terrible restaurant could close unless people enthusiastically embrace bad food, complains chef.

Starting 2026 with a new post on Allygned - "Much Ado About Title: The Cowichan Decision and what the reactionaries get wrong about Aboriginal Title". It's a long read, but hopefully a good primer for those (like me) wondering what all the fuss is about. allygned.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/m...

We collect far less data than most OECD countries and we have no way of measuring a lot of stuff we need to measure. Carney knows that an ignorant population is a docile population. He's ensuring we stay ignorant.

The new Ukrainian army Veteran Corps is headed by a long-time open neo-nazi, Yan “Macgregor” Klishayev, who uses 'hateforbreakfast' as his social media username and has posted the initials N S W P for 'National Socialism / White Power'

Today is supposed to be my last day before a whole blissful 3 days off. But I just discovered I've made a huge blunder that I should have caught back in September, and now (in addition to the embarrassment) I need to spend the next two days trying to figure out how to fix it. I'm so so so tired.

How busy have I been this month? Well, I just opened my advent calendar for December 9th. Should give an idea.

I was so looking forward to the holidays this year, up until about two weeks ago. Since then, it’s just been nothing but grinding through work and burnout, juggling too many family commitments, and generally feeling like I don’t want to see another human being until about February. Of 2027.

As the Red Ensign and variants appear prominently in this group's display, it seems a good time to reshare my brief history of the Ensign's use by extremists. British Israelism, fluoride, and the Rothschilds - oh my! #cdnhist #vexillology #cdnpoli activehistory.ca/blog/2023/02...

New on Allygned: 'On Unmarked Graves and the Deaths of Children' - Sandra Bender "children died by the thousands... To attempt to ret-con Canadian history ... that this was done for any reason other than to seize lands from Indigenous peoples is laughable." allygned.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/o...

Ffs. This guy is ripping apart the fabric of the country in the name of unregulated resource extraction, illegal surveillance, and weapons.

Quick update: the blog is now allygned.wordpress.com

You can do this right now: Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better. Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

Seconded, so so fully. I did this back in Grad school with a few folks who were key to my dissertation, & am still connected to a couple of them. & the messages like this I've received over the years have been incredibly affirming.

Here's the full episode of the @aptninvestigates.bsky.social special on dismantling residential school denialism. It's a hard but important watch. We have a responsibility to stand up for the truth and challenge residential school denialism: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Pv...

I joined CBC's Daybreak Kamloops this morning to debunk OneBC's political propaganda film "Making a Killing" and address the harms of residential school denialism: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

“Point and Laugh: Residential school denialism is not funny, but denialists sure are” A new blog post by me on residential school denialism and what we should do about it. skkb79-imrxk.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/p...

I see ICE have discovered Starlight Tours, one of the grossest racist practices Canada’s police has used against the indigenous.

I mean, having them cluelessly perched on a narrow beam above a vast chasm *is* a pretty good metaphor.

Naomi Klein nailed this issue at the heart of residential school denialism (in her book “Doppelgänger”): “…to many people, a truthful telling of history feels like treachery—and must be stamped out. But if those truths are stuffed back away, they will keep haunting us…”