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…”

Are you kidding? “Hard mode?” How about: -Never-ending Story -Princess Bride -Gladiator -Clash of the Titans -Bran Stoker’s Dracula …I could go on.

Silver medal in the non-sequitur Olympics

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Carney rode into power claiming nation-building project of pipelines & ports & profit for corporations. Canada-Alberta pipeline MOU today proves what nation-building on these lands always is - devastating colonial extraction on Indigenous lands without Indigenous consent No consent, no pipelines!

The centrist PM in a time of political polarisation is going to centre so hard it’ll make your head spin. (Meaning, of course, defend the status quo that has proven to ultimately empower the far right he explicitly ran against in the last election because he’s a banker with zero creativity.)

If reconciliation actually meant something, this would be the final word

Yesterday I was up on that pipeline route and a First Nation land guardian was explaining to me the riskiness of shipping oil on those waterways and I kept thinking: how f-ing broke is Canada that it’s thinking of doing this? This is ‘selling your kidney’ level of desperation.

Weeks ago, I was one of the panelists at the book launch for the new edited volume “The Canadian State”. It was right after the budget was announced and I was asked what the budget said about ‘the settler state’, my chapter topic. I said it indicated the PM Carney’s government would…

The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) says it’s against the memorandum of understanding that Canada and Alberta Thursday morning. The MOU explicitly endorses the construction of a massive new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.

What we have witnessed tday in this new federal-Alberta agreement is a complete abandonment of core federal climate policy and a complete abdication to the MAGA-aligned govt of Alberta and to oil & gas corporations that send huge chunks their profits to the US.

Myself & Emma Battell Lowman, are launching a consultancy and training endeavour. Calling ourselves "Still In Motion", we offer training and solutions for organizations working to decolonize their practices and pursue reconciliation with Indigenous nations. Come check us out! www.stillinmotion.org

Night 1: Success

“The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa”

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

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.

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?