This is my message to David Lametti - newly appointed ambassador to the UN. There is no such thing as a bystander int the face of genocide. His claims that Canada waits for all the evidence before doing anything is a falsehood. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

We don’t celebrate his death, but we won’t hide the truth about his life.

Posting a criticism of Charlie Kirk - much less noting something outrageous he himself said - is not “celebrating” his murder. Nor is it condoning his murder. It is simply saying that his political career and legacy are not something to be celebrated. And that is not the same thing at all.

thinking about this this morning and the version of me that was carrying the scrupulosity and the undiagnosed, untreated adhd

I’ve been reading Manufacturing Consent this week and OOF does it ever validate so much of what I experienced during my years spent working in national mainstream media! The model is painfully accurate, and I’d argue it’s been exacerbated today by digital adtech monopolies and mass layoffs.

y’all know what one of the first nazi book burnings was right? y’all know why they did it y’all know trans people were one of their first targets and even the ALLIES left us in the camps when liberating everyone else y’all see what’s right in front of you, right?

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I like people who make things and try shit. Those are my people.

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

I really feel like most of this wouldn't be happening if Black people wouldn't have expressed so much public joy over the last few years.

When the French 🇫🇷 government misbehaves the French call up Macron’s new favourite restaurant, tell the owner to double the fire 🔥 insurance, wait a month, and burn it down. We need that energy or we will not survive monopoly man.

88% of Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants, new poll confirms cupe.ca/88-canadians...

🇺🇸 Air Canada is a majority-owned American company 🇺🇸 Air Canada is a majority-owned American company 🇺🇸 Air Canada is a majority-owned American company 🇺🇸 Air Canada is a majority-owned American company

Meanwhile their workers have been living in RVs and going to food banks to try and make ends meet

I must continue to insist that this is not a strong regime. It does not have the kind of pan-societal support needed to enforce Gleichshaltung. It has significant elite buy-in and a small popular coalition, but it is brittle and feeble and will collapse if pressed hard enough.

Roe vs. Wade (abortion) Obergefell (gay marriage) HIPAA (medical record privacy) All of these depend upon right to privacy laws which stem from the 14th amendment. All of these connect to each other and are being systematically torn apart. All of our fates are connected.

This guy has more courage than all congress, the courts, universities, and media organizations in the country.

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

Everybody still going this can't be a REAL dictatorship like those poor third world countries the US destabilized can stay the hell away from me. The more the regime goes after, the more it smacks of your privilege that you feel safer than you are.

A thing I fear a lot of blue city mayors are about to realize is that their cops who they’ve shoved money at for decades with no accountability are going to easily turn against them.

The US will never gain back any respect in the world. It's like shitting yourself at work. No matter how high in the company you rise, you will always be that guy who shit himself at work.

Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.

"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened." – Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

Heinous.

We need to be building up alternate media networks. The pundits/talking heads on the main networks and in Canada's American owned newspaper chain continue to miss the urgency of the moment. Everywhere I go I meet ordinary working Canadians who follow @meidastouch.bsky.social

Anyone who attempts wit by playing on the phrase “oh Canada” reveals that they know nothing about this country except the first two words of the national anthem. You should be embarrassed.

Solidarity. www.cp24.com/news/canada/...

Good. Now, stop playing these games, get back to the table, and bargain in good faith. Stop getting the government to your dirty work.

The enshitification of everyday life via the forced use of completely unnecessary tech is really quite something. I’m sitting at an actual bar in the airport, with people behind it, and had to order my drink online.

I’m planning to devote my retirement (next year!) to Irish music and French wine, because the alternative (Irish wine and French music) is unthinkable.

“When am I ever gonna need to learn about a humanities course?” - says a nation of illiterate, impoverished sociopaths

Really can't get over how all the biggest names in tech are moving towards a world where ai bots watch and comment on ai generated content to please investors. No sci fi writter could have conceived of something so asinine

“I’m finally admitting that Israel has gone too far and Palestinian advocates are being mean to me.” Well bro, they lost their jobs, or their friends, or their family, or their community for coming to the conclusion it took you two years to, while you supported the above things happening to them.

The NYTimes building was spray painted earlier today with the words “NYTimes Lies. Gaza Dies.”

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

How did we get an entire corporate and political world full of scumbags and bastards, all we did was incentivize that behavior at every turn

Dropkick Murphys 😍

43 years ago Dead Kennedys at the Whisky a Go Go, West Hollywood, July 4 1982 Photos by Kevin Salk #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #deadkennedys #whiskyagogo #history #punkrockhistory