i feel like algorithmic social media is turning everyone into a nazi

On June 13th 1954, the US backed a coup against Jacobo Árbenz, the progressive, democratically elected leader of Guatemala, because he sought to restore land to small farmers and Indigenous communities that had been dispossessed by US fruit companies.

Hey y’all, just a reminder that labelling yourself a “democratic socialist” will not stop the deluge of slander and systemic attack. They will treat you as bad as the most ardent Maoist. So realize who your enemies truly are. It isn’t people to your left.

Rachel is unironically a load-bearing journalist in the Canadian news media ecosystem and she’s consistently targeted as a result. If you have the means PLEASE support her work. If you don’t, share her work with your networks! Everything helps.

So many times on this website “discourse” just means one unhinged loser with no influence said something now we all have to intellectualize it. I have better things to do and I know you do too.

“One of Lindsay's popular landmarks is the old burnt down mill.”

Maybe there's something to be said about the anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist music of RATM or Public Enemy, or even the gender stuff of Nirvana, being too successful as pop music first and foremost that the politics was easier to miss/ignore. Then again capitalism subsumes all critique etc.

Wdym "in"fighting. Bro's not in my camp

My suggestion for 24 Sussex

The idea that fixing the Prime Minister’s official residence and living in it is some kind of own-goal is one of the most asinine and frustrating attitudes. Every country has an official residence. The fact we’ve been having a funding tiff about it for 10+ years is embarrassing.

I don't want to be able to say "I told you so". I want to live on a habitable planet.

Breaking News: A small aircraft flew into Beijing's tallest building, sending debris and plane parts onto the streets below and prompting crowds to flee.

* ISRAEL DROPS FLYERS ON SOUTHERN LEBANESE TOWN ORDERING PEOPLE TO LEAVE IN FIRST SUCH ORDER SINCE CEASEFIRE -- LEBANESE STATE MEDIA @reuters.com

If being mean to Will Stancil is infighting then things truly are hopeless.

A data-driven analysis of how the New York Times's treatment of transgender subjects shifted "from rights-based framing toward more skeptical, conflict-driven coverage" since 2014, centering trans-rights opponents over trans people themselves. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

A fundraising campaign? You’re the government.

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

NEW: Right-wing voices want you to believe the Montreal shooter was a far-left extremist. His motives were incel and misogynist; all justifications were haphazardly and crudely pulled from a shallow interpretation of capitalism. Discussing this without his loadbearing hatred of women is dishonest.

What do you think you're doing in here? Go away. Now.

Somehow we’re going to challenge the world’s second largest economic superpower which has a history of favourable trade deals by pumping up resource extraction and remaining a client state of the source of this instability

NEW: Right-wing voices want you to believe the Montreal shooter was a far-left extremist. His motives were incel and misogynist; all justifications were haphazardly and crudely pulled from a shallow interpretation of capitalism. Discussing this without his loadbearing hatred of women is dishonest.

Rather than invigorated by the NY elections, I’m far more jaded. All of this effort and will flooded into the Democrats. This energy will not sustain victories and will ultimately fail. Electoralism is a trap that people repeatedly fall into.

One of the things I noticed about the streets in Cuba when I visited is how clean they were. This is heartbreaking.

This is horrifying. People getting sentenced to decades in prison for distributing zines, organizing mutual aid efforts, public protest.

There’s no humiliation too low for our capitalist class to not accept for you.

On🐙THE NORTH STATE🐙 @youcaughtscott.com returns from vacation to catch up on missed headlines with @pressprogress.ca Ontario reporter @ericwickham.ca readthecatch.ca/post-vacatio...

A Canadian deep-sea mining company may become the first to commercially mine the international seabed under a controversial U.S. executive order that bypasses United Nations regulations. A recent legal analysis suggests that this could place Canada in violation of international law.

We are witnessing a return to the unmitigated capitalism of the 1800s in real time.

SCOOP: I obtained the itinerary and other documents relating to Edmonton police Chief Warren Driechel’s February 2026 Israel trip. @mbueckert.bsky.social of @cjpme.org says it’s “much worse than any of us expected.” open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

Young Palestinians in Gaza are turning to surfing as a way to cope with war, displacement and the psychological trauma of Israel's genocide

Watters: Iran was never supposed to be a forever war. It was a precise and lethal operation. Trump took a shot, got the deal, and got out. Now we can book our next excursion. Cuba. Greenland, maybe. Or our 51st state, Canada.

Extremism being completely normal Keynesian economics and not threatening the system, apparently.

German and Italian social democrats 5 minutes before disaster: wow socialism is so popular we keep winning elections this is awesome 😎

Tapping the sign for the timeline tonight

Tapping the sign for the timeline tonight

As a Canadian I have had to hear about the Reflecting Pool more than is medically necessary and is now a risk to my health

I hate the video-fication of everything. I want to read. I want to listen. I want to watch. Most of the time, those are three separate desires. Forcing everything into clippable moments with the exact same presentation to maximize reach enrages me. All to feed a behemoth of data harvesting.

Can you call in depressed for work? Asking for an enemy.

Today, we launched the Free Access for Journalists program: free access to the IJF’s 23 million+ rows of public interest data for reporters across Canada. Learn more about this program and check your eligibility today: theijf.org/free-access-...

NEW: After a nice restful week off, @ericwickham.ca and I regroup to talk his latest story on the Kitchener encampment ruling and news headlines we missed. In a (mostly) laidback episode, we go over the stories we would have seen if we were using our phones for news.

Eric did not sound like a dumbass except for the one moment he asserted I had always lost the feud, in which case he betrayed his principles.

NEW: A report from Just Peace Advocates finds the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board increased its investments in companies complicit in Israel’s crimes by more than $23 billion. www.readthemaple.com/cpp-invests-...

NEW: buried within the trove of hacked documents from Madison Square Garden, the folks @404media.co found the company was keeping files on activists that criticized their use of facial recognition. Including me. Here's @fightforthefuture.org's statement: www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-06...

Scott puts up with a rambling old suburbanite back from vacation. I hope I mentioned that the Region of Waterloo is now appealing the Superior Court decision protecting this encampment from being cleared.

NEW: After a nice restful week off, @ericwickham.ca and I regroup to talk his latest story on the Kitchener encampment ruling and news headlines we missed. In a (mostly) laidback episode, we go over the stories we would have seen if we were using our phones for news.

Feel like my wife and I were on the last chopper out of Saigon

The police demanded full time paid duty. The greatest legal shakedown in Ontario. www.thestar.com/news/gta/cit...

Famous deal-making administration getting dogwalked repeatedly in deal-making.

I'm not sure I've ever seen a single sentence go downhill this far and this fast