The Supreme Court doesn't think Rastafarians enjoy the same religious protection for their hair as other Christians enjoy for their bigotry. To get there, The Court launched a frontal attack on the foundation of civil rights laws. I explain in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Pleased to note the publication of my long poem "Enclosure," a kind of poetic journal of the first few months of the Gaza genocide, in Asemana Magazine. asemanamagazine.substack.com/p/enclosure-...

Funny how after every SCOTUS ruling striking down some protection from government abuse, the officials those protections restrained — cops, prosecutors, Republican state electeds — immediately start acting in the precise manner SCOTUS assured us they no longer do.

Fuck off, CBC. Just fuck off. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.

I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different. Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.

“The smoke you see from the stacks is from the wood we allow the camp residents to burn to keep them warm. We’re not monsters!” <eyeroll, dramatic sigh>

Iran has a right to defend itself.

The dozen board members of the Fulbright program that promotes international educational exchanges resigned on Wednesday because of what they said was political interference by the Trump administration in their operations.

ICE is continuing to abduct immigrants in Lower Manhattan. On Wednesday, a family that was separated at the border was separated again by ICE after the father went in for a check-in. His family had to watch as he was loaded by masked and hooded agents into an SUV.

Latest deadly attack at US-backed aid hub kills eight Palestinians seeking food on second day of Eid al-Adha.

Jordan Peterson reached out to me ages ago for a call about a story I was writing. I was dying to interview him because of that video’s dynamic. He delayed and delayed and then his daughter canceled for him and then he wrote a poison pen piece about me. He’s a lazy debater & can be turned. 1

Only two Dalmatians short of her winter coat ...

NEW: We identified at least 14 officers in the Chicago Police Department who, according to disciplinary records, have faced multiple accusations of sexual assault or misconduct in the past 10 years. Most have not been convicted. With @invisible.institute

BREAKING: ICE and private prison contractor GEO Group are refusing to allow Mahmoud Khalil to hold his newborn son for the first time, even after his wife flew them over 1,000 miles to visit. We just asked a federal court to order ICE to grant Mahmoud's request for a contact visit with his family.

This is an improvement - Carney's going after Israel for shooting at Canadians. Trudeau did nothing while Israel killed Canadian citizens in Lebanon and Palestine. Hopefully the free trade agreement goes, we enforce the law on Canadians serving in the IDF and CRA cracks down on pro-Israel charities.

Since I posted this fairly early today and some of you might have missed it, I'll re-up it and, as your reward, I'll add another short thread about how serial litigant and SLAPP artist Ezra Levant flat-out misrepresented what I said about his 2016 fundraiser just so he could sue me for defamation.

After enduring years of police investigation and a public trial, a UK woman accused of an illegal abortion has been found not guilty. Jonathan Lord of MSI Reproductive Choices said: “This was a vindictive and brutal prosecution in which the CPS weaponised victim-shaming."

🔥 “There’s something wrong in this country… everything has gone up but wages… how many yachts and houses does one person need? — They want us to stay poor, stay hidden, and die silently.” 🇺🇸 #FightTheOligarchy H/T @violadavis.bsky.social

You mean 1917, shurely.

JUST IN: The ACLU has added Andry Hernandez Romero, the openly gay barber/makeup artist, as lead plaintiff in its D.C.-based class action against the Alien Enemies Act. They say the US has "constructive custody" over those held in El Salvador. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'The potential impact of this generational crisis is enormous. Compared to previous generations, young adults are facing a future of lower earnings, more employment precarity & economic hardship..[&]...higher levels of debt' @policyalternatives.ca

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

As Canada buckles down to protect its sovereignty, try to remember that Pierre Poilievre hand-delivered coffee and donuts to violent insurrectionists who wanted to overthrow the federal government and called for the murder of the Prime Minister.

CPC commercial: "How's your son, David?" "He's had a tough few years, can't seem to get ahead." "Well, maybe if he hadn't stolen his employer's big rig, joined the Freedom Convoy, driven to Ottawa, had the truck impounded, and gotten arrested and fired for grand theft ...". "Fuck you."

Critics of this legal practice say it's irreconcilable with the constitutional guarantees of trial by jury and due process, because it permits the government to renege on those promises if it doesn't like the result of a trial. reason.com/2025/04/19/n...

Ezra is not a journalist--court www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

When he says “home-growns”, he’s talking about US citizens. He wants Bukeke to build more torture prisons in El Salvador for Americans. Not me saying it, Trump saying it. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Not one reporter asked about the Executive Orders targeting Chris Krebs & Miles Taylor during today’s Cabinet press conference. Not one. A president using DOJ to punish those who spoke out? That’s banana republic territory. I waited. The question never came. Why? Has the fear already taken hold?

Jeff Ballingall is also human garbage.

Perhaps not surprisingly, George Moose is black.

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school

Why is this legal?

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

I'm curious ... how is this not an *instant* end to Lawton's candidacy? The revelation that he was secretly assisting the violent, illegal occupation of downtown Ottawa by people who publicly wanted to overthrow the federal government and some of who called for the murder of the Prime Minister.

From ‪@karynpugliese.bsky.social‬ one the best and most innovative people in Canadian journalism: We need to talk about Rachel Because our democracy is not going to make it through the next years without strong journalists. karynpugliese.substack.com/p/we-need-to...

Collective punishment and torture for the action of one person

The CDC has literally been gutted today. There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet. Thousand of scientists fired. Entire departments erased. 1/

CTV has pretty eell scraped the bottom of the barrel. pressprogress.ca/ctv-cancelle...

Glad to see more light being shed on Betar, described by UCLA prof of Jewish history as "Jewish fascists." (www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...) I was thinking they probably had a hand in Ozturk's kidnaping.

Notice how Bari Weiss and @nytimes.com that elevated her aren’t pumping out dozens of articles about free speech on campuses for the Tufts and other students being jailed

The origin story of Bari Weiss and The Free Press is that they were fighting for free speech, but the real origin story is that as a student she tried to get Middle Eastern professors fired. They are a snitch organization for the Trump regime.

That Louisiana ICE Detention Center could now form a pretty credible US university, given all of the scholars that have been sent there.