Grievance politics fuel far right extremism and work to instill a narrative in the target demographic (Christians, especially white ones in this case) that they are under attack and mobilized them. @charlieangus104.bsky.social makes it easy to understand. Very important work.

Being a columnist is so cool. You can have absolutely no experience whatsoever and still drop whatever takes you want. Serve in the military? No? Work in natsec? No? Have an academic background in defense? No? Have any government experience at all? No? Who cares! Fire that column off anyways!

I just signed an email off with "Stressfully," instead of "sincerely" or some other sign off, so that's about where I'm at

Quoted here sharing my reservations about a study that says right-wing terror attacks are down — the frameworks of terrorism aren’t well suited to size up the threat of political violence and can give people the wrong impression if they don’t understand how they work www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Yeah they’re pivoting

Tried to make a channel trailer with actual value youtu.be/1AXQ36kG258

New Tim Allen sitcom is a recession indicator

It really is unfair for Christianity to keep promising a day where God kidnaps all the worst people you know and then not delivering.

For my money, the Blowback podcast has the best opener of any audio project I've ever listened to. World Destruction whips as a song.

Comedian reinstated; dismantling of US democracy and the rule of law continues apace. “It is increasingly difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Supreme Court is dismantling every guardrail that separates democracy from dictatorship.” slate.com/news-and-pol...

Kudos to Pelham Today as well as Dr. Lupien for his commentary.

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Nation-building, as a concept, should be about building things that will benefit the nation as a whole, rather than corps. And "the nation" means the every day people who live in it, not just the ultra-wealthy. #LewisForLeader

The first video was inspiring, the stump speech in my hometown even more so. In the face of decades of the same kind of policies, it's time for someone to make the case for a truly Left vision in this country.

This is the same crowd of people who held fast to “Twitter isn’t real life” before Elon Musk took over and if I didn’t know any better I’d say their first commitment is towards maintaining the idea their approval is needed over any deliberative public space.

I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.

This is classic CDN media misrepresentation. What went down at Christie Pits wasn't two sides of the same issue. This was a hate rally demanding mass deportations against people who live in Toronto. It was a fascist hate gathering. They were countered by people standing up for their neighbours.

The fact that both the WSJ and the Guardian have retracted their trans and leftist stories related to the shooter and now a day later a new one is being formed about a possible "trans roommate or lover" shows how desperate they are to pin this on someone who is LGBTQ+

*taps the sign*

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MONTRESSOR

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

A Lovecraftian style short fiction, but the unknowable horror is just reading Max Weber and the protagonist is a grad student wondering what the fuck he's talking about

For reasons beyond me, my cat likes to chew on books. Today, he's started to chew on my e-reader, which tells me that he has figured out that the e-reader is functionally a book.

The frog in boiling water thing isn't true for frogs and is a cliche at this point. But it's a useful way to describe a phenomenon that political theorists and all of us are aware of called "mainstreaming." www.antihate.ca/remigration_...

First reaction, I cannot see how eliminating the EV mandate in addition to keeping tariffs in place on cheap electric vehicles is going to help us build an economy "that is less reliant on foreign powers and more resilient in the face of global shocks," per the PM. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

I get that academics who publish articles and books and whatever have already made it and get to do whatever the hell they want, but it's still really jarring to read something that starts with an epigraph after being yelled at all through undergrad to not do that, ever.

NEW: “Remigration” and “mass deportations” is the new rallying cry of white nationalists. Experts say it’s a call for ethnic cleansing. A new Canadian group is trying to "normalize" the concept and get the Conservative Party of Canada to talk more about immigration. www.antihate.ca/remigration_...

Every person who says "of course there are some uses for LLMs" should be forced to immediately list what those uses are, taking into account that: a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs

Hello fellow grad students in this serious seminar why yes my umbrella does indeed have polka dots and you will take me seriously nonetheless

There is no world in which a Canadian government intent on resisting US designs on Canada looks to a Republican fascist for advice. The advice you’re going to get won’t be in Canada’s interest, but Trump’s. Because he’s Trump’s guy.

If cabinet is hoping the guy who wrote the fascist playbook will give advice on stopping fascism then we are in trouble. Adorno reminds us that clever people were the first to be suckered by the fascist playbook because they thought they could outsmart it. There is nothing hidden in their plan.

In fewer than five years, Bari Weiss managed to parlay her resignation as an NYT columnist into a massive platform on Substack and then into editorial control of CBS News--making a vast fortune along the way--all off the absurd claim she's being silenced. First ballot hall-of-fame grifter.

Words have no meaning at The Guardian anymore. Linehan is a “gender activist” in the same way that the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan is a “race activist”

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Canadian leaders need to internalize the reality that Trump views our independence the same way he views the Fed’s. And that he can’t be appeased. Appeasement won’t buy time because there’s no time to buy. The crisis is now.

Don’t threaten me with a good time

Today's networking failure: Upon review of an email I proofread and sent, I realize, with growing horror, that I missed two typos.

“It looks like you are trying to stop me” #originalart #pixelart #art

"i just use AI for-" say no more, i already think less of you

Ask your doctor if just outright refusing to put up with people's bullshit is for you.

Standing up for the smallest of minorities is important because when you accept the premise that one group are expendable because small or ‘insignificant’, you have accepted the idea of the expendability of human life in general, and the enemy will use your acquiescence to pick off yet more.

im always taken aback by just how much cis people will humiliate themselves to be dicks to trans people. like sorry, youre confused about pronouns? how did you make it thru 6th grade english you slimy dipshit? why are you going on podcasts to advertise youre too stupid to understand simple concepts?

If you were ever thinking about unhooking yourself from US tech…

Big Money turning to fascism not because they needed protection from socialism but because they were bored and poisoned their brains with social media is the story of this century I think

you'd think dems would be hitting trump harder about the epstein coverup but you have to keep in mind they need to stay friendly will bill clinton in case they need him to scold arab american voters again