The terrorism continues. open.substack.com/pub/countero...

Called it, 15 months ago, for @liberalcurrents.com, to which you should lend your support. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm... www.liberalcurrents.com/mass-deporta...

I'm doing video content now, on Youtube! www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/introducin...

It would be interesting to follow their evolution if TFP types could be expected to react to the fact that self-proclaimed socialists don't govern like Lenin, but these people are boring. At best.

Yeah. My policy views are well to the right (in some sense) of a lot of the self-described centrist Democrats, but on the "oppose fascism vs appease fascism" cleavage, I am not at all on their side.

While I'm happy that Canada has not cratered on immigration in the same way the U.S. has, demolishing international student admissions hands two wins to the far right: concession that immigration is a problem and weakening higher education. I hope I am just worrying too much about this.

Ahead of New York City's mayoral election, Tibita Kaneene, the political director of @cnliberalism.org's NYC chapter, lauds Zohran Mamdani as a champion of multiracial and multiethnic democracy, and suggests market-friendly liberals can be cautiously optimistic about a Mamdani victory.

Last Christmas.

A highlight slide:

The one person with the most resources to do good for humanity has devoted himself heart and soul to lying about people from ethnic groups he hates. Money does not, clearly, make a man less simple, less gullible, less choked with bigotry.

I am now in favour of one more time change before being against them again.

The MAGA version of free speech includes the absolute right of the state to punish absolutely everyone if anyone says something they don't like.

Mood.

Let's go Blue Jays

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

If there is any silver lining to this whole foul era, I hope it at least persuades progressives that this strain of thought that views restricting trade & immigration as some kind of boon to the working class has always been dumb and ugly.

New from me. On last night's trade talks blow up. I think I'm largely just repeating myself at this point, but still feels useful to acknowledge how not normal* things are. (*"Normal," as defined before 2016) www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

A few weeks ago, he was dangling tariffs because of Canada‘s Middle East policy. Before it was fentanyl. And migration. And now it’s a TV ad. Maybe… stay with me here but… Maybe… he just really likes tariffs.

But even a client state gets better trade terms than what America is offering Canada and Mexico. Client states are there to supply cheap labour and raw goods — Trump doesn't even want that. Trump is insisting the world join him in economic self-harm, because if we do it lessens his pain.

-countries would have to be plainly stupid to sign a broad trade agreement with Trump, nevermind rewriting deals they already have. Canada is heading towards USMCA renewal next year, and it remains unclear to me what happens when Trump insists on tariffs. Because Ottawa and Mexico have to say "no."

Occasional reminder that this is what it's like to have a signed, Trump-negotiated trade agreement with the United States.

Starting now; join us on Zoom. pop.psu.edu/events/20th-...

"We need to have fewer things in the world that make us wonder whether everything is just made up bullshit."

Beef must be cheaper and also more expensive.

Tomorrow at 9 am EST I'll be one of the three speakers for the 20th anniversary of the De Jong Lecture at Penn State, discussing “The Underpinnings and Limits of Pronatalism.” Registration to watch on Zoom is available at the link. pop.psu.edu/events/20th-...

Credit where it's due: Justin Trudeau would have had a harder time normalizing deficits if Stephen Harper hadn't cut the GST by two points. thehub.ca/2025/10/21/n...

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

The thing about the #NoKings inflatable protestors is that hopeless people do not dance in frog and unicorn suits. And so this is perfect.

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Having a harder time distinguishing this account from the rest of the feed and I'm here for it. #NoKings

Protest peacefully. No, you won’t win the propaganda war that way. They’ll run videos of the Rodney King beating or something and say it’s antifa. Protest peacefully because it’s better for your community and your peace of mind, and we’re all going to need both of those things a whole lot now.

U.S. and Canadian centrist pundits looking at UK polling after Starmer follows their advice about swerving illiberal on trans rights and immigration to cut the legs out from under far right politicians and parties.

A bit on the nose, innit?

Big free speech win

Welcome to Bluesky, newcomers! Need some animals and nature on your timeline? Here’s a thread with some suggestions. 🧵

I am once again demanding that fall colours last as long as really-existing winter and winter last as long as really-existing fall colours.

Once @aragusea.bsky.social demystifies cassoulet you can do things like use turkey fat to make 15min meatless (not vegetarian) canned beans for a 3yo who only wants white beans (which matters for some reason) and the "bean sauce" that sticks to them when we fish them out of cassoulet. #foodsky

Innovation is at the center of economic growth. Congratulations to three who’ve taught us so much. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...

That this is basically the understanding of Gramsci I get from libertarians and conservatives who don't want anyone to be a Gramscian makes this explanation seem more likely.

Exodus 8:4.

For want of partridgeberries, I'm making cranberry pickles. Cranberries are more one-note than partridgeberries, though, and I wonder if anyone on #cookingsky #foodsky has experience substituing them and would recommend adding something like a little quince.

This whole movement is one of the greatest activities in the information domain that I have seen from Americans over the past 9 months. Bravo. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

I demand the NYT hire this photographer for all the features of and interviews with the worst people in the world.

Of course I'm no fan of status quo ante FBI, much less DEA, ATF, etc. Hardly ideal on the civil liberties front, the lot of them. Still, not *everything* they do is bogus. Sometimes they do go after actual bad guys doing real bad stuff. Turning that off like flipping a switch is... not a great plan.

If was the FBI investigation of 764 that finally helped the RCMP start supporting the families of children victimized by the group in Canada.