This is a genuine screenshot from the No Kings website, and this is a Very Australian thing to do.

real talk: the two awards I deeply desire are the Stephen Leacock Medal For Humour and the Order of Canada. I'm never gonna win the Leacock medal (I write the wrong kind of stuff), but one time a book where I was thanked in the acknowledgements was shortlisted. Thisclose.

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78. Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

I hard co-sign this one.

Wow, it must be terrible being told that you can’t use the bathroom.

Sound Up 🔊 ( ht: @stanrezaee.bsky.social )

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

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What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

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The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

Someone explain how this is a cancelable offense but a Fox News host saying we should murder homeless people as policy is not?

“The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”

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The Washington Post now has no Black Opinion columnists - none - at a time when white nationalism is ascendant in our nation. I am grateful to Karen for the truth and fearlessness her work has always shown. Keep shining that light, my friend.

To be clear… No one deserves to die for being a dick. At the same time, no dick deserves to be lauded just because they’re dead. www.brittlestar.com/p/what-to-do...

Words to live by @brittlestar.com

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

While we're all discussing how it's wrong to murder someone, let's not forget this:

Y'all were so concerned about a few tents impeding the teaching mission of the university. What do you think it might do to the teaching mission if one little video from your classroom results in a campaign from [clears throat]: the President, the feds, right wing trustees ... I'm not finished (2/3)

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I’m hyperventilating. Our country could actually be this iconic if useless white men weren’t running it.

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

i'm actually a big believer in drafting by hand. i think it helps you think in a different way then typing on a screen

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BBC: “Al Jazeera’s entire team in Gaza city has been killed.”

This piece captures my sense that using AI is often rational for individual firms for certain tasks, while the aggregate effects/risks (e.g. job loss, inequality, breakdown in early career skills acquisition) are externalized and socialized. 1/ www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

BILL BURR: “There’s nothing wrong with being a billionaire, but if someone’s working 40 hours/week and can’t make rent you’re not paying them enough… maybe you should just be worth $900 Million. How do you take an 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”

Planning to seed the term “digital asbestos” among my students next semester - thx!

“The first tsunami wave is forecast to reach Hawaii just after 7:15 p.m. local time, which is 1:15 a.m. ET.” Be safe, everyone abcnews.go.com/US/tsunami-w...

“.. The news on Israel’s main TV channel had just finished a segment on how hunger in Gaza is portrayed around the world when the anchor looked up and said: ‘Maybe it’s finally time to acknowledge that this isn’t a public relations failure, but a moral one.’” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The question is why UK and Canada didn’t join France in this act of recognition, as pledged in May. And absent any other explanation, I fear it’s because both have trade talks with Trump underway and prioritized one man’s ego over a humanitarian emergency www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1

NEW from me: Winston Peters directly intervened to stop diplomatic accounts posting about Pride Month. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/25-...

I can feel this demon lurking by me as I write 👀

"Just because I’m not on the keyboard—and you have to add two extra steps for me to appear correctly—I’m suddenly the product of some soulless technology?"

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Water is necessary for life. No private companies should be able to take it without environmental assessments and consulting with Indigenous nations and the public. No company should inherit water rights. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Globe and Mail reporter investigating allegations of political interference at Alberta’s provincial health authority targeted by online campaign, photographed surreptitiously in public settings www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

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A very powerful essay by Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov, arguing that: a) Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and b) denying this threatens to "undermine everything that Holocaust scholarship and commemoration have stood for." Do read the whole thing www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...