I always learn from watching @adamtooze.bsky.social but I think he's right when he says in the Q&A that climate/energy is a "nerd's" dream topic. It presupposes rational government—one reason it can feel like a limited lens for understanding the present. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLnx...

THREAD. This can be an important educational moment for progressive people who don't work in or study the punishment bureaucracy. Having spent 20 years in it--and just publishing a book on exactly this topic--I can say that reality works in the opposite way that Jamelle assumes.

Ah yes. The democrats and their well known policies of defunding police, demilitarizing borders, and fighting fascism at home and abroad.

Jesus feckin' Christ. The absolutely essential thing to do is to call out the fascists next door. But that would mean giving up a role and beneficiary status in the imperialist project, wouldn't it?

Tone policing fvckin' liberals always ooze out of every corner. This whole thread is a damned abomination. Nobody needs this kind of milquetoast, white guy energy.

empire wants a war, drop those elbows to the floor

lots of cop hagiography today, while this is also a big part of the story of police and J6:

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Saw one of those “#1 movie in your tenth birthday” things and looked it up. I did see this one…

I enjoy reading about how we had a rules based order before Trump

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

It's been a long time, and a whole lot of assholes, since Reagan got elected.

May I suggest the following all purpose gift for anyone involved in any gift giving this year:

Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.

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Clearly, cops have shown they can't be trusted with weapons and they should be taken away. And just as clearly, the rich have shown they can't be trusted with luxury cars and they should be taken away.

One thing that absolutely definitely happens for real in the academic job market is that when you do not get a job, the Dean calls you and explains why you didn't get it. This is extra-super true when the explanation is something legally actionable on its face.

Says something about prizes when these people think there was a world governed by “common laws.”

Been teaching this as inevitable since the announcement. Congrats capitalists you have guaranteed your own economic decline because you’ve shown there is one thing you value more than capital

Today marks 25 years since Little Sister's victory at the Supreme Court of Canada. And the fight against the censorship of queer books in Canada continues today.

Dr Scab

Anyone got numbers on post-secondary layoffs in Canada over the past year? Last I heard it was 8000 in Ontario alone, and the carnage is just beginning. You wankers have created, going back to Chretien/Martin in 1995, a demographic nightmare in postsecondary. Piss off with this elitist crap.

Our post secondary institutions, especially elite ones, are already an employment program for Americans. Let’s just make it more so eh carney? Wanker

In a separate but related announcement: I plan to send every one of these lil’ guys I find in a bike lane to robot hell.

By McGill Assoc. Provost Indigenous Initiatives, Celeste Pedri-Spade "These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries like publishing, media and academia — not by us. Their success was sustained by gatekeepers who valued marketable versions of Indigeneity over authentic voices."

Wise for CAUT not to endorse a motion that so flagrantly flies in the face of the will of its members.

So, I watched part of the CBC moral panic piece on the "300% increase in violent crime" on big city transit systems. The article uses 2016 as the base year. Choosing 2016 is not an accident. That year, and the one before, were anomalies, with violent crime rates dropping significantly. 1/2

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

So the response of the bcndp government to the post secondary crisis is to start a review but foreclose new funding. Instead it will be about closing programs and closing institutions. So glad we have the pro labour ndp in charge…

Just an idea, how about not buying stupid g-damn fighter jets. Tired of the breathless reporting on which weapons of death & destruction we will buy.

Little interest in social media debates, so I won't quote the source, but amazing to see so-called progressives bragging about the fiscal responsibility of figures like Obama and Clinton. What we are celebrating here is a massive lurch into conservatism, when the liberals enact austerity to...1/2

Do the Right Thing Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Matewan My Neighbor Totoro

I forget where I heard this, but appreciated how some on the far right tried to tarnish Mamdani as homophobic because his birthplace, Uganda, is awash in homophobia. Of course, they know this because of the hard work of far right evangelicals like Scott Lively...

Vancouver Hospitality Association is fucking ecstatic over closure/evictions of residents in supportive housing. All in time to meet FIFA beautification requirements. Fuck this city. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Just read the announcement from KPU President Bruce Choy on the latest cuts to international student enrolment and the need to find new streams of revenue. The stream he identified? Partnering with National Defense. Cuz obvs that's where the money is. Let's major in killing people...

Still wouldn’t vote but can only hope for an election.

It really is a lesser evil to have your Prime Minister be Ronald Reagan.

It would be nice if the rich were uncomfortable in their sleep tonight, and that Mamdani was half as scary as they think he is.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Jesus fucking christ. White people freaking out about the use of the word “aunt” ffs.

Hard to even encapsulate how absolutely vile these people are.

Amused over the use of the word desecrate to describe what’s happening to the White House

The cybertruck is a massive men's rights win. Finally a car that she won't take in the divorce.

My feed seems to be 50% “the writers at the Atlantic are hacks.” I checked my boots and yeah, already knew this

lol. For racist white guys who say they love Hitler, “due process” and “fairness.” For Latino fishermen accused of drug smuggling, summary execution. Also, it’s amusing to demand due process here. You’re experiencing social sanction, fellas. No one is sending you to prison.

They are doing a fine job of setting up Pierre for pm