When Graham did his 180 on Trump in 2017, people kept asking me if he was blackmailed. The Lindsey Graham Lesson: 1) Politicians can be evil on their own. 2) Politicians can be blackmailed. 3) Evil politicians are easier to blackmail because they've done acts of evil they want to cover up.

Everybody, let's keep eyes on Memphis. Their occupation under ICE is flying too low under the national radar. ICE is actually killing people there & has the whole city under siege. And we're not seeing folks care about Memphis like other places.

NEW: JK Rowling and other gender-critical campaigners have reacted furiously after a report from Amnesty International called them 'anti-rights' organisations The author has accused human rights group Amnesty of believing women don't deserve rights in response

Canada is also on this list of countries passing lockstep "age verification" legislation, laws that violate basic human rights, endanger everyone, and have no purpose other than surveillance, attacking minorities and LGBTQIA people, and suppressing political dissent

Spain breaks diplomatic ties with Israel. Madrid has just recalled its ambassador and is planning to close its embassy in Tel Aviv. Israel condemned the move, calling it "highly antisemitic." ..has nothing to do with the genocidal psychopaths I guess 🤔 Bravo Spain 🇪🇸 the World needs to follow

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What better way to nation-build for the future than burning some more fossil fuels to attract Mark Zuckerberg? www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Distributed solar power is necessary for national security, not just in Cuba, but anywhere that a threatening neighbour can attack centralized or import-dependent energy infrastructure. (That includes hydro dams, nuclear power stations, etc.)

When Carney or Anand try to gaslight you about applying Canadian values internationally or respect for international law, remember that they won't even stand up for our own Canadian judge on the ICC. www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/2026/...

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How can one write a sentence that includes the clause “his slave and longtime partner”?

For those outside academia who are curious: as someone who has taught for ~25 years, many of us now face an existential crisis in assessing student work. Anything you haven't viewed a student actually writing down with their own hand is basically suspect; it's a shitty feeling, to put it bluntly

Memphis is still “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Task force members have reportedly killed at least two people in four days.

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Brandi Morin is on assignment on Vancouver Island, near Fairy Creek, as forest defenders ramp up their opposition to clear cutting. Story to come. Wilderness Committee mapping estimates ~84 hectares of old-growth forests are targeted for logging behind these gates, equivalent to 117 soccer fields.

It's time for the employers to speak against the deportations.

A contractor building Meta's data center flushed its "closed-loop" cooling system straight into Cheyenne's sewer. It carried a bacterium and knocked the city's water-reuse system offline for months. They sell these as sealed systems that barely touch the water. This one poisoned a city's.

While ICE lies & refuses to investigate its execution of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, DA Sean Teare asks: "Anyone that was there that day, anyone that has a snippet of footage from a camera, regardless of whether or not you think that it's even relevant — send it to us." www.rawstory.com/texas-ice-26...

“Verify your age” motherfucker it’s on Wikipedia

Remember Trump ambushing Zelensky in the Oval Office? This week Zelensky walked into NATO and left with $80 billion and a Patriot deal Trump spent years refusing. The man Trump tried to break just out-negotiated him on the world stage. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-does...

Elbows down yet again. Carney fans, you've got more caving to rationalize!

Sen. Rubio made 14 years of nauseating speeches about democracy.🙄 “Rubio now effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government, according to interviews with more than a dozen officials & people close to both governments in Washington & Caracas”

This is why Carney's account doesn't post links, just screenshots. The growth was in part-time temporary jobs, quite possibly linked to the World Cup. The same number of manufacturing jobs were lost.

This should horrify all of us! Women in ICE detention underwent invasive medical procedures without informed consent. Senator Jon Ossoff’s bipartisan investigation called the findings “nightmarish & disgraceful” Everyone deserves dignity, bodily autonomy & human rights! #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance

Carney is doing an incredible job of letting us see who is actually committed to climate, human rights, public services, labour rights, and science and who is performative and more than willing to throw all of that away in favour of private profit -- er, I mean "the economy".

Just no values except corporate profit.

GOOD NEWS ALERT: After nearly a week entangled in fishing gear, beloved humpback "Pop Tart" is free! Gratitude to DFO's Marine Mammal Rescue Unit and the many PWWA members who went above and beyond for Pop Tart over the last several days. 👇 www.pacificwhalewatchassociation.com/media/2026/7...

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani announces click-to-cancel rule for NYC. This rule is aimed at guaranteeing New Yorkers can cancel subscriptions as easily as they sign up — and stopping corporations from trapping customers. This will save New Yorkers up to $162.5 million per year.

Second person in 4 days is fatally shot in Memphis by federal task force member. apnews.com/article/memp...

Marx and Engels published the Communist Manifesto 168 years ago. It was specifically a reaction to the Industrial Revolution.

Name an issue. Carney is regressive about it. His supporters do not care in the least.

The U.S. Ambassador to Canada held a 4th of July party on Saturday — and, well, all the ✨stars✨ were there! 

Hais guest list included Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich as well as a who’s who (no really, who?) of the worst so-called media in Canada. Let's have a good cringe together:

There's the mythical, performative, speech-giving, "Value(s)"-writing, people project their own values on him despite all evidence Carney. And then there's the Carney we actually have. Corporate, anti-labour, environmentally destructive, values-free, gaslighting, worst people appeasing Carney.

This is why AI won't make you a better writer, it will make you a stunted simulation of a writer.

Opinions on Carney *can* change. For example: Conservative voters think he's pretty good after all. Fringe right-wing Con MPs are comfortable joining his party. Environmentalist Lib MPs can't stay in his party. Progressives see him as worse than Harper. His fans remain wilfully deluded however.

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

AI is deepening worldwide webs of accumulation, bringing about new class and power relations This is cohering as triangulated bloc of transnational capital that brings together giant tech, transnational finance capital, and military-industrial-repression complex. truthout.org/articles/the...

Spot the difference: "Citizens from eTA countries – like Australia, Germany, Croatia, New Zealand – had all visitor requests approved Others that required visas – like Ghana, DRC, Syria, Uganda, Sri Lanka – had applications mostly denied." www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Nora Loreto came by the show to deconstruct the shooter’s incel ideology and what’s fueling the rise in misogynist violence youtu.be/hfEGVVYvJ74?...

Canada's elite Zionist consensus @nolore.bsky.social lays it all out clearly, in the class war the workers are losing to the people on this list, they need you distracted to make money off your back, and they make a lot of money from Israel too open.substack.com/pub/noralore...

My latest -- it's time to map out Canada's elite Zionist consensus, and a full-page newspaper ad pretending to care about antisemitism helps us see the rich and powerful behind aggressive support for Israel, and why. noraloreto.substack.com/p/canadas-el...

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Don't use AI in your writing. Just don't. 🤖🫧💥 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It was pretty clear from the beginning that Carney's pro-climate stance was performative. He has always been a corporate profits guy through and through.

Say what you like about his credentials, but Mark Carney, Canada's appeaser-in-chief, sure as hell knows how to surrender. So spectacularly that it's hard to believe he wasn't completely on Danielle Smith's side from the very beginning, united in their deep & abiding contempt for the climate. 🧵1/

'Distributed backups, cyber resilience, and a half-million records are preserving Palestinian history beyond any single building or border.' www.wired.com/story/how-pa...

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 workers today. Its CEO made $96.5M in 2025, a 22% increase from the previous year. Microsoft made $101B in net income last year — and raked in up to $12.5B in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill. This is what a rigged system looks like.

Journalist Whitney Webb has exposed the links between Polymarket and the intelligence agencies of Israel and the US.

MAGA Nazis marching through Washington on the 4th of July. Meanwhile, anti-fascist protesters got 450 years in prison.