"How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As AI continues to advance, more people will come to assume that anything they dislike or disagree with must be the product of AI. This reflects a form of motivated reasoning combined with a breakdown in collective sensemaking. This became obvious to us in late 2023 while developing the plan for...

This is disgraceful. You don't abandon your allies. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

There are heroes everywhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...

Margaret Atwood was right: “I didn’t put anything into the book that had not already happened in real life.” In a nation with no official religion, state power is once again wrapped in religious symbolism ... bright, public, and unmistakable.

Here's a little extra gift 🎁 from 🎅 ... a Bluesky feed with nothing but gift links & gift articles to major publications. Pin this feed to enjoy it all year long. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas 🎄. This year hasn’t been easy, but I hope the routine and timelessness of the season bring you a little peace, comfort, and light. #Flowers #AllanGardens #Toronto

"Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment & threats have changed their lives. More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges & their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live." www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

It’s telling how much more disdain and animosity the Trump administration has for the EU (and the people currently running the EU) than for China: the U.S. hasn’t done this to China, despite China's outright banning of U.S. social media.

Facebook, Instagram, X are simply banned in Russia. No US outrage about free speech there—yet the EU is the target. That contrast says a lot.

I thought, based on the social media-fication of the @rachelaviv.bsky.social Oliver Sacks piece, that Sacks had invented patients wholesale. But instead it’s what was once seemingly secretly acceptable among highbrow writers: making up quotes and details about people to make them more interesting.

The government has broad authority to control admission but courts have held *repeatedly*, over more than half a century, that the First Amendment bars the government from denying visas to foreign citizens simply because it dislikes what they have to say. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...

"The Key Foreign-Policy Players of Trump 2.0. As the second Trump administration approaches the one-year mark, here’s who is influencing key policies." foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/22/t...

Everyone is porcupining and bracing for war. Finland has raised the reservist age to 65, bringing its reserve force to nearly one million. The memory of the Winter War with the USSR continues to shape Finnish thinking. yle.fi/a/74-20201345

In a swipe at the EU, the US denies visas to a former EU commissioner and others over the enforcement of EU anti-hate speech laws on social media. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Except for the oligarchs, we will all be poorer when this is over. "Canadian economy shrank by 0.3% in October, the biggest slump in almost 3 years." www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Drone warfare has put asymmetric economics at the center of modern conflict, yet the United States is still committing billions to yet another expensive military platform. #makeitmakesense #otherpeoplesmoney #TrumpClass #vanity www.france24.com/en/americas/...

When everything is a matter of national security, nothing is.

Tell Bari. We want her to know it was Canada. 🇨🇦 "‘60 Minutes’ story shelved by Bari Weiss streamed in Canada — and instantly spread across the web." www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/m...

"Justice Department releases 3rd batch of Jeffrey Epstein files, including some that mention Trump" www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

"Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble." Here's why that matters: * 14th Amendment = citizenship + due process + equal protection * 15th Amendment = voting rights regardless of race www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

A+ data journalism. @karenyourish.bsky.social @kenvogel.bsky.social and @charliesmart.bsky.social analyzed 346 donors who gave more than $250,00 to Trump. They found that more than half, “benefited, or are involved in an industry that has benefited,” from Trump. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

U.S. border agents caused a traffic incident, then exploded into the home of the driver, a U.S. citizen, arresting him for alleged damage to federal property. Here's the latest from Visual Investigations, on Border Patrol's militarized tactics in cities: www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

BREAKING: The Trump administration is suing D.C. over its ban on semi-automatic (AR-15) weapons. DOJ's Civil Rights Division under Harmeet Dhillon is seeking a court ruling that D.C.'s law "prohibiting registration of the AR-15 by law-abiding citizens violates the Second Amendment."

"America’s Cyber Retreat Is Undermining Indo-Pacific Security" and ultimately US security. www.justsecurity.org/126607/us-in...

Isn't it curious how Hungary and Slovakia are incident-free? EU leaders playing ostriches in the sand will not make Putin go away.

The sentiment has shifted ... "‘Teach your daughter to speak Polish’: Ukrainians in Poland face growing resentment. Change in attitudes has been stoked by disinformation, viral videos and the election of a right-wing populist president" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

"These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless." - Sharyn Alfonsi, CBS 60 Minutes

CBS spiking their CECOT story is a reminder of how vital independent journalism is. "Bold journalism requires complete independence, and that is only possible with your support. All donations up to $100,000 will be matched. Your gift will go twice as far for FRONTLINE." www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

60 Minutes is one of only two documentary-style public affairs programs left on the air. The other is Frontline on PBS, which saw its funding gashed by the Trump admin and Congress. They have a matching donation rn. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

CBS has never had much success with younger viewers, and this decision threatens to erode its older audience as well. It offers no path to growth and instead risks alienating those who have stayed loyal.

The legacy forged by Walter Cronkite and decades of CBS journalism deserves better. Spiking the CECOT story to curry favour isn’t just cynical, it’s a grave moral and journalistic betrayal and a foolish business decision. Cue the boycott already. #CorporateCensorship

"CBS shelves ‘60 Minutes’ story on Trump deportees at the last minute: ‘People are threatening to quit,’ staffers say" #CorporateCensorship www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/m...

This can't be good. Trump is convening a press conference with all of his Secretaries (Secretary of War, Navy, and State) tomorrow. Could this be the last warning before Caracas is bombed?”

Looking at American history, you can see countless examples of how progress has never come clean or quietly, but through strain and struggle, through voices lifted in protest and prayer, through generations insisting that the brighter angels be given room to speak.💪 #KeepTrying

America has always been a nation in conversation with itself, wrestling beneath wide skies with its better and darker angels. Lofty promises spoken in the same hour as broken ones, ideals of liberty rising even as shadows of injustice lengthened across the land.

Bowen Yang leaving SNL after seven years. See his best moments www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/e...

"Major Kentucky bourbon maker Jim Beam shuttering distillery for 2026." #SorryNotSorry 🇨🇦 www.kentucky.com/news/busines... #cdnpoli

Sensational headlines like this were once reserved for supermarket tabloids. Now, even the tech press is using them. And the ironic thing is, if you've been paying attention to what they've done to the premier public health monitoring system in the world, these headlines aren't alarmist enough.

One of the now removed files contained an image of old photos, incl. several of Donald Trump with women, discovered in a drawer at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan residence. I'm guessing the inclusion of the Trump photos takes away from the Bill Clinton-centric framing that was planned for this release.

Tough city. Strong people. #Chicago

Flock Safety technology helped Providence Police track down 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente. On one hand, that’s a clear win for public safety. On the other, it raises important questions about privacy and surveillance. www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/t...

This is the playbook: wait for a crisis, fill the information vacuum with ideological attacks, and use it to advance a political agenda. The Brown shooting is just the latest example. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

"A Canadian military counter-intelligence operative, who stands accused of passing sensitive information to Ukraine, was involved in an investigation into allegations that a leading Canadian defence journalist was a longtime Russian asset." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

The fact that they invited and allowed Abu Dhabi–based MGX into the consortium makes it clear this was never truly about national security. www.forbes.com/sites/zachev... China sees it for what it is, but it was a chess piece they were "willing" to give up. Soybean purchases, on the other hand ...

For now, Canadian users can still download the current "international version" of the app from their phone's app store. But that might change in the very near future as the government reassess. How this file will play out will tell you how seriously Ottawa takes #digitalsovereignty.

TikTok Canada continues to be owned by its Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance. In late 2024, the Canadian government ordered the shutdown of TikTok’s local business operations over national security concerns, although the app remains available to Canadian users.

"Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, White House says" www.bbc.com/news/article... This can't possibly be legal. The center is a creature of Congress; only Congress can authorize the name change. This renaming is tantamount to an act of vandalism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy...

With the US pulling back its security guarantee for Europe, the continent is facing a sink-or-swim moment, and by all indications, it's not ready. "Eastern flank countries push to salvage EU’s anti-Russia defense projects" www.politico.eu/article/east...

By forcing countries to fight fires at home, Russia is testing defenses, exposing vulnerabilities, and chipping away at resilience, all without firing a single shot. This is modern prewar strategy: destabilize, distract, and prepare the battlefield before troops even cross the border.