If you have to travel to Detroit - take the tunnel. Do not give Trump's oligarch friends any money. Refuse to travel on the Ambassador Bridge. Take the tunnel. Better yet don't travel to the States at all. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?

how we got here

As Melissa points out in the replies, this guy, who also proposes putting women in "breeding gulags" to be repeatedly raped and forced to give birth, had dinner with the president of the United States.

This buffoonery from TCM is pure Tomfoolery. The Right sanitizes and lifts up slavery because they like slavery. They think it’s a good business model. Whether you disagree with the 1619 Project, slavery’s impact on our history up to the present day is a separate field of study and incontrovertible.

"A similar idea appears in an article published last month @policyalternatives.ca, which suggests a “Costco-plus-local” model could reduce grocery prices by 25 to 45 per cent, depending on where people live." www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data. Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

This is so spot on

Alex Stubb on EU competitiveness - excellent "Economists look at crude GDP... but I look at our Gini coefficients.. & whether it's justice, least corrupt, open, welfare, environment, open media, gender equality.. I don't buy the argument we're doing bad. I'm actually bloody happy" MSC '26

In the rush to prioritise defence spending and economic growth, this is what's missing What sort of world are we trying to build? What is the economic growth for? What are we defending? If we put all our eggs into the means basket, we risk forgetting the ends we're actually trying to achieve

Palantir, Deloitte, and the private prison giant GEO Group took in more than $22 billion from ICE and CBP last year. Behind the spreadsheets and contracts, there's a quieter truth: someone is getting rich from cages, borders, and human pain. Profit has always been fluent in the language of cruelty.

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

‘Carnage of concern and upset’: Women’s Institute groups close after transgender ban

#TaxTheRich we need more common sense, common like in commons. AI enterprises base their profits on common knowledge, public infrastructure & destroying common wealth (climate, water consumption, causing pollution through mining…) not paying back. That’s backlash in early Industrial Revolution.

Eight years ago Ted-Jan Bloemen won gold and his wife Marlinde wept, but she wasn't crying about the race. Friday Bloemen ended his Olympic career with his wife and kids in Milan, and Marlinde had something to be so much happier about. I needed to write this story. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

There are numerous lobby studies disguised as scientific works that discredit renewable materials in favor of mineral /synthetic business as usual construction. One strategy is to compare the worst timber product with the best unicorn mineral products. And of course play with the End of Life stage.

Vaguely recall how Biden admin emails to Twitter were the biggest attack on free speech ever. There was a whole twitter files thing about that. Curious where are Elon, Taibbi, Bari and crew on this?

The Australian Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate & Energy has published my 75pp submission on the history of fossil capital's systemic global disinformation war via the #AtlasNetwork thinktanks against climate science, policy & clean energy. www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...

“While rivals like Target and Walmart have moved to scale back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in response to political and legal pressure from Washington, Costco has largely held its course—and its business is thriving.” Via @fortune.com fortune.com/2026/02/13/c...

Drug checking should be funded and be an important part of public health infrastructure. So long as we continue prohibitionist policies in which the drug supply is unregulated and unsafe, we should at least try to be as aware as possible so that we can anticipate changes and keep people safe.

I'm so tired

This whole piece is 🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

So infuriating.

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

A common misconception toted by the right. I ask folkx learn about this article and correct misinformation everytime. Pls act on the 231 Calls to Justice in your life. #MMIWG2 www.nationalobserver.com/2019/06/07/a...

This is the essential starter pack on #cities and #urbanism. We live in an age of planetary urbanisation: what happens in cities shapes every last corner of the planet. If we want to repair the planet, we must start with cities—where participatory governance and democracy can be locally reimagined.

The way parents have been pushing back on divisive narratives and showing compassion for everyone impacted is a true show of community. It says so much about Tumbler Ridge.

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Creativity-'n'-AI, ghosts, cybernetics, Calvino, and Dickey? Yes. Please. (This is great.)

When Jeremy Curl, a white nationalist, was grilled by Senator Murphy about how he defines whiteness, he named “Anglo cultures”, specifically ”Scotch” (😒), Irish, & Italians. Wee fella, NONE of those peoples are “Anglo”. The Scots & the Irish are Celtic, & Italians, are well, Italian.

the thing is RWers aren't wrong in claiming their ideas are underrepresented in academia. they're only wrong in attributing it to purposeful suppression rather than an astonishing preeminence at being intellectually unrigorous that makes their ideas unworkable

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

“If we truly care about community safety, mental health and human dignity, our response must reflect those values. That means refusing to let fear or ideology cause further harm.” Op-ed by Ken Matheson on @thetyee.ca : thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

NIMBY, but make it antifascist

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them! The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

An exhibit on Canadian civil rights pioneer Gloria Baylis has opened in Montreal. Baylis was a nurse from Barbados who successfully sued a hotel in Montreal in the 1960s for job discrimination based on race. The hotel fought the ruling for 10+ years but it was upheld 🔥🔥🔥 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Turns out public outrage matters.

This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.

You’ve taken your daughter to a birthday party. In the air, invisible, is the measles virus. Even if she survives, the virus may never be done with her. Elizabeth Bruenig on what measles can do to a body, to a brain, and to a family:

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Only a special type of person would nimby a school

Nora Rose Hendrix was a pillar of Vancouver's Hogan's Alley. She built the community, and worked tirelessly to save it from demolition by the City of Vancouver. Her grandson Jimi was also a pretty damn good guitar player. This is the story of Nora Hendrix! 🧵 1/11

"Cycling behaviour in 17 countries across 6 continents: high levels of gender inequality, suggesting that the path towards higher cycling levels must involve addressing gender inequalities in cycling." How should I adress this without getting men eyerolling? www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

My theory remains that the public only cares about immigration because Rupert Murdoch cares about immigration and if he didn’t run the immigrant crime family of networks and newspapers people would rightly look at you like you’re crazy if you said the US should treat its border like the Berlin Wall

The problem with these Palantir deals is not primarily data security. It's the fact we are creating single points of failure in the NHS, armed forces, and police. Palantir has massive leverage over essential information and logistics systems. A bad idea.... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...