Trump’s veto “makes absolutely no sense other than the interest in vengeance.”

What's even the point of having an EPA? The businesses can calculate their costs and decide on how much to pollute.

"precisely because the evidence doesn’t support the self-defense narrative, MAGA is trying to shore up support by portraying Good as someone who deserved to die. This defamation of a murdered woman itself is proof of the moral depravity of MAGA."

Israeli finance minister: “Those in the world trying to recognise a Palestinian state will get an answer from us on the ground...Not through documents, not through decisions or declarations, but through facts." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

"People think it’s the oil companies that are pushing Trump to take over Venezuela. They’re not. That’s not the story. It’s about how Trump sees Venezuela as a resource that he can then distribute across his allies."

Thinking about the delta in the Venn Diagram of people who think five year olds in Gaza had it coming and people who probably have a very elaborate explanation for why they aren't responsible for the actions of their president even as adult citizens in a democracy...

empire wants a war, drop those elbows to the floor

Israeli forces raided Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, firing live ammunition to disperse students during a protest and film screening. At least three students were injured as troops entered the campusand classrooms.

It should be fairly clear by now that our ruling class is banking on an oligarchy hardening into place and all of them will do whatever depraved shit the admin asks for to have a seat when the music stops

In case you hadn't heard, The Narwhal is suing the RCMP for arresting photojournalist Amber Bracken on assignment in northern B.C. It’s an effort to protect press freedom — and the rights of all Canadians — and the trial begins next week. thenarwhal.ca/rcmp-trial-u...

Missing in action - Canada.

How much do you want to bet the Mercator projection is fully to blame for Trump’s obsession with Greenland?

Holidays are over, and I'm motivating myself through the marking and emails by sharing the cover for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic with @pennpress.bsky.social. Please indulge me! www.pennpress.org/978151282925... #skystorians

Horrifying stuff.

USA needs to invade Venezuela, says same guy who wrote big book on why British imperialism and colonialism were awesome. There's a reason why fascists' first moves are to target anticolonial scholars and activists.

This is a dangerous and irresponsible response. Cheering the illegal abduction of a foreign head of state and celebrating U.S. control over another country is wrong. Canada cannot pick & choose when international law applies. If the rules only matter when it’s convenient, they don’t protect anyone

So it's appropriate to arrest a world leader if you consider them criminal? You can just go get them? Just asking questions here.

The thing about Trump is that he frequently says what he really means. I wish people would believe him when he says he's going to annex/occupy Greenland, Mexico, Cuba, Canada...

Not giving any kudos to Marine Le Pen, but it’s fascinating to contrast the statement of the far-right French leader saying allowing the US to violate Venezuelan sovereignty “would be to accept our own enslavement tomorrow” with the childish, cheerleading of Canada’s extreme right-wing Poilievre.

kinda miss the times when people asked me why the study of colonialism / imperialism was relevant tbh

Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

Disgusting.

I take Frum at his word here, that he wants more respectable, more educated Nazis. He's affirming that the US government is fascist, and his only complaint is their historical illiteracy. It might be funny coming from someone else.

Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/

Fascists in power are telling us that the real villains are those who are willing to give up high salaries and comfort to do something that benefits those who need it most, those who care about things other than hoarding wealth. Happy New Year.

Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.

There is no ceasefire. The war against Gaza continues.

I think there is value in building a big political tent against fascism in America. But I’ve always been uneasy with Frum. This is further evidence he isn’t a serious thinker and hasn’t interrogated/revised his own illiberal views.

The Atlantic has updated their article to correct some of Frum's mistakes. However they didn't correct his denialist stuff. I work 50 meters from a lab where they recently identified a body recovered from a GPR search. A child who died at residential school, and was finally returned to their family.

David Frum's latest anti-Native rights piece in the Atlantic is so misinformed, so carelessly put together that he confused the band number with the population. Kwikwetlem is band code 560 - an administrative number from ISC. The population is 153. 1

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Say her name, Heba Al‑Abadla. I remember when she was killed, her whole family slaughtered, to stop her work as a journalist: she was a host of the local Al-Azhar radio station, owned by Al-Azhar University in Gaza, and the co-founder of the Social Media Club-Palestine. It took 2 years to bury her.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

This is an ominous message from militarized parts of the US government for anyone not a Christian. But you'll hear the same Christian-supremacist message in the Christmas carols blaring in shopping malls and grocery stores all over the western world this time of year.

Algeria's parliament approves law declaring France's colonisation a crime - demanding reparations. share.google/SssCmFzmviE8...

19 new illegal settlements on stolen land www.bbc.com/news/article...

another example of AI as tracer dye, exposing an already existing problem (and, of course, significantly worsening it)

When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦

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Al Jazeera asked displaced Palestinian children about their hopes for the new year. I wanted to share their responses here:

Disturbingly, MP Iqra Khalid was reportedly verbally assaulted and physically shoved by officials who claimed they could touch her "as much as I want". This occurred despite the delegation having pre-approved visas and official parliamentary passports.

"A handful of corporations are holding our basic needs hostage," post on Instagram page of activist group, Les soulèvements du fleuve. "They continue to stifle the population, siphoning off as much money as possible, simply because they can. For us, that's theft, and they are the real criminals."

The UK is effectively criminalising a sentence because has an Arabic word. Intifada just means uprising. The Warsaw Uprising, for example, is just ‘Intifadat Warsaw’ in Arabic. Our very identities are being effectively criminalised. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stalinism, Maoism, Nazism (just to name a few) were terrible systems that led to countless atrocities in the name of whatever ideal seemed convenient. We need loads of monuments that remind us about our real enemies, including: inhumanity, patriarchy, hierarchy, dictatorship, alienation, capital.

An embarrassment, yes. It could also be repurposed as a canvas for artists. Considering many of the first immigrants from these countries faced discrimination and xenophobia because they were considered to be anarchists, maybe a first modification could add something like this:

This whole project is a national embarrassment. Take it down.

"A delegation of 30 Canadians, including six members of Parliament, was denied entry into the West Bank early on Tuesday."

Le monument aux victimes du communisme après le constat que plusieurs des personnes commémorées étaient liés aux nazis. Indépendamment de mon avis sur le projet: quand vous construisez un monument, consultez donc des historien-nes au lieu de lobbys douteux.

Omar Hamad and Ibrahim are gathering donations to create a public library in Gaza after Israel’s genocidal war destroyed nearly all its existing libraries, schools, and universities. lithub.com/you-can-help...