The least surprising thing in the world—the idea that people who are trained in the humanities are better thinkers and problem solvers and more creative than people who have no humanities education. Perhaps the business world will tell the education world?

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” John Steinbeck

Summer ☺️

Of course, one thing that James also fails to mention is that if an animal dies due to the heat on the way to the slaughterhouse, they can no longer be butchered and sold for human consumption. earthlinged.substack.com/p/james-obri...

Hey so we invented this new form of conservative socialism that's just for the white people. In Germany.

All animals want to live ❤️

Carney says this announcement will: - catalyze “well over” $200 billion in direct investments in Canada - create over 175,000 new jobs across the country Says the benefits will be shared widely including with Indigenous people as full partners and will create resources for social programs

New paper alert! We analyzed the carbon footprint of leather and found that cattle leather GHG emissions are *14 times greater* than non-animal alternatives. 🧵 1/ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Sophy’s film Blue Heron will be in the Criterion closet one day as well. It is a gorgeous and heartbreaking film. Highly recommend - youtu.be/ziMJzKbYF4g

the way the right is going, the gender polarization is going to make South Korea look like a utopia in comparison

Well this is alarming: Suella Bravermann, ex-Home Secretary and Reform’s current Education spokesperson, will be discussing higher education policy with Chris Rufo, a highly effective far-right activist, at a conference at a British university later this month

It's out! The full "Handbook on Authoritarianism in the Arab World" is available open access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia...

I can’t imagine the mental health issues what will ensue.

“Fenced Humanitarian Shelters”

“mRNA vaccines had 87 per cent effectiveness against documented infection with the virus that causes COVID-19 and 94 per cent against mortality two to six weeks after vaccination.” How many people were harmed by anti-vaxxer propaganda?

Carney’s flight to Edmonton, where he’d hear Danielle Smith’s pipeline plan pitch, is grounded due to extreme weather —which is exacerbated by the climate crisis that pipeline plan would worsen 🤗 WHEEEEEEEEEE WHAT A WORLD

UPDATE: Mark Carney has cancelled his Canada Day plans in Alberta after extreme weather events in Ottawa ground prime minister’s plane

just looked it up to be sure, and ... this man's wife is an American citizen born to non-citizens

It’s crazy how every government in the world is slashing funds for public broadcasters and counter-disinformation work when, you know. Look around.

Was just speaking to a journalist at DW, where they’ve been laying off staff in a perfectly inverse relationship to the rise of the AfD. Maybe people prefer their social media/disinfo slop, but shouldn’t they have options?

Capitalism ensures our mutual assured destruction. It must be completely overthrown if we are to save the living earth, other animals, and ourselves. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

it's sport, it's not political... right? right?!?

One study found Musk’s closing of the U.S. Agency for International Development could cause the deaths of millions of children.

We saw the Joshua Redman Quartet last night at the Montréal Jazz Festival and they were absolutely brilliant. They were fantastic last year too!

The Deadly Montreal Shooting Shows Incel Violence Is a Public Emergency The misogynist ideology is blending into other extremist views thewalrus.ca/the-deadly-m...

centrists love to be like “when are you socialists going to win regions and states that we centrists currently also don’t win”

The Quebec separatist movement always had a distressing racial purity aspect to it (the idea that you weren’t pure laine unless you could trace your family tree back to the founding of New France) and it’s easier to see now that the movement is more obviously rightwing

The question being asked is never actually "does a country called Israel have the "right" to exist", the question being asked is 'does Israel, the Jewish state, have the right to be Jewish at the expense of all its non-Jews, its neighboring states, and at any cost".

It's that simple. Everyone who says otherwise is trying to sell you a red herring. Every single major Arab state explicitly or implicitly has acknowledged Israel's existence and even refers to its legitimacy as a state under intl law, but they do not, and never will, accept its "right to be Jewish".

There is no such right and acknowledging such a right is a denial of the Palestinian people's rights to equality. Period.

Quebec needs religious literacy now “Politicians pandering to fear are doing a grave disservice to Quebecers. With the worrisome rise of Islamophobia and antisemitism, Quebec needs more interfaith conversations and mutual understanding.” An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social. #polqc

ah good, the Republican Project 2025 was a playbook for rolling out Christofascism and the Democrats have responded with Project 2029, a plan for permanent electoral irrelevance

Actor Elliot Page on Growing Up Queer, Trans Identity & “Second Nature” Film Directed by Drew Denny www.democracynow.org/2026/6/24/ac...

Crazy that Armie Hammer went from stuff like the Social Network and Call Me By Your Name to that Uwe Boll racismslop. I get that he got MeTooed but it would actually be more dignified to just stop working entirely

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Hal Ashby's HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971). ❤️ Equal parts gallows humor and romantic innocence, Ashby's film dissolves the line between darkness and light along with the ones that separate people by class, gender, and age

What if parking tickets could help feed people? Kingston is using parking fine revenue to grow fresh produce for local food banks, with 1,700 kg already harvested. Could your community do something similar? This is exactly why local CBC reporting matters-- it helps good ideas spread.

I wrote about the smug hypocrisy of Stephen Miller, the pointless cruelty of Donald Trump, and the shame I feel at seeing America become a whites-only refuge. www.theredoubt.net/america-is-n...

And nobody cares except us. I’m on like six unemployed black woman listservs, where everyone’s freaking out, and nobody’s like “I’m running on trying to get y’all jobs.” It’s like we’re being erased from American society.

I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

This is a headline I can live with.

Further soft-confirmation of the endorsement strategy of Mamdani and AOC

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

“Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.” Alexander Berkman

The far right is afraid of babies Europe's right-wing extremists fear that the wrong people are starting families. www.theredoubt.net/email/281f68...

Seems to me racists are for the most part insecure, relatively unskillful people. They do racism because they know the only way they can succeed is with a large structural advantage. Obviously different dynamics are at play for other racists but this seems central for many.

hahahahahah….wait let me catch my breath…..HAHAHAHAHA

"The thing is, people spend so much time mocking Trump or waiting for him to be impeached. And the danger with that kind of obsession with a single person is that you don't see the system that produced him". Arundhati Roy

Can’t wait until the entire country is Mamdanistan. Absolutely love this for New York. Look at what you did! Beautiful.

America’s biggest crime family is the Trumps. A global probe traces billions in crypto sales linked to the Trump family, while ordinary investors report catastrophic losses and token lockups that block exits. mezha.net/eng/bukvy/52...