Truly Zygmunt Bauman’s ‘retrotopia’. Complete with 1950s Hollywood-style repressed male homosexuality.

Read this please:

“The threat of breaking away has become a tool of the fossil fuel industry and far-right interests“ www.counterfire.org/article/albe...

This.

Worth reading again in light of Federal capitulation to the Province’s Conservative government in Alberta. The duty to consult is a Federal responsibility. Fainting in the face of one provincial government’s extreme threat to succeed is unnecessary.

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Read this. This is how intimately most people understand the crisis of withholding preventative medical procedures everywhere in the world. Your family experiences consequences that could be avoided. More people could thrive. A beautiful thread to make the point.

This:

A man who had to treat his job like it’s taking place in a war zone.

Four First Nations youth from the Treaty 9 region in northern Ontario recently returned from the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York City. They took their concerns about development to the world stage.

This:

Professor of religion here: can confirm.

it's been five months since the United States has admitted a refugee that is not a white South African

Our common purpose has to be to understand impunity and then to count what it destroys. Excellent read. www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

Canada, pay attention as elite nationalism is restored and newly invented here. It targets and prevents social participation. It replaces possibility. Thread:

The dystopia of inequality--that high table for the lords and ladies; the dystopia of violence--all the federal guns suddenly on display; the dystopia of incompetence (they had one job: to keep a shooter out); the dystopia of normalization.

Excellent thing to read.

The current ‘oil shock’ is facilitating the looting of consumer wealth on a global scale. It is unprecedented considering how ubiquitous oil is to everything from food to fuel. The idea that FF boosters could *still* enjoy immunity from this fact is shocking. And yet…

Years before Alberta even became a province, First Nations signed Treaties guaranteeing their rights to the land in perpetuity. A century later, and First Nations are in court this week, using their Treaties to mount one of the strongest challenges to Alberta separatism, writes @readtheorchard.org

A new study shows that Black women outpace every other group of women in workforce participation. Yet they are still paid less & retire in poverty at twice the rate of white women. This is a system. It is long past time this country started carrying them the way they have carried us.

The boycott of the Giller Prize is over, as all three demands have successfully been met Reporting from @rdassaly.bsky.social for @thegrindto.bsky.social here: www.thegrindmag.ca/organizers-e... Campaign statement here: www.canlitresponds.ca/boycott-succ...

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

They’re feeding fighter jets to the seas like they’re shelter cats but sure, the communication service that unites our nation is the problem.

this is, perhaps, a good reminder that the nlrb is exists to prevent this kind of thing from being necessary, and to disempower it is not to return to an era where workers had not rights, but to one where workers' rights were achieved thru violence. ...

If you want something concrete to do while so much is terrifyingly out of our control, here's one option: donate to a mutual aid effort supporting people displaced by Israel's genocidal war on Lebanon.

Canada’s Richest 1% Nearly As Wealthy As Poorest 80%: Three recent reports provide the gory details about massive and growing wealth inequality in Canada #cdnpoli www.readthemaple.com/canadas-rich...

Does anyone know if people who previously wrote articles and op-eds for the New York Times can sue to have their names removed now that the newspaper is such a fucking embarrassment?

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

In case this is paywalled: the Hudson Bay Lowlands are not ever going to be accessible by roads adequate to facilitate mineral extraction. And, anyone promising so is dreaming. Think sinking Fordlandia-scale costs BUT in this case, from the public purse. Scrap this nonsense on those grounds alone.

‘It’s moving so fast’: inside Ontario’s push to speed up mine approvals: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-1p1p...

it is funny that this stuff is literally out of the left behind series

In 2023, Australian real estate CEO Tim Gurner explained the actual purpose of austerity, which is to deliberately hurt the economy to drive down wages and ensure better returns at the top. It’s not the free market. Every government in Canada is doing this right now.

A Poisoned Woman Demanded Justice. The Prime Minister Made her the Punchline by Brandi Morrin indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/a-poisoned...

The idea that (white) American farmers and ranchers are the "true volk" while cities are a sore on the body politic, filled with greedy merchants and mobs of laborers, is the foundational, racist blood-and-soil myth of America that still pervades all of society including mainstream media.

Truly one of the most important public intellectuals to read today. This is the kind of work that your university students want to share with their parents, out of love and the joy of learning to think with care and precision. Believe me, they tell me so.

"If they really, really cared about the assessment, they would work with the federal government. By not providing any information or any data to the process, they are essentially muzzling the process itself,” said NDP MPP @solmamakwa.bsky.social #onpoli

Man, if I were the Senate Minority leader this is all I'd be talking about. You're paying higher prices for everything so Trump and his cronies can play a rigged game for billions.

This really is an encapsulation of what being an American is: experiencing something needlessly cruel and profoundly stupid while propaganda you can’t turn off blares about how free and lucky you are

This:

Read this.

We need to dream of a future. Not just passively believe in it, we need to actively shame people for formulating the position There Is No Alternative. It needs to become socially disadvantageous to promote that kind of thinking. Build models of the world you want to live in every day.

This is the one:

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CREE WORD OF THE WEEK: Tibachimowinah (tih-bah-CHI-mow-win-nah) – Stories / Cree culture and knowledge live on from generation to generation through stories from our Elders. 💙📷: Judy Sutherland #Stories #CWOTW #CreeWordoftheWeek #CreeWord #CreeLanguage #Cree #OmushkegowukCree

Canadians! This is for us too! Preorder! Gelman was on @wajali.bsky.social podcast (see YouTube) this week and it is an essential listen for Canadians working to sustain public space for critical thinking about social justice, meaningful cosmopolitanism, and freedom from criminalization of speech.

Research funded by special boys says special boys key to functioning of society and economy. Got it.

Really an excellent read. Where is the power to enhance social cohesion? It’s in people willing to address forces of division, indignity and ignorance.

Again, society needs economists. This one in particular:

Oil company shares soar to all-time highs as Middle East war turbocharges price per barrel