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A very big deal: 11,000 year old settlement in Saskatchewan. Excellent project that is making history. artsandscience.usask.ca/news/article...

I was today years old when I learned that the “Cultural Marxism” talking point we hear from Republicans like Ted Cruz is a literal Nazi conspiracy theory. It has its roots in Kulturbolschewismus, or Cultural Bolshevism, which the Nazis threw around to discredit their opposition.

Plugging this book (see below please) after reading a pay walled article by the author in the Globe and Mail this weekend. (If you have the paper, it’s called Feels Like Home O4, you should read it). My copy of this book is on the way. Thank you Adrian for your work on “the prepolitcal “.

In 2019, Mark Lutter—whose nonprofit received $$$ from the Thiel-backed Emergent Ventures in 2018—said, “we’re putting out a white paper looking at Venezuela…assuming this transfer of power does go thru … And if you u can get charter cities to be part of the conversation,” there is “opportunity…” 1/

Reminder that you can watch news stations from around the world cover this live on YouTube. I'm currently watching bbc. www.youtube.com/live/36gnPVq...

TL;DR: Low wages & high prices aren’t caused by immigrants or taxes They’re caused by executives vacuuming up the gains. As of this morning, Canada’s top CEOs had already earned what workers make all year Profits up, bonuses explode, workers fall behind That’s the problem

Without a doubt. He will make a good faith effort to enact all his policy ideas. He will succeed on some and fail on others. And that’s fine. That is how change works. Also his promises are all feasible.

Modern day Gestapo www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

A UK judge has accused the pro-Israel group Campaign Against Antisemitism of bringing an "abusive" and "misleading" case against comedian Reginald Hunter ⬇️

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Did someone mention Nigeria? “A Peter Thiel–Backed Startup City Wants to Be Africa’s Delaware ***Nigeria’s Itana partnered with Binance and the Charter Cities Institute to build a physical tech hub near Lagos, but the plan has sparked controversy.” 4/18/23… 1/ www.wired.com/story/itana-...

Seasons greetings Bluesky buddies. Whoever you are, wherever you are, I hope you’ll be spending some time in the next few days with people you care about and who care about you. Happy Holidays

How many more statements of meaningless denunciation - empty of one single consequence for unrelenting genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity - must Palestinians endure Minister @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social?

A real thing with real consequences. Just ask Garífuna communities on the Atlantic coast of Honduras. Plutocrat’s fantasies aside, libertarian’s grotesque enclaves are a predictable outcome of capitalism:

📚Book Announcement!📚 The most dangerous racist idea—great replacement theory—has become the most dominant political theory of our time. 1/3

More great work by Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social), a rare piece of journalism about the raids that gives you hope. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Whistlemania 😀.

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What it's like to see community activists in Louisiana stand up to a Border Patrol raid, from @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social

“The Horns and Whistles Work” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is an extraordinarily helpful thing to read. If you’re not actively working to remake the academy by deliberately finding ways for it to serve the future, you’re missing the point! On how the university actively finds ways to insulate itself against positive change:

Treaty Nine First Nations held a press conference in Toronto over their lawsuit against Ottawa’s bill C-5 and Ontario’s bill five.

So RFK Jr is paying nuts in Denmark to go to one of the poorest places on earth, tell half their group their children are in line to get vaccinated for free with something that’s been saving lives for decades and is already fully proven safe, and not actually vaccinate them.

An extraordinary thread that every student of research methodologies needs to read. Not to mention every parent, researcher, university faculty and the Ministry of Health in Guinea-Bissau.

“Billionaire-backed, anti-feminist women’s media outlets and viral female lifestyle influencers are increasingly shaping young women’s politics” @kylietcheung.bsky.social, author of Coercion, writing for @talkingpointsmemo.com: talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...

The history of movements includes how their success is fed by myriad day to day refusals, face-to-face cultural analysis and spontaneous expressions of power. They exist in arms’ reach and vast networks. Written for the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches for civil rights: youtube.com/watch?v=_Weq...

Read this and the thread please:

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Fired academic Frances Widdowson has been showing up on university campuses to question aspects of the history of residential schools in Canada. This Saturday on a new episode of APTN Investigates, journalist Christopher Read looks into a recent eruption of residential school denialism.

This is such an important story. The future of agricultural work in the US is at a turning point. As a market for fruits and vegetables, Canadians need to support fair wages, job security and housing for farm workers in the US. You feed us too.

So this woman is being interviewed, gently, about the salacious memoir she wrote, and then can’t talk about what she wrote and falls back on the damsel in distress tactic? I cannot believe how do may people elevated her and continue to do so.

This:

Very worth reading. The worst part of these reforms is how clearly university administrations are prepared to consent in advance to the destruction they are intended to cause.

Ontario's proposed "reforms" to university oversight shows the northern reach of Trump. “What you’re clearly seeing ... is a legislative foundation for government to intervene in areas that have not traditionally been viewed as their responsibility” universityaffairs.ca/news/critics...

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Roger Stone on 1/24/25: “A well-timed pardon of former [Honduran] President Hernandez…cld be the final death blow to Castro w/ national elections set to take place later this year. Castro’s regime cld be upended” in a major “victory for…Próspera” (the network state project backed by Peter Thiel) 1/

"Climate smart" beef was never more than a marketing fantasy [via @grist.org]

A very important thread:

Read this! Professors and scholars read this! What a wonderful event.

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

This is the stupidest and most dangerous time to be alive in the US. Please, Canada, just notice that.

Defend these comrades, defy those who seek to stifle their voices and build the movement against war and genocide.

Read this thread please. And read EMPTY really loud:

NATIONAL CALL: Learn to Replicate the "Scrape ICE Out of Home Depot" Action - www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/... - tomorrow 11/25 at 5pm/PT 8pm ET

I think (white) Canadians tend to ignore it when imposters are exposed operating in Indigenous circles because it seems like “their problem” BUT IT IS NOT. IT IS OURS and that refusal to address it really burns my hair. Thomas King, Buffy, Boyden, countless others. It’s a White People Problem.

Please read this thread.

In Mussolini's Italy, the fascist movement was obsessed with people wearing suitable attire in all social settings. Thomas Mann describes this brilliantly in one of his novellas. The fact that transportation secretary Duffy obsesses over how one should dress to fly in an airplane, while being

North Carolina has really shown out. Comrades are telling me that they have gotten 500 to 1000 people out to ICE Watch trainings [with more people wanting to attend].