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:

Thread:

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:

imagining the meeting where someone was like goal number one is to find a trendier, more whimsical term for attempted murder

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

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

Over a dozen First Nations chiefs, band councilors and elders were at Alberta's legislature Monday, to call on Premier Danielle Smith's government to stomp out the push for Alberta to quit Canada.

In the @bostonreview.bsky.social, Aslı Bâli and Aziz Rana examine the deep roots of the emerging Trump Doctrine.

"Forcibly displaced Lebanese are now gathering along the sea; they have nowhere to go; Israel has announced its intent to make conditions that render civilian life unsustainable. A second genocide. Now in Lebanon."(Philip Proudfoot on X) #Israel #Lebanon

Please listen to this. It’s very worth it.

So this is where we are. Gotcha.

For real. The US has been taken over by religious zealots.

It's the latest trade drawing scrutiny on the popular prediction market site for appearing to show an insider making profits on military secrets. n.pr/4ciemrp

'Wyloo's proposed underground copper, nickel and platinum mine in the #RingofFire will not be subject to a federal [or provincial] impact assessment, despite the unified calls of more than half a dozen First Nations.' www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/27/n...

Jingoism is cover for settler capitalist impunity. Fast tracking a new mine means violating Treaty 9 and burdening First Nation governments with debt. And only for uncertain short lived windfalls that are also decades away. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/27/n...

Read this thread please. Politicizing ICE has seamlessly turned it into a partisan army in support of capital’s insurgency.

An ethos for the times. “A different way was needed to manage the valleys. Not by profiteering businessmen, nor paternalistic government, but by the locals themselves.”

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Every day in the NYT and WaPo (joining the chorus with WSJ):

APTN’s Savanna Craig is in Minneapolis, Minnesota this week and she’s speaking with Native American activists who are on the ground protesting and resisting Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents.

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A benefit of free buses I hadn’t heard enough about until this piece from @galvinalmanza.bsky.social

Send Canadian oil to Cuba www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

In a huge blow to the UK Home Office, the High Court has ruled that the ban of Palestine Action under terrorism legislation is unlawful:

Minneapolis residents are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods. Called filter blockades, they’re pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets, and they’ve already earned the ire of Trump border czar Tom Homan (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

To fight denialism "is to insist, without qualification, that it is up to the affected communities & only the affected communities to decide whether to exhume the remains of their loved ones." What Past Atrocities Teach Us about Residential School Burials thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026... @thetyee.ca

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

it reveals pretty plainly that "merit-based hiring" means "you belong to the correct class and hold the right set of identities"

Please read this:

How to join a shadowy cabal 😊:

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

Forget abolishing ICE; abolish the GOP.

Half a century ago, the American Indian Movement (AIM) was founded on Franklin Ave. in Minneapolis in response to police violence targeting indigenous residents. Today, as ICE invades the city, AIM patrols are back, watching over elders, youths and aunties along the same avenue.

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This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

They're literally taking hostages

Really, this is just not the time to listen to moderate think tanks. The whole extremist game here is to make all government appear useless. Stop helping them with this and answer the calls your constituents are making instead.