This is the crux of it and it makes even more sense when you connect it to the resurgent labour movement under COVID. They've been trying to destroy labour power ever since and have tried to such an irrational extent that it's reshaped the global economy into one giant AI bubble.

James Watson the perverted racist is dead?! Well that means it's time to celebrate the true hero of DNA discovery: Rosalind Franklin www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This whole case is ridiculous and I hope their constitutional challenge wins. They had public relationships with the police, Health Canada, and peer reviewed research. A conviction is unjust.

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

This moment says everything about why Zohran Mamdani won. A journalist in a wheelchair asked about accessibility and Mamdani didn’t talk down to him, didn’t deflect, didn’t politicize it. He listened. He’s the kind of leader who respects everyone, every faith, every class, every flag.

Hey, so continuing a deep reliance on fossil fuels and rapidly building data centres for AI usage is a recipe for exploding electricity costs. Source: Ask Americans what their electric bills are like now.

I'm laughing because if there's anything to get past my withered scepticism of Avi Lewis and then turn it into cautious optimism, it's that the National Post has already written a hit piece on him. Ringing endorsement, that.

PressProgress is being harassed with a lawsuit by a white supremacist Albertan politician the outlet helped expose. Important thread. This is fascist Maple MAGA tactics being used to target Canadian journalism.

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

I don't know how you can look at this and not see what ICE is.

Cities are cool. Diversity is fun. Brown people are people. Trans people are people. Socialism is good. We don't have to tolerate genocide or fascism. Young people have good ideas. We can take care of each other. A better world is possible. People are, generally, good. Including you.

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Yes! Contact them and sign this petition here —it’s not just about EDI data! So much personally identifying information for applicants and reviewers will not be protected! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Carney chose to cut Canadian foreign aid at a time when more is needed. He also chose to cut the capital gains tax & taxes on luxury yachts & private planes. More for the wealthy while the rest of us sacrifice. Tell me again how Carney isn't just like Poilievre & Trump. #cdnpoli

the problem with capitalism is they eventually run out of your money

If the Liberal party of Canada had included a wealth tax of 1% in the budget on the Thomson family, JUST the Thomson family alone, no one else, they could have kept their promise on healthcare transfers. #cdnpoli #canadapoli #LPC #FallBudget

Seems like a good time to remind people of jury nullification.

saying "capitalism is good, capitalism is right, capitalism works" as they set fire to me inside the wicker man

Statistics give the cold feeling of natural disaster when this is directly social murder brought on by Trump decision making. Amidst this horror, the government of Canada will add to that number with plans to decrease aid.

Ok, but yes I fucking laughed because if you know anything about FIFA this is comically FIFA.

Then they came for the #TradeUnionists :(

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

I wrote about how the proposed changes to Ontario's eviction rules are a state response to rent strikes in Toronto that undermine tenant organizing ricochet.media/justice/hous...

Everything LPC supporters used to rail against when it was Harper doing the cutting, defunding deregulating & posturing, are being implemented once again, by PM Carney. Yet, complete silence from most of those supporters. Except those of us w/ a moral conscience. Duly noted.

A very good question! Combine that with how many researchers are now in immigration limbo and they've slashed visas for international students, which includes the graduate students driving research, and you can see how this government is lying about creating an attractive research environment.

"We are told that costly supports for big businesses will make housing more secure, food more affordable, education more accessible, and other much-needed public services more available. But that never happens. And it won’t this time."

I genuinely think that billionaires are so socially disconnected from society that they lack most of our cultural mechanisms for coping with what starts as very normal anxiety around death and then this is the result.

10% of Meta's 2024 ad revenue came from outright frauds and scams; the platform shows consumers 15 billion ads for fraud and scams every single day. This doesn't even include agitprop and AI slop. the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough

Is it really that hard to understand that in order for a party/candidate/movement to win they just have to offer something different from other parties? Something that isn't stagnant neoliberalism?

"Blanchflower and Bryson found that for workers under 25, mental health is now so poor that they are generally as unhappy as their unemployed counterparts, which is new in the past several years. The rise in despair is particularly pronounced among women and the less educated."

Well, we're not alone.

Something that I wish could be communicated to left leaning parties about this politically chaotic time is that popular opinion changes fast now. You might say "we won't support widgets" to gain seats because currently people hate widgets, but then next week an event happens that flips it.

Don't miss this: 160 experts and advocates "protest and reject the deeply misguided and wrongheaded approach to public consultation demonstrated by the government’s thirty-day “national sprint” on Canada’s artificial intelligence (“AI”) strategy."

#canadapoli Hear me out! If you want an understandable example of why there is skepticism of the budget and how these massive private-public partnership "investment" projects play out, look no further than the Eglinton Crosstown LRT.

Ontario First Nations say it’s ‘now or never’ to stand up to resource extraction bills. Legal experts warn laws are undemocratic and unconstitutional, while leaders call for a united front to defend lands and rights. New from @jonthompson.bsky.social: ricochet.media/indigenous/l... #onpoli

I'm struggling to describe something. There is something... Deeply odd about the way centrists/blue MAGAs/Carney fans insist that you must agree, that their opinion is what matters, and blind faith is good. I literally saw someone on here use the words blind faith positively.

The entire right-wing propaganda machine came after Zohran Mamdani. The president and his allies came after him. Democratic leaders, by and large, did not have his back until the last minute. He still won, turning out historic numbers and inspiring young voters. His politics can win anywhere.

"[...] the surplus will likely be created for high-income households and large, foreign-owned companies benefiting from defence spending—they are on the other side of this deficit."

Quite the attempt at a hat trick. Liberals pivot to scoop up left wing voters to win an election, #elbowsup, get praise from the world for it, only to pivot hard right to protect the interests of the wealthy and oil & gas, then get con members to flip to gain their majority.

This is quite the listen. Carney has commit just 900,000 to 10/day and 5 million to universal dental and a fucking billion to AI. A total fuck you to every progressive that bought the Elbows up Rhetoric. They even canned the yacht tax to appease the billionaires.

🎧 PODCAST: Looking inside Mark Carney’s ‘extremely Orwellian’ austerity budget From $60 billion in cuts to eliminating 40,000 jobs, Canadian Labour Congress Sr. Economist @dtcochrane.bsky.social shares his impressions of the Carney government's first budget live inside the media lock-up in Ottawa

Important analysis here that you’re not getting from legacy news.

This is why at the moment, Avi Lewis is who I'm looking at for taking over leadership at the NDP. In our current landscape, there isn't anyone else that is currently offering to do this that actually represents the ideals of what policy for the people really means here.

which is what many armchair generals, civility columnists, and stupid think tanks have urged dems to do in labour, this tribe finally got full control of a pollical party & . . . bsky.app/profile/polp...

i call this view 'reactionary centrism' - the problem with it is that modern fascism *cannot* be appeased; they don't want a few compromises in women's sports, they want a total social transformation and the end of liberal democracy you give them a bone, then another, then they want your arm

I generally hate political emails. I really do. I usually take myself off annoying subscriptions and delete without reading. But I read the one that @naomiaklein.bsky.social wrote for @avilewis.ca in full. I hope Avi goes the distance.

No matter what happens now, a big victory about the Mamdani win was finally getting an example that shatters the propagandized idea of "they're great, but they can't win" that has held back sympathetic voters for decades.

Do you hear that noise? That's the sound of the tide turning Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I would gladly pay more in tax if it meant universal pharmacare, government employees keeping their jobs, funded healthcare and education, and eliminating homelessness. #canadapoli Though let's be clear, it's our billionaires that aren't paying their share.

New Yorkers just proved bold socialist ideas can win. Ottawa just proposed the most harmful climate and care budget since Harper. Bold ideas win and we need to rebuild that kind of NDP. www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL...