Gotta be honest. I used to love social media. It was a place to go and connect, to learn, to express, even if it was about unpleasant stuff. Now, it very much feels like that's gone. I have an aversion to social media now. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/the-death-of...

“Here’s some fuckin’ cookies.” Me, a potluck hater and semi-mandatory work social event hater showing up at the staff potluck with my contribution.

Heat or eat? Half of Atlantic Canadians within $200 of not paying bills ______________ · By Natasha O'Neill · halifax.citynews.ca/2025/10/09/h...

I am so tired of people calling things divisive when what they mean is that they were more comfortable when other people were just being silently oppressed and they didn’t have to hear about it or change anything

This is probably the best time to be in organized crime since before the repeal of prohibition in 1933. I mean if you wanted to commit high level non-immigrant related crime, now is the time to go hog wild.

I’m always saying this

So Mark Carney is governing like a Conservative. This despite the fact that there is ZERO reason to believe that ANY current CPC voters are inclined to vote Liberal. Not to mention the fact that it was NDP voters panicked over PP who elected the Libs this time.

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

as I tried to explain to corey robin, the Nazis were incompetent boobs. not that that's much comfort to all the people they murdered.

Dear Canada, You are complicit in this genocide. You are complicit in this genocide. You are complicit in this genocide. You are complicit in this genocide. You are complicit in this genocide. You are complicit in this genocide. You are complicit in this genocide. You are complicit in this genocide.

It’s that time of night when my left hip starts to get lonely for Advil.

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act. I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

shocker

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

wrote this line yesterday: "If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus. A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Centrists say we should listen to and be understanding of the facist right while telling the left to STFU

It's the last bastion of privacy in Canada and we ALL have to resist it being taken over by billionaires. The framing of the question is completely wrong. It's not losing $3 billion as a public service, it's subsidizing the direct mail cost of private companies to the tune of $3B. STOP! #Cdnpoli

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

They did it again. Italy ftw

Who stands to benefit from the gutting of Canada Post? The billionaire class. If Mark Carney were really serious about nation-building, Dru OJa Jay writes how the post office could become an engine for green energy, public banking, and better services. breachmedia.ca/canada-post-...

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

I’ve never liked Tony Blair’s slimy politics, but I have to admit that when I heard Brits call him evil or Satan in the past, I attributed their vehemence to a certain degree of hyperbole. But it turns out that no, he actually IS Satan. Mea culpa.

Why are billionaires www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

I’m in a cycle that often feels more like a spiral: anger, rage, fear, resignation, sadness. Landed hard on sadness today.

“‘My building is shaking. So, I'm like, “What is that?” Then I look out the window, it's a Blackhawk helicopter,’ said witness Dr. Alii Muhammad.” Raiding a Chicago apartment building from above as if they were on a mission to capture Osama bin Laden. Absolutely demented.

While some authoritarian regimes want to shut down the internet, Western oligarchies prefer to control it.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

In a functioning society, this would have been front page news everywhere. In our society, this didn't make the fine print. As @georgemonbiot.bsky.social pointed out once, it's quite depressing to check the headlines when you know what the real headline should be...

Trump is handing the US entirely to oligarchs, including himself. In Canada, Carney’s plan to gut Canada Post’s workforce by 40% is the same kind of move. To hell with the whole idea of public good, to hell with public services. Make Canadians hand over even more money to billionaires.

That this was ever on the table tells you a lot. Again, we only got the dental care we got because the NDP forced the previous Liberal government to do it. It won't be expanded, and may yet be cut, under Carney. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

People who don't see the connection between what's happening in Gaza and what's happening here, they're a big part of the problem. Part of not caring about other people is also failing to see how their problems are eventually your problems.

How the Two-State Solution Became a “Big, Expedient Lie” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Gaza is obviously a test that the whole fucking world just failed.

1. What these people consider middle class is probably not you. 2. Nothing for our most vulnerable at all. 3. Zero relief on every day needs costs. 4. Throwing the environment under the bus. Don't even get me started on rights or capitulating to the orange menace. Fuck the bank weasel.

This is "good Nazi" defined.

Canada, you need to denounce this man’s vile ideology before it spreads any further. Don’t repeat the mistakes of the U.S. Make fascists fear to spout this hateful crap ever again.

the enemy within is so corrosive and dangerous and also barely exists

Completely unserious. Total clown show.

I have a friend who spent most of the last 10 years meditating. He’s a recently-disrobed Buddhist monk. On top of the 10 years in a monastery, he’s never had social media. It’s sad for me to see the ways in which my own cognition has obviously declined from scrolling in contrast to his.

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek in Portland: "I will not be approving utilization of the Oregon national Guard. The President does not have the authority to deploy federal troops on State soil."