worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Most English-language coverage of Spain's new platform law focuses on banning children from social media. The bigger story is that they will begin holding companies (and executives) legally responsible for publishing illegal content & criminalize algorithmic manipulation that boosts it. Good news!

“Journalists are civilians under international humanitarian law, and targeting them is a war crime — but Honest Reporting Canada routinely celebrates these strikes.” @jsource.bsky.social j-source.ca/honestreport...

Yes!! Six Palestine Action activists, Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Rajwani, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin, have been cleared of all charges over a break-in at Elbit. Free the Filton 24! Shut down Elbit! Lift the ban on Pal Action! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

it goes without saying but I don't think the 3rd richest person on the planet is destroying the prestige newspaper he bought because of the finances of the newspaper business

crazy that basically every person complaining about "woke overreach" over the last 12 years is also in the epstein emails being like "thanks for the pussy, jeff ;)"

Once you see it you can't unsee it, the theory of change for these people is as follows 1. Cripple a nation's economy via collective punishment. 2. (Hopefully) induce protests about the economy as a result. 3 Take these protests as a casus belli to topple the regime. 4. Cripple it more if 2 fails.

read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

frankly i think if you're doing any kind of creative writing using LLMs you're a fucking loser

The Minister of AI having an "ongoing engagement" with the government of Israel on technology and AI is deeply concerning. No, it’s just plain wrong. It makes Canada vulnerable to international legal consequences, and it takes Canada far down the wrong path.

Israel has been using AI to mass target Palestinians for years. It has used the genocide in Gaza to accelerate this technique, ramping up the speed of AI targeting to create what Israeli journalists called a “mass assassination factory”. www.democracynow.org/2023/12/1/is...

It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles

If you ever see my byline next to a headline like this, you have my permission to stage an intervention

Big news from me: I’m thrilled to be joining @policyalternatives.ca as a senior researcher and launching a health policy desk. The focus will be national and provincial health policy and services analysis, including privatization, finance, wait times, and solutions.

The United States is escalating its campaign to destroy Cuba, under the justification that it harbours... Hamas and Hezbollah (???) Cuba, whose greatest crime was sending soldiers to defeat apartheid in southern Africa while the United States helped the apartheid state develop a nuclear bomb.

I expect a blip of rhetorical condemnations of Don Lemon’s arrest from institutions that stood silent while Israel slaughtered their colleagues for years.

if china was starving out taiwan like this, people would be up in arms

Zeus is anti-fascist, folks

American media—particularly algorithm-driven social media, but also traditional media and things like right wing podcasts—has driven about a third of the population into a state that can only be described as mass psychosis. We need to impose clear limits on their capacity to influence people here.

Over 1,000 tech workers have signed this open letter calling on their companies to break from ICE—including employees at Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple, Nvidia, and OpenAI 👀

BREAKING: recently murdered guy did something dope as hell a couple weeks prior

Treason + foreign state interference. The federal government and premiers should urgently strike a task force to uncover U.S. agitation and espionage in this country. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Marco Rubio was unanimously confirmed into his position by the senate. Every single Democrat—including Bernie Sanders—voted for him alongside the Republicans.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

it is incredible how everyone just moved on from the fact the US kidnapped another country’s president and is now effectively the puppet master of the government it left in power

CNN says Maduro made the CIA a "convenient boogeyman" by accusing them "without evidence" of trying to overthrow his "regime." Next paragraph: "Now, the CIA has helped [overthrow] Maduro" If this was coming from any other country, we would call it regime propaganda.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

the last year has left me with unending faith in the courage of ordinary people and bottomless contempt for the fecklessness of our ruling class

The moderate position is unwinding the entire post-9/11 security state

Do not let up, do not give them a single inch, until every one of these people is behind bars

You can see how the co-training with the IDF is paying off. Masters of dehumanization. They don’t see you as human.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

“They want violence” no they very explicitly want compliance and acquiescence and if you don’t give it to them they will fucking murder you

🇻🇪 Leaked audio from Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez revealed that in the minutes following the kidnapping of Maduro, U.S. officials explicitly threatened her life and that of other ranking Chavista figures if they did not cooperate. "The threats began from the very first minute they...

When I wrote this a year ago, part of me wondered whether I was being overly pessimistic. It turns out that things are much worse than I thought.

the consequences of naziism must be such that no one ever again dares

You did not bear the shame. You resisted. You bestowed the eternally vigilant symbol of change by sacrificing your impassioned lives for freedom, justice and honour. — The German Resistance Memorial in Berlin

If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week

Message to fellow journalists (and anyone claiming to be one): do not “police-involved shooting” executions in broad daylight. Obfuscating language like that is completely journalistically unnecessary and, even worse, sanitizes reality. Words have meaning. Use the right ones.

I haven't read this decision yet, but it seems like a terrible precedent for public advocacy If you get arrested for charges you believe to be politically motivated, advocating for those charges to be dropped shouldn't be a crime montrealgazette.com/news/crime/s...

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

There are several Canadian media personalities, including a number at the Toronto Sun / National Post, who I think have become legitimately radicalized over the last few years and it seems largely linked to their use of X

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.