Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

@thestar.com I am a subscriber. Every time I click on a link to read an article you put up a promo that asks me to sign up for an email digest or something. Stop it! Don’t get in between me and the articles I pay to read. Don’t advertise to me if I am paying you for a subscription.

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Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her

I really love this new-ish initiative by the City of Toronto to promote public wifi locations. We need to start seeing digital and wifi access as a core societal right.

This is not a government that is in any way serious about preparing Canada for surviving in a Great Power world. Analysts and critics need to stop giving Carney the benefit of the doubt. This is his plan. It's a bad plan, it's the wrong plan, and it's not going to work.

Just think about what would be happening in the US right now if Kamala had been elected.

My second job out of school was at the Ontario Meat Industry Inspection Branch. I have seen descriptions of things you don’t ever want to hear about. Trust me when I say these really are not the people to cut.

I just assume most eulogies and wedding speeches are generated by chat gpt now because it’s largely well meaning people who have been sold on the idea that this is a tool to help you do “a good job,” when the actual point of you being up there is to say what you’re feeling even if it’s clumsy.

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis, as well as countless other victims. We honor their lives by rejecting the evils of antisemitism, dehumanization, and authoritarian violence wherever they appear. Never again means never again for anyone.

I guess he just got lucky.

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

Threats, threats, and more threats! 🖕👇 NORAD pact would change if Canada pulls back from F-35 order, warns U.S. ambassador Diplomat says U.S. fighter jets would enter Canadian airspace more often to address threats. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS. Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies. AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS. Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

I have never witnessed such a spiderweb of collective action, just average everyday people showing up. Not the heroism we’ve been sold by the movies but collective heroism, a fabric of care and resistance to fascism.

This should be shared a lot more widely. The last thing the city needs is highest level infiltration from developers and political lobbyists.

Good. This is exactly what Canada should be doing. Will it anger Trump? Yes. If Canada wants to remain a sovereign country, we MUST visibly support NATO. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

it is -10 here today. I was supposed to go do a volunteer shift standing outside loading groceries into people’s cars to deliver to families stuck at home. just got a call not to come in because they have too many volunteers already. if you were wondering if the cold would stop us.

“We renounce war as an instrument for narrow national interests and proclaim that military action must be seen only as a last resort in extreme situations, not a normal instrument of national policy...” www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...

Four attorneys told ABC News they have been denied access to their clients at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, where they are being held, which they say would violate 5th & 6th Amendment rights to due process & the right to consult with counsel. abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-a...

Join us at Irene’s Pub on Monday January 19th for an evening of music, speakers, and community! It's time to build a movement around a set of bold ideas to deliver the transit we deserve – without barriers and which provides a real alternative to high emissions private vehicles.

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

U.S. billionaires got an astounding $1.5 TRILLION richer in the first year of Trump's second term. Remember — this is happening as they get even more tax cuts in exchange for the social safety net being cut for everyone else. "New Golden Age" for who?

Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager

Solar didn’t just shine in 2025 — it shutdown all of the naysayers. Costs collapsed. Deployment exploded. Markets shifted gears. That’s not a trend — that’s transformation. Years of progress. Years of scale. No shortcuts. No flash. While others exposed their shortcomings, solar forged ahead.

“By 9:23 a.m. on January 2, Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs had already made what the average worker will make all year.” Canada’s top 100 CEOs now make 248 times more than the average worker — the biggest pay gap in Canadian history

we need more allies doing stuff like this instead of sharing screenshots of content by white supremacists

Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.

Erica Azim built one of world’s largest archives of Zimbabwean music. She has spent decades studying and performing with revered Shona artists. Her Berkeley nonprofit has recorded thousands of songs and sent more than $1.6 million to Zimbabwean musicians and instrument makers.

Love this. Simple, effective. Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

"As with so many things, Trump didn’t invent a bloated, power-grabbing presidency, but he has brought it to its inevitable conclusion, the very thing most feared by the Founders: A madman able to plunge the country into war on a whim."

In a nutshell.

For those who have been led to believe that this year’s flu vaccine doesn’t work, this isn’t the case. ER visits and hospital admissions are reduced by 72–75% in children and adolescents, and by 32–39% in adults. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Huge protests threaten to bring down Iran's Islamist govt. --on which Netanyahu depends to maintain the perpetual warfare that keeps him in power. To prevent a democratic Iran, and re-unite Iranians behind the ayatollahs, Bibi needs airstrikes--that's why he's in DC.

Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.

Jon Polito in MILLER'S CROSSING (1990), one of the best and most memorable performances in the Coen Brothers oeuvre Polito was BOTD in 1950

It’s called FASHION - look it up! @thehobo.bsky.social

SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.

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A Character AI chatbot with an 11yr old girl (last year before they restricted genAI chat feature to under 18s)

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Woman who starts riding a bike not sure if she should be a poor unemployed loser who can't afford a car or an elite smug entitled asshole with a toy, asks neighbourhood Facebook group to help out.

The proposed abolition of jury trials for most crimes undermines an ancient English liberty that has protected the people against state tyranny for centuries.