Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

An easy story for reporters in tech and extremism right now might be to ask major music streaming platforms why they quietly let Skrewdriver back on some time this year

For fucksakes. Can prominent pro Palestine Canadian leftist journos stop making friends with the far right? First Lascaris praising Candace Owens and now this shit. Not exactly being good allies to the LGBTQ community...

Alberta teachers are compiling lists of the books in their classrooms so the #ABGov can tell them which ones to toss. On a related note, Parkland Institute will be releasing a new report on the "Parental Rights" movement in AB next week. ualberta-ca.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Ughhh. You were so close. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ "Bad political instincts." No!! Carney is a central banker! Buddies with Trump! Oligarchs on the same side of the class war against us! Wake the fuck up!

My newest piece for Jacobin traces the ideological inheritances of Danielle Smith. jacobin.com/2025/08/albe... @johncke.bsky.social @charlieangus104.bsky.social @dgrdon.bsky.social @nolore.bsky.social @youcaughtscott.com @desmondcole.bsky.social @temcd.bsky.social @dillonwamsley.bsky.social

Think about every pro-Israel person who denied this was the plan for the past 22 months; who gaslit you; denied this to you; pretended this wasn't the plan. And then never believe those liars about anything ever again.

So... according to Greenblatt, Elon doing the Nazi salute wasn't so bad. But students protesting... What a fucking disaster the ADL is. What a joke.

Never in my lifetime has the Democratic Party been as much as a ghost ship as it is today. Incredible there aren't more insurgent primary campaigns. Power is just sitting there and the only thing guarding it is fossils like Chuck Schumer

Pierre Poilievre, speaking to caucus yesterday, referred to what I can only assume are the anti-genocide protests as “rampaging antisemitic riots.” He got a standing ovation. For seemingly pledging to crack down on people who want a genocide stopped. Very “free speech” of him. Fucking foul

Notice that they're now shifting from "we need our parking spots" to "transit gets in the way of cars" type arguments.

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

I live in Alberta and I have no words to tell how much I respect and LOVE this!!! Thank you #FirstNations 🪶🍁

“The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies.”https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230101371_12

He also got the right a higher share of the popular vote than Harper ever did... And the highest in almost 40 years... This kind of analysis is so surface level. What the numbers actually show is the cons would have won if not for Trump's tariff stupidity.

Far right extremists, inspired by Trump per Whitmer herself, tried to kidnap her. Trump himself later suggested it was a fake plot and mocked it. He called her ‘that woman in Michigan’ and led a crowd that chanted ‘lock her up.’ Today Whitmer hugged him on the tarmac. This is why Dems lose. 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽

Appropriate energy when dealing with brown shirts.

According to three members of Congress, Rumeysa Ozturk has been repeatedly denied access to her lawyer, refused asthma medication despite attacks, forced to endure extreme temperatures, and denied religious accommodations. Her ‘crime’? An oped in a school newspaper. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...

History books will barely be able to cover the montrous depravity of Trump's actions, since we can barely cover it in daily news accounts to imagine having to pick just a few examples to summarize his evil on a page in a HS text. But this could make the cut.

Two North State episodes in one week? That’s what you get when it’s election time. @nolore.bsky.social joined me to review how journalism has performed during the federal election. We have notes. Check it out.

Bill Maher has the behavior of a very specific band of boomer white guy: an "equal-opportunity offender" perfectly willing to weaponize identity politics and cry like a baby the second anyone gives back to him even 1/8 of what he dishes out. I guessed his birth year (1956) instantly and correctly

On 🌊 The @breachmedia.ca Show🌊 ep49 Martin Lukacs welcomes scholar @ryankelpin.bsky.social for a conversation dissecting radical right-wing economist Milton Friedman’s influence on Pierre Poilievre and what it could mean for the future of Canada. breachmedia.ca/the-radical-... 🔶

Spent 50 minutes chatting with Martin Lukacs and @breachmedia.ca about the profound ideological influence Milton Friedman has had on Pierre Poilievre. Podcast episode is at the link attached: breachmedia.ca/the-radical-... #poilievre #cdnpoli

How a man baselessly got called a pedophile by a stranger, flips them off, and is doxxed in major newspapers for doing so. Really great story that perfectly encapsulates a manufactured outrage machine that transports scapegoats from the grassroots far-right all the way to international news media.

My review of Martin Lukacs' new book on Poilievre. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie... @breachmedia.ca @canadiandimension.bsky.social #cdnpoli #poilievre

University teachers’ association warns Canadian academics against travelling to the United States The Canadian Association of University Teachers warns Canadian academics could be searched and detained over their political views at US border

Reading Mark Bourrie's book on Poilievre and it is full of incredibly problematic writing practices, like implied citations for unsubstantiated claims. An example:

The mainstream media and it's institutions (hey CAJ) has been playing footsies with the far right press for a decade. Of course we would end up here, where non-journalists monopolize the mic at press conferences. We all saw this coming.

Rebel Media is as a powerful influence on Canada’s far-right, fanning the conspiratorial flames of Islamophobia, transphobia and anti-migrant sentiments to sickening levels. But Ezra Levant’s hateful news outlet was long enabled by Canada’s media establishment.

Every commission member should resign in disgrace.

For those asking why the post-debate scrums are stacked with far-right alternative media personalities, the answer is they obtained a court order to attend these things

Why in the hell is Rebel News allowed to masquerade as journalists, get access to an election debate, and then behave like this? Mainstream Canadian journalists and politicos have a lot to answer for.

I cannot wait to see this guy in the dock at The Hague. Signed, an autistic dude who has gone on plenty of dates (and is now married!) and pays my taxes.

I tracked down Rob Pegatto, former YTV game show host and Toronto Raptors on-court announcer, who appears in the “Do You Believe The Polls?” group’s Instagram videos Pegatto told me he was hired by Mississauga casino owner Paul Micucci, the group's leader and a big donor to Doug Ford’s Ontario PCs

Here at the @breachmedia.ca book launch for Martin Lukacs new book on Poilievre. Look out next week for a one hour chat between the two of us on The Breach Show regarding Poilievre's long time reverence for the ideas of Milton Friedman.

Meta has complied with 94% of Israel’s requests to take down posts, including from accounts outside the country. New Meta AI content moderators are being trained on these decisions. In other words: Insta and FB have actively been running cover for genocide. www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-dat...

Writers who use genAI for illustrations are class traitors. We all have to fight this beast TOGETHER. We are not just trying to save SOME of our livelihoods.

David Brooks, who holds no advance degrees but has nevertheless served as a visiting professor at both Duke and Yale -- solely on the basis of his conservative ideas -- thinks that universities are deeply unfair to conservative thinkers.

Name a situation, any situation, in general life where you would accept the findings of a self investigation. There aren't any. So those who accept them from Israel are fascist propagandists.

Andrew Lawton and others repeatedly mocked Ottawa residents inside this secret group chat Convoy lawyer Eva Chipiuk shared a conspiratorial video claiming inquiry witness Zexi Li is a Chinese “psy-op,” and mocks her as an “alluring, young sexually viable TikTok hottie” and “Ottawa’s Jeanne d’Arc”

Despite Mélanie Joly's initial denials, the fact remains that Canada brokered a weapons deal that explicitly identifies Israel as the end consumer. This is immoral given Israel’s ongoing genocide, but it also breaks Joly’s explicit promise to Canadians.

This is a must listen, btw

My newest scholarly article on Doug Ford, neoliberalism, (anti)majoritarianism, and the use of inherited institutional and constitutional frameworks to insulate austerity from critique. ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/cp... #dougford #ontario #onpoli #ontariopolitics #neoliberalism

Isn't it weird how every major right wing influencer/podcaster seems to be a violent rapist?

Elon musk is truly the dumbest smart person in history

It's stuff like this that makes it all but certain that Israel buried the evidence to avoid showing how many people they actually killed on Oct. 7.

Always intervene. Protect each other