This doesn’t work if you’re not white and you do foreign policy stuff btw they’ll just call you slurs

We should boycott any company that does this.

you fucking guessed it! "Last year, Philz was purchased by private equity firm Freeman Spogli & Co., which also owns Popeyes Chicken and El Pollo Loco, for a reported $145 million, according to Mission Local, though the company did not provide details of the deal."

Let’s go toe to toe, gramps.

Almost exactly what I said for their first essay. And look how I’ve been repaid. I’m so upset.

We need a windfall tax immediately on the O&G industry's war profiteering. AND... Let's force these companies to finally set aside significant sums of money for cleanup!!! www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli @policyalternatives.ca @hadrianmk.bsky.social

Really sucks that one of my students used AI for his midterm essay and didn’t even bother to take out the parts where the LLM writes when certain citations were supposedly accessed. And places where it just says (list of names). It’s such a shame because the kid is so smart and he knows this topic.

This is a failure of the courts, yes, but it's also a failure of the culture. This started with a white woman calling the cops because a black man was watering her neighbor's flowers.

There's also a good essay to be written about Black-led protest being the main form of legible protest in the US for the past 75 years & how part of why so many white people feel adrift & also keep "asking where are the protests" is because Black protest is shifting since 2024. Folks are unmoored.

For most of the history of international criminal law, proving a leader intended to commit genocide has been among the hardest things to establish. Trump posted it on Truth Social. New piece on the ten-year frame that's teaching us to ignore him. www.readtpa.com/p/take-him-l...

People are correctly noting that the actual article is better than the headline. Yes. And still: 1. It's 2026. We ALL know that few people read past the headline. A bullshit headline deserves opprobrium. 2. The first post in that thread didn't even include a link to the article. 3. Enough.

Aspirational correction

A country that would rather let people suffer and die than go against the quacks leading its institutions

where are the anti-war protests, which we denigrated while they were more visibly happening, this time around? and why are college campuses, which students now know will throw them under the bus even to the point of passively facilitating their deportation, so quiet?

Today Meta started removing ads from lawyers looking for clients who have been harmed by social media while they were under age 18, according to Axios.

Oh everybody, did you know I'm being political on here? Well I'm sorry to disappoint you just now finding out. It's ok it you don't want to roll with me because I'm political anymore.

‘Sir they’re making little Japanese line stickers mocking you ‘

Six minutes apart!

our president is clearly dumb as fuck but the last 24 hours have also revealed that his entire cabinet is full of nuremberg-bound losers and that netanyahu's bloodthirst is somehow even worse than we already knew. total loser convention.

it’s true, there are no middle class white kids in the american education system. they have all been excluded by invidious racial discrimination

I have encountered and engaged with many Trump supporters, hearing them patiently out each time: and every single one of them, whether beneath a veneer of politeness or not, exhibited a fundamental spite and meanness about their fellow human beings that I found horrifying.

Some of the reasons: Flights are really expensive, it is too pricey to drive with current gas prices, the US keeps "joking" about Canada as the 51st state, the travel bans, every country is affected by Trump's tariffs, ICE is at airports, and US citizens and green card holders have been detained.

Intersectionality bitches. Get some. And get that you can be oppressing people & oppressed at once.

"It is not hope. It is the specific exhaustion of people who have been denied hope for so long that the mere postponement of catastrophe registers as reprieve. We celebrated nothing. We simply exhaled."

I hope all the people who told me I was overreacting last year suffer unintended consequences, like falling into an uncovered manhole

This

Guess what's not cool? Kanye West's existence! Guess what is? The fact that @kattenbarge.bsky.social wanted to talk to me for her incisive piece on the problem of him. Check it out folks!

Ban this entire fucking industry.

I try not to hate people, but I hate this person.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

The empathy you feel for Trump's targets is not, in and of itself, a rebellion against fascism, but we will never win without it.

God this poem is haunting me again.

Tell me, when you drop bombs on giant crowds of peaceful protestors, are you the good guys?

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

Remember when Iranian protesters were being leveraged to manufacture consent for this war? Now, Trump calls all Iranians "animals" and says he will bomb the country "into the Stone Age."

Holding non-permanent residents responsible for Alberta’s deficit seems disingenuous in the context of rising income tax revenue, writes @ximenaka.bsky.social. #abpoli

Did my part

What I mean by “talk on the cheap” is when I pull out my phone and say a few things to the world. It’s easy, it’s cheap, right? But cheapness of the communication should tell you something. It's significantly more expensive—mostly in time—to cook dinner for somebody, to organize a group of people

*guy cheering on nuclear war voice* why aren’t people having babies?

Next time you open Instagram, look at your feed. The erectile dysfunction ads. The sexualized content. The hate speech that’s been reported and ignored. Now ask yourself why a women’s health community is where Meta drew the line.

Muriel Rukeyser, always but especially today. Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...

briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie... "Though the separation of so-called Canada and the U.S. as distinct nation-states came through settler-colonial infighting, it is still underpinned by violent racism.”

right but gaza was just a purity test

You should have just finished the sentence, dude. I mean Christ, do we even have a line in the sand anymore?

Congress is so funny. The world could be blown to smithereens and half of them would be like not sure this is a kitchen table issue.

We don't normally publish on a Tuesday, but this is a special one-off: A big interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates where we cover the aftermath of the 2024 election, the boycott movement, Black and Palestinian experiences in the US and more www.thekeymagazine.com/p/ta-nehisi-...

New York Movie, by Edward Hopper, 1939, 📸 by Carlos Fyfe

I think not enough people understand that the pushback against renewables and EV's is money. Without getting too in the weeds: renewables cannot ever be as profitable as oil and gas. EV's don't make as much money as gas guzzlers. That's it. That's all you really need to know.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.