The recording debut of EVENSUN (fka Esmé & Sons) is out, & we’re very proud of it: checkitout on Bandcamp, where musicians actually have a chance of getting paid! Diverse folk/rock/pop vibes, 5 original songs/tunes and a trad rave-up to close…. evensun.bandcamp.com/album/vensun

Yeah. What Emma Thompson said.

Malcolm Nance said these sound like the titles of porn movies.

Excellent piece; and did Anita Anand really say that it was up to the US, to decide whether their campaign of extrajudicial murder on the high seas breaks international law?!

Well done @antihate.ca for this investigative reportage, and also CBC radio for leading their 8am World Report with it.

Great précis of the bullshit travesty of Christianity peddled by maga types! Along with the obvious ones about “pro-life” really meaning “pro-birth, and fuck ‘em after that.”

More Murdoch scumdoggery: publish something completely fake and injurious, say “oopsie!” and take it down when called out, but by then other media outlets have obligingly picked it up.

A good analysis and warning by @donalgill.bsky.social: mainstream politicians take note, we *really* do not want to be going down the UK’s path.

Napster was founded in 1999, and millions of households downloaded music they did not pay for, but they did not use it to build a business. The industry and governments did everything in their power to shut down Napster and we were punished with Spotify, which continues to rob and cheat musicians.

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

The brother of federal Industry Minister, Mélanie Joly, is the president and CEO of Intelcom, a courier company that exploits subcontracted delivery drivers for pennies per package. It stands to benefit mightily from the dismantlement and privatization of public postal services in Canada.

It is indeed a wild read, and queasy-making

Excellent interview from yesterday, with the Rutgers prof who has received multiple death-threats from the fascist enablers of turning point.

I had never heard of Eswatini until now: apparently the former Swaziland, and Africa’s last absolute monarchy.

Incredible. Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

The mask comes off Maga’s bullshit weaponisation of anti-semitism….

A very timely take on the unedifying Riadh comedy fest, from a colleague of the journalist murdered by the regime there a few years back.

Marisa Kabas is always worth reading, and this is a headline worthy of framing. As well as much else pertinent, this piece contains a jaw-dropping quote from Stephen “Goebbels” Miller, from Trump’s first term: I knew that man was pure evil from the moment I first saw and heard him.

“Culminating rot of shareholder capitalism”

I have great respect for @mattgalloway.bsky.social, I listen to The Current every morning. However, I was very disappointed that he didn’t call the guest from The Bulwark on his abject both-sides-ing just now, ref. the recently deceased “influencer.”

In Defense One, Jon Duffy, a retired USN captain, furnishes withering analysis of Hegseth's latest escapades in the Caribbean. Essential reading. www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/0...

Keeping the U.S. government funded now is to participate in the most atrocious misuse of the power of the United States in modern times. So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole f*cking thing down. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/should-democrats-shut-the-government

A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now | Anonymous

Apparently this telling sentence was several paragraphs in to a NYT story: just a detail, that the regime is trying after the fact to find a legal fig-leaf for murder on the high seas.

To be clear, the focus of the meeting is not stopping fascism. The topic is "establishing a new economic and security relationship with the U.S." So I think it's more accurate to say the guy who wrote the fascist playbook is offering advice on submitting to fascism.

cultmtl.com/2025/08/obse... Neverbefore has a Canadian politician shared so much disinfo unchecked.As Poilievre tries to weasel his way back into Parliament,Canada’s legacy media still refuses to call out Poilievre’s lies,or question his ties to CanadaProud,who ran disinfo campaigns targeting our PM

Joe Strummer would’ve been 73 yesterday, and no doubt would have had plenty to say… youtu.be/lY4SsG6YCP4?...

Nice one Ron! One of my fave Clash songs to sing too, along with Stay Free and Career Opportunities, and shows that punk can be folk and vice versa.

Truth in satire!

The Liberal government knows that recognizing the group "Métis Nation of Ontario" is explosive for moving forward on Indigenous and Métis land rights. PM Carney is no dumb bunny. His decision to host this group on talks over major resource projects on treaty lands will burn bridges of trust.

Truer words were never spoke. True that the Romans did have the indignities of Caligula, Elagabalus etc though: how long before a horse is appointed to the US senate?

A great, and lengthy, interview with a great artist and activist.

"Funny thing about evil is that it sneaks up on you. It sidles up slowly, slouching, conditioning you to its presence, so before you know you have crossed a line, the damage has been done. The lesson here is not about the 'final solution' but how it starts." www.cltampa.com/news/at-ever...

My old hometown of Skegness and county of Lincolnshire has been in the news more than once, for attitudes the exact opposite of this: fair play to this enlightened lass, she gives me hope!

Israeli forces killed more Palestinians waiting for food at aid sites over the weekend, as it continues to starve the population of Gaza. Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal — and we as a nation are complicit in this bloodbath. We must stop all military assistance to Israel.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes? American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

Shame, CBC.

RIP, very sorry to hear of Harry Standjofski’s passing, un grand comédien.

Charlie’s right on the bean here, with extra points for the Robbie Burns reference, and goddamn but that nauseating picture really sums it up: Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation indeed!

Nice juxtaposition! The AI seems to be the only winner…

Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought." h/t @msnbc.com

Interesting angle, might be onto something here…

Even by today’s Caligulan standards, this is evil and depraved.

True I’ve been away from the uk since just before Thatcher got in, but it is unfnbelievable that this kind of proven arrant free-market cultist bollocks is being spouted by a Labour politician.

I'm trying to think about how I would have reacted if shown this headline five years ago

Ooops, take 2: *cough* Mark Carney.