Sure, but when I threatened the Vatican with military force, no one reported on it.

Thinking back on my time in university, and honestly class room discussion was usually between a few eager students while everyone else sat silently. This was before LLMs.

invoke the 25th and start impeachment anyway

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

Something I never considered was having to do normal life stuff while a leader threatens an entire civilization with death.

Schrodinger's shitlib

I want off this ride.

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

Jesse Brown insists he’s done nothing wrong Banned from Reddit and accused of phishing critics, Canadaland’s founder is leading a chaotic 'investigation' into an army of sockpuppet accounts

"Do you think murder is wrong?" - Whoa, why we doin litmus tests over here.

"We all have NDPTSD" @avilewis.ca Lol, preach

Decent crowd out here in Hamilton on a Monday for @avilewis.ca. You can vote now. Go vote.

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

"Morality in politics frequently counts in the way states behave. If we do not make the proper decision [...] not only will we be doing a disservice to moral principles, we will not be sending the kind of practical, moral message which must be sent to the US Government."

My latest for PressProgress. Grocery prices have gone up this past year, and some Canadians are having to make some tough choices.

I need people to understand that it’s not just Epstein, it’s the entire rape culture that existed before and after him at every socioeconomic level. That’s why Epstein, who I’ve never thought was particularly smart or interesting, was able to pull this all off—he recognized how abuse functions

This elite project taking place right now to distance Epstein from his friends and allies and try to wipe their slates clean is a way to protect elitism itself in the face of more evidence that it is a house of cards, filled with people who do not deserve to be there.

the last thing Oddnon ever said to me was "Disco slysium"

Oddnon was one of the few people I considered a close friend even though we had never met in person. A true legend, and one of the kindest persons I've known. Rest in power friend.

insisting on calling every mass day of protest or one-day boycott a "general strike" is not the move. it's good to see people rallying around the cause, it matters, but if you want to be part of a large-scale labor action that shuts down the gears of capital, start by unionizing your workplace!!!

I am voting for Avi, if you would like to, you need to become a member by 12 tomorrow.

This should be a huge story

What an incredible person.

My friend writes important things and you should read them.

it’s important to keep your lib friends in your thoughts today as they are convinced, against the weight of reality and historical precedent, that things are going back to “normal” bc of the temporary ICE changes, as if the entire country didn’t see a city under siege by the feds

And the useless fucking Dems think that ‘more law and oversight’ will change their behavior in the slightest? Fascist enablers the lot of them. CALL YOUR SENATOR ALL DAY LONG.

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

The usefulness of police officers is overstated in almost every single way, because they use their own judgement to decide if they think it’s worth helping you or not. If you aren’t in the demographic which makes your suffering worth an investigation, you are already in a copless society.

According to the largest union in Canada’s federal public sector, workers in the government’s health, transportation, foreign affairs and public safety departments have all been told their departments will start to see layoffs. @isaacphannay.bsky.social reports. #canlab

All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.

'This isn't about left or right' I say, while strictly pointing out something evil the right has done.

It is like the liberal pundit class was bonked in the head and completely forgot about the summer of 2020

Bartender just shared a shot with some patrons and instead of saying “Cheers” or “Salut” they all said “Fuck ICE.”

just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now

From the End of the Myth by Greg Grandin.

Feels like it should be a pretty big deal that a Trump supporter physically assaulted a Democratic congressman

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Hootsuite is also working with ICE. Corporations profiting from fascism and state execution abroad

Anyone who mentions training is not acknowledging the fascism. Unless the training is re-education.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

all i have to say is that certainly the mind behind dhs' social posts, and the mindset of a lot of people in this admin, the online nazi mindset, is "there is a plague on this country we must eliminate and anyone who stands against us is a brainwashed race traitor," and theyre acting accordingly

Crowd has gathered 26th and Nicollet

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.

HAPPENING NOW: Protesters forced federal police to retreat from the intersection where they were concentrated. They’ve totally barricaded the street with dumpsters.

You are going to watch 2nd amendment bros cave and you will feel the impulse to hypocrisy shame, but the only solution is to defeat them. They never cared about rights, they only want people to suffer.

We are in permanent Reichstag fires until they get what they want.

We’re going to have to systematically dismantle this cancerous movement. - Strip the dark money groups and political churches of tax exempt status - Target right-wing media with antitrust - Oust right-wing bullshit from academia and law schools - Root out fascists in government and law enforcement