the idea that you could just pass specific bills on specific areas with simple majorities is just beyond the ability and comprehension of most lawmakers in congress it seems

Oregon AG Dan Rayfield: "California, DC, Memphis, potentially Illinois, now Oregon - this normalization that you can use the US military in our cities. That is un-American & every place that it happens, you will see Democratic attorneys general standing up, drawing a line in the sand & saying, 'No'"

One person having the power to upend entire industries and economic sectors on a whim every day that puts companies out of business and workers out of jobs with no legislative input is an autocracy, regardless of whether that person initially acquired power through an election.

Interesting to note that the coal industry in the U.S. employs just a tad over 40,000 people, according to the BLS. The same source tells us that 64,000 people work at wineries.

‼️ Mass killings of Ukrainians in Bucha: The Sunday Times has named 13 Russian officers responsible for war crimes. "In those 29 days in early 2022, they committed such atrocities that this Ukrainian city will forever become synonymous with war crimes," the article says.

Trying hard to moderate my Maia Sandu fangirling right now, but I gotta stress she's accomplished something no EEuropean reformist ever has: brought a fugitive oligarch back to face justice AND fended off massive Ru interference to win a referendum and two re-elections (parliamentary+presidential)!

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country? Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide. It undermines police and the law.

A nail-biting election in Moldova ended with a resounding result for the pro-European bloc. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The stage of deterioration where gangs of large (mostly) white men just publicly assault people who seem to be brown because they're brown in the hopes of doing far more harm to them in the name of the state. Glad this one escaped.

Congrats to team Europe for winning the Ryder Cup. Historic and well deserved. Our fans were disgraceful. An embarrassment to the US team and the game of golf. No class, dignity or grace…just like their cult leader in the White House.

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I’m rechristening him #PierrePropaganda Hundreds of fake X accounts in Quebec are actively ‘misinforming and intimidating’ the public cultmtl.com/2024/09/hund... #Cdnpoli

Game of any MP over Poilievre. Svend Robinson, 25 yrs as MP, 1st 🇨🇦 openly gay MP, finished degrees within normal time frame, fined/jailed for supporting Haida rts over clear-cutting, heckles Reagan, takes on Israeli soldiers, true social change advocate. PP? 21 yrs of sweet f all! #cdnpoli

I’m sure Poilievre spending almost double the PM and more than the other party leaders combined plus a frivolous byelection really “helped” the budget, eh? The most expensive thing in Parliament is Pierre Poilievre. #cdnpoli

Jeez he’s such a fûking moron 🙄

If ever there was a time not to normalize Trump’s authoritarian fever dreams, this is it. This should be impeachable. ‘War ravaged’ Portland? He’s insane - & insanely power hungry. The script is set - call an imaginary group a terror group and then send in the troops.

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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The state of America currently. Fûcking diabolical 🙄

I think this is fundamentally right: dem electeds and thought leaders seem to me to be afraid to lay out the 'grand vision' of the kind of society they want. Afraid that it will be rejected by The People and also by members of their own big tent coalition. They need to get over it and Do Anyway.

Klein, like many powerful pundits, is living inside an alternate reality that's been created through their phone and television screens. He's grown more powerful inside that alternate reality by working to uphold the pillars of the anti-reality like "hillary clinton lost because she insulted voters"

Extremely strong agree. Bureaucracy and rational-legal forms of authority are necessary conditions for any politics other than domination/

THE MEME IS REAL

🔴 Ukrainian military intelligence has released an audio intercept in which a Russian commander orders the execution of two captured Ukrainian soldiers.

Kenyan police found 22 people being trafficked to fight in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. BBC says they were lured with fake job offers in Russia, but the plan was to send them to war. euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/28/r...

@silvermansecurity.bsky.social @beyerstein.bsky.social @aravosis.bsky.social @johngcole.bsky.social @minibubbly.bsky.social @doloresquintana.bsky.social #Kenyans #Cubans #NorthKoreans #Russia is a meat grinder.😠 #WarInUkraine 🌻

Wow, they really went all out on this election! All that money for RT to now whine about the election being rigged against the Kremlin's minions. kyivindependent.com/russia-ally-...

The only people stupid enough to choose Russia are MAGAmericans and their dipshit leader.

When will democrats figure out that the mega churches that suddenly popped up in the South in the 90s were funded by Russia? It sure as hell wasn’t the congregation. Russia has been behind the integration of Soviet ideology and white evangelical racism since 1995.

An outstanding interview. Patrick Iber of Dissent Magazine has interviewed the legendary Polish political scientist Adam Przeworski about de-democratisation in the USA, and what lessons he’s gleaned from Chile, Peru & beyond. Iber’s questions are stellar. Przeworski’s answers, chillingly candid.

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At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

Could be a good occasion to select a new commander-in-chief.

THE BLUE JAYS WIN THE AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST DIVISION, I LOVE THESE BLUE BIRD BOYS, LET'S FRIGGIN GOOOO BUDS 💙🐦

Eric Lauer, Mason Fluharty, Ernie Clement, Braydon Fisher, Alejandro Kirk, and, of course, George Springer are my MVP's of the #BlueJays' 2025 regular season. A bunch of dudes who mostly came out of nowhere, came back from tough years, or came into the game as rookies, and made magic. 🐦⚾

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations." pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Drivers kill 10000 pedestrians per year. Here’s why they had it coming.

A rookie Liberal MP defied the law & his government in service of a state committing a live streamed holocaust. Because it was on behalf of Israel it will likely pass with little uproar. A week ago, Toronto MP Vince Gasparro released an unusual video in which he announced that the 🧵1/15

US Doctors, nurses and allied health professionals are welcome in Canada. Come on up. The people are lovely! #DOXIT www.healthmatchbc.org

Leslie Jones on the Dangers of Trump Memory-Holing Slavery from Our Museums | The Daily Show Trump and MAGA want to whitewash the history of slavery in the U.S. from Smithsonian museums because they think racism is talked about too much, but Leslie Jones says we're actually not talking about raci

This is the type of unfettered truth that people can’t handle, but need most right now.

Also, the Republican Party’s demand that thinking people stop calling them Nazi is a demand that we stop thinking completely and ignore the past. The political pattern is exactly the same. Read Franz Neumann 1941 book “Behemoth: The Structure and Pattern of National Socialism” available here.

Doug Ford’s policies consistently prioritize privatization over public investment, deregulation over accountability and fiscal restraint over social infrastructure, writes Carlo Fanelli #FordFailedOntario #onpoli #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/26/o...

I actually wrote about this just before the April snap election. I knew nothing about Tommy Douglas before I moved to Canada but now he’s one of my heroes, the other being Dr. Leo Alexander.