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Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil. It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men

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“The Poop” From Brian Krassenstein

submitted 31 days ago • 12 comments

Canada, we’re with you! TRUMPISM IS REPUDIATED IN AUSTRALIA! #auspol

submitted 32 days ago • 1336 comments

Rock band REM releasing a remix of its first single, “Radio Free Europe,” to raise money for RFE/RL after the Trump administration froze its funding. www.instagram.com/reel/DJJluTO...

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Canada take note of the troll farms trying to manipulate the Lapu Lapu Day festival tragedy and pass legislation to punish troll operations as organized crime or terrorism when they engage in the organized dissemination of hate propaganda and disinformation during these events. #cdnpoli

submitted 38 days ago • 25 comments

The leaders of the UK and France intervened to support Zelenskyy against the demonic Trump, who stood there like an idiot, attempting to harass the Ukrainian president on behalf of his masters in Moscow.

submitted 39 days ago • 354 comments

“A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the election, gathered since the snap poll was announced in March, revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney.”

submitted 39 days ago • 72 comments

I hope the Liberals can pull off a majority govt. Equally as much I hope Bruce Fanjoy demolishes Poilievre and takes his seat. I want that little prick wiped right off the electoral map. #cdnpoli

submitted 40 days ago • 87 comments

Joined @profgalloway.com on the Prof G Pod earlier this week. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: youtu.be/V11qNDDElZw?...

submitted 47 days ago • 35 comments

RFE/RL filed a lawsuit, arguing that it would be illegal for the Trump administration to withhold the rest of the $142 million appropriated for the outlet. A judge ruled in its favor, but the organization has still not received this month’s tranche of funding. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Free link to crazy WSJ story about Musk and his “harem drama.” Can’t do it justice with the four-screenshot limit! www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

submitted 49 days ago • 174 comments

Carl Sagan was prescient.

submitted 49 days ago • 4 comments

Speaking directly to Pres. Trump in English, Ukrainian Pres. Zelenskyy says: “You think you understand what's going on here… But, please, before any kind of decisions, any kind of plans for negotiations, come to see the people — civilians, warriors, hospitals, churches, children destroyed or dead.”

submitted 51 days ago • 31 comments

Swirl Emily Carr 1937

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

submitted 50 days ago • 369 comments

Prediction: Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.

submitted 55 days ago • 311 comments

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

submitted 56 days ago • 2252 comments

Personally, I liked it better when markets weren’t being manipulated by a 78 year-old drug addict in a diaper. But that’s just me…I’m finicky.

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Trump bears the bulk of the blame for the unprecedented global economic crisis now unfolding. But let’s not ignore the role played by the hideously bad judgment of the business and financial leaders who supported Trump and didn’t realize this was an inevitable outcome.

submitted 56 days ago • 243 comments

Canada's own Neil Young. Keep on rocking in the free world Neil. #handsoff #elbowsup

submitted 58 days ago • 485 comments

It looks like they are really doing this. Wow this is nuts.

submitted 57 days ago • 2068 comments

Yes but what does Adrian Dittman think of Ron Vara?

submitted 57 days ago • 366 comments

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According to @chenoweth.bsky.social’s work, regimes change or collapse when 3.5% of the population takes to the streets. Yesterday was just shy of 1%. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

submitted 59 days ago • 106 comments

Swalwell: This is what kicking the shit out of fascism looks like

submitted 60 days ago • 422 comments

political cartoon circa 1908

submitted 62 days ago • 35 comments

NEW: Conservative candidate used a secret Signal group chat with Freedom Convoy leaders, right-wing media and far-right influencers Andrew Lawton was a member of the “clandestine” group chat used to coordinate convoy messaging on social media

submitted 61 days ago • 81 comments

If we found out Trump was a Russian and/or Chinese asset, Woildn’t it all make more sense?

submitted 61 days ago • 294 comments

The insanity of Trump tariffs. They probably just asked Musk's Grok AI (and other AIs) to balance the deficit in goods traded and then applied AIs' answers without any concern of whether it's sound economic policy. Laser-focused on Trump vision only.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Budapest, Hungary, despite an international arrest warrant against him. Hungary recognizes the jurisdiction of the international court in The Hague, which issued an arrest warrant for the politician.

submitted 62 days ago • 32 comments

Closely inspecting the list of tariffs/countries posted by the White House, Trump did not put tariffs on Russia. Ukraine's tariff is 10%, the EU's is 20%, and every American ally is on the list. But not Russia.

submitted 63 days ago • 100 comments

He's just pulling these tariff numbers from the air, isn't he

submitted 63 days ago • 792 comments

Are the foreign and domestic troll farms flooding FB, Twitter, News comment sections, etc... any different in Canada, the US, etc...?

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

CTV obeys in advance of obeying in advance, not even waiting for the King of the Internet Trolls, behind in the polls, to be elected, before folding.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments