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Professor, Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at University of Manitoba. Union thug. Fighting commodity fetishism one class at a time.
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If you’re Jewish and want to see Gaza receiving food and an immediate end to the Israeli food aid blockade — that’s it, that’s the whole message, surely no one can quibble with those asks — please sign this petition! It’s just 500 names short of 18,000 signatories www.foodaidforgaza.org

Per Haaretz, it appears that the largest recipient of U.S. military assistance will be “concentrating” people into what appear to be camps.

I'm helping organize this conference. What would you like to see at this conference? www.decolonialconference.org

Then die t.co/2tcDvU4yDr

Extremely dangerous and worrying that the supposedly progressive Manitoba NDP has partnered with two Zionist organizations - the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) and the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg - to provide training for prosecuting alleged hate crimes. news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.h...

It's hard to stomach such obvious displays from the world's biggest news voices that, to them, some lives ABSOLUTELY matter more than others. These murders are wrong and sad. But I have never seen Peter Baker write this kind of article about a murdered Palestinian -- and that's the problem.

covid threw into high relief how many working class people are absolutely necessary to keeping society functional, and rather than that sparking a renewed commitment to an economy that rewards such workers, we've seen an elite backlash against even modest increases in their market power

Leftists have been saying that Liberals turn into Fascists when capital is threatened for a long time, but just how quickly Starmer, Biden, Macron, Scholz, Trudeau et al. jumped at the chance to sponsor genocide and ramp up authoritarianism at home was truly remarkable

The Nakba didn’t end in 1948—it has been ongoing. From the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians to the genocide of Gaza, from bulldozed villages to bombed hospitals, from refugee tents in Ramla to refugee tents in Rafah. Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.

Divestment victory! Yesterday, the University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA) voted to call on the University Pension Plan (UPP) to divest from the manufacture of weapons used to commit or facilitate war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Sudan www.cjpme.org/who_supports...

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

Nothing new here just student activists in the vanguard forcing the rest of us to ask what the fuck we are doing with our lives.

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

London buildings "bombed by bombs." Britain claims Germany to blame for attack.

Still! The quote marks around "bombed by drones," the verb "claims"! Why are they still doing this???

BDS victory: Yesterday, the Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa passed a motion calling on the university to divest from institutions “enabling human rights violations, war crimes, and any other breaches of international law in the [OPT].” www.cjpme.org/who_supports...

Day made better by "discovering" Dead Pioneers. They were punk first... open.spotify.com/track/1D8Y2X...

I’d prefer civilisation to collapse if you’re telling me this is civilisation

Trying to think of any previous technology that needed this many people out there telling everyone that they're wrong about how it stinks and it is very good and helpfully actually

This was a real bucket of cold water for me. Learning about Ruth Wisse, and through her, Martin Peretz, blew up my very fixed (and comforting) associations of Yiddish language and culture with leftist thinking and beliefs.

GenAI is basically the microwave oven of writing. Sure it can heat up some leftovers but no one is going to a microwave restaurant and your kids will grow up and make fun of you for how much you relied on it to make bland ass food

I so often wish I could cancel my subscription to the NY Times more than once....

Honest question for The Guardian: Why are we listening to Sharon Osbourne about, well, anything? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Continually amazed at how angry people get at the idea that everyone deserves food, water, shelter, safety, and the freedom to express themselves without bigotry or violence from others.

unparalleled epigraph game 😹

Listing "Rising costs of living" as an example of overspending implies, correctly, that people are overspending because they *need to* in order to live.

Before I threw the rock, they stole my land. Before I picked up the rifle, they shot my loved ones. Before I made the makeshift rocket, they put me in a cage. —Mohammed El-Kurd

Had to get a security safewalk from campus tonight... Admin was right: Respect the Geese!

I don’t know Mahmoud Khalil but I love him because every time he opens his mouth, even if he’s sleeping on a floor of a prison cell estranged from his pregnant wife, he advocates for others, for people in Gaza, for immigrants in holding. No wonder they’re terrified of him. They fucking should be ✊🏼

A message from University Admin that I can get behind!

A majority of Americans now have a negative view of Israel. Tragically for them, Israel determines the legality of their views as Americans