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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 23 hours ago • 1406 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 481 comments

Any countries building Starlink into their telecom systems should be thinking twice right now.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 1 day ago • 205 comments

The Canadian establishment that lost its mind over a protest passing by Mount Sinai hospital has been entirely quiet over a Canadian company selling Nazi T-Shirts for the English world's most famous, out Nazi. I wrote about this and asked the question: why? noraloreto.substack.com/p/instrument...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 2 days ago • 168 comments

This is pretty straightforward authoritarianism: if you don't support my toxic businesses, I will use my government power to kneecap yours.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

MARNER TO MCDAVID

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Has Gretzky clarified which team he is cheering for tonight?

submitted 2 days ago • 242 comments

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

submitted 2 days ago • 1574 comments

CONNOR MCDAVID 🚨 THE NEW AGE GOLDEN GOAL! CANADA WINS!

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

I'll say this: Akim is far from alone in this assessment.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

He makes TikTok videos claiming that South Asian men are a threat to women… he’s also a paid BC Conservative staffer. #bcpoli Meet Adam Beattie, a Conservative influencer who goes by the name Robin Skies. thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

CSIS releases a report with info that any activist already knows -- that antisemitic threats are most dangerous and serious coming from the far right, and CBC inexplicably talks to a random cop who says actually, Muslims are still more dangerous. What in the fuck, CBC? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 1003 comments

NEW: A couple days ago, Breakdown host Nate Pike announced that he was being court ordered to wipe the Alberta politics show from the web as part of a libel lawsuit from a well-connected Alberta businessman. This development should concern all journalists. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

Straight fire here from Ta-Nehisi Coates about the Democratic Party. "If you can’t stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy?” (thx @guyoron.net)

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

New episode from Sandy and I ... stop saying woke when they're really saying white nationalism. sandyandnora.com/episode-310-...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Ta-Nehisi Coates in Seattle about the Democratic Party in this moment: “If you can’t stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy?”

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Israeli parliamentarian Ofer Cassif shares the following image and caption, drawing parallels between Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz’s announcement of a new agency to facilitate the “voluntary departure” of residents from Gaza, and Nazi Germany’s actions 86 years ago.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Someone has to save the film and TV that studios won't: defector.com/someone-has-...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

truly speechless

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

I knew she was good at tennis but this is just remarkable court coverage to be there at Stonewall on the front lines while she was a 12 year old living in Czechoslovakia without a passport at the time

submitted 7 days ago • 99 comments

I understand why an American hockey player would not like hearing his national anthem booed. The American hockey player must also understand that I don’t like having his president threaten war against my country. Fair? #habs #gohabsgo #nhl #4nationsface-off

submitted 8 days ago • 75 comments

I’m thrilled that @rachelgilmore.bsky.social is launching her own podcast and honoured she decided to have me on as her first guest. Make sure to tune in and subscribe!

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

1. Dans Le Devoir ce matin, Christian Rioux répète l'argument, souvent avancé par certains chroniqueurs au Québec, que les mesures de discrimination positive vont à l'encontre de la pensée de Martin Luther King. Pour appuyer cet argument, on cite souvent le fameux discours "I have a dream" de King.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

submitted 9 days ago • 537 comments

News Corp in Australia are running campaigns to try and incite violence towards Jewish people, and film / report on the incidents - this attempt was botched and now the internal documents planning the provocation in News Corp's system are leaked @crikey.com.au www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/14/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

The Partition of India displaced 20 million people, killed almost 2 million & created a refugee crisis whose effects are still in play over 70 years later, if you actually think it's a model for anything but massive catastrophe, you should not only not be employed here you should be in a padded cell

submitted 9 days ago • 90 comments

“Even if the worst you say about me is true, you have no right to steal my land, oppress me, erase me,” the writer told Jezebel of life under Israeli apartheid. www.jezebel.com/on-trial-for...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Saw someone say, "End your friendships with people who are going about life like nothing is wrong." I will never understand people who think that further isolating ourselves from everyday people who don't get it is going to save us. It's not. Your judgment and disdain will not save us.

submitted 10 days ago • 352 comments

Fired AHS chief Athana Mentzelopoulos is suing the provincial health authority for $1.7 million for improper dismissal, which she claims was engineered by the government as she investigated evidence of inflated contracts for private clinic surgeries. calgaryherald.com/news/ahs-ath...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

We @propublica.org have now confirmed more than 30 Musk-affiliated staffers who are helping the world’s richest man downsize federal agencies one by one. And we're still tracking DOGE – reach out and help us 🔎 www.propublica.org/tips/federal... www.propublica.org/article/elon...

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

GigSlave Goes Public With $84 Billion Valuation. Watch Full Onion News Network Segment Here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwlB...

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

Jon Stewart asks why Democratic leaders think they need better messaging rather than better policies. House Leader Hakeem Jeffries replies their solution is "making the American people feel that we understand the pain that they've been in" — the exact thing Stewart was criticizing!

submitted 10 days ago • 404 comments

Smith says she first became aware of contract concerns when she saw the newspaper reporting, but later says they've been looking into concerns of wrongdoing for 8 months? Hard to keep your story straight when you're lying! #ableg #abpoli

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

Folks are shocked that their institutions, after professing commitments to climate justice and DEI, are now caving to Trump and scrubbing all references. It's brutal. And it's the smallest taste of what our students felt when their universities called in the cops b/c they protested a genocide.

submitted 11 days ago • 26 comments

In the wake of the 5th Estate documentary about the political operatives attacking Valleyview, Alberta's library, local residents turned up for tonight's 5 pm town council meeting. It's a fully packed house. The outcry on social media over the weekend has turned into real action.

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

Ex-AIPAC staffer says AIPAC would use "Arab-looking" kids to spy on Arab-American organizations & try to get people fired from Jewish organizations:

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

“Statisticians claim Aaron Judge has 44 home runs this season” “Meteorologists say yesterday’s high was 75” “Philadelphia defeated Kansas City in Super Bowl LIX, according to football advocates”

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

If I get on a plane and the takeoff announcements don't contain a land acknowledgement or the pilots' pronouns, I am jumping off the fucking thing.

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments