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ESG & Social Acceptability Consultant. Gaming, film, TTRPGs, history and books. Also like shitposts and memes. Left twitter because of the fascists 🫠
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Il serait temps que les médias nous fassent entendre les voix marxistes. Je ne prétend pas qu'ils ont raison sur tout, mais ce sont les moins surpris de ce qui ce passe en ce moment dans le monde, et ils ont des choses différentes à dire. Le commentariat tourne un peu trop en rond.

A Seattle Times op-ed summarizing a few of the arguments from my UW talk this week: "To understand right-wing media's power, study improv and theater of influencers." I end with some recommendations for countering the right's bullshit machine: www.seattletimes.com/opinion/to-u...

www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...

Wired has been one of the best outlets covering DOGE. I’m biased, but I think this kind of confrontational journalism is necessary.

This article is totally insipid. Paul Wells spends half of it painting a picture of Poilievre being privately courteous and friendly. But that's based on Wells' PERSONAL access -- as a white man with power. I've heard stories about his private interactions that paint a very different picture.

imagine the excruciating conversations that had to take place before publishing this headline

“A reminder to believe nothing you see or hear on CBC.” Because if you did, they’d keep the power to hold Pierre to account for the things he says and does! And god forbid anyone does that!! Chickenshit, autocratic rhetoric from a guy who keeps boosting bootlicker media

From a lithium mine in central Ukraine, claimed by Donald Trump. Residents are unimpressed by US demands for their mineral resources. "It's blackmail," one told me, adding: "America is trying to destroy our potential. It would finish us off." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

ENQUÊTE | Une analyse de Pivot met en lumière les nombreux biais systémiques dans la couverture médiatique de la guerre d’Israël à Gaza. #polmtl #polqc #medias #genocide #palestine #israel La première partie de notre enquête, par Sam Harper, à lire sur Pivot 👇 pivot.quebec/2025/02...

MAIS OUIIIIIII DANS VOTRE SALE GUEULE LE HOCKEY EST À NOUS RETOURNEZ BRISER VOTRE DÉMOCRATIE

I know things look grim right now, but I promise you they’re actually so much worse than that.

An unconscionable post from Donald Trump about Zelenskyy, in which he calls him a "dictator" and threatens Ukraine's existence.

Pierre Poilievre’s policy on journalism, in one meme:

Sans surprise, le dossier de la Presse sur l'extrême-droite parle de grand remplacement et d'incompatibilité civilisationnelle sans mentionner aucun chroniqueur. www.lapresse.ca/contexte/l-a...

Critics of Munich Security Summit Warn of Musk, Rising Fascism in Europe www.democracynow.org/2025/2/14/ru...

Nothing Pierre Poilievre says right now changes the fact that he’s spent his time as party leader rage-baiting and dividing our country with misinformation. The CPC chose this path. It’s too late for them to pretend they give a shit about national unity.

Continue to be impressed at how completely a single teenage girl psychologically dominated a generation of adult male reactionaries. They belong to her, she owns them

On ne fait pas cela à tous les jours, mais nous avons cru nécessaire de répondre à une attaque contre notre travail par un représentant du Parti Québécois. pivot.quebec/2025/02/13/o...

NEW: Explore our interactive map of federal infrastructure and climate projects aimed at reshaping communities. However, Trump's funding freeze threatens the future of many of these initiatives. Search by zip code: grist.org/accountabili...

«En souscrivant à une vision aux tendances assimilationnistes plutôt qu’en mettant en avant les dimensions civiques &plurielles de la culture commune, le PL84 risque davantage de repousser les minorités ethnoculturelles que de renforcer leur sentiment d’appartenance» www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...

Dans @ledevoir.com ce matin 💔

Nouveau texte dans La Presse+: l’autonomie rationnelle et la pensée critique sont souvent présentées comme des antidotes à la désinformation, à la manipulation et aux chambres d’écho.

Maybe the Canadians Trump hangs out with in Palm Beach won’t fight for their country. Aisha is right. Everyone else will. theconversation.com/why-annexing...

L'un des principaux reproches à l'endroit du "wokisme" dans les dernières années a été d'instaurer un climat de "censure", de limiter la liberté d'expression et de restreindre la liberté académique, tout cela au nom de la justice sociale, des normes d'équité, diversité et inclusion (EDI). 🧵

Trump launches his trade war with Canada! It's putting conservatives in a weird spot where they have to lick his boots while also pretending to be patriotic. The Super Bowl protestor hero who held up a Palestine and Sudan flag has been released without charges! Watch live now twitch.tv/theserfstv

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So AI is going to create threat profiles for people who criticize ICE—and then cross reference that with the personal identity data the Musk Rats were allowed to steal—to monitor us IRL (using facial recognition to track us) based on what we say online. I wish I was making *any* part of that up. 😬

Shopify only supports “authentic” swastikas, apparently. Come on, Shopify. What exactly is the angle on allowing this shit? What minuscule constituency do you think you might lose if you act like decent human beings?

Il existe plusieurs décennies de recherches en sciences humaines et en philosophie sur les complexes phénomènes sociaux, politiques, culturels ou économiques qui favorisent l'émergence des fascismes. Sinon tu peux dire que c'est de la faute des wokes. Merci Pat.

Putin wants to bring the world back to the 19th century. Trump is an accelerant. The silence of the international community on all of this is deafening.

If this were Putin talking about Latvia, or Xi talking about Vietnam, there would be statements of condemnation from international organizations… at this point, the silence is more than awkward…

Petit message pour tous les recherchistes et journalistes du Canada, il n’y a pas seulement Sylvain Charlebois comme expert universitaire sur l’économie du secteur alimentaire. Là ça devient répétitif un peu. Mêmes textes donnés à de multiples médias, interviewé partout. On diversifie nos sources ?

This Daily Show clip is so good, but make sure to stick around to the very end for Bill O'Reilly.

Congrats, President Trump. 82% of Canadians now agree we should raise the price of US gasoline the next time you screw with us. 🇨🇦

This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.

Dans un ordre exécutif signé le 29 janvier, Donald Trump ordonne de mettre fin à ''l’endoctrinement'' des élèves avec des idéologies « anti-américaines » liées à la race et au genre. Il invite plutôt à valoriser "l'enseignement patriotique".

OPINION | Quand on parle de fascisme, on fait trop souvent l’erreur de chercher une réincarnation fidèle des régimes totalitaires du 20e siècle. L’affaire est plus complexe. #polmtl #polqc #polcan #usa #elonmusk #trump La chronique de Maxime Laprise, pour Pivot 📝 pivot.quebec/2025/02...

Just because the other side cherry-picks short-term fluctuations to deny the climate crisis doesn't mean we should do the same thing to exaggerate it. The truth is bad enough. It's reason enough for dramatic action.

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

Somehow we got to the point where millions of American Republicans love Vladimir Putin and hate Canada.