mattfarish.bsky.social
Historical geographer, University of Toronto; Affiliate, U of T's Centre for the Study of the US. Writing a book about climate labs, survival schools, and the 20th-c. US militarization of the planet. Distracted by AC Milan and other ⚽️.
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“You know I had to call…”
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While O'Leary, who is on record as liking the idea, smiles away, the useful Canadian...
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Didn't this guy threaten *days ago* to "redraw" the border and said Canada was overrun with cartels?
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Speaking of Michael Roth: slate.com/life/2025/03...
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Does Ford?
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Indeed, but Roth is correct: as you note, we and many others recognize how hard this is, but "neutrality" is not a useful response (maybe beyond the very short-term), and relatedly it's a fiction. It's up to us collectively to work out alternatives.
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Michael Roth (Wesleyan president): to pretend at neutrality is "an educational disservice at best, and cowardice at worst."
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no better illustration of the clubbiness of national media than the extent to which vance got a pass on being an open fascist because he is friendly and charming in a green room or on a panel
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This is from the profile Ben Wallace-Wells wrote about him in 2021.
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Emily's still-very-useful open-access 2012 paper, "The Militarization of Climate Change": acme-journal.org/index.php/ac...
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It's amazing that in a story about a bunch of awful people arguing, one comment nonetheless stands out for its inanity.
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Congrats, Loretta!
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Now the same pundits who fear-mongered about left-wing censorship are going to defend their fake crusade by lying that the right-wing censorship is a response to the left’s censorship that never even happened. They’ll do revisionist history to protect their failed careers
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Ah yes, millions of square miles of land and different long-range 'threats': this will be straightforward. Never mind: another boon for the military-industrial complex!
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The most effective countermeasure is simple: tariffs for oligarchs
If Tesla wants to sell cars in Canada and Mexico, Tesla – and its main shareholder, Musk – should be required to pay extra taxes in those countries
Concretely, condition market access to Musk paying a wealth tax
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It's a very small thing, but Z's response to that ludicrous (AND grovelling) question was perfect.
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Simply put: "It's ok, dad..."