shocking aerial view of White House before and after east wing demolition.

No words.

Power, Policy, and Privatization Simon Enoch from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives joins me to talk about the power of policy, the rise of neoliberal think tanks, and what privatization has done to Canada’s public life. We get into how governments treat essential services like Canada Post and the Saskatchewan Transportat

A few takeaways from my talk with Simon Enoch at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: neoliberalism didn’t shrink government, it just changed who it serves. Public goods were rebranded as markets, and policy became a tool for private gain.

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

DOGE aims to pool federal data, putting personal information at risk A centralized system with unprecedented access to data about Social Security, taxes, medical diagnoses and other private information would create vulnerabilities, experts say.

DOGE "is racing to build a single centralized database with vast troves of personal information about millions of U.S. citizens and residents, a campaign that often violates or disregards core privacy and security protections meant to keep such information safe, government workers say."

DOGE is going global. It needs to be stopped. The extreme right is organizing for a new austerity campaign modeled on Elon Musk’s destructive efforts

Elon Musk’s DOGE is tearing through the US government with disastrous consequences.

But beyond its borders, the extreme right is gearing up to push their own DOGE-inspired austerity campaigns in countries around the world.

Think about their words:

The moment of truth is here. The further we get down the road the clearer the answer to the q is re: are we gonna be able to come back from this

“Just days later, the Trump administration has reached that line and is prepared to blow right through it. The constitutional crisis is here.”

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

They started with the undocumented, then they went after visa holders and permanent residents, now it's naturalized citizens.

How many times must history rhyme and repeat before we realize what's going on?

The kicker quotes from Prof. Jason Stanley are 🎯🎯🎯

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...

I am going to get my act together and fully migrate to BlueSky. I want to use all social media to promote my book. There's no point doing this much work and let it be lost inall the noise. People need to know it exists, then make the choice of whether to buy and read it.
I'm grateful for any shares.

This is the Russia-Ukraine story again. I'll let you guess who's who in this one.

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.

I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

A post on X / Twitter from Jason Kenney that reads: So to recap: ▪️the USA’s closest ally gets a 25% tariff on national security grounds, ▪️ China, the USA’s biggest strategic adversary and ultimate source of fentanyl ingredients, gets hit by *lower* tariffs, ▪️ While Trump pursues an economic partnership with Putin’s murderous Russian regime, ▪️and Trump muses about opening negotiations with the Iranian theocracy, the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism. To the very online MAGA North crowd: stop embarrassing yourselves by defending this lunacy.

Former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney posted this on Twitter / X this afternoon:

"To the very online MAGA North crowd: stop embarrassing yourselves by defending this lunacy."

Psychological Head-On Collision: The Existential Stakes of Zelenskyy’s Gambit Will the world see what he sacrificed to show us?

I wrote about the head-on collision that Zelenskyy went through in order to show the truth. America is a rogue nation, led by fools in league with our former enemies. He doesn’t have many cards, but he plays them very well.

Europe, your move. Glory to Ukraine.
www.mind-war.com/p/psychologi...

UPDATE: Social Security Administration confirms much of my reporting, albeit without specifics, in a news release: www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”

Albert Camus

I lost my job. USDA Forest Service. My probation was up next week. I did everything right. I took a GS-7 role with a master’s degree just to get my foot in the door. I spent years doing seasonal fieldwork for low pay, working in remote places, gaining experience, and building skills, just for a chance at a permanent position. I was about to be a GS-9. I wrote NEPA reports. I conducted field surveys. I worked fire support. I dedicated myself to this work because I believed in it. Public lands don’t manage themselves. The wildlife, watersheds, and forests we protect don’t just stay protected without people on the ground making it happen. My coworkers and I took on that responsibility, often in places most people never think about but that matter more than they know. And now? Just like that, I’m out. Edit: I’ve consistently supported progressive policies and have voted Democrat in every national and local election since I was 18. I do appreciate folks asking, I have some coworker having a serious 'leopards ate my face' moment right now.

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

Nobody voted for Elon Musk A self-interested, erratic megalomaniac has seized control of the US government.

"America is not a software company. And letting a thin-skinned, Ketamine-fueled, video-game cheating, Nazi apologist billionaire take over the machinery of the United States is not something that anyone voted for."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump's Chaos Will Have Global Consequences America First turns out to be a recipe for American irrelevance

“America First” is making America irrelevant. Trump’s erratic tariffs tank business confidence. His foreign policy sows instability. Allies stop trusting us. Adversaries exploit us. Read the latest from @jenrubin.bsky.social

US cyber agency puts election security staffers who worked with the states on leave Staffers at the nation’s cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of U.S. elections have been placed on administrative leave, jeopardizing critical support provided to state and local ...

Staffers at the nation’s cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of U.S. elections have been placed on administrative leave, jeopardizing critical support provided to state and local election offices across the country.
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#Florida What could go wrong ?

New agreement allows state police the “power to interrogate” people on the street level to determine if that person is unlawfully in the United States, according to a copy received by WLRN. New agreement also allows state police to make an “arrest without warrant”

You don’t say…

Trump Has a 'List' of National Archives Staff to Fire as Revenge for Docs Scandal President Donald Trump, still bitter about the FBI's raid of Mar-a-Lago, has asked for a "list" of National Archives staffers to fire.

“Democracy rests on the rule of law. And the history of the United States rests on unfettered access to the archival record."
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"There are new miners in America now, mining your social security number and your privacy and your rights and freedom. Mining the Treasury, which they will pocket. Mining institutions for the last few patriots, but those resources were already scarce."