one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus
This is what you get when you ally yourself with the U.S. military.
Afghans are now learning what abandoned Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians, Kurds, et al. also learned the hard way.
Extremely ominous efforts by foreign actors to encourage secessionist sentiment in Alberta.
A network of 20 inauthentic YouTube accounts has racked up nearly 40 million views by peddling lies, grievance, division and narratives normalizing the prospect of Alberta’s secession and annexation by the United States. @charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports. #abpoli
This patch of concrete with zero infrastructure is set to receive $200 million of federal financing. This is subsidiary farming at its worse. It should be a scandal.
I love this photo.
First public consultation on N.S. onshore methane drilling draws protest
reported by Jennifer Henderson
"All human groups, from the meanest to the most exalted civilizations, find ways of expressing the idea that some things are sacred, and are accordingly moved by the tragedy of death to draw back from cruelty."
U.N. Women published a report detailing how Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian women and girls since 2024.
This is absolute filth from a gutter racist.
A great cartoon by @guyvenables.bsky.social - The #art of an #editorial #cartoon with a little joke on the #War #Iran - #USA + The blockade of the #StraitofHormuz + #Oil #Market #Manipulation
Mafia Don and his associates are making a tidy bundle with all the insider trading going on.
Shocker. These people are radical extremists. They were never going to be satisfied with 'mere' abortion bans.
Democratic House Rep. Ro Khanna:
“I resent the fact that Netanyahu is going to tell the United States what to do. The American president should call the shots in this country.”
I resent it too, and our POTUS is compromised.
Sorry to post this for those who abhor seeing this kind of news about wildlife. But while we are collectively agonizing over the state of our nation, the state of our planet is probably the more urgent news.
Image of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney with text: "Trilions in global investment doesn't come here eager to improve the quality of life for Canadians. They come looking to maximize their return on investment, to extract as much profit from Canada as possible to grow their own wealth as much as possible. They don't care for us. We're just a profit farm. When public investment is successful, it improves quality of life & grows a government's capacity to invest in the public interest. When private investment is successful it grows oligarchs' private jet budgets at our expense."
When Mark Carney invites trillions of dollars of foreign investment, they aren't here for our interests, but for their own. These aren't altruists. They're profiteers. They're not here for you. They're here for their bottom line. 🇨🇦 🧵 1/
r.pebmac.ca/https://www
When O&G, with average profits $3 billion/per day for >50 years, pockets a gargantuan windfall from Middle Eastern misery, our PM further impoverishes the public sector, cuts government revenue, instead of a windfall tax or withdrawing colossal subsidies the industry clearly doesn't need. 8/
6 images in sequence. First, hands holding lumps of coal with the text "LNG is 33% more harmful to the climate than coal." Secondly, an image of natural gas burning on a stovetop, with the text "Methane causes 80 times as much warming in 20 years as CO2 does over a thousand years." Thirdly, an image of the Earth on fire, with the text "Cutting methane is the best way to limit short term climate warming." Then an image of Canadian PM Mark Carney, with the text "Carney's budget created new subsidies for expanding methane heavy LNG." Followed by Carney again, with the text "His biggest proposed major projects are both LNG expansion." Finally, a waving American flag, with the text "Including a US owned and US operated LNG project controlled by a major Trump donor."
“Cutting methane is the single most important strategy to slow near-term warming. In fact, it’s the only strategy that has a chance of working. Cutting carbon dioxide is a marathon, but methane is a sprint.” - Durwood Zaelke, president of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development. 🧵1/
Israel is approving the construction of new West Bank settlements at an unprecedented rate because it knows its window of impunity is closing — especially if Iran emerges intact from the war and the Republicans lose the U.S. midterms.
mondoweiss.net/2026/04/isra...
#Palestine #Israel
Shades of Big Brother. Very creepy.
a concert backdrop that says over 30 universities destroyed in iran against black and white picture of rubble
backdrop that says last standing university in gaza against a black and white image of al-israa university
giant three screen stage backdrop showing footage of the bombing of a university in gaza
The Strokes played Coachella against a backdrop listing all the world leaders that had been assassinated by the CIA, a count of the number of universities bombed in Iran, and footage of the bombing of the last university in Gaza
BC is moving to suspend its Indigenous rights law as soon as it seems to carry more weight than a land acknowledgement.
This is clearly protected speech. What a travesty of justice.
IDF Confirms Viral Photo of Soldier Smashing Jesus Statue Is Real. This no accident This is the same Netanyahu regime that is openly supporting cleansing Christians from their hones in Wast Bank to be build Jewish only settlements. They are religious supremacists
www.mediaite.com/media/news/i...
"It's hard for the human brain to encounter evil in ludicrous form, and still recognise it as such. That’s how it creeps up on you."
www.theguardian.com/comm
entisfree/2026/apr/20/trump-presidency-evil-absurd-frightening-ideology
highly recommend this book by Adam Johnson of @citationspod.bsky.social, which soberly lays out the hard data of the discourse that center-left media has decided is acceptable, in which Palestinians are not allowed humanity
As a product of a small, liberal arts college, this makes me incredibly sad.
