Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Face meets leopards.

Lol

Wannsee Conference? More like Wannsee Iftar!

Hitler, of course, famous for taking advice from Muslims. His final days in the bunker were spent yelling, "Bring me a Mufti!"

White noise app?

Lot of people in town for the big Roland Barthes convention...

Today, the day Avi Lewis won the NDP leadership race in a landslide; reactionary centrist scolds are here to tell us that the NDP and it’s leadership must move to the right to court voters.
I swear, centrism is an ideology of denying that better things are possible and punishing those who try.

The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post Opinion: The only way Israel can govern the Gaza Strip without becoming an external oppressor of “another people” is to remove “the other people” from the confines of the Gaza Strip itself.

There's a word for this

“Can we have class outside” no absolutely not. we are discussing The Yellow Wallpaper under sickly fluorescent lights and please do not open or look out the window.

over and over they say it out loud: big ideas for the elite class, and only widget grunts for the working people.

ideas are for everybody. art is for everybody. education is for everybody.

The americans will make rubble and call it liberation

"Insofar as 'people' would be defined as individuals possessing souls..."

Is RFK Jr a never-nude?

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Tenure enables freedom of speech, which is why aspiring tyrants don’t like it.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

There’s an epidemic of people using Grok to do sexual violence to women on Twitter.

Yet Canadian politicians, media etc have failed to adopt another platform en masse, making it near-impossible to fully disengage and be tapped in to vital conversations and information.

What are we doing.

It’s common to see someone react to an action by a big company, rich person, or public official with ‘how is this not illegal,’ presuming that if it were, the thing wouldn’t happen. But that isn’t how law works.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Israel says it will suspend more than two dozen humanitarian organisations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules for aid groups working in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

In today’s depraved beyond belief news, Israel is banning MSF (Doctors Without Borders) from Gaza.

We can live without billionaires but billionaires cannot live without us, in the same way that a body can live without cancer, but cancer cannot live without a body.