Happy Lupercalia: Sacrificing goats and dogs, running naked through the street and lashing neighbours with bloody thongs now optional.

There really is a banality of evil: who would have thought the end of the US as a democracy would be designated by something as dumb and innocuous as "NSPM-7". "www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-c..."

A quick crash course in blackpill accelerationism: the memes are the ideology. TikTok video by Cy Canterel

I want to be cautious using progressive political theory to explain divisions in the far right (it's a bit like reading the WSJ to understand Black Lives Matter) but this is still the single most useful thing I've seen re. the Charlie Kirk killing.
www.tiktok.com/@cybelecante...

Tehran resident singing the cranberries "Zombie" while under attack.

text You Who Wronged By Czeslaw Milosz You who wronged a simple man Bursting into laughter at the crime, And kept a pack of fools around you To mix good and evil, to blur the line, Though everyone bowed down before you, Saying virtue and wisdom lit your way, Striking gold medals in your honor, Glad to have survived another day, Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

from You Who Wronged, vy Czeslaw Milosz:

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
You can kill one, but another is born.
The words are written down, the deed, the date.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49482/...

At a press conference on Wednesday, Winnipeg police confirmed the identity of Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe to be Ashlee Shingoose.

Ashlee’s father Albert Shingoose had one request for Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew: sing a song.

Bite Nazis!

At the US consulate

What if Canada stopped upholding U.S. tech companies’ intellectual property? - CCPA The following article was originally published by Cory Doctorow on his blog. It is reprinted here with his permission and under the terms of its Creative Commons 4.0 licensing.

And what if Canada stopped upholding US intellectual property in an era of 25% tariffs on all Canadian exports to the US ? More ideas from @policyalternatives.ca. This piece by Cory Doctorow #CanadaUSTradeWar www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

The White House bans the AP indefinitely over the use of ‘Gulf of Mexico’ The Trump White House said Friday that The Associated Press is banned from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely.

The American Press Association (AP) refused to write "Gulf of America" so they lost access. These oppressive EO's aren’t distractions - they provide the next targets. In a few days Trump will propose some new insult and if bootlickers go along with it, opposition can be singled out and destroyed.

Screenshot of Google Maps in Canada showing the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as also the Gulf of America.

This is Google Maps in Canada yesterday. While US executive orders hold no power here, adding “Gulf of America” isn’t a mistake; it’s Google signalling its submission. Historian Timothy Snyder would say they are “obeying in advance”.

Screenshot from Donald Trump's Truth Social page with the words "United States" covering the map of Canada

DT developed an appetite for other countries today. I heard him lusting after Panama and Denmark. He moved on Canada like a bitch: "After all Russia did it, China's going to do it... And when you're a superpower, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything."

Toronto: The most critical Critical Mass. Join if you can. Make it historic.

CRITICAL MASS poster Friday November 29th Time to fight back High Park @ 6pm

The bike lane ban and rip out bill has passed. The fight on our streets starts now! See you this Friday. #topoli #onpoli #bikeTO

Cross-subtype Immunity against Avian Influenza in Persons Recently Vaccinated for Influenza Cross-subtype Immunity against Avian Influenza in Persons Recently Vaccinated for Influenza

So Team Trudeau has screwed the pooch by failing to build an emergency vaccine stockpile for H5N1 flu. (Americans have one.)

Get your seasonal flu shot anyway, because there is evidence suggesting it can cross-protect against H5N1. wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...