Opinion | What Trump Didn’t Know About Iran

Very informative analysis of how we got here and where we are

What 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes would say about American democracy today | CBC Radio English philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that life would be "nasty, brutish and short" without a strong government. IDEAS explores how a new take on Hobbes offers a surprising perspective on America...

Coincidentally, on #McGill24, the CBC has decided to rebroadcast the Ideas feature on my thesis. Catch it on CBC Radio One tonight at 8:05 pm or at the link below:

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What 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes would say about American democracy today | CBC Radio English philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that life would be "nasty, brutish and short" without a strong government. IDEAS explores how a new take on Hobbes offers a surprising perspective on America...

Coincidentally, on #McGill24, the CBC has decided to rebroadcast the Ideas feature on my thesis. Catch it on CBC Radio One tonight at 8:05 pm or at the link below:

www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

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Time and again, successful resistance to Trump’s authoritarianism comes from ordinary Americans putting their actual bodies on the line, when institutional leaders can’t even deign to use strong language.

The images coming out of Iran are heartbreaking.

Security forces have killed so many protesters. We’re talking thousands. Maybe tens of thousands.

Reading estimates of 2000-12000 dead in Iran as govt cracks down. Insane

FREE IRAN. Down with the regime

Zohran Mamdani, the first South Asian Muslim Mayor of NYC, quoted Jawaharlal Nehru's 1947 Independence Day speech in his Nov 4, 2025, victory speech, "...when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance." My heart is full! 🫶✊

“This is what democracy looks like.”
“This is what America looks like.”
NYC

Totally insane and wildly dangerous. Children will die, and Florida will export communicable diseases to the rest of the country and the world.

With marches for Gaza to continuously raise voices for breaking the siege and liberating Palestine in many parts of the world supporting these efforts. Heartening to see a Montreal4Palestine march pass through my neighbourhood with people in balconies cheering on the efforts of protestors! Free 🇵🇸

There's a word for the EU's inaction over Gaza: racism | Shada Islam Europe frames the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza as a humanitarian crisis rather than a deliberate political choice. There will be a moral reckoning, says Shada Islam, a commentator on EU affairs

There's a word for the EU's inaction over Gaza: racism | Shada Islam

What 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes would say about American democracy today | CBC Radio English philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that life would be "nasty, brutish and short" without a strong government. IDEAS explores how a new take on Hobbes offers a surprising perspective on the rec...

Tonight on Ideas at CBC Radio One, 8:05 pm.

In the context of the No Kings movement in America, listen to a re-broadcast of my PhD thesis episode by Ideas, offering a new reading of Hobbes and what we can learn from him in these highly anxious times in democracies today!

www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

If you listen, comments and reflections are most welcome!

Thank you :)

#Democracy #Crises #Hobbes #Anxiety #ImmigrationCrackdown #ICE #ThepoliticsofDEI #ClimateAnxiety #EmotionsandPolitics

I can see that there is a greater need for reason-based perspectives on the anxieties that characterize democracy today. I suggest that Hobbes has the resources to help us distinguish between reasonable and unreasonable anxieties, a task exceedingly difficult in the struggle between power and truth.

Reflecting on the past six months of a democratic government that came to power, whipping up anxiety over jobs, inflation, immigration and assumed authoritarian powers to keep not just the American people, but the global economy and the world in a continuous state of anxiety over tariffs, migration

What 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes would say about American democracy today | CBC Radio English philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that life would be "nasty, brutish and short" without a strong government. IDEAS explores how a new take on Hobbes offers a surprising perspective on the rec...

Tonight on Ideas at CBC Radio One, 8:05 pm.

In the context of the No Kings movement in America, listen to a re-broadcast of my PhD thesis episode by Ideas, offering a new reading of Hobbes and what we can learn from him in these highly anxious times in democracies today!

www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

Rep. Stansbury: The system is rigged YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury

The system is rigged.

After scamming the American people out of healthcare, food, and educational assistance two weeks ago to fund tax breaks and boondoggles for billionaires—Trump and the GOP are now trying to rig the system to deregulate crypto.

We’re fighting for the working people!

I am once again asking you to have 1/10 the indignation on behalf of Palestinians being subjected to genocide that you do for Canadians abused by ICE

Imo we have a system of grace and forgiveness for the rich and powerful and merciless, arbitrary harshness for most other people

I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.

One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that we should be more concerned about a poor person misusing the welfare system or an immigrant being here illegally than we are about the ultra wealthy abusing the system and cruel people having unchecked power over all of us.

The biggest reason government officials aren't giving any specifics about the criteria by which these arrests and deportations are selected, is that the criteria is "pro-Israel think-tanks and advocacy organizations created lists of troublesome individuals and gave them to us."

Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked.

The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts.

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Given the situation in the US, University of British Columbia is keeping their international undergraduate application portal open and will continue "to review admissions from international students, both transfer and direct-entry students, and likely will until the middle of April"

Bernie has been a very good opposition figure in 2025, but at this late date he's not suddenly going to become better on immigration than he's always been, and he's always been mediocre on it.

Trump bringing back "Free Speech" in America.

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You’ve got male!

Letter from Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan after fleeing the United States to Canada Visit the post for more.

Columbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university.

www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...

Denver has come out to see AOC & Bernie tonight.

But, IUPAT President Jimmy Williams just set the crowd alight
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“I have a message to the Democratic Party: GET OFF YOUR ASS!

“We are not gonna poll our way out. We are not gonna consult our way out. We are gonna organize our way out." 👏