Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre recently appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience.
He offered a blend of anti-government populism and free-market triumphalism in a pitch that was aimed at US capital as much as Canadian voters.
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My newest piece on Pierre Poilievre is an analysis of his Rogan appearance. Check it out on @jacobinmag.bsky.social
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I also have an upcoming scholarly article on Poilievre and Milton Friedman in the Journal of Canadian Studies.
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This seems to get what to think about Chomsky and Epstein more or less right. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Quite a few articles out for peer review right now. Hopefully expect some stuff on Peter Brimelow, Pierre Poilievre/Milton Friedman, James Buchanan/Canadian Taxpayers Federation in 2026. Have others nearly finished and in the tank.
Plus my book manuscript is at UofT Press... Hopefully a good year.
It's kind of an amazing level of corruption because many leaders in the last 100 years have been overthrown for this kind of shit.
She's been upgraded from grifter to right wing propagandist POS
It’s sorta funny that people still deny that Medea Benjamin isn’t a red/brown when she shouts it from the rooftops
Well that is a reason to unionize and unionize immediately.
Half of us are depending on an ever-expanding real estate bubble to sustain our financial wellbeing while the other half faces a life of precarity until the bubble deflates. Restoring affordability means rebuilding the economy on something other than housing speculation, writes James Hardwick.
Folks, I'm hoping to go to the NDP leadership convention in Winnipeg in March to cover it for The Orchard. In order to do so, I need 16 new paid subscribers by the end of the year.
Who's gonna help me?
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Cross correlate this data with canceled programs at these universities
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Bingo
You are significantly more patient than me, haha
This is wonderful
"Society pushing the lie that there are multiple genders and everyone should be whatever they want to be is demonic and severely harms American youth."
This passage is objectively "offensive" as the instructor noted, and given the instructor is trans, likely discriminatory!
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unpacks Danielle Smith's use of the notwithstanding clause for her anti-trans and anti-labour reactionary politics in relation to a lineage of right wing uses of the NWC.
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Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired
A screenshot of Apple Music which shows a playlist of Skrewdriver songs under a "Skrewdriver" banner.
An easy story for reporters in tech and extremism right now might be to ask major music streaming platforms why they quietly let Skrewdriver back on some time this year
More fascists should be told to fuck off.
Please normalize it. Their bullshit should be treated with the contempt contained in vulgarity.
For fucksakes.
Can prominent pro Palestine Canadian leftist journos stop making friends with the far right? First Lascaris praising Candace Owens and now this shit.
Not exactly being good allies to the LGBTQ community...
Alberta teachers are compiling lists of the books in their classrooms so the #ABGov can tell them which ones to toss. On a related note, Parkland Institute will be releasing a new report on the "Parental Rights" movement in AB next week. ualberta-ca.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Square hole meme
Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky. s... 19m l'm blocking every person who makes a mealy-mouthed argument "know thine enemy" is any kind of strategy. You don't want a Nazi bar? You kick the Nazis out. You don't invite one in to get to know them better. Especially when you can read his published manifesto. You get actual experts in to help ) Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmor... 2h HAHAHAHA UHHHH WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK?????? iệ CBC NEWS Top Stories Politics Project 2025 mastermind invited to speak at Carney's cabinet meeting Local PMO says Heritage Foundation president knows the Trump administration's playbook Catharine Tunney · CBC News Posted: Sep 03, 2025 4:15 PM EDT | Last Updated:3 hours ago ALT
Kim Crawley (she/her) @stopgenai.com Champion Noo00o. You were so close. Not "bad political instincts." All the mega rich are on the same side! Goddamnit. Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.so... 13m I'm aghast. Truly, our PM has the worst political instincts. September 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM Everybody can reply2
Ughhh. You were so close. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
"Bad political instincts."
No!!
Carney is a central banker! Buddies with Trump! Oligarchs on the same side of the class war against us! Wake the fuck up!
Thanks for the share!
My newest piece for Jacobin traces the ideological inheritances of Danielle Smith.
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Think about every pro-Israel person who denied this was the plan for the past 22 months; who gaslit you; denied this to you; pretended this wasn't the plan.
And then never believe those liars about anything ever again.
So... according to Greenblatt, Elon doing the Nazi salute wasn't so bad. But students protesting...
What a fucking disaster the ADL is. What a joke.