He killed over 160 young girls at a school and threatened to end their entire civilization out of respect and admiration

Smith’s Gerrymandering a Classic Sign of Authoritarian Gov't YouTube video by Energi Media

Alberta gerrymandering undermines your vote:
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Help us raise the alarm. When the government suspends teachers' rights to speak out, their goal is to make us quiet. We won't let that happen. app.sosha.ai/s/UZrQPokk

Our Tax System Should Make You Furious Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · April 17 · 1h 6m

Did you know many billionaires are considered non-taxpayers, so when you see that the top 1% of tax payers pay 40% of the taxes, they’re not included in that count, and are often part of the 30ish% of Americans who pay no federal income taxes, per tax law expert.
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Trump sees big, ugly windmills. Canada sees opportunity Donald Trump has been trying to gut the U.S. wind power industry, but as CBC News international climate correspondent Susan Ormiston explains, America’s loss could be Canada’s gain.

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Jobs. Jobs. Jobs.

screenshot from linked to essay that reads: What is new is that, starting around 2015—in the wake of increased trans visibility in the media (sometimes called the “transgender tipping point”) and the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell legalizing same-sex marriage—social conservatives began shifting their efforts toward targeting trans people instead. The attacks have since grown into a highly coordinated and well–funded movement that churns out both anti-trans and broader anti-LGBTQ legislation at unprecedented levels. This is the real reason why Republicans have become obsessed with “fairness in women’s sports,” “biological sex,” “social contagion,” “restrooms,” “grooming,” and other soundbites that didn’t exist ten or fifteen years ago. In other words, there hasn’t been an organic shift in public opinion on trans people but rather a massive astroturfing campaign against us.

...btw I link to evidence that the anti-trans backlash was a highly coordinated and well–funded (especially via right-wing orgs) movement in this essay: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

Sadly true.

New metric shows renewables are 53% cheaper than nuclear power A new metric for assessing total system costs puts a least-cost mix of offshore wind and solar at about €46 ($54.20)/MWh in a future climate-neutral energy system for Denmark. Researchers tell <b>pv ...

New metric shows renewables are 53% cheaper than nuclear power www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/17/n... @nduic.bsky.social @brianvad.bsky.social @profstrachan.bsky.social @michael-sterner.bsky.social @jeroahola.bsky.social @drpauldorfman.bsky.social @aukehoekstra.bsky.social @mzjacobson.bsky.social

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

Sperm whales may make their own vowel sounds, similar to human language Sperm whales, which make clicking sounds to communicate, use different “vowels” in ways similar to human speech

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Orbán has conceded!

Congratulations, Hungary! 🇭🇺

#Hungary

For sane Catholics, this garbage from Trump is not surprising or problematic. It has been more than obvious for decades that Trump’s only interest in Christianity is for personal gain.
For any Catholics - laity, priests, religious, bishops - previously fooled by Trump, it’s ’make your mind up’ time!

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Why Would Pentagon Allegedly Threaten Pope's Ambassador With 'Avignon Papacy'? During a January closed-door meeting at the Pentagon, a Trump administration official reportedly warned a Vatican ambassador that America had the military power to do whatever it wants in the world, and that the Catholic Church had better take its side.While the sourcing is limited, the American government confirms the meeting happened (if not the wording used) and Christopher Hale confirms that “some Vatican officials were so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that they shelved plans for Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States later this year [for the celebration of America’s 250th].” All of

I wrote a piece on what I found most fascinating about the Pentagon-Vatican rumors, and that's how it illuminates the problem of Catholic integralism in the far right. Give it a read @religiondispatches.org !

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The Planetary Costs of Nationalism - Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge The Planetary Costs of Nationalism By Whitney A. Bauman Invisible things matter. I’m not only talking about whatever we might call spirits, souls, or divinities, but also about reason, ideas, numbers,...

A worthwhile piece from Whitney Bauman.

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Feds' $412.9M renewal of Pacific Salmon Initiative cautiously welcomed | CBC News Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson made the announcement in North Vancouver Tuesday, saying in a statement that the first five years of the initiative has shown what is possible when partners work tog...

A welcome development but the funds must be utilized effectively.
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The armed forces did fine, it was the strategic leadership that was worse than absent. If rumoured ceasefire terms are real then is basically total Iranian victory and validation of hardliners.

Lonergan, Decolonization and First Nations Peoples: An Apologetic from an Insider on the Outside The purpose of this article is to respond critically to a research project initiated out of the Board of the Lonergan Research Institute that seeks to expose colonialist assumptions in Lonergan's tho....

Happy to share this published lecture from last Fall on Lonergan and Decolonization. Open Access.

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Five principles to lead a good life | CBC Radio What can we know and why does that matter? In one form or another, these are among the most ancient and pressing questions in philosophy. These questions fired the imagination of Canadian Jesuit Bern...

A nice little piece on Bernard Lonergan, with a link to the full radio broadcast.
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Bishop Barron there applauding this blasphemy.

Timothée Chalamet appointed Visiting Professor of the Arts

By Cherwell News 1st April 2026 The French-American actor Timothée Chalamet has been appointed Visiting Professor of the Arts for 2026-2027 at the University of Oxford. The Oscar-snubbed star of Marty Supreme (2025) and Call Me By Your Name (2017) was selected for the honour on the basis of his extensive patronage of the arts, most notably in the opera and ballet sectors.

Well played, Oxford student newspaper 👏👏

Bad for the Church, and the World Many U.S. bishops remain unwilling to call out Trump's authoritarianism. They would be wise to draw lessons from the Church's history with Italian Fascism.

"A preliminary step would be to detach the Church from Trumpism."

@massimofaggioli.bsky.social: There’s danger in U.S. bishops’ reluctance to criticize Trumpism.

President INEPSTEIN 🚫👑

Unpaid Subcontractors for Recovery Centres Say UCP Abandoned Them | The Tyee One says he faces bankruptcy as publicly funded projects are stalled by a tangled legal fight.

No words
Latest from @charlesrusnell.bsky.social

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The Climate Movement Should Become a Human Movement It needs to tap into our emotional life in ways that will link us to material struggles rather than distract us from them.

Rhiana Gunn-Wright is coming to Boulder tomorrow. Assigned my students this insightful & inspiring conversation w @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social & they loved it. You might too: hammerandhope.org/article/clim...

Henri Bergson on why our world is built of objects and space | Aeon Videos How do we develop our sense of space? Henri Bergson questioned the very fabric of our reality in his revolutionary work

We tend to see the world as a collection of objects but what if that’s just how our minds learned to survive? In ‘Creative Evolution’, Henri Bergson challenges Immanuel Kant’s idea that space is the foundation of all understanding, as explored in this hypnotic short by John Brady @epochemagazine.org

Jürgen Habermas hoped rational discussion could save the world Jürgen Habermas, Germany's most prominent intellectual, championed rational discourse and democracy while overcoming a cleft palate that affected his speech.

I hadn’t heard this before today. Jürgen Habermas passed away a week ago.

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An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements about "Generative AI" An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI” Image source: Bibliothèque nationale de France Dear students, As you know, in …

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