David Jefferess

US acts like pirates in the Caribbean The United States is acting less like a global guardian and more like a Caribbean pirate—launching drone strikes, flouting international law, and pursuing oil under the guise of fighting drugs. From P...

The United States is waging drone strikes in the Caribbean under the banner of fighting drugs—but history tells a different story. From Panama to Venezuela, Washington’s interventions look less like justice and more like piracy, plundering resources while ignoring international law.

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

Millions in subsidies for mineral exploration undermine Indigenous rights Millions in government subsidies are fuelling risky mining projects on Grassy Narrows’ ancestral lands, enriching investors while threatening the First Nation’s water and health. Despite Indigenous op...

Canadian governments have poured $63M in subsidies into mineral exploration on Grassy Narrows territory, helping Kinross Gold push a project that threatens the Wabigoon River. Tax breaks for investors are undermining Indigenous rights and local waters while the province collects little in return.

A graveyard of liberal illusions The West may now be finally waking up to the full enormity of the horrors Israel has inflicted in Gaza. It needs also to wake up to the evils it has nurtured not just for the last two years, but for o...

The West may now be finally waking up to the full enormity of the horrors Israel has inflicted in Gaza. It is time we started listening to Palestinian voices, while there are still Palestinians left alive to speak truth to power.

You might want to double check Wikipedia on that.

Canada’s debt time bomb Canada’s household debt has soared to $3.07 trillion, the highest in the G7 for 15 years. James Hardwick explores how speculation, housing bubbles, and government policy created a fragile economy wher...

Canada’s $3.07 trillion household debt crisis isn’t the fault of ordinary people—it’s the product of decades of speculation, inflated housing markets, and governments siding with financiers. When the crash comes, debtors will be blamed. But the blame belongs to the speculators.

Is reconciliation a peaceful process? On the international stage, Canada portrays itself as peaceful state; however, the reality is quite different for our Original Peoples that remain in a colonial grip. Words from the past have the abil...

Canada presents itself as peaceful, yet for Indigenous Nations reconciliation is a facade that masks assimilation. Assimilation is genocide, and true peace requires truth, land back, and self-determination—not colonial rebranding.

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Comedians who have accepted this contract and are going to be at the "Riyadh Comedy Festival" include, lol, Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Bill Burr, Aziz Ansari, Gabriel Iglesias, and Louis CK

For anyone not in Alberta or not paying attention, girls playing sports in school now have to prove they were born female to play sports. And can be challenged by anyone at anytime and must prove they are female to keep playing. This doesn’t apply to boys. What a dystopian hellscape

Given recent concerning events, @TruthInTheSoil and I have decided to speak out about the harm and harassment of residential school denialism, arguing in this new piece for The Conversation that confronting it is an ethical and shared responsibility: news.umanitoba.ca/the-conversa...

Resisting Canada’s ‘elbows up’ colonialism Canada’s new “elbows up” nationalism frames itself as resistance to Trump and US expansionism—but it risks recycling colonial myths. By glossing over the Mohawk Resistance and ongoing land theft, patriotic rhetoric hides violence against Indigenous peoples. Real strength means truth, reconciliation, and resisting colonialism, not shallow nostalgia.

ICYMI: Ellen Gabriel and I published a new piece on resisting Canada's "elbows up" colonialism, for @canadiandimension.bsky.social: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Carney’s ‘elbows up’ promise to defend Canadian sovereignty seems to have gone up in smoke.

Surely he didn’t mean elbows up and…to the right, right?

This bill needs to be withdrawn NOW: act.gp/46KmZHS

#StopBillC2 @leahgazan.bsky.social

I don't want to see a single more "the US was anti-fascist in WW2" posts. Y'all they were the Inspiration to the fascists, the only reasons they went to war was they were attacked, and to prop up the failing capitalist system. Please learn history. Right after the war they took in the fascists too

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

To all the comedians who stood for free speech in the face of wokeness

Worried about rising fascism on Turtle Island, especially how 'canada's' Liberal government is pushing through right-wing policies that will harm us all?

Show up Saturday!

Worried about rising fascism on Turtle Island, especially how 'canada's' Liberal government is pushing through right-wing policies that will harm us all?

Show up Saturday!

Progressive groups rally 'common front' to march, challenge elements of Carney agenda Canada-wide protests are planned this weekend, a coalition of progressive civil society groups say, in what organizers call an emerging "common front" to elements of the new Liberal government's agend...

Great CP piece ahead of this Saturday's Draw the Line actions:

"What's taken shape, organizers say, is a level of cross-country collaboration not seen in recent memory among progressive civil society groups..."
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/pro...

All of these words are true so I think it's very important for all of us to ask WHY people in and with power are agreeing to all of this... What's the most logical answer to that question?

Resisting Canada’s ‘elbows up’ colonialism Canada’s new “elbows up” nationalism frames itself as resistance to Trump and US expansionism—but it risks recycling colonial myths. By glossing over the Mohawk Resistance and ongoing land theft, patr...

Canada’s “elbows up” nationalism may look like resistance to Trump, but it risks repeating the colonial violence it claims to oppose. Ellen Gabriel and @seancarleton.bsky.social warn that patriotism built on erasing Indigenous struggles makes real reconciliation impossible.

Mark Carney’s Embrace of Political Violence & His Honouring of Charlie Kirk By Sasha Fury

New today from Avant Garde Press: Mark Carney’s Embrace of Political Violence & His Honouring of Charlie Kirk

By @sashafury.blackskycomra.de

open.substack.com/pub/avantgar...

Mark Carney’s silence on Venezuela reveals complicity On September 2, the US military bombed a boat in the Caribbean, killing 11 civilians. Regional leaders denounced the attack as murder, but Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney remained silent. His stan...

The US massacre of 11 civilians in the Caribbean drew condemnation across Latin America. Canada’s Mark Carney offered none. His silence follows a history of undermining Venezuela, from blocking its gold reserves at the Bank of England to aligning with Washington’s regime-change agenda.

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...

GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said in a new report today.

What is a Groyper? A deep dive into the meme movement influencing online politics.

Due to Bluesky video limits, a lot of people haven't been able to share some of the fabulous Groyper explainer videos being passed around the internet.

So I'm splitting them up & posting the best ones here:

Please save the thread & share with others!

GROYPER EXPLAINER THREAD: 🧵👇🏼

"All of a sudden, you see post after post re-inforcing that immigrants are causing harm to you (even though the only immigrants in your life are your doctor and the people who you rely on for services)"
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Which son? MLK III's foundation partners with the Kielburger brothers, so that tracks.