Andrea Levy

A harrowing heads-up from Paris Marx:
"As we watch DOGE tear through the US government and leave disaster in its wake, we might imagine that no one would support creating a similar initiative in other countries around the world. But the truth is that work has already begun."

I signed for whatever it's worth.

"Prior to his departure for the award ceremony, Hamdan was joking about where he might keep his Academy Award if he won. Surely it wouldn’t last a week in his home before settlers or soldiers took it."

Et ils ne sont même pas capables de le parler, de le lire ou de l'écrire. "Trump speaks like a person who has never learned to express themselves in writing similar to being functionally illiterate." www.youtube.com/watch?v=93U2...

The British monarchy's history of cosying up to fascists is no secret. But that aside, in what world wouldn't monarchy choose the side of reaction (although the British royals undoubtedly find Trump and his ilk unbearably vulgar and stupid)? Vive la république! And better yet, Vive la Commune!

If the purpose is to create Trumps's Gestapo to terrorise the American people, this is exactly the sort of guy you would expect to be hired.

"taken from hospitals, ambulances and checkpoints in Gaza, illegally transferred across the border into Israeli-run prison facilities and subjected to months of torture, beatings, starvation and inhumane treatment before being released without charge."

French far-right leader cancels CPAC speech over Steve Bannon’s ‘Nazi’ salute Jordan Bardella calls off US address after former Trump aide makes controversial gesture with outstretched arm onstage

Apparently Bannon went a tad too Nazi for the extreme right in France.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

WWF helping facilitate trade in polar bear fur, investigation reveals Wildlife charity backs policy of exploitation of small number of some endangered species for economic purposes – such as trophy hunting

Shame on the WWF and on Canada.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A ‘recipe for extinction’: can the US’s envied nature protections survive Trump and his ‘God squad’? Fears grow for endangered species as the US president sets about dismantling basic laws to protect them to make way for oil and gas drilling

' “Even as imperilled species dwindle and vanish across America, this order will fan the flames of the extinction crisis. ... Burgum’s order threatens to leave future generations with a greatly impoverished, hotter planet. It’s monumentally shortsighted...” '
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The attack on democratic rights As we see in the case of ongoing efforts to criminalize disruptive forms of climate protests, establishment thinking is embracing the idea that stricter limits must be set on the freedoms that have be...

canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

“Bigots’ Banquet,” Evin Collis, 2025

"There is an affective dimension to this that is not simply about some rational imperative of capital. These are people who enjoy enacting power against the vulnerable. This is the true essence of fascism." John Sanbonmatsu

Of course, but I'm not even sure why you flagged that particular piece.😉

Not sure why you liked this piece.

Israel Bans UNRWA as Trump Throttles Foreign Aid UNRWA delivered the majority of food aid during the war and sheltered more than 1 million people. What happens when it’s banned?

#Unwra has delivered more than two thirds of all food aid since the start of the war and sheltered more than 1 million people.’

Energized neo-Nazis feel their moment has come as Trump changes everything Far-right chatrooms are abuzz as extremists plan to use the next four years as ‘breathing room’ and look to expand

"One week into Donald Trump’s second administration and the verdict among far-right activists and neo-Nazis is that the next four years will be a time to relax, organize and take advantage of the popular awakening of American fascism."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New US administration ditches Biden's plan to limit levels of PFAS manufacturers can discharge into rivers from their waste pipes. Numerous studies have linked PFAS to cancers, liver, thyroid, kidney conditions, fertility issues & harm to fetal development 🧵

www.ewg.org/news-insight...

Tech billionaires want to ‘overthrow democracy’ with social media, Spain PM Sánchez says “The technology that was intended to free us has become the tool of our own oppression.”

Tech billionaires want to ‘overthrow democracy’ with social media, Spain PM Sánchez says

“The technology that was intended to free us has become the tool of our own oppression.” www.politico.eu/article/spai...

Climate Change Could Cut the Economy in Half. We’re Not Ready for It. A new study suggests global warming’s effect on GDP has been vastly underestimated. Will it finally break through the religion of infinite growth?

"Without accounting for the Earth system, our economy functions more like a Ponzi scheme, in which we incrementally steal a livable climate from the future and call it GDP growth."

newrepublic.com/article/1905...

He accidentally did a Nazi salute... TWICE. While talking about the future of Western civilization.

He is who we think he is.

Waiting for Poilievre The decline of the Liberals is part of an international trend where the political centre finds it harder and harder to hold off challenges from the populist right. The inability of the Biden-Harris ad...

Under Pierre Poilievre, the Conservatives threaten to be one of the most reactionary and dangerous governments in Canadian history.

NEW from @johncke.bsky.social on Canada's coming hard-right turn:

Israel needs 'Lebensraum' says blog by major national newspaper A blog post in The Times of Israel stating that Israel needs "lebensraum," a concept associated with the Nazis, has been archived.

Revealing choice of words. www.newsweek.com/israel-needs...

“The true extremism here is not to insist on 1.5 degrees as a target, but to just let things continue in the hope that we can have some kind of technofix later in the century. If these tipping points are crossed, there is no going back.”

Donald Trump’s Government of Gangsters Who is being naïve now?

Trump's reign represents the foul fusion of kakistocracy and kleptocracy, as this article by Jeet Heer in The Nation evinces:
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Canadian media companies sue OpenAI in case potentially worth billions Litigants say AI company used their articles to train its popular ChatGPT software without authorization

'“They are strip-mining journalism while substantially, unjustly and unlawfully enriching themselves to the detriment of publishers.”'

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Thanks for drawing my attention to this excellent review! I especially appreciated the conclusion: "The philosophers may interpret Marx, but the point is to change the world."😉

The horror of Gaza extinguishes any slim hope I may have harboured for a better world.

‘Government by the worst’: why people are calling Trump’s new sidekicks a ‘kakistocracy’ The word is trending as Trump makes cabinet picks – but it’s not the first time it’s been used to describe lousy leadership

"But the kakistocracy of 2016 looks like Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood compared with the president-elect’s new batch of sidekicks."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

I've been reading a little about creating a customized feed, but it looks technically daunting (to me - it's probably child's play for someone more tech savvy!)