Stumbling forward

This remains one of the most horrifying articles I’ve ever had to report.

These are the people influencing HHS today.

Someone hasn’t done the reading & it shows.
Your purpose here is straightforward obfuscation & misdirection (which isn’t working)

Another forelock tugging troll attempting to frame *actual labour values* as ‘ridiculous ideology’ at the behest of the Epstein class

Scamper back to your bot farm

Such a paragon the Epstein class saw fit to coordinate a campaign to destroy him because his premiership threatened their interests.

Fine company you keep carrying water & doing their dirty work for free.

I don’t think anyone acquainted with the Epstein files can deny that the Republican Party is sincerely committed to putting children to work.

My dude, your accusation is a confession

You’ve struck exactly zero nerves
You have demonstrated a firm commitment to false narratives & serious political confusion

Have a day

You are the one defending the guy doubling down on Brexit mate.
Stealing valour too.
Starmer attained less support than Corbyn & we can see why in the Epstein release. Starmer’s faction is home to an influence peddling corrupt demon leaking state secrets & he thought yeah, I’ll have more of that

First of all I’ve not declared any party affiliation, rather a critique of Labour sellouts & corrupt rotters currently at the helm. What better describes Starmer tailing the right wing better than capitulation to empty populism? Jailing seniors for opposing genocide is not a winning policy position.

You mean a supporter of one of the two new parties serving as refuge for people who retain *actual Labour values* in the wake of a campaign of entryism by corrupt neoliberals who have hollowed Labour out from the inside?

It’s only ‘stupid’ if you are incapable of seeing the ways people reproduce similar tactics of manipulation to get their way across contexts. No one here is defending Stephen Yaxley Lennon.
Furthermore, It is Starmer & McSweeney’s iteration of Labour that is tailing the hard right & failing.

Having sat in such meetings with mayors & MLAs & staff whistleblowers I agree. I also know the commitment, organization & determination to be a thorn in the side of power that Bud Osborne & the community who fought for Insite showed does win.
Still, the placid retirees of 100 Mile don’t possess it.

Democracy is a numbers game, we the ‘powerless’ represent majorities, our task is to organize ourselves to drive political outcomes in our interest. Power flows in more than one direction- micro/mezzo/macro system levels.
Apathy & learned helplessness are the enemies of democratic self-government.

Discipline was applied by the tea party which is how the upper echelon of pro-Iraq war deep state banker class were deposed to make way for MAGA.
Not arguing at all they took their internal discipline in a direction that benefited the nation. The point is they understood & applied methods of change.

Weak.
Labour have done nothing of their own volition but sell out the NHS to Palantir kowtow to Silicon Valley fascists, kiss DJTs arse & facilitate a genocide. All while setting people’s rights to assemble & express their political views on fire. Starmer covers the proud history of Labour in shame.

You realize you are applying the logic of a domestic batterer? A wife beater & domestic abuser?

It’s a marvel you lot assume folk will not recognize this form of manipulation & blackmail for what it is.

Speaking of ‘blame games’

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Every time you speak up - and every time you don't - there are people watching and learning about you and the world you help create.

They’ve done precisely none of these things. It’s nothing but a U-Turn express
Fixed the NHS? You’re taking the piss. Half the GPs from the NHS are currently practicing in Canada & Australia

Kwame Ture said, "While I agree that capitalism reinforces racism and racism reinforces capitalism... I don’t argue about which came first... I say that racism today, even if it were produced by capitalism, has taken on such proportions, such institutions, that it has become an entity unto itself.”

Labour had the option not to turn themselves into reprehensible cunts. The responsibility for what happens as a consequence falls at their door as much as any.

Canada must support Cuba "You cannot ‘live within the lie’ of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.”

Mark Carney said that Canada is "considering" sending aid to Cuba.

Before COVID, one million Canadians visited Cuba every year. Their convertavle peso is pegged to the Canadian Dollar. I argue that we need to send fuel and supplies ASAP, regardless of Trump.

noraloreto.substack.com/p/canada-mus...

My mom reminded me that milk safety was foundational to why the Women's Institute was formed. Pasteurization has always been a feminist issue!

This is my hometown. When they first started doing this they denied it was even happening, then slowly slowly it became normalized.

I just feel like if I were the NDP and I had power in BC, i would ... fix this.

In the occupied West Bank, the Oscar-winning Palestinian director of “No Other Land” says his family has been attacked again by Israeli settlers, leaving his brother hospitalized and four members of his family arrested by the Israeli army.

My Beginning of the End Navigating a complex health crisis, a dysfunctional medical system and some sailing

My Beginning of the End. Navigating a complex health crisis in a dysfunctional Canadian medical system. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Paul Watson on his battle with polycystic kidney disease. paulrwatson.substack.com/p/my-beginni... via @dmrider.bsky.social #PKD

ICE detention camps have always been a moral stain on this country.

They have always been a testament to our worst impulses and cruelties.

random people online who you find censorious and annoying =/= state censorship. Hope that helps.

My theory of the moment: The extraordinary courage of ordinary people in places like Minneapolis is reawakening us to our social and economic ties to immigrants. It's making "love thy neighbor" cool again. That's the ultimate antidote to MAGA hate.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2059...

It's not enough to tell people to be "outraged." What precisely is it that you want them to DO? This is where so much falls apart and where a number of people fall short. Part of it is that people do not actually know what they want people to do; the other part is that it's DIFFICULT to organize ppl

Nick Fuentes Wants Women in “Gulags.” Here’s Why That Matters. "Gender has always been an important throughline of fascist politics," says Shane Burley.

I talked with my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social about Nick Fuentes' recent rant about putting women in gulags. How seriously should we take Fuentes, culturally and politically? And what does rhetoric like this reveal about the broader trajectory of the movement he’s trying to shape? We get into it.