So Red Pill gave a speech and didn’t talk about Trump or the threat from the United States?
He’s an American plant. And how come I haven’t heard much from him about the separatists? #cpc

Six endorsement cards featuring Astra Taylor, Cory Doctorow, Ann Douglas, Gabor Maté, Carmen Aguirre, and Yann Martel for Avi Lewis for NDP leader.

How thrilling to be endorsed by a group of authors whose work goes so wide and deep - into the past and future, into ourselves and societies.

We need art and culture in our politics! These storytellers help us understand and imagine the world we need to build together.

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For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order. We join its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability. And because of that, we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection. We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, and we knew that international law applied with varied rigor, depending on the identity of the accused or the victim. This fiction was useful, and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.

If nothing else, pretty amazing Canadian PM Carney said the quiet part out loud today: international law has never been real and the ‘rules’ of the international order have never applied to the US and its allies.

This may indeed be the actual death of neoliberalism.

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Avi Lewis Launches NDP Leadership Campaign – September 24, 2025 At an event in Toronto, Avi Lewis officially launches his campaign for leadership of the federal New Democratic Party. Lewis, a former journalist and documentary filmmaker, ran unsuccessfully as an ND...

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Wondering why Liberal politicians are courting right-wing votes rather than enacting extremely popular “leftist” policies?

It’s cuz they serve the same capitalist system and, when it’s in crisis (ie now), they need to divide us to survive.

Resist whenever/wherever you can. ✊🏻

UCP should listen to educators, not ‘far-right interest groups’: ATA prez

NEW from me in @theprogressreport.ca:

@albertateachers.bsky.social president @schilldawg.bsky.social says the best way to ensure age-appropriate material in school libraries is to ensure school boards are properly funded.

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The New Democratic Party has lost its ideological footing in Canada. The Walrus editor-in-chief, @cstarnino.bsky.social, sits down with author and political scientist Matt Fodor to examine what the party must change if it hopes to survive the next decade. thewalrus.ca/can-the-ndp-rebu...

What's next for the federal NDP? Author and academic Matt Fodor discusses how the federal NDP went from the electoral heights of 2011 to its worst-ever result and what needs to change.

🚨NEW ORCHARDCAST🚨

@mattfodor.bsky.social joins me to discuss the impending federal NDP leadership race, and how the party establishment is attempting to ensure nothing changes.

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In Bed with the Elephant Politics Podcast · In Bed with the Elephant is a podcast for people who crave debate and conversation and are passionate about ideas. It’s a show with grit that goes deep and wide. Each episode I in...

After the @NDP.ca’s epic collapse in the 2025 federal election I spoke w/ @judreb.bsky.social on my @ricochetmedia.bsky.social podcast about the future of the party. Rebick has been active in Canada’s most significant social movements for the past 60 yrs. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

On my @ricochetmedia.bsky.social podcast “In Bed with the Elephant” economist @ArmineYalnizyan.bsky.social. assesses the costed platforms of Canada’s federal political parties days before the election. We”ll talk about “the productivity crisis”& GDP per capita. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-qwg2f-...

Certain partisans have been citing Canada's performance on per capita GDP as evidence of a supposed 'lost decade' and economic mismanagement. In @irpp.org's Policy Options, I deconstruct this arbitrary and misleading statistic, in two parts. #cdnecon #cdnpoli. /2

Rights of due process don't depend on our personal opinions of the accused. For example, I regard the January 6, 2021, criminals as insurrectionists and traitors - yet I am still glad that each and every one of them got a proper trial before they were convicted and sentenced.

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
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RFK Jr. Warns FDA Staff of ‘Deep State’ in All-Hands Meeting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned Food and Drug Administration staff about the influence of the “deep state” on the agency in an all-hands meeting Friday where he also made off-color comments about childre...

“The deep state is real,” Kennedy warned HHS bureaucrats in an all-hands meeting in April of 2025, “There are institutional pressures that affect every institution that’s created by human beings.” What exactly does ClownSec think the deep state is?

Funds cut for Cornell, Northwestern | LinkedIn One billion dollars in federal funds and grants to Cornell University and $790 million to Northwestern University have been frozen, the White House confirmed to CNN.

Federal government bullying of universities extended to Cornell (withholding $1-billion in federal funds) and Northwestern (withholding $790-million) to make them serve Trump's ideology. Giving in to bullies only empowers them.
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U.S. will know cause of autism epidemic by September, Health Secretary RFK Jr. says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the government has launched a ‘testing and research effort that’s going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world’

The arrogance. The ignoring of the scientific process & the body of evidence. The fearmongering. The lies...

It is staggering & sickening.

U.S. will know cause of autism epidemic by September, Health Secretary RFK Jr. says www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-pol...

In Bed with the Elephant Politics Podcast · In Bed with the Elephant is a podcast for people who crave debate and conversation and are passionate about ideas. It’s a show with grit that goes deep and wide. Each episode I in...

The first episode of my new podcast “In Bed with the Elephant” on @ricochet_en
features a conversation with political journalist
@stphnmaher about the 2025 Federal Election in Canada. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

It's fascinating how some Canadian commentators have suddenly discovered the evils of U.S. imperialism over the past couple months.

Communists and socialists are not the problem. Had liberals/cebtrists listened to them instead of excommunicating them you may have won the election. That doesn’t mean you would’ve followed through.
You tank the reelection prospects of the left of your party and expect us to believe you’re with us

Capitalism kills.

Incredible

This isn’t a coincidence.

Neoliberalism made Trump possible Excerpt from Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada’s Challenge A good deal of punditry has gone around in circles on the question of how someone like Donald Trump could become president and …

Trump’s Republicans: neoliberalism without pretence afhimelfarb.wordpress.com/2024/10/03/n...