Berkeley - the ‘bastion of 60s resistance’ folding to Trump admin. Ridiculous!

Graham Greene (1952-2025)

#filmsky 🎬 #movies 🎬 #cinema 🎬📽🎥🎞

Tax Payments by Undocumented Immigrants Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Providing access to work authorization for undocumented immigrants would increase their tax contributions both be...

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King Charles’ speech from the throne is a harbinger of a rightward shift - CCPA For the first time since 1977, and the third time ever, the monarch of the British empire appeared before Canada’s parliament to read the speech from the throne to open a parliamentary session.

King Charles’ speech from the throne is a harbinger of a rightward shift

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Let’s hope this is true. 🤞🏾🤞🏾

Orwell! Nice! Apt given our times

I would apply for this job if I didn't have the best job in the world.

And if I knew anything about tax!

This is a super insightful thread.

Canadians must think much more strategically about our interests in a world where the US has lost is primacy in Europe and where its power and credibility globally evaporate a bit more every day.

Relieved to hear that Francesca Albanese has been renewed for 3 more years as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights/Palestine, despite aggressive efforts to silence her. Note to governments: truth triumphs, Palestinian lives & rights matter.

Book cover for Interpreting Modernity: Essays on the work of Charles Taylor

For those with institutional access: This book appears to now be available electronically.

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And therein lies the problem. Trump is a symptom.

I think we could pose that question for a lot of what he thinks. There doesn’t seem to be a rational mind at work.

Loser's Consent A refresher for those who need it

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We also have our share of idiots.

I’ll be writing in Ed Broadbent
on my ballot

He continues to fit the diagnosis for IDIOT! By every measurable standard he is a complete muppet (no offence to muppets). Nothing is going on except you don’t understand basic concepts.

My modest contribution to the recent online discussion on whether Fukuyama is good, actually.

Umm…this is laughable. Collective action problem, Bueller?

To My Late Father, Mel Hurtig: We Need You Now | The Tyee His passionate work for Canadian sovereignty offers lessons for how to respond to the political moment.

“As much as my dad called himself a nationalist, he was also a fierce protector of Canada’s sovereignty — he dedicated his life to its defence.”

This paragraph definitely jumped out.
Translation: “Why should other countries have sovereignty?! It’s not fair, and it’s not fine!”

Health in Canada: a pivotal political moment. Canada must fiercely defend the integrity of its cherished universal health-care system. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... via @thelancet.bsky.social

I’m Canadian - so my opinion should carry no weight as we respect the sovereignty of the USA. That said - YOU NEED TO BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT!

I’m Canadian - so my opinion should carry no weight as we respect the sovereignty of the USA. That said - YOU NEED TO BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT!

Hayek versus Trump: The Radical Right’s Road to Serfdom | Polity: Vol 52, No 2 Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom has been interpreted as a general warning against state intervention in the economy.1 We review this argument in conjunction with Hayek’s later work and discern an institut...

Nick Cowen and I were right about Trump.

Unfortunately.

They Sold Out Big Bird, and They’ll Sell Out the Rest of Us Too | The Walrus The spirit of uplift that gave us Sesame Street, the CBC, and public schools is under threat

A timely discussion of the trend to cut spending on the public good.

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Is there a reason why Danielle Smith is traveling to Florida on taxpayers’ dime to participate in a far-right talk show that routinely has its content removed for hate speech?

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#ableg

Is he talking about governing? 🤔

Opinion | Democrats Need Their Own Version of Project 2025 A call for a reform project that is ambitious, radical and iconoclastic yet grounded in a genuine desire to fix the problems of American governance.

Philosopher Joe Heath (Toronto) on why the Democrats need a project 2029.

Well done, Mike Myers

Trump predictable - he’s a bully and a moron. Vance is rehearsing for 2028. ‘I can be more MAGA than Trump!’ Neither one appreciates - or cares - that Zelensky is fighting a war for his country’s very existence.