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Leonard Zeskind, Who Foresaw the Rise of White Nationalism, Dies at 75

For those of you who don't know about Leonard Zeskind or his book, Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream, you should.

The NYT obit did a nice job summarizing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

the decline of organized labor in the US is a large problem

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

I keep saying Ezra Klien's job is to sell fascism to liberals and I mean it!

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension Thinking of canceling Disney+? You’re not alone—after Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, so many people rushed to quit that the cancellation page itself started crashing.

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It's very hard for me to tell right now how "real" the boycott of Disney+ is in terms of impact. I've seen people claiming Disney's site was down at the same time I could pretty easily access it. But I'm hopeful that it might pick up enough steam and a strong enough narrative to matter.

Hi. I’m Rachel.

My name is first on the website the North American far-right is using to target people they say “celebrated” Charlie Kirk’s death.

There’s just one problem: I never did that.

But the people sending me threats don’t seem to care.

Let me tell you, in my own words, what happened:

Mark Carney caves to Trump and the tech industry Canada’s decision to rescind its digital services tax shows it’s “elbows down” in US trade talks

Mark Carney’s decision to rescind Canada’s digital services tax is a cowardly move that shows Trump he can be pressured into making trade concessions.

It also shows how much Carney is willing to give into corporate demands, and particular those of the tech industry.

i genuinely dont know what other industry has failed as speculatively as journalism has failed at meeting this moment

we are talking about whether zohran is going to do a sharia law while gop has been trying to pass a bill to strip medicaid to pay for concentration camps like

On Monday of this week, Hamas' Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip published an updated list of those killed in the war, a 1,227-page chart, arranged from youngest to oldest. The Arabic-language document includes the deceased person's full name, the names of the father and grandfather, date of birth and ID number. Unlike previous lists, this compilation notes the precise age of children who were under the age of one year when they were killed. Mahmoud al-Maranakh and seven more children died on the same day they were born. Four more children were killed on the day after they entered the world, five others lived to the age of two days. Not until page 11, following 486 names, does the name appear of the first child who was more than six months old when he was killed.

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000

The list is 1,227 pages long.

The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.

The first 381 pages are all children.

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I pitched the NYT on this and they passed cause "all democrats are good with LGBTQ people"

If you're a journalist this needs to be every headline. Transphobia defeated in New York

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Just finished the latest @susanjuby.bsky.social novel, Contemplation of a Crime, and I think it's both extremely timely in our fraught political climate, and just a straight-up effing hilarious good time. I honestly don't know how she pulls that off, Susan is a marvel

Ghislaine's dad is the new Pope? This guy's everywhere

I've found a way to read that Atlantic article and answered my own question (yes). Thanks for sharing this very cool research and paradigm shift! Olfaction rules

Cool! As a layperson I'm puzzling out how this is different from the idea of 'neuroplasticity.' Is 'neuroplasticity' the idea that we can relearn with different parts of the brain after, say, a stroke, but this new finding is that what we learn never stays fixed in the brain to begin with?

*fanfolk is more inclusive (but less rhymey)

Legend. We're all Fanjoy Fanboys after he's pulled off this win!

Inter-Conservative pitchfork sharpening has begun, and I'm here for it! 🍿

Poilievre vows to stay on as party leader for reasons of being otherwise unemployable CARLETON, ON - Despite losing his own riding by several thousand votes, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has vowed to stay on as party leader due to having absolutely no employment track record ou...

www.thebeaverton.com/2025/04/poil...

The mic-drop headline of the election season!

There was no useful granular polling in the riding (pretty much everything I saw was way wrong on who the best second pick would be) and so yeah, it was brutal 😔 But we don't f#@&¡ng need better polling, we need electoral reform!

PP was running for governor of the 51st state and Carney emerged as the guy to stop that. It was a force of nature Jagmeet had no chance against. I don't blame him, he was a good guy, but unlucky

YouTube video by CityNews Why 91 candidates are crowding Pierre Poilievre's riding

Yeah, here's why we'll probably not know the full results for many more hours:
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And we Canadians are so glad we don't ever have to utter the words "prime minister Peepee"

It's SO FUNNY!

It's great! But he's not resigning and so he'll probably just boot and replace another Conservative who did manage to do what he couldn't (get elected)

We're stuck with a Conservative in the overwhelmingly progressive Nanaimo-Ladysmith riding because the progressive parties refused to sit down and horse-trade in these left-split ridings. Do better, because we're all going to suffer from this entirely predictable outcome.

Ugh. Horrible news

Hey you know how people made the Tesla brand radioactively toxic and crashed its entire corporate structure?

You can do that with authoritarian brutality and with neoliberal oppression and exploitation.

You chase these motherfuckers from society until all that’s left is something real and better.