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In a statement confirming the deliberate killing of al-Sharif, Israel’s military accused the journalist of heading a Hamas cell and “advancing rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and [Israeli] troops”. It also alleged that it had documents providing “unequivocal proof” of his involvement with the Palestinian group. Muhammed Shehada, an analyst at the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, said there was “zero evidence” that al-Sharif took part in any hostilities. “His entire daily routine was standing in front of a camera from morning to evening,” he told Al Jazeera.

For any wavering supporters of Israel, there have been off-ramps to take to avoid being (staying) on the side of a genocide basically every day. Here’s another, killing an entire team of journalists and claiming they were terrorists.

I hope he loses on Aug 18th or at least wins by the thinnest of margins so that Conservatives think about getting a new leader … a moderate and/or someone with actual principles.

Justin Ling: The worst thing Mark Carney could do is make a deal with Trump Why should Canada follow the EU and others down the path to a bad deal?

Now that it's clear Trump's 'deals' are little more than shakedowns, it's time to say "no deal." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

It’s amazing that he’s still president of the Teamsters after betraying union members like that.

Why Did USA Climbing Just Ban Trans Women From All Events? The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has issued clear orders. But evidence that trans female climbers have a competitive advantage is lacking.

It’s pathetic for American sporting institutions to cave to dumbass bigotry and fascism. This stupid shit was never about protecting women but about reinforcing gender norms.

www.climbing.com/news/usa-cli...

With Canada No Longer Able to Rely on U.S., Carney Pushes New Markets

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/w...

When a right wing person says “freedom”, what they really mean is:

a) freedom to do bad things without intervention from the state (including oppress or subjugate other ppl); or

b) freedom to be an asshole without social consequences (including expressing repugnant beliefs).

Meet the 24-year-old Ottawa software engineer who runs a MAGA bot The bots were created to flood X with pro-MAGA messages, attracting attention from Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Foreign controlled social media bots for sale to right wing reactionaries.

ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...

If you support a political party/politician that hurts society’s vulnerable, then you should expect them to come after you too. It’s only a matter of time and opportunity.

i think what MAGA imagines is a return to the an antebellum constitutional order but that, as you say, amounts to the dissolution of the union as it has been

I've mentioned before that the logic of Trump II points toward dissolution of the union. And the three straightest paths to that are ending rule of law, corrupting elections and tanking the dollar.

Trump and MAGA are speedrunning all three.

Amazon's bid to overturn B.C. labour ruling granting unionization to its workers rejected | CBC News British Columbia's Labour Relations Board has rejected a bid by e-commerce giant Amazon to overturn an earlier decision that awarded union certification to workers at a facility in Delta, B.C.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Why doesn't Canada already have a stronger relationship with Mexico? | CBC News "There's a historic reluctance by Canada to engage seriously with Mexico," said Carleton University professor Laura Macdonald. "And there's a tendency for them to fail when they try to work together."

This article leaves out the two often-unstated but very obvious reasons why Canada has historically not engaged much with Mexico:

Canada's ingrained racist and classist policies and attitudes. I believe those can change, but most Canadians treat Mexico as "resort zones + danger zones". That's bad.

Thank you for this thread!

I think Bouie is right. This right wing SCOTUS majority uses reasoning similar to the infamous Plessy v Ferguson which gave the green light for Jim Crow.

More evidence of pedocon theory

Maybe cutting off the oil and gas to the USA would help

“Trump survives by Corum’s law”: “a sucker has to get screwed”

Why Canada Isn't Sweating Trump's Mob Tactics For months, Trump has railed against Canada, threatening to turn America’s neighbor into the 51st state — but the U.S. still has a treaty with Canada.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Carney on Trump: ‘We’ll speak when it makes sense’ The prime minister also warned that tariff rift puts Canadian investment in U.S. at risk

www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

China’s overcapacity is creating instability at home and abroad | George Magnus Overcapacity – from high-speed rail to housing – is destroying profits as well as GDP

China’s overcapacity is creating instability at home and abroad | George Magnus

It’s infuriating that the right wing SCOTUS majority gave the green light/“we won’t stop you sign” for this in cases like Rucho.

RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

A pro-death regime

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For clarity: The right wing SCOTUS majority allowed gerrymandering (Rucho). And the GOP has been doing it for years as part of REDMAP. These folks are against democracy.

Justice Roberts allowed all this gerrymandering to occur (Rucho v Common Cause among others). Just so we’re clear. The right wing SCOTUS majority is against democracy.

I fear that Russia and China will get emboldened while Trump is President, and things will escalate.

i will keep saying this but “the fourteenth amendment means that there can be no constitutional awareness of either race or racial inequality” is effectively just the holding in plessy!

TESCREAL = transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, rationalist ideology, effective altruism and longtermism.

The Rise of Silicon Valley’s Techno-Religion

The person deleted the original post. So here’s the article.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...

So Canada created an AI Minister. Even if no Canadian politician believes this ideology/religion, the fact that we have such a high profile public office suggests that cynical politicians will make empty gestures to bolster their popularity with AI bullshit.