Jon Milton

Kneecap is suing Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for his lies and defamatory comments.

I couldn’t possibly love this any more.

The greatest irony of this comment is that it's actually fossil fuel companies (and the governments they've captured) who are living in the past. The rest of the world is moving towards renewables, and all this multi-billion dollar fossil fuel infrastructure is going to be worthless stranded assets.

I can't speak for what was said at the protests, but seeing people react to an anodyne statement like "sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law" as if it were a vicious slur is clarifying.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Google AI is so smart that it may soon be able to solve great existential mysteries such as "which number is larger than the other"

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate

Whose nationalism is it, anyway? - CCPA “The first idea is to define oneself as a nation—therefore it requires a culture of their own,” said Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet, speaking to journalists at a media scrum. A reporter ...

I wrote this piece about Quebec nationalism, western alienation, and the nature of Canadian identity

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

There are so many areas where Canada could go on the offensive and strengthen our economy and society by taking advantage of US self-immolation. This is one. Poaching all of US academia/R&D is another.
But they all require an activist, high-capacity state, not an austerity-obsessed government.

Banning arms shipments to a state committing genocide: ⛔️⛔️⛔️

Banning a hip hop group for speaking out against that genocide and slandering them as antisemitic: ✅️✅️✅️

countries outside the US should start seeing social media companies like they see propagandistic state media.

the fact average people can post doesn’t negate how the platform owner shapes what information we see, the power that gives them, and how little regard they have for social consequences.

"A Vast Domestic Terror Movement" Trump Prepares to Dismantle the Left

Vance, Trump, and Bondi each said things yesterday that were horrifying on their own. Taken together, a very clear roadmap for the future emerges

Trump is actively preparing a large-scale crackdown on left-wing dissent. The threat of widescale repression is no longer abstract; it is imminent

We live in a time where the sane are losing the battle against the insane because the media keeps plaforming the insane over the sane because insane leads
to more clicks

Brazil Supreme Court sentences Bolsonaro to 27 years over coup plot Sentence comes shortly after a majority of justices voted to convict the former Brazilian leader on five charges.

Finally some good news

Liberals are doing the right’s job for it.

By lionizing Charlie Kirk and refusing to acknowledge his real political project, they’re giving power to the right’s completely predictable effort to use his death to forward their goal of an authoritarian, fascist state.

I do think it’s worth noting that few people in this country contributed to the culture of political violence quite as much as Charlie Kirk.

It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.

One of the defining experiences of my life, and I think yours, is gradually witnessing the internet degrade from the most sophisticated tool for information distribution in history into a cesspit of misinformation and falsehoods.

It's a world-historical tragedy, what's happening to us.

it’s a beautiful day to shut the fuck up

A functioning society would lock these people up for the rest of their lives.

Exactly, should be investigated the same way they went after Canadians involved with ISIS. Accountability needs to come from the countries who claim to stand for human rights.

www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/news/2023...

The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

Daniel Raab is an American from the Chicago suburbs. Here, he remorselessly describes murdering a family of unarmed civilians in Gaza as they try to retrieve the bodies of their dead family members.

Every person who has served in the IDF should be criminally investigated in their country of origin.

we’re going to have to throw a lot of people in jail after all this is over

A brief history of Canadian government strikebreaking - CCPA “You didn’t make any provisions before?” BNN Bloomberg host Andrew Bell asked Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau, sounding somewhat dumbfounded. “To ensure the passengers, or at least some of them, would...

Happy Labour Day! I wrote about how the Canadian government has been addicted to strikebreaking for decades

I co-wrote this piece about why the Canadian government should nationalize shuttered auto plants and use them to manufacture vehicles for public use

Summertime Blues: Thoughts on Gaza, Canada, and an Unfathomable Hunger  – The Rover It’s blatantly obvious what side the Canadian establishment has been on, no matter how much public opinion begs, pleads, implores them to differ. There’s really no debate.

My latest for @therovermedia.bsky.social. It's on Gaza, and Canada, and somehow the Expos come up twice. It's long. Find a comfy chair.

Summertime Blues: therover.ca/summertime-b...

dont post abt your guns. dont post abt doing violence to feds. dont post abt doing violence to the administration. if you absolutely MUST ramble on belligerently abt these things do it the old fashioned way: at a loud bar with people you know and trust