Kate Browne

Ukrainian support for war collapses. Just 24% want to fight until victory, vs. 73% in 2022.

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YouTube video by KWE! À la rencontre des peuples autochtones Clip officiel - KWE! Où est allé tout ce monde qui avait quelque chose à raconter

Wow.

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

"I certainly empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East," said Mr. Vance, who has been a vocal skeptic of those engagements. "I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then, we had dumb presidents, and now we have a president who actually knows how to accomplish America's national security objective."

Oh, ok.

Every time the Dems lose the answer is to become more Republican.

J'en ai marre d'être dirigée par des cons!!! 😭😭😭

DOGE as Class War It might strike some as odd: The new president of the United States won the election by rallying the working class against the establishment swamp, yet he has placed at the helm of his assault on the ...

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This is the testament to the effectiveness of protesters and Palestinian journalists. By exposing what Americans would otherwise not see, they are shifting public opinion. It's much tougher to shift policy but it's clear they are moving things and should stay at it.

Congestion Pricing is creating tremendous benefits.
Subway Ridership: ⬆️ 13%
Bus Ridership: ⬆️ 6% (⬆️ 21% weekends)
Transit Crime: 🔻36%
Fatal Car Crashes: 🔻44%
Trip Times: 🔻10-30%

Les activistes qui ont bloqué le pont Jacques-Cartier ne pourront pas avoir de procès devant jury Les Montréalais accusés d’avoir escaladé le pont Jacques-Cartier ne pourront pas obtenir un procès devant jury comme ils le désiraient.

(1) Alors qu'iels ont été traités en dangereux criminel.le.s et envoyé.e.s plusieurs jours en prison sans procès, la Couronne décide aujourd'hui que ce n'était "pas si grave finalement" et change le type d'accusation pour faire en sorte que les activistes n'est pas droit à un procès devant jury.

En bandeau: «Gaza "Côte d'Azur" et si c'était possible?»

Great clarity on the left ballot question in the US here. Everyone left of the Democratic consensus has struggled with how to approach electoral success and this essay from Michael Kinnucan of the NYC DSA really lays it out starkly:

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Background is photo of VPL. Text reads: Sign and Share. Tell the Vancouver Public Library to Reverse it's Anti-Palestinian Ban!

Library lovers & comrades,

Take action now to tell Vancouver Public Library to reverse its anti-Palestinian branch-wide ban on staff wearing watermelon pins and keffiyehs.

VPL's ban is assault on its stated commitments to intellectual freedom & decolonization.

actionnetwork.org/letters/vplban

WELP!

The Insurance Industry Is Not the Victim The rapidly worsening home insurance crisis is often understood as primarily a problem for insurers. Yet the overarching policy question should not be, “how do we save the home insurance industry from...

In light of State Farm's request that CA allow "emergency" insurance premium rate increases, citing claims for the LA fires, I'll re-up this blog for @lpeblog.bsky.social which looks at how the industry obscures how its finances work in an effort to keep profits high.
lpeproject.org/blog/the-ins...

There's no Auschwitz in Gaza. But it's still genocide ***

There's no Auschwitz in Gaza. But it's still genocide www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

“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

Harvard Hillel's summary of the university settlement of a lawsuit against it. The crackdown on criticism of Israel is remarkable to behold.

Lots of truth in this thread

Sur les origines sud-africaines d'Elon Musk, Peter Thiel et d'autres.

Source: Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk’s Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics
www.democracynow.org/2025/1/6/qui...

Are young people's attention spans really shrinking? It's more complex than you might think | Marion Thain Distractions long predated today’s fast-moving online world, says culture and technology professor Marion Thain

Thoughts on an emerging new world. It is generally portrayed as unambiguously negative, and I'm convinced it does have many negative consequences. But I often feel that we're not seeing the whole thing, and partly we don't like it because it's a new system. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Everything would be fine if people would just be civil.

Economic optimism after Trump election win sparks plastic surgery boom in NYC New Yorkers buoyed by economic optimism under a second Trump administration are fueling a boom in plastic surgery — especially breast implants and liposuction, according to a leading Long Isl…

"New Yorkers buoyed by economic optimism under a second Trump administration are fueling a boom in plastic surgery — especially breast implants and liposuction, according to a leading Long Island cosmetic surgeon."

nypost.com/2025/01/02/u...

Counting, This New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me by Jane Hirshfield The world asks, as it asks daily: And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured? I count, this first day of another year, what remains. I have a mountain, a kitchen, two hands. Can admire with two eyes the mountain, actual, recalcitrant, shuffling its pebbles, sheltering foxes and beetles. Can make black-eyed peas and collards. Can make, from last year’s late-ripening persimmons, a pudding. Can climb a stepladder, change the bulb in a track light. For four years, I woke each day first to the mountain, then to the question. The feet of the new sufferings followed the feet of the old, and still they surprised. I brought salt, brought oil, to the question. Brought sweet tea, brought postcards and stamps. For four years, each day, something. Stone did not become apple. War did not become peace. Yet joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder. Today, I woke without answer. The day answers, unpockets a thought from a friend don’t despair of this falling world, not yet didn’t it give you the asking

I count, this first day of another year, what remains.

—Jane Hirshfield

Jewish author renounces Israeli citizenship over 'genocidal campaign' against Palestinians

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

No infrastructure remains in northern Gaza, for terrorism or for life www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...

The schism in the Trump coalition between the “Americans are too lazy and dumb to do tech jobs” and the “Indians are icky and you must hire natives” is wild to watch. Fight to the death?

This is why centrist bullshit negotiate with the rich politics won’t work. People want radical solutions because they’re living under a mountain of debt with no end in sight and liberals keep telling them things are getting better. I’d be worried for my safety if I was a CEO. But I’m not.
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Le Québec en état d’«ébriété énergétique» Le parc de véhicules carburant à l’essence continue de grandir et de grossir dans la province.

Une information à retenir sur les véhicules électriques personnels au Québec: une part importante des ventes revient aux «camions», ce qui comprend les VUS (plus forte consommation d'énergie et de ressources que d'autres types de véhicules). www.ledevoir.com/environnemen...

YouTube video by Jesse Welles - Topic United Health

«les compagnies d'assurance ne sont pas nécessairement aimées par le public» 😌

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TBH...