Naomi Klein

Donald Trump’s support for pro-AI proposal fuels Maga backlash US president endorses move to restrict regulation by states after lobbying from Silicon Valley

"A plan backed by Donald Trump to restrict US states from regulating AI companies has provoked a backlash from prominent Republicans and Maga supporters, and accusations that he has caved to Big Tech donors."

Protesting Canada’s Detention of Former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk over Palestine Rights Advocacy Outrage at the unjustified harassment that Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur was subjected to by agents of the Canada Border Services

Protesting Canada’s Detention of Former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk over Palestine Rights Advocacy

Elon Musk’s new pay package could amount to $100B per year.

That's the same as 3.2 million cashiers’ paychecks combined.

It’s more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks.

It’s more than 2 million janitors’ paychecks.

Billionaire greed is out of control.

They stole nine of my books. Nine! But why not Doppelganger? Not good enough for these mass doppelganger machines?

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country

My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.

Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Donald Trump could have just kept his mouth shut about Jamal Khashoggi.

But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.

Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.

Cretin behavior.

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Forbes headline Nov. 18, 2025: "Serious $1 Trillion Crypto Price Crash Warning Sparks Panic As Bitcoin Drop Suddenly Accelerates"

BBC headline from Nov. 18, 2025: "Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'"

Financial Times headline from Nov. 18, 2025: "Fund managers warn AI investment boom has gone too far"

Guardian headline from Nov. 18, 2025: Crypto market sheds more than $1tn in six weeks amid fears of tech bubble

starting to think that repeatedly sinking trillions into Silicon Valley's new favorite toy while tech companies spend millions to kill any meaningful regulation is actually not going to end well

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In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."

I chose Larry Summers.

Better late than never.

Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...

Lots of other fraud too, obvs, but we shouldn't lose sight of the fraudulent claims at the centre of this bubble.

Some of you point out that the big players have used various tricks to keep their own $ safe. True.

That's why we need to think about how to prosecute them for fraud.

Those bubble-inflating claims - AI will cure all disease! end climate change! double lifespans! - are essentially Theranos X 1000.

Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It. Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was a power broker who shaped global policy.

The Jeffrey Esptein scandal the main stream press is ignoring; he was a major player in American foreign policy with deep ties to Israel and other satrapies: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears By Investing.com Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears

Might not be tomorrow, but it will happen. See: 3/3 ca.investing.com/news/stock-m...

"theft tech" is a term my pal @astra.bsky.social thought of just today when we were working on our book about these End Times Fascists.

We were thinking about what should happen when this this bubble busts, as we all know it will.

Remember: they have bunkers. We don't. 2/3

The AI bubble may be about to bust.

Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.

We all need to say this very clearly:

NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!

Expropriate their asses instead.

They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.

They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51 Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.

A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.

I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.

#GiftLink

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Shameful and outrageous

Janelle speaking into a microphone with Minister Dabrusin in the background.

3 people seated on a panel in the COP30 Canada pavilion. Janelle is in the center talking into the microphone, while looking at Minister Dabrusin to her right.

The Minister of Environment and Climate Change looked me in the eye today and said that the projects Mark Carney announced yesterday must match communities desires, and that Canada has a duty to consult Nations before projects are a part of the One Canadian Economy Act. #COP30

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!

We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

Yeah, to spell it out, this is about generative AI trying to brute force licensing!

Not cool machine learning tools that help you design a better reactor or something.

No, *generative AI* - the category that includes large language models and other content-spewing algos.

Meta plans $1 billion data center in Beaver Dam The facility is expected to be completed in 2027 and will support 100 jobs, according to state officials.

$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement.

It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...

Priorities.

Union threatens to seize Cami auto plant if GM removes machinery Mike Van Boekel, chairperson of Unifor Local 88, said they are also prepared to fight the company in court.

Huge solidarity to @unifor.org local 88.

1,100 workers making EV delivery vans, laid off by GM.

Now they're saying, enough!

If GM comes for the machines, they'll occupy the plant.

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The City of Vancouver’s new budget proposed major cuts to its Climate & Sustainability department. The CCJ co-directors, @carolmliao.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social, wrote an op-ed in Canada's National Observer expressing their criticism of the budget proposal.
Read more: shorturl.at/9uSLl

Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...

Vancouver’s climate leadership is a promise we can’t break Eliminating the city’s climate and sustainability department is a betrayal of our collective future, write Carol Liao and Naomi Klein

We are not living in an era of optional climate policy. We are living in an era of planetary limits where the choices we make in city halls will determine the world our children inherit, @carolmliao.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social write. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/13/o...

Ecological sovereignty: from mutual annihilation to true planetary longevity? When fossil fuel expansion is justified in the name of national sovereignty, you know states have lost touch with the climate reality.

I've been working since 2022 to try to form the basis for an alternative reading of sovereignty fit for the polycrisis and promoting true, just and internationalist transitions. This view of popular ecological sovereignty is in a few articles, but I just reflected on it in the context of COP30 too: