Ryan Kelpin

Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

A screenshot of Apple Music which shows a playlist of Skrewdriver songs under a "Skrewdriver" banner.

An easy story for reporters in tech and extremism right now might be to ask major music streaming platforms why they quietly let Skrewdriver back on some time this year

More fascists should be told to fuck off.

Please normalize it. Their bullshit should be treated with the contempt contained in vulgarity.

For fucksakes.

Can prominent pro Palestine Canadian leftist journos stop making friends with the far right? First Lascaris praising Candace Owens and now this shit.

Not exactly being good allies to the LGBTQ community...

Alberta teachers are compiling lists of the books in their classrooms so the #ABGov can tell them which ones to toss. On a related note, Parkland Institute will be releasing a new report on the "Parental Rights" movement in AB next week. ualberta-ca.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Square hole meme

Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky. s... 19m l'm blocking every person who makes a mealy-mouthed argument "know thine enemy" is any kind of strategy. You don't want a Nazi bar? You kick the Nazis out. You don't invite one in to get to know them better. Especially when you can read his published manifesto. You get actual experts in to help ) Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmor... 2h HAHAHAHA UHHHH WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK?????? iệ CBC NEWS Top Stories Politics Project 2025 mastermind invited to speak at Carney's cabinet meeting Local PMO says Heritage Foundation president knows the Trump administration's playbook Catharine Tunney · CBC News Posted: Sep 03, 2025 4:15 PM EDT | Last Updated:3 hours ago ALT

Kim Crawley (she/her) @stopgenai.com Champion Noo00o. You were so close. Not "bad political instincts." All the mega rich are on the same side! Goddamnit. Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.so... 13m I'm aghast. Truly, our PM has the worst political instincts. September 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM Everybody can reply2

Ughhh. You were so close. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

"Bad political instincts."

No!!

Carney is a central banker! Buddies with Trump! Oligarchs on the same side of the class war against us! Wake the fuck up!

Thanks for the share!

Meet Danielle Smith, Canada’s Ayn Rand in Cowboy Boots Danielle Smith, Alberta’s leader, is fusing libertarian dogma with oil-soaked grievance politics. It’s Canada’s version of the New Right, dressed up in provincial pride.

My newest piece for Jacobin traces the ideological inheritances of Danielle Smith.

jacobin.com/2025/08/albe...

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PMO: Benjamin Netanyahu decides full IDF occupation of Gaza | The Jerusalem Post The Prime Minister's Office conveyed the message to the Chief of Staff: If this does not suit you, then you should resign.

Think about every pro-Israel person who denied this was the plan for the past 22 months; who gaslit you; denied this to you; pretended this wasn't the plan.

And then never believe those liars about anything ever again.

So... according to Greenblatt, Elon doing the Nazi salute wasn't so bad. But students protesting...

What a fucking disaster the ADL is. What a joke.

Never in my lifetime has the Democratic Party been as much as a ghost ship as it is today. Incredible there aren't more insurgent primary campaigns. Power is just sitting there and the only thing guarding it is fossils like Chuck Schumer

Pierre Poilievre, speaking to caucus yesterday, referred to what I can only assume are the anti-genocide protests as “rampaging antisemitic riots.”

He got a standing ovation.

For seemingly pledging to crack down on people who want a genocide stopped.

Very “free speech” of him. Fucking foul

Notice that they're now shifting from "we need our parking spots" to "transit gets in the way of cars" type arguments.

Jason Stanley took a job at the Peter Munk funded Munk Institute.

Munk was an explicit supporter of Pinochet until the end of his life and ran a human rights violating and murderous mining company. I don't take people seriously who can take that kind of blood money.

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

I live in Alberta and I have no words to tell how much I respect and LOVE this!!! Thank you #FirstNations
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“The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies.”https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230101371_12

Stop the liberal victory lap narrative. Politics has moved farther to the right in Canada and a technocratic neoliberal banker combined with a useless NDP will only drive people further to the right.

He also got the right a higher share of the popular vote than Harper ever did... And the highest in almost 40 years...

This kind of analysis is so surface level. What the numbers actually show is the cons would have won if not for Trump's tariff stupidity.

Far right extremists, inspired by Trump per Whitmer herself, tried to kidnap her. Trump himself later suggested it was a fake plot and mocked it. He called her ‘that woman in Michigan’ and led a crowd that chanted ‘lock her up.’

Today Whitmer hugged him on the tarmac.

This is why Dems lose. 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽

Appropriate energy when dealing with brown shirts.

When we met Ms. Ozturk in Basile, she told us she feared for her life when she was taken off the streets of her neighborhood, not knowing who had grabbed her or where they were taking her. She said that at each step of her transit — from Massachusetts to New Hampshire to Vermont to Louisiana — her repeated requests to contact her lawyer were denied. Inside the detention center, she was inadequately fed, kept in facilities with extremely cold temperatures and denied personal necessities and religious accommodations. She suffered asthma attacks for which she lacked her prescribed medication. Despite all this — and despite being far away from her loved ones — we were struck by her unwavering spirit. Why did the Trump administration target her? By all accounts, it’s because she was one of the authors of an opinion essay for The Tufts Daily criticizing her university’s response to resolutions that the Tufts student senate passed regarding Israel and Gaza. This is not immigration enforcement. This is repression. This is authoritarianism.

According to three members of Congress, Rumeysa Ozturk has been repeatedly denied access to her lawyer, refused asthma medication despite attacks, forced to endure extreme temperatures, and denied religious accommodations.

Her ‘crime’? An oped in a school newspaper.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...

History books will barely be able to cover the montrous depravity of Trump's actions, since we can barely cover it in daily news accounts to imagine having to pick just a few examples to summarize his evil on a page in a HS text.

But this could make the cut.

Grading Journalism's Election Performance ft. Nora Loreto (The North State Podcast) See us after class, news outlets

Two North State episodes in one week? That’s what you get when it’s election time. @nolore.bsky.social joined me to review how journalism has performed during the federal election. We have notes. Check it out.

Bill Maher has the behavior of a very specific band of boomer white guy: an "equal-opportunity offender" perfectly willing to weaponize identity politics and cry like a baby the second anyone gives back to him even 1/8 of what he dishes out. I guessed his birth year (1956) instantly and correctly

The radical economist behind Pierre Poilievre’s plans for Canada ⋆ The Breach Scholar Ryan Kelpin joins Martin Lukacs to dissect Milton Friedman’s influence on Pierre Poilievre

On 🌊 The @breachmedia.ca Show🌊 ep49 Martin Lukacs welcomes scholar @ryankelpin.bsky.social for a conversation dissecting radical right-wing economist Milton Friedman’s influence on Pierre Poilievre and what it could mean for the future of Canada.

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The radical economist behind Pierre Poilievre’s plans for Canada ⋆ The Breach Scholar Ryan Kelpin joins Martin Lukacs to dissect Milton Friedman’s influence on Pierre Poilievre

Spent 50 minutes chatting with Martin Lukacs and @breachmedia.ca about the profound ideological influence Milton Friedman has had on Pierre Poilievre. Podcast episode is at the link attached:

breachmedia.ca/the-radical-...

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