Jeffrey Ince 🇨🇦

Today is Emancipation Day, and that should be celebrated. But we still have a long way to go in order to rid ourselves of slavery. So yes let’s celebrate, but let us keep on fighting too for a better world of freedom, racial equality, and justice for all.

#EmancipationDay

Good luck America.

The merits of the different Canadian parties aside, imagine being a Conservative strategist right now. Trudeau is flailing. You've got an easy path to your first win in years.

And then all of the sudden, America goes and elects Trump, and conservatism is about as popular as a chemical spill.

Photographer who snapped fight between a bald eagle and Canada goose calls it 'very symbolic' | CBC News A bald eagle may have thought it spotted an easy lunch in a Canada goose sitting on an icy bay in Burlington, Ont., but according to Mervyn Sequeira — who watched and photographed a 20-minute battle b...

The bald eagle made "several attempts" to attack the goose, Sequeira said.

"When we thought that it was really over for the goose, strangely, the bald eagle just gave up and left… that is how nature works." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Yes, it is feeling very seasonal here in the yyz today.

Josh Gibson was born on this day in 1911.

Happy Winter Solstice everyone! After we get through this shortest of days, and longest of nights, we begin the walk together back to the bright days. Don't forget to enjoy winter along the way!

Two pied billed grebes with mouths open

"If we vote for the union we won't have our quarterly pizza party."

"You can afford your own pizza with a union contact, Bill." #UnionsForAll 🪶

Via Task & Purpose on the Facebook (not on Bluesky yet 😔)

"😐 @theeconomist wanted you to go to war but now they don’t want to pay for it."

https://www.facebook.com/100064471340951/posts/pfbid02H5MjJr451DMCmyCBEreyYXrMGHi7r6iN7wG65NVEAV5pPUXrrrtqzHc4pbDDRbErl/?

@jameswhuclark.bsky.social

It May Not Be Safe to Remain Friends With MAGA Trump voters have told you they will hurt you. It’s reasonable to believe them.

thought I’d share again for thanksgiving; you are not obligated to maintain ties with MAGA, and if you are hanging out with trump supporters be careful and take care of yourself, since they’ve proved themselves to be potentially dangerous.

www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-may-not...

Has bowling changed, or have they changed? LOL

Two days later, on Monday, March 6, 2023, I attended a reception at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. “We gotta talk,” General Milley said as I approached him. Milley was not in uniform but wearing a fashionable dark sports coat and plaid shirt. He had a freshly showered look and he seemed relaxed, though he stood barrel-chested with the ramrod-straight posture of an Army general. Milley was still worried about Trump. “No one has ever been as dangerous to this country as Donald Trump,” Milley said. “Do you realize, do you see what this man is? I glimpsed it when I talked to you back—for Peril, but I now know it. I now know it.” Milley had shared with me his worries about Trump’s mental stability and control of nuclear weapons for the book Peril I coauthored with Robert Costa. Milley and I continued to talk, proving it is possible to have a very private conversation in the middle of a crowded room. “We have got to stop him!” Milley said. “You have got to stop him!” By “you” he meant the press broadly. “He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is the most dangerous person to this country.” His eyes darted around the room filled with 200 guests of the Cohen Group, a global business consulting firm headed by former defense secretary William Cohen. Cohen and former defense secretary James Mattis spoke at the reception. “A fascist to the core!” Milley repeated to me. I will never forget the intensity of his worry.

Here's the full, chilling quote from Trump's former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, the retired Gen. Mark Milley, in Bob Woodward's new "War."

"You have got to stop him! ... He is the most dangerous person to this country. ... A fascist to the core!"

A red bordered text block that reads: The Far Right is angry because they're being judged by the content of their character rather than by the color of their skin.

via @lproven.bsky.social, now with alt text!

He Will Try Only one candidate is guaranteed to try to undermine our democracy and our way of life.

"The legal community was nearly united in its assumption that Trump's immunity claim had no basis in law at all, and the Supreme Court surprised them. Who knows how they will surprise us when Trump inevitably challenges the result of the election." www.liberalcurrents.com/he-will-try/

This absolutely correct!

Wow!
Toronto Blue Jays 5 - Seattle Mariners 4
What an exciting game for the Jays in Seattle!

This is a tragic story. But it's good to hear that Frank Oakley and Nellie Dunbar will finally get some recognition.

War can’t be separated from discussions of authoritarianism. War breeds authoritarianism. It expands authoritarian power even in democracies. It destroys democratic institutions and disempowers citizens.

The very structure of authoritarianism is in many ways militaristic.

How Movements Win On the importance of a strong inside strategy.

if you take nothing else from this mournful retrospective on failed movements gone before, take this truth: ideas matter.

www.liberalcurrents.com/how-movement...

Staying somewhere else doesn't sound unreasonable. The offer to stay with them sounds kind. But you definitely have to measure that against what you are comfortable with.

This sounds like a lot. I hope that all goes well. Be gentle with yourself, and take care.

Welcome to Bluesky! It's great to see you here!

“in america we’re told russians have no freedom of speech, so I traveled to russia to find out. I was shocked to learn even notorious critics like aleksi navalny were gifted access to top government institutes to speak freely”

Merry Christmas 🎄everyone! May you all you find peace, joy, and hope this is the promise of the Holiday season.

Finally I was able to permanently jump off of twitter yesterday. Only to wake up today and become acutely aware of the problem with substack! Good grief, it never ends!

Take care.

This piece from @sjshancoxli.bsky.social is absolutely spot on. Providing an analysis that exposes what should be an obvious insight, that conservatives are only interested in conserving unjust hierarchies, this is a must read. We need to say truths outloud if we're going to defeat illiberalism.

This piece from @aaronrosspowell.com offers a good insight that helps to remind us that social conservatism really is a dead end.

Heading back to work now after a few days off. Let's hope that there are no surprises!

Today I'm thankful to finally be on Bluesky. I'm especially thankful to @maique.eu for letting me in! 🙂