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did you know I do a daily livestream? it's true and you should watch it: www.twitch.tv/robrousseau

On ep82 of the💫HARBINGER SHOWCASE💫 syndicated radio show we bury the NDP w/ @albertaadvantage.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social + @robrousseau.bsky.social at @unrigged.bsky.social media's June 13 Progressive Publics conference in Calgary.

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I’d repeat my “hey academics are you reconsidering research trips and conferences in the US now” but I think we have already consolidated into “yikes yes” and “lol I have nothing to fear” camps.

Ep. 400: Humble Bragg ft. Seth Harp Seth Harp's explosive new book explores drug trafficking and murder in the elite Special Forces wing of the US military

I talked to author and investigative journalist Seth Harp about his new book The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces. it is an absolutely insane story you should listen and also read the book www.insurgentspod.com/p/ep-400-hum...

Join the 6/13🌾@albertaadvantage.bsky.social🌾live show as @robertalexier.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social @joelaf.bsky.social @robrousseau.bsky.social @iosegun.bsky.social + @andremarrgoulet.bsky.social celebrate 'The Death and Life of Canadian Socialism'

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NEW EP: The Death and Life of Canadian Socialism - Live at the Progressive Publics Symposium
feat. @robrousseau.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social @andremarrgoulet.bsky.social @robertalexier.bsky.social

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Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit.

It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.

Happy to share that as of today I’m an Associate Professor with tenure! Will continue to work in my own small way towards collective liberation and justice for all, from Palestine to Kashmir to Congo to Turtle Island.

TODAY from 12-5 at Mount-Royal University don't miss Unrigged's 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 Calgary symposium w/ @briarpatchmag.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @readtheorchard.org @kimsiever.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social @theprogressreport.ca + more!

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Progressive Publics: A Symposium Connecting Scholarship & Independent Media Day two of a June 13th + 14th academic symposium featuring panels exploring Alberta history, social democracy, independent journalism & more

TODAY from 12-5 at Mount-Royal University don't miss Unrigged's 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 Calgary symposium w/ @briarpatchmag.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @readtheorchard.org @kimsiever.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social @theprogressreport.ca + more!

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TODAY from 12-5 at Mount-Royal University don't miss Unrigged's 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 Calgary symposium w/ @pressprogress.ca @readtheorchard.org @kimsiever.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social @theprogressreport.ca @briarpatchmag.bsky.social
+ more!

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Don't miss the 3rd edition of Unrigged's 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 symposium this Saturday in Calgary w/
@briarpatchmag.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @fritzlechat.bsky.social + more plus a special live @albertaadvantage.bsky.social recording on Friday!

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Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine

I can’t think of a presidency that has done more open and undeniable damage to this country, and the wider world, in such a short space of time, than this one.

Shocking, despicable:

I was really into Radiohead as a teenager but I was also really into reading The Economist so anyway that’s a time of life that one can move past

I did not know that Denise Gough is also Yennefer!!!!

Saudi Arabia is opening up its economy and its society. Why has Canada been so slow to capitalize on that? | CBC News Donald Trump came to Saudi Arabia earlier this month, with big U.S. business leaders in tow, to embrace Saudi’s young leader, Mohammed bin Salman, and his 2030 plans to reshape its oil economy. As Can...

Shameful report that breezes past how Saudi Arabia threatened to do a 9/11 on Canada and how the LAVs it bought from Canada were used in Yemen, potentially in violation of international law, while trotting out the trope that the country is making big strides on women’s rights. Give me a break.

So basically BlueSky is treating "being Palestinian" as a violation of their terms and conditions 😒

Rewatched Rogue One after Andor s2 and cried so much when Andor tells Jyn her dad would be proud of her (also Saw!) bc his last utterance is to comfort someone else, but also himself bc he’s thinking of those who raised them being proud and so thinking of MAARVA 😭😭😭

Trump ambushes South African president in Oval Office with video | CNN South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sat in awkward silence as he listened to a video US President Donald Trump played in the Oval Office. CNN’s Larry Madowo reports that Trump was pushing debunked...

staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

i thought the whole point of electing this guy was that he wasn’t an idiot

that place should have BEEN burned down. listen to this revisionist ass history.

Just learned the Prauf and Rost are the same voice actor ahhh 😭

can someone please build software that disables AI across all applications? i’d pay.

Liberals have the nerve to utter “reconciliation”with Indigenous people while expressing solidarity with another colonizing state that’s annihilating a group of humans and erasing them from the face of the earth.

SCOOP: Trump Admin Forcing Schools to Report International Students for Protest Activity or 'Antisemitic Actions' The new requirements are "nudging school officials to be the ‘bad guys’ and give more excuses to terminate student visa records," one school official said.

SCOOP: Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show the Trump admin will now force schools to report international students for broad categories like protests or "antisemitic actions."

Comes the same week the Trump admin welcomed a white Afrikaner who once said “Jews are untrustworthy and a dangerous group.”

Seeing arguments that AI is beneficial for marginalized groups and I cannot stress enough how we must strongly reject this as lacking material analyses of labour, intellectual production as process, media form and content, etc. Actively dangerous. Pls let’s be serious.

Reading books is so OP

Kinderblock to prison pipeline

Sometimes at the store the grape bag will be labelled Autumn Crisp but there will be other green grapes inside like Sweet Globe — fraudulent!!!!