Daniel Rück
@danrueck.bsky.social
Historian of settler colonialism, sacred land and ruination, law and order, trees and rivers, theft and restitution. University of Ottawa, settler, he/him, www.danrueck.com
I take Frum at his word here, that he wants more respectable, more educated Nazis. He's affirming that the US government is fascist, and his only complaint is their historical illiteracy. It might be funny coming from someone else.
Best Twitter riposte of the day. And Washington met his payroll for the Continental Army with money furnished by the Spanish Crown, too.
January 2, 2026 at 3:08 PM
I take Frum at his word here, that he wants more respectable, more educated Nazis. He's affirming that the US government is fascist, and his only complaint is their historical illiteracy. It might be funny coming from someone else.
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Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
January 2, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
Fascists in power are telling us that the real villains are those who are willing to give up high salaries and comfort to do something that benefits those who need it most, those who care about things other than hoarding wealth. Happy New Year.
January 2, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Fascists in power are telling us that the real villains are those who are willing to give up high salaries and comfort to do something that benefits those who need it most, those who care about things other than hoarding wealth. Happy New Year.
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Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.
OMG - f*ck AI for ruining the em-dash for writers. I use them all the time. Of course, what a shock that AI uses them since they were trained off my voice and other authors' voices.
I'm a writer who has specifically been directed *not* to use em-dashes because "they mean it was written by AI." I can detect AI writing, but it is not simply a matter of the punctuation used.
December 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.
There is no ceasefire. The war against Gaza continues.
WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED? ... includes Doctors Without Borders, Norwegian Refugee Council, CARE International, the International Rescue Committee, and divisions of major charities such as Oxfam and Caritas
apnews.com/article/gaza...
apnews.com/article/gaza...
Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza.
apnews.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
There is no ceasefire. The war against Gaza continues.
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I think there is value in building a big political tent against fascism in America. But I’ve always been uneasy with Frum. This is further evidence he isn’t a serious thinker and hasn’t interrogated/revised his own illiberal views.
The Atlantic has updated their article to correct some of Frum's mistakes. However they didn't correct his denialist stuff. I work 50 meters from a lab where they recently identified a body recovered from a GPR search. A child who died at residential school, and was finally returned to their family.
December 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I think there is value in building a big political tent against fascism in America. But I’ve always been uneasy with Frum. This is further evidence he isn’t a serious thinker and hasn’t interrogated/revised his own illiberal views.
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The Atlantic has updated their article to correct some of Frum's mistakes. However they didn't correct his denialist stuff. I work 50 meters from a lab where they recently identified a body recovered from a GPR search. A child who died at residential school, and was finally returned to their family.
December 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The Atlantic has updated their article to correct some of Frum's mistakes. However they didn't correct his denialist stuff. I work 50 meters from a lab where they recently identified a body recovered from a GPR search. A child who died at residential school, and was finally returned to their family.
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David Frum's latest anti-Native rights piece in the Atlantic is so misinformed, so carelessly put together that he confused the band number with the population. Kwikwetlem is band code 560 - an administrative number from ISC. The population is 153. 1
December 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
David Frum's latest anti-Native rights piece in the Atlantic is so misinformed, so carelessly put together that he confused the band number with the population. Kwikwetlem is band code 560 - an administrative number from ISC. The population is 153. 1
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"She frequently decried the influx of immigrants into France, especially Muslims.
She was convicted and fined five times in French courts of inciting racial hatred . . ."
She was convicted and fined five times in French courts of inciting racial hatred . . ."
BREAKING: Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s screen sex symbol turned militant animal rights activist, dies at age 91.
Brigitte Bardot, 1960s sultry sex symbol turned militant animal rights activist dies at 91
Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist, has died.
bit.ly
December 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"She frequently decried the influx of immigrants into France, especially Muslims.
She was convicted and fined five times in French courts of inciting racial hatred . . ."
She was convicted and fined five times in French courts of inciting racial hatred . . ."
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
December 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Say her name, Heba Al‑Abadla. I remember when she was killed, her whole family slaughtered, to stop her work as a journalist: she was a host of the local Al-Azhar radio station, owned by Al-Azhar University in Gaza, and the co-founder of the Social Media Club-Palestine. It took 2 years to bury her.
December 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Say her name, Heba Al‑Abadla. I remember when she was killed, her whole family slaughtered, to stop her work as a journalist: she was a host of the local Al-Azhar radio station, owned by Al-Azhar University in Gaza, and the co-founder of the Social Media Club-Palestine. It took 2 years to bury her.
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
This is an ominous message from militarized parts of the US government for anyone not a Christian. But you'll hear the same Christian-supremacist message in the Christmas carols blaring in shopping malls and grocery stores all over the western world this time of year.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This is an ominous message from militarized parts of the US government for anyone not a Christian. But you'll hear the same Christian-supremacist message in the Christmas carols blaring in shopping malls and grocery stores all over the western world this time of year.
Algeria's parliament approves law declaring France's colonisation a crime - demanding reparations. share.google/SssCmFzmviE8...
Algeria's parliament approves law declaring France's colonisation a crime
Lawmakers unanimously approve a law, which demands an apology and reparations from the former colonial power.
share.google
December 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Algeria's parliament approves law declaring France's colonisation a crime - demanding reparations. share.google/SssCmFzmviE8...
19 new illegal settlements on stolen land www.bbc.com/news/article...
Israel approves 19 new settlements in occupied West Bank
Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the move was about blocking the establishment of a Palestinian state.
www.bbc.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
19 new illegal settlements on stolen land www.bbc.com/news/article...
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another example of AI as tracer dye, exposing an already existing problem (and, of course, significantly worsening it)
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
December 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
another example of AI as tracer dye, exposing an already existing problem (and, of course, significantly worsening it)
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When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦
December 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Al Jazeera asked displaced Palestinian children about their hopes for the new year. I wanted to share their responses here:
December 31, 2023 at 7:45 PM
Al Jazeera asked displaced Palestinian children about their hopes for the new year. I wanted to share their responses here:
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Disturbingly, MP Iqra Khalid was reportedly verbally assaulted and physically shoved by officials who claimed they could touch her "as much as I want". This occurred despite the delegation having pre-approved visas and official parliamentary passports.
December 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Disturbingly, MP Iqra Khalid was reportedly verbally assaulted and physically shoved by officials who claimed they could touch her "as much as I want". This occurred despite the delegation having pre-approved visas and official parliamentary passports.
"A handful of corporations are holding our basic needs hostage," post on Instagram page of activist group, Les soulèvements du fleuve. "They continue to stifle the population, siphoning off as much money as possible, simply because they can. For us, that's theft, and they are the real criminals."
Thieves dressed as Santa and his elves steal $3K worth of goods from Montreal grocery store | CBC News
Several people dressed as Santa and a group of masked elves were filmed at a grocery store in Montreal on Monday night filling up carts with food. An activist group calling themselves Robins des ruell...
www.cbc.ca
December 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"A handful of corporations are holding our basic needs hostage," post on Instagram page of activist group, Les soulèvements du fleuve. "They continue to stifle the population, siphoning off as much money as possible, simply because they can. For us, that's theft, and they are the real criminals."
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The UK is effectively criminalising a sentence because has an Arabic word.
Intifada just means uprising. The Warsaw Uprising, for example, is just ‘Intifadat Warsaw’ in Arabic.
Our very identities are being effectively criminalised.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Intifada just means uprising. The Warsaw Uprising, for example, is just ‘Intifadat Warsaw’ in Arabic.
Our very identities are being effectively criminalised.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Police forces will make arrests over intifada chants
The Metropolitan and Greater Manchester forces say they will make arrests over 'globalise the intifada' chants.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The UK is effectively criminalising a sentence because has an Arabic word.
Intifada just means uprising. The Warsaw Uprising, for example, is just ‘Intifadat Warsaw’ in Arabic.
Our very identities are being effectively criminalised.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Intifada just means uprising. The Warsaw Uprising, for example, is just ‘Intifadat Warsaw’ in Arabic.
Our very identities are being effectively criminalised.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Stalinism, Maoism, Nazism (just to name a few) were terrible systems that led to countless atrocities in the name of whatever ideal seemed convenient. We need loads of monuments that remind us about our real enemies, including: inhumanity, patriarchy, hierarchy, dictatorship, alienation, capital.
And also provide didactic panels on totalitarianism, ethnic cleansing, collective responsibilities and punishment, etc. that aren't specific to one type of economic system. Good to remind ourselves of our rights and freedoms and the importance of maintaining them.
December 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Stalinism, Maoism, Nazism (just to name a few) were terrible systems that led to countless atrocities in the name of whatever ideal seemed convenient. We need loads of monuments that remind us about our real enemies, including: inhumanity, patriarchy, hierarchy, dictatorship, alienation, capital.
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An embarrassment, yes. It could also be repurposed as a canvas for artists. Considering many of the first immigrants from these countries faced discrimination and xenophobia because they were considered to be anarchists, maybe a first modification could add something like this:
December 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
An embarrassment, yes. It could also be repurposed as a canvas for artists. Considering many of the first immigrants from these countries faced discrimination and xenophobia because they were considered to be anarchists, maybe a first modification could add something like this:
This whole project is a national embarrassment. Take it down.
too funny. the Victims of Communism memorial now won’t show any names because too many of them could be linked to nazis. this thing never should have been built — and should still be removed!
Government retreats on Victims of Communism memorial names in aftermath of Nazi controversy
Historians raised alarms years ago. Ottawa changed course only after the memorial opened.
ottawacitizen.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This whole project is a national embarrassment. Take it down.