Jason Jarvis
@jwjarvis.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Dad | Spouse | Volunteer | Coach | Historian | Communicator
Reposted by Jason Jarvis
Reposted by Jason Jarvis
This exercise by @jamellebouie.net on "How many Slaveholders were there, really?" (youtu.be/pRs2Xu1FWR4?...) is really impressive and honestly I think should be a mandatory watch for *ancient* historians thinking about the slave societies we study.
How many slaveholders were there, really?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtu.be
August 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This exercise by @jamellebouie.net on "How many Slaveholders were there, really?" (youtu.be/pRs2Xu1FWR4?...) is really impressive and honestly I think should be a mandatory watch for *ancient* historians thinking about the slave societies we study.
Reposted by Jason Jarvis
June 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Reposted by Jason Jarvis
Absolute banger of a Tolkien essay here, about the myths and stories that Gondor and Rohan tell about themselves.
Check it out!
Check it out!
I am very excited today to publish @arobertswrites.com's essay "What Lies and Threats" - looking at nationalist myth-making in Lord of the Rings, especially for Gondor and Rohan.
Read it for free here:
www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/what-...
Read it for free here:
www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/what-...
April 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Absolute banger of a Tolkien essay here, about the myths and stories that Gondor and Rohan tell about themselves.
Check it out!
Check it out!
Reposted by Jason Jarvis
NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
Audio recording shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
pressprogress.ca
April 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
Reposted by Jason Jarvis
old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Let's actually DO something about it, then!
February 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Let's actually DO something about it, then!
Reposted by Jason Jarvis
Since you asked:
⚔️The Mahdist Sudanese threat to Egypt
⚔️Gold & diamonds in the Transvaal & Orange Free State
⚔️Belgian independence
⚔️UK rule in Ireland
⚔️UK rule in Palestine
⚔️Polish independence
⚔️South Korean independence
So lots of reasons, none of them connected to foreign delivery dudes
⚔️The Mahdist Sudanese threat to Egypt
⚔️Gold & diamonds in the Transvaal & Orange Free State
⚔️Belgian independence
⚔️UK rule in Ireland
⚔️UK rule in Palestine
⚔️Polish independence
⚔️South Korean independence
So lots of reasons, none of them connected to foreign delivery dudes
February 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Since you asked:
⚔️The Mahdist Sudanese threat to Egypt
⚔️Gold & diamonds in the Transvaal & Orange Free State
⚔️Belgian independence
⚔️UK rule in Ireland
⚔️UK rule in Palestine
⚔️Polish independence
⚔️South Korean independence
So lots of reasons, none of them connected to foreign delivery dudes
⚔️The Mahdist Sudanese threat to Egypt
⚔️Gold & diamonds in the Transvaal & Orange Free State
⚔️Belgian independence
⚔️UK rule in Ireland
⚔️UK rule in Palestine
⚔️Polish independence
⚔️South Korean independence
So lots of reasons, none of them connected to foreign delivery dudes
Balanced and objectively written -- well done, @richardmaass.bsky.social.
The 51st State That Never Was: Why the United States Didn’t Annex Canada - War on the Rocks
Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. President Donald Trump has drawn
warontherocks.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Balanced and objectively written -- well done, @richardmaass.bsky.social.
I'm not much given to hyperbole, but maybe someone in Ottawa should dust off Defence Scheme No. 1 and give it a glow up. 🤔
Trump's 51st state talk is not a 'real threat,' Canada's defence minister says | CBC News
Defence Minister Bill Blair says U.S. President Donald Trump's talk of annexing Canada is not a "real threat," less than a week after the prime minister was heard telling an economic summit that it sh...
www.cbc.ca
February 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I'm not much given to hyperbole, but maybe someone in Ottawa should dust off Defence Scheme No. 1 and give it a glow up. 🤔
🤨
Trump’s national security adviser says he doesn’t ‘think there’s any plans to invade Canada’
Donald Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz responded to claims made by Justin Trudeau that the Trump administration is serious about annexing Canada.
www.thestar.com
February 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
🤨
Reposted by Jason Jarvis
90% say no. Fuck off.
WELKER: Is Trump serious about planning to annex Canada?
MIKE WALTZ: Look, I think the Canadian people, many of them, would love to join the United States
MIKE WALTZ: Look, I think the Canadian people, many of them, would love to join the United States
February 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
90% say no. Fuck off.
Reposted by Jason Jarvis
Canada isn't perfect, but I am proud to be Canadian.
I am proud of the many things Canadians have accomplished.
We are a sovereign nation, never a state.
My name is Craig and I. AM. CANADIAN.
I am proud of the many things Canadians have accomplished.
We are a sovereign nation, never a state.
My name is Craig and I. AM. CANADIAN.
January 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Canada isn't perfect, but I am proud to be Canadian.
I am proud of the many things Canadians have accomplished.
We are a sovereign nation, never a state.
My name is Craig and I. AM. CANADIAN.
I am proud of the many things Canadians have accomplished.
We are a sovereign nation, never a state.
My name is Craig and I. AM. CANADIAN.
Reposted by Jason Jarvis
Trudeau steps down
January 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Trudeau steps down
Reposted by Jason Jarvis
Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
November 23, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
Reposted by Jason Jarvis
Since day 1 of the invasion, Russia has struck Ukraine with nuclear-capable missiles like Iskander, Kinzhal, and Kh-101/102. Another ballistic missile launch is no different, just more blatant nuclear blackmail
If Russia doesn’t like strikes inside of Russia, it can simply leave
If Russia doesn’t like strikes inside of Russia, it can simply leave
November 21, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Since day 1 of the invasion, Russia has struck Ukraine with nuclear-capable missiles like Iskander, Kinzhal, and Kh-101/102. Another ballistic missile launch is no different, just more blatant nuclear blackmail
If Russia doesn’t like strikes inside of Russia, it can simply leave
If Russia doesn’t like strikes inside of Russia, it can simply leave