John Muller
@mrjohnmuller.bsky.social
Friend, actor, musician, medium-sized mammal (he/him)
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Seriously, Canadians, make some noise on this. Write your MPs.
This shouldn't need to be said, but it is *not to our advantage* if the US is allowed to randomly invade sovereign countries, kidnap their leadership, and seize their resources.
It's Venezuela today, it could easily be Canada tomorrow.
This shouldn't need to be said, but it is *not to our advantage* if the US is allowed to randomly invade sovereign countries, kidnap their leadership, and seize their resources.
It's Venezuela today, it could easily be Canada tomorrow.
I call on @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social and @mark-carney.bsky.social to officially condemn the reckless and illegal attacks launched by the US against Venezuela.
Under Trump, the former US is a depraved Fascist menace, which threatens all of us. The world needs to act to contain their aggression.
Under Trump, the former US is a depraved Fascist menace, which threatens all of us. The world needs to act to contain their aggression.
January 3, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Seriously, Canadians, make some noise on this. Write your MPs.
This shouldn't need to be said, but it is *not to our advantage* if the US is allowed to randomly invade sovereign countries, kidnap their leadership, and seize their resources.
It's Venezuela today, it could easily be Canada tomorrow.
This shouldn't need to be said, but it is *not to our advantage* if the US is allowed to randomly invade sovereign countries, kidnap their leadership, and seize their resources.
It's Venezuela today, it could easily be Canada tomorrow.
I call on @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social and @mark-carney.bsky.social to officially condemn the reckless and illegal attacks launched by the US against Venezuela.
Under Trump, the former US is a depraved Fascist menace, which threatens all of us. The world needs to act to contain their aggression.
Under Trump, the former US is a depraved Fascist menace, which threatens all of us. The world needs to act to contain their aggression.
January 3, 2026 at 10:44 AM
I call on @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social and @mark-carney.bsky.social to officially condemn the reckless and illegal attacks launched by the US against Venezuela.
Under Trump, the former US is a depraved Fascist menace, which threatens all of us. The world needs to act to contain their aggression.
Under Trump, the former US is a depraved Fascist menace, which threatens all of us. The world needs to act to contain their aggression.
Good morning everyone! The US is doing regime change in South America.
I'm sure this will not have any negative ripple effects, no sir-eee.
Anyway, a biiiiiig "fuck you!" to everyone who let Trump get back into power. Fuuuuuuuck yoooooou!
I'm sure this will not have any negative ripple effects, no sir-eee.
Anyway, a biiiiiig "fuck you!" to everyone who let Trump get back into power. Fuuuuuuuck yoooooou!
US appears to have begun bombing Venezuela - massive air strikes reported in Caracas and other parts of the country after large explosions reported at a military base.
Maduro gov has now officially blamed US.
Maduro gov has now officially blamed US.
January 3, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Good morning everyone! The US is doing regime change in South America.
I'm sure this will not have any negative ripple effects, no sir-eee.
Anyway, a biiiiiig "fuck you!" to everyone who let Trump get back into power. Fuuuuuuuck yoooooou!
I'm sure this will not have any negative ripple effects, no sir-eee.
Anyway, a biiiiiig "fuck you!" to everyone who let Trump get back into power. Fuuuuuuuck yoooooou!
2025 was the year the world passed the tipping-point in terms of the economics of renewables. That in itself is reason for hope.
From here on out, it is just fundamentally cheaper and more efficient to produce electricity with green tech. Fossil fuels are on their way to becoming a niche commodity.
From here on out, it is just fundamentally cheaper and more efficient to produce electricity with green tech. Fossil fuels are on their way to becoming a niche commodity.
Climate advocates lost some political battles in North America last year, but technology and economics are winning the war everywhere else.
2026 will make the inevitability of the energy transition even more difficult to ignore.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/02/o...
2026 will make the inevitability of the energy transition even more difficult to ignore.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/02/o...
How to (still) be a climate optimist
2025 was a year defined by climate policy retreats in North America — and climate technology expansion in the rest of the world. Good news: Nothing stops this train.
www.nationalobserver.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:01 PM
2025 was the year the world passed the tipping-point in terms of the economics of renewables. That in itself is reason for hope.
From here on out, it is just fundamentally cheaper and more efficient to produce electricity with green tech. Fossil fuels are on their way to becoming a niche commodity.
From here on out, it is just fundamentally cheaper and more efficient to produce electricity with green tech. Fossil fuels are on their way to becoming a niche commodity.
I have anxiety about 2026, but I also have significant optimism, thanks to seeing how unified and mobilized Canada became last year in the face of fascist US aggression.
No matter how messy or contentious it may be, multicultural democracy will *always* be superior to authoritarian ethnostatism.
No matter how messy or contentious it may be, multicultural democracy will *always* be superior to authoritarian ethnostatism.
What to expect from year two of the American war?
1. More chaos.
2. Bad faith. Trump's word means as little as Putin's.
3. Resilience. Canadians understand the mission.
4. An overt threat to Canada? We shall see.
But we shall hold the line.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pd0...
1. More chaos.
2. Bad faith. Trump's word means as little as Putin's.
3. Resilience. Canadians understand the mission.
4. An overt threat to Canada? We shall see.
But we shall hold the line.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pd0...
WHAT COMES NEXT IN THE AMERICAN WAR ???
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
www.youtube.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:21 PM
I have anxiety about 2026, but I also have significant optimism, thanks to seeing how unified and mobilized Canada became last year in the face of fascist US aggression.
No matter how messy or contentious it may be, multicultural democracy will *always* be superior to authoritarian ethnostatism.
No matter how messy or contentious it may be, multicultural democracy will *always* be superior to authoritarian ethnostatism.
Reposted by John Muller
one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!
It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.
January 2, 2026 at 12:45 AM
one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!
"Anything can happen, so anything can happen."
LIVE: Zohran Mamdani Is Sworn In as NYC’s New Mayor
YouTube video by Zeteo
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January 1, 2026 at 9:46 PM
"Anything can happen, so anything can happen."
There is nothing made in the USA that is all that special or unique. Anything we would normally buy from them can be easily substituted by a Canadian product, or one from a country that didn't decide to elect a Fascist nightmare regime.
Remember: When you drink US booze, you're drinking with ICE.
Remember: When you drink US booze, you're drinking with ICE.
How a good old fashioned boycott got Canada to trade Kentucky bourbon for Canadian whisky 🥃 #Canada #Boycott #BuyCanadian
'Buy Canadian' movement built up demand for domestically-produced whisky, expert says
/1 thread
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
'Buy Canadian' movement built up demand for domestically-produced whisky, expert says
/1 thread
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
How Canada developed a taste for U.S. bourbon, dumped it over Trump and got a buzz for Canadian whiskies | CBC News
The aromatic, spicy and sometimes smoky flavour of a smooth, Kentucky bourbon has been but a memory for consumers in this country ever since the spirit was caught in the crossfire of U.S. President Do...
www.cbc.ca
December 31, 2025 at 10:51 AM
There is nothing made in the USA that is all that special or unique. Anything we would normally buy from them can be easily substituted by a Canadian product, or one from a country that didn't decide to elect a Fascist nightmare regime.
Remember: When you drink US booze, you're drinking with ICE.
Remember: When you drink US booze, you're drinking with ICE.
Reposted by John Muller
got that feeling earlier this year while at the gas station and overhearing people talking about taking burner phones to get across the border
Talking with people at a holiday gathering here in Toronto last night, and when it came up, most of us nodded that we likely won’t ever visit the United States again.
It’s a weird feeling, and weird to acknowledge in a group.
It’s a weird feeling, and weird to acknowledge in a group.
December 31, 2025 at 12:54 AM
got that feeling earlier this year while at the gas station and overhearing people talking about taking burner phones to get across the border
Reposted by John Muller
A perfect illustration of @larryglickman.bsky.social’s point about how reporters treat aggressive campaigns of white resentment as natural phenomena that have no agency or agenda behind them.
Backlash politics is a fact of life! Let’s focus on how liberals must accept it and adjust, like we have!
Backlash politics is a fact of life! Let’s focus on how liberals must accept it and adjust, like we have!
Real "oh my god, she admit it" moment here. Trump is treated as an uninteresting figure without agency so we can dump endless criticism on liberals for how they react to his "natural disaster." He "doesn't participate in moral frameworks" lmfao
December 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A perfect illustration of @larryglickman.bsky.social’s point about how reporters treat aggressive campaigns of white resentment as natural phenomena that have no agency or agenda behind them.
Backlash politics is a fact of life! Let’s focus on how liberals must accept it and adjust, like we have!
Backlash politics is a fact of life! Let’s focus on how liberals must accept it and adjust, like we have!
Reposted by John Muller
Another one from much warmer times, recording 'What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow' in North Carolina. A welcome reminder that spring will always come again.
I hope you’re staying bundled up out there and enjoying time with loved ones.
Video: Alexei Mejouev
I hope you’re staying bundled up out there and enjoying time with loved ones.
Video: Alexei Mejouev
December 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Another one from much warmer times, recording 'What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow' in North Carolina. A welcome reminder that spring will always come again.
I hope you’re staying bundled up out there and enjoying time with loved ones.
Video: Alexei Mejouev
I hope you’re staying bundled up out there and enjoying time with loved ones.
Video: Alexei Mejouev
Reposted by John Muller
2025 has been an incredibly hard year for trans people. And yet... the political project to erase us is failing. In spite of them having so many levers of power, many of us have continued to thrive, and new pathways open up every day to get around the attacks.
My case for hope for 2026.
My case for hope for 2026.
The Case For Hope: Transgender Rights Going Into 2026
This last year has been one of the hardest years for transgender people in memory. Somehow, though, I'm feeling hope going into 2026.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
2025 has been an incredibly hard year for trans people. And yet... the political project to erase us is failing. In spite of them having so many levers of power, many of us have continued to thrive, and new pathways open up every day to get around the attacks.
My case for hope for 2026.
My case for hope for 2026.
Even gen-z manosphere types are souring on Poilievre.
So much of the Trudeau hate that the CPC cultivated for *years* was misogyny-adjacent, casting JT as effeminate. Highly personal, instead of systemic like their usual "nanny state" shit. It's not working on Carney. Meanwhile, PP has loser-stink.
So much of the Trudeau hate that the CPC cultivated for *years* was misogyny-adjacent, casting JT as effeminate. Highly personal, instead of systemic like their usual "nanny state" shit. It's not working on Carney. Meanwhile, PP has loser-stink.
A large majority of young Canadians — including 64% of young men — say they have a negative opinion of Pierre Poilievre.
This is the same demographic the CPC and their shills claim are largely voting Conservative.
They only win when people stop calling out their disinformation.
NEVER STOP.
This is the same demographic the CPC and their shills claim are largely voting Conservative.
They only win when people stop calling out their disinformation.
NEVER STOP.
Large majority of young Canadians have a negative opinion of Pierre Poilievre
A large majority of young Canadians have a negative opinion of Pierre Poilievre.
cultmtl.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Even gen-z manosphere types are souring on Poilievre.
So much of the Trudeau hate that the CPC cultivated for *years* was misogyny-adjacent, casting JT as effeminate. Highly personal, instead of systemic like their usual "nanny state" shit. It's not working on Carney. Meanwhile, PP has loser-stink.
So much of the Trudeau hate that the CPC cultivated for *years* was misogyny-adjacent, casting JT as effeminate. Highly personal, instead of systemic like their usual "nanny state" shit. It's not working on Carney. Meanwhile, PP has loser-stink.
How I am walking out of 2025
December 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
How I am walking out of 2025
A challenge in 2026 is to expand the boycott of the US as much as possible, beyond goods/travel.
Have investments? Divest from US stocks. Or short sell regime-aligned companies.
Cultural boycott. Push yourself to consume less US media.
Reclaim the space in your mind and life that Trump takes up.
Have investments? Divest from US stocks. Or short sell regime-aligned companies.
Cultural boycott. Push yourself to consume less US media.
Reclaim the space in your mind and life that Trump takes up.
December 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
A challenge in 2026 is to expand the boycott of the US as much as possible, beyond goods/travel.
Have investments? Divest from US stocks. Or short sell regime-aligned companies.
Cultural boycott. Push yourself to consume less US media.
Reclaim the space in your mind and life that Trump takes up.
Have investments? Divest from US stocks. Or short sell regime-aligned companies.
Cultural boycott. Push yourself to consume less US media.
Reclaim the space in your mind and life that Trump takes up.
For everyone in the world who is stressed out about the rise of US fascism, you should join Canada in our principled boycott of all US goods and travel. It's one of the few ways an average person can fight back, and it's proving brutally effective.
To save the US, we need to destroy their economy.
To save the US, we need to destroy their economy.
Elbows up in 2025: How a year of Canadian boycotts on U.S. products played out #ElbowsUp #Boycott #Canada #BuyCanadian #BuyLocal
Canadians hit the U.S. where it hurts: booze, travel and orange juice
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Canadians hit the U.S. where it hurts: booze, travel and orange juice
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Elbows up in 2025: How a year of Canadian boycotts on U.S. products played out | CBC News
Here are a few of the ways Canadians tried to put more power behind their purchase and travel choices in 2025 — and how those decisions may have impacted the U.S. economy.
www.cbc.ca
December 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
For everyone in the world who is stressed out about the rise of US fascism, you should join Canada in our principled boycott of all US goods and travel. It's one of the few ways an average person can fight back, and it's proving brutally effective.
To save the US, we need to destroy their economy.
To save the US, we need to destroy their economy.
The way that Canada wins the Trade War is not by bending over backwards for a deal that Trump won't remember or honour anyway, but by creating the conditions for us to thrive no matter what is going on to the South.
The era of US economic hegemony is over. Canada is taking our business elsewhere.
The era of US economic hegemony is over. Canada is taking our business elsewhere.
This year, Canada’s new government has built crucial new partnerships throughout the world.
That means big new investments in Canadian industries, resources, and projects, and big new opportunities for Canadian workers and businesses.
That means big new investments in Canadian industries, resources, and projects, and big new opportunities for Canadian workers and businesses.
December 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The way that Canada wins the Trade War is not by bending over backwards for a deal that Trump won't remember or honour anyway, but by creating the conditions for us to thrive no matter what is going on to the South.
The era of US economic hegemony is over. Canada is taking our business elsewhere.
The era of US economic hegemony is over. Canada is taking our business elsewhere.
My personal accomplishment of 2025, aside from just making it through the year, is helping to found a new non-profit housing cooperative, for the purpose of building non-market housing in Nova Scotia, and elsewhere.
It's early days, but I'm pumped. I'll share details later, but here's our artwork:
It's early days, but I'm pumped. I'll share details later, but here's our artwork:
December 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My personal accomplishment of 2025, aside from just making it through the year, is helping to found a new non-profit housing cooperative, for the purpose of building non-market housing in Nova Scotia, and elsewhere.
It's early days, but I'm pumped. I'll share details later, but here's our artwork:
It's early days, but I'm pumped. I'll share details later, but here's our artwork:
This rules! Now we can add Debert to our post-apocalypse maps of good spots to raid for supplies.
Cold War bomb shelter in Nova Scotia being converted into high-end doomsday condos - for the wealthy of course #NovaScotia
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Cold War bomb shelter in Nova Scotia being converted into high-end doomsday condos
A former Cold War fallout shelter in rural Nova Scotia is being transformed into luxury condominiums for elite clients seeking refuge from global crises.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This rules! Now we can add Debert to our post-apocalypse maps of good spots to raid for supplies.
Another Canadian MVP for 2025 is definitely Charlie Angus. I really appreciate of all the work he has put into organizing, and towards building antifascist media in Canada. Critically important, especially as the regime in the US expands their censorship and propaganda.
Thanks Charlie! Keep it up!
Thanks Charlie! Keep it up!
The CBC has done an end of year piece on my work with the resistance and @meidascanada.ca
Check it out.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Check it out.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Former MP Charlie Angus planned a quiet retirement. Now, he'd rather 'kick at the darkness' | CBC News
Earlier this year, former New Democratic Party MP Charlie Angus was preparing to wrap up a two-decade-long career in the House of Commons, retire and write a book. Then U.S. President Donald Trump was...
www.cbc.ca
December 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Another Canadian MVP for 2025 is definitely Charlie Angus. I really appreciate of all the work he has put into organizing, and towards building antifascist media in Canada. Critically important, especially as the regime in the US expands their censorship and propaganda.
Thanks Charlie! Keep it up!
Thanks Charlie! Keep it up!
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In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons…
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
December 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons…
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
I am getting extremely fucking sick of billionaires going full white-supremacist in the hopes of securing a slightly lower marginal tax rate.
December 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I am getting extremely fucking sick of billionaires going full white-supremacist in the hopes of securing a slightly lower marginal tax rate.
"Requiem for a Dream" (2000, D. Aronofsky)
seems to be a small hole at the site of discoloration
December 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"Requiem for a Dream" (2000, D. Aronofsky)
The phrase "leapfrog the USA" is one that I heard Mark Carney say a few times during the election, and I'm really glad to see that it is still a concept which is front-of-mind for him as PM, as well as the imperative to build a national clean electrical grid.
Carney on Canada becoming a leader in green technology: "You just have to look at where China and others are going. We have an enormous opportunity in this country to leapfrog the United States. The United States has taken its eye off the ball on this."
December 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The phrase "leapfrog the USA" is one that I heard Mark Carney say a few times during the election, and I'm really glad to see that it is still a concept which is front-of-mind for him as PM, as well as the imperative to build a national clean electrical grid.
Under their Criminal President, crime is now legal in America.
(For the rich.)
(For the rich.)
For those of us who can’t get through the WSJ pay wall, here’s the nuts and bolts of what in any other era would be the greatest presidential scandal in history.
boingboing.net/2025/12/27/t...
boingboing.net/2025/12/27/t...
Trump pardons "start at $1m," reports WSJ
A simple process: you give a lobbyist the money, they talk to someone in Trump's inner circle such as his son, then Trump pardons you.
boingboing.net
December 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Under their Criminal President, crime is now legal in America.
(For the rich.)
(For the rich.)