Andrew Varsanyi
@andrewvarsanyi.com
Canadian. History PhD candidate at Nebraska, 19th C reform movements, US populisms; Co-Founder, Evolved Metrics, a boutique data analytics and automation firm; general nerd and die-hard Blue Jays fan
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Andrew Varsanyi
@andrewvarsanyi.com
· Dec 25
Rousseau: "The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty."
This is what Elon and Thiel are working toward. This is the political fight of the next generation. We have to stop them from turning their wealth into right.
This is what Elon and Thiel are working toward. This is the political fight of the next generation. We have to stop them from turning their wealth into right.
I like Ezra Klein. I don’t like Fareed Zakaria. This is why the center-left is useless in the United States. It’s somehow culture, media, class but not really economics. FZ thinks tax rates are a problem but materialist politics aren’t useful. These guys are why we’re fucked. Incoherent blather.
Fareed Zakaria Thinks Steve Bannon Got One Thing Right
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 11/21/2025 · 1h 8m
podcasts.apple.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I like Ezra Klein. I don’t like Fareed Zakaria. This is why the center-left is useless in the United States. It’s somehow culture, media, class but not really economics. FZ thinks tax rates are a problem but materialist politics aren’t useful. These guys are why we’re fucked. Incoherent blather.
Absolute joke.
Unions in Canada need to wake up. Fight back!
Rights aren’t rights if they can be abrogated whenever something is “critical.”
The airline knew they could do this. That’s why there wasn’t a deal.
#solidarity #cdnpoli #aircanada
Unions in Canada need to wake up. Fight back!
Rights aren’t rights if they can be abrogated whenever something is “critical.”
The airline knew they could do this. That’s why there wasn’t a deal.
#solidarity #cdnpoli #aircanada
Ottawa intervenes in Air Canada-union dispute, seeks to impose binding arbitration | CBC News
Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu said she has invoked Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to allow binding arbitration between the airline and its union and has ordered operations to resume — although it's...
www.cbc.ca
August 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Absolute joke.
Unions in Canada need to wake up. Fight back!
Rights aren’t rights if they can be abrogated whenever something is “critical.”
The airline knew they could do this. That’s why there wasn’t a deal.
#solidarity #cdnpoli #aircanada
Unions in Canada need to wake up. Fight back!
Rights aren’t rights if they can be abrogated whenever something is “critical.”
The airline knew they could do this. That’s why there wasn’t a deal.
#solidarity #cdnpoli #aircanada
Crazy that the Canadian government isn’t smart enough to realize that they’re being played. Air Canada knows you’ll force the Union back, that’s why they weren’t really even negotiating. Corps in Canada play by a different set of rules than labour. #cdnpoli #solidarity
August 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Crazy that the Canadian government isn’t smart enough to realize that they’re being played. Air Canada knows you’ll force the Union back, that’s why they weren’t really even negotiating. Corps in Canada play by a different set of rules than labour. #cdnpoli #solidarity
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Legitimate reporting and illegitimate reporting both engender conversation and debate.
But while legitimate reporting inspires conversation about a story's substance, illegitimate reporting inspires questions like "Why did the newspaper print this garbage?"
But while legitimate reporting inspires conversation about a story's substance, illegitimate reporting inspires questions like "Why did the newspaper print this garbage?"
July 7, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Legitimate reporting and illegitimate reporting both engender conversation and debate.
But while legitimate reporting inspires conversation about a story's substance, illegitimate reporting inspires questions like "Why did the newspaper print this garbage?"
But while legitimate reporting inspires conversation about a story's substance, illegitimate reporting inspires questions like "Why did the newspaper print this garbage?"
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$2B funding rounds and $100M signing bonuses to individuals. Sure. There's no bubble here. Everything makes sense.
Zuckerberg has been particularly aggressive in his approach, offering $100 million signing bonuses and year one compensation to some OpenAI staffers, according to comments Altman made on a podcast with his brother, Jack Altman.
OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: ‘Someone Has Broken Into Our Home’
As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they're ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.
www.wired.com
June 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
$2B funding rounds and $100M signing bonuses to individuals. Sure. There's no bubble here. Everything makes sense.
There is an alternate universe somewhere where #Canada refused and worked with the #EU to create a new, more open, copyright and tax system that would help us get out of the neoliberal hellscape that American IP policy and Canadian regulatory capture have led us into
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance trade discussions with the United States | CBC News
The federal government announced late Sunday evening it is rescinding the digital services tax, days after U.S. President Donald Trump demanded it gone and cut off Canada-U.S. trade negotiations.
www.cbc.ca
June 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
There is an alternate universe somewhere where #Canada refused and worked with the #EU to create a new, more open, copyright and tax system that would help us get out of the neoliberal hellscape that American IP policy and Canadian regulatory capture have led us into
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
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The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.
June 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.
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Since May:
Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.
Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.
A judiciary at war with itself.
Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.
Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.
A judiciary at war with itself.
June 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Since May:
Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.
Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.
A judiciary at war with itself.
Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.
Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.
A judiciary at war with itself.
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Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice
June 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice
Of just about all the people, @davidfrum.bsky.social needs to not be saying anything right now. #axisofsilly Your bud GWB strengthened Iran through his idiotic wars of choice #Iran
“Trump exercises national power, but he cannot and will not act as a national leader,” writes @davidfrum.bsky.social. “Now this president of half of America has commanded all of America into a global military conflict.” https://theatln.tc/weojeWbv
June 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Of just about all the people, @davidfrum.bsky.social needs to not be saying anything right now. #axisofsilly Your bud GWB strengthened Iran through his idiotic wars of choice #Iran
Prediction: Things look so good right now for Netanyahu after he successfully manipulated Trump into this, but it’ll be hollow. In a few months, when Bibi’s own war of choice and lies about intelligence come to light, this will be the moment the Israeli left will reassert itself. #iran
June 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Prediction: Things look so good right now for Netanyahu after he successfully manipulated Trump into this, but it’ll be hollow. In a few months, when Bibi’s own war of choice and lies about intelligence come to light, this will be the moment the Israeli left will reassert itself. #iran
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The ugly truth is that "America First," or MAGA, is whatever Trump says it is. Trump just showed that he understands this core fact about MAGA perfectly well. He's redefining "America First" as bombing Iran as we speak. Most of MAGA will be just fine with that. 6/6
newrepublic.com/article/1969...
newrepublic.com/article/1969...
June 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The ugly truth is that "America First," or MAGA, is whatever Trump says it is. Trump just showed that he understands this core fact about MAGA perfectly well. He's redefining "America First" as bombing Iran as we speak. Most of MAGA will be just fine with that. 6/6
newrepublic.com/article/1969...
newrepublic.com/article/1969...
Not seeing any news reports of most remarkable thing about Iran attack: a little over a month ago, Trump demoted his NSA for pushing this exact action.
Bibi successfully manipulated DT into undertaking a dangerous action he didn’t want to do that gets America nothing but pain economic and political
Bibi successfully manipulated DT into undertaking a dangerous action he didn’t want to do that gets America nothing but pain economic and political
This cartoon was drawn 8 years ago.
It seems the right time for it to be reshared.
(✍️ Carlos Latuff)
It seems the right time for it to be reshared.
(✍️ Carlos Latuff)
June 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Not seeing any news reports of most remarkable thing about Iran attack: a little over a month ago, Trump demoted his NSA for pushing this exact action.
Bibi successfully manipulated DT into undertaking a dangerous action he didn’t want to do that gets America nothing but pain economic and political
Bibi successfully manipulated DT into undertaking a dangerous action he didn’t want to do that gets America nothing but pain economic and political
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The hardest rule of Beltway journalism is that Republican public officials have no agency and bear no responsibility for choices fully within their discretion
June 22, 2025 at 5:24 AM
The hardest rule of Beltway journalism is that Republican public officials have no agency and bear no responsibility for choices fully within their discretion
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I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.
June 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.
Big money has long known that sports is the new mega-profit place. Netflix and streaming have disrupted cable TV, and the money it has unleashed in sports will eventually undermine the sports industry as well. Eventually, it'll all be extra content, ads, cross-marketing, and subscriptions.
June 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Big money has long known that sports is the new mega-profit place. Netflix and streaming have disrupted cable TV, and the money it has unleashed in sports will eventually undermine the sports industry as well. Eventually, it'll all be extra content, ads, cross-marketing, and subscriptions.
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Early numbers suggest fewer people attended Trump’s birthday parade today than were in downtown Edmonton for the Oilers game tonight, attendance in Rexall not included.
I. Shit. You. Not.
I. Shit. You. Not.
June 15, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Early numbers suggest fewer people attended Trump’s birthday parade today than were in downtown Edmonton for the Oilers game tonight, attendance in Rexall not included.
I. Shit. You. Not.
I. Shit. You. Not.
While Danielle Smith is distracting Albertans with separatism & culture war BS, energy companies continue to rob the province blind.
This should be a scandal.
These companies socialize risk and privatize profits.
This is the story @albertandp.ca needs to tell. #abpolitics
This should be a scandal.
These companies socialize risk and privatize profits.
This is the story @albertandp.ca needs to tell. #abpolitics
Levy charged to Alberta oil companies too low to cover orphan well costs, says report | CBC News
A new report is warning the annual levy charged to Alberta oil companies to fund the cleanup of orphaned oil and gas wells remains too low to keep up with the rate of surrendering.
www.cbc.ca
May 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
While Danielle Smith is distracting Albertans with separatism & culture war BS, energy companies continue to rob the province blind.
This should be a scandal.
These companies socialize risk and privatize profits.
This is the story @albertandp.ca needs to tell. #abpolitics
This should be a scandal.
These companies socialize risk and privatize profits.
This is the story @albertandp.ca needs to tell. #abpolitics
Republicans are not conservatives, they're radicals. They're not fiscal hawks, they're recyclers of old bad ideas on behalf of corporate masters.
TAX CUTS ARE SPENDING. They stimulate rich old men, not the economy.
How much more proof do we need that neoliberalism destroys our society?
TAX CUTS ARE SPENDING. They stimulate rich old men, not the economy.
How much more proof do we need that neoliberalism destroys our society?
I don't care at all about the Biden coverage but it's massively bad reporting to call any GOP faction "fiscal hawks" (as the NYT and others do) and to fail to make it clear that every GOP faction supports *much* higher federal budget deficits.
May 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Republicans are not conservatives, they're radicals. They're not fiscal hawks, they're recyclers of old bad ideas on behalf of corporate masters.
TAX CUTS ARE SPENDING. They stimulate rich old men, not the economy.
How much more proof do we need that neoliberalism destroys our society?
TAX CUTS ARE SPENDING. They stimulate rich old men, not the economy.
How much more proof do we need that neoliberalism destroys our society?
New blog post on Trump's plane and Medicare destruction and why Democrats could still screw this up.
andrewvarsanyi.com/if-this-does...
#politics #democrats
andrewvarsanyi.com/if-this-does...
#politics #democrats
If This Doesn’t Help the Democrats, Nothing Will – Andrew Varsanyi
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May 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
New blog post on Trump's plane and Medicare destruction and why Democrats could still screw this up.
andrewvarsanyi.com/if-this-does...
#politics #democrats
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#politics #democrats
Someone needs to write a book examining the history Green Party of Canada and explain the absolute worst run political organization in the history of the modern West.
It’s beyond embarrassing.
Just dissolve this thing already.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
It’s beyond embarrassing.
Just dissolve this thing already.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Jonathan Pedneault resigns as Green Party co-leader after failing to secure seat for 2nd time | CBC News
Jonathan Pedneault has announced that he is stepping down as co-leader of the Green Party after failing to secure a seat in the House of Commons on his second attempt.
www.cbc.ca
April 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Someone needs to write a book examining the history Green Party of Canada and explain the absolute worst run political organization in the history of the modern West.
It’s beyond embarrassing.
Just dissolve this thing already.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
It’s beyond embarrassing.
Just dissolve this thing already.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Prime Minister Carney, Be Radical, Don’t Be Another Tim Geithner – Andrew Varsanyi
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April 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM