@cocoo-jamboo.bsky.social
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My three non-fiction best book reads from the last year.
All strongly recommended.
#1) The Big One. by Mike Osterholm
Strongly support all the recommendations in here.
We need to be better prepared not only for the BIG ONE, but for the annual respiratory viruses that inflict us.
1/3
All strongly recommended.
#1) The Big One. by Mike Osterholm
Strongly support all the recommendations in here.
We need to be better prepared not only for the BIG ONE, but for the annual respiratory viruses that inflict us.
1/3
January 2, 2026 at 4:28 PM
My three non-fiction best book reads from the last year.
All strongly recommended.
#1) The Big One. by Mike Osterholm
Strongly support all the recommendations in here.
We need to be better prepared not only for the BIG ONE, but for the annual respiratory viruses that inflict us.
1/3
All strongly recommended.
#1) The Big One. by Mike Osterholm
Strongly support all the recommendations in here.
We need to be better prepared not only for the BIG ONE, but for the annual respiratory viruses that inflict us.
1/3
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Always a good idea to read @profsaunders.bsky.social goodauthority.org/news/what-ha...
What happens now in Venezuela – and the world?
What happens now in Venezuela – and the world? Trump’s no-guardrails foreign policy raises big questions about the global order, not just about who will run Venezuela.
goodauthority.org
January 3, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Always a good idea to read @profsaunders.bsky.social goodauthority.org/news/what-ha...
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2025 in review: hegemonic suicide, medieval peasant brain, and other highlights from a very long year
hegemon.substack.com/p/2025-hegem...
hegemon.substack.com/p/2025-hegem...
2025: Hegemonic Suicide and Other Innovations
Every generation, on reaching middle age, begins to see the world around them in decline in order to habituate themselves to their own decay.
hegemon.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
2025 in review: hegemonic suicide, medieval peasant brain, and other highlights from a very long year
hegemon.substack.com/p/2025-hegem...
hegemon.substack.com/p/2025-hegem...
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Woah.
Argentina's 1990s preschool expansion program appears to have been a smashing success.
The program increased high school completion by a whole 11.9 percentage points.
The authors estimate that for every $1 spent, the preschool expansion generated about $11 in benefits.
Argentina's 1990s preschool expansion program appears to have been a smashing success.
The program increased high school completion by a whole 11.9 percentage points.
The authors estimate that for every $1 spent, the preschool expansion generated about $11 in benefits.
December 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Woah.
Argentina's 1990s preschool expansion program appears to have been a smashing success.
The program increased high school completion by a whole 11.9 percentage points.
The authors estimate that for every $1 spent, the preschool expansion generated about $11 in benefits.
Argentina's 1990s preschool expansion program appears to have been a smashing success.
The program increased high school completion by a whole 11.9 percentage points.
The authors estimate that for every $1 spent, the preschool expansion generated about $11 in benefits.
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Mr. Coyne (on Twitter) is so, so correct here, and Mr. Bricker is naïve.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Mr. Coyne (on Twitter) is so, so correct here, and Mr. Bricker is naïve.
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“Galbraith wrote…a new idea casts a spell. Credit expands. Prices rise. Everyone feels smarter. Then crack, reality bites & it all comes crashing down.
The real fuel [is] boundless hope & fleeting memory. Each generation convinces itself that this time is different”
www.forbes.com/sites/brando...
The real fuel [is] boundless hope & fleeting memory. Each generation convinces itself that this time is different”
www.forbes.com/sites/brando...
It’s Not Just An AI Bubble. Here’s Everything At Risk
Stocks are soaring, gold is too, and risk looks cheap everywhere. These charts trace the signs of what could be the everything bubble taking shape.
www.forbes.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“Galbraith wrote…a new idea casts a spell. Credit expands. Prices rise. Everyone feels smarter. Then crack, reality bites & it all comes crashing down.
The real fuel [is] boundless hope & fleeting memory. Each generation convinces itself that this time is different”
www.forbes.com/sites/brando...
The real fuel [is] boundless hope & fleeting memory. Each generation convinces itself that this time is different”
www.forbes.com/sites/brando...
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Total banger. (If LinkedIn content was 10% as good as this, I might look at it.)
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
August 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Total banger. (If LinkedIn content was 10% as good as this, I might look at it.)
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This piece by @markkersten.bsky.social is really terrific at explaining what genocide is and the processes involved www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... and yes, calling what is happening Gaza genocide.
August 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This piece by @markkersten.bsky.social is really terrific at explaining what genocide is and the processes involved www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... and yes, calling what is happening Gaza genocide.
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Read the whole thread
As a thoroughly russified Qazaq kid growing up in the 1980s Almaty, I had deeply internalized the Russo-centric view of Qazaq-speaking Qazaqs as being rural and backwards. Embarrassingly, for many years, I failed to understand what now seems so painfully obvious. 1/10
July 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Read the whole thread
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Yep.
Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy
TPM Reader TS (Harvard sociologist/political scientist Theda Skocpol) and I often compared...
talkingpointsmemo.com
July 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Yep.
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Bruce Cockburn said it best:
🎶 But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight
🎶 Got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight
🎶 But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight
🎶 Got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight
June 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Bruce Cockburn said it best:
🎶 But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight
🎶 Got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight
🎶 But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight
🎶 Got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight
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Nearly two years ago, in September of 2023, Doug Ford made a promise.
Just wondering if anyone has moved into their 1,600-square-foot home, with a finished basement, a backyard with a fence, and a paved driveway.
Did you pay less than $500,000 for your home like Doug promised?
Just wondering if anyone has moved into their 1,600-square-foot home, with a finished basement, a backyard with a fence, and a paved driveway.
Did you pay less than $500,000 for your home like Doug promised?
May 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Nearly two years ago, in September of 2023, Doug Ford made a promise.
Just wondering if anyone has moved into their 1,600-square-foot home, with a finished basement, a backyard with a fence, and a paved driveway.
Did you pay less than $500,000 for your home like Doug promised?
Just wondering if anyone has moved into their 1,600-square-foot home, with a finished basement, a backyard with a fence, and a paved driveway.
Did you pay less than $500,000 for your home like Doug promised?
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The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity:
1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.
It’s time more people understood this.
1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.
It’s time more people understood this.
May 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity:
1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.
It’s time more people understood this.
1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.
It’s time more people understood this.
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Canada’s new Minister of Justice & Attorney @seanfraser.bsky.social has an important first job: making sure it’s illegal for personal information on Canadians to go to ICE or US Homeland Security without formal requests thru govt. I think Canadians & PM Carney will be strongly onside. #ElbowsUp
A company you've never heard of -- co-owned by Air Canada and eight other major carriers -- is quietly selling detailed passenger records and itineraries to ICE and other U.S. agencies. Reporter @katyaschwenk.bsky.social
sounds the alarm on @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/air... (THREAD)
sounds the alarm on @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/air... (THREAD)
Airlines Collect Passenger Data and Sell It to ICE, Other Federal Agencies
Data includes full flight itineraries, passenger name records and financial details which are otherwise hard to obtain.
truthout.org
May 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Canada’s new Minister of Justice & Attorney @seanfraser.bsky.social has an important first job: making sure it’s illegal for personal information on Canadians to go to ICE or US Homeland Security without formal requests thru govt. I think Canadians & PM Carney will be strongly onside. #ElbowsUp
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Appeasement, as Churchill warned, is like feeding a crocodile and hoping to be the last one eaten.
Levitsky, Way, and me today in New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Levitsky, Way, and me today in New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Opinion | No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines
www.nytimes.com
May 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Appeasement, as Churchill warned, is like feeding a crocodile and hoping to be the last one eaten.
Levitsky, Way, and me today in New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Levitsky, Way, and me today in New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
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"If you or any other Canadians are not happy living on Treaty lands, they are free to apply for citizenship elsewhere."
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation issues a scathing rebuke of Danielle Smith's talks on a national unity crisis.
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation issues a scathing rebuke of Danielle Smith's talks on a national unity crisis.
May 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
"If you or any other Canadians are not happy living on Treaty lands, they are free to apply for citizenship elsewhere."
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation issues a scathing rebuke of Danielle Smith's talks on a national unity crisis.
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation issues a scathing rebuke of Danielle Smith's talks on a national unity crisis.
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This is a great piece by @seva.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com . This puts everything that is going on in sharper context.
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
The Forgotten Dystopian Vision That Explains Trump’s Canada Obsession
The president’s outlandish fixation on annexing Canada and Greenland makes sense when you understand his worldview. It’s pretty similar to one articulated in 1941.
newrepublic.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This is a great piece by @seva.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com . This puts everything that is going on in sharper context.
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
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Read this
March 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Read this
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Closer to 165,000 excess deaths in Canada in the last 5 years
--AFTER subtracting excess mortality attributable to toxic drugs and overloaded healthcare system (% excess cancer deaths)
-from '22 on it's ~35-45K/yr, similar to (and on top of) annual smoking deaths
-about 10-13X annual flu deaths
--AFTER subtracting excess mortality attributable to toxic drugs and overloaded healthcare system (% excess cancer deaths)
-from '22 on it's ~35-45K/yr, similar to (and on top of) annual smoking deaths
-about 10-13X annual flu deaths
Five years ago today, Canada recorded its first #COVID19 death, an 83-year-old man at Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver. There have been more than 60,000 pandemic deaths since.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
B.C. records Canada’s first coronavirus death
The elderly man who died of COVID-19 on Sunday night lived at a North Vancouver nursing home where two workers and at least one other resident are also infected
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Closer to 165,000 excess deaths in Canada in the last 5 years
--AFTER subtracting excess mortality attributable to toxic drugs and overloaded healthcare system (% excess cancer deaths)
-from '22 on it's ~35-45K/yr, similar to (and on top of) annual smoking deaths
-about 10-13X annual flu deaths
--AFTER subtracting excess mortality attributable to toxic drugs and overloaded healthcare system (% excess cancer deaths)
-from '22 on it's ~35-45K/yr, similar to (and on top of) annual smoking deaths
-about 10-13X annual flu deaths
Excellent thread.
In 1890, the Tariff Act came into place in the United States. It placed tariffs on imports of up to 50%.
While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired.
Let's learn more.
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While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired.
Let's learn more.
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March 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Excellent thread.
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And it is *possible* for the opposition to win in competitive authoritarian systems, particularly unconsolidated and semi-consolidated ones.
Again, elections happen under competitive authoritarianism. What doesn’t happen is legal accountability for criminals allied with the government, or elections that are fully free & fair. We already don’t have those. If the claim is we’re still going to be a full democracy in 2026/8, I have bad news.
March 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
And it is *possible* for the opposition to win in competitive authoritarian systems, particularly unconsolidated and semi-consolidated ones.
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This piece is excellent. Take a few minutes and give it a read.
Annexing Canada would initiate am insurgency that would destroy the US, argues UofT professor Aisha Ahmad.
theconversation.com/why-annexing...
Annexing Canada would initiate am insurgency that would destroy the US, argues UofT professor Aisha Ahmad.
theconversation.com/why-annexing...
Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States
Americans have already been defeated by insurgents all over the world. Invading Canada would be no exception.
theconversation.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This piece is excellent. Take a few minutes and give it a read.
Annexing Canada would initiate am insurgency that would destroy the US, argues UofT professor Aisha Ahmad.
theconversation.com/why-annexing...
Annexing Canada would initiate am insurgency that would destroy the US, argues UofT professor Aisha Ahmad.
theconversation.com/why-annexing...