Parfait comme souvenir de Marc, Alexandrine.

… of the Ethelo digital democracy platform, of the Spanish city of Barcelona, and of a proposal by Sean Luo for a publicly funded, de-corporatized national social media platform called (at the moment) the Great Canadian Shield.

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…as well as from Charles Taylor (in the New Yorker), Martin Patriquin (in The Logic), and Melissa Butcher (in The Conversation).

Plus profiling of Elbows Up Climate letter from Canadian mayors to Canadian federal party leaders, …

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And here is Marisa Kabas herself on Bluesky: marisakabas.bsky.social Do follow her. This kind of independent investigative journalism is so important right now, and very brave journalism given the deepening repression in the US. Here is her report from yesterday: www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-fent...

...>They also suspect that it will be used domestically as justification for rounding up homeless encampments and deporting drug users who are not citizens."

Read some more analysis of the implications of this in my full post.

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"The EO may be published as early as next week, the [DoS] source tells me, but the timeline isn’t confirmed. The source speculates the purpose is a combination of designating fentanyl cartels as terrorist organizations and creating justification for conducting military op[s] in Mexico and Canada. >

...(alongside adding further terminological weaponry for actions the Trump admin may yet try to take in the US itself — as the words “terrorism” and ”invasion” have already been used).

Kabas reports the Department of State source as saying the following: [see next]

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This revelation came out yesterday from investigative journalist Marisa Kabas, via source at US Dept of State. The source is leaking the document because of the profound concerns it raises about creation of a pretext for using military force agst Mexico and/or Canada ..

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