Keep planting. Plant seeds. Plant ideas. Plant initiatives. That is all we can do. Many people before us have believed that the end was imminent. They were wrong. Keep going. No matter what, our job here on this earth is to keep planting and tending.

And this. Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk detained by plain-clothed ICE officers on her way to break her Ramadan fast. She was put on a hit list recently by Canary Mission for her oped in the student paper. Do you know what a Liberal government will do to protect freedom of speech on Canadian campuses?

@kayabagaarielle.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social the Trump administration is sending ICE to seize students who have spoken up for Palestinians rights from a hit list compiled by Canary Mission. How will a Liberal government protect freedom of speech & conscience?

Canadian scholar Youcef Soufi spoke in my class today about his new book, Homegrown Radicals. He is a wonderful story teller and offers intelligent and thoughtful analysis. Read his book, invite him to your literary event!

despite it all, this is why we still can’t get enough of America

Well, this will really strengthen ‘Team Canada’

Choices were made to get us here; we can make other choices to get us out. Cory Doctorow energizes and gives hope not through emotional manipulation but through sharp ‘forensic accounting’ of our current state, leading to practical suggestions to unwind bad policies. Listen to this interview.