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There’s an older more sinister threat to American democracy that, despite the common themes and compatibility with various forms of fascism, is uniquely American, built on racism and long repeated myths.
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NEW: The Trump administration's brutal removal of so many workers is projected to shrink the nation’s GDP by as much as 6.8% — a deeper hit than the one sustained during the Great Recession.
A.J. Schumann:
A.J. Schumann:
Mass Deportations Aren’t Helping Workers. They’re Tanking The Economy. - OtherWords
Trump claimed immigrants were “taking your jobs.” But during his brutal crackdown, the job market has only gotten worse.
otherwords.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
NEW: The Trump administration's brutal removal of so many workers is projected to shrink the nation’s GDP by as much as 6.8% — a deeper hit than the one sustained during the Great Recession.
A.J. Schumann:
A.J. Schumann:
A very interesting read!
And if this is indeed a thing, then it would be interesting to learn if and to what extent Fox News played a role.
And if this is indeed a thing, then it would be interesting to learn if and to what extent Fox News played a role.
November 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A very interesting read!
And if this is indeed a thing, then it would be interesting to learn if and to what extent Fox News played a role.
And if this is indeed a thing, then it would be interesting to learn if and to what extent Fox News played a role.
Proof that Canadian pundits suffer from similar pathologies as American cousins. Forget about whether a concept is useful in analyzing historical injustices whose effects persist today. What really matters is that someone might hurt my feelings or worse my status.
vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...
vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: How long must I live in Canada before I am no longer a colonist or settler?
Pete McMartin: Initiatives like reconciliation speak well of Canada’s attempt to heal wounds, but there's a danger it can become resentment.
vancouversun.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Proof that Canadian pundits suffer from similar pathologies as American cousins. Forget about whether a concept is useful in analyzing historical injustices whose effects persist today. What really matters is that someone might hurt my feelings or worse my status.
vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...
vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...
[Insert all the obvious points: Republicans being hypocritical and pro death & using double speak]
I’m glad some news outlets continue to report it. But I wonder if and when ppl will start to realize that they’re voting for a party and politicians who hurt them.
I’m glad some news outlets continue to report it. But I wonder if and when ppl will start to realize that they’re voting for a party and politicians who hurt them.
He Vowed to “Protect the Unborn.” Now He’s Blocking a Bill to Expand Medicaid for Wisconsin’s New Moms. By @megomatz.bsky.social
He Vowed to “Protect the Unborn.” Now He’s Blocking a Bill to Expand Medicaid for Wisconsin’s New Moms.
Splitting with anti-abortion members of his own party, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has refused to join 48 other states in ensuring that vulnerable women have access to potentially lifesaving ...
www.propublica.org
November 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
[Insert all the obvious points: Republicans being hypocritical and pro death & using double speak]
I’m glad some news outlets continue to report it. But I wonder if and when ppl will start to realize that they’re voting for a party and politicians who hurt them.
I’m glad some news outlets continue to report it. But I wonder if and when ppl will start to realize that they’re voting for a party and politicians who hurt them.
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It's remarkable that the number of news analyses/pundit takes that the Democrats are too extreme--out of touch, too focused on divisive cultural issues, too beholden to progressive orthodoxy--far exceeds the articles on the Trump/GOP's connections to the far right. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Trump Defends Tucker Carlson After Nick Fuentes Interview
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
It's remarkable that the number of news analyses/pundit takes that the Democrats are too extreme--out of touch, too focused on divisive cultural issues, too beholden to progressive orthodoxy--far exceeds the articles on the Trump/GOP's connections to the far right. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
NO GEAR NO FALLS! Brad Gobright & Jim Reynolds race for the Nose speed record
YouTube video by REEL ROCK
youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It only “depends” if you believe in magic.
KARL: To state the obvious, tariffs do raise prices on Americans despite what the president has said over and over again
HASSETT: It depends
HASSETT: It depends
November 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It only “depends” if you believe in magic.
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You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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Communities in northern Ontario getting calls from #Quebec doctors looking to relocate
More than a dozen Quebec doctors have asked about opportunities in Timmins
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
More than a dozen Quebec doctors have asked about opportunities in Timmins
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Some Quebec doctors leaving the province look to northern Ontario for new opportunities | CBC News
As Quebec doctors consider leaving the province due to Bill 2, many have already looked into opportunities to relocate to northern Ontario.
www.cbc.ca
November 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Communities in northern Ontario getting calls from #Quebec doctors looking to relocate
More than a dozen Quebec doctors have asked about opportunities in Timmins
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
More than a dozen Quebec doctors have asked about opportunities in Timmins
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Added this book to my reading list!
«Devenir fasciste» : une drolatique «thérapie de conversion» qui vaccine contre le péril brun
Le sociologue québécois Mark Fortier publie un petit manuel racontant sa tentative de conversion au fascisme. Une fable sarcastique qui tourne en ridicule l’extrême droite et ses complices apathiques.
Le sociologue québécois Mark Fortier publie un petit manuel racontant sa tentative de conversion au fascisme. Une fable sarcastique qui tourne en ridicule l’extrême droite et ses complices apathiques.
«Devenir fasciste» : une drolatique «thérapie de conversion» qui vaccine contre le péril brun
www.liberation.fr
November 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Added this book to my reading list!
This piece describes what I fear is happening and will happen in the USA.
How repression is born – and how to resist it | Javier Corrales and Daniel Altschuler
How repression is born – and how to resist it | Javier Corrales and Daniel Altschuler
In a clear pattern, a machine designed to generate law and order morphs into an organization operating under lawlessness
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This piece describes what I fear is happening and will happen in the USA.
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this is actually a really common way of understanding the world among pundits where events can only be classified if they fit a strict definition and if they don’t fit that definition then they cannot be classified in that way. it is as if they see definitions as structuring reality.
November 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
this is actually a really common way of understanding the world among pundits where events can only be classified if they fit a strict definition and if they don’t fit that definition then they cannot be classified in that way. it is as if they see definitions as structuring reality.
In the face of American threats to Canadian sovereignty, Canada needs to take steps to be less dependent upon on the American defence industry. And maybe Sweden can help, if only just a bit.
"Saab wants to do significantly more work in Canada in the near term. Saab views Canada as an ideal partner, with the right, highly skilled workforce to support a massive growth in global demand," said Simon Carroll, president of Saab Canada.
See the article for more.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
See the article for more.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Swedish king’s visit highlights growing Canadian interest in Saab military aircraft | CBC News
A few days before the federal budget was tabled, the CEO of Swedish industrial giant Saab flew to Ottawa to meet with the country's top bureaucrat, fuelling the sense a deal is brewing between the Can...
www.cbc.ca
November 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
In the face of American threats to Canadian sovereignty, Canada needs to take steps to be less dependent upon on the American defence industry. And maybe Sweden can help, if only just a bit.
Good thread on social media platforms shaping public opinion.
Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Good thread on social media platforms shaping public opinion.
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Canadians, we need to get our institutions and elected officials the hell off X
British Columbia’s Attorney General says she’s “deeply disturbed” that the social media company X has filed a legal challenge against an order to remove a non-consensual intimate image from the internet. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
B.C. Attorney General ‘deeply disturbed’ by social media giant’s intimate image case
British Columbia’s Attorney General says she’s “deeply disturbed” that the social media company X has filed a legal challenge against an order to remove a non-consensual intimate image from the intern...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Canadians, we need to get our institutions and elected officials the hell off X
I don’t anything about this field or this topic but having grown up in the South this seems eerily accurate.
This is almost exactly the "culture of honor" experiment in Cohen et al. (1996). psycnet.apa.org/buy/1996-017...
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I don’t anything about this field or this topic but having grown up in the South this seems eerily accurate.
“Bad apple” or a representative example?
So… A BP agent filmed in LA in June kidnapping someone from a Walmart got arrested by Long Beach cops after drunkenly flashing his service pistol in a women’s restroom. He demanded they call BP Commander Bovino. After making bail he died of a drug OD at his parents house. lbpost.com/news/isaiah-...
A viral arrest, a drunken brawl and an overdose: the last days of a notorious Border Patrol agent
We obtained hours of body-camera video that give the fullest — and perhaps last — glimpse of Agent Isaiah Hodgson’s mindset when he became a flashpoint in the fight over immigration raids.
lbpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“Bad apple” or a representative example?
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Remembering when people told me in late 2024 that "Trump couldn't create his own police force because federalism" mmhmm
With @arynbraun.bsky.social, this week we ran this big look at what ICE/CBP has become under Donald Trump and how the agencies increasingly resemble a sort of national police force he can send to whatever city he likes to intimidate people:
www.economist.com/interactive/...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
See how Donald Trump is creating his own police force
Immigration agents are operating in cities with few legal constraints
www.economist.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Remembering when people told me in late 2024 that "Trump couldn't create his own police force because federalism" mmhmm
I wonder if part of the post liberal & New Right appeal for a not insignificant amount of people is that the Right’s frameworks and personalities tell people how to feel. People feel lost, disconnected, frustrated, etc and the Right tells them how to feel about that.
November 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I wonder if part of the post liberal & New Right appeal for a not insignificant amount of people is that the Right’s frameworks and personalities tell people how to feel. People feel lost, disconnected, frustrated, etc and the Right tells them how to feel about that.
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"Freedom from want is not a noble ideal just because it mitigates against the suffering inherent in poverty—it is also a key pillar in making a society truly open, as personal wealth is nearly synonymous with choice in a modern, commercial society." www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...
Liberalism's Positive Vision Must Be the Open Society
Liberalism is not just the mitigation of dangers. It is also an active striving towards a world that is truly free.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"Freedom from want is not a noble ideal just because it mitigates against the suffering inherent in poverty—it is also a key pillar in making a society truly open, as personal wealth is nearly synonymous with choice in a modern, commercial society." www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...
Lots of stuff in this piece but this line struck me: “Unfortunately, US politicians are not very good at voluntarily ceding power with dignity.”
Chuck Schumer should quit – but would his imaginary friends agree? | Arwa Mahdawi
Chuck Schumer should quit – but would his imaginary friends agree? | Arwa Mahdawi
The US government was shut down for weeks – and then Democrats shrugged their shoulders and gave up
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Lots of stuff in this piece but this line struck me: “Unfortunately, US politicians are not very good at voluntarily ceding power with dignity.”
Very interesting review! Added the book to my reading list.
November 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Very interesting review! Added the book to my reading list.
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It's funny how the biggest thing Claremont is mad at is being held accountable for trying overturn the 2020 election:
americanmind.org/salvo/enemie...
americanmind.org/salvo/enemie...
Enemies of the State
Lawfare will only be stopped by using power to punish wrongdoers, deter future abuses, and deconstruct the national security state.
americanmind.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It's funny how the biggest thing Claremont is mad at is being held accountable for trying overturn the 2020 election:
americanmind.org/salvo/enemie...
americanmind.org/salvo/enemie...
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One thing that's become very apparent over the last few years is that journalists chose the news.
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
One thing that's become very apparent over the last few years is that journalists chose the news.