Nothing like handing out $100 cheques to try to buy votes after claiming you need to slash supports for disabled people because AB can't afford it. This government disgusts me.
Bridget Stirling
@bridgetstirling.bsky.social
UAlberta PhD candidate exploring the politics of childhood and education and the temporality of childhood. Lover of travel, books, cats, music, coffee, and plants. Keeper of too many shoes. Not here to cheerlead for your political party. She/her.
what is wild to me is how few universities with schools of education are turning to us for our expertise in pedagogy. most seem to just be hopping on the AI train and largely ignoring the downstream consequences for our teaching
The real problem with "it's not about sex it's about power" in the context of sexual violence is that in our culture, sex is also about power
Lily@occultsoup.bsky.social · 4mo agoYes. That’s it entirely. People get shit for saying ‘it isn’t about sex, it’s about power’. But, folks, no matter how much it’s about sex, it’s exponentially more about power.
Every time friends and family and colleagues ask how my in-laws in Lebanon are, the only answer we can give is "Still alive, at least for now."
Watching the Artemis astronauts being recovered with such care and thinking about how on the other side of the world, the same country murders thousands without a thought. This is not to say the crew should not have care, but there is deep dissonance in seeing the same country doing both today.
A world leader saying "I will destroy a civilization" is just saying you're going to do a genocide if people don't do what you say, and we're all out here still pretending international law means anything anymore.
Love living in a province where I have been waiting several months to see the specialist I was referred to by the specialist who diagnosed my health condition so that I have some sort of shot at having coverage for the treatment I need.
lol how could some ides ruin my march
genuinely fascinated by how every country that's ever had any vague dealings with Iran the last 60 years envisaged exactly this outcome whereas the country that has made planning war with Iran literally a whole industry that has employed thousands of people for decades never considered any of it
Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.com · 5mo agoMy very first serious academic work was a study of how U.S. military and civilian defense officials simply refused to treat their Vietnamese counterparts as strategic actors that made rational decisions in their own interests, attuned to their own geography and survival. 😡
It’s not even that I think “Epstein class” is a particularly dangerous bit of antisemitism, intended or inadvertent (there are plenty on Right who use it knowing what they’re doing). But it functions as antisemitism did 1890s France, a means of moving people left to right.
If you’re using “Epstein class” as a synonym for billionaires, ask yourself why you can’t say “billionaires.” Maybe you don’t know what an bait-&-switch it is. When, learning of that history, ask yourself why you feel you must persist. If you say, “but this Jew or that also says it,” well, friend…
Fascinating to read of how this proto-fascist saw antisemitism as antidote to socialism, a means of persuading “low-info” workers that their enemy wasn’t really international capitalism so much as international Jewry. Hence my disgust for the term “Epstein class,” an evasion of capital.
So much usefully precise language here: on the role of Jew-hate in French proto-fascism: “antisemitism worked as a useful binding agent for the numerous unstable syncretic ideologies that were circulating.”
All while we continue to allow military arms and equipment sales to the US to be used in perpetuating their genocidal wars (and maybe against us soon too). But hey, elbows up! Don't let a little complicity get in the way of your patriotism.
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe're rebuilding, rearming, and reinvesting in the Canadian Armed Forces. From making sure they have the equipment they need, to giving service members the biggest pay raise in a generation — we’re reinforcing our capacity to protect our country, our allies, and our values.
The U.S. should not be bombing Iran. The U.S. should not have bombed Iran in the first place. The U.S. certainly should not continue bombing Iran. If your idea of a "big tent" means slaughtering school girls... no, thanks. Anyone who votes to give a single cent to continue it should be primaried.
I keep hearing US news talking about fuel prices and remembering that I live in a place with the world's fourth-largest oil reserves (after Venezuela!) and that we have a separatist movement fed in part by US money and far too entangled with our provincial government.
Apparently in 2025, "solo female diner syndrome" is still a thing. It's a downer because I was really looking forward to my meal at a London restaurant much praised in the celiac community. If you don't want to take reservations for one, then don't. I travelled 45 minutes across London for this?
The Cable Street musical is really good and someone needs to stage it in Canada. It's a call to action we desperately need.
I am both angered and impressed by people who sleep well enough on planes to snore.
Absolutely wild and yet perhaps unsurprising that the "Bernie Bro" smear is being applied to @avilewis.ca supporters out here in Alberta. Funny how people who claim they're building big tents never seem to want to make room on the left side.
It is mindblowing that many people see now that we were right for calling it fascism years ago and yet we still have to point out that we are watching things unfold largely as predicted. Fascism now may look different but you can spot the patterns. We aren't overreacting.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 6mo agoParamilitaries, you say?
Reorienting the same old system to put new powers at the table is just reproducing the exploitation and alienation that led the working class to look for answers that fascism was quite happy to provide. When someone talks about which powers sit at the table, they don't mean us.
100% guaranteed that at any event where people have to stand, several tall men will stand at the front and constantly shift and move so the entire crowd behind them has to move to see around them. If you are a tall man, please get an ounce of self awareness and consideration for others, thank you.
I'm really worn out by the whole "he's doing this to distract from the Epstein files!" thing. I'm sorry but a bunch of files, no matter how awful the things in them, are not the main issue of the day when someone is out there literally invading other countries.
