My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.

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Toots and the Maytals - Take Me Home Country Roads

YouTube video by Lisa Sixties

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Watch this video; read John Vaillant’s important book, Fire Weather.

Charlie Angus@charlieangus104.bsky.social · yesterday

"Anyone born after 1990 is in a new geological era, navigating a world fundamentally different from the one Baby Boomers and Gen X-ers inherited. The chances of anyone alive today experiencing a year as cool as 1996 are effectively nil." My interview with John Vaillant. youtu.be/03prPc-Qrp8?...

She has a point. Simply, the hypocrisy of these two morally impaired old, white men is appalling. They should both be in prison for their illegal actions. Period.

...and if ya wanna buy it - OUT TOMORROW - go to prh.com/peopleshistorian

Trump tells his cultists in every speech, “we are respected all over the world like never before.” And most of them believe him. It should come as no surprise that the 10 states with the fewest number of people with passports per capita are all red states.

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Would I Lie to You? (Remastered Version)

YouTube video by Eurythmics - Topic

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MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 5d ago

We could've made this montage of liars an hour long but you get the point

Hunter Biden has zero f*cks left to give. He spotted that vile family of grifters a mile away. Love it! 💙 #Vote #TrumpCrimeFamily #SheShed

A chilling interview made all the more chilling by the detached way the subject is discussed by Klein and Haberman. They are literally describing a mad king with no checks on his power but fail to connect what they’re describing with the related dangers to this country and the world. Gift link:

Opinion | How Trump Has Changed, With Maggie Haberman (Gift Article)

The New York Times correspondent says 70 percent of the president’s mind is dedicated to White House renovations.

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Danielle Smith is no stranger to using leverage to achieve her political goals — except when it comes to Donald Trump. It’s almost like those goals don’t include standing up for the rest of Canada. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/31/o...

Danielle Smith wants Canada to surrender

Alberta's premier is no stranger to creating, and using, political leverage — even if it creates the risk of blowback. So why is she so unwilling to do the same thing when it comes to Donald Trump and...

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You want rigging? I’ll show you rigging. This ship is rigged to a fare-thee-well.

October 19th is Referendum Day. Visit elections.ab.ca to read the questions in full and order a special ballot so you don't have to wait in line on election day. Remember that our voice and our vote matter. We need to GET OUT AND VOTE!

Pablo Torre is a smart dude. Long, Byzantine podcast, but insightful about how stadium financing works.

PDwhoa@pdwhoa.bsky.social · 7d ago

David Samson basically gives up the game on getting public financing for sports stadiums and it's maybe the C plot in this episode?

Disappointed in number of stories about Fauci that neglected to point out that the attacks on him are part of an on-going effort by Trump and GOP to distract from their catastrophic mismanagement of the pandemic, mismanagement estimated to have caused hundreds of thousands of unnecessary US deaths.

Behold, a steaming pile of self-serving dung from a recent Globe and Mail op-ed by two business leaders. Reality: the province is suffocating clean energy, no business has “stepped up” to build or fill the pipeline, and oil companies are minting massive profits for themselves, not the federation.

still horrifyingly high

Bradley P. Moss@bradmossesq.bsky.social · 7d ago

I will confess that I did not believe he would get below 35%. I thought that was his floor. Color me intrigued.

[Thank you Chris Garlock!] "This is the book we need right now. It feels like every day I'm talking people off the ledge and Zinn's story is such an antidote to despair." - Chris Garlock, WPFW prh.com/peopleshisto...

The People's Historian by Dave Zirin: 9780593473658 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the times that shaped him as well as the United States of...

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THIS JUST IN: In #Canada, federal government announces almost $2B for 45 new battery-diesel Via Rail passenger locomotives The hybrid locos, first in North America, will be built by #Switzerland 's Stadler. 📷 Stadler's EUR9000 hybrid loco www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Because we glorify wealth above all else and it breaks people's brains to realize that the world's richest man is basically a stormfront poster and is responsible for killing millions of people. They'd rather not think about it at all. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? (Gift Article)

Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?

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"The Fire This Time" | @pkrugman.bsky.social on wildfires, climate crisis & the assault on climate scientists "for being right" www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwyi... p.s. yes, there's a shout out for yours truly p.s. #2 fun fact--I grew up just down the street from Robert Frost's home in Amherst MA

The Fire This Time

YouTube video by Paul Krugman

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Mark Carney’s entire argument for expanding oil & gas production—natural gas as a bridge fuel, carbon capture (etc)—looks to be based on this utter and contemptible fraud Astonishing new report from ProPublica everyone in #Canada should read #cdnpoli www.propublica.org/article/wedg...

How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy

BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.

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Vespucci at the dock.

Bang on.

Kathleen Westergaard 🇨🇦 MSW, RSW@kathleenwester.bsky.social · last wk.

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“Today, trucks will roll, cars will cross, and governments will begin collecting tolls. But the bridge will remain a monument to a broken bond that may take decades to fix—and may never be fully repaired.” Well worth reading @davidmoscrop.com’s excellent piece.

David Moscrop@davidmoscrop.com · last wk.

If there was ever any doubt, the Gordie Howe Bridge fiasco proves it: You can't trust Trump's America, or any deal within this administration's orbit. thewalrus.ca/the-gordie-h...

Wolfers: "The most important thing for the Canadians to understand now is there is literally no such thing as a deal anymore. The value of a piece of paper signed by this president is ZERO. Therefore,you should give up ZERO to get it" 🎥 Credit CBC News ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA🇨🇦🍁❤️

9 yrs after Drapeau committed #Canada’s largest act of arts censorship, he wound up inadvertently providing the land on which Corridart architect Mel Charney would complete his magnum opus, the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s interpretive garden #Montreal www.canadashistory.ca/explore/arts...

Canada's biggest case of art censorship - Canada's History

The story behind the Corridart affair during the summer of the Montreal Olympic Games.

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