I’m so excited to announce that I’ve been awarded a grant from the Canada Council of the Arts to complete my autotheory book (social theory-memoir-history hybrid) that I’ve officially been working on since 2024 ✨ ✷ ✷ ✷ Website: www.erinkellyblondeau.com Substack: erinblondeau.substack.com ✷ ✷ ✷

I never spoke publicly about this, but this time last year was one of the hardest times of my life. My child was experiencing an unexpected health crisis that shook our lives and changed everything. open.substack.com/pub/erinblon...

Community as resistance: a personal life update

It’s been a while since I’ve shown up in your inbox. Here's a personal essay I wrote about the importance of community and care in late-stage capitalism.

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happy father’s day to all the dads who don’t listen to manosphere podcasts

It’s been a while since I’ve written a Substack. Here's a personal essay I wrote about the importance of community and care in late-stage capitalism. erinblondeau.substack.com/p/community-...

Community as resistance: a personal life update

It’s been a while since I’ve shown up in your inbox. Here's a personal essay I wrote about the importance of community and care in late-stage capitalism.

erinblondeau.substack.com

I need you to understand how FUCKING INSANE this story Jeremy broke is. The separatists legally obtained Alberta electoral data....and then proceeded to PUBLISH IT AS A SEARCHABLE DATABASE WITH THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF OVER HALF OF THE POPULATION OF THE PROVINCE OF ALBERTA!!!!!

Jeremy Appel 🍉@readtheorchard.org · 5mo ago

SCOOP: I attended the launch of David Parker’s Centurion Project last night. I happened to step outside when an Elections Alberta investigator and the cops arrived. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

Wow. Fucking disgusting. Pierre Poilievre is such a loser, man. Note to everyone: if your rights become politically unpopular, Poilievre will throw you under the bus in a heartbeat, apparently.

Just started reading this and I highly recommend. Fascinating and written in an engaging way.

keep your electric eye on me@ubisurv.net · 7mo ago

A very early contender for #surveillance book of the year: Colonial Surveillance, by Midori Ogasawara... www.sup.org/books/asian-...

I can confirm the following journalists received phishing emails from the mysterious “Canadaland Tipster” who shared links to pages on @canadaland.com’s website containing an embedded IP tracer: • Me • Rachel Gilmore • Scott Martin • The Maple • Nora Loreto • Ethan Cox • Karyn Pugliese

🔫Scott Martin🛼@youcaughtscott.com · 6mo ago

Re: Jesse Brown’s behaviour, here’s the email I received with “tips” that lead to private urls, at least one of which has an ISP tracker. I’ve reached out to Jesse with questions, considering it appears that similar links were sent to subreddit members due to Canadaland requesting mod access.

Oh cool cool cool www.cbc.ca/news/world/h...

The next stage of fascist America: replacing TSA agents with violent goons in the president’s pocket. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

Trump says he will send ICE agents to U.S. airports during partial government shutdown | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump said that he will ‌be sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ​on Monday to ​help out Transportation Security Administration personnel ​in U.S airports.

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Fine, I guess I'll watch the new Manosphere documentary. I've seen a lot of support and critique of it. I'm 5 mins in and I'm already depressed. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere review – why doesn’t he focus more on the impact on women?

It’s refreshing to see him dial down the ignorant-ingenu approach and go harder than usual. But there is too little examination of how online misogyny affects those who didn’t choose to be part of it

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I just finished reading @karenhao.bsky.social's Empire of AI, and now I'm catching up and listening to her convo with @naomiaklein.bsky.social that I sadly had to miss. I'm feeling a renewed sense of drive & determination since I've decided to pivot my MA research to AI and transhumanism.

Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7mo ago

happy to be able to share the full video of my discussion with Karen Hao last week. AI has entered its lethal phase, embedded in illegal wars and mass shootings. We deserve democratic spaces to debate this for-profit dystopia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1B_...

everyone needs to have a listen to this its time for all of us to step up and build a better future together there are municipal elections in six provinces this fall and if they are won by bullshit and fear we will lose everything

Climate Caucus@climatecaucus.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Local electeds are sounding the alarm: rising disinformation and polarization are reshaping local democracy. We spoke with Mayor Blackwell about this growing crisis, whose concerns echo what we’ve been hearing. youtu.be/hOoGqgUWy3c #disinformation #cdnpoli #localgovernance #polarization #municipal

thats called "stealing"

CHEK News@cheknews.ca · 7mo ago

A new study released on Monday says AI systems depend on Canadian journalism for the information they provide users but don't offer compensation or proper attribution in return.

"the richest 1 per cent in Canada hold nearly $1.25 trillion in wealth." this is the problem we must urgently address we have work to do.

Davide Mastracci@davide.readthemaple.com · 7mo ago

NEW: Canada’s richest 1 per cent have nearly as much wealth as its poorest 80 per cent combined. www.readthemaple.com/canadas-rich...

"Thiel has said he is wary that an Antichrist will emerge ​who will create a one-world government on the promise of something like stopping nuclear, AI or climate-induced disaster." www.reuters.com/technology/t...

Thiel's secretive Rome conference draws Church attention

Peter Thiel, the U.S. billionaire venture capitalist and early supporter of President Donald ​Trump, launched on Sunday a series of closed-door lectures in Rome exploring the concept of the ‌Antichris...

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In his first year, Mark Carney unleashed a tsunami of pro-corporate policies and legislation. At last week's Broadbent Institute summit, Syed Hussan, @atiyactions.bsky.social, @janellelapointe.bsky.social, Nathan Prier, & Rachel Small discussed how movements are fighting back.

Mark Carney is ‘flooding the zone’—but movements are fighting back ⋆ The Breach

Organizers unpack Carney’s agenda of rapid-fire austerity, militarism and fossil fuel extraction

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Peter Thiel, the self-professed "orthodox christian" transhumanist, is in Rome to speak about the anti-christ. Billionaires like Thiel believe those who oppose tech's hegemonic rule are diabolical, stalling humanity's inevitable progress to a cyborg future. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Peter Thiel brings his lectures on the Antichrist to the Vatican's doorstep

The invitation-only conference in Rome, from Sunday to Wednesday, has proven so controversial that the Catholic universities initially associated with it have all denied official involvement.

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"The theater of this new war could expand to consume the whole world. We are on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse. The same country that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki could be readying itself to bomb one of the most ancient civilizations in the world." zeteo.com/p/iran-is-no...

'Iran Is Not Gaza': Read Arundhati Roy's Scathing Speech on the US-Israeli War

Exclusive: The award-winning Indian novelist warns that the world is on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse, and laments her own government's gutlessness.

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Happy international women’s day 🤝 German Marxist feminist, Clara Zetkin, formally instituted an international day to celebrate working women at the Second International Congress of Socialist Women in Copenhagen in 1910 ⤵️ open.substack.com/pub/kristeng...

Rage Becomes Resistance, Part I

On the 115th anniversary of International Women's Day

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Canada won't "rule out military participation in the Middle East," says Mark Carney. www.ctvnews.ca/world/mideas...

Canada won’t rule out military participation in Middle East conflict: PM Carney

During a joint press conference with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister Mark Carney wouldn't definitively say Canada would not participate in U.S. military action against Iran.

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Maya's parents are troubled by social media posts that politicize this tragedy. Gebala and Edmonds say they are frustrated that some of the posts have attracted angry comments directed at the mother of the shooter, Jennifer Strang, who was also killed in the massacre. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Mother of critically injured Tumbler Ridge victim says she feels compassion for shooter’s mother | CBC News

Maya Gebala's parents are by the 12-year-old's side taking strength from well-wishers. They are urging Canadians to support Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooting victims and to avoid politicizing the tragedy.

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Here are some resources if you're wondering how to help the Tumbler Ridge victims:

Erin Blondeau ✷ writer & researcher@erinblondeau.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Here's a GoFundMe for one of the victims of the Tumbler Ridge shooting, a 12-year-old girl who was shot. If I find more ways to support families and the broader community, I'll make a thread. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

In the aftermath of the Tumbler Ridge shooting, the shooter's trans identity has prompted disinformation the BC Human Rights Commissioner called "incorrect, irresponsible and frankly dangerous." But other rumours have pinned the shooter's motive on far-right ideology — an explanation experts doubt.

Experts 'don't buy' online claims Tumbler Ridge shooter a far-right sympathizer

With far-right ideology called into question, what do we know about what drove the shooter to mass murder?

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Here's a GoFundMe for one of the victims of the Tumbler Ridge shooting, a 12-year-old girl who was shot. If I find more ways to support families and the broader community, I'll make a thread. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Donate to Support For Maya In Her Road To Recovery, organized by Krysta Hunt

My name is Krysta, and I am the Cousin of Cia, Mayas mother. I am starting this… Krysta Hunt needs your support for Support For Maya In Her Road To Recovery

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If you're one of the people spreading rumours about the Tumbler Ridge's identity, maybe ask yourself why it's necessary for the world to know now, rather than later today, when the trade-off is the possibility of fuelling a moral panic against vulnerable people.

Just hours after the horrific mass school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, right-wing media and politicians are using this moment to incite more violence, hatred and moral panic against transgender people. It's absolutely abhorrent that this is the message politicians like Tara Armstrong decide to send.

The actions of ICE in Minneapolis is just a graphic and public example of state power being used to entrench patriarchy and control and brutalize women. #ice #uspoli

How ICE enforces a tradition of terror and patriarchy

The actions of ICE in Minneapolis is just a graphic and public example of state power being used to entrench patriarchy and control and brutalize women.

rabble.ca

How many times have we heard the nationalist slogans about “America First” and “Canada First”? These ultranationalist slogans signal that emancipation could be possible for the white working class through the oppression of “the other”. erinblondeau.substack.com/p/how-ice-en...

How ICE enforces a tradition of terror and patriarchy

The actions of ICE in Minneapolis is a graphic and public example of state power being used to entrench patriarchy and control and brutalize women.

erinblondeau.substack.com