Mike Follert
@mfollert.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ StFX Sociology & Research Fellow @ BMIG 🏳️🌈 Nalikitquniejk/Antigonish, NS || production editor @fast-capitalism.bsky.social
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
Fast Capitalism CFP: Precarity, Debt, and Control in the Age of Artificial Intelligence websites.uta.edu/centerforthe...
Fast Capitalism CFP: Precarity, Debt, and Control in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Center for Theory
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This will impede the safety & ability of health care workers to ride to work at Toronto Gen, Mt Sinai, Toronto Rehab, Princess Margaret and Sick Kids. Ford knows this since a letter from hospital CEOs, supporting bike lanes for their staff, was entered into evidence in the original trial
Isaac Callan@isaaccallan.bsky.social · last mo.NEW: Weeks after winning its appeal to remove bike lanes from several major Toronto streets, the Ford government is forging ahead with plans to rip the infrastructure from Bloor Street, Yonge Street and University Avenue. #OnPoli #Topoli globalnews.ca/news/1204320...
Academic freedom is when a foreign government dictates how and even whether a university investigates misconduct
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.Nathan Cofnas and the US Ambassador to Belgium say that the University of Ghent have now lifted his suspension, thanking the US government for supporting him (with threats of retaliation). The Ambassador says that Cofnas will be able to complete his one year appointment to March 2027.
Anne Hathaway & Ewan McGregor are dynamite in the 1953 National Film Board of Canada classic short, Farewell Oak Street! now in theatres www.imdb.com/title/tt2716...
I love how this contradicts with the argument for the deportations - that migrants were stealing jobs from everyone else. Now the claim is that the jobs were created by migrants just as they are now gone with them.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoBessent on the latest bad jobs report: "After the deportations that we've seen and the closing of the border, we don't need to produce as many jobs"
CFP!!! Precarity, Debt, and Control in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Please circulate
Rachel Reid, who wrote the popular “Heated Rivalry” novel, has donated $300k to Annapolis Valley Regional Library, “one of the most significant private gifts” in their history. “I credit my local library for being a huge part of the reason I’m a published author today,” Reid said #Halifax #HaliSky
‘Heated Rivalry’ author donates $300,000 to Nova Scotia libraries
Several Nova Scotia libraries that faced possible closures this summer are getting a major cash boost from one of the province’s most famous authors.
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I appreciated it. If I did advice (I don’t) I would definitely advise women and femmes to leave the first time a male or masc partner even looks like he might maybe be considering ruining your birthday, work event, accomplishment. you don’t even have to say for “closure”. Just block him & leave.
Gus's Mom@anatsfan.bsky.social · 2mo agosharing this because I know a LOT of women can relate to this. Thank you @tressiemcphd.bsky.social for posting this in your instagram stories www.marieclaire.co.uk/life/relatio...
for a truly meta experience, listen to the New Yorker AI voice reader regularly mispronounce the words of an otherwise very relatable set of testimonies
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2mo agoAbsolutely bleak reading before the fall semester of 2026 www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground
Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground
OTTAWA - Mark Carney has officially given notice that his government will be designating Danielle Smith’s West Coast pipeline a project of national interest, allowing the massive oil and gas project t...
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They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2mo agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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I will just say that it is an...unfortunate editorial decision to put W.E.B DuBois' picture in a thumbnail above this headline
Nils Gilman@nilsgilman.bsky.social · 2mo ago"As inequality has surged in the United States, with a minuscule coterie of rich people holding vast amounts of wealth and political power, anti-egalitarian doctrines are surging, too." A long and disgusting political lineage: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/b...
*New Article* out with the Journal of Canadian Studies: "Radio Silence: Listening to the North on the CBC, 1945–1958" utppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
This thread is a really helpful reminder that seemingly unrelated foodborne illness outbreaks may be... less unrelated than you think
Annie Waldman@anniewaldman.bsky.social · 3mo agoThousands of Americans are getting sick from a foodborne parasite, and federal regulators have still not publicly identified the source. So what's been happening in the federal government over the past year that might be a factor in this outbreak? 🧵⬇️
Okay Toronto started the public survey on Church Street pedestrianization. I need you to tell the city it’s great. We only got 92% positive on Kensington market and it failed, let’s blow that out of the water. haveyoursay.toronto.ca/churchstreet
Church Street Pedestrianization Pilot
Learn more about the Church Street Pedestrianization Pilot and provide feedback on the impacts and outcomes by September 7, 2026.
haveyoursay.toronto.ca
Robin Andersen's indispensable new book, The Complicit Lens, offers a comprehensive examination of the media's role in supporting the Israeli genocide in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2026/06/how-...
How mainstream media bias contributed to Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Robin Andersen’s indispensable new book, The Complicit Lens, offers a comprehensive examination of the media’s role in supporting the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
mondoweiss.net
Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - new edition, @versobooks.bsky.social , September 2026 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... foreword by Angela Davis www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. In this classic book, Rodn...
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September is closer than we think - you can pre-order the second edition of Indigenous Writes now and celebrate its tenth year anniversary with me! apihtawikosisan.com/2026/06/ten-...
Ten Years of Indigenous Writes
I began this little blog back in 2011 with posts focusing mostly on the Cree language, with some forays into reflections on Aboriginal law. I had maybe ten regular readers which was fine really. I …
apihtawikosisan.com
For timely & incisive analysis of the FIFA World Cup by some very sharp critical thinkers, read the newest issue of @fast-capitalism.bsky.social, out today! mavmatrix.uta.edu/fastcapitali...
more Ontarians should read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's #LowerEd on how private career colleges monetize student loans & pilfer from the public purse
@ocufa.bsky.social · 4mo agoAfter years of funneling public dollars into the private system, the response to an “unsustainable” bill is to cut OSAP and leave all students with more debt. Make it make sense. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...