Laura Moran

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

Riveting, extraordinary and brutally honest speech by Mark Carney, Canada's prime minister. God, I wish we would have European leaders like this.

Here's an excerpt:

In 1978, the Czech dissident Václav Havel, later president, wrote an essay called “The Power of the Powerless,” and in it he asked a simple question: how did the communist system sustain itself?

And his answer began with a greengrocer.

Every morning, the shopkeeper places a sign in his window: “Workers of the world unite.” He doesn’t believe in it. No one does. But he places the sign anyway to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along. And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists — not through violence alone, but through the participation of ordinary people in rituals they privately know to be false.

Havel called this living within a lie. The system’s power comes not from its truth, but from everyone’s willingness to perform as if it were true. And its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack.

Friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down.

For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order. We join its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability. And because of that, we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection.

We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, and we knew that international law applied with varied rigor, depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.

This fiction was useful, and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.

So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.

This bargain no longer works.

Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.

Read/listen in full: https://t.co/1Cxm0Kxz7a

[Laura Moran @LauraAMoran]

@harleyf Warms my heart. Pups are remarkably resilient, particularly when they’re this well loved. Bayley sounds like a gem 💛

[Laura Moran @LauraAMoran]

@RobSilver Anecdotal, but I literally got it for this series and I suspect I’m not alone.

[helena riley @freshhel]

In order to enjoy taylor swifts lyricism i close my eyes and pretend its marnie

[Laura Moran @LauraAMoran]

This album sounds exactly like what I’d imagine dating Travis kelce feels like

[Jon Lovett @jonlovett]

You might not know it by the shit floating around here, but the VAST majority of Americans support free expression. Republicans got this - and made good politics of hitting the left for policing speech.

There will be a backlash as Republicans once again become the party of scolds and hall monitors (a welcome return to America's natural equilibrium).

And it would be smart for the left to not hold tightly to that busybody rope as Republicans yank it away - if we all let go at the same time, they'll pull too hard and fall right over.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The murder of Charlie Kirk is part of a disturbing rise in political violence that threatens to hollow out our public life.

A free society relies on the premise that people can speak out without fear or humiliation.

No more political violence.

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

Bernie Sanders on the political assassination of Charlie Kirk:

"Political violence, in fact, is political cowardice."

"It means you cannot convince people of the correctness of your ideas, & you have to impose them by force."

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

It's ghoulish to mock or justify the shooting of Charlie Kirk. Rising political violence is a horror of our time. Unchecked it will lead to catastrophes none of us want to imagine.

Deeply hoping he pulls through. We are all people, whatever we believe. That has to come first.

[Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused]

A big divide in attitudes towards AI, I think, is in whether you can easily write better than it and it all reads like stilted, inauthentic kitsch; or whether you’re amazed by it because it makes you seem more articulate than you’ve ever sounded in your life

[Yasser @yasser_elsaid_]

It's so funny to scroll linkedin rn. They have no idea what's happening.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

This reminds me of when Craig Canover unfollowed the entire Summer House cast

[Matt Margolis @ItsMattsLaw]

big day for guys who keep asking Grok if this is true

[Laura Moran @LauraAMoran]

@BrianLaManna_ Oh man - they doubled down! Baseline gut check for any outreach is always “how would I feel receiving this message?” Blows my mind that someone with an EQ this low would find a career in recruiting.

[Laura Moran @LauraAMoran]

@TheBigPic @SeanFennessey @ChrisRyan77 Dob Mob is taking it!

[Laura Moran @LauraAMoran]

“This guy’s a political genius because he beat Bonnie Crombie and Steven Del Duca? And now we gotta sit around and take advice from him? Nuh nuh.”

No fan of Jivani but lol he ate with that line re: Ford.

[Ahmar Khan @AhmarSKhan]

Here’s the entirety of David Common interviewing Conservative MP-elect Jamil Jivani — in which Jivani goes after Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

[Laura Moran @LauraAMoran]

@ArmandDoma If this were true he wouldn’t have lost his own riding so soundly. Poilievre has always had a likeability problem that was obfuscated by Trudeau’s historic unpopularity.

Trump is a factor here, but Poilievre and his campaign had a real part to play in this loss.

[Laura Moran @LauraAMoran]

@tomgreenlive is a national treasure ❤️

[Vulture @vulture]

‘Canadians are not upset because it’s an ‘us-versus-them’ thing. It’s more like if your brother turned on you: We were there in battle together. Before there’s anger, you’re kind of sad about it. Did you forget about what we’ve done to support you?’ https://t.co/CFIuvsN3hU

[Laura Moran @LauraAMoran]

@alspee @Shopify Absolute legend. Congrats @alspee 🚀

[Laura Moran @LauraAMoran]

@alspee @juliafedorin @Shopify This has been all over my feed today and I smash that like button every single time. You can literally just do things 💚