Jody

[Stephen Taylor @stephen_taylor]

The trillion dollar mistake.

[Jody @dodle]

@billymorinECN I’m in your riding. I literally signed on to X today to see if you had posted anything in regard to this. Thank you for respecting your constituents votes. Do not cross.

[Jody @dodle]

@Quea_Ali @cselley Probably people are just voting for the party, not the candidate - which makes this floor crossing soooo appalling.

[Jody @dodle]

@EvanLSolomon 😂😂😂😂

[Fraser 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @fp_905]

Steven Guilbeault seeing Marilyn Gladu walk into the caucus meeting:

[Jody @dodle]

@ABDanielleSmith Imagine a train service like this for Alberta! But slower, less convenient, over budget build, expensive fares, drivers that strike every year, and of course the trains will be dead ugly. lol

I’m losing faith we can ever accomplish anything decent that we can be proud of. 😔

[Jody @dodle]

@MarilynGladuSL @sunlorrie Not sure you should be feeling proud. Your actions are an absolute betrayal of the people that voted for you and everyone that worked on your campaign. You should be feeling ashamed.

This was pure selfishness.

[Jody @dodle]

@Prairielily22 Yeah, the NDP are absolutely weird crazy. Cult vibes.

[Jody @dodle]

@jkenney @colewhogan The media is giving this a lot of airtime. I feel like this is now just a campaign to show Quebec how much the Liberal Party cares about their language laws ahead of the upcoming by-election.

[Jody @dodle]

@TristinHopper 💯

[Jody @dodle]

@MNavarroGenie Has she created one of these vids for Quebec I wonder…

[daniel debow @ddebow]

If words were results, Canada would be a global superpower.

[Jody @dodle]

@ryanjespersen Teachers need to keep their personal political opinions out of the classroom. The stories I’ve heard from the younger generation about some teachers and how much time they spend ranting about current politics is disappointing.

[Jody @dodle]

@jenniferelle_ Do we know who he was talking to? 🤯

[Tahmineh Dehbozorgi @DeTahmineh]

The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the world.

Ideally, to cover an uprising is not just to show crowds and slogans. It requires answering a basic question: why are people risking death? In Iran, the answer is simple and unavoidable. The people are rising up because the Islamic Republic of Iran has spent decades suffocating every aspect of life—speech, work, family, art, women, and economic survival—under a clerical system that treats liberty as a crime. There is no way to tell that story without confronting the nature of the regime.

Western media refuses to do so because it has fundamentally misunderstood Islam. Or worse, it has chosen not to understand it.

Islam, in Western progressive discourse, has been racialized. It is treated not as a belief system or a political ideology, but as a stand-in for race or ethnicity. Criticizing Islam is framed as an attack on “brown people,” Arabs, or “the Middle East,” as if Islam were a skin color rather than a doctrine.

This confusion is rooted in historical illiteracy. Western liberal media routinely collapses entire civilizations into a single stereotype: “all Middle Easterners are Arabs,” “all Arabs are Muslim,” and “all Muslims are a monolithic, oppressed identity group by white European colonizers.” Iranians disappear entirely in this framework. Their language, history, and culture—Persian, not Arab; ancient, not colonial; distinct, not interchangeable—are erased.

By treating Islam as a racial identity rather than an ideology, Western media strips millions of people of their ability to reject it. Iranian protesters become unintelligible. Their rebellion cannot be processed without breaking the rule that Islam must not be criticized. So instead of listening to Iranians, the media speaks over them—or ignores them entirely.

There is another reason the Iranian uprising is so threatening to Western media is economic issues.

As you know, Iran is not only a religious dictatorship. It is a centrally controlled, state-dominated economy where markets are strangled, private enterprise is criminalized or co-opted, and economic survival depends on proximity to political power. Decades of price controls, subsidies, nationalization, and bureaucratic micromanagement have obliterated the middle class and entrenched corruption as the only functional system. The result is not equality or justice. It is poverty, stagnation, and dependence on government’s dark void of empty promises.

Covering Iran honestly would require acknowledging that these policies are harmful. They have been tried. They have failed. Catastrophically.

This is deeply inconvenient for Western media institutions that routinely promote expansive state control, centralized economic planning, and technocratic governance as morally enlightened alternatives to liberal capitalism. Iran demonstrates where such systems lead when insulated from accountability and enforced by ideology. It shows that when the state controls livelihoods, non-conformity becomes existentially dangerous. That lesson cannot be acknowledged without undermining the moral authority of those who advocate similar ideas in softer language.

Western liberal media prefers not to hear this. Acknowledging it would require abandoning the lazy moral categories that dominate modern discourse: oppressor and oppressed, colonizer and colonized, white and non-white. Iranian protesters do not fit. They show that authoritarianism is not a Western invention imposed from outside, but something many societies are actively trying to escape.

That is what terrifies Western liberal media. And that is why the Iranian people are being ignored.

So the silence continues.

[Jody @dodle]

@KristinRaworth “hard pants” 😂 I totally get that.
I hate hard pants in winter.

[Jody @dodle]

@jkenney Why did the Obama Administration object to the sharing of intelligence?

[Jody @dodle]

@MeghanEMurphy This seems to me to be a publicity stunt to try to A) put Katy Perry back in the spotlight after her stalled career, and B) launch Trudeau’s Hollywood celebrity status.

Both of them eager to be in the spotlight and trying to become relevant again.

[Rock'n Roll of All @rocknrollofall]

David Bowie on addiction.

Words of wisdom.

He was such a beautiful human being.