read "Practical Radicals"

“the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently”

[Brandi Morin @Songstress28]

Collins First Nation is gone. Northern Ontario is choking on smoke from 128 wildfires. And in the same two weeks, Canada approved three new pipelines. Canada is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet — and still building for more of it. New piece is up:

https://t.co/FTcTvySSCU

[read "Practical Radicals" @nowarzeka]

actually, @fordnation makes calculated decisions. while First Nations leaders sounded alarm over provincial use of glyphosate—it makes forests hotter, drier, more prone to wildfire—Bill 5 was passed, Ring of Fire proceeded. it's an old logic: clear the land for industry #onpoli

[Bill Murtagh @cavendishbill]

Don’t forget that Ford in 2019, slashed the Ontario Forest Firefighting base budget by 67% (a reduction of approximately $142 million) Then, in 2025, it was another $42 million cut. It’s almost as if the man is an incompetent oaf, incapable of making good decisions.

[Silicon Valley Fodder @Playerinthgame]

Wow.

Dirty pool with Mills, Preti, and Genevieve McDonald and the Platner campaign:

[Lindsay Ballant @lindsayballant]

You can read more about the backstory of the probe into Fain's leadership at UAW, appears to be political retribution (from liberals) motivated by Fain's early support for Palestine, in this lengthy @theprospect feature here: https://t.co/rsAoJJVhhR

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Peter Thiel is funding a plan to build privatized city-states everywhere from Gaza and Venezuela to small towns in California.

The goal is to replace governments with for-profit companies.

We investigated how Thiel's scheme is already reshaping democracy across the world.

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

Canada has a unique democracy unlike anywhere else in the world it is governed by two rival cellphone companies and a powerful grocery store.

[Chuka Ejeckam @DarkerxDarker]

Ultimately, how people assess a politician's character is all they have to go on. The politician's imperative to reduce self-injury goes both ways. Any real US left *must* support global wealth redistribution. That's not a campaign argument. It comes from character.

[Chuka Ejeckam @DarkerxDarker]

Politics is about structures and material, accumulation and distribution. Electoral politics is about rhetoric.

By definition, politicians are performers of a trade in which each statement is shaped to be, above all, minimally self-injurious.

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

NEW: I wrote a small guide explaining how to archive things you see online and why you should. Archiving is essential for journalists, researchers and activists, and the more of us who get in the habit of archiving what we find, the better.

https://t.co/RoerUuDibo

[Ricochet Media @ricochet_en]

Postmedia, Canada’s largest newspaper chain, has spent the last decade amplifying conservative politics — creating fertile ground for #MAGA-style ideas, #Alberta separatism, and an increasingly polarized political landscape.

New from @JeremyAppel1025:

https://t.co/UJJqXJUo6N

[CHCH News @CHCHNews]

St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton has announced the elimination of 24 positions in an effort to offset a nearly $18.7 million deficit from the last fiscal year.

https://t.co/vCZdFlO6AR

[Sopo Japaridze @sopjap]

The Graham Platner debate/condemnation overlooks a glaring truth. The alleged victim herself ties his violence to drinking and PTSD yet these are predictable outcomes of combat deployment. Soldiers routinely return with substance abuse and heightened aggression, disproportionately directed at their partners, including higher rates of physical assault and rape. This is the direct consequence of U.S. military imperialism: commit atrocities abroad, provide grossly insufficient care for vets, and leave American society, especially families, to bear the domestic burden.

But instead of confronting this systemic logic, US individualizes it. US media/people/society grafts onto each person as a personal moral failing. "PTSD (or fill in the blank) is not an excuse" becomes the reflexive mantra because it lets the U.S. dodge accountability. That's how America (not) solves everything: pathologically individualizing systemic problems to avoid reckoning with its own imperialist machinery.

It’s only very American that Platner allegedly wanted to fix the structural devastation of war and its domestic fallout. Yet he was deemed morally unacceptable and condemned, forced to drop out of the political race not because he deviated from the American system, but precisely because he embodied the violence and substance abuse adapted into him.

At the end of the day, someone who’s never been to war will happily support going to another war, and they’ll never have to pay for its consequences. They won’t be the millions of Iraqi, Afghan, Iran, Palestinian who dies at the hands of US soldiers and US weapons or the partners who will face the violence of the soldiers returning home.

[Poi is looking for work in NYC (SRE or SWE) @poiThePoi]

Every pro-AI person assured me this would not happen.

[jeremy @jeremylovesyall]

no one could have foreseen that the butlerian jihad will be catholic

[addam @addammy1]

The Ontario Liberals are surging under new leader “Untitled Document (1)”

[Stephen Tustin @stustin]

Excellent work by @Thetrilliumca. It all makes sense now, doesn't it? Ontario Place, Exhibition Place, island airport, Toronto Islands, etc. Ford failed to deliver the Greenbelt to developers so he's "gifting" them the public Toronto waterfront. @NoJetsTO #corruption

[ms. paige victoria ♡ 🍋 @citrusgirlpaige]

everybody transgender,
everything computer,
everywhere casino

[David Windt @DavidLWindt]

Chris Hedges: "there's a kind of emotional incapacity to understand collapse, even when it's facing you."

[Danny @Danny_MAZE]

The amount of money about to vanish into thin air is going to be felt for generations

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

To everyone who cheerleaded Carney's faux speech in Davos & posturing as independent middle power -

His atrocious statement today backing US-Israeli attacks on Iran make clear that he is firmly aligned with dominant imperial interests

And he did so while shaking hands with Modi