softrugged

Cultural Instincts/Political Imagination.
Psychoanalyst etc.
Just driving by...
Institut Mémoires
de l'édition contemporaine

[softrugged @softrugged]

@ProgressiveVic important to keep the illibs who dunk left, almost exclusively, in check here. this is a conservative op against him. no dem should join, unless they're a wedge plant or a conservative themselves. platner will win this seat. <3

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@Draven1683 I fucking love Canada.

[softrugged @softrugged]

@katz_morris i've treated grave moral injuries and war related trauma. it would be good to tie a lot of what is coming out to the meatgrinder of war, conditioning you for violence, then when you come home leaving many ill resourced, readjusting is an internal battle that is uneven & unruly.

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

Charlie Angus: "Israel's announced that they're going to go ahead with the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. This is a war crime ... Either the international rule of law stands for something or it's a joke. Either we have the Statute of Rome and we hold gangster criminal regimes to account, or hey, you can do what you want, because the next country will do what they want. That can't be allowed to happen."

[Maytal Kowalski @MaytalKowalski]

It cannot be that it is both antisemitic to conflate Jews with Israel and that in order to effectively combat antisemitism one must state their support for Israel.

[CNBC @CNBC]

Finland's president says EU should expand to 40 states — including Canada https://t.co/oTTVLFul0P

[Ab Gamble 🇨🇦, grateful Canadian.. @AbGamble1]

This captures the feelings that so many of us are experiencing. Canada's own Michael deAdder 🇨🇦

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Wab Kinew: I reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to participate in the modern economy.

[Paris Institute for Critical Thinking (PICT) @paris_critical]

"In a time of destruction, create something." - Maxine Hong Kingston 🎈

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

President of Finland Alexander Stubb: Wouldn’t it be lovely if Canada was the 28th state of the European Union rather than the 51st state of the United States?

https://t.co/nePoO8by2d

[MUBI @mubi]

Marjane Satrapi (1969 — 2026)

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French author whose graphic novel series “Persepolis” illuminated the struggles of Iranians during the Islamic Revolution, died at 56. https://t.co/WQWxavBm5l

[softrugged @softrugged]

@kenklippenstein god, i love your sense of humour. <3

[Terry T. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @terry_truchan]

Mark Carney walked into the Economic Club of New York, & instead of grovelling like every other world leader who's come to kiss the ring, he stole the MAGA slogan straight off Trump's head & used it as a weapon.

"Canada Strong will help make America great again." 1/2 🧵#cdnpoli

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

Bismarck:

"If this is communism...then I don't care, I keep calling it practical Christianity in legal activity - but if it is communism, then communism has long been practiced in the communities to the highest degree, even by state coercion...If that is communism, then I am not against it in any way...I think it should be for a state fighting these infernal elements that this days have been characterized here in more detail - a state, the great majority of which consists of sincere professors of the Christian faith, should also help the poor, the weak and the old to an even greater extent than is required here, to the extent I hope , if I live to be able to demand of you in the next few years, a state that wants to practice Christianity should not deny itself and the poor man."

- Speech in the Reichstag, Berlin, April 2, 1881

[Reuters @Reuters]

A 40,000-bottle wine collection that belonged to Josef Stalin, including French and Georgian rarities dating back to the early 19th century, was opened in Georgia's capital Tbilisi this week https://t.co/pA1go62did

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Le message d’unité et de compassion de Sa Sainteté le pape Léon XIV continue d’inspirer l’espoir et le changement dans le monde entier.

Durant notre conversation aujourd'hui, j’ai remercié Sa Sainteté de ses efforts pour restituer les artefacts autochtones des Musées du Vatican et nous avons discuté du besoin urgent d’aide humanitaire et de paix dans les régions en conflit.

Nous avons également abordé les perspectives et les défis liés à l’intelligence artificielle et l’importance pour celle-ci de servir l’humanité tout entière, la protection de la personne étant primordiale dans le processus d’adoption et de déploiement de cette technologie.

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

Tucker's focus on the genocide in Gaza is objectively admirable. But if you don't see that there is more to this than meets the eye then you have missed what is happening. The ruling class are working to cordon off criticism of Israel to right populist influencers because this allows the centrists and the liberal progressives to distance themselves from it under the presumption they are anti-Semitic. This set up keeps the public discussion on Israel Palestine at a stalemate which is what they want.