this is like
the thesis statement of our times
07.03.2026 03:12
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this is like
the thesis statement of our times
Publishing the names of protesters and contacting their employers to have them fired for exercising their rights is a tactic straight out of the White Citizens Councils.
Graphic of busy car-filled road and text stressing that car dependency is the opposite of freedom. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices. Graphic by the Urban Truth Collective.
Gas price hikes & shortages “fuel” controversy, especially when they’re “driven” by an illegal war. But let’s not forget one of the most important discussions that should flow from such hikes — how they spotlight the difference between places with mobility choices, and places that are car-dependent.
So let me get this straight ...
1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil
Longue durée analysis is so important.
What the author describes here are (potentially) self-reinforcing feedback effects. The direction of change points to some form of vassal state pathway. Only one, but unfortunately not an entirely unrealistic scenario.
thewalrus.ca/canada-is-al...
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
Carney cuts $192m from CBC at time when Canadian news, culture probably not important
News In Photo:
Take back all our utilities.
They have proven that profit motives don't belong in essential services.
Regulate companies, not people.
There are many, many reasons these types of laws are idiotic, but chief among them has to be demanding the public hand over their IDs and personal information to social media companies - SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES, who have not exactly demonstrated a great track record for privacy and safety.
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
Wake the fuck up, folks. The regime dead set on claiming Canada and Greenland as part of their Empire. Just like Putin.
Canada must stand firmly on the side of international law. If the war drags on Canada will be under enormous pressure to support the gangsters. My latest on how Canada cannot get sucked into this dangerous war.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT-n...
"Lack of public consultation means a project that would have consumed as much power as the city of Edmonton won’t go ahead — for now"
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Wow that was stupid. Alberta UCP needs Federal oversight because they will destroy the environment for short term gain.
Two decades ago, Canada declined to go to war based on lies.
Today, Cabada wasn't even invited to the war — and yet, for some reason, we're participating in the fiction. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
These are war crimes, violations of the Geneva Conventions.
Increasingly I think we should turn the whole Trump cabinet over to the ICC to be tried at The Hague.
"Stripping anonymity from the internet would constitute one of the most sweeping rollbacks of civil rights in recent history. It would allow for unprecedented levels of mass surveillance and censorship, endangering the most marginalized members of society."
"Parallel private systems do not reduce wait times. They make them longer," @danyaalraza.com said.
#cdnpoli #abpoli
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One thing geoengineering conversations clarify is that most people who work on climate aren't in it just to keep earth habitable. We all want that, but most of us also want to build societies that are more fair & conducive to human flourishing. I think we should be more open/intentional about that.
This should be a huge fucking wake-up call to every level of government playing footsie with fascists and their pals in ‘law enforcement.’
These people are by far the biggest threat to public safety - not protesters, not encampment dwellers, not people using drugs. Fascists.
When people tell you who they are for the four hundred millionth time, believe them.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
US no longer a reliable trading partner, say small businesses
#CFIB report reveals majority of small firms are losing faith in US as stable market due to tariffs, political uncertainty. www.hcamag.com/ca/news/gene...
Prediction markets are the perfect technology for a low-trust society, Charlie Warzel argues: “They claim to get us closer to the truth but, in the end, they make us less certain about the world.”
"The fossil fuel industry continues to pocket massive profits and subsidies.
Meanwhile, everyday people bear the costs of climate catastrophe – from rising insurance premiums to lost livelihoods.
Those who shoulder the blame must foot the bill." @antonioguterres
#ActOnClimate
Very interesting read.
And Canada's recent budget cut funding for environmental projects. Poor economic decision.
@mark-carney.bsky.social
#cdnpoli
Exactly right. Texas has been running this playbook for decades — no income tax, education funded through property taxes, burden falls regressively. Property taxes in Texas are among the highest in the US as a direct result. Alberta is just further behind on the same trajectory.
If it wanted it could build the expansion with its 2025 net profit with $2B leftover for shits and giggles. Simply a pressure tactic to increase profits.
www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/ar...
Women: We live in a constant state of vigilance because men pose a constant threat to us, here are literally millions of corroborating stories.
Men: What a scary time for men this is.
"Competence" for Carney is defined as furthering the goals of capital, i.e. fossil fuel and extractive maximalism, austerity, interventionism, xenophobia. All centrist policy is written inside these parameters because centrists are conservatives.
