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· Feb 17
There’s an older more sinister threat to American democracy that, despite the common themes and compatibility with various forms of fascism, is uniquely American, built on racism and long repeated myths.
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“this is not who we are” is indistinguishable from “this is not who we want to become”; and it’s one of the most powerful rhetorical tools available to any political movement trying to marshal moral authority & civil disobedience against barbarism.
it’s good. ppl should say it.
it’s good. ppl should say it.
February 14, 2026 at 5:26 PM
“this is not who we are” is indistinguishable from “this is not who we want to become”; and it’s one of the most powerful rhetorical tools available to any political movement trying to marshal moral authority & civil disobedience against barbarism.
it’s good. ppl should say it.
it’s good. ppl should say it.
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It’s always Deutsche Bank.
A newly unsealed FBI interview shows an entire Deutsche Bank staff team internally tried to cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein in 2015, after seeing wires to young women. One compliance officer says she was later pushed out and fired after raising the issue. Management kept the accounts open.
February 14, 2026 at 5:58 PM
It’s always Deutsche Bank.
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Yesterday the students in one of my classes discussed this excellent 2018 article by historian Chris Bonner which opens with this incredible story of direct action from 1837 that, sadly, hits especially hard in 2026.
February 14, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Yesterday the students in one of my classes discussed this excellent 2018 article by historian Chris Bonner which opens with this incredible story of direct action from 1837 that, sadly, hits especially hard in 2026.
This thread is 🔥!
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 6:06 PM
This thread is 🔥!
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Absolutely correct. Alberta holds up Australia but waits are longer for most priority procedures—and the public subsidizes the private insurance insurer big time!
Public dollars into private hands
Public dollars into private hands
The Australian model of adding private care into public care resulted in longer wait times for care. It’s not a model to follow
February 14, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Absolutely correct. Alberta holds up Australia but waits are longer for most priority procedures—and the public subsidizes the private insurance insurer big time!
Public dollars into private hands
Public dollars into private hands
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In the Toronto Star I write about Toronto Police's violent corruption scandal. Will it move the needle on police reform? It's a dramatic escalation in a long history of police intimidation, bullying their critics & broken trust. I argue 3 big things have to happen, including firing this chief.
Shawn Micallef: Toronto is facing its worst police corruption scandal in decades. Here are three things that need to happen soon
The corruption revealed by Project South undermines the public trust that is the foundation of policing.
www.thestar.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
In the Toronto Star I write about Toronto Police's violent corruption scandal. Will it move the needle on police reform? It's a dramatic escalation in a long history of police intimidation, bullying their critics & broken trust. I argue 3 big things have to happen, including firing this chief.
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Had an IC class where I read a bunch of interviews with former warlord/terrorist recruits and it was very interesting how many of them were using ideology as a vehicle for violence instead of using violence to pursue an ideology. "Excitement" was one of the main reasons a lot of them joined!
Yes. This is it. Some people believe their politics; other people adopt politics as an excuse to hurt other people for fun and tell themselves it’s for a good cause and they can’t be blamed.
The internet has let all the people in the latter group find each other and make better rationalizations.
The internet has let all the people in the latter group find each other and make better rationalizations.
I often think the real ideological divide online is not really ideology by whether politics exists as a permission structure for behaviour or not
February 14, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Had an IC class where I read a bunch of interviews with former warlord/terrorist recruits and it was very interesting how many of them were using ideology as a vehicle for violence instead of using violence to pursue an ideology. "Excitement" was one of the main reasons a lot of them joined!
The way Mamdani campaigned and does his job with genuine joy is infectious and inspiring.
Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
February 14, 2026 at 4:20 PM
The way Mamdani campaigned and does his job with genuine joy is infectious and inspiring.
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I have been privileged to be reporting on Tumbler Ridge for more than a decade.
I wanted to provide a little more context for why it is so incredibly unique and why the word "resilient" keeps popping up when people talk about it
It's a town that doesn't give up
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I wanted to provide a little more context for why it is so incredibly unique and why the word "resilient" keeps popping up when people talk about it
It's a town that doesn't give up
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Why Tumbler Ridge is resilient | CBC News
The town at the centre of a national tragedy has faced collapse and hardship but continues to persevere.
www.cbc.ca
February 14, 2026 at 4:01 PM
I have been privileged to be reporting on Tumbler Ridge for more than a decade.
I wanted to provide a little more context for why it is so incredibly unique and why the word "resilient" keeps popping up when people talk about it
It's a town that doesn't give up
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I wanted to provide a little more context for why it is so incredibly unique and why the word "resilient" keeps popping up when people talk about it
It's a town that doesn't give up
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.
February 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.
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Too many of us take too much for granted that we casually put it all at risk: from democracy to vaccines to clean water and so on.
This is as unnerving as it is stupid.
This is as unnerving as it is stupid.
February 14, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Too many of us take too much for granted that we casually put it all at risk: from democracy to vaccines to clean water and so on.
This is as unnerving as it is stupid.
This is as unnerving as it is stupid.
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“The hypocrisy of liberals, claiming universal values while in reality presiding over an order underpinned by implicit violence”
*provokes libs*
“ahhh no they made the violence explicit fuck”
*provokes libs*
“ahhh no they made the violence explicit fuck”
"you're gonna get in trouble for that"
*stone-faced*
"okay"
goddamn son
*stone-faced*
"okay"
goddamn son
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
February 13, 2026 at 11:07 PM
“The hypocrisy of liberals, claiming universal values while in reality presiding over an order underpinned by implicit violence”
*provokes libs*
“ahhh no they made the violence explicit fuck”
*provokes libs*
“ahhh no they made the violence explicit fuck”
It seems the quiet part is now being said out loud. The fear mongering about pedophile rings was a dog whistle to a very old antisemitic trope, not a genuine concern about the Epstein class.
Current state of things: One Fox News host casually declares that Epstein’s money comes from “Jewish billionaires” and a “Jewish banking family,” another responds that he was a “sex rabbi.” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes...
February 13, 2026 at 2:08 PM
It seems the quiet part is now being said out loud. The fear mongering about pedophile rings was a dog whistle to a very old antisemitic trope, not a genuine concern about the Epstein class.
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I don‘t really have anything to add. They’ve been working against birthright citizenship for generations. This is the culmination of that.
February 12, 2026 at 4:28 PM
I don‘t really have anything to add. They’ve been working against birthright citizenship for generations. This is the culmination of that.
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This Is the Real Reason to Make Bus Rides Free www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...
Opinion | This Is the Real Reason to Make Bus Rides Free
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:36 AM
This Is the Real Reason to Make Bus Rides Free www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...
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People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy.
But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.
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But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.
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February 11, 2026 at 9:57 PM
People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy.
But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.
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But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.
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And even when we move at warp speed and outpace this regime, DHS doesn’t care. They’ve moved people to Texas hours or days after being enjoined.
When ordered to return them, DHS just… doesn’t. The AUSAs let them: when we notify them of a violation, they send the email equivalent of a shrug.
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When ordered to return them, DHS just… doesn’t. The AUSAs let them: when we notify them of a violation, they send the email equivalent of a shrug.
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February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
And even when we move at warp speed and outpace this regime, DHS doesn’t care. They’ve moved people to Texas hours or days after being enjoined.
When ordered to return them, DHS just… doesn’t. The AUSAs let them: when we notify them of a violation, they send the email equivalent of a shrug.
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When ordered to return them, DHS just… doesn’t. The AUSAs let them: when we notify them of a violation, they send the email equivalent of a shrug.
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So it’s a race: how quickly can a person’s family realize they were snatched and find a lawyer, and how quickly can that lawyer get a habeas petition of file? And is that faster than ICE can load the detainee on a plane to Texas?
It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death.
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It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death.
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February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
So it’s a race: how quickly can a person’s family realize they were snatched and find a lawyer, and how quickly can that lawyer get a habeas petition of file? And is that faster than ICE can load the detainee on a plane to Texas?
It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death.
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It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death.
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Silence is a powerful tool. And yet often underestimated.
This is superb. Wayne Horton may have invented a new genre of journalism. This is a deeply informed, wonderfully enlightening essay on how to behave in bad faith negotiations, as well as a perfect reading of Carney's manner and thinking, and it's satire. It is explanatory parody. And it's right.
Dear Team Canada — Day 289 — Will You Please Shut Up?
The Carney Letters — an unauthorized series by Wayne Horton
letterkenny.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Silence is a powerful tool. And yet often underestimated.
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“Pretending this is some noble pursuit to save civilization is just a way to launder rape apologia and misogyny. The actual goal is good old-fashioned control and a world where women—young women, especially—have no choices.”
@jessicavalenti.bsky.social
@jessicavalenti.bsky.social
The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
They're Coming for Our Daughters
The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures
jessica.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:33 AM
“Pretending this is some noble pursuit to save civilization is just a way to launder rape apologia and misogyny. The actual goal is good old-fashioned control and a world where women—young women, especially—have no choices.”
@jessicavalenti.bsky.social
@jessicavalenti.bsky.social
Toronto Sun columnist Warren Kinsella sharing altered images by far right Babylon Bee. Maybe this is a reflection of what Kinsella has been about. Or maybe spending time in far right circles even the virtual kind affects ppl.
Toronto Sun columnist Warren Kinsella is posting fake CBC News Network screenshots on X dot com falsely claiming CBC is using terms like "policepersons" and "gunperson"
February 12, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Toronto Sun columnist Warren Kinsella sharing altered images by far right Babylon Bee. Maybe this is a reflection of what Kinsella has been about. Or maybe spending time in far right circles even the virtual kind affects ppl.
The system attracts a certain type of guy. The kind that enjoys domination and exploitation.
Investigators said one immigration enforcement official got away with physically assaulting his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he repeatedly sexually abused a woman in his custody. A third is charged with taking bribes to remove detention orders on people targeted for deportation.
Several ICE agents were arrested in recent months, showing risk of misconduct
Investigators said one immigration enforcement official got away with physically assaulting his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he repeatedly sexually abused a woman in his custody. A third …
trib.al
February 12, 2026 at 11:52 AM
The system attracts a certain type of guy. The kind that enjoys domination and exploitation.
What is being done to these children is evil. These ICE concentration camps are evil. What ICE, CBP & DHS are doing is evil.
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 12, 2026 at 11:48 AM
What is being done to these children is evil. These ICE concentration camps are evil. What ICE, CBP & DHS are doing is evil.
