Joe Borsato
@theecoalchemyst.bsky.social
Research fellow; consultant, grant-writer, and editor from Tsilhqot’in Nen, working in Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe territories; PhD in Indigenous and global history from Queen’s University in Cataraqui (Kingston); Italian-Canadian, Irish (il/he/him)
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Joe Borsato
@theecoalchemyst.bsky.social
· Sep 22
My third peer-reviewed article is now out with the journal Ethnohistory! It is about Powhatan sovereignty in the early 17th century. My thanks go to a number of friends and colleagues who provided feedback on this article over the past three years. It wouldn’t be possible without so much support!
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The Assembly of First Nations have concerns over Alberta’s use of the notwithstanding clause to “limit the rights of two-spirit and trans youth” in the province.
The clause allows Alberta to override parts of the charter of rights for up to five years.
The clause allows Alberta to override parts of the charter of rights for up to five years.
Assembly of First Nations have concerns over Alberta’s use of anti-trans limitations | APTN News
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November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The Assembly of First Nations have concerns over Alberta’s use of the notwithstanding clause to “limit the rights of two-spirit and trans youth” in the province.
The clause allows Alberta to override parts of the charter of rights for up to five years.
The clause allows Alberta to override parts of the charter of rights for up to five years.
Meanwhile in Canada, our current political parties consist of neoliberal austerity hawks, diet Trumps, and campus leftists who have no backbones.
Cut bills. Tax billionaires.
This morning speaking to Sky News with @gndrising.bsky.social
youtu.be/j95ornZRUHI?...
This morning speaking to Sky News with @gndrising.bsky.social
youtu.be/j95ornZRUHI?...
Criticisms of calls for a wealth tax are 'absurd' - it's about 'fairness,' says Green Party leader
YouTube video by Mornings With Ridge & Frost
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November 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Meanwhile in Canada, our current political parties consist of neoliberal austerity hawks, diet Trumps, and campus leftists who have no backbones.
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Cut bills. Tax billionaires.
This morning speaking to Sky News with @gndrising.bsky.social
youtu.be/j95ornZRUHI?...
This morning speaking to Sky News with @gndrising.bsky.social
youtu.be/j95ornZRUHI?...
Criticisms of calls for a wealth tax are 'absurd' - it's about 'fairness,' says Green Party leader
YouTube video by Mornings With Ridge & Frost
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Cut bills. Tax billionaires.
This morning speaking to Sky News with @gndrising.bsky.social
youtu.be/j95ornZRUHI?...
This morning speaking to Sky News with @gndrising.bsky.social
youtu.be/j95ornZRUHI?...
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"I really believe that you can’t understand the AI bubble without understanding how its linked to private credit, and we need to get to grips what’s going on in both if we want to predict how the whole thing might blow up."
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What I read this week
The tech sell off, Saudi Arabia's oil lobbying machine, and why the left can't beat the far-right at its own game.
graceblakeley.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
"I really believe that you can’t understand the AI bubble without understanding how its linked to private credit, and we need to get to grips what’s going on in both if we want to predict how the whole thing might blow up."
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/what-i-rea...
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/what-i-rea...
I am convinced that the Mamdani-Trump meeting went so well because a Wicca or witchy person somewhere in the world decided to mess with some chaos magic. There is no other explanation.
Working people have been left behind in New York. In the wealthiest city in the world, one in five can't afford $2.90 for the train or bus. As I told Trump today— it’s time to put those people right back at the heart of our politics.
November 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I am convinced that the Mamdani-Trump meeting went so well because a Wicca or witchy person somewhere in the world decided to mess with some chaos magic. There is no other explanation.
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they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well
Being precariously employed is far from empowering yet I take what few positives I can from it. Besides, there are few things as satisfying as finalizing my syllabus for next semester when it’s over six weeks ahead of the start time.
I believe the technical phrase for this situation is « I win. »
I believe the technical phrase for this situation is « I win. »
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Being precariously employed is far from empowering yet I take what few positives I can from it. Besides, there are few things as satisfying as finalizing my syllabus for next semester when it’s over six weeks ahead of the start time.
I believe the technical phrase for this situation is « I win. »
I believe the technical phrase for this situation is « I win. »
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The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️
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All of us from the post-2008 era (and before, no doubt) have traumatic memories of the academic job market, but I don't think the real problem was the hotel rooms (or the ballroom!), & I think it should be noticed that the real problem (no jobs, ridiculous power disparities) is now worse
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
All of us from the post-2008 era (and before, no doubt) have traumatic memories of the academic job market, but I don't think the real problem was the hotel rooms (or the ballroom!), & I think it should be noticed that the real problem (no jobs, ridiculous power disparities) is now worse
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Fun fact: Carney wasn’t even welcome in Prince Rupert for this announcement — local nations including Lax Kw’alaams and Metlakatla are opposing Ksi Lisims LNG. He had to change the venue last minute, yet the Feds and province are still rushing to fast-track this giveaway to US billionaires. #bcpoli
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Fun fact: Carney wasn’t even welcome in Prince Rupert for this announcement — local nations including Lax Kw’alaams and Metlakatla are opposing Ksi Lisims LNG. He had to change the venue last minute, yet the Feds and province are still rushing to fast-track this giveaway to US billionaires. #bcpoli
Bonne journée Montréal et @thenacbs.bsky.social! C’était ma deuxième fois mais toujours une conférence super! J’ai passé une bonne expérience et je souhaite retourner encore, très bientôt j’espère.
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Bonne journée Montréal et @thenacbs.bsky.social! C’était ma deuxième fois mais toujours une conférence super! J’ai passé une bonne expérience et je souhaite retourner encore, très bientôt j’espère.
Presenting today
@thenacbs.bsky.social on Indigenous South American travel to England and the role of their diplomacy in preserving sovereignty during the 16th and 17th c. You may not have heard much about the Yao and Arromaia polities but their agency shaped much of early colonial history.
@thenacbs.bsky.social on Indigenous South American travel to England and the role of their diplomacy in preserving sovereignty during the 16th and 17th c. You may not have heard much about the Yao and Arromaia polities but their agency shaped much of early colonial history.
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Presenting today
@thenacbs.bsky.social on Indigenous South American travel to England and the role of their diplomacy in preserving sovereignty during the 16th and 17th c. You may not have heard much about the Yao and Arromaia polities but their agency shaped much of early colonial history.
@thenacbs.bsky.social on Indigenous South American travel to England and the role of their diplomacy in preserving sovereignty during the 16th and 17th c. You may not have heard much about the Yao and Arromaia polities but their agency shaped much of early colonial history.
Aujourd’hui, je suis allé à une très bonne session d’une conférence @thenacbs.bsky.social sur l’histoire de Montréal dans la contexte de l’empire britannique pendant le 19me siècle.
C’était génial de connecter les études académiques avec le lieu de la conférence.
C’était génial de connecter les études académiques avec le lieu de la conférence.
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Aujourd’hui, je suis allé à une très bonne session d’une conférence @thenacbs.bsky.social sur l’histoire de Montréal dans la contexte de l’empire britannique pendant le 19me siècle.
C’était génial de connecter les études académiques avec le lieu de la conférence.
C’était génial de connecter les études académiques avec le lieu de la conférence.
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Calling all graduate students at #nacbs2025! We hope you will join us tonight at 8pm for the Graduate Student Reception! Sponsored by the @royalhistsoc #nacbs2025
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Calling all graduate students at #nacbs2025! We hope you will join us tonight at 8pm for the Graduate Student Reception! Sponsored by the @royalhistsoc #nacbs2025
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As the PM makes big resource extraction announcements today, Im thinking about the findings of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Safety concerns for Indigenous women in resource development: MMIWG inquiry | CBC News
Amnesty International Canada is supporting the call from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls on the "urgent need" to consider the safety of Indigenous women in al...
www.cbc.ca
November 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
As the PM makes big resource extraction announcements today, Im thinking about the findings of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Hourra, NACBS 2025 starts today!
November 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Hourra, NACBS 2025 starts today!
I am taking the train, making my way up the St. Lawrence River to Montréal for the NACBS, enjoying the in-between fall and winter season that we can currently find in the river valley.
November 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I am taking the train, making my way up the St. Lawrence River to Montréal for the NACBS, enjoying the in-between fall and winter season that we can currently find in the river valley.
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Here's a great article from acquisitions editors, in time for University Press Week:
Don't Go It Alone! And Other Tips on How To Get Your First Book Published with a University Press.
https://bit.ly/3XoKxfV
##UPWeek2025 #TeamUP #ReadUP @rcolesworthy.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social
Don't Go It Alone! And Other Tips on How To Get Your First Book Published with a University Press.
https://bit.ly/3XoKxfV
##UPWeek2025 #TeamUP #ReadUP @rcolesworthy.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social
Don't Go It Alone! And Other Tips on How To Get Your First Book Published with a University Press
Publishing a book can be an isolated -- and isolating -- experience, but it doesn't have to be. Two university press editors share
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November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Here's a great article from acquisitions editors, in time for University Press Week:
Don't Go It Alone! And Other Tips on How To Get Your First Book Published with a University Press.
https://bit.ly/3XoKxfV
##UPWeek2025 #TeamUP #ReadUP @rcolesworthy.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social
Don't Go It Alone! And Other Tips on How To Get Your First Book Published with a University Press.
https://bit.ly/3XoKxfV
##UPWeek2025 #TeamUP #ReadUP @rcolesworthy.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social
Don’t want a nation under a new mania.
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Don’t want a nation under a new mania.
Tsilhoqt’in Nation call for end to political fear-mongering about title
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Tŝilhqot’in Call for End to Political Fear-mongering About Title - Tŝilhqot’in National Government
On the first day of hearings today before the British Columbia Court of Appeal, the Tŝilhqot’in Nation stands in solidarity with the Nuchatlaht Nation, and its Tyee Ha’wilth Jordan Michael, in the ong...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Tsilhoqt’in Nation call for end to political fear-mongering about title
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tsilhqotin.ca/tsilhqotin-c...
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Australia has so much solar power that they're offering free electricity during peak hours because solar power is so cheap.
Here in Ontario, Doug Ford is doubling down on nuclear, which is the most expensive form of electricity. And subsidizing it with our tax dollars.
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Here in Ontario, Doug Ford is doubling down on nuclear, which is the most expensive form of electricity. And subsidizing it with our tax dollars.
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Australia has so much solar power that they're offering free electricity during peak hours because solar power is so cheap.
Here in Ontario, Doug Ford is doubling down on nuclear, which is the most expensive form of electricity. And subsidizing it with our tax dollars.
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Here in Ontario, Doug Ford is doubling down on nuclear, which is the most expensive form of electricity. And subsidizing it with our tax dollars.
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Fortune smiles upon the city of New York
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Fortune smiles upon the city of New York
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Instead of implementing the biggest service reductions in recent Canadian history, this budget should seek to implement measures that raise revenue. broadbentinstitute.ca/research/202...
Submission to the Department of Finance on Fair Tax Measures and Proposed Public Service Workforce Adjustments - Broadbent Institute
The federal government has a choice and, when Canada faced a similar scale of economic challenges, a wartime economy that brings in fair taxation and a stronger public service should be built to meet ...
broadbentinstitute.ca
October 31, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Instead of implementing the biggest service reductions in recent Canadian history, this budget should seek to implement measures that raise revenue. broadbentinstitute.ca/research/202...
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TOC, "Gerontocracy in America" (June 2026)
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November 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
TOC, "Gerontocracy in America" (June 2026)
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
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What do you do when you see - or think you see - a change in a cosmic environment? I experienced that firsthand one strange night on a rooftop in Washington, DC. Here's my fourth video that introduces my new book, "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean." #Moon #Astronomy #EnvHist youtu.be/kqCrSyPc8sY
Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: A Spot on the Moon
YouTube video by Dagomar Degroot
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November 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
What do you do when you see - or think you see - a change in a cosmic environment? I experienced that firsthand one strange night on a rooftop in Washington, DC. Here's my fourth video that introduces my new book, "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean." #Moon #Astronomy #EnvHist youtu.be/kqCrSyPc8sY