Barry Stephenson

@rutgerbregman.com The BBC’s Lord of the Flies reboot has now landed in Canada. Now we Canadians too can be fed more of the hopelessness and misinformation about human nature that our time needs. Thanks BBC/CBC. Keep up the good work.

University of Exeter cuts an ‘existential threat to humanities’ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...

The Billionaire Derangement Syndrome That is Destroying the World Journalist Gil Duran joins The Left Hook to break down the growing influence of billionaires, tech oligarchs, and corporate power in reshaping American democracy, media, and public life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnZ2...

Happy Birthday, Karl.

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Maybe Magyar is a sign that a decent form of conservatism is a possibility. Among the things he said the other night on M1: Hungary will renationalize those public assets that the Orban years handed over to private interests.

I there may be a problem down south, with ripple effects here, as we, as PM said, set aside the rules based irder and ride the ‘great’ hegemon’s wave.

The first published review to my knowledge: “The academics in Knowledge Under Siege have made a powerful case for universities in the service of an egalitarian and inclusive state. It will be up to Canadians…” www.thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

For some reason, my mind this morning drifted to the act that led to Gandhi’s murder: he opened his prayer services in Hindu temples with a verse from The Koran.

The (New Deal) Revenue Act of 1935 raised the top rate to 79% on incomes over $5 million (roughly $100 million+ in today's dollars). A lot of problems solved right there.

We need tools like this. The university is indeed under siege. Without action, soon, we’ll have no public institutions and goods left.

“These crimes were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption, extreme misogyny, and the commodification and dehumanisation of women and girls from different parts of the world,” the experts said." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Country music artist Corb Lund is preparing to launch a provincewide signature campaign aimed at halting new coal mining along Alberta’s eastern #RockyMountain slopes. Somia Lohia reports. #abpoli

Bad Bunny “together we are America”

Got a chapter with @philofwrite.bsky.social and @aysed.bsky.social on the media and Jan 6 coverage in @imogenrichards.bsky.social’s new book. www.routledge.com/The-Far-Righ...

Q. How do we end oligarchic control of our political economy? They are kinda ruining everything for everyone all the time, at a quickening pace. Of all the bad ideas we’ve come up with, handing the reigns to the 0.1% is right up there.

When i was young, Alberta (like every other prairie provinces) had a public telecom. We could have that again. Privatization of everything these past 40-50 years has not made life better. This includes the privatization of education, which is continuing at an accelerated pace.

Necropolis.

According to the flotilla tracker & Al Jazeera, the Conscience (along with other flotilla ships) has been intercepted. Time to get on the phones and call our MPs to demand Canada ensure the safe return of the Canadians on board including NL activists Devoney Ellis, Nikita Stapleton, & Sadie Mees.

Watching the sham replies of America’s chief law enforcement officer in Senate yesterday, it really did hit home that the institutions people can appeal to to take action - generally named ‘the government’ - are useless because they’ve really been taken over. How this ends won’t be pretty.

The federal government’s full-throated endorsement of LNG Canada Phase 2 is bad news for anyone who cares about Canada’s carbon emissions, or Canadians’ tax dollars, writes Janetta McKenzie www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/07/o...

I guess the @mark-carney.bsky.social government can’t be bothered to mention Israel’s violations of law in the action against the flotilla. Or offer support for those Canadians on board-you know, the best of us. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HREHI...

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It's like the Stanford Prison experiment is going on again, except it's the whole country.

Ugly it is down south. It is going to get worse. The only avenue left is impeachment.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-do... @mark-carney.bsky.social

Boycotting and divesting works. Case in point? Disney sidelined Kimmel, people cancelled subscriptions, Kimmel reinstated.

If anyone ever wants to close a religion department at your university, just email them the Charlie Kirk memorial.

Latest in the State of the University series: Memorial’s Geography of Neglect: From Decay to Transformation theindependent.ca/commentary/c...

✊📢 Tens of thousands joined #DrawTheLine actions on Sept 20, demanding PM @mark-carney.bsky.social act for people, peace & planet. Collective power was on full display across Canada. 📺 Watch the CTV coverage: youtu.be/a2YbV-Ss9fk?... 📷 See @350.org’s photo gallery: www.flickr.com/photos/350or...

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

"It's the banality of evil. It happens around essentially a watercooler." From the new 'We're Not Kidding', 'Andor' star Denise Gough and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social talk about the depiction of fascism in 'Star Wars' and its similarities to real world politics.

You may have heard on The Independent that 3 MUN students are part of the current Freedom Flotilla, delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza. Please read the linked petition and consider signing. Sincerely, Barry docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"While other governments sue oil companies for climate damages, the NL government brings along an oil lobbyist like a Negotiator-in-Chief. This is inviting the fox into the henhouse." Read the op-ed from @acantle.bsky.social & Angela Carter 👇 #nlpoli www.saltwire.com/newfoundland...

Let’s hear from Mike Wilson. I am so sick if the backroom deals, the cronyism, the lack of transparency among the elites of this Province. Let’s clear the air. Let’s put the facts out there. All this hiding behind NDAs is sickening. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A most arresting sentence: “The movement of energy between enslaved bodies in plantations, plants, long-dead fossilized plants, and industrialized labor is a geochemical equation of extraction in the conversion of surplus.” - Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None