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It is the source of so many of our evils: the astonishing concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, and the immense political power that gives them. We cannot solve our problems until we tackle it. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trading partners need to pack-up. Tariff one of us, and we'll all tariff you. Bear beats dog, shit load of dogs beat bear. Enough with a corrupt leader gaming world markets for his family of gangsters. apnews.com/article/denm...

As @netflix.com attempted to purchase Warner Bros. last month, a most notable American bought a large amount of the companies’ corporate debt: President Donald Trump. New in @notus.com: www.notus.org/money/trump-...

And Iran has an EXTRAORDINARILY strong sense of identity and pride. Iran has been Iran for over 5000 years. Iran has remained Iran through centuries of war and conquest. Every regime that has tried to control us, from inside or out, has toppled. This one will as well.

Iran is so much more diverse than you realize. We have Afghanis, Africans, Arabs, Armenians, Azeris, Balochis, Bakhtiaris, Gilanis, Kurds, Loris, Mazanderanis, Qashqais, Turks. We have Ithna'asheris, Ismailis, Sunnis, Christians, Zoroastrians, Baha'i, Jews. This isn't comprehensive. At all.

Say it with me: 90% of people alive today will be better off if we phase out fossil fuels. That’s what the economics actually shows.

When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States. It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.

Can't wait.

Canada bringing back the draft? Ugh. Images of men marching in circles. Maybe, think more Outward Bound, w/ weapons training. Mountaineering, whitewater, avalanche safety. Beyond comfort levels, teaching an individual how to endure & as a team how to prevail. Much like a country.

Emerson on how to touch the universe www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/16/e...

To understand how stupid this is - and what it says about Chris Wright’s character, I want you to imagine that it’s April 15, 1947 and you’re the manager of Brooklyn Dodgers… www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/c...

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“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

we have a fascist party and we have a party of fascist enablers

Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland ktar.com/national-new... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

...which [Doctorow] calls the “money-losingest technology ever seen.”

Just the Telegraph casually referring to an Irish woman as a ‘washer woman’ You hit the jackpot there, lads: xenophobia, misogyny and unbridled class snobbery

FUCK KEIR STARMER

“We were born into an unjust system, we are not prepared to grow old in it.” - Bernadette Devlin - 🇮🇪 🤝 🇵🇸

Clean energy is going to win. Not even Donald Trump can stop it now. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/15/o...

Today, @wikipedia.org turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future. There's no better example of the web we make together. www.anildash.com/2026/01/15/w...

Remember when I reported Ben Mulroney and Steve Paikin received a briefing from the Israeli government? Well, it turns out the Israeli consulate paid nearly $10,000 for some of their fellow attendees to be there. Were Mulroney and Paikin covered too? Story here: www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

They will not shrink from genociding civilians by the tens of thousands - peasants and workers and children; they will not flinch at killing half a million people each year with illegal sanctions; they will rape the earth and doom our collective future without a qualm.

It's not hypocrisy, it's capitalism. The bizarre behaviour of Western states and leaders often seems to betray a moral double standard. But in fact it is all perfectly consistent with a single standard, namely, the objective of maintaining the conditions for capital accumulation in the core.

globalvoices.org/2026/01/15/a...

This isn't satire. This is a real headline published in the UK.

CIJA's latest brazen campaign against academic freedom and freedom of expression. UBC must resist calls to censor @hasanabirepeater.bsky.social.

Weird people view Trump's actions through a legal lens. Trump doesn't give a shit about laws. He owns SCOTUS. Trump is a spin master. His team looks at public perception. Spin Venezuela as good business. Spin Greenland as prime real estate. His people swoon for that shit. Reality TV gen voters.

The "no money down, no payments till..." worked pretty well for marketing. If I was trying to sell a dictatorship I wouldn't cancel, I'd delay. "Events in the US are too volatile. For YOUR safety, because I LOVE YOU, elections will be put on hold for one year because of the violent RADICAL LEFT!"

This is incredible, an Army doctor who treated survivors of 9/11, was the doctor who saved Tammy Duckworth’s life in Iraq, then went to Gaza on multiple medical missions & refused to be evacuated amid siege & assault — is now running for Congress in NJ. He doesn’t even mention the Duckworth...

Micheal Martin

As Trump's economic policies flounder his reasoning for war will grow louder. Watch as young men rally to flag. Patriots all. Unfortunately, the vaunted US free press, which could mitigate this insanity, has gone MIA - during one of the most critical times in history.

When the Catholic Bishops have had enough of ICE’s shit:

Keep sharing. Not a single thing has come in today for this family since. They got so close. Please help them if you’re able to.

It unfathomable that news media just continues to repeat the lies of the administration and present this as a dispute when not only we can see with our own eyes but also they’ve done nothing but lie—as proven in courts of law!—about these incidents.

Anyone else infuriated by this? Let’s name & shame him & Scotiabank. Capital doesn’t like heat. Let’s make them uncomfortable. Here’s the contact info to email/call. Post your email on his LinkedIn account. If he locks it, flood Scotiabank’s account.

President Trump said "it’s up to" Chinese President Xi Jinping what China does on Taiwan, but that he would be "very unhappy" with a change in the status quo, according to an interview the New York Times published on Thursday.

Because he really was amazing, a little more Leonard... youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC...