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open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc... I grew up on the shores of Lake Ontario. My European ancestors called it Lake Ontario for 9 generations. My indigenous ancestors were calling it Lake Ontario for centuries before that. This article points to something much more sinister than just a fit of pique.

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Un equipo de campeones verdaderos… y un equipo vergonzoso de maleducados. El mejor de España, y por lástima también el mejor de Argentina. Spain and Argentina at their respective bests.

Eau Canada!

Not one western media outlet seems willing to name these children who were burned alive and blown apart in an American double tap strike. Are their lives meaningless to us? Or is it because it isn’t a war crime if Hegseth orders it? SAY THEIR NAMES. www.middleeasteye.net/news/names-a...

Payback for the jet, the investments in and general enrichment of the Trump family coffers? Subversion of democracy at home? Both of the above?

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Gift article, so no firewall. Masha Gessen reports on daily life in Ukraine after four years of Russian attacks. If the rest of the world had had the cojones to come to Ukraine’s aid immediately, things would never have come to this.

Snyder lays out each step of lies and reinforcement of lies under Vance, in this case regarding the Haitian residents of Springfield, Ohio. If he’s correct, more particularly American horrors are right around the corner.

Fibre art by Sarah Gonsalves.

@aircanada.bsky.social AC864 seems to have had an interesting arrival at Heathrow just now.

Just watched AC864 coming in BESIDE the runway at Heathrow and aborting the landing at the very last second. Visibility was fine, winds were moderate … wonder what happened. Well, Air Canada?

www.nytimes.com Masha says everything I’ve been saying, but all in one article and more eloquently. Americans’ comfortable assumptions that November elections will be business as usual horrify me. The longer they wait, the harder the fight for electoral freedom will be. Please share.

The thing about genocide is that the gates on escape shut with very little warning. The Jews who left Germany early on, the Tutsis who fled Rwanda - all of them probably wondered whether they were overreacting. So did those who stayed … until suddenly it was too late to make the same choice.

Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother of a 6 year old, was murdered by a federal agent today. Murdered and then blamed for her murder. DHS agents are now a proven extrajudicial force that will kill you, for no reason at all, just because they can. If there was ever a moment, it is now.

This is sickening in every sense of the word. Who is going to stand up and stand with the real heroes - the people who have everything to lose but still stand for what they believe is right?

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o... Gift link to Masha Gessen’s usual clear, well-informed - and today, chilling- analysis.

Tour U.SA., proposed next stops: Panama for the canal; Bolivia, Argentina and Chile for their oil and lithium; Peru for its minerals; Greenland for its minerals; Canada for its oil and minerals; Mexico because it’s become inconvenient; and the rest of the Americas just for good measure.

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The American administration, while still pretending to be against antisemitism when it’s convenient, is now practicing the equivalent of Holocaust denial for the Americas … with the enthusiastic support of Facebook.

USA:

Now that we’ve finally had rain, the fungi are beginning to put on a show.

LICE 😂 Seattle, Washington No Kings

All the lights are flashing intense red now. The White House crowd has decided that the people who tried to stop Hitler from assuming power are the bad guys.

Even as the clouds gather and darken, the good remains. Mike Brock offers us waybread for our journey, reflections to help us keep sight of the important things as our foundations seem to be crumbling.

Once upon a time, very recently in geological time, Polaris was off to the side and we had an entirely different North Star.

“An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association have backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime.” The Guardian.

Border town, summer of ‘25.

My happy story for the day.

The only objective in ending funding is further harassment, intimidation, and ostracism of LGBTQ youth. The Trump administration is attacking the most vulnerable and marginalized Americans … the very people who, incidentally, are least able to push back.

Gift article, so no paywall. The phrase “gender ideology” is weaponized by the very people who prioritize their OWN ideology over a person’s right to the care recommended by their doctors, over all medical and scientific evidence that such care is appropriate, and over parental rights.

A summer evening, a kitchen window.

Thinking a LOT about my American family and friends these days.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o... A gift New York Times article, giving us a language to name and recognize the various elements of surging American authoritarianism.

Lilac and sandstone

A glory of bees.