Thomas Linner

On the Left today we know our world is in crisis, but we are trapped arguing with those who will share our fate. This is a call to break out of the box constructed around us by the Caesars of our day - from Danielle Smith to Donald Trump - and confront them directly. Also: Rome stuff. #cdnpoli

On confronting the Caesars of our time - and recognizing Rubicons before they are crossed. #cdnpoli #Rome

The truth we need to hear on dual practice in the health care system, by @ryanmeili.bsky.social #cdnpoli #skpoli #ableg

On confronting the Caesars of our time - and recognizing Rubicons before they are crossed. #cdnpoli #Rome

My latest piece draws on the central historical event of Julius Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon, as depicted in HBO’s #Rome, to analyse Danielle Smith’s cynical Alberta Referendum. We must take learnings from this experience to inform how we confront and disrupt the Caesars of our time. #cdnpoli

My latest piece draws on the central historical event of Julius Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon, as depicted in HBO’s #Rome, to analyse Danielle Smith’s cynical Alberta Referendum. We must take learnings from this experience to inform how we confront and disrupt the Caesars of our time. #cdnpoli

Jesse Brown apparently has time to criticize everyone except the unhinged lunatic in the National Post invoking the same rhetoric as violent religious extremists against Avi Lewis

I could really do without advertisements for that “Other Mommy” movie everywhere I browse good God.

Mo Salah-level craziness.

Cannot wait to read the latest by @wmarybeard.bsky.social

"The greatest lesson of the book is that the study of the classics should not be merely an elite preoccupation but should force us to 'read difficult things.'" Ronald Mellor on Mary Beard's "Talking Classics": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mary-beard-talking-classics-shock-old-greek-roman

Vance is worse than Trump because Vance is aware of his own evil. Has deliberately chosen to do what he knows is morally wrong. He has killed something good in himself to become . . . This.

"[E]ven Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government said they would act if Alberta Premier Ralph Klein moved forward with implementing his planned “Third Way” (...) Health Minister Marjorie Michel has refused to publicly state Alberta’s [similar] legislation violates the Canada Health Act." #cdnpoli

The family of Renee Good, the Minneapolis woman who was fatally shot by a federal immigration enforcement agent near her home in January, filed two federal lawsuits Thursday alleging wrongful death, among other contentions.

The National Post attack on NDP Leader Avi Lewis crosses the line into threat. They invoke the same religious code words used by extremists who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin. It is unacceptable to use religious intimidation to shut down debate on Gaza. charlieangus.substack.com/p/national-p...

If the National Post saw an extremist Canadian Islamic cleric online preaching violence towards a big-“C” Conservative-aligned Muslim politician, they would spend a week sourcing Op-Eds to expound on Islam’s “unique” incompatibility with secular modernity.

NDP parliamentary leader @donvdavies.bsky.social says National Post column targeting NDP leader @avilewis.ca is "appalling, irresponsible and likely criminal" The column calls for Lewis to be dealt with by way of ancient "Jewish law" while invoking loaded language used by Yitzhak Rabin's assassin

National Post Calls To 'Deal' With Avi Lewis In Dangerous Piece youtu.be/Kt4p6wrUthQ?...

As victims of Kamloops Residential School are once more victimized by professional deniers and masked white supremacists, remember this important corrective by @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and @seancarleton.bsky.social And wear your Orange Shirt humbly. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation can be difficult. If you're struggling, please reach out to someone you trust. Residential School Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419 (24/7) Hope for Wellness: 1-855-242-3310 or online.

The National Post is using language that seems wildly irresponsible and dangerous here Citing ancient “Jewish law,” it labels Avi Lewis as a “rodef” The ultranationalist extremist who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin rationalized his killing on the same basis: www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o...

NEW: Pro-Israel voices have suggested that anti-Zionism, the pro-Palestine movement and “anti-Israel” policies were responsible for causing the Belleville attack. There is no public evidence to support any of these claims. www.readthemaple.com/how-pro-isra...

“More than 60 Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank have been wiped off the map since October 2023, with 18 others partly displaced, according to the Israeli rights group B’Tselem. Nearly 5,000 people have been forced from their homes, almost half of them children.”

September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. Today is a time to raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of residential schools and remember the children who never came home. How are you honouring the day?

So Lanterns is turning into a bit of a mystery box - or at least trying to present as a mystery box. The problem with a mystery box is that there better be something compelling in the mystery box, or nothing outside the mystery box matters. See: LOST

'The reason Jürgen Klopp builds a team that takes 110 from 114 and wins a European Cup and World Club Cup during that time span...is because they were trying to beat a team that had cheated to the tune of £900m...' ✍️ @knoxharrington.bsky.social column… 👉 Read here: mailchi.mp/theanfieldwr...

Elite media operates as a vehicle to spread anti- social policy in the trappings of pro-social public debate. It is desperate for the attention of pro-social movements, but solely for the purpose of heading off the thought that common struggle might lead to pro-social solutions.

She endorses Chris Brown. Talarico will be fine.

Smart people keep telling me not to panic but other smart people keep telling me to panic. I am inclined to panic.

I know North Americans are all supposed to agree that soccer players dive disgracefully for calls, but I watched a fair bit of NFL this weekend in the absence of Premier League matches and can I introduce you to wide receivers?

“I want to say to the millions of people in this country and indeed elsewhere who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people: we hear you, you were right." There's lots of room for cynicism, but I also had lost hope that I would ever see this day. Take the win.

That’s a catch and another bad call

This is some terrible officiating.

Also, that was wild exaggeration from the receiver, buying the call.

Did that man just get flagged for intercepting the ball?

The framing here is harmful and abusive. At one time you could leave a narcissistic abuser behind by the simple expedient of geography. There was no need to explicitly "go no contact". But now narcissistic parents can use social media to hold their adult children hostage - perpetuating abuse.

There are openly white supremacist candidates running for the Republican Party from coast to coast that you’ve never heard of because the media and political elite can’t get over a couple of Muslims running for office as Democrats.

It’s interesting that Project Hail Mary works so well as a film given that one of its core conceits - the main character recovering memories as the story progresses - is pretty clunky throughout. What does work works so well that what would ruin a lot of other films barely registers.

The fact that we've gotten to the point where this man feels comfortable speaking his mind in public is such an indictment of the 21st century as a whole

It’s amazing what does not go against META’s “community standards”. Break up the social media giants and de-platform racists, Holocaust deniers and bigots.

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

I’ve lived long enough to see a Southern Chief’s Organization First Down.