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Professor, Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at University of Manitoba. Union thug. Fighting commodity fetishism one class at a time.

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It's awesome that people still like to say that this is some liberal democracy with an independent justice system that holds people accountable

12.03.2026 15:42 πŸ‘ 604 πŸ” 139 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 1
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β€œCan we have class outside” no absolutely not. we are discussing The Yellow Wallpaper under sickly fluorescent lights and please do not open or look out the window.

10.03.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 137 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1

over and over they say it out loud: big ideas for the elite class, and only widget grunts for the working people.

ideas are for everybody. art is for everybody. education is for everybody.

01.03.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 169 πŸ” 70 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

The americans will make rubble and call it liberation

28.02.2026 21:41 πŸ‘ 230 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

This is what federal terror forces were doing here in Minneapolis when it was -30

These have a name and it’s called a starlight tour. It’s what the rcmp and others have done for decades to kill First Nations folks and others with plausible deniability.

It’s murder and it’s intentional.

27.02.2026 02:10 πŸ‘ 246 πŸ” 108 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

"Insofar as 'people' would be defined as individuals possessing souls..."

20.02.2026 00:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is RFK Jr a never-nude?

18.02.2026 02:03 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

10.02.2026 22:54 πŸ‘ 27118 πŸ” 9600 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 358

Tenure enables freedom of speech, which is why aspiring tyrants don’t like it.

06.02.2026 20:20 πŸ‘ 759 πŸ” 287 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 8

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

04.02.2026 16:44 πŸ‘ 19780 πŸ” 5959 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 79

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

01.02.2026 14:33 πŸ‘ 11513 πŸ” 2965 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 175

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

30.01.2026 23:58 πŸ‘ 30033 πŸ” 6538 πŸ’¬ 388 πŸ“Œ 308

I keep thinking β€œmy god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

25.01.2026 00:27 πŸ‘ 4280 πŸ” 1283 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 15

To this day I am amazed by how pervasive some myths about 1948 are in America when they were debunked by Israeli Jewish historians themselves a little over a decade before I was born

18.01.2026 21:24 πŸ‘ 76 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

There’s an epidemic of people using Grok to do sexual violence to women on Twitter.

Yet Canadian politicians, media etc have failed to adopt another platform en masse, making it near-impossible to fully disengage and be tapped in to vital conversations and information.

What are we doing.

02.01.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 757 πŸ” 175 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 17

It’s common to see someone react to an action by a big company, rich person, or public official with β€˜how is this not illegal,’ presuming that if it were, the thing wouldn’t happen. But that isn’t how law works.

02.01.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 224 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

01.01.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 39886 πŸ” 8762 πŸ’¬ 588 πŸ“Œ 1156
Israel says it will suspend more than two dozen humanitarian organisations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules for aid groups working in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

Israel says it will suspend more than two dozen humanitarian organisations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules for aid groups working in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

In today’s depraved beyond belief news, Israel is banning MSF (Doctors Without Borders) from Gaza.

30.12.2025 21:27 πŸ‘ 350 πŸ” 141 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 5

We can live without billionaires but billionaires cannot live without us, in the same way that a body can live without cancer, but cancer cannot live without a body.

27.12.2025 23:27 πŸ‘ 1478 πŸ” 505 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 15

Casual reminder that the myth of β€œpulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

27.12.2025 03:00 πŸ‘ 21320 πŸ” 5836 πŸ’¬ 534 πŸ“Œ 220
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Noam Chomsky has spent about 60 years telling us that billionaires control the world through corporate propaganda.

20.12.2025 12:19 πŸ‘ 1201 πŸ” 263 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 29

People acting shocked at Chomsky's questionable loyalties seem to forget he used to enthusiastically endorse the Khmer Rouge...

16.12.2025 05:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025

Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believeπŸ’«

15.12.2025 17:11 πŸ‘ 22951 πŸ” 8319 πŸ’¬ 247 πŸ“Œ 587

You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real

Both are true

14.12.2025 20:09 πŸ‘ 1291 πŸ” 300 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 12

Those eyes are terrifying....

13.12.2025 06:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Stealworkers

11.12.2025 13:55 πŸ‘ 8357 πŸ” 1923 πŸ’¬ 192 πŸ“Œ 257

"Tomorrow belongs to me" 🎡

11.12.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

09.12.2025 20:45 πŸ‘ 13861 πŸ” 3937 πŸ’¬ 59 πŸ“Œ 194
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I assume the "Lady's" portions will cost more, as well...

08.12.2025 19:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How to quit Spotify This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio qualityβ€”you name it.

So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

03.12.2025 00:09 πŸ‘ 5373 πŸ” 2874 πŸ’¬ 79 πŸ“Œ 228