Liz Renzetti

What @julieslalonde.bsky.social said.
Also survivors of IPV suffer head injuries at a horrendous rate and very few people care. Witness the closure of a program studying brain trauma in IPV survivors
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Just a reminder

a nuclear arsenal for use at his sole discretion

These are the 4 things AI can do well:

•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday

You can see why we need to base our economy around it

They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE

“Thomson Reuters is a $50 billion Toronto-based company that owns the Reuters news service. It also operates a widely used legal research tool, Westlaw, whose operations are based in the suburbs of Minneapolis. Thousands of the company’s employees live there.”

Is this the new capitalism, then?
Create supply chain chaos, reverse strategy, bet on the spreads because the market is consistently late to catch on to deliberate manipulation?

Documentarian Louis Theroux talked to @davidgilbert.bsky.social about his new Netflix manosphere doc and what a grift the whole thing is. I found this exchange—about why being a good person is bad for business—illuminating, if not surprising: www.wired.com/story/louis-...

I have literally watched something like 5 hours of this DOGE bro testimony. I'm completely obsessed, it's weirdly captivating. The circular arguments, the disdain from everyone involved, a true pleasure to watch

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Some Iranians hoped the war would bring regime change. Now they doubt it Trump’s recent statements about the regime have also aggravated a rift between monarchists and republicans

Shahram Tabe and I interviewed people in Iran who’d participated in the protests as the missiles landed around them. We found an initial optimism giving way to disillusion with the attack, and also, for some, with Reza Pahlavi

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For centuries kings ruled by "divine right"
Magna Carta 1215: "free men" (barons) protected from illegal imprisonment, unlimited taxes.
Martin Luther Reformation ~1516: separate state from church.
Industrial Revolution peak ~1820 (UK).
2026: let's not wait ~100 yrs to separate state from corporation

that's a handsome raven!

woman in orange jacket being very happy about Yellowknife in front of Welcome to Yellowknife sign, snow in foreground

I'm in Yellowknife and it's better even than I'd imagined (so many ravens!) I'm giving a talk for International Women's Day tomorrow at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, if you're in town come and drop by. Rage and laughter or your money back

Elizabeth Renzetti: We’re gambling with men’s health. Here’s why that’s bad for all of us The percentage of men reporting “very good” or “excellent” mental health has fallen from 70 per cent 52 per cent in a decade

Gambling is being rebranded as “prediction markets” or “gaming." There are clear losers in the explosion of micro-gambling: Young men and boys, whose health is being harmed by having gambling dens on their phones, by @lizrenzetti.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... via @thestar.com

The world is on fire because two men will do anything to avoid jail.

Evergreen tweet, unfortunately

North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.

Two Toronto area synagogues hit with gunfire, police investigating York Regional Police responded to reports of gunfire at a synagogue in the area of Bathurst Street and Clark Avenue and Toronto police responded to reports of gunfire at a synagogue on Bathurst Street...

#Developing: Two Toronto area synagogues hit with gunfire, police investigating www.thestar.com/news/gta/two...

In years of writing about gender-based violence I'd hear over and over about how few resources there are for men and boys, particularly in the realm of mental health. Done properly, this is a really good initiative

Elizabeth Renzetti: We’re gambling with men’s health. Here’s why that’s bad for all of us The percentage of men reporting “very good” or “excellent” mental health has fallen from 70 per cent 52 per cent in a decade

I wrote about the importance of a men and boys' health strategy, which Ottawa has just announced.

That's good news for International Women's Day too.

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She got a whole new face for nothing

“My little girl was completely burned,” he said. “There was nothing left of her. We could only identify her from her school bag, which she was still holding. She was completely burned.”

This is a profound continental divide. Canadians overwhelmingly view other Canadians, even those unlike them, as being good people. Americans, more than any other country, view their neighbours and fellow citizens as bad people. Anti-Americanism flourishes in the United States

Tonight, two of the white nationalists I reported on in this piece showed up to attempt to intimidate me on a private night out at a small music venue.

I’ll have more to say tomorrow. I’m safe.

They also didn’t pay cover 🖕

Guys, I can’t do another one. I will retire to run a bar in Malta if this happens.

“Lower-income mothers are increasingly returning to work sooner, while higher-income mothers are better positioned to take longer leaves.

This is not gender equality. It is the reproduction of inequality through public policy.”

😂

But yeah it's nuts.
NUTS, I tell you

there's a been quite a bit of feminist study of meat/protein-eating as performative hypermasculinity

Polymarket Pulls Bet on Nuclear Detonation in 2026 ‘How ghoulish.’ The depravity economy moves into the nuclear war business.

Polymarket has pulled the bet on a nuclear detonation happening in 2026. There were obv concerns that a platform being used by insider traders would not mix well with a bet encouraging the detonation of a nuke. Polymarket didn't respond to request for comment

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is this suggesting that men should eat balls for breakfast?

Breakfast of champions!

"Several times on Tuesday, Shemesh put to the witness that money is her end game.

“This is not about money,” the witness shot back. “This is about not being forgotten, not being disposed of.”

Final Frank Stronach complainant pushes back at defence’s ‘truly shocking’ suggestion she consented to sex “Absolutely not,” the final complainant against Frank Stronach said under cross-examination. “If you think that’s consensual, wow.”

This exchange from the Stronach trial, beamed in straight from 1963:

“You were a secretary … you’re hardly going to be talking about business with Frank Stronach ... You’re a 24-year-old who is really, really excited about a wealthy man taking you home, right?"

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