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Cam Regier @camregier.bsky.social · 4h
This is too long to quote, but deserves highlighting.
They don’t mention any of this because, like Israel itself, the Globe and Mail has to lie about what are the real threats to Canadian Jews so that they can pin this violence on Palestine solidarity.

For the Globe and Mail, the real threat isn’t far right extremism that has already murdered Muslims, woman, Indigenous people and others. The real threat is antizionists, they say, like Jewish NDP leader Avi Lewis. Shockingly and insanely, right after naming Lewis and a solemn tweet he wrote for Yom Kippur about the collective responsibility that we all have to stand up against Israel’s violence, the Globe actually lays the blame for the synagogue shooting in Belleville at the feet of Canada’s highest profile Jewish politician: “Collective blame risks inciting collective harm, whether from the left or the right.”
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3h
National Nurses United, btw, is a delightful edge case. They are not effing around. www.nationalnursesunited.org/artificial-i...
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A.I.’s impact on nursing and health care
Artificial intelligence (A.I.) is rapidly expanding in all workplaces, and hospitals are no exception. Without our collective action, A.I.’s expansion will accelerate the hospital industry’s race to t...
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Halifax ReTales @halifaxretales.bsky.social · 3h
you aren't "honouring" or "recognizing" shit if you are open today just say open Wednesday x-x
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 14h
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...
None of this applies, however, when a Jewish person presents a clear and present danger to the Jewish community. When that happens, Jewish thought is much more forceful: you must prevent the perpetrator from
causing harm.

Jewish law developed two character sketches to describe such scenarios. The first is known as a "mosar" — a Jewish person who informs to oppressive
authorities, potentially leading to the imprisonment, torture or death of community members. The second, called a "rodef," refers to a Jew who is actively pursuing another with the intent to harm or kill them. In both scenarios, the law is clear that a Jew is duty-bound to step in. Protecting the community and its members is the most important thing.It was around then that Yigal Amir, an earnest law student, made up his mind to kill the prime minister. Later he would insist he was not swayed by extremist rabbis; he had reached his own decision that Rabin - through his willingness to cede territory and to allow the creation of a Palestinian Authority, with its own armed police force - was a rodef and therefore a legitimate target. He got a weapon easily enough. With his brother, Amir was working on the creation of an anti-Palestinian militia. Nor was access difficult; on at least three occasions before the rally, Amir attended public events where Rabin was present. He was waiting for the right moment: he didn't want to shoot and miss.
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“There’s a feeling today that Britain only found out about the Holocaust at the end of the war. But in 1942 [...] you couldn’t really escape this information in Britain. It was in every newspaper. It was on the BBC," said historian Martin Winstone www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Britain knew about the Holocaust as it happened. A new exhibition reckons with that truth
Research draws upon reporting and witness testimony, while a permanent memorial is planned for London
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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History Keeps Happening @historykeeper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Joyce Echaquan was a 37-year-old Atikamekw woman who died on September 28, 2020, in the Centre Hospitalier de Lanaudière in Saint-Charles-Borromée, Quebec... she recorded a Facebook Live video that showed her screaming in pain while healthcare workers abused her and made derogatory comments..."
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Death of Joyce Echaquan - Wikipedia
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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why is it that everything Fillmore touches ends up feeling like someone’s dirty used kleenex? The District Councillor and the Forum Community Association didn’t know about Fillmore’s announcement to pause the Forum development: www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
saltwire.com
Councillor, community association in 'disbelief' after Halifax Forum demolition paused 'out of left field'
A late announcement last week pausing the Halifax Forum’s demolition application has left stakeholders shocked.
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jamil Jivani and the Very Masculine™ Jacob Mantle think that acknowledging homosexuality in schools is "a threat" as they spout debunked "gender ideology" bullshit, while calling people traitors. Yeah, the Conservative Party is headed down a really healthy path, guys. Yikes. #canqueer
provincialtimes.ca
ADAMS: Inside the Restore the North event at Liberty Church
Inside a church in his own riding, the fury Jamil Jivani has spent a year channeling finally turned on a constituent who asked the wrong question
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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
12 years ago, Halifax Council considered a proposal to collaborate with DND to build an arena with 4 ice surfaces in Windsor Park, which would have opened in 2017, as well as a second arena in Shannon Park. Not only is Fillmore’s plan a rehash of a rejected 2014 plan, it has fewer new ice surfaces
cbc.ca
Halifax Forum could close under new arena proposal | CBC News
Two major recreation projects are being contemplated for the Halifax region, with municipal staff recommending two new arenas be built to replace a number of aging facilities, including the Halifax Fo...
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Dave Nelson 🇨🇦 @davenlsn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Don't buy American produce. Another example: Driscoll's sent millions of pounds of fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals to Canada and the company tried to cover it up. #BoycottUSA #CanadaSky www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC News
A whistleblower lawsuit in California is alleging millions of pounds of Driscoll's fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border into Canada, and the company tri...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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That guy @stuartbayens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Government says proposed Nova Scotia power plants don’t trigger the duty to consult — but Mi’kmaq communities disagree, citing environmental concerns.
thenarwhal.ca
Risking salmon, climate and Indigenous Rights: two Nova Scotia power plants underscore fast-tracking concerns
Government says proposed Nova Scotia power plants don’t trigger the duty to consult — but Mi’kmaq communities disagree, citing environmental concerns
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zeptepe @zeptepe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All this talk of traffic road safety but no talk of how the Halifax Police Department has given up on traffic enforcement. And the city lets them off the hook. Where is the criticism from the mayor & council? How many more have to die before HRP starts performing basic police work again?
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KH @mcleenka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hate mongers love to blame immigrants for high rents when in reality the problem is the concentration of property among a handful of rich elites, as usual. Halifax rage against the rich dalgazette.com/news/twenty-...
dalgazette.com
Twenty landlords own 43% of Halifax’s rental housing units, report shows
A new report finds that financial firms and chain landlords own the majority of the Halifax Regional Municipality rental market, with 20 landlords owning 43 per cent of the HRM’s rental housing units.
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
tech ceos are openly salivating about the idea of kids losing basic literacy and numeracy. this tells you pretty much all you need to know
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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/09/2026
AI tools generated nearly $1 billion in extra costs, Blue Cross insurers say reut.rs/3TfIfl3
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AI tools generated nearly $1 billion in extra costs, Blue Cross insurers say
AI tools are raising health spending for insurers by nearly $1 billion over two years, as providers bill for more severe patient care, according ​to a Blue Cross Blue Shield Association study released Thursday.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"ThErE aRe A lOt Of SkIlLs ThAt DoN't MaTtEr" translation: there are skills that he doesn't recognize the value of
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Neovagina Evangelion @gammarae.design · 24/09/2026
Sam Altman violated multiple international cybersecurity laws and should be charged with such. There, fixed that headline for you.
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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
might take a trip to Barrington Street, Dartmouth via the Mac Kay Bridge? Robie Street = Bayers Rd? Did someone at hfxgov do AI?
a confusing windsor street exchange detour map with multiple errors. A detour is shown via Jo Howe, Robie Street (which goes the wrong way) then Massechusetts avenue over to Barrington St, Dartmouth
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Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Liberals’ new bill allows the Minister to violate workers’ right to strike based solely on her opinion after taking into account any consideration she wants. That’s not guardrails at all - it’s pure discretion.
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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For the mayor's $90,000 staffing report the HRM paid $45,000 per page.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This column by @althiaraj.bsky.social is a good summation of the red flags around this bill. And I say that as someone who has been raising alarms about our particular moment in history for a while. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
thestar.com
Althia Raj: Whatever good is in Mark Carney’s Building Canada Strong Act is poisoned by the toxic rest
The Mark Carney government frames this law as part of its “Canada Strong” plan — and frankly, some parts are good — but toxic with good is still bad.
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Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Carn(ey)age. Rolling back a half century of progress in environmental and climate protection. For what? Oh right, profits for the already very fucking rich & some jobs in the extractive sector, while the rest of us are fucked by climate, ecological and democracy’s collapse. Danger: Banker At Work.
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ah fuck, Harper is ramming through another omnibus bill? Oh wait no - it's the "Liberals." Who walk, talk, and stink just like Harper's Conservatives.
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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Want to get whiplash? Compare this PSA to this policy!
halifax.ca
Boulevard Gardening
Planting perennial blooms in the public right-of-way, known as boulevard gardening, can have positive impacts on the environment, our communities, and on our physical and mental health.
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Devin Dignam @devindignam.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As always, @nolore.bsky.social has an accurate (and hilarious) description of Mark Carney's continued destruction: noraloreto.substack.com/p/icymi-this...
"He’s gutted environmental legislation, pushed through and fast tracked highly stupid projects that he needs us to believe are in the national interest, and now, he’s welcoming the vultures of global capitalism to come in and buy whatever they’d like. A move ostensibly done to solidify ourselves against the Americans, it will likely attract even more American investment in Canada and he will be laughing all the way to the bank (or wherever he sleeps at night)."
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 20/09/2026
“Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada could have easily told the SPVM to stand down or use other tactics to de-escalate. Instead, and rather typically, she did nothing. “Why would she? She’s also clearly putting profit over people.” An editorial by @taylornoakes.com. #polmtl
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Police brutality against anti-AI protesters in Montreal shows their true colours
Montreal police deployed the riot squad and used tear gas on a peaceful group of anti-AI protesters at the ALL IN AI conference yesterday.
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Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A Halifax lawyer says an RCMP policy change that means officers are no longer required to wear name tags on their uniforms while on duty poses a threat to police accountability and transparency. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@joshrjhealey.bsky.social got receipts over the Halifax Forum drama.
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Alan Drummond MD @dralandrummond.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hours in the ER, years on a wait list: Nova Scotia women struggle to get timely health care NDP says provincial government needs to create a plan to lower wait times and fewer emergency department closures www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
saltwire.com
Hours in the ER, years on a wait list: Nova Scotia women struggle to get timely health care
NDP say provincial government needs to create a plan for lower wait times and less emergency department closure.
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Galactic Giftery @galacticgiftery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
All the vendors who will be at Ikea HFX this weekend. See you there! #halifax #maritimeconartists #supportartists
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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dr. Manhattan on Mars meme about the many different rounds of public consultation the Morris Street bike lanes
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 18/09/2026
The profit-taking for Wall St and Bay St begins immediately! Billable hours already piling up as big banks will skim millions off the sale itself. The rich making bank off the public: welcome to privatization, folks. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Morgan Stanley, CIBC Win Mandate for Sale of Canada Airport Concessions
The Canadian government has hired Morgan Stanley and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce to advise on selling the operating rights to the country’s four largest airports, according to people with knowl...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
we're hosting a daylong workshop on how to track the financial interests of university trustees who offer such funding, how to work for legislative protections and workplace protections in the classroom and far beyond, join us! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
zeffy.com
Against the AI Campus: Building Power in Higher Ed
Welcome Reception / October 23 / 6-8 PM Central / Chicago, ILWorkshop / October 24 / 9AM-5 PM Central / University of Illinois-Chicago Email us to inquire…
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
404media.co
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17/09/2026
As the @wired.com article above makes clear, the main point of tech layoffs was never to 'rightsize' coders' 'make-believe' jobs. It was to take a chainsaw to careers — Elon Musk 'let that sink in!' style — to cow workers who survived from challenging their billionaire bosses.
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Grant Ennis @grantennis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Car travel incurs USD 0.16 per vehicle-kilometer in private costs and USD 0.55 per vehicle-kilometer in social costs [subsidies]. Globally, these costs translate to USD 2.1 trillion in private and USD 7.2 trillion in social costs [subsidies] per year" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For example here is one where they think they can out run a woman athlete in a sprint.
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Ecology Action Centre @ecologyaction.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here’s a quick roundup of some of the highlights of the past week, including record-breaking uranium petitions, a bill that could help shift Nova Scotia Power to a performance-based regulatory framework and a not to promising clause about HRM housing buried in yet another undemocratic omnibus bill.
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The Chronicle Herald @thechronicleherald.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Emails, minor hockey association campaign raise questions about Halifax mayor’s push to halt $126m Forum redevelopment www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
saltwire.com
Emails, minor hockey association campaign raise questions about Halifax mayor’s push to halt $126m Forum redevelopment
Does a draft motion to stop the $126-million redevelopment of the Halifax Forum meet the criteria for a ‘back room’ deal?
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Aster Vérité @aster-verite.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The geographic footprint of Canada's agricultural research cuts is astounding and dangerous. By closing 7 historic AAFC facilities from Nova Scotia to Alberta, the federal govt has abandoned decades of climate specific public science tailored to our unique regional soils.
nfu.ca
Cuts to AAFC are disastrous for Canada, says National Farmers Union | National Farmers Union
On Tuesday in his speech in Davos, Prime Minister Carney said “A country that cannot feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself has few options.” On Friday, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada announced…
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The myth Alberta 'subsidizes' the rest of Canada is the most powerful meme in the separatist armoury. But it's utterly false. I show that most Albertans get more back from federal programs than they personally pay in federal taxes, for @thetyee.ca: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026... #abpoli /2
thetyee.ca
No, Alberta Does Not ‘Subsidize’ the Rest of Canada | The Tyee
The vast majority of workers get more from federal programs than they give.
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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A grad student thanked me after the workshop for making this point. They said they get way too much pro-AI advocacy from faculty and they appreciated some counterbalance.
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Hannah Main @hannahmain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Leilani Farha is in Halifax today doing a Massey Lecture on this very topic! In this piece, she notes that the first residential REIT in Canada launched in 1997. There was a world before REITs. I know there will be a world after REITs. thewalrus.ca/the-corporat...
thewalrus.ca
The Corporate Takeover of Canada’s Apartments Is Worse than You Think | The Walrus
Property investors have discovered that getting rid of tenants is very good business
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026
The data centre boom is the exact opposite of everything the energy transition should stand for. It is the opposite of clean, of climate justice, of community benefits, of electrification and technological efficiency. www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2026/09/11/b...
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“Bring Your Own Power” Schemes Won’t Fix Data Centers
"Bring Your Own Power" fails to address the rising costs or pollution driven by data centers' exploding energy demands.
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
mathandai.org
Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In country after country the story is remarkably similar. The ascendant far right has succeeded in getting center-right and center-left parties to accept their issue frames, and no one to the left of the far right is making a compelling case for an alternative. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
How Sweden lost its soul – and stopped being Sweden | Martin Gelin
In 2022 my country entered a new era of cruelty. It will take more than one election to get the old, tolerant Sweden back, writes Swedish journalist Martin Gelin
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