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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

IMO @stevesalaita.bsky.social does *really* well in a Chronicle interview that feels very gotcha ("Confessions of a Campus Radical"). Below, facing a question designed to make him 'endorse' violence, he carefully indexes who is allowed to commit violence (Israel) and who isn't ("Hamas").

Goldstein: Let’s zero in on October 7. Are you saying you wish that more pro-Palestinian voices would not disavow the kinds of violence we saw on that day? That to disavow such violence reflects a failure to understand what decolonization requires?

Salaita: Yes, and no. I want to choose my words carefully. What I object to most is how the demand to disavow violence does not exist for those on the pro-Israel side. They can discuss Israeli politics and policies and Palestinian society without having to disavow Israeli violence. The constant demand for disavowal speaks to a particular marginalization of Palestinian realities. It suggests a moral hierarchy in which Palestinians have to account for themselves in ways that the more powerful party does not.

Gutkin: Much of what became very controversial in campus politics was protests by students and faculty that seemed to endorse Hamas violence, to celebrate it with things like the Students for Justice in Palestine fliers featuring stylized images of hang gliders. That stuff incited a strong condemnatory response from critics who saw not just a failure to disavow violence but a kind of embrace of violence. Is that an example of the dynamic you’re talking about, in which the failure to disavow triggered a repressive response?

Salaita: What I want to focus on is how the pro-Palestine protesters are always being asked to account for themselves in ways that completely ignore their relationship with Israeli violence. Some of these students have seen the worst forms of violence. Some have experienced it firsthand. I don’t think it’s fair to saddle those students with a moral responsibility to distance themselves from violence that doesn’t exist for anybody else on campus.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Domestic & foreign tarriffs has been sold to American working class as a means of generating jobs & debt reduction. However "main effects of tariffs has been to cause massive transfer of wealth from the poor & middle class to wealthy and well-connected corporations" www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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ANALYSIS | How Trump's tariffs work to redistribute wealth up the food chain | CBC News

Though nominally aimed at making foreign "cheaters" pay, the U.S. president's tariffs have in fact been a powerful domestic mechanism for taking money from poor and middle-class Americans and giving i...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This just-released Canada Heritage survey is a stunning piece of anti-Palestinian propaganda weaponized vs. critics of the genocide at universities. It is a reprisal against the encampment movement. Look at the evidence of ‘antisemitism’: a prof calling Israel a Zionist project—as it attests to be.

In a course that had nothing to do with Israel, my professor spent three weeks talking about Gaza and the creation of the State of Israel. He never mentioned the Holocaust as a precursor to its founding, repeatedly calling the state a “Zionist political project.”

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The fragility on display here is off the charts. Doctors at Toronto’s Mt. Sinai Hospital complained that their pain wasn’t recognized in their colleague Kavita Algu’s advocacy against the genocide. Algu was ultimately forced to resign. archive.is/yTcX0

Days prior to the meeting, a group of doctors at the palliative care unit had raised concerns with their leadership about Jewish pain not being recognized in their colleagues’ public advocacy for Palestinians. The workplace was being affected by social media posts about Gaza, they told their managers on Jan. 10. The meeting to which Algu and the others were invited was an attempt to address those concerns, according to internal records that would detail the hospital’s navigation of the situation.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 16/07/2026

"Especially at a time when propaganda is rampant under the Trump 2.0 regime, it feels particularly crucial to ensure that those invested in Disability Justice are aware of what we owe to Brad Lomax and the Black Panther Party."🫂 www.equitableforall.com/articles/cel...

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Celebrating How Brad Lomax and the Black Panther Party Paved the Way for Disability Justice

This newsletter post is the author's attempt at highlighting how Brad Lomax and the Black Panther Party paved the way for Disability Justice, as she continues to reckon with the grave costs of Access ...

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026

These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...

Photo via Wayne Wastaken

Fire clouds over Collins, Ontario as community members flee their homes by boat

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Before you come to tell me how AI is an access technology/we must not be critical of AI because disabled people use it, please consider: Im disabled/neurodivergent myself. I study/teach at the intersection of disability and technology, and in disability studies Not pulling my critiques from thin air

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 15/07/2026

Not sure Carney's got this whole petropolitics thing down just yet. You don't want to announce your wholehearted embrace of oil and gas immediately before the season now known as "fire season" or your words will be echoing through people's heads while they wheeze through their morning dog walks.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 27/06/2026

People need to stop thinking of journalism as a consumer product where you pay to access content Think of it as an investment in making sure issues that matter to you get the attention they deserve Everyone who can afford it should pick 5 journalists / news orgs and financially support them 👇

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Losers

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Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca · 25/06/2026

We have studied the Montreal shooter's manifesto, discussed it in a community of experts, and read the coverage and reactions. This article is a good start. Other commentary has focused on the wrong parts and covered up violence towards women. So let's talk. 🧵 montrealgazette.com/news/local-c...

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Manifesto laden with incel ideology linked to Côte-des-Neiges shootings

A 104-page document advocates for use of terror in creating "new order."

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 20/06/2026

That’s how he sees Gaza too. Real estate, just all these pesky human beings there in the way.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 20/06/2026

🔴 Lebanon’s Health Min. said the final toll from Friday's Israeli attacks has risen to 83 people killed & 141 wounded, with most casualties reported in southern Lebanon & others in the eastern Bekaa region. The ministry added that since March 2, Israeli attacks have killed 4,057 people & wounded...

🔴 Lebanon’s Health Ministry said the final toll from Friday’s Israeli attacks has risen to 83 people killed and 141 wounded, with most casualties reported in southern Lebanon and others in the eastern Bekaa region.

The ministry added that since March 2, Israeli attacks have killed 4,057 people and wounded 12,121, including 135 health care and emergency workers among the dead.

🎥 Latest dispatch from Courtney in south Lebanon where scores of new attacks Saturday have killed at least 40 people, according to local reports. One of the deadliest attacks hit Qanaarit, a town in the Saida district north of the Zahrani River that had been sheltering people displaced from villages farther south. The death toll there rose to ten killed and 22 wounded, most of them women and children. ⬇️

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Repot from Qanareet, where at least 10 civilians including a family were killed today in an Israeli bombing. The Israeli army has relentlessly attacked Lebanon for a second day in a row despite a ceasefire being in place.

Yesterday more than 50 civilians were killed and today so far at least 20 people have been killed.

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This is the part of history, they don’t want people learning about.

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The Spooky Educator @literarybeardo.blacksky.app · 14/06/2026

Shout-out to the lady at the Costco sample station who knew to tell that Muslim family that the chicken sausage had a pork casing. Also, I really wish food manufacturers would stop doing that. There's no reason for it.

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 wrote a book called echolalia echolalia 🎃 @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

there's only two entries so far ! you know you want one of these books for a very smol price to go somewhere you can count will help someone.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 14/06/2026

Canadian man who hangs outside local elementary schools attempting to engage passersby in conversations about puberty says he has been arrested by Spanish police

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@BillboardChris
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I have just been arrested by the police in Madrid, Spain.
My phone and passport have been seized but I had a second phone in my pocket so I'm writing this from the back of the police car.
I was at Puerta del Sol for just 5 minutes.
Police told me I cannot have conversations in the public square. I researched the law and spoke with a lawyer and.they are wrong.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos: “What’s happening in Gaza is a Holocaust, and what’s being designed by Israel is the final solution to the Palestinian problem. As a Holocaust survivor, my reaction is: not in my name… brave people can resist.”

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 12/06/2026

The Shopify bros are denouncing the Globe and Mail as socialists fomenting intolerance and hate against billionaires

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You have absolutely disgraced yourselt publishing this, globe.
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We all clearly don't hate the media enough.
* The Globe and Mail * @globe.... 21h
Opinion: SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here's how to properly hate him theglobeandmail.com/business/ comme...
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"Socialists have a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created.
As far as they know, wealth just exists somehow, and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it."
-Thomas Sowell-

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You don't have to love Elon Musk to recognize what this headline says about us.
A country that spends more time criticizing wealth creation than encouraging it sends a clear message to builders: your success is tolerated, not celebrated.
Canada should be the best place in the world to build ambitious companies. Headlines like this make us look like we're not quite ready for that.

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This is petty and stupid. It is also dangerous.
Very clearly the first city on Mars will be named Musk and very clearly the Globe and Mail is a rag of lies that would go bankrupt without perpetual subsidies.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Interesting piece suggesting a turn from the already parasitic FIFA in two ways. One, Trump is indifferent to what visitors and tourists think. Two, with expansion of world cup infrastructure, FIFA now desperately needs host countries (rather than vice versa). www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Omar Artan scandal reveals Gianni Infantino for what he is: one of sport’s greatest cowards | Jonathan Liew

The Fifa president has prostrated the organisation before Donald Trump and lost control of his own tournament as a result

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The media now started calling Beirut's southern suburbs a "Hezbollah stronghold." Dahiyeh is a densely populated part of a capital city. Striking entire civilian neighborhoods is not counterterrorism. It's a war crime.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Inspiring! After hundreds protest Hamilton data centre proposal, committee denies Steelport planning application Ahead of raucous planning meeting, chants of “fuck AI” filled Hamilton’s council chambers. City staff said 1,688 people submitted comments, a record. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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After hundreds protest Hamilton data centre proposal, committee denies Steelport planning application | CBC News

Hamilton’s Committee of Adjustment denied an application from Slate Asset Management to split up an industrial lot. The company has said it is considering building a data centre on part of it. Hundred...

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 wrote a book called echolalia echolalia 🎃 @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Crips for eSims for Gaza raised more than $3.4M CAD. We’re finally out of the red and just need to pay back US-based volunteers in USD, since most donations are in the CAD pile. <3 #ConnectingGaza bit.ly/eSimsRUs

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Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 05/06/2026

Jesse deleted his tweet because, I guess, the last name of the accused didn’t sound stereotypically Muslim enough? (Police say they are not investigating it as a hate crime and prosecutors have also asked that the accused undergo a mental health evaluation) montrealgazette.com/news/local-c...

Jesse Brown:

“I deleted a post because it was needlessly speculative about why Montreal police were withholding the identity of the Montreal synagogue arsonist. The alleged has since been identified as Steven Luu”

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 05/06/2026

Canada’s self-appointed expert on journalistic ethics embracing racial profiling, I see

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Members of the American Diabetes Association were forcibly removed from the annual meeting for distributing an editorial critical of Trumpian policy. 😳

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

After Amazon gave $1M to Trump's inauguration, Trump installed Amazon's former lawyer to head the NLRB. Now the agency has ended a major case investigating Amazon's mistreatment of its contract drivers with a slap-on-the-wrist settlement. This is what a quid pro quo looks like.

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What Trump Delivered for Amazon

The feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Chilling details emerged today about the Canadian government’s inaction as Israel kidnapped and abused Canadians bringing aid to Gaza. Israel shot at them, beat them, stabbed them, and left them for dead. One activist called the Canadian consulate between Israel's attacks -- but no help came:

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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

AI IS THEFT Let us keep in mind that there are other ways to chip at Canada's sovereignty and at manufacturing consent for foreign hegemony besides military annexation. Looks like Carney and his corporate bros are happily falling - or gleefully running - into that trap

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

It shouldn’t be a struggle for anyone to afford food. That shouldn’t be something that we’re okay with as a human species. Everyone should have a decent home to go back to and enough to eat.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Canada exported $14.6 million worth of military goods to Israel last year. Total of 50 military export permits were utilized to sell these goods. Military goods were shipped *despite* Canada stating that it paused approvals of some new military export permits. www.readthemaple.com/canada-expor...

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Canada Exported $14.6 Million Of Military Goods To Israel In 2025

A total of 50 military export permits were utilized to sell goods to Israel in 2025.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 03/06/2026

Aside from this being a wildly broad and absolutely racist generalization, Jesse Brown’s suggestion here that Muslim immigrants are culturally incompatible / failing to integrate into Canadian society echoes the same xenophobic talking points as far-right anti-immigrant demagogues

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

And Israel is already occupying 20% of Lebanon…

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Israel now occupies more of Lebanon than Russia occupies of Ukraine. But of course that's a 'good' invasion. So there is silence.

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Lauren W. (she/they) @livewildly.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Dying over the guy who stood next to Zuck's yacht and painted it in flames.

A bearded white man paints on an easel on the right side of the frame. Zuckerberg's eldritch horror of a yacht is on the left.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This is an utterly unnecessary editorial that serves no purpose other than to attempt to appease racists who will never be appeased in the first place, at the expense of Indigenous families who lost loved ones.

Globe and Mail editorial board piece starts with the headline:

“There is no reconciliation without truth”

Then it begins:

“Two things can be true, at the same time. Five years after the startling announcement that there were hundreds of possible unmarked graves near a residential school in Kamloops, B.C., there has been no public confirmation of the discovery of any human remains. That is reality, one reality.
Another is this: 3,200 Indigenous children, at least, died at residential schools, according to the 2015 report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Residential school students died at a rate far higher than children in the rest of Canada - a negligence so deep-rooted that it came
"within unpleasant nearness" of manslaughter, according to a government official in the early “

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Truly depraved.

Canada Exported $14.6 Million Of Military Goods To Israel In 2025
A total of 50 military export permits were utilized to sell goods to Israel in 2025.

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"If the border is everywhere, then what exactly is the border? It is best understood not as a fixed line, but as an ordering regime of human immobility & labor discipline thickening across space & time to reproduce a global colonial order & stabilize racial capitalism."

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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Someone sent a battalion of police to prevent people from welcoming the last Canadian member of the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social at Pearson airport. @mark-carney.bsky.social + @evansolomon.bsky.social: Who are you working for? www.instagram.com/reel/DY6HRJA...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Not content with the 2m people they have already Ethnically Cleansed from Southern Lebanon, Israel have now ordered the evacuation of their 5th largest city Tyre. The world is allowing Israel's invasion of Lebanon and doing absolutely nothing to stop it.

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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

look. is everything more expensive now? yes. but you have to look on the bright side too. now every time you open a computer, it doesn't work

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Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Israel has killed nine paramedics in just 72 hours in southern Lebanon and it’s business as usual. Now imagine the outrage if that was nine Israeli paramedics. The entire world would be screaming and condemning it as terrorism.

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