Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Convicted Felon Using US Presidency to Amass Fortune Feasts with Oligarchs (Musk, Bezos, Pichai, and Huang) Carving Up AI and Rare Earths Behind Closed Doors" #SGE decoder.survivorsguidetoearth.com/card/npr-202... [SGE 'decodes' the headlines] Thanks @matthewcooke.bsky.socialdecoder.survivorsguidetoearth.comNPR, decoded | The Propaganda DecoderConvicted Felon Using US Presidency to Amass Fortune Feasts with Oligarchs (Musk, Bezos, Pichai, and Huang) Carving Up AI and Rare Earths Behind Closed Doors 010
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just such great clear-eyed teaching. Thank you Maggie Helwig for your courage and your compass! @maggiehelwig.bsky.social thewalrusca.substack.com/p/hard-as-it...thewalrusca.substack.comHard as It Is to Say, God Loves Donald TrumpAs a priest, I preach about standing against hate without being drawn into hatred ourselves 000
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026So… education absolutely matters, relatively… ; ) I think that a truly healthy political system can promote, encourage and tend to individual commitment to goodness. Also, that ‘essential reality’ is not only found in ‘individual commitment’, but also in communal inter-relatedness. 210
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Cory Doctorow neatly summarizing ‘enshittification’ youtube.com/shorts/YHW-N... @doctorow.pluralistic.netyoutube.comCory Doctorow - Enshittification at Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2026YouTube video by Festival of Dangerous Ideas 0134
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.” - Ivan Illich 001
Reposted by Nik BeesonBruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 04/09/2025In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. — Ivan Illich 1266
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew consistently and doggedly following and expressing deep values in the face of AI and data centre submission. 030
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Um… “Are you a coward or are you an American.”??? This implies that if you’re not American you’re a coward??? LOL! America is so fucking self-absorbed. Right now the projection of its national culture globally is that of a grossly cruel, corrupt, cowardly narcissist. 030
Reposted by Nik BeesonKeith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 15/05/2026"The only thing happening faster than the federal rollback of climate policies is the global renewable energy revolution that will turn all of these concessions to Big Oil into a massive lost opportunity to build a better, safer Canada." www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/st...greenpeace.org Greenpeace Canada reaction to industrial carbon price announcement - Greenpeace Canada The only thing happening faster than the federal rollback of climate policies is the global renewable energy revolution that will turn all of these concessions to Big Oil into a massive lost opportuni... 22817
Reposted by Nik BeesonKeith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 13/05/2026The only thing moving faster than Mark Carney's roll-back of Canadian climate policy is the global renewable energy revolution 01712
Reposted by Nik BeesonTerre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 07/05/2026"We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself". - Dietrich Bonhoeffer 0163
Reposted by Nik BeesonTrita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Beyond shameful! Next time the German government lectures ANYONE about human rights, remember that in Germany, you get arrested if you peacefully hold up pictures of starving Palestinian children. This video is from Berlin. 611150
Reposted by Nik BeesonAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20/04/2026Palantir CEO Alexander Karp's book The Technological Republic advocates for Western 'hard power ... built on software' aje.news/556jbw 58936
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Wow. Sure as heck looks like that. Congrats to CDN metal rocker ! 010
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 12/04/2026The Circle in the Age of AI and Empire by @delfo_jpv medium.com/p/the-circle... A profound and insightful reflection/brief on challenging the domineering ethos of top-down global decision-making by a very (very!) few with a *process* of decision-making that values many voices, in a circle.medium.comThe Circle in the Age of AI and EmpireI’m holding two books by Christina Baldwin. 000
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Detailed analysis of the current situation in the Iran/US-Israel war by political analyst Alastair Crooke interviewed by Chris Hedges. youtube.com/watch?v=_RKE...youtube.comAmerica’s Suez Crisis (w/ Alastair Crooke) | The Chris Hedges ReportYouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel 000
Reposted by Nik BeesonBuncula - The Vampire Bunny @nbragg.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Build a 100% renewable East-West Electricity Grid. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/gr...actionnetwork.orgBuild a 100% renewable East-West Electricity GridA new federal government with big promises for "nation-building" projects has the potential to deliver a climate-safe and affordable future for all of us. If we fight for it. A publicly owned, east-west electricity grid that connects renewable energy projects is the type of ambitious project we need. It would provide affordable, secure and renewable power to people from coast to coast. And is an answer to the climate crisis that also connects our communities, builds up local economies, and creates good jobs. Add your name now and call on the Cabinet to build a 100% renewable East-West energy grid. 111
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Gore Vidal laying it out… substack.com/@thememoryho...substack.comTMH (@thememoryhole)Gore Vidal: The Largest Rogue State 000
Reposted by Nik BeesonTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/03/2026No Kings. March 28th. Make a plan for where you'll be and bring your family and friends. www.nokings.orgnokings.orgNo KingsAs the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ... 471891799
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 05/03/2026youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ Brilliant, funny, true! CDN Cory Doctorow coined ‘enshittification’ to describe how digital platforms create dependency that then takes great effort to get out of, and then profits from making them ‘shitty’ unless you pay more and more. This Norwegian ad puts it in a wrap.youtu.beA Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificatorYouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council 010
Reposted by Nik BeesonMiddle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 04/03/2026The names and ages of children killed in the strike on Iran school - www.middleeasteye.net/news/names-an…middleeasteye.netThe names and ages of children killed in the strike on Iran schoolMEE has collected the names and ages of some of those killed in the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school strike 15349
Reposted by Nik BeesonSophie BoooOoOoOOoOoOooo! @pogform.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward. 36278955
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Very much appreciate this description of creative demonstrating. Clown music to accompany and make a mockery of a Patriot Front recruitment rally. Brilliant! 020
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Yes. Really disappointing that two of the most effective and dangerous (to the Republicans and MAGA) voices that the Democrats have are running against each other. Just seems stupid. I don’t know why that’s happening… 010
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Great article by Charlie Angus on Trump’s complete lack of accountability and morality, and gangster fascism. substack.com/@nikbeeson/n...substack.comNik Beeson (@nikbeeson)Great article by Charlie Angus on Trump’s complete lack of accountability and morality, and gangster fascism. 000
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 22/02/2026I'm just so bummed that they are having to struggle *against* each other. *Both* are so very needed. There is a 2000+ year old tradition of radical Christians for the poor: Jesus, St Francis, Martin Luther King, Oscar Romero, Dorothy Day... Talarico's Christianity has a radical tradition... 000
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 22/02/2026I'm addicted to bad news about MAGA. I need to find a way to organise. A start? "In a book that has become a modern classic of social movement organizing, Mark and Paul Engler explain that there is a craft to uprising—and that this craft can change the world." thisisanuprising.org/about/thisisanuprising.orgThe Book | This Is an Uprising | Mark Engler & Paul Engler 000
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Great article by Charlie Angus on the corruption of the promise of the internet. open.substack.com/pub/charliea...open.substack.comMelania, Tech Bros and the Price of DiapersPerhaps it was just a coincidence. 000
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I receive American historian & political analyst Heather Cox Richardson’s mail out every day and it’s usually the first thing I read. Today she quotes from JB Pritzker’s speech inspiring State of the State address. @hcrichardson.bsky.social 000
Reposted by Nik BeesonMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/02/2026BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days. Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work. Details on thehandbasket.co later today! 227154202777
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Thanks @jamestalarico.bsky.social for standing out for free speech, the separation of church and state, and for the marginalised: real values. 000
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Colbert's section on why Talarico was banned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh7D... Fact is, Talarico being banned by CBS has completely backfired. Everyone wants to know who he is, and why he's so dangerous. As of yesterday the YouTube vid has over 6 million views.youtube.comWhy CBS Didn't Broadcast Stephen Colbert's Interview With James TalaricoYouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 000
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Been following Texan James Talarico for months. Love his message: Christian Nationalism is idolatry; Jesus taught love thy neighbour, feed the hungry, heal the sick; it's not left vs right, it's top vs bottom. His appearance on Colbert was *banned* by CBS! Watch it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...youtube.comRep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas LegislatureYouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 221
Reposted by Nik BeesonKeith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Oh for a world where right wing movements weren't so extreme in their racism (yet still platformed) that I didn't have to agree with Jason Kenney. 55516
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Yup. Who woulda thought... I remember working at the human rights org KAIROS when Jason Kenney announced its defunding from Israel with the usual slogan that criticism of the Israeli gov was anti-semitic. But.... I really love that he's gone after these racists absolutely full frontal. 000
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026The decline of Western Civilisation? Rubio, Trump, Epstein, Musk, Noem, Bondi, MAGA, Christian Nationalism, ICE: racism, ignorance, violence, cruelty, kleptocracy, oligarchy/broligarchy, hoarding, addiction, superstition/cultism, pathological lying, moral perversion... They *are* the decline! 011
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026The decline of Western Civilisation? Rubio, Trump, Epstein, Musk, Noem, Bondi, MAGA, Christian Nationalism, ICE: racism, ignorance, violence, cruelty, kleptocracy, oligarchy/broligarchy, hoarding, addiction, superstition/cultism, pathological lying, moral perversion... They *are* the decline! 011
Reposted by Nik BeesonGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16/02/2026My message remains the same a year later. We don’t have kings in America, and I won’t bend the knee to one. 10458791161
Reposted by Nik BeesonSOUTH JERSEY DEMOCRATIC WOMEN'S FORUM @sjdwf2025.bsky.social · 15/02/2026www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation | Mark Engler and Paul EnglerOur studies in civil resistance offer insight into the level of popular organizing needed to repel assaults on democracy 423492
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Please follow Heather Cox Richardson. I wish she would post to BlueSky. American historian & relentlessly astute political analyst, Heather Cox Richardson has been a throughline for me. Gracias! heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-1...heathercoxrichardson.substack.comFebruary 11, 2026On February 12, 1809, Nancy Hanks Lincoln gave birth to her second child, a son: Abraham. 000
Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Vjaybombs is da bomb. Brilliant guerrila projection at the superbowl... @vjaybomb.bsky.social x.com/s_afreen7/st...x.comSadaf Afreen صدف on X: "Super Bowl LIX के जश्न के बीच Las Vegas की एक बिल्डिंग पर @vjaybombs द्वारा की गई "Guerrilla Projection" ने सबको चौंका दिया! #EpsteinFiles आप वीडियो देखे, इवेंट को "PEDO BOWL" का नाम देकर Epstein के करीबियों पर निशाना साधा गया! DOJ द्वारा जारी 35 लाख से ज्यादा Epstein फाइलों के https://t.co/ZLHu1U3fjr" / XSuper Bowl LIX के जश्न के बीच Las Vegas की एक बिल्डिंग पर @vjaybombs द्वारा की गई "Guerrilla Projection" ने सबको चौंका दिया! #EpsteinFiles आप वीडियो देखे, इवेंट को "PEDO BOWL" का नाम देकर Epstein के करीबियों पर निशाना साधा गया! DOJ द्वारा जारी 35 लाख से ज्यादा Epstein फाइलों के https://t.co/ZLHu1U3fjr 000
