Its genuinely amusing to see 'populist' Tucker whitewash Dugin, who has spent his life characterizing 'Americanism' as 'planetary idiocy' and calls ordinary people 'insignificant swarms' who need to be governed by an intellectual elite of hard right 'single ones.'

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This is all incredibly well said

New: A coalition of 185 social justice groups published an open letter today expressing support for campus protest encampments sweeping the country and calling on university administrators to end the brutal crackdowns of the student-led demonstrations. huffpost.com/entry/human-ri…

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Lot of takes floating around about what is motivating student protestors (loneliness, peer pressure, trying to be trendy?) My take: protestors are primarily motivated by concern over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza

Note that almost no one in US media bothers defending Israel’s destruction of Gaza on its merits. Every criticism now is concern trolling, crybullying, anti-zoomer psychobabble and “Trump would be worse” voter-scolding. It’s all meta, desperate, and morally vacuous

Nice Howard Zinn quote (via Luke Savage): 'They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.'

No, seriously, Uber is deciding what driver gets what job based on their weight, whether they ever missed a payment, what political associations they have.

Algorithmic wage discrimination should be made illegal before it becomes the dominant business model.

Imagine being the college dean who escorts snipers to the roof to take aim at your own students.

He was probably a Conservative MP because he believed in the things he consistently voted for - slashing taxes on the rich, destroying the welfare state, privatisation, that kind of thing.

And he probably doesn’t think Labour poses any threat to those core beliefs?

Thanks David Moscrop for covering our new policy report on what it would take to spark a major expansion of democratic employee ownership in Canada.

Full report here: policyalternatives.ca/employee-owner…

Major revelation here about the findings of 4 key bureaus at the State Dept.

Worth reading the whole thread+story. Note confirmation of my scoop last month that Jack Lew, Biden’s ambassador to Israel, is strongly defending Isr claims of complying with U.S. + international law.

An actual, bonafide instance of norm erosion in action:

In 2014, Obama's lawyers insisted a president had a unilateral right to extrajudicially assassinate Americans.

10 years later, Trump's lawyers are basing their assertions on the same argument.

It's all bad.

Maybe liberals shouldnt have eyerolled critics of Obama's move.

In Canada, calls are growing to boycott Loblaws for the month of May, but how do you boycott an oligopoly?

Still, boycott or not, Canadians are paying for Galen Weston’s castle.

NEW from Luke Savage:

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They're already calling Jerry Seinfeld's Unfrosted 'the cinematic event of the year.' 'A tour de force of comedy and social commentary' - every newspaper; 'Unfrosted? This movie has FROZEN all the critics who said it was dumb as shit dead in their tracks' - Peter Travers