Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Tim Murphy, Schuyler Mitchell and Chasity Hale chart the obscene concentration of wealth in the U.S., while Murphy also highlights the flaws in how…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates April 14, 2025
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
Novel Arguments For Challenging Anti-Transgender Laws In Canada
Since Alberta has decided to make itself the beachhead in bringing an "American-Style" attack on transgender people through legislation that is largely unconstitutional in Canada unless the province invokes The…
Saturday Photo: More Than 100 Years Old, the Library in Ritzville
On my to Walla Walla a couple of weeks ago, I stopped to eat lunch in Ritzville, WA, a small town which was once a bustling shipping point on the…
Noted in passing: comments about Poilievre v reality, the Canadian economy, and the Iran War
Comments about Poilievre v reality Chantal Hébert: "The issue is not if the old Pierre Poilievre would be back, but when the old Pierre Poilievre would be back, and that…
Musical interlude
Massive Attack & Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Jeff Masters points out how the climate breakdown is making hurricanes and other severe weather far worse than would otherwise be the case. And…
Some fooling around with AI
Surrealist building shaped like a cat.
Modern Futility
How the enchantments of consumer society keep us attached to a failing world-systemThere is something eerie about living in a civilization that cannot stop doing what is destroying the conditions…
Orbán’s Defeat And The Path To Atonement
Orbán’s defeat in Hungary last weekend gives us hope for an end to the destruction being wrought by the global movement of oligarchs against the people.
Today’s News: Getting a grip – on the scattered complexity of US wars now, and on the impact of the Liberal majority
From Phillips's Newsletter Getting a Grip on all of Trump's Wars?Our son follows a "This Week in World War 2" podcast and when I hear it I am struck by…
UCP moves to spike inconveniently fair Electoral Boundaries Commission report
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government served notice in the provincial Legislature yesterday morning it intends to toss out the entire report of the 2025-2026 Electoral Boundaries Commission. Instead, the motion…
Stack ‘em high
A ten floor prison condo for Cons and car thieves.
Orts From the Table
Sometimes I think that we have become so jaded with government in general that when an apparently new 'flavour' comes along, our reaction is disproportionately enthusiastic. You don't need me…
Today’s News: Carney and his majority know how to play this game
Cartoon by Greg Parry, The TyeeI don't have a lengthy post tonight, but I saw some very good clips today about Carney and his new majority government so I thought…
Whether we Canadians like it or not, Pierre Poilievre is waiting around for us to come to our senses and vote for him
Pierre Poilievre has a message for Canadians: Don’t worry! I’m not going anywhere! I’ll be right here when you decide you want me again. And if you don’t think you…
When they said none was too many: On Judeo-Christian Values and The Myth of the Moral Past (An Open Letter to Danielle Smith)
There is a phrase that I love to hear: Canadians should learn more of their history. It is often a phrase used by Canadian Historians including Jack Granatstein and Margaret…
Hungary opts for Europe
What’s not to celebrate about the Hungarian election? Prime Minister Viktor Orban, good friend of... The post Hungary opts for Europe first appeared on Views from the Beltline.