I pay my taxes. And I pay more than this grifting sonofbitch did.
Biden team already out with an ad hitting Trump over the @nytimes story –––> pic.twitter.com/1FfQWaEtU7 — Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) September 28, 2020
2020
Is It Better To Denounce Donald Trump Or Mock him?
For almost four years decent Americans have called Donald Trump every name in the book, from depraved pussy grabber to deranged werewolf. And they were all right. But the sad…
9/27/2020: The real news.
Sorry this blog is so late. But yesterday was a family day.As well, today’s blog is different because I have to write – not about our news but about the…
Speaker’s Corner
Ms Soapbox is working on a project that will keep her busy for the next couple of weeks. Rather than allow The Soapbox, a virtual Speakers’ Corner, to fall silent,…
Mango Mussolini Gets Bum’s Rush
The New York Times has used 20 years of Donald Trump’s tax returns to paint a picture of Trump as a tax avoiding bum facing serious financial trouble. Among the…
A Philosophy of Antifascism: Existentialism, Decolonization, & The Three-Way Fight: An Interview with Devin Zane Shaw (RevLeft Radio)
Through the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir, with some reference to Fanon and Sartre, Devin Zane Shaw identifies the philosophical reasons for the political action being enacted by contemporary antifascists.…
The Far Right, Global Capitalism, the Left, and Antifascism: Three Interviews with Matthew N. Lyons
The following interviews with Matthew N. Lyons, author of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire, provide important background to the realignment and convergence going on…
Paths to Glory: Green Party Leadership Contestants’ Paths to Ranked Ballot Victory
With 9 opitions on the Green Party of Canada's leadership ballot, what's it going to take for one of the 8 leadership contestants to emerge victorious on Saturday, October 3…
Paths to Glory: Green Party Leadership Contestants’ Paths to Ranked Ballot Victory
With 9 opitions on the Green Party of Canada's leadership ballot, what's it going to take for one of the 8 leadership contestants to emerge victorious on Saturday, October 3…
Paths to Glory: Green Party Leadership Contestants’ Paths to Ranked Ballot Victory
With 9 opitions on the Green Party of Canada’s leadership ballot, what’s it going to take for one of the 8 leadership contestants to emerge victorious on Saturday, October 3…
What Are The Threats We Face In This Time? A political education webinar with SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice)
Police violence, authoritarianism, and repression in the midst of a presidential election and pandemic. How are these threats connected and how can we take strategic action in the midst of…
The Great Human Petri Dish
How did it come to this? How did humanity become so homogenized? In his new book, “Commanding Hope,” director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads, Victoria, Thomas Homer-Dixon looks…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Nicole Mortillaro notes that the reduction in pollution due to COVID-19-related shutdowns isn’t keeping 2020 from being either the hottest or second-hottest…
The Appearance of Justice
It is axiomatic that, in a liberal democracy, justice must be free from bias. Every human is a breathing bag of biases but those that judge us are bound to…
It’s *NOT* Junk Mail
I recognize that we all like to apply labels to categorize things, as shorthand in communication and in conversation, and to identify common views and beliefs. I do it myself;…
It’s In the Pipeline
Robin Sears writes that universal childcare has been on Canadians’ radar for a long time: Childcare in Canada has a long and twisting history — from pre-Confederation days when informal…
What if we had switched the speeches?
Justin Trudeau short changed us. It was so obvious. The speech read by the governor general should have been for the United Nations. It was dull and obvious but better…
Big Exodus from Big Tech
Time for the exodus to begin in earnest from the now confirmed to be fascist and deeply Orwellian Big Tech giants. At the least, we need to begin the migration…