Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Helpful cat.
Helpful cat.
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Fiona Harvey and Jonathan Watts report on Antonio Guterres' warning at the start of the COP30 climate conference that we can't afford more…
Assorted content to start your week.- Tim Wu discusses how the richest few have come to dominate our politics (with our health and well-being paying the price), while Ian Welsh…
Matthew Good Band - Going All The Way
Assorted content to end your week.- Kaitlin Tosh and Michelle Inez Simon examine how Elon Musk's takeover of X has led to the systematic pushing of right-wing propaganda on users…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Catarina Saraiva and Jaewon Kang warn that the U.S. economy is a Jenga tower in which pieces needed to support the middle class…
Slushy cat.
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The UN Environmental Programme's Emissions Gap Report examines the painfully slow progress toward reining in global warming even as the technology to eliminate emissions…
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- David Coletto discusses how Canadians from across the political spectrum want to see the Carney Libs prioritize housing construction and economic independence, rather…
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- A.R. Moxon writes about the need to restore the capacity for shame as a precondition to reversing the decline of the U.S. Noah Berlatsky…
Vok - Waterfall
Assorted content to end your week.- Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Joseph Wright comment on the global tilt toward strongman government as the U.S. abandons any pretense of being a…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Andrew Coyne recognizes that there's no point in pretending that trade negotiations with the U.S. under the control of a mad king can…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Donal Gill and Isaac Peltz discuss the need to strengthen Canada's democracy against a descent into nihilistic populism like the one looming in the…
Keen cat.
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Paul Krugman writes about the Trump Republicans' decision to impose hunger on tens of millions of Americans - with lasting consequences on people's…
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jonn Elledge discusses how the right in the UK (like in the U.S. and Canada) is building its public messaging around explicit racism and…
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Thomas Zimmer sorts through the significance of a particularly arbitrary week from the Trump regime. Lauren Gambino reports on an assessment by former…
deadmau5 - Ameonna
Assorted content to end your week.- Noah Berlatsky writes about the dangers of treating the existence of marginalized groups - rather than the bigots seeking to dehumanize them - as…