Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Samantha Hancox-Li writes about the need for the U.S.' citizenry to retake power from a militarized surveillance state through nonviolent organized resistance. And Philip…
Greg Fingas
Musical interlude
Metric - Victim of Luck
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Matt Seybold writes about the message sent at Davos that AI will be forced on people regardless of whether they want it (or whether…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Seva Gunitsky notes that the same culture of elite impunity is behind both the Epstein files and Donald Trump's Russian connections. And Alan…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Tuckered-out cat.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Anand Giridharadas writes that the most important takeaway from the Epstein files is the existence of the "Epstein class" which considers itself beyond…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Don Moynihan examines how the U.S. is experiencing a more rapid fall from democracy to autocracy than any other country in recent history.…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Sidney Blumenthal writes that the Trump regime never ceases to spiral downward (no matter how difficult it would seem to get worse than their…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jeremy Wallace examines China's massive - if messy - renewable energy revolution which stands to make fossil fuels obsolete in the very near future.…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Reaching cat.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Adam Serwer offers a hopeful take on how Minnesota is proving MAGA social theory wrong, showing that the vast majority of people are…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Francine Prose offers a reminder that everything else happening in the U.S. is secondary to the imminent threat of an authoritarian takeover. Ed Burmila…
Musical interlude
Lane 8 - Watermelon Wormhole
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Adrienne Tanner comments on how Canada has taken on unacceptable risks in accepting industry-funded "research" as a substitute for an accurate assessment of the…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Charlotte Clymer discusses Mark Carney's Davos speech as signaling a divorce from the U.S. But Justin Ling points out the need to match…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Inae Oh weighs in on the neo-royalism fueling Trump's sense of divine right. Seva Grunitsky points out that a hubristic belief that might makes…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Chin-up cat.
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Gaby Hinsliff highlights the need for the UK (and the rest of the world) to cut ties with an entirely unerliable U.S., while John…
On high-level tracking
With the January 28th membership deadline approaching for voters in the NDP's federal leadership campaign, I'll offer a brief high-level look at the campaign so far - and how it…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray discuss the need to go beyond merely calling to abolish ICE and other human rights abuses, and instead…