Carney must stand up for decency against Smith

The Alberta premier's anti-immigrant campaign is an assault on Canada's benevolent national identity. But if Alberta wants to benefit from Canada — they are asking for a new pipeline after all — they must act like Canadians.

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Harry & Meghan Vindicated as Spotlight Shifts to Andrew

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"In December 1778, as the #American #Revolution still raged, a #Jewish #writer in #Charlestown opened a #newspaper and saw #Jews made into wartime #scapegoats. An article in the local press claimed that Jews in #Georgia had taken “every advantage in trade,” then fled with “ill-got wealth” as soon as the state was “attacked by an enemy,” “turning their backs upon the country when in danger.”

The writer did not let this accusation go unanswered. He responded in print. And he signed his reply with a line that declared both his patriotism and his devotion to #Judaism: “A real AMERICAN, and True hearted #ISRAELITE.”

That combination — civic belonging and Jewish identity claimed in the same breath — feels newly resonant as the #UnitedStates enters its 250th anniversary year.

The American story has never been free of #antisemitism. But this early source reveals something else that is often overlooked..."

https://www.jta.org/2026/01/13/ideas/for-250-years-american-jews-have-answered-prejudice-with-defiance

For 250 years, American Jews have answered prejudice with defiance

Starting with the Revolution, writes a historian, Jews publicly rebutted wartime slander and asserted their place in the American story.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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But the officials are arresting construction workers and others involved in the renovation work. #scapegoats

It's about time #maga (and #wappies) wake up. Yes, there is a #elite you shouldn't trust. You have been voting to make them more powerful, hating the #scapegoats they told you to hate. The left was right all along #dumptrump #fckwilders #fckfvd #ja21scks #evilbbb
@locuta.bsky.social Congress woman Ilhan Omar has been legally voted. Any action to exclude her from Congress and to dismiss her from her office purely based on her #origin, would be utterly illegal (Trump&Co. do not care, of course), but that’s how #neofascism works: the #scapegoats are persecuted, criminalised, potentially deported, tortured and murdered, eventually, once there is no opposition any more.

"If European democracies cannot deliver on the basic promise of shelter, they invite not just economic dysfunction but political catastrophe"

#housing #housingcrisis #democracy #extremism #scapegoats

https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-housing-crisis-threatens-the-foundations-of-democracy

Europe's Housing Crisis Threatens the Foundations of Democracy

Affordable homes built the post-war social contract—their absence today fuels political extremism.

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Desperately Seeking Satan: Media and the Shooter

For that segment of my audience that can spend years intermittently declaring that they “can no longer support” my work following my persistent failures to faithfully and stridently dictate their own political views to our non-theistic community in a demand of conformity, the fact that I reaffirmed our organizational, long-standing position of nonviolence following the shooting of a right-wing public figure whom I had publicly been at odds with struck them as a display of unconscionable hypocrisy.

Lucien Greaves on Substack
Conservatives Made Up "Trans Terrorism" & It Worked | FBI Classifying Trans People as Terrorists

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