Meanwhile in Canada
Canary in the coal mine
Mar 29 at 11:37amWeb
Show threadSunflower Björnskalle 🌻Mar 29
@MeanwhileinCanada To be fair, he can be a bit of a drama queen at times.
Show threadTor Iver WilhelmsenMar 29
@MeanwhileinCanada Opportunity to use pun «Canadary» missed. But yeah, there will be an exodus of scientists, to Canada, Europe…
Show threadJannekeMar 29

@MeanwhileinCanada
ALT=Picture of Jason Stanley with title "Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada"

The caption above the image says: Jason Stanley, who says [sic: isn't that true then and if so why question it?] grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become[sic] `fascist dictatorship'.

Show threadkcarruthersMar 29
@MeanwhileinCanada @franebleu and Timothy Snyder is fleeing too
Show threadMike SpoonerMar 29
@MeanwhileinCanada Poor plan, should have gone further away.
Show threadtursiopsMar 29
@MeanwhileinCanada may become? I think it already is but that is only my own opinion
Show threadxs4me2Mar 29

@MeanwhileinCanada

And he should know…

Show threadNormanDunbarMar 29
@MeanwhileinCanada "May become"?😐
Show thread🇨🇦 Dianne SMar 29

@MeanwhileinCanada The US is also going to deter top researchers from entering, such as this world-renowned cardiac surgeon who decided to stay in Canada instead of taking a position in the US as originally planned:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/acclaimed-heart-surgeon-dr-marc-ruel-chooses-canada-over-us-amid-political-uncertainty/

Acclaimed heart surgeon Dr. Marc Ruel chooses Canada over U.S. amid political uncertainty

Dr. Marc Ruel, a world-renowned heart surgeon and innovator, has turned down a prestigious leadership role at a top U.S. hospital, citing concerns over American annexation rhetoric.

CTVNews
Show threadKatzentratschenMar 29

@MeanwhileinCanada Link to source:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/yale-professor-fascism-canada

Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada

Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’

The Guardian
Show threadAnthony DavidMar 29

@MeanwhileinCanada

In a few years time, there will be MAGA academics rising to prominent positions, denouncing woke science, woke maths and woke art, etc. It happened last century in a certain country.
They will be freed from the burden of their papers being rejected or retracted.

Show threadSchools are superspreadersMar 29
@MeanwhileinCanada Why is the white man, who is voluntarily leaving, the canary? Why not the brown woman who is kidnapped off the street and thrown in prison? Meanwhile In Canada continues to be straight up trash.
Show threadMr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤Mar 29

Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada

Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/yale-professor-fascism-canada

Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada

Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’

The Guardian
Show threadRichard "RichiH" HartmannMar 29
@MeanwhileinCanada ITYM Canady
Show threadCorvid CroneMar 29

@MeanwhileinCanada

A canary in a coal mine littered with the corpses of other canaries

Show threadMennoMar 29
@MeanwhileinCanada
I believe he misspelled will.
Show threadNicole ParsonsMar 29

@MeanwhileinCanada

Jason Stanley, Marci Shore, and Tim Snyder also recognize how the wealthy infiltrate & corrupt academic institutions.

https://macleans.ca/the-interview/timothy-snyder-has-seen-tyrants-like-trump-before/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/us/yale-university-scholars-toronto-trump/index.html

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/1/23/for-us-conservatives-dei-is-code-for-dont-ever-integrate

Using alumni associations, endowment funds and now access to government grants, #KochNetwork can tell an organization who they hire or fire, who may debate whom, & even what kind of science, economics, or history is taught.

First they attacked public funding for colleges...

1/4

Show threadNicole ParsonsMar 29

2/4

...and put young people into decades of debt repayments.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/12/29/history-student-loan-debt/

Just because black & brown Vietnam veterans used their GI benefits to get an education at publicly funded California Universities.

https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/02/my-students-pay-too-much-for-college-blame-reagan/

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/12/how-student-debt-became-a-1point6-trillion-crisis.html

https://www.salon.com/2014/07/05/ronald_reagan_stuck_it_to_millennials_a_college_debt_history_lesson_no_one_tells/

#KochNetwork wants post secondary education restricted to whites only.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/02/26/edward-blum-has-new-allies-in-his-fight-against-affirmative-action

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/affirmative-action-killer-ed-blum-supreme-court-strategy.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/us/edward-blum-affirmative-action-race.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/11/fearless-fund-edward-blum-settlement/

America’s student loan crisis stems from a war on education as a public good

Free or low-cost public college used to be the norm, but state funding dried up for ideological reasons.

The Washington Post
Show threadNicole ParsonsMar 29

3/4

They fund astroturf student group and parents rights groups.

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/11/03/sffa-funded-by-large-conservative-groups-with-federalist-society-ties/

They funded attacks on affirmative action & CRT.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/charles-koch-crt-backlash/

https://progressive.org/op-eds/elite-schools-quit-koch-money-banks-211201/

https://msmagazine.com/2023/08/22/koch-money-college-university-unkoch-my-campus-jasmine-banks/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/11/fearless-fund-edward-blum-settlement/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/bradly-impact-fund-michael-flynn-stephen-miller-culture-war-project-veritas-american-first-legal-cpi/

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/12/03/alec-forum-promotes-manufactured-controversy-over-the-factual-teaching-of-racism-in-k-12-schools/

They dictated who is hired & fired.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harvard-claudine-gay-bill-ackman-diversity-and-inclusion/

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/21/1007778651/journalism-race-and-the-fight-over-nikole-hannah-jones-tenure-at-unc

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/03/bill-ackman-billionaire-attacks-claudine-gay-harvard-twitter-x

The same donors who funded attacks on the study of Critical Race Theory...

SFFA funded by large conservative groups with Federalist Society ties

Public tax records from 2015 to 2020 showed that large conservative donors offer most of the financial backing for Students for Fair Admissions, the nonprofit organization bringing forward the two lawsuits that could end race-conscious college admissions. The documents also reveal that the organization spent more than $8 million over this time period.

Yale Daily News
Show threadNicole ParsonsMar 29

4/4

and Women's Studies, are funding attacks on the study of backsliding democracy & fascism.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/07/michael-j-horowitz-report-1980/679236/

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-supreme-court-strategist-20151222-story.html

https://www.leftvoice.org/affirmative-action-under-attack-again-based-on-the-same-old-bogus-nonsense/

https://www.mediamatters.org/critical-race-theory/groups-irs-filing-reveals-nexus-right-wing-dark-money-and-critical-race-theory

Restore the concept of "public funding for the public good" to fight against fossil fuel funded fascism.
https://www.eurasiareview.com/19012025-robert-reich-the-la-fire-and-the-common-good-oped/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/books/review/robert-reich-common-good.html

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-fuking-nightmare

Group problems (like kleptocracy-club oligarchs) need group solutions (like democracy, education, taxing the rich)

The Other Memo That Started the Conservative Legal Movement

The firebrands who have reshaped American democracy through the courts are ideological sons and daughters of Michael J. Horowitz.

The Atlantic
Show threadPaul SomeoneElseMar 29
I recognize him from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw2Kgz_2cBk Recent talk with him and Chris Hedges.
Erasing History: How Fascism Works (w/ Jason Stanley)

YouTube
Show threadOneEyedAlienMar 29
@MeanwhileinCanada will that be far enough?
Show threadJeffandthekidMar 29
@MeanwhileinCanada “Oh come all yee faithful..."
Show threadUlrik Nyman ⬡Mar 29
@MeanwhileinCanada It was clear when he before the first election against Hilary Clinton did not say that he would respect the outcome of the election.
Show threadPhilip Johansson 🏴‍☠️💜Mar 30
@MeanwhileinCanada
Jason Stanley, known for featuring in the funniest clip on the internet, courtesy of some guy who gave a Tesla to Trump one time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNIYvOpTsh8
Adin Ross is literate

this man is interviewing kanye god help us all

YouTube
Show threadJeff GriggMar 30

@MeanwhileinCanada

But then he'll be further away from the thing he wishes to study!

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(OK; close enough to still study it; far enough to be able to talk about it.)