Mark Libin
@marklibin.bsky.social
Professor, Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at University of Manitoba. Union thug. Fighting commodity fetishism one class at a time.
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Always funny when ostensible liberals are like "You see, this postcolonial conflict is actually very nuanced and complex, because what makes it so very unique is that the majority ethnic group doesn't want to share power with the minority ethnic groups."
Oh wow, I didn't know that, that's wild man.
Oh wow, I didn't know that, that's wild man.
September 29, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Always funny when ostensible liberals are like "You see, this postcolonial conflict is actually very nuanced and complex, because what makes it so very unique is that the majority ethnic group doesn't want to share power with the minority ethnic groups."
Oh wow, I didn't know that, that's wild man.
Oh wow, I didn't know that, that's wild man.
Overheard just now: "Is Scott Gillingham running again? I think I'll just vote for him. It's nice to have a mayor you don't hear about so much."
September 29, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Overheard just now: "Is Scott Gillingham running again? I think I'll just vote for him. It's nice to have a mayor you don't hear about so much."
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Marx described commodity fetish as the imaginary of capital being more alive, having greater agency, and requiring more deference than the worker who produces it
September 28, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Marx described commodity fetish as the imaginary of capital being more alive, having greater agency, and requiring more deference than the worker who produces it
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Hey real quick what's the dictionary definition of a "chillul hashem"
Bibi Netanyahu at the UNGA, in front of a half-empty chamber: "Do you remember the beepers? Remember? Remember them?!"
[pulls out a beeper from his pocket]
"Well, I can tell you this. Hezbollah certainly remembers them!"
[pulls out a beeper from his pocket]
"Well, I can tell you this. Hezbollah certainly remembers them!"
September 24, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Hey real quick what's the dictionary definition of a "chillul hashem"
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In the last decade, the IDF prosecuted one (1) soldier for unlawfully killing a Palestinian in the occupied territories. Elor Azaria served 9 months in prison.
Today Israel's president, Yitzhak Herzog, pardoned him and expunged his criminal record.
A clear message of 100% impunity.
Today Israel's president, Yitzhak Herzog, pardoned him and expunged his criminal record.
A clear message of 100% impunity.
September 19, 2026 at 6:53 PM
In the last decade, the IDF prosecuted one (1) soldier for unlawfully killing a Palestinian in the occupied territories. Elor Azaria served 9 months in prison.
Today Israel's president, Yitzhak Herzog, pardoned him and expunged his criminal record.
A clear message of 100% impunity.
Today Israel's president, Yitzhak Herzog, pardoned him and expunged his criminal record.
A clear message of 100% impunity.
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Alberta First Nation aims to set up safe haven for gender-affirming care
Saddle Lake has set up a GoFundMe to pay for expected legal challenges and develop the health law it says it needs. It’s also trying to recruit doctors.
By @reportrix.bsky.social
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
Saddle Lake has set up a GoFundMe to pay for expected legal challenges and develop the health law it says it needs. It’s also trying to recruit doctors.
By @reportrix.bsky.social
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
Alberta First Nation wants to set up safe haven for gender-affirming care
EDMONTON - An Alberta First Nation says it aims to defy Premier Danielle Smith’s government by establishing a safe haven for gender-affirming medical care — contrary to provincial law.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
September 10, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Alberta First Nation aims to set up safe haven for gender-affirming care
Saddle Lake has set up a GoFundMe to pay for expected legal challenges and develop the health law it says it needs. It’s also trying to recruit doctors.
By @reportrix.bsky.social
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
Saddle Lake has set up a GoFundMe to pay for expected legal challenges and develop the health law it says it needs. It’s also trying to recruit doctors.
By @reportrix.bsky.social
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
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Major kudos to MIT, who just put out a report about AI on their campus that lucidly explains the threat posed by AI to cognition and the student experience, while at the same time prioritizes learning, students, and the value of education. 1/x aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
Report – AI and Education
aiandeducation.mit.edu
August 27, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Major kudos to MIT, who just put out a report about AI on their campus that lucidly explains the threat posed by AI to cognition and the student experience, while at the same time prioritizes learning, students, and the value of education. 1/x aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
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weird how you never hear about police department layoffs
August 28, 2026 at 3:41 AM
weird how you never hear about police department layoffs
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So much of our policy doesn’t directly address what we claim we want to solve. Instead we try to police and punish people out of the thing we don’t like, and then act surprised when that pressure doesn’t actually do anything to solve the problem.
One of our earliest posters ICYMI: If we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness. #UrbanTruth
August 19, 2026 at 3:51 PM
So much of our policy doesn’t directly address what we claim we want to solve. Instead we try to police and punish people out of the thing we don’t like, and then act surprised when that pressure doesn’t actually do anything to solve the problem.
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“You cannot make billions of dollars without hurting lots of people. And you can’t hurt lots of people without, in some sense, believing that they’re not really people.” Corey Doctorow
June 27, 2026 at 6:29 PM
“You cannot make billions of dollars without hurting lots of people. And you can’t hurt lots of people without, in some sense, believing that they’re not really people.” Corey Doctorow
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and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME
August 2, 2026 at 4:39 PM
and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME
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New reporting from @breachmedia.ca shows that Canadian universities operated a secret national effort to coordinate surveillance and policing of anti-genocide activism and encampments.
breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
July 31, 2026 at 12:48 AM
New reporting from @breachmedia.ca shows that Canadian universities operated a secret national effort to coordinate surveillance and policing of anti-genocide activism and encampments.
breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
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Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
July 29, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
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The canard that anti-Zionism and antisemitism are inseparable is being used to sideline pro-Palestinian voices, reshape debates over academic freedom and protest, and blur the distinction between criticism of a state and hostility toward Jewish people.
The ‘we’ of anti-Zionism
At a Winnipeg lecture on antisemitism and Israel, Dr. Rachel Fish argued that anti-Zionism and antisemitism are inseparable. Too often, writes Professor Mark Libin, that conflation is being used to si...
canadiandimension.com
June 1, 2026 at 3:46 PM
The canard that anti-Zionism and antisemitism are inseparable is being used to sideline pro-Palestinian voices, reshape debates over academic freedom and protest, and blur the distinction between criticism of a state and hostility toward Jewish people.
This article is just beautiful. Thanks so much @raphaelmagarik.bsky.social and @jewishcurrents.bsky.social ! Kol hakavod!
For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, I wrote about the Jewish Museum's Paul Klee exhibit, the angel of history getting held up in Jerusalem, and the vexed relationship between critique and aesthetic veneration in our present moment of danger. jewishcurrents.org/the-absent-a...
The Absent Angel
A reflection on the Jewish Museum’s Paul Klee exhibit
jewishcurrents.org
July 22, 2026 at 5:25 AM
This article is just beautiful. Thanks so much @raphaelmagarik.bsky.social and @jewishcurrents.bsky.social ! Kol hakavod!
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It can still come home if the British Museum has the courage!
July 15, 2026 at 9:05 PM
It can still come home if the British Museum has the courage!
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Schrödinger's Diaspora Jew: Simultaneously existentially threatened as a Jewish minority always on the verge of extermination without a Jewish state to keep us safe, and yet also too pampered in our comfortable homes in New York to lecture Israeli Jews facing constant danger on how to keep safe.
If the argument here is "Brad Lander is too safe as a Jew in diaspora to tell Israeli Jews how to keep safe," that sits uncomfortably with the argument that a Jewish state is necessary to keep Jews safe.
July 11, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Schrödinger's Diaspora Jew: Simultaneously existentially threatened as a Jewish minority always on the verge of extermination without a Jewish state to keep us safe, and yet also too pampered in our comfortable homes in New York to lecture Israeli Jews facing constant danger on how to keep safe.
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Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
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July 5, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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Yesterday's pipeline announcement is yet another reminder that Prime Minister Carney cares more about lining the pockets of his corporate friends than upholding the Constitutional rights of Indigenous peoples and protecting the public from the escalating climate emergency. (1/6)
July 3, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Yesterday's pipeline announcement is yet another reminder that Prime Minister Carney cares more about lining the pockets of his corporate friends than upholding the Constitutional rights of Indigenous peoples and protecting the public from the escalating climate emergency. (1/6)
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"Elon Musk is being a disgusting Nazi bitch, so instead of punishing him, we're going to punish YOU instead and take away YOUR freedom. Because we would never play hardball with a billionaire."
Social media companies have shown us they won't step up, so Illinois is stepping in.
It's time to pass the Children's Social Media Safety Act.
It's time to pass the Children's Social Media Safety Act.
June 30, 2026 at 1:59 AM
"Elon Musk is being a disgusting Nazi bitch, so instead of punishing him, we're going to punish YOU instead and take away YOUR freedom. Because we would never play hardball with a billionaire."