Nomi Claire Lazar

An original Nashville sit-in member, along with Diane Nash, James Bevel, and John Lewis. Trained in non-violence by James Lawson. At age 21, he signed a will before the Freedom Rides, knowing he could die.

May his soul be at peace, and may we all have such courage in the face of oppression.

Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.

The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...

Alberta ‘excessively vulnerable’ to foreign interference, experts warn | CBC News Alberta is not ready to deal with the threat of online disinformation coming from foreign actors in a possible referendum campaign on separation this fall, according to national security experts.

Alberta ‘excessively vulnerable’ to foreign interference, experts warn. Referendum on Alberta's independence from Canada could take place in October www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

A LATE-BREAKING TT JOB.....

Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Toronto

Archaeology of the Levant (from south-central Türkiye to northwestern Saudi Arabia) during the Bronze and Iron Ages (3,000 to 500 BCE),

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Just read a fun +++ 2000 word blog entry by an academic we'll call Jim, about an academic we'll call Tom.

Each paragraph is a geyser of high dudgeon and outrage as Jim REJECTS systematically & absolutely Tom's OUTRAGEOUS claim to live rent free in Jim's head.

Ah, academia. So very much.

All the canal skaters say: BOOOOOOO!!! All the thumbs down! 👎👎👎 0/10!

338Canada | Nanos Research federal poll, February 2026

📊Federal 🇨🇦 voting intentions from Nanos Research:

🔴LPC 44%
🔵CPC 33%
🟠NDP 11%
⚜️BQ 5%
🟢GPC 5%
🟣PPC 1%

→ 338canada.com/20260227-nan...

[Nanos Research, February 6-27, 2026, n=1,015]

#canpoli

My political persuasion students (MA in public & intl affairs) write op-eds as their midterm assignment! We get an editor in from a big ntl paper to give them tips & each year some students submit them. We've had a couple get published.

Lessons in how to use your voice in ways people hear.

Seems good.

Yes, Canadian productivity is terrible and per-capita performance has been weak, but the economy has expanded faster than all of its non-US G7 peers since the pandemic:

Not new. One of the things most interesting about it is that it’s everywhere and always so weirdly the same.

Writing a book about this.

The roaring is the sea. West Coast of Canada.

For those of you who really really need to be unplugged in an old growth forest today, but aren’t. Sound on.

Just gonna leave this right here.

Very pleased to find these in the post this morning. Now available as a physical object!

I was preparing to hear some good stories about whaling

Oh, weary world.

Canadian snowbirds 25/26:

December: “Not headed to Florida this year, nope. On to Cuba!"
January: “Not headed to Cuba this year, nope. On to Mexico!"
February: “Not headed to Mexico this year, nope… On to… crumbs. 🥶"

Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene - Nanna Lilletvedt Sæten, 2026 Judeo-Christian eschatological time has re-emerged in scholarly and popular discussions of climate apocalypse in the last decades, also in attempts to mobilise ...

IN NEW ISSUE: Between Inevitability and Hindsight: Nanna Lilletvedt Sæten examines the topic of #climatechange and currently used time frames. Read why another temporal frame is needed: buff.ly/3Q0G4fU (OPEN ACCESS)

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci #ClimatePolitics

Before "The Pursuit of Happiness": emotional flourishing in early Judaism, Christianity and Islam The conference explores how early Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions shaped ideas about emotional and moral wellbeing before modern concepts of happiness became dominant. By examining how these...

Studies on wellbeing are fascinating, but they've felt a bit ahistorical. We are supporting this great conference in July looking at the ideals that shaped emotional and moral life in early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to give a more historical view www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...

Mood.

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Jesus Christ, it's like watching democracy struggling to survive.

Come oooon! Straight through the Gates of Helllebuyck, les boys! 🏒

You could hear the shrieks of joy up and down the street from inside. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦😍

Goooooooal!!!!! 🇨🇦💪🏼🎉

Just gonna get up, head on over to the canal with a headlamp and my nordics, and skate my jitters out. Yup.

I’m not excited. You’re excited.

(🇨🇦🏒🥇😬💪🏽)

Doug Ford stuffing the most DougForditude into a single tweet possible.

(Clipped by a friend. I don’t hang out *there*).