Jordan Peterson's resume as a "#FreeSpeech warrior" includes opposing academic freedom, doxxing critics to target them for online intimidation, and suing people for exercising their free speech.

Gold medal in the Dishonest Hypocrisy Olympics.

🧵1/ Peterson created a list of humanities courses he hoped to extinguish by labelling them "indoctrination cults," silencing everyone who teaches or feels it's important to teach things like women's studies while targeting them for harrassment. 2/

cbc.ca/radio/asithapp…

#PoilievreBots #CPCBots are 0% surprising. We already know full well that activity on this hellsite is massively inauthentic. What's astonishing about this bot flurry is how abysmally poor quality it is: these are the dumbest most obviously inauthentic bots you can get. 1/

https://twitter.com/_llebrun/status/1820160573549801848

They're all recent, used identical phrasing, make no effort to even pretend to be in the right part of the world, and have zero message consistency. One glowingly endorsed climate denial politics after a previous tweet about how urgent climate action is. Strictly amateur hour. 2/

Calgary's water crisis is manageable IF Albertans are willing to accept minor personal inconvenience to preserve the well being of their community.

Exactly what #abpoli has spent years conditioning them to vehemently & reflexively oppose on Covid, climate, & so on. 1/ At least some of the same people who not only refuse to do things like wear masks but also go out of their way to harass & cough on others who do will petulantly continue old habits, or even increase usage, just to show "you're not the boss of me!" when asked to conserve H2O. 2/

Science explained why we should expect more intense hurricane seasons long before James Hansen warned the US congress about them in 1988.

2024's might be a doozy. A decade from now this year's season will look mild.

A tropical storm & atmosphere 🧵 1/

bbc.com/future/article… Tropical storms get much of their power from warm sea surface temperatures. Heat is the engine that gives a hurricane its incredible force. 2024 has already seen the highest sea surface temperatures ever recorded.

2/

°N.climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-feb…

First they destroyed the homes,
And I did not speak out,
Because I was not a home.

70% of Gaza’s homes are rubble

#GazaGenocide
🧵1/

aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/3… Then they blew up the schools,
but I did not speak out,
because I was not a school.

- 80% of Gaza’s schools are rubble
Including every university

2/

nytimes.com/2024/05/06/wor…

As with other monsters, Brian Mulroney's death has been met with efforts to declare him a heroic champion of Canada rather than a monster, so let's take a look at some of his monstrous legacy.

🧵1/ Mulroney gave Canada NAFTA, the first trade agreement to allow foreign investors to bypass the courts & use ISDS to overturn laws created in the public interest to maximize foreign corporate profits at the expense of citizen safety & the environment. 2/

ourcommons.ca/Content/Commit…

I'm currently one of 20,000 people evacuating Yellowknife. 2 people & 4 cats in a tiny smart car. Weeping over our profuse vegetable garden, which will die of thirst in our absence.

Furious that billionaires have obliterated social media's capacity to be valuable during crises. Take note: in a crisis, what makes it manageable is socialism. Passed free camping for evacuees, sharing our garden harvest to feed evacuees, and folks with a tanker truck offering evacuees free gasoline. Dedicated kindness & no strings attached generosity best help us survive.

To the tune of "12 days of Christmas," a 🧵

With a first bout of Covid the virus gave to me
Brain damage for one case in three

thelancet.com/journals/lanps… With a second bout of Covid the virus gave to me
Far greater stroke risks
and brain damage for one case in three

nature.com/articles/s4159…