Blair Fix
Political economist. Blogger. Scientist. Editor of the Review of Capital as Power.
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- Reposted by Blair Fix“The more provinces that join Alberta, the greater the likelihood that it will lead to the dismantling of the Canada Health Act...This could end could end Canadian medicare as we know it.” #cdnpoli @alonghurst.bsky.social @poliscirish.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
- Reposted by Blair FixFloored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
- Reposted by Blair FixNew from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries. This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
- Reposted by Blair FixMelania’s first screening in Times Square draws four people, at least three of them professional critics. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
- Reposted by Blair Fix"They told us what they were going to do. They published it. They put it on a website. And when it happened, the press was surprised." Hoo boy, everyone should bookmark this @parkermolloy.com piece & make sure everyone involved in media reads it.
- This is a landmark. The NY Times uses the phrase 'state terror' ... to refer to the federal government. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
- Given the ongoing US piracy of Venezuelan oil, it seems like a good time to think about the future of US oil production. That future doesn't look good. economicsfromthetopdown.com/2026/01/24/u...
- Reposted by Blair FixHoly crap. This is the most damning video yet. It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face. Murder.
- Reposted by Blair FixThis is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.
- Reposted by Blair FixANOTHER ANGLE: the original video was deleted but I screen capped it. Here it is.
- Reposted by Blair FixAlex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
- Reposted by Blair FixThey say “where’s the gun?” — After the shots Because they don’t realize one of them had already taken it — before the shots
- Reposted by Blair FixFrom a friend in Minneapolis, just now:
- Reposted by Blair FixCongress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since. That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.
- Reposted by Blair FixICE Deems Being In Privacy Of Own Home Obstruction Of Justice theonion.com/ice-deems-being-in-…
- Reposted by Blair FixSeriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines. This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
- Reposted by Blair FixThe disconnect between management and employee on AI usage is big. At the same time, CEOs are reporting they aren't seeing any revenue growth from AI. 🤷 www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...
- Reposted by Blair FixThis is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
- Reposted by Blair FixNation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle theonion.com/nation-yearns-for-r…
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- Reposted by Blair FixWe are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
- Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
- Reposted by Blair FixReminds me of one of my favorite memes:
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- Reposted by Blair FixPhoto by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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- Reposted by Blair FixI don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
- Reposted by Blair FixRead this story and decide if this is the America you want to live in. ICE saw a Latino man driving a car. Chased him down and rammed him. Just because he wasn’t white. He was just a guy - an American citizen - driving to the auto shop.
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- Reposted by Blair FixICE agents fled from the crowd and left behind their CONOPS battle plan for Minneapolis, including agent's names, hotel rooms, phone numbers, boxes of license plates, and tac radio frequencies.
- Reposted by Blair Fix21-year-old activist injured by ICE: I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
- Reposted by Blair FixTrump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms. www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
- When I get sick of politics (which is all the time these days), I read about cosmology. In my view, we're now experiencing a slow-burning revolution in our understanding of the cosmos. It's exhilarating to watch. My outsider take: economicsfromthetopdown.com/2026/01/15/a...
- Reposted by Blair FixNot the key part of this story, obviously... but they *sold* his phone? WTF?
- Reposted by Blair FixAfter federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
- Reposted by Blair FixPatty, a woman observer in Minneapolis, was abducted from a car by federal agents today. She was released and talked about her experience in custody. An agent said, "You guys gotta stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead." 🙏🏼 @statuscoupnews.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Blair FixAmerica is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.
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- Reposted by Blair FixCommon Sense, published 250 years ago today.
- Reposted by Blair Fix“IT WAS MURDER” Several hundred people have formed a human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach today (Sat Jan 10, 2026) 👏👏 (📸 Erik Castro)
- Reposted by Blair FixEverybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
- Reposted by Blair FixMore than 5,000 people here in Powderhorn Park protesting ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis. #FuckICE #iceout #mpls #FuckTrump
- Reposted by Blair FixLast month, 190 readers of The Alberta Worker sent in over $3,400 to support independent labour journalism in Alberta. That brought the total financial support in 2025 to over $28,500. The Alberta Worker is 100% funded by its readers. albertaworker.ca/support
- Reposted by Blair FixWSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
- Reposted by Blair FixAmazing to me that Donald Trump has not been asked once to comment on this insanely Neo-Nazi post from his Homeland Security department, nor asked who are the 50 to 60 *million* US citizens that his DHS say they want to ‘deport.’
- Reposted by Blair Fix🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific. They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him. Stop the lies.
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- Reposted by Blair FixI think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
- Reposted by Blair Fixthey've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.
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- Reposted by Blair FixThis is why we need to rebuild union power. Strong unions serve as a countervailing force to runaway corporate power and ensure workers share in the profits their labor creates. Otherwise, the rich eat up a larger and larger share of the pie — like this:
- Reposted by Blair FixDHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism theonion.com/dhs-warns-any-actio…
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