Daniel Rück
Historian of settler colonialism, sacred land and ruination, law and order, trees and rivers, theft and restitution. University of Ottawa, settler, he/him, www.danrueck.com
- Vicious, depraved men celebrate vicious, depraved men.
- New @washingtonpost.com: Trump is planning to install a statue of Christopher Columbus outside the White House Officials are eying a spot by E St, north of the Ellipse with the terrific @oliviacgeorge.bsky.social
- I thought this would be a good piece and then it descended into the snobishest of all snobby conclusions that the problem is that the amoral elite of our world don't have good writing and spelling skills. Bad grammar is not a central problem of our age--I think their victims will agree
- "Since prison for Epstein’s fellow abusers gets unlikelier over time, America’s deeper question is whether it can restore a culture of shame." - marvellous, marvellous column by @edwardluce.bsky.social:
- The things Carney didn't say are the things he doesn't value, the battles he chooses not to fight.
- "The world is looking to Canada for reassurance that a stable, thriving multiracial democracy is not only possible but desirable. This is the message Carney left out of his speech - and it is one our prime minister must urgently convey." - www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... @rondeibert.bsky.social
- Reposted by Daniel RückThe Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza has not stopped. On Saturday, Israeli military airstrikes across Gaza killed at least 32 Palestinians, including six children, in one of its worst assaults during the so-called ceasefire.
- Reposted by Daniel RückWe can't lecture the world about shredding the international rules-based order and then pal around with the people who have been shredding it before our very eyes for the last 2 years - not to mention all the decades of occupation and apartheid that preceded this horrific moment.
- Reposted by Daniel RückThis post has been on my mind for a few days now, so I’m going to say something about it. 🧵
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- Reposted by Daniel RückI cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
- Reposted by Daniel Rück"In order to build tyranny, you have to open zones where the law doesn't apply... one zone like that is the border. The logic of what they've been doing with ICE is to take the border everywhere." www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNB...
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- You'd think this moment might be a good time to start an actual domestic vehicle industry in Canada rather than just switching reliance from one country to another. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
- They're stealing everything. Anyone want to join me in going back to using a typewriter and sharing manuscripts via post?
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- Reposted by Daniel RückWith the opening of the Rafah border crossing, we are likely to finally see international reporters in Gaza. Israel prevented foreign journalists from entering the Strip for two years and four months, and the IDF killed more than 200 local reporters during that period.
- Apartheid state Israel
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- Reposted by Daniel Rück1/ As the people of Minneapolis rise up against ICE, it's painful and shameful that Canadian companies are selling armoured vehicles to Trump's masked militia and providing tech support to the dept of Homeland Security.
- When I first heard this speech, I felt it sounded like it was generated by ChatGPT, and that feeling has grown for me. I know Carney says he wrote it himself but I don't buy it. The cadence of the speech is typical for AI generated stuff.
- Indeed Carney's speech was "a call for a non-aligned movement of intermediate imperial powers". I am struck by how many celebrate his call for collaboration of minor imperial players in the service of naked self interest, with complete disregard for the powerless who will suffer most.
- Reposted by Daniel RückThe Minnesota strike has made it to the top story on NYT. I am not a knee jerk NYT hater, but imo this is noteworthy given the paper’s relative lack of interest in other recent anti-Trump protest activity
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- Apartheid, Exhibit 24395
- "Knesset Approves Ban on Graduates of Palestinian Institutions Teaching in Israel's Education System" www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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- This is a great thread, but toddlers don't deserve this treatment. Toddlers are exactly as they are supposed to be, and the ones I have met have a lot more empathy and maturity than this man.
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- Largest coordinated expulsion of Palestinians from a single neighbourhood in East Jerusalem since 1967, when Israel’s occupation began. share.google/5UoywawYSvhB...
- Reposted by Daniel RückOne of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.
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- Hard to imagine anywhere else where the occupying power kills a child a day during peace time.
- Reposted by Daniel RückUNICEF: a child has been killed every day in Gaza by Israel since the start of the 'ceasefire.' “These children are killed from airstrikes, drone strikes, including suicide drones. They’re killed from tank shelling, they’re killed from live ammunition, they’re killed from quadcopters.”
- Reposted by Daniel RückThis is how far you have to scroll on the NYTimes homepage to get any coverage of what's going on day-to-day in an occupied American city where schools are closing because the government is checking the papers of all brown or Asian people then brutalizing, imprisoning or killing them.
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- What's even the point of having an EPA? The businesses can calculate their costs and decide on how much to pollute.
- "precisely because the evidence doesn’t support the self-defense narrative, MAGA is trying to shore up support by portraying Good as someone who deserved to die. This defamation of a murdered woman itself is proof of the moral depravity of MAGA."
- Israeli finance minister: “Those in the world trying to recognise a Palestinian state will get an answer from us on the ground...Not through documents, not through decisions or declarations, but through facts." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
- "People think it’s the oil companies that are pushing Trump to take over Venezuela. They’re not. That’s not the story. It’s about how Trump sees Venezuela as a resource that he can then distribute across his allies."
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- Reposted by Daniel RückHow much do you want to bet the Mercator projection is fully to blame for Trump’s obsession with Greenland?
- Reposted by Daniel RückHolidays are over, and I'm motivating myself through the marking and emails by sharing the cover for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic with @pennpress.bsky.social. Please indulge me! www.pennpress.org/978151282925... #skystorians
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- USA needs to invade Venezuela, says same guy who wrote big book on why British imperialism and colonialism were awesome. There's a reason why fascists' first moves are to target anticolonial scholars and activists.
- Reposted by Daniel RückThis is a dangerous and irresponsible response. Cheering the illegal abduction of a foreign head of state and celebrating U.S. control over another country is wrong. Canada cannot pick & choose when international law applies. If the rules only matter when it’s convenient, they don’t protect anyone
- Reposted by Daniel RückSo it's appropriate to arrest a world leader if you consider them criminal? You can just go get them? Just asking questions here.
- The thing about Trump is that he frequently says what he really means. I wish people would believe him when he says he's going to annex/occupy Greenland, Mexico, Cuba, Canada...
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- Reposted by Daniel RückRubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.
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- I take Frum at his word here, that he wants more respectable, more educated Nazis. He's affirming that the US government is fascist, and his only complaint is their historical illiteracy. It might be funny coming from someone else.
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- Fascists in power are telling us that the real villains are those who are willing to give up high salaries and comfort to do something that benefits those who need it most, those who care about things other than hoarding wealth. Happy New Year.
- Reposted by Daniel RückOut of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.
- There is no ceasefire. The war against Gaza continues.
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- Reposted by Daniel RückThe Atlantic has updated their article to correct some of Frum's mistakes. However they didn't correct his denialist stuff. I work 50 meters from a lab where they recently identified a body recovered from a GPR search. A child who died at residential school, and was finally returned to their family.
- Reposted by Daniel RückDavid Frum's latest anti-Native rights piece in the Atlantic is so misinformed, so carelessly put together that he confused the band number with the population. Kwikwetlem is band code 560 - an administrative number from ISC. The population is 153. 1
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- Reposted by Daniel RückCasual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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- Reposted by Daniel RückIf you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
- The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” cnn.it/4b6g3rd
- This is an ominous message from militarized parts of the US government for anyone not a Christian. But you'll hear the same Christian-supremacist message in the Christmas carols blaring in shopping malls and grocery stores all over the western world this time of year.
- Algeria's parliament approves law declaring France's colonisation a crime - demanding reparations. share.google/SssCmFzmviE8...
- 19 new illegal settlements on stolen land www.bbc.com/news/article...
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- Reposted by Daniel RückWhen viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦
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