Natalie Brender
Eternal migrant seeking opera, ruthless yet humane criticism, Jamesian ambivalence, vestigial Kantianisms. All the public health, politics, cultural, social & global policy interests.
- Maybe this is a sound policy move to build social cohesion in addressing hate/bias? But I've been so impressed with the wisdom, authority and cross-cultural solidarity @amiraelghawaby.bsky.social has brought to her challenging role--and hope the govt continues to draw on it.
- A guy who watched the Saddam-statue-tearing-down video and thought 'it'll never happen to me'
- 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
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- Reposted by Natalie Brenderdawg you have Jean Chrétien talking like Mao
- Jfc why is this not from The Onion. A harm reduction maxim forever ruined.
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- French prosecutors raid Paris offices of X, issues summons to Musk and Yaccarino www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- It's senseless to make policy premised on the idea that social media harms end at age 14. We all--individually and collectively as a society--need regulation of social media companies.
- Reposted by Natalie BrenderForgive me, Jesus, because I genuinely deeply enjoy how perpetually unhappy and desolate these losers are.
- Recommended reading: @taylorowen.bsky.social's final report to Canada's AI Task Force Strategy Report. His governance & regulatory recommendations are important--not least for ensuring academic/civil society access to AI data platforms for research & monitoring purposes.
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- Does Chotiner hypnotize these people? Every horrifying door he opens they walk straight through.
- Reposted by Natalie Brender“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”
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- Reposted by Natalie BrenderI know 2m20s is a fairly big commitment for a Bluesky video - but I do think this is top 0.001% output from a local news station. I watch it at least once a year, every February. Take a look.
- Reposted by Natalie BrenderChotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires. Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess. Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining. Documentarian: Exactly. Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?
- I'm starting to worry about Chotiner. Moral injury type of worry.
- New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
- Reposted by Natalie BrenderFor those commenting on the agents' surnames.
- Canada's Public Safety minister and every member of cabinet including the PM should say publicly what Manitoba premier Wab Kinew says here. bsky.app/profile/saro...
- Reposted by Natalie BrenderLarry Summers complaining to Epstein that his kids admire Bernie Sanders too much
- Every word of this by @mendelmatt.bsky.social & @jonshell.bsky.social is true. There's immense potential for Canada in uniting w other democratic middle powers against US coercion. Resisting the self-interested short-termism of Cdn business sectors is our biggest challenge.
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- Good analysis by @aaronwherry.bsky.social. One of those pieces that seems maddeningly simplistic at the outset, then showing depth & nuance as it unfolds at length.
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- What a grim set of setbacks for BC sex workers' well-being since CPHA released our position statement on a public health approach to sex work two years ago. Kudos to @thetyee.ca for this piece.
- Reposted by Natalie BrenderThrough a U.S. joint venture with the Oneida Nation, Edmonton's Stantec had contracts to do facilities inspections at ICE detention sites. The deals, done in late 2025, broke up when the Oneida Nation government found out what its business arm was up to. thelogic.co/news/stantec...
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- Reposted by Natalie BrenderIn this long post in Hebrew, Moshe Ya'alon, Israel's Defense Minister from 2013 to 2016, compares the ideology of the Israeli right to Nazi racial ideology. His words, not mine. Under the IHRA definition of antisemitism, this makes Israel's former Defense Minister antisemitic. x.com/bogie_yaalon...
- Not just a student problem. Learned today of a major Cdn research grant application that just received back three sets of reviewer comments, *two of which were entirely AI-written*.
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- We've heard that these cuts are justified because of bureaucratic bloat (maybe some) and AI efficiencies (really?) but we're due for more accounting of which roles are being cut and with what impacts on operations.
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- It's a relief to sense that PM Carney has started to come around publicly to this position (even if official and business interests on the F35 and many trade files can be counted on not to).
- Werner Herzog's nihilistic penguin has really gone places, omg.
- European governments are trying to step up their meme. This was posted by German foreign minister @aussenminister.diplo.de on Tiktok and Instagram. Though not sure mixing E3 (with Keir Starmer) and lots of EU symbolism was entirely thought through. For sure 🇪🇺
- Reposted by Natalie Brenderoutfit has the same colors as the crying emoji 😭
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- I'm hallucinating things tonight, apparently.
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- Intelligence and witty self-deprecation remain 🔥🇨🇦🔥
- This is the New Democrat Party (lefty-progressive but not as lefty as some members of the NDP would like) Premier of Manitoba, Wab Kinew. Bravo to him. Pitch-perfect.
- Can't imagine a worse picture or approach to save classical music from political irrelevance, jfc. (Said with considerable appreciation for Igor Levit)
- This is just pathetic. Busy imagining the amused smirk on Carney's face at Rideau Cottage tonight.
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- One of the all-time funniest epithets, really. I think Glass will be fine.
- Reposted by Natalie Brenderon Holocaust Remembrance Day
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