justinling

justinling, 7 months ago to random

Since leaving Twitter, I've been trying to figure out what my journalism-y socials look like. (Threads: A sad Potemkin village where I just share articles. Bluesky: A fun, bitchy hotel cafeteria that still seems ill-suited to news.) I've been trying to use Mastodon for more hard news stuff, but I'm having a hard time getting my feed to be both active and relevant.

So I'm trying a few experiments to see if I can rejig my good. If you've got good journalism follow suggestions, send em my way.

justinling, 11 months ago to random

I went to bed skeptical that Prigozhin was going to do much more than make a show of force in Rostov, but now we've got soldiers taking up positions on the highway to Moscow.

I regret sleeping in!

justinling, 9 months ago to random

Wagner Group-affiliated channels are reporting that Yevgeny Prigozhin was aboard the private jet shot down by the Russian military.

justinling, 7 months ago to random

A missile strike on the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza has killed at least 500, according to local authorities. Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and Egypt all say it was an Israeli airstrike. Israel isn't confirming that, says they're investigating but that they warned the hospital to evacuate days ago. (Bombing hospitals is against international law, regardless of the warnings.)

justinling, 8 months ago to random

President Volodymyr Zelensky is in the House of Commons, getting ready to address the Canadian Parliament, in-person for the first time.

justinling, 10 months ago to random

Today, after months of work, we're releasing Far and Widening — a study of polarization in Canada. (With lots of lessons for other rich countries.) Give it a read: https://ppforum.ca/publications/polarization-democracy-canada/

justinling, 11 months ago to random

Plenty of reports on Russian Telegram channels of national guard units being mobilized ahead of a possible assault or coup attempt by Wagner Group forces. Stunning developments.

justinling, 10 months ago to random

Meta is making good on its threat to kill news sharing in Canada.

The tldr of the whole thing: The Trudeau government wants an indirect link tax, Meta/Google want to stop the contagion of these policies from reaching the U.S. and Europe, and now Trudeau benefits politically from a war with the tech giants.

Caught inbetween are the news outlets that are about to face a huge drop in traffic.

(Full text available here: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/06/changes-to-news-availability-on-our-platforms-in-canada/ )

justinling, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

Explosion on the Rainbow Bridge connecting New York and Ontario at Niagara. Reports from the scene say a car crashed into the toll booth and exploded. Despite the misinformation machine on Twitter, there's no confirmation that this was a car bomb (though, of course, that's possible.) Niagara Gazette has some good reporting form the ground: https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/update-witnesses-saw-smoke-fire-from-vehicle-at-rainbow-bridge/article_eb3ffec8-8957-11ee-93e5-cf9e52289455.html

justinling, 2 months ago to random

Well it's 3:30am here in Kyiv and we've got our first very serious air raid alert. 9 Tu-95 long-range bombers took over about 30 minutes ago, meaning Russia is likely to launch a barrage of cruise missiles across the country.

justinling, 8 months ago to random

The fallout of the celebration of a SS-Waffen officer should have been an invitation to unravel the past from the present. We didn't do that.
https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/yaroslav-hunka-canada

justinling, 4 months ago to random

The Federal Court of Canada has declared that the invocation of the Emegrencies Act to deal with the 2022 Freedom Convoy was unconstitutional. Full decision: https://t.co/jYFPRdjMEJ

justinling, 2 months ago to random

The queue at the Ukrainian border is truly wild. Nearly 20km of trucks lined up down a narrow highway en route into Ukraine. Polish farmers, protesting Ukrainian imports, are only allowing one truck through an hour — meaning some of these trucks could be sitting there for a week or more.

justinling, 7 months ago to random

We've got some early exit polls coming in from #Poland. They show the far-right governing coalition might be on track to lose power.

An the (pro-Russian) Confederation party is on track to under-perform expectations, meaning they're unlikely to be the kingmaker some expected.

justinling, 7 months ago to random

Shortly, representatives from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing partnership are having a fireside chat with Condoleezza Rice, discussing emerging threats in the national security and intelligence space.

We'll have FBI director Christopher Wray; Australian intelligence chief Mike Burgess; New Zealand intelligence head Andrew Hampton; MI5 boss Ken McCallum; and Canadian Security Intelligence Service director David Vigneault.

I'll make some observations in this thread if it's interesting!

justinling, 7 months ago to random

"More journalists have reportedly been killed over a four week period than in any conflict in at least three decades. More United Nations aid workers have been killed than in any comparable period in the history of our organisation." https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/06/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-jordan-airdrops-medical-supplies-gaza-blinken-turkey-push-contain-conflict?page=with:block-654920118f0832f412179e1c

justinling, 11 months ago to random

Same, Christiane, same.

(c/o Shane Harris.)

justinling, 9 months ago to random

I can't quite wrap my head around Germany publicly contemplating banning the AfD. This will backfire so spectacularly. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/13/afd-party-ban-germany-far-right-extremists/

justinling, 7 months ago to Israel

I tried to compile what we know about the al-Ahli hospital explosion. While the evidence is substantial that Hamas and its allies were responsible for the bombing, that doesn't absolve the fact that Israel has repeatedly conducted airstrikes against hospitals in Gaza. https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/who-bombed-the-al-ahli-hospital #gaza #israel #palestine

justinling, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

For the Canadians: My feature on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government, eight years in power, went live this morning. Worth reading, I think! #canada #cdnpoli #trudeau https://thewalrus.ca/justin-trudeaus-last-stand/

justinling, 8 months ago to random

Your Saturday long read: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/09/23/canada-china-trudeau-election-meddling-politics-interference-espionage/

justinling, 11 months ago to random

Good god, Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal — who has been a useful tankie indie for Bashar al-Assad and Xi Jinping — was at the UN Security Council last week to do a few rounds of Russia apologia, explaining how its actually America's fault that Russia invaded Ukraine.

justinling, 4 months ago to random

We can't keep doing the same thing and expecting different results. We have got to accept a diverse internet full of people we don't like: And hope that we can stop things from getting worse. https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-substack-verschlimmbesserung

justinling, 6 months ago to random

I'm at the Halifax Security Forum this weekend — a summit for national security wonks, peace builders, and military leaders. I'll be writing up some of the most interesting bits on my Substack, https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/ , but also doing some light liveblogging here on Mastodon. Stay tuned.

justinling, 11 months ago to random

Well the Russian security services have leaked photographic evidence of Yevgeny Prigozhin's extensive wig collection and I, for one, am dying.

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