Meta sure sounds eager to get young people hooked on online gambling

Every time a slop news defender is like "it doesn't matter whether this claim is true because how ELSE can we engage people with big ideas and larger truths" I don't know whether it makes me madder as a journalist or as a novelist. Both!

It feels like a very of-the-moment American pathology where the casino becomes an oracle, the odds become epistemology, where everyone involved insists this is innovation and progress because the roulette wheel now has an API.

what’s funny is that insane closing paragraph aside jones is one of the few centrist commentators who appears to understand how DSA candidates are winning

The NASA climate spiral visualization presents monthly global temperature anomalies, deviations from a long term global average. Original post

A functioning BBC news would have been covering this in the middle the UK’s blockbuster heat wave, to make the connection between the two clear, and ask if scrapping net zero targets would mean more heat waves like this in future. Have any news outlets challenged them on this during the heatwave?

Good job SEC. Now do members of Congress and the Senate.

"I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you." The clear point is that Republicans have turned Congress into an body that does not engage in oversight, that operates to protect the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends.

“Buffer zone”

The Ontario Liberal Party has successfully chased Nate Erskine-Smith out of provincial politics, something that mystifies me but will satisfy many leaders within the party. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Would be funny if this backfired and every other country implemented a digital services tax.

I agree. It’s a terrible idea to beg for corporate donations to house the Prime Minister. Maybe if SNC Lavalin needs another “get out of jail” card they will build the new house.

🤔 "War?" "Hijack?" "Takeover?" Y'all use the weirdest vocab to describe voters calmly walking into a voting booth and filling in the bubble next to the name of the candidate that says things like "Childcare can be cheaper!" and "Let's fix that bike lane!" and "Elon should pay more tax than you do!"

Decided to look up the "Promise to America" document being hyped up in this piece, and it's literally just 6 points across 400 words. 1. Capitalism good, lower taxes good 2. Cops good 3. National debt bad 4. Government should make life better (no details) 5. Free speech good 6. America good

John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness."

Wowsers. In what world is it ok for a Canadian police chief to accept free luxury trips partly paid for by foreign companies operating in jurisdictions accused of war crimes?

Jeffries refusing to endorse Mamdani through the near-entirety of the 2025 campaign was a constant storyline in the summer and some of the fall—so one thing to note here is that his own disregard for building a relationship with Mamdani is part of what left him no leverage this spring.

Who wants to tell Hakeem Jeffries that Mamdani would beat him by 30 points if they ran against each other lol

democrats in office since the 1970s who believe they're our bosses and voters should take orders from them while they get rich off insider stock trading who have been entirely useless when we needed them but settled into the job forever once they figured out they have no actual skills to do anything

"Galvez said France rejected Canadian lentils in 2025 due to residual levels of the herbicide diquat. “With respect to pesticides, the approach that is used in Europe is really precautionary,” she said." #CdnPoli

The global hegemon is governed by psychopaths, Wednesday AM edition

The vote blue no matter who folks really woke up today screaming, “But we didn’t mean THAT blue!”

Media not specifically focused on climate change seems determined to downplay the harms to us and the natural world www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...

Good thread on the downstream impacts of the Trump regime replacing membership in WHO and other international orgs with bilateral deals that he and his cronies can exploit. This is just a fraction of the profound damage that Democrats must attempt to repair if/when they regain power.

*taps the sign*

When you finally manage to fire up the base. Just not in the way you intended…

It's the lack of ill will and animosity that really gives this post a pop.

My e-bike was legally required to be speed limited at 32km/h for "safety."

The sentences handed down today in Texas are a threat to the possibility of a democratic society. The prosecution is rife with constitutional violations, but 30 years in prison (more than anyone for January 6) for moving some magazines? 50 years for those not involved in even planning the protest?

30 years for moving some zines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I am celebrating the 30th anniversary of Quake by standing in lava and saying ough ughh urgh oughh ough urnh ough

Perhaps I’m slow but I had not really connected the manic, completely over the top GOP effort to claim massive fraud in our social benefit programs to Trump’s effort to claim fraud in our elections as a pretense for the GOP to refuse a peaceful transfer of power in January. It’s all one thing.

All that needs to be said about LLM-based content generation is said here:

I remember back in the day when the FTC would be all over this kind of bullshit.

Centrist Americans being mystified by Kier Starmer's unpopularity despite him doing everything they're always telling Democrats to do is so funny. Just the biggest dumbasses around.

That is the lamest “dog ate my homework” excuse. It takes a special kind of intelligence to offer criticism of the press for their impatience but instead leave everyone with the impression that you are a moron.

I hate it that this question needs to be asked about so many politicians these days.

The Ontario government reaches its slime-filled reflecting pool era

It really is unnerving how much Twitter is just accounts trying to do radio rwanda but in a way that’s impossible to understand unless you understand a language of bizarre ideological shibboleths (these are not dogwhistles, because they aren’t intended to hide the bigotry)

As with Meloni, so with the Iranian delegation: I’m always pleased when someone actually responds appropriately to Trump’s shit-talking instead of pretending that Truth Social doesn’t exist.

Every time Trump threatens to attack Iran he is violating the terms of his surrender. Here's the very first graph of the MOU he signed:

It is so weird to see such mediocre people so sure that the power they wield is proof of their inherent superiority. An entire administration lacking an ounce of self awareness.

The Carney government has passed legislation to give cabinet the power override bans on particular pesticides. This is the back door for lobbyists to set safety standards in Canada. This how democracy dies. This is a really bad decision and Canadians deserve better. youtu.be/copa_PXTcdg?...

There are people in DC who have been pushing for an Iran war as long as I can remember and it is important to note they are psychos and idiots

Don't worry, Mayor Sutcliffe said he would resolve issues like this, just like he "fixed transit" over the past 4 years after making the same promise 4 years ago. 🫠 #ottpoli #ottnews

Never mind that Vance got conned, the fact that the vice president saying he heard second-hand from the president's son-in-law and the president's real estate buddy that the strait was open is humiliating on its own.

We, as a nation, are collectively missing a great opportunity to get RFK Jr to drink from the reflecting pool.

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

The President, today, flaunted an explicit violation of the constitution by showing off a jet gifted to him by a foreign country and this is how the paper of record is reporting it buried deep on its home page Legacy media should never claim itself as a protector of democracy

this is one of the weirdest things conservative elites tell themselves and it's become load bearing to their entire anti anti Trump ideology