My goodness CBC. It’s “ragging the puck” not “dragging the puck”.

Have you been asked by a medical provider recently for consent to have an "AI" scribe record your visit? Us, too. And we have **thoughts** buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

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If they’re giving out restitution for economic damage, maybe the US and Israel should have to make whole the worldwide economic losses from its poorly constructed war on Iran. It would likely start in the hundreds of billions

Ossoff: "The financial entanglement, the way UAE money, Emirati money has compromised this WH is astonishing. It may be one of the most significant scandals in US history. Who are Trump's 2 chief negotiators? Kushner & Witkoff. The people doing diplomacy are at the same time on personal business."

My points to @en.afp.com: -no, the Iranian regime isn't "seriously fractured" as Trump says -Of course "there are important and difficult debates within the Iranian leadership both on next steps and on succession issues" -But that's "the norm, not the exception" www.yahoo.com/news/article...

SCOOP 🧵 A snitch law passed by provincial governments twenty years ago has been retooled by the Alberta government for use against nonprofit agencies it seeks to defund. 1/ drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-gove...

NEW: Apple fixed the bug that law enforcement, like the FBI, were taking advantage of to extract chat messages that had been deleted or disappeared automatically. Until now the iPhone stored deleted or disappered messages in a database, allowing authorities to access them with forensic tools.

A prolonged fossil fuel crunch just might, at this moment, be *the* exogenous shock necessary for a rapid global transition to clean energy adoption, but also it's going to be a brutally miserable experience for the world's poorest.

I think you forgot to put the word ‘scientific’ in quotes. Big nope on this one.

Pierre Poilievre keeps trying to challenge Mark Carney on his economic credentials. Of all the dumb fights Pierre Poilievre has picked over the course of his career, this might be the dumbest one yet. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/20/o...

Sometimes. The jokes. They write themselves.

My brain felt fatigued in advance at the prospect of reading another long-form piece. But damnit, this piece was a banger. Every Canadian should read this.

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It’s kind of fun that the CBC’s position here is “Fine, if you think there’s a ‘double standard’ at play when it comes to scrutinizing premiers, then we’ll ask all the other premiers if they fly on private jets, but you’re not going to like the answers.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Lutnick or Nudnick? Hard to tell the difference…

Priceless post from the official White House social media

Apparently there are still people who believe the US is a good faith player in a shared game, and the problem is that we haven’t bent over backwards sufficiently to meet their totally reasonable, consistent requests www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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trump's former "commander-at-large" of the border patrol greg bovino says mass deportations, not deporting "worst of the worst" will "correct" places like Plano, Texas having a diverse population

Taken together, these four features can create a trancelike state that can keep us stuck on social media apps or video games for hours. Children are particularly vulnerable. n.pr/4mH6i6s

Doug Ford wondering how many times he can get medivac-ed from Muskoka to Billy Bishop and back before taxpayers notice.

For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality. n.pr/4e0RHRi

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Oh my god the fake ads are FUCKING INCREDIBLE

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some things about becoming a parent are radicalizing in ways I expected - e.g being reminded viscerally how screwed we'd all be if childcare and other care work disappeared. but other things are radicalizing in ways I didn't - like experiencing constant spontaneous solidarity in ways big and small

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Carbon tax stickers that don't stick. License plates you can't see. Beeping Covid bracelets that don't exist. Wind turbines torn down and then built again. An Ontario Science Centre roof that refuses to collapse. Are we even sure Doug's new private jet has wings?

The head of the FBI isn't supposed to be getting blackout drunk. He's supposed to be cross-dressing

Friday night Tequila Tweet: Here’s the sad, fucking truth: Iran’s leadership is more believable & more trustworthy than the President of the United States. Hey America, that’s the price we pay for electing a president who lies as he breathes. We. Can’t. Believe. A. Fucking. Thing. Trump. Says.

After intense lobbying, Trump signed executive orders to fast-track data center construction and weaken state-level AI regulations. AI firms are also pumping huge sums into our elections. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/number-go-up/

They are 1 week away from declaring "Martin Luther was the one true Catholic."

as far as i can tell pope leo has never mentioned trump by name hes just like “killing people is wrong” or “concentration camps arent good” and theyre all taking it personally

This story brought to you by interests that want the EU to take a more active military role in ‘protecting’ the Strait of Hormuz from the effects of America’s slapdash war against Iran.

This story brought to you by interests that want the EU to take a more active military role in ‘protecting’ the Strait of Hormuz from the effects of America’s slapdash war against Iran.

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It’s a telling indicator of media desensitization that the US government’s ongoing program of murder on the high seas—which according to the perpetrators has killed fourteen (14) people this week— is no longer a subject for much serious or sustained news coverage.

This is accurate, but incomplete. The biggest cost for Ottawa is when families move out to Carleton Place, etc, pay $0 in property taxes to Ottawa but use substantial municipal services. Land use policies that drive families to satellite towns are the most expensive of all.

Mamdani is proving over and over again that the reason other elected leaders don't do this stuff is simply because they don't want to.

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

The pettiness, cruelty and stupidity of the regime knows no limits: Amid quarrel with pope, Trump strips Miami charity of funding to house migrant kids www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

“AI for all” *pause for applause* Lmfao oh my god, I can’t stand him. Affordable housing? Affordable groceries? Green energy? No. “AI for all.” Great, I’ll just eat that. Thanks, Mark.

This is a beautifully written explanation of why JD Vance and Mike Johnson are so, SO wrong in their pathetic takes on the Just War Theory and in their beef with Leo (who is an actual Augustinian).

Has anyone seen the new Netflix movie Alien vs Reacher: Battleship Edition? It looks promising.

WWJD

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A cruelty of history that the kids are rediscovering large pants just as the mass-market paperback disappears.