It’s kinda funny how the chief defense of “mass deportations now” at the RNC was “oh voters didn’t see that” but they were apparently absolutely dialed into pronouns and land acknowledgments at the DNC

invariably they hire pretty right wing canadians for op-eds and NYT was equally at fault for promoting this idea that there was like a repressive regime in the maritimes

Kindly asking american publications to hire normal canadians to write about canada

part of the reason i rolled my eyes at the fiscal constraints on the current Canadian budget is that we really didn't *have* to do the service cuts we did because we have fiscal room

For Canadian "economics" commentators, it is always 1994-95 and always will be.

So…I’m a little embarrassed to do this, because I’m not used to asking this for anyone… But I have a friend in Peru (a student and a painter who’s supporting her mother and siblings) and she’s completely out of cash. If anyone thought they could send her, like 20 bucks, let me know.

Cannot wait for Republicans to rediscover the federal debt in 1074 days

nationalize postmedia (I will never stop saying this). Ridiculous that we allow foreign ownership of THE major media chains in this country.

looks like the PostMedia elites have got their talking points for pushing soft seperatism edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

the column is certifiable. 71% of Albertans did not support separation in the Angus Reid poll, but that apparently doesn’t mean they don’t support separation, because only 29% of Quebecois want separation and they have a whole separatist party!! Dear gods.

failed semi-literate mayoral candidate from the '90s Rick Bell thinks polling on separatism scenarios is hysteria. Sharon's right, Postmedia has their marching orders, and so far Rick's answered the call. Thankfully Don Braid hasn't calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

one way to make the Northwestern Territories into transit utopia

Just announced: infinite seats for Eby's NDP

one way to kill right-of-centre politics in BC is AB separation and then demanding a pipeline at the cost of cutting off transit through AB

To all the people saying "Hmph *I* haven't heard any rumours and *I* don't care": Well aren't you lucky/ignorant. Hateful assholes have seized on this tragedy as an opportunity to ramp up prejudice against vulnerable people, and you *should* care about that. #BCPoli #CdnPoli

Saying nothing until the facts are in is always an option.

Do Canadian columnists not realize this is quite low in the grand scheme of things?

For those spreading hatred over the alleged identity of the suspect, people here think that’s despicable

I moved to Tumbler Ridge ten days ago for a job. All I can say is this is truly awful awful for this small town. My heart goes out to my new neighbours in their grief.

leaving for the break with the words of Jack Layton

To the extent this is true at all, Trump reported Epstein out of self-preservation before the police knocked on his door.Hhe heard the investigation was underway and knifed his buddy. He didn't care when it was a secret and he didn't care when the spotlight faded and he thought he was in the clear.

I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?

It really is funny watching AI people talk about AI as intelligence. Like Jim Henson telling everyone on Sesame Street how scared he is of "the thing that lives in the can."

I listened to an NPR segment - probably TAL - interviewing AI researchers and I felt like I was listening to a charming, brilliant man calmly explaining how he knew leprechauns were stealing his slippers.

leave courtney love alone and start asking questions about erika kirk

i was once on a plane where a member of the us national developmental ski team got drunk and urinated on a 12-year-old girl so it could be worse

And this is why Biden didn't do shit with the files while he was president. I keep saying it: child-rape is a bipartisan elite pastime.

Centrist pundits, consultants and reps don't admit when they're wrong and keep trying to push dogshit even when polls say they're on the wrong side of an issue. They post through everything. Anyone who can't admit when they're wrong can't be trusted to lead because they're only in it for themselves

Yup. As with conservatives, every centrist accusation is actually a confession. They’ve been using that “driving away people like me” rhetoric forever because they’ve been voting GOP all this time

A FAR more salient question would be to ask Newsom voters if they’d vote for AOC in the general

this is actually generally true, it was true in 2008 very visible for example

Wonder if leftists can play the electability game, like so many did with Warren, Sanders, Harris, etc. “It doesn’t matter how *I* feel about Newsom, I just don’t think the American PEOPLE are READY to support another empty suit who would throw his mother under a bus if a consultant told him to”

TBH I'd like to upgrade our factional internecine purity test hypothetical question to: "In the 2028 election, if your two choices are Trump and Mamdani, would you vote for Mamdani?" "But—" "Yes, the Constitution prohibits both candidates from taking office. You still must answer the question."

So much oxygen is taken up by a smarmy dude who won’t break 4% in South Carolina, and we should stop talking about him as if he were a plausible candidate.

Nobody is asking people who don’t vote whether they’re gonna vote for that guy

It wasn't the left who tried to prop up a has-been sex pest's third party run, when a progressive won the democratic nomination for mayor of NYC

In the immediate term I think the biggest risk is that a lot of candidates will reject AIPAC but embrace DMFI, but these two organizations are functionally identical in donor bases and often converge on the same underlying principles. There is a need for particular policy planks, ie BtB.

AIPAC seems to be attempting to thread a needle between its pre 2022 and post 2022 methods in response to the shift in public perception of Israel, and in particular in the Democratic electorate's perception of both Israel and AIPAC. It's still as aggressive as post-2022 but with some maneuvering.

Mostly adjacent to everything else (I don't particularly care about IL-09) but it is noteworthy that Fine has repeatedly tried to obscure her relationship to AIPAC and likewise AIPAC has chosen to launch multiple front PACs for Illinois. It is a very different posture from 20204.

Seems like that AOC's speech in Munich tomorrow will in some way address Palestine. On a secondary note, it's very rare to see a US newspaper say outright that actual genocide scholars agree that Gaza has been subject to genocide.

And most people are capable of understanding this when the issue in question has been distanced from them by the passage of time. You see people readily admit this is the case when discussing Algeria, India, South Africa, Vietnam, etcetera.

A lot of people act revulsed by the comparison but I think it's actually pretty apt. Your feelings about the particularities of an act against a system is a separate thing from acknowledging that they exist in relation to one another and that to prevent the former you have to alter the latter.

Well, I guess some people do. A lot of them are racist though.

There was an odd period of time on here / in public discourse where if you acknowledged that there was a causal relationship between the longest military occupation in postwar history and the 10/7 attack you were accused of legitimating the latter. But nobody says this about Nat Turner and slavery.

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

Y’all I know I scream about this game all the time but I swear it is one of the most brilliantly done works of horror science fiction of any kind that I have ever encountered and I wish everyone would at least give it a shot because it’s never been more relevant

Great goddamn game

With #HugoAward nominating starting this week, I thought I'd talk about some of the works, critics, and artists that we thought are worthy of recognition. My friends, what an exceptional year for SFF it was. 1/X List on blog: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/03/open...

On a related note, if anyone ever got mad at me because of something my readers did, I would walk into the ocean. I don't think I could handle take that level of nonsense. Please touch grass.

Fandoms don't need to exist for you to enjoy things and form communities, and I would argue that half the time they undermine that. Every corner of mass media having a self-policing parasocial clan is such a deranged, late-stage capitalist phenomenon.