Seeking soldiers with loyalty to Caesar rather than to the Republic.

A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News. Homicides in NYC... 1990: 2,262 1993: 1,927 1998: 629 2001: 649 2013: 335 2019: 320 2021: 488 2024: 382 2025 (as of 12/28): 302

As expected, a tight defensive struggle so far between Canada and Finland.

Vancouver named the world's greenest city in a recent ranking. A great legacy for the city's soon to be liquidated sustainability team. It's a shame their work won't continue. www.themanual.com/travel/the-w...

Chilling Reuters update on UN staff finally making entry to al-Fashir in Sudan after the RSF takeover. A ghost town - and the site of hundreds of alleged civilian executions. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Gavin McKenna just scored one of the best goals of the tournament. Hat-trick, fantastic deke after making Tiedjen bite on the fake. 7-1. #WorldJuniors

So the President did disclose a CIA drone strike inside Venezuela. And this does cross a red line of violating the UN Charter -- where the boat strikes on high seas had not. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...

Canada: Red and white jersey with black highlights. Denmark: Red and white jersey with black highlights. They're not making this easy on the casual viewer.

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In Gaza, at the ruins of Shifa hospital and despite the war, 168 Palestinian medical doctors graduated yesterday as board specialists in different medical fields

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

That is to say, she was teaching a curriculum about children's literature in a children's literature course; the student claimed she had offended her religious views, which has not been demonstrated; and the student accused her of breaking "President Trump's law," which is not a thing.

She was fired for teaching what she was hired to teach. She was fired for doing what she did not do. She was fired for breaking a law that does not exist.

In this "new" article published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social, Atle Haugsgjerd, @rubenmathisen.bsky.social and I examine how political representation of the populist radical right (PRR) in Europe affects citizens’ satisfaction with democracy.

“Thirty-seven MEPs now sitting in the European Parliament were elected from parties identified as having used AI-generated or manipulated content during the campaign: 29 from Rassemblement National, eight from Lega and one from Reconquête.”

Canada: Land of Leaks.

The thing that is specifically resonant about the 60 MINUTES incident is how many online versions of the report were recorded on cell phones etc, similar to how Soviet samizdat were often printed on illicit homemade or obsolete presses, lending them a characteristic janky print quality.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Global TV (in Canada) had last night's original 60 Minutes episode including the pulled segment on CECOT on its app and website today until about 5:45pm ET. I was watching it when it got yanked - but bootlegs abound. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-pol...

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

EXCLUSIVE: I received a copy of the letter sent to developers today halting construction on all 5 offshore wind farms being built in America. What’s new here is the close “coordination” with the “Department of War” in determining the “risk” poised by these wind farms. And the threat to “cancel.”

The mayor of Langley township made a highly publicized promise to use profits from his multi-million-dollar B.C. real estate holdings to support charity. Turns out over 5 years, Eric Woodward’s non-profit donated just over $8,000. Bethany Lindsay has the details. zurl.co/sqJzt

If you VPN into Canada you can watch the 60 Minutes CECOT story here (for now). Global TV appears to have posted the original tape by accident watch.globaltv.com/series/2893d...

The problem is that you don't get more coherent, long-term policy outcomes by replacing the old approach with the politics of deal-making. Doing all kinds of things, calling them nation-building, cooperative federalism or a new industrial strategy without explaining what they mean isn't any better.

Do people realize that this is also happening with case law? Like Do You Understand What That Fucking Means???

Just in time for Christmas, the chapter I wrote with @stewartprest.ca on Vancouver's modern political history is out in the new City Politics in Canada. Pre-order from UofT Press.

There seems to be a little panic about what's genAI and what isn't. But macro compilers like PerfectIt and Word spell check are not. If you've been using Grammarly, now's a great time to stop.

Spell check existed long before genAI and in its most basic function is not genAI. Spell check is code. It's a function. It checks against a database of available words. Spell check in certain programs, however, may have been made worse by running it through genAI.

The province receives recommendations from panels all the time, and premier & gov't take or leave ideas as they please. But this is different. This panel was *chaired* by Premier Danielle Smith. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A non-existent paper attributed to ‪Ben Williamson‬ has already been cited 42 times. It's like Scholarly Communication has been injected with misinformation bombs. Events are totally out of control. No one has a handle on its extent. And, there's no plan to stop it. @benpatrickwill.bsky.social

Looking forward to my copy arriving! Wrote the chapter on Vancouver with @bushfield.ca.

Musqueam 'not coming for anyone's private property' in appealing Cowichan decision

Over here trying to figure out who gave so many assignments in my classes.

Bluntly stated, the delegitimization of opponents is corrosive to democracy. Continually framing your opponents not just as wrong, but illegitimate, encourages an "us-them" approach to politics in which victory of one's team is more important than respecting the rules of the game.

Helps that driving an EV is a much nicer experience on many levels, including actual driving performance.

I expect the Conservative leader would say something different if the crossings were headed in the opposite direction. Also does nothing to address why they're happening. Not a good look for a party that emphasizes taking responsibility for one's own failings. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Notice that the parts of Trump's economic program that help working and middle class Americans — DOGE checks, tariff rebates, and warrior dividends — are popular, progressive, and non-existent. Tax cuts for the rich are unpopular, regressive and very very real.

Distinct treatment for soldiers. Starship Troopers just entered the chat.

The short term focus will rightly be on the damage in Venezuela, but such an act will have far reaching second order consequences. Between an American war of aggression and the goals of the NSS, every democracy in the world will have to fundamentally reevaluate the threats to their security.

Whatever else happens (and the range of outcomes here is WIDE)—this is speed walking towards a world of power-based deterrence. States will find ways to ensure they're not next on the menu.

I really can't wrap my head around all the things that could go wrong with a full scale war in Venezuela. Like, we're supposed to host a World Cup with several LA countries that likely will be destabilized by us?

Going on social media to complain about their children? Whatever else is going on, I have a theory about why these kids stopped talking to their parents... www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

Kori Schake: “The men who built this international order weren’t leftist college professors sitting around the faculty lounge. They were the people who had fought World War I and World War II and saw the damage of an unstable order.” www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/fea...

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Tired: factional parties. Wired: fractal parties.

OneBC can continue as a political entity, but given this seems destined to lose official party status unless Armstrong and the board can recruit another MLA to join them. Given the leadership race in the BC Conservatives, that seems a difficult proposition.

With his own words, the US President has helped turn Rob Reiner into an anti authoritarian martyr.

I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.

Trump grifters and AI scammers support one another. AI slop makes the information landscape unusable, which helps hide the various Trump cons; the lack of regulation from an administration too busy lining its own pockets gives the AI slop lords free rein to do whatever they want.