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NEW: A new book argues the left has failed to confront Canada’s resurgent right. www.readthemaple.com/the-left-has...

An outbreak of a deadly hantavirus aboard a cruise ship has heightened fears about another global pandemic—which experts say the world isn’t ready for.

Good one...

Living his best life 🎉🎈 TT: finn_e_bear

NEW: An Oklahoma family was forced to abandon their home after it filled with slick, black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite ample evidence of oil and gas pollution, state regulators say they cannot help.

An attack on Black America is an attack on all of America. Remember: if they come for us, they’ll come for you next. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/u...

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

Big announcement on March 3. No part of this ever happened.

THE GUARDIAN: The Week around the World in Pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... @theguardian.com #photojournalism #journalism #photography

Trump’s Golden Dome missile shield estimated to cost $1.2 trillion www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

“Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents are being told to find a new power provider because the grid is being re-routed to A.I. data centers.”

Stephen Colbert and David Letterman throwing things off the Ed Sullivan Theater. Colbert: “Anything you’d like to say, Dave?” Letterman: “In the words of the great Edward R. Murrow to CBS: ‘Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.’”

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Hegseth is asking for a record $1.5 trillion defense budget. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. The military industrial complex is cheering right now.

Being uninformed on major issues facing his kingdom isn’t the flex he thinks it is…

Can the Ottawa Treaty banning landmines survive? open.substack.com/pub/stevenst...

For years, the biggest criticism of renewables was simple: “What happens when the sun isn’t shining?” The answer is increasingly: battery storage. 24/7 solar power is no longer theoretical. In some places, it is becoming economic reality.

A national embarrassment.

If you're innocent, then you have nothing to hide and no reason to lie. Howard Lutnick said he'd NEVER go back to Epstein Island, and then he went! Brought his wife and kids to that horrible island? Yeah, sure. Howard Lutnick LIED to Congress. Howard Lutnick MUST resign.

This is a form of psychosis. These people will burn the world if they have their way.

As Americans look to the future, they’re more pessimistic about what they see.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

“Respecting the rights of people to privacy” is laying it on a bit thick with Bill C-22 on the horizon

Well... yeah. The bureaucracy of the military is enormous. The fact this is coming up AFTER the public service cuts is emblematic of the incoherence of this CAF expansion.

What is doug ford hiding?

Austrian jets intercept US military planes two days in a row www.defensenews.com/global/europ...

Shoutout to my uncle's father, the late John Colicos. 70's kids knew him as Kor or Count Baltar. Nice man. Oh boy, did he have some awesome stories about Hollywood in the 60's and 70's! #scifi #scifitv #startrek #bsg

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

Today’s lecture from GW University’s Program on Extremism is “violent extremist cyber capabilities” - examining how extremists use cyber capabilities, infrastructure targeting risks and operational cyber sabotage

'Data is the new bison': Indigenous panel discusses the risks and rewards of AI open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

Why critics say changes to B.C.’s freedom of information law could make government less transparent: thenarwhal.ca/bc-foi-chang...

Arcade games satirizing Iran war appear at DC War Memorial www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

Four companies lobbying about changing Alberta data centre regulations: theijf.org/brief/data-c...

PabloReports: Ted Cruz called you a parasite and disparaged your work as a bartender. AOC: I think it’s funny that he’s been taking a government paycheck for 23 years but has the audacity to criticize someone who has come from a family that had to work their way up and earn their place here.

Ontario’s new freedom of information restrictions ‘reduce transparency by half’: theijf.org/article/onta...

Ukrainian drone strike on empty Baltic fuel depot prompts top-level resignation – in Latvia www.defensenews.com/global/europ...

The US is now spending more on its interest payments on the National Debt than it is on defence.

Interesting piece, but I resent how Peter Thiel is represented in the Gawker saga. Thiel didn't "emerge from the shadows" to magnanimously tell the NYT he funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. He did it because my colleague and I exposed his involvement. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

NEW: Uber Drivers Have Won A Contract For The First Time In Canada www.readthemaple.com/uber-drivers...

"Food security equals national security: a country that cannot feed itself cannot defend itself."

Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social : “A political lynching… an era of retribution… what just happened in Tennessee was the largest and most swift disenfranchisement of Black people in a century.” #Memphis @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

NAACP sues to stop Tennessee GOP gerrymander that dismantles majority-Black district www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A must-read thread 🧵