offering relief on gas prices is obviously politically popular. but is it a good expression of the alleged social democratic principles of the Alberta NDP? wouldn't it be better to demand the windfall be invested in poverty relief, sustainable energy, or something similar?

i've been trying all day to come up with a good diablo 2 'looking for baal?' bit about the surprise cameo in that trump picture and FAILING. failing at post

My new piece for @liberalcurrents.com on the origins of the right's anti-intellectualism www.liberalcurrents.com/the-right-wa...

bloodborne is a mom game

RACING to the NY Post with "SWALSWELL THAT ENDS WELL"

Reason n+1 to get off Substack

i got all this stuff for chana masala and i keep forgetting to soak my dang chickpeas

Today, the NDP is calling on the Carney government to implement a national ban on surveillance pricing - before it becomes a predatory new normal in Canadian life. Canadians are already being squeezed by the untenable cost of living. It’s time to stop the practice dead in its tracks.

the bcndp caucus frankly should be in a revolt over this. there should be a mutiny brewing. what Eby is proposing here is foul, cynical, and counter to both reconciliation and the principles of social democracy

transphobia is a luxury belief, which is why it’s so prevalent among beltway types who don’t have real problems

What a great choice for @avilewis.ca's first big policy intervention as @ndp.ca leader: ndp.ca/news/ndp-mov.... This issue epitomizes how avg people are exploited by the tech & market power of oligopolists, & their intrusion into every moment of our lives. I predict this'll be very popular! /2

half of the servers at cq noodle think that i'm scared of sichuan pepper, and half of them know i'm not, which adds a nice gambler's high to my weekly bowl of xiaomian

It’s a great night for the Leftist chatterati

the viability of many right-wing intellectuals and intellectual spaces is enormously dependent on the largesse of reactionary billionaires and foreign governments, who help them circumvent a marketplace of ideas where they would otherwise post extraordinarily poor sales

congratulations to Pete Magyar, and better luck next time to Sam Szekely, Charlie Csango, and Ricky Romanian

nice to see viktor orban probably eat shit today, but it would be a bit more inspiring if he wasn't being replaced by a centre-right populist party whose star candidate seems to be a guy whose whole thing is yelling about his ex-wife

The biggest difference between 1990s Internet and 2020s Internet is that the bulk of our online activity has been corralled onto unregulated for-profit digital platforms The profit motive driving the way these platforms are designed and run is the root cause of everything that goes wrong on them

the two pre-workout genders

i would call this a cursed blunt rotation if i thought a single one of these individuals was capable of rolling one

April 2026. Miles, the former alpha of the Central Cluster, is master of Ngogo. only the Western Cluster stands before him. jungles are now battlefields.

pleased to see the Alberta NDP finally start really campaigning against separatism. I think handing it all off to Thomas Lukaszuk for a year was a major error and one the ANDP may really regret down the road if the Forever Canadian organizing leads to any sort of PC resurrection

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

The Iran economic shock is coming youtu.be/Oi265I48MdI

people are too scared of geese

why do the humans, the larger of the two species, not simply eat the rabbits?

What a time to be alive www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

as far as I'm concerned, all friday is "good" friday

Gul Dukat is prairie conservative coded right? Stockwell Day but a lizard guy? you can imagine him on the jetski right now can't you

Lot of recalled products down there.

I think we all predicted that they were going to run the anti-Corbyn playbook on Avi Lewis. but it's still pretty funny to watch all these dipshits call a Jewish man an antisemite.

I got one of these emails. Putting me together with the other names in the list — @lukelebrun.ca, @rachelgilmore.bsky.social, @nolore.bsky.social, @ethancox.bsky.social and others — you get a loose mosaic best described as "people who have had some fleeting argument with Jesse recently."

It’s very telling that Hawkins is pretty much the only product in the grocery store that doesn’t advertise. There’s simply no need.

ridiculous column. Lewis hasn't proposed expropriating small business owners. his pitch for a public option in groceries would just see a crown corp established, not "virtually the entire economy nationalized." Braid just out here lying to the readers.

Please enjoy the two minute crucible that is this turtle trying to get on to a log that other turtles are on.

the juxtaposition of crude prices (white, Brent) and the S&P 500 (blue) last week is a great snapshot of the current macro moment

as much as I hate meetings and as cringe as electoral politics can be, I'm committing to returning to my local NDP constituency association (provincial side) and electoral district association (federal side) to try to keep things together. and it pains me to say that I encourage you to join me

I think that Naheed Nenshi is assuming that because his ANDP advisors all hate Lewis, all the ANDP members must hate him too. this is a grave miscalculation. the inner circle is out of touch—there are many ANDP members who like Lewis just fine.

Winning an election in Alberta always relies on building coalitions. But it is fascinating to me how it is typically assumed that the pipeline-loving demographic of the coalition is bigger than the pipeline-disliking demographic, or that it is even viable or advisable to court that demographic

And, I think it’s worth noting that the centre and centre-left in Alberta is most strongly organizing around fighting separatism and coal mining poisoning our water, so coming out extra strong against the federal party to support fossil fuels is a fascinating choice.

The pundit and columnist class meltdown from folks who have never supported the NDP honestly suggests to me that the NDP is doing something significant that’s worth paying attention to. Those who defend power tend to screech the loudest when power is genuinely threatened.

"we believe in more pipelines and in reducing emissions"? how??? how am I supposed to respect someone who says this? I know that he knows pipelines increase emissions.

immediate belligerence from Nenshi is an incredibly stupid move. the man is scuttling his own ship.

ndp leadership race? oh i'm voting azgalist

okay I know you gamers have probably heard this from many angles already but, in case you haven't, Esoteric Ebb does indeed have the juice. a lovely spiritual successor to Disco Elysium, finally, and also a delightful take on how to adapt dungeons and dragons for the computer

I think we gave filming podcasts a fair enough shake and can stop now!

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