What is left as a resignable offense for a government minister in Canada? I can't remember the last time a minister was either forced out or fell on their sword for a major screw up in their ministry.

push ups? yeah i love push ups- pushin' UPS worker wages up in the next union contract negotiations

I got curious about this quote, so I looked it up. It's a paraphrase. Here's the original: "When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on." —George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia.

Talk about timing! The deputy police chief whose text messages were revealed in court this morning also retired today A VicPD spox said the department knee about his texts, deemed them inappropriate

Talked to @thetyee.ca about the right-wing content creators who wound up cashing out in the thousands and millions via Tenent Media — which was revealed to be a Russian influence op. In any other time, it’d be career-ending stuff. But all those folks are still going. thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

ICYMI - This morning I reported on the activists calling for a State of Emergency in Seattle due to the influx of trans people fleeing Republican led states. I spoke with the people giving their all to help trans siblings in need, and the best ways to help while they wait for help from local gov.

on the one hand this is obviously a bad attitude, it's so sobering that so many people have it, etc. on the other hand this is the mentality you would wish for in a section of the population that you have to out organize rather than recruit

[watching someone wash their hands after using the bathroom]: I feel sad for the people who live their lives in fear. I pity them, I worry for their mental health, I even worry for our country

for example, this River Butcher bit killed me youtube.com/shorts/T8M40...

I know people don’t say this anymore but: protect this girl at all costs

Nearly every single creator involved in the Tenet scandal is more popular and has more access to the US government than before

This is in response to Israel kidnapping and torturing Canadians in international water btw

The texts were in fact pretty damning.

Important news:

At some point, we'll need to address the absolutely insane pay disparity between Canada and the US Our union total package is roughly $78/hr CAD The same job in a California, New York or Illinois union local is $90-100/hr USD

it won’t, but this should absolutely prompt wider scrutiny of all municipal police boards. by everyone “We as counsel were told by our clients there were no text messages,” said Emily Lapper, lawyer for the province.”

Can we please take a moment to appreciate Japadog, which has somehow managed to elevate the hot dog and the bento box in one go

Serious question for serious people: does Alberta have any actual, substantive grievances that go beyond raging at the facts of confederation or the realities of global energy markets?

Non-union workers in Watsonville CA are picking strawberries at $6 hourly wage + $2/box. “It's unfair we are making less than minimum wage, but not all companies respect the law. If we mention this to the supervisors, we are let go from our job and we need the pay.” #WeFeedYou

In Seattle, organizers are warning of a growing crisis as more and more trans refugees seek to escape red states. Mutual aid networks of "broke trans people helping broke trans people" are being overwhelmed, and one organizer @evanurquhart.bsky.social spoke with is facing eviction herself.

There’s something about getting old enough to realise that every amazing new technology ends up bolted onto the same rotten scaffolding and it’s pretty hard to feel whimsical about it once you’ve been through the cycle a few times.

I pity those scared little baby welders with respirators and hoods They haven't removed the guards from their angle grinders either, the fools I'm not afraid like them

Christ. That blast zone.

Seriously, watch the documentary if you can!

Eugenicists

I recall that after Alex Pretti got murdered a woman at the vigil came up and gave me a sambusa and then comforted me when I sat down on the curb and cried. Food creates a connection between neighbors that's hard to explain. Also, I would take a bullet for the Sambusa Lady.

ok i found some good news, everyone

chastising you for “not wanting to hear another perspective” is exactly how neofascists poisoned absolutely every corner of the internet in the last 15 years. they’re running the white supremacist playbook with AI.

A very easily overlooked aspect of the Panthers. Hoover said the Free Breakfast Program was the biggest internal threat to the US.

Dog with hat tucking into a hotdog, for morale.

Oh hey we got very basic confined space training in the Navy - some folks got more. One of the things they hammered into us is that if you look down into a void and see someone lying there and you can't tell why, DO NOT GO IN AFTER THEM. Alert the trained people.

Oh, I know it's not cost. We don't have universal healthcare because there would be no legal way to make it white-only. White Americans used to love social programs for welfare, health, job training. Then, courts told them they had to share. Been paring it back ever since, even when it hurts them.

Evergreen

The entire history of the conservative movement is rich white people watching democracy in action and the culture moving forward and being like “that’s not fair.”

NEW: We can have one (1) nice thing as a nation, in the form of Colbert showing up as the guest host of a Michigan public access show and forcing Jack White to eat a hotdog "Lady and the Tramp-style" with him. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Kevin went into Righteous Wrath mode at Harbor Freight today re: trans rights, and cowed two local dudes into traumatized silence. I feel obligated to mention this, as the only not-a-shithead witness. Never underestimate the power of being A) motivated and B) six inches taller for justice.

Root cause of modern tech-facism right here

An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

They're spending millions of dollars on this campaign. Imagine what social services could do with that money.

At a basic level, party leaders have collectively raised billions of dollars in political spending, the great bulk of which has been directed to ads instead of permanent organizing or media infrastructure. Generational strategic failure regardless of policy preferences and ideology. RIP OFA.

"When someone offers you a seat on the rocket, don't ask questions." -Eric Schmidt.

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

Unions aren't just there to get you higher wages

like "How did regulators not see that forcing passive investors to dump high-quality equities to buy a million men on mars charlatanry was going to cause explosive market diarrhea?"

We're going to be seeing *a lot* of this in the near future

"The main issue was a faulty valve on the compromised tank, which prevented crews from being able to access or offload the chemicals inside." Okay yeah RIP the last guy who inspected this tank

oof

A mentor told me when I started in this industry that I should sign every inspection report expecting to explain it in a deposition some day Somewhere in Orange County an API 653 inspector is sweating bullets