Canada can’t decouple from this historic shit show fast enough.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

What perfect album came out the year you turned 6?

Scene: The Dems are marvelling at the happy coincidence that all this Epstein stuff has already made voters forget they caved on the shutdown. The waiter who has been clearing their plates says, “Oh, a coincidence?” and he takes off his hat and it’s Gene Parmesan but he’s played by Chuck Schumer.

This seems to be a general pattern: the shift to renewables is happening faster - and accelerating faster - than even the most optimistic models. This fuels my urgent sense that Canada needs to decouple from the US on energy policy as quickly as possible.

In Helsinki, Vision Zero has become a reality. Cities are not natural formations that we have to accept as we find them. Cities are designed and built - and we have the power to design them better and build them better.

Those in the know are aware of Marty’s Pickles, an illicit and extremely delicious 🇨🇦product made right here in #HamOnt martyspickles.ca

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

A discussion sparked by a piece whose opening argument was that Larry Summers was the tragic, rational victim of a feminized woke mob

every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”

cc: Canada

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

I think a way to think about the Epstein shaped fracture in the Republican coalition is people who were deluded that they were the good guys vs the people who are extremely conscious that they are the bad guys.

This exasperated me: “This tragedy is a devastating reminder of how fragile life is and how important it is that we all look out for one another on our roads,” the mayor said. Dammit, NO! Mohawk and Upper Wentworth is one of the most dangerous intersections in the city. It was DESIGNED that way 1/2

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?

As the saying goes: when there’s smoke, and flames, and a roaring, crackling sound, and an acrid, burning stench that stings your eyes, and freaked out people running for the exits, you have to consider the possibility that there might be a fire.

One of the truly great quirky one-hit wonders of the 1990s

“Standing up to Donald Trump didn’t work.” Has there ever been a more self-fulfilling, self-defeating mewl of cowardice and fecklessness than this utterance by Senator Angus King on his vote to betray the antifascist coalition and capitulate to Trump and his cult of enablers?

“A lot of people worked for a long time to achieve that measles elimination status, and to lose it in one year because of a failure of government action … for a disease that’s totally preventable, it just makes me sad.”

If a Democratic president had pardoned this man, it would be the absolute end of their political career.

This is embarrassing and exasperating. Measles is a preventable illness that can cause serious complications including death. There is no good reason for Canada to fail to contain it, but there are bad-faith actors with blood on their hands for spreading antivax disinformation

Another data point for @billmckibben.bsky.social ‘s thesis that America risks ending up as a national Colonial Williamsburg where tourists visit to see how people used to live in the old days.

A couple people on here theorized in my replies that Trump's bulldozing of the East Wing was the work of a narcissist attempting to punish us for No Kings. And I wonder now if doubling down on the SNAP and airline pain is his attempt to punish everyone for Tuesday's election results.

Not the point but I did read this post in Elrond’s voice.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Has there ever been a bigger lie than the “Keep me signed in” checkbox on the login form?

The Democrats won several VA House seats where winning looked like a pipe dream going into the election. The Dems won these seats because they recruited candidates and actually campaigned. Important lesson for 26--the electorate is pissed--but you can only win when you run. Run everywhere!

A moment of silence, please, for the "young men are all MAGA now" narrative. (Source: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...)

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

Thermostatic politics discovered alive and well

He always did love the 80s.

I hope someone is writing "12 Hangry Men" about the sandwich guy jury

“U.S. President Donald Trump is on track to turn North America’s once dominant auto industry into a global backwater, a place where a couple of car companies churn out inferior, dirty vehicles for a captive consumer base that has no choice but to buy them.”

Someone should make a biopic about Kurt Vonnegut and cast either Nick Offerman or Pedro Pascal in the lead role

Not the main point and I agree with Grossman’s point, but I would add that I hope Mamdani draws a clear distinction between his policy goals, centred on affordability, and his policy ideas, which might or might not work. I hope he takes a creative try-lots-of-ideas-and-keep-what-works approach.

One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan. I never made it out of the House.

OH FUCK GEDDY LEE IS WEARING AN EFFIN BIRDS SHIRT AT THE WORLD SERIES

They’re just blowing the regular frequency whistle now.

FWIW I got 5/16.

Important to keep in mind that Hoekstra’s little performance is intended for an audience of one www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Really positive sign that open source projects are standing up to do the right thing. Kudos to the Python folks: www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...

Feeling extra pleased to be a Python user today.

A huge part of Trump's success is that he is able, because of the fragmentation of his base's media ecosystem (and their unwillingness to trust regular sources) to say multiple, contradictory things to different groups and have them all believe him.

She said the thing. NDs and creative minds have always been threatened most by bullish jocks. Dodgeball never seems to end.

A novel cancer vaccine that stimulates the immune system to target one of the most common cancer-driving mutations has shown encouraging early results in patients with pancreatic and colorectal cancer, two of the most difficult-to-treat malignancies, according to a study led in part by researchers

If you’re wondering whether Democrats moved too far to the left or Republicans moved too far to the right, consider that Ronald Reagan is now credibly held up as a champion of liberalism in opposition to the Republican president and his party.

Brace for another wave of x refuges