Does America have a police problem?

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Go Canada 🇨🇦!

This reviewer gets at the crux of AdP's brilliance. Essentially, they are the embodiment of a Royal Fuck You to the techbros and the encroaching anti-human AI trend. And the people here in Quebec are revelling in it. Art > $ Angine de Poitrine entre dans la légende lp.ca/zqvH3o?shari...

3/12 Under our current form of globalization, in other words, we have an example of the Kalecki paradox, in which wage-suppression policies that allow one country to grow faster than its trade partners are actually bad for overall global growth – to the extent that consumer demand drives investment.

Portugal are better without Ronaldo.

If you blame IRQ and AFG losses on “woke” and “DEI” you don’t have to blame it on bad strategy or over reliance on tactical superiority. They need those GOFOs to be woke so they don’t have to face the hollowness of their own beliefs about war.

When I read about AI labs hiring philosophers, it makes me think of Ronald Fisher, the "father of modern statistics" who died arguing on behalf of tobacco companies saying that the studies showing cigarettes caused cancer were correlation not causation.

It used to be gullible left-wingers. Now it’s gullible right-wingers. The westerners in thrall to Russia.

Assuming Vance is being sincere for moment, it is this type of thinking and arrogance that led to the defeat. It is also similar the Russian attitude re Ukraine, and the bloviating Fox News/Limbaugh pundit. Is there a name or word for this thinking/attitude/approach?

Reading this reminded me of how the grandfather of the now richest man in the world moved his family to apartheid South Africa because he liked the apartheid.

NEW: In the year since it came under Republican control, North Carolina’s state elections board has repeatedly made headlines for decisions that restrict or suppress the vote. But now Democrats aren’t the only ones who are upset about it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“The Ellisons are just one instance of a much larger, much more unwieldy transformation taking place, an inter-capitalist conflict with global implications, but they are a titanic plutocratic force that leverages familial and social ties and banks on the regulatory and governmental side of things”

Maybe Hughes, Tkachuk & Hellebyuck could take Hoekstra with them

Some of the Brady Tkachuk memes in the hockey subreddits have me chuckling. Buddy couldn’t cope with even the mildest of social consequences for being an inconsiderate MAGA asshole.

no but this is pretty good www.asiapacific.ca/publication/...

I regret subscribing to the TSN streaming. The app is terrible. It would be better to not watch than to have the app repeatedly freeze or crash during the games. We need more options than Bell and Rogers for sports TV.

les dernières semaines au québec: *une manif de néo-nazis dans un parc de shawinigan *vandalisme islamophobe à trois-rivières *un attentat anti-femme à montréal mais allez savoir pourquoi, pour nos médias et nos politiciens, le problème c'est la gauche et les wokes

Seth Hatfield, the incel murderer was a covid-truther and a fan of youtube videos by Paul Joseph Watson. Paul Joseph Watson worked for @EzraLevant Rebel News

We really have little understanding of what it means to have a billionaire $ much less what that means for democracy. You could buy politicians for less. And now we’re talking about a Nazi saluting trillionaire.

Alito (majority) finds Trump statements don't demonstrate racial animus, but can't bring himself to quote any of them Kagan (dissent) notes this, then supplies some qu otes "It is hard to imagine the statements being made today of any White community," she observes

John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness."

It’s important to continue documenting and reporting on the myriad of ways that “illegal immigration” does not refer to whether a person followed a legal process. By their words and actions, it is clear that the GOP means an immigrant is illegal based on where they are from and their race.

The Supreme Court of the United States has concluded, as a matter of law, that Donald Trump and his administration's racism and vitriol toward Haitians—in its termination of TPS—is not "overtly racial." Justice Kagan, in dissent, calls them out: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Hello to new followers, just fyi if there’s anything food-related that I’d like to be known for (apart from my own books), it’s probably this piece I wrote about Anthony Bourdain london.eater.com/2018/6/15/17...

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

What is behind this anti immigration trend in numerous countries? Why do ppl seem to blame immigrants for problems instead of elites including the super rich? Is there a sociological study I can read on this?

There is a pernicious and sustained effort to distort the historical record and do violence to the public’s memory.

We lost 2-1 today but are going to the first knockout stage. 🇨🇦

Good piece on the socialist sweep in @currentaffairs.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-lef...

Political ideology is the strongest predictor of Messi-Ronaldo preference. Authoritarians who like short-form video are more likely to think Ronaldo is the GOAT.

i kid you not: this is essentially the stuff you see on Russian state TV about Ukraine

The moderators of the AskCanada subreddit were so sick of posts that were like "American here, I come in peace, we're so ashamed of Trump, please adopt us, do you still like me Y/N" that they posted a new rule with what I thought was a very well-expressed sentiment

The Supreme Court's first opinion is a 6–3 ruling in Cisco v. Doe. Per Barrett, courts may NOT create new causes of action for violations of international norms under the Alien Tort Statute. All three liberals dissent. More opinions to come. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The upshot here is that a prisoner cannot sue a corrections officer who violated his religious liberty under a federal statute that guarantees free exercise behind bars. But the implications sweep way beyond this case to seriously neuter other spending clause legislation. A REALLY bad decision.

The Supreme Court's third opinion is Landor. The supermajority deals a 6–3 blow to religious liberty and congressional power, holding that spending clause legislation cannot create a damages remedy against officials who violate a federal directive. Huge decision. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Supreme Court's fifth and final decision is Blanche v. Lau, another 6–3 split. Per Thomas, the government does NOT require clear and convincing evidence that a green card holder committed a crime before divesting them of their lawful status at the border. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Today was an absolute blood bath at SCOTUS for the less powerful to enforce civil rights in the federal courts. TL;dr - SCOTUS rules 6-3 that only corporations have rights that are enforceable in federal court??

Weak entitled boys and their status anxieties. A man protects and helps ppl in his community. A man takes responsibility and accepts accountability. All of which these pathetic losers refuse to do.

This really seems like a Presidency for the rich.

The war against the poor.

In English for those who follow me: "The Montreal mass shooter who drove from Alberta in the last few days left a manifesto where he attack women and categorizes himself as an ‘incel’"

Haven't crunched the numbers but I'd be willing to bet that between: - École Polytechnique - Toronto van attack - Toronto Danforth shooting - Toronto massage parlor attack - today's Montreal shooting Incel ideology's killed more Canadians in terror attacks than any other ideology, religion or creed

It's kind of fascinating how class voting for the NDP held in Canada up till the 2019 election at which point, it fell off a cliff: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

big part of it is that whether you're in the UK, US, or Canada, the evolution of contemporary party systems to have a working class bloc that is more or less cross-pressured between social authoritarianism in defense of hierarchy and/or economic redistribution has basically pushed everyone populist

with the decline in union membership and socialization, this means that working class voters tend to have weaker bonds to the left