The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

I can't believe Trudeau did this.

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

I just got confirmation that Tim Houston’s PCs cut the entire Writers in the Schools program. This man is cutting a program that lets children meet and learn from local authors (among many many other things) so he can spend $5 million teaching civil servants to use AI.

The Washington Post writes -30- on its fully staffed Ukraine bureau. In related news, Jeff Bezos’s net worth is estimated at $223,900,000,000.00.

Letz go even bigger and better,,, ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists are invited out to celebrate in Viva Las Vegas for the SHE GOT GAME Weekend ,,, Hit a guy up and LETZ GOOO

Google makes new employees wear what, now?

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

Observers watching federal immigration enforcement in Maine who were told by agents they were "domestic terrorists" and would be added to a "database" or "watchlist" are now part of a new federal class action lawsuit. n.pr/4s6JWgo

This is what happens when China takes away our Stanley Cup

Well, shit.

Get those babies and their families out of those damned concentration camps.

Oh, this is sad. ALS is such a horrible, horrible thing.

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)

BREAKING: ‘Shock and awe’ at DNR: Wildlife division gone, managers sacked, and restructured department geared for natural resources exploitation and extraction reported by @joanbaxter.bsky.social

so genuinely: uh, what was Merrick Garland doing with the Epstein files, given uh, it's brought down a royal and multiple Euro politicians/

DHS successfully—until now—covered up the murder of a third US citizen on Texas' Padre Island, the sort of thing that can only happen in GOP-ruled Texas. ICE agents shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, last year, but DHS covered up the whole incident, Newsweek reports.

I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia. But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.

It brings me an incredible sense of peace to imagine the fear and feeling of walls closing in for men who abused women and girls with elite impunity

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Brilliant

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

"[we were] taken in by the genesis story that the Internet had been created by...geniuses, idealists & oddballs who dared to believe... Overlooked...was the fact that this 1st generation was made up of...intensely libertarian capitalists determined to crush competition & undermine privacy rights."

Finally!

Gotta respect a guy like @atrupar.com who sees That Scene in A Clockwork Orange and decides “that’s the life for me.”

"You have people baptizing their partisanship and calling it Christianity." Perfectly put.

I see they settled on a framing in the donor group chat

Wednesday

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Well, maybe if the American right-wing peddled facts instead of hateful horseshit, they'd have better SEO results for political queries.

“Broken down by demographic, the age group w/ the highest level of concern is Canadians aged 55 and older, while women are also more likely to be concerned than men — 69.3 per cent compared to 57.9 per cent — and people in Atlantic Canada are more likely to be concerned than those in the Prairies.”

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

What Peter Thiel did to Gawker proved that you can’t have billionaires and a free press at the same time.

This is excellent.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

normie centrists everywhere: my god ICE is monstrous and must be stopped chuck schumer: maybe *two* body cams

Learn this from Bezos and the Washington Post: with hypercapitalists in charge, your news is not safe | Jane Martinson

Grateful for the class and grace shown by Canadian leaders this week.

I'm just going to say a thing. What a person looks like is not reflective of their soul. Insulting the appearance of bad people who do bad things as an outcome or indication of their rotten hearts perpetuates the notion that conventional beauty = virtue, a myth that's led to untold human damage.

Thanks, fuckers. Signed, The Rest of the World

One of the more maddening things has been seeing so many women allying themselves with -- and even protecting -- these monsters.

However low your opinion is of those running the country, it's not low enough. Completely unserious, self-absorbed sociopaths. (Read the whole thread)

Yet another indictment of the United States health system that James Van Der Beek’s wife and six kids need a gofundme because his unsuccessful cancer treatment destroyed them financially www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

that’s it, i’ve finally taken my best photo of all time 😅 (this chubster is an unapologetic beggar so don’t feel bad for him) 🧪🌍 #bird #birb

Elon and his 4chan-addled clowns have blood on their hands -- and so does Trump for hiring them.