Why is Jared Kushner buying things with Saudi Arabia?

This has to be the worst pub toilet I've ever seen.

Saw two street cleaning employees, I believe GFL, just walking past litter and occasionally poking it with their sticks so that it kinda looked like they were cleaning up. They picked up maybe 1 in 10. And here was me assuming the increased trash in Toronto the last few years was a budget thing 🙃

Sure, why not. The British did a great job of it the first time around. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I have been driving for 20 years and never once got a speeding ticket. Speed cameras work, they save lives, you can very easily avoid fines by driving like a normal person. Most people know this, too. That's why they're popular.

One key thing missed here: Millions of people in America can't vote: Puerto Rico residents and other territories like Guam, immigrants, people in prison in most states and people with felony convictions... all disenfranchised. And that's before Republican gerrymandering/disenfranchisement.

"... unless it makes the left look bad"

In the UK he would have lost his license within a month or two. In Canada he apparently gets infinite leeway to drive dangerously as long as he's rich enough to pay the fine, and apparently entitled enough to feel bullied.

Bob Iger is a business genius, definitely worth the millions they pay him.

My theory is that the cheaper the ticket the better the vibes. Christie Pits baseball is a perfect example. Imagine how awful the crowd at a football game would be if it was all $6k tickets.

Taking Tylenol during pregnancy could cause side effects such as forgetting about the Epstein Files and Tom Homan taking bribes on tape.

You know its bad when the Americans are making fun of your politics.

At the BBC we used to joke that running sound on rolling news was the most pointless job in the world as everyone is watching on mute in bars. So yeah, the headlines and chyrons matter a lot.

Why are we calling the book banner a "rights champion"? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Happens to me every time I try and take a cute photo of Cabbagetown.

U.S. Democrats badly need actual fighters in charge.

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Reposting the uncropped version because the sign on the floor really makes it.

I was walking past Riverdale Park West a couple of days ago and three City of Toronto trucks were parked on the grass roughly 8 feet from free, available public parking.

Everyone in media should read this interview with Ben Collins, especially the folks running local newspaper websites. As usual, The Onion is one of the few places being run well and calling US politics like it is. www.wired.com/story/uncann...

For decades Republicans touted the 2nd amendment as their defense against government oppression, as if when masked, armed gov agents turned up they would fight for their rights. Instead they signed up to be those government agents, and it takes an unarmed 26 year old to show us what resistance is.

I am begging the Democrats to grow a spine.

Canadian media needs to step up and make loads of gay shit. Partly for the good of the oppressed in the US but also it's just smart business. With US retreating to boring, bland and regime safe shows there's a gap in the market. The soft power that comes with that would be priceless.

Spellcheck for bluesky please, everyone's getting a clear view of how good my editors are and it's not doing me any favours.

I've been trying to cut ties with obviously unethical companies recently, and as a podcast producer Spotify was top of my list to get rid of. I assumed Tidal was more expensive; higher royalties for artists means higher costs for listeners, right? Nah. Tidal is $10.99/month. Spotift $12.69.

And this is why so many people feel gaslighted. Honestly some days I question myself, its all designed to make you feel like if you're note aggressively right wing then you're the insane one. It's not true, resist.

American newspapers when Charlie Kirk is shot: "Must be trans leftists! That's common sense!" American newspapers when two black men are found hanging from trees in Mississippi: "The police say no foul play suspected, we must be careful ascribing meaning." blackzonemagazine.com/not-one-but-...

Legacy Media in the US has fully given up, they're betting that capitulation to the regime is their best bet for survival. But they're destroying any trust readers might have had, so why bother surviving when there will be nothing left worth saving? This is why subscribers are leaving in droves.

I didn't know about this part of the Official Plan. I still don't understand why the city seems to think shade is a bad thing. If you go to any park in summer the shade of a tree is where everyone sits to escape the heat. Imagine if New York had followed this rule around Central Park. Yikes.

This is pathetic. Just desperate to be able to blame a trans person, and writing it out for everyone to see.

Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be. Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Forever proud of Toronto public's unwillingness to accommodate the fascists.

There are many reasons that Canada should adopt New York from the US, but my favourite one is that it would give the rest of Canada would find it way harder to hate Toronto.

New type of urbanism unlocked: density for parking

Anyway, I wasn't aware of Elizabeth Spiers before this piece and now I am, so here's some celebrating a clear headed writer.

The most insane thing about this is that as a freelance journalist I'm super aware that being on the side of accuracy here makes me unemployable by certain media orgs. Luckily I do pretty well without them, but I definitely think about it.

Finally, I thought I was going to go insane. You can condemn violence without pretending the victim was a good person. "He had children, as do many vile people. It is rude of me to say all of this, because we live in a culture where manners are often valued more than truth."

Looool PP you're not that important nobody is assassinating you

New Yorkers and New York lovers! I have just finished my reporting work, and I now have Friday evening free. What's good, where shall I go? Priority is food and drink.

We need more games and internet journalists. And also more trans journalists. And also more journalists. aftermath.site/tyler-robins...

Leave it to a gaming site to have clear-eyed and sober coverage of Tyler Robinson.

“Get me the gaming desk!” *hand to earpiece* “I’m just getting word about what happened to every gaming focused news outlet in the last few years…”

National political reporters: consult your gaming desk. You likely have a massively blind spot — this isn’t a dig at anyone, because I have this blind spot too b/c I’m not a gamer and am trying to adjust for it in real time — covering this very important moment if u don’t game & don’t know the memes

According to the BBC Helldivers strats are antifascist symbols now

When I worked at the BBC around 2017-2018ish was when internally journalists started to realise you can't just take police at their word. They can and do lie. It's disappointing that this doesn't appear to have reached the WSJ, among other places.

So the FBI did nothing but lie about “transgender ideology bullets” and Kash now taking credit because the guy’s family turned him in?

Watch how quickly this becomes about mental health now we know it's a cis white male

Also to those wondering: I'm in New York on a reporting trip, I didn't just suddenly decide to take a vacation in the Fourth Reich.