A pair of researchers at the Fraser Institute wrote a ridiculous column about federal climate policy (in other words, the sun rose in the east) and actually managed to get it published in the Globe and Mail. Let's take it apart. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Donald Trump just visited China to suck up to Xi Jinping LAST WEEK.

I've been saying this for years. Democrats have wasted billions of dollars renting airtime for ads that everyone hates. Instead, buy the stations. Fund the podcasts. Own the newspapers.

THIS IS GOOD @matthew.flux.community "In the current media ecosystem, Republicans own and Democrats rent. Democrats pay for seasonal access to the networks, stations, platforms, and newspapers owned by Republicans or right-wing entities, to advertise and communicate with voters."

"Netflix’s choice of manosphere star Shane Gillis to host the Kevin Hart roast looks more and more like the streaming platform gerrymandered its own show from getting too Black." – my new thing, up now @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

I'm going to be honest, my main reaction to the jokes that Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe told at the Roast of Kevin Hart is, "Who tf are Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe???".

For most of my life I've had to fight people on the science behind climate change. Now, as the economics of the energy transition kick into higher gear, we don't have to do that any more. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/20/o...

What’s funny is that when this happened in Bush 2, W understood that Rs had to ditch him to save themselves and keep the future of the party viable. Grandpa will take the party with him to the grave, and then we get some really weird politics that no one has seen before

I had missed this earlier but holy crap, Anthropic will turn an operating profit this quarter. I’m genuinely blown away by this. And set to more than double revenues QoQ. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mind...

Optimal climate policy shifted dramatically with technological advances in renewables and batteries. Unfortunately a lot of climate advocates didn’t pay attention to this, so we’re still stuck with advocacy that’s either outright ecofascist or treats electrification as an weak second place.

Billionaires benefit from the mythology America has told itself for decades of the scrappy guy or gal who just came up with a genius idea the market didn’t know it needed and who profited without government help when they launched the idea. Almost none of this is true.

From Don Braid's latest column, in which he essentially admits he has no idea what he's talking about. Sorry, Don: $170 per tonne was "designed to kill an industry" but $130 per tonne is going to revive said industry and lead to decades of economic prosperity?

Anyway... I just think maybe we might collectively be spending a little too much time talking about a hypothetical pipeline that no company is proposing to build, along a route that no one has identified, that's almost certainly never, ever going to get built.

People who are actively and materially supporting Trump’s project are not going to dismantle it later.

"They leaked his tax returns, they tried to destroy him." If revealing your official tax returns -- something every single president and VP for forty years before Trump did voluntarily -- could possibly "destroy" you, that is the scandal.

The Empire Strikes Back was released 46 years ago today. Still my favorite Star Wars, still my favorite ending.

Whatever your thoughts about The Boys' finale, it made Elon Musk mad, which the show's creator and cast think is hilarious.

Wozniak centering humans rather than computers makes for a refreshing palate cleanser.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students.

Enable 2FA, folks.

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

Trump shares a post calling for Obama to be immediately incarcerated and tried for treason

I love the implication that if it hadn't had a feather strapped to its back the turtle would have been invisible to the peahens.

Update: not everyone gets this

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Trump says Texans shouldn't vote for Talarico because he's a vegan. He isn't – Trump is lying as usual. But if he was, who cares? Is Trump planning an executive order that we have to eat a hamburger every day?

Faced with growing criticism of Bill C-22, CSIS, RCMP, and Public Safety this week tried to make the case for lawful access. My post on why they instead revealed a bill with dangerously disproportionate overreach with real risks of tracking all Canadians. www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/05/the-...

Bezos retweeted the absolute worst slop infographic I've ever seen in my life.

After a decade of campaigning, the government has finally published data confirming what we warned for years: hundreds of child refugees arriving alone in the UK are wrongly treated as adults, with devastating consequences. 🧵 We speak to @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

"Trump has not forgotten Greenland," former NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen told us. "Now he's preoccupied elsewhere in the world, but one day he will revert to that issue." 📹 Watch the full interview: politico.eu/article/glob... #GLOBSEC2026 #POLITICOTheSpeakeasy

Trump isn’t the problem. He is the result of the problem: the racism, ignorance, and selfishness of many people in the United States.

This is Enron-like. SpaceX has committed $1.6 billion to lease a data center in Mississippi. But instead of simply saying that, they structure it as an unconsolidated 49.9% interest in a joint venture. The only source of revenue for the "joint venture" is... the SpaceX lease. /6

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"Discussion paper results in discussions and feedback after government releases dscussion paper and asks people for feedback regarding whether or not there's anything in their discussion paper that people would like to discuss".

Republicans just passed a Don't Say Trans bill that would also require schools to out trans students in certain situations, even if doing so would put them in physical danger. Every student deserves to feel safe in school & see themselves reflected in school curricula.

8 Democrats voted for this, they pushed it over the top!

The experiment failed. Abolish the office, preserve the functions that matter, and return intelligence to the professionals whose job is not to serve a party, a president’s ego, or a cable-news storyline, but the security of the republic.

another blue origin rocket launch approval coming up jeff?

‘Keeping an eye on Canada’: U.S. DEA plans to open new offices north of the border - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says it plans on “keeping an eye on Canada” by opening two new offices in the country to track and intercept the flow of fentanyl into the U.S.

If releasing your tax returns and the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.

The committee is still in session, they have not yet voted, yet the UCP caucus has released this… This isn’t democracy, it’s authoritarian theatre. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

You'd think that someone this rich wouldn't feel the need to lie for money. But you would be wrong.

Something people underestimate is how much cooking is just repetition. When I cook something new, it's for fun. But like you, I have a toddler and I mostly stay in a relatively small range of recipes that I know I can easily and quickly pull together.

It’s remarkable: If Musk’s companies were valued like other companies that had similar rates of profit and growth, he would be nowhere near the richest man in the world.

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

SCOOP: John Fetterman's chief of staff resigns

This is like when the villain monologues. Please keep talking Jeff.

Unfortunate, but unavoidable with AUKUS: "Australia will move ahead with plans to extend the lives of its Collins-class diesel electric submarines as an interim solution as it plans to transition to nuclear-powered submarines under the AUKUS pact." breakingdefense.com/2026/05/aust...