More institutions are deciding some platforms are no longer worth inhabiting. There’s a point where “staying to reach people” becomes "being shaped by the venue." This threshold passes silently. By the time the platform is shaping your tone and incentives, your decision is already made.

The Canadian Medical Association has not posted on X since March 2025 & I’m so proud our leaders made the call. Things have only gotten worse since.

Once Trump seizes Greenland—likely days to weeks—it will be time for this.

I’m sorry the decorum argument was dead ten fucking years ago when the entire republican party hitched themselves to mister “grab them by the pussy” come on

Yup

All those treaties and orgs trump withdrew us from include these restoration orgs. The picture is from a church in Ukraine damaged by russians.

have overheard something similar in the smoking area at the industrial plant where i work today, also noticed the trump hat guy stopped wearing his trump hat this week

there are some very white working class dudes doing electrical work in the office next door and I just overheard one of them say “fucking paramilitary fucking shooting people in the street, did you see that shit?” so I don’t think the PR is going over well

This never actually really works. I remember when Egypt tried it. And the internet just finds a way around the blockages. It’s too easy to use satellite access phones, or burner cells etc Not to mention, landline phones, faxes, dial up, over the air radio… lots of options.

So, new folks, one thing I talk about here is my health. What it’s like to live with the government controlling my medication, being dismissed, and so on. You don’t have to commiserate. I’d rather you think about it. And maybe laugh on some occasions. 😁

Look, Socrates took the blame for toppling Athens, soo

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Can someone please explain to these two that more pipelines south -- you know, one of said "every" directions -- isn't even remotely a good or popular idea?

I have already spilled my entire coffee with soy and sugar on it. Before I even bought it

Truth

This is how Empires end. Same way, every time. “Having treated so many in foreign lands with neglect instead of generosity, as vassals instead of partners, the British had ensured their own decline before the fighting began” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b...

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

As you listen to DHS and ICE offer their excuses and justifications for murdering an American mother in cold blood, a quickly-forgotten reminder from Chicago: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Her name is good. May her death from an ICE agent’s bullet not be in vain.

Yes the stealth coating is critical. It has be repaired/replaced often and actually wears out during flight. F35s gradually become less stealthy as you fly them.

Gottem #Mm

My blood boils at all the establishment hacks and pathetic centrists and privileged apathetic voters who told me not to take Trump literally and seriously and that he won't be pro-war and the institutions would hold and we weren't being civil enough against MAGA supporters.

"Yesterday, an attempted coup d’état was thwarted in Washington D.C.—the capital of the globe’s largest military power. Once considered the shining beacon of free and fair elections, the United States’ veneer as the world’s greatest democracy has long lost its shine."

The detail of the murder in Minneapolis today that chills my blood is the fact that the DHS/ICE brutes carried the woman they shot by the limbs when they took her to the ambulance after letting her bleed out in the vehicle for a few minutes. Savagery.

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

finally, we're living through precedented times

If this sounds like what Russia is doing to Ukraine, it's because it is exactly what Russia is doing to the Ukraine.

The only good news today. Something I am celebrating

There's no legal difference between kidnapping Maduro and kidnapping Mark Carney.

Geraldo was the biggest embarrassment in the history of journalism when I was a teenager…and also a gigantic liar. He is why you cancel creep, early on in their career. Really early.

This is truly a tragedy…one I simply cannot deal with right now. Americans…you need to deal with this. Call your GOP congressman and Senators. They *can* stop him. Even SCOTUS *can* stop him, if they want to. This is a choice. Or just give the fuck up because he’s a dictator.

Hey Congress: 1. No one can prosecute Maduro for so much as a parking ticket since he wasn’t legally extradited to New York State or the US 2. Venezuela is an actual jungle, like Vietnam. 3. Regardless of of what Maduro allegedly did; US armed forces broke US LAW by kidnapping Maduro’s wife.

So freaking tired of Pharma companies getting Corporate welfare, using almost all Government funded research to develop their drugs and then screwing over the taxpayers who subsidized them. Is anyone EVER going to launch a lawsuit or publish a headline or twelve?

Despite pressure and threats from Trump, Despite the fact that the COVID vaccine creation was totally funded by the German government and US Government and manufacturing facilities were built by government. Operation Warp Speed by Trump and Operation Light Speed by Merkel. Same for most drugs

We won’t get re-elected for a generation at this rate. Delays in approvals for all generic drugs are growing, due to cuts at Health Canada, and GLP-1s save lives, but cost too much. 1 million Canadians (voters) take them, 2 million more want to #cdnpoli www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

But that would never ever apply to childcare or seniorcare. Those workers are always seen as universally “the good kind of immigrant” in the US and Canada, Europe, every nation. This is simply stupidity

Extra points for the use of the word ‘bindle’. 😂

No woman will ever vote for anyone who screws with their childcare or eldercare. Like for generations. And $10/day daycare is 8-6 pm and ignores all the nurses, MDs, hospital workers, cops, EMS, manufacturing shift workers, restaurant workers, etc who need home care for kids, seniors. #cdnpoli

This is a widespread sentiment — think of the expression “La France profonde” as it’s used. Of course, most citizens and the most characteristic culture of any country are found in the larger cities, but this animosity is used by politicians, ie Trump, who owe their office to un-populated areas

I wrote a while back about the global triumph of “parties of geography” (which seek to win big constituencies containing few constituents) over “parties of demography” (which represent the majority of the people, but fewer districts). Republicans, AfD, Tories www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/demo...

I don’t know who needs to know this but “blood thinners” have nothing to do with the viscosity of your blood

And more and more strains of syphilis have become antibiotic resistant. You want to blame the woman? Sex isn’t always a choice and rapists don’t care about condoms. …and people wonder why I believe so strongly in vaccines, vaccine research, prenatal care, free universal healthcare…

Supremely irritated once again with Scotiabank, aka #SexistBank because my god the bigotry and incompetence. Are other banks like this too? Sure. But time and time again, they bat it out of the park.

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: - It’s ‘voilà,’ not ‘wallah!’ - It’s ‘a lot,’ not ‘alot.’ - It’s ‘further ado,’ not ‘farther adieu.’ - It’s ‘flesh out,’ not ‘flush out.’ - It’s ‘sneak peek,’ not ‘sneak peak.’ No worries if not!!!

I still can't quite believe that Ukraine has had to spend most of 2025 negotiating with the US, their own ally, cause the US keeps trying to force them to surrender to russia. This is absolutely insane. • Maniam Akash • #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsPutinsPuppet #StandWithUkraine Thread 1/3🧵

Iranians deserve a real choice. True Freedom.

I am not mocking them. I want them to get their freedom, I just know that the Pahlavis ran a dictatorship, used Secret Police, stole Billions from Iran’s government and left their people in poverty. So when I see an “uprising” in their favour, I ask who is backing it?