I really enjoyed this Coyne column. Said tech oligarchs need to way more attentive to the way public opinion is shifting against them. Coyne is just about the furthest thing from a "soak the rich" socialist, and yet.... www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

When the Yankees get eliminated

Watching baseball for the first time in years, and even I can recognize that Yesavage is a unique talent. Beast.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road

We are taking the fight for our country to the streets. The American consulate in Toronto weren't happy. They called the cops. They don't think we have a right to march on our own city sidewalks. #elbowsup

Danielle Smith says out loud what most Canadians fear about Pierre Poilievre: “…but I would say, on balance, the perspective that Pierre would bring would be very much in sync with, I think…the new direction in America,” she added.” #cdnpoli #ableg www.breitbart.com/politics/202...

A man winds up, hurling his fist directly at your face. You watch every movement. As his knuckles are millimeters from your nose you announce, defiantly, "At any moment now, this man could punch me in the face. But we're not there yet."

America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

This shit is not funny, it's not cute, all you Yankees can fuck off into the fucking sun. Tell him to stop. Do not repeat it. Do not spread it. Do not joke about it. We are a sovereign country. FUCK. OFF.

The boycott grows stronger every day. #elbowsup

I don’t understand why the president is allowed to spout nonsense about colonizing another country and the 25th amendment isn’t being invoked in addition to all the other horrors this is insane. It’s absolutely insane. It isn’t funny or even weird.

Elbows* up. *Electricity Levies Because Of Washington's Stupidity

I think it's really important to get comfortable describing what's happening in the United States as fascism. That's not a hyperbolic or manipulative term. It is just the accurate description. Once you get comfortable naming it as fascism, it changes the way you view the entire project.

The convoy crew held the people of Ottawa hostage and tried to divide people with rage politics. No wonder they are freaked out by Canadian solidarity and goodwill. They promote bitterness. We stand for a better nation. #elbowsup my friends Canada is strong.

It “came to be seen as deadly serious” pretty darn quickly by a lot of people, actually. Some publications had to publish a pro-annexation opinion column and political fanfic about how an occupied country would vote before they used their big brains to realize that.

This was a major theme of the debates over pandemic protocols. People who opposed vaccine and mask mandates simply didn't fucking care about other people, and they projected accusations of fascism on those who did.

Poem Peach by Kat Lehmann @songsofkat.bsky.social from her book of poems: moon full of moons, poetry of transformation

You've been asking yourself "where is the Canadian guy"? But you knew he would show up just when we needed him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...

WE CAN'T TELL YOU THE DATE OF OUR ELECTION BECAUSE OUR DEMOCRACY IS WORKING!!! OUR OPPOSITION PARTIES COULD TOPPLE THE GOVERNMENT AS SOON AS IT RETURNS! CARNEY HAS IMPLIED HE'LL CALL AN ELECTION IF HE WINS LIBERAL LEADERSHIP!! Ughhhhhhh I'm making a video with zero voice bc I'm mad!!!

The Liquor Control Board of Ontario's website right now: "Service Unavailable Our site is temporarily unavailable while we remove U.S. products in response to U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods."

Trudeau: "He talked about banking again today in a tweet, which doesn't make any sense because 16 banks are currently active in Canada holding about $113b worth of assets in this country... what he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that'll make it easier to annex us."

Feels more vital than ever before for Canada to have its own public information infrastructure, including news outlets and online distribution systems, not wholly controlled by American actors.

March 5, 2023.

What's funny about this controversy over King Charles not commenting on Trump re: Canada is that it appears it is largely anti-monarchists who literally want the King to go rogue and act without political direction from the duly elected government of the day.

I’ve watched enough mafia movies to know that if you’re gonna shakedown a pillar of the community, you do it in private, you make it clear they’re not to tell anyone, maybe you put a couple of your goons on the front door so no one comes in. Because it’s shameful. You don’t do it on live television

I'm struggling to get over what we saw today. The amount of gaslighting, cruelty, ignorance, abject cowardice, arrogance, indifference to human life, and deceit we saw from Trump and Vance...we saw behavior we associate with enemies of the United States inside the Oval Office. That's traumatizing.

Former French President, Francois Hollande said, "The US government under President Trump is no longer an ally." He is correct. Listen to Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, Ukraine. Hear what real leaders are telling you. Believe them because they are right. This is not a drill.

”Fuck off“ NDP MP Charlie Angus had some choice words for convoy livestreamer Chris Dacey after Dacey and his gang of far-right activists followed Angus around at a pro-Ukraine protest outside the Russian Embassy in Ottawa this afternoon

Trump will never allow the Five Eyes to become the Four Eyes because Four Eyes is what you call nerds.

The funny thing about Cross Country Check-Up both-sidesing annexation is that they did not do anything wrong, the problem is that they followed their journalistic standards too well When journalism is not rooted in any moral values beyond “objectivity” and “balance,” this is the natural outcome

"Now let's talk to caller Billie Bob Staal, a Proud Boy member from Mobile Alabama who thinks the U.S. should invade Canada and turn it into a resource extraction colony because of woke. Thanks for calling in Billie Bob! Do you agree with Kevin O'Leary's comments?"

“A reminder to believe nothing you see or hear on CBC.” Because if you did, they’d keep the power to hold Pierre to account for the things he says and does! And god forbid anyone does that!! Chickenshit, autocratic rhetoric from a guy who keeps boosting bootlicker media

Compare this with Trudeau's readout

Such a revealing article. American regulators only care about whether the vehicle keeps its occupants safe. UK policy objects to the Cybertruck largely on the grounds that it is a danger to everyone else. (The Brits are right, and the American mindset is that of an asshole.)

DEAR MEDIA: STOP FRAMING THE UNIVERSITY BUDGET CRISIS AS PRIMARILY ABOUT INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS. THIS IS A CRISIS CAUSED BY PROVINCIAL FUNDING CUTS AND TUITION CAPS. calgary.citynews.ca/2025/02/18/p...

it was impossible to know what was coming unless you paid even a little bit of attention

This is very funny, but I’ve always thought Canada isn’t as friendly and polite as we seem, more repressed. Which means when you push the wrong button, it’s like in A Christmas Story when Ralphie loses it and beats the absolute snot out of Scut Farkus. Somebody better hold onto our glasses.

So, yeah. Should be an interesting week. 338canada.com/polls-on.htm

We’ve had several supporters notice excessive salt application at OC Transpo stations. This is bad: salt is highly toxic to ecosystems. We’ve contacted OC Transpo to ask about their practices, but in the meantime, we’re trying to record how widespread the problem is. 1/2

We are living in such a state of denial that people are seriously debating whether or not Musk's Nazi salute should be seen as a Nazi salute. If that's where you are, you will be in the digestive tract of the monster long before you've managed to convince yourself that it is, in fact, a monster.

Facebook is a social cancer. Our governments should be targeting it with much stricter regulation to make it abide by our norms and values — or have it leave our markets entirely. The days of Mark Zuckerberg shaping discourse and controlling communication must end.

No matter what happens with the Canadian Federal election, one thing will be true — a significant % of Canadian voters & media will have been successfully manipulated to oppose a beneficial carbon pricing approach that was either revenue-neutral or financially beneficial to almost all Canadians…1/2

It would be nice if we could start taking the serious things a little more seriously here. The carbon tax isn't what's driving up the cost of food, or insurance, or any number of things that people care about. It's climate change. And burying our heads in the sand won't make that go away.