We got “liberated”, alright — from jobs that make stuff. 🤡 @justinwolfers.bsky.social #NFP

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

A must-read from @thelocal.to. Share widely. I could quote much from this piece, but let's go with this: "Is that story written by AI? It’s impossible to know and, frankly, impossible to say if it even matters." Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era - thelocal.to/investigatin...

TEN MONTHS IN: The national debt is higher. The trade deficit is wider. The inflation rate has worsened. The unemployment rate is up.

The Republican Party is a Nazi-allied party.

And you are welcome! 🇨🇦

Marisa nicely finds the thread that ties together multiple ugly episodes into a bouquet of disgust and despair.

"The new number the prince floated today, $1 trillion, is roughly the size of Saudi Arabia’s entire annual economic output."

The bubble is Venn but for disasters

The government on the brink of collapse as half of parliament yells out an annoyed "C'mon Gord" reads like a broad parody of Canada

This piece is interesting and very much worth reading. That said, it still makes assumptions that I think illustrate a key paradox with AI and art. At the core, writing and art is about personality. And you end up having to define "personality" itself. Can you really give a machine "personality"?

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

Also, this.

Like clockwork. ⏰ @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/11/17/c...

⬇️ This ⬇️ If DJT actually had nothing to do with Epstein’s depraved, evil predatory behavior, he could/would have forcefully and repeatedly denounced it. Don’t listen to what he says, but what he *doesn’t* say.

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

Humans’ capacity for self-delusion is really something, isn’t it?

The most helpful phrase of 2025 👇

Trump’s tariffs are raising prices for American consumers.

Great technology, no downsides

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

I'm old enough to remember when the proponents for TMX being built, saying it would create long term good paying jobs. How is that going? Since May 2024 there have been THOUSANDS of jobs lost in Alberta oil/gas. However, RECORD profits for oil/gas. SO you want another pipeline huh?

California alone produces a third of all the food America eats. So this is a lie. But let’s break down the food produced by the red states: Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?

“Superior, they said, never gives up her dead, When the gales of November come early.”

Fifty years after sinking, the Edmund Fitzgerald freighter remains the most famous shipwreck in the Great Lakes. The mystery surrounding the Fitzgerald’s demise captured the public’s imagination, and the tragedy has been immortalized in song, books, and documentaries. 🧵⬇️

Publishing obituaries from the grave—when you really want to get the last word.

Possibly the greatest press conference in American political history

This accurately reflects my daily work more than I like to admit.

That is the problem. 🎯

Doug Ford wasting $9.1 million taxpayer💰 on a tunnel study. That money could be used to help people, like the homeless, food banks or use towards affordable housing. But no, another useless vanity project to line the pockets of his donors. #NeverVoteConservative #SV4A www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

Don’t skip this. It even comes with handy visual aids.

🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."

Game 7 was the most-watched MLB game since 1991. (Combining US, Canada, and Japan viewerships) Of note, US viewership was up compared to last year's Yankees v. Dodgers. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...

Nice little 🧵 on how actually kind of impossible it is for umps to "just call balls and strikes" based on the MLB rulebook and the new challenge system being introduced next year. Considering how monumentally consequential balls/strikes can be to baseball games, it's amazing they make this so hard.

🤬 Stealing money from students. Lining their pockets with public education funds. And they complain about teachers’ unions. Is there anything the Ford government does that doesn’t come with the stink of corruption? #onpoli #onted

It's easy to say and hard to do, but the real lesson of these Jays is the highest level of ambition and commitment to this team will be rewarded with the biggest market in baseball. The Jays - and Rogers - should aim to become Dodgers north. www.thestar.com/sports/blue-...

Not enough people are talking about the actual biggest political story in North America this week. A majority of voters in the Yukon voted (in a non-binding plebiscite) in favour of moving to a ranked-ballot voting system. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Happy Beaver Supermoon, for those who celebrate.

How are Democrats not immediately suing CBS News over this?

If US ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra keeps behaving as he has, the Canadian government will surely have to call him in for a formal rebuke. And if we don't, it will be a choice of discretion over valour, a sign that we have been cowed.

If I’m a Dodgers fan, the win last night ought to feel more like relief, not triumph. “Yay, they did the thing everyone expected thanks almost entirely due to the domination of a single pitcher.”

I was thinking the same thing. Did they win the World Series? No. But they didn’t lose. Dodgers won based on two (of four) extra-inning wins, both of which could have gone either way. If LA didn’t have Yamamoto, things would have been much different. Jays are still champions.

It’s not even choking. You’re up against the best team money can buy who rolled through last and this playoffs against whoever they faced and they pushed them to extra innings in game 7 with two hobbled starters & a bunch of guys who started in the minors. They deserve all the respect.

I appreciate they have a different lived experience, but… The Dodgers are a ridiculously stacked, wealthy team that doesn’t reflect much about LA’s challenges. No city “deserves” a sports trophy no matter how unjust or traumatic their politics. I cheer for the Jays team, not Toronto the city.

Dodgers win it in 11 innings of game 7 against a team they expected to humiliate and take in 4. #WellDoneBlueJays you'll always be my champions!!!

I was thinking the same thing. Did they win the World Series? No. But they didn’t lose. Dodgers won based on two (of four) extra-inning wins, both of which could have gone either way. If LA didn’t have Yamamoto, things would have been much different. Jays are still champions.

i'd like to think Mr. Candy approved this spot. it is halloween so who knooooows?

Could this be the last night for Rockin’ Rick? He’s been jamming out and hyping up Jays fans since 1989 and is hanging up his drum sticks this year. He was here in ‘92 and ‘93 — another World Series tonight? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...