This is how I access Bluesky.

The arse is quickly coming out of this Mex/US game. Yeesh.

Gee, I wonder what the ward-by-ward breakdown will be on that question. Sure to be some surpr…*dies*

Good lord. What’s with grocery prices this week? Is there a war on or something?

"Simonpillai also told THR: 'I feel for Johanna in this. She’s a terrific leader despite this error in judgement, which she clearly didn’t make on her own.'" Uh...OK. So are the people who assisted with this error in judgment still part of the organization? What is this statement supposed to mean?

The FIFA Oil Futures Prize.

NDP Leadership Race: Voting has opened, which means it's time I finally decide who I'm picking and how they'll be ranked on my ballot. Let's quickly go through the candidates, and then I'll explain why I'm NOT voting based on who I think should lead.

For the sake of my mental health I have turned off the Canada/Panama game. I should have done it an inning sooner.

It's interesting to see "Gulf War III." If we are counting that way, it's awkward for Gen-Xers like myself because the Iran-Iraq War and concurrent Persian Gulf / Hormuz naval engagements was also known as the Gulf War, before the other Gulf War. So... Gulf War IV?

I’ll be honest, this is a silly size for a beer, but I bought it because it made me think of Andre the Giant.

A few small beers.

“We take you live to the Pentagon’s Strategic Planning Office…

One day spring. Kensington.

“What is all this shit? Oh, I’m on the “Discover” tab.”

I love Daylight Savings Time.

From the country that did Abu Ghraib…

Thanks, Puerto Rico. That’s very considerate of you.

This Puerto Rico/Panama game is great, but I don’t have endless extras in me tonight.

Panama will come out of this game with a legit beef with Laz Diaz. What a shocking display of inconsistency.

Most times, the Sunshine List is stupid. But every once in a while it's useful to answer a question like, "How much to we pay this guy to piss on our legs and tell us it's raining?"

Regime collapse, if achieved on the US current trajectory, stands a good chance of answering the question, "What if there was a version of the Houthis on both sides of Arabian peninsula?"

1010 & TVO framed Tory misconduct as an affair. FTR he had a secret romance with a junior staffer who reported to him. He helped get her a job at Rogers-owned MLSE in a role dealing with him & his office on issues involving public funds. He then voted at city council on an issue she handled at MLSE

In the past 25 years, the Ontario taxpayer has committed $6,796,927 to Steve Paikin.

I went back this morning and reviewed the columns written after he quit. Globe & Mail, Star, TVO, CTV News...they all lamented his departure and the "stain" on his apparently great legacy. Maintaining that position with a few years' hindsight is immensely discreditable.

Check out "The Escalation Trap", in which University of Chicago Prof. Robert Pape debunks the idea of "regime change from the air" and discusses how the use of precision munitions, supposedly the ultimate tools of limited war, inevitably lead to wider conflict. escalationtrap.substack.com

Speaking of John Tory and Navigator; if you believe the stories (which are everywhere, but let's call them "unconfirmed"), when his affair was exposed, he hired Navigator to build a crisis strategy for communicating with his wife.

So it turns out that Heather Watt, the Ford crony supervisor appointed to run the Peel District School Board is the daughter of Jaime Watt, founder of Navigator. Who better to help Education Minister Calandra navigate the useful crisis of his own creation? #topoli #Onpoli #onted

Between this and Paikin's column it's quite clear Tory is trying to get his columnist pals to clear a path for him to re-enter the race, and it's frankly disgusting. He stepped down because HE HIMSELF said the affair was an unforgivable breach of the public trust! That's still the case!

“I did it, Joe.”

I’ve had this nagging thought that Trump might use a tactical nuke on Iran to force a quick, unconditional surrender, but I haven’t said it out loud because, frankly, it’s fucking insane. But then Mark Ames said it on a podcast today and now Trump is talking about total surrender. So…fuck.

Here’s what you need to know. It’s the current time + 1.

Okay I've figured this out. Someone pitched Doug Ford that he can use the landfill from tunneling under the 401 to build the artificial offshore island for his "world class" convention centre. #ONpoli #TOpoli

No so far! Especially when no one (Canada, UK, France, Germany, Australia) will hold them to account.

We ended up with John Tory last time we were afraid of another Mayor Ford and it was, predictably, the same austerity, only polite. For the love of Toronto, can we PLEASE have some REAL, imaginative challengers and a REAL election about issues and making this a decent place for people to live? 😭😭😭

War crime. Drag Hegseth kicking and screaming into The Hague.

The only good shit John Tory did in his entire time as Mayor he did during COVID. His mayoralty wasn’t derailed by COVID, it was saved.

John Tory was a terrible Mayor who, despite doing generational damage to the city, would have easily won another term even after he’d been caught dallying with his staff. He wasn’t “me too’d” out of a job, HE QUIT. He’s a victim of NOTHING. Toronto is the victim.

You can be Mark or Wayne. Be a man and pick one.

I’d love to see the smirk wiped off his face, but a US carrier has a crew of over 4,000 and they don’t deserve to die in service of a lesson he’s probably incapable of learning.

I can’t help but heap contempt onto the Ontario Liberals and NDP. They keep losing to *gestures wildly* this fucking imbecile. He’s God’s perfect idiot, and he hands them their asses every time.

Stop with this pathetic cope. To have a Nuremberg 2.0, you first need to completely vanquish MAGA. Not just a midterm win for Dems followed by the White House, total and utter, unmistakable defeat. Is everyone on board for Civil War 2.0?

This is why journalists should not be friends with the people they cover. It‘s embarrassing for all concerned. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

Well, shit. Glad I didn’t pull the trigger on that subscription yet.

Fool me 6 times…shame on…me, I guess?

While Meghan McCain is of course being a spoiled child as usual, she isn't wrong that pot smokers in a legalized environment are being the same entitled dicks that cigarette smokers were forty years ago. That's not an argument for recriminalization. It's just people sucking.

Queen streetcar doing a promo tour for the prospective Mikey Ford campaign by driving at 1km/year and holding up the entire world, presumably so it can “stay on schedule”.

For me, there’s no question that we are, individually and societally, still in the pandemic. Our desperate need to return to “normal” made it impossible to reconcile the stress, strife and conflict that was piled on us in such a short time. Left untreated, the trauma has metastasised.

Someone tell Mark “Tightrope” Carney.

Who's her tailor, Greg Bovino?