I spent NYE at a casino. So fun. So weird. Like a giant wedding, sans groom and bride.

LA Confidential is an excellent Christmas movie!

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

Seeing a lot of commentary on the amount of photos taken at Epstein's Island and the conclusion that these were idiots who didn't understand how incriminating it would be. But it wasn't stupidity. It was arrogance and the knowledge that power protects power.

It's so important we all learn about these groups and what their ideology is. They talk about "moving the Overton window" and having influence over Conservative parties.

Absolutely Not This Guy 2028!

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscopic slide. 🫧🐻🧪

youtube.com/shorts/FSZXV... service dogs…..

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

Good morning. From my #landscape #art, #illustrationart, and #photography portfolio: "Winter Morning by the Sea"

Sorry for using comics and art to vent and cope with the world changing around me. I will return to drawing whimsical and silly frog wizards and adventures.

The World Health Organization reports that 73 million abortions occur worldwide each year. 6 out of 10 unintended pregnancies, and 3 out of 10 of all pregnancies end in abortion. The new WHO fact sheet is here: www.who.int/news-room/fa...

Oh man, I just thought of another thing they could do. Provincial employees who don't have to be in the office to get their work done, can work from home.

A single warning can change everything. Before the atomic bomb, the Halifax Explosion was the largest human-made blast in history. This Heritage Minute tells the story of Vince Coleman, a railway dispatcher whose final telegraph message in 1917 saved hundreds of lives.

Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking

“What have I done!” 🤡

Hi. I transcribe child forensic interviews You know who doesn’t want kids to know the correct names for body parts? The predators that put those kids in a position to need child forensic interviews. Those kids NEVER know the right words for their body parts and it is always a hinderance.

I mean this with all sincerity, and I think I speak for a lot of others: we would rather see undisciplined, amateur art by hand than shitty AI "art" any day. You want to make fun of Pete Hegseth in a cartoon, but you can't draw? I would rather your stick figures than AI. Just draw.

It's hard to overstate the impact Taylor had as an AIDS fundraiser. $100 million is an estimate that doesn't include nine-figure bequests to AIDS charities.

The movie about this will be called No Good Men.

Danielle Smith hearing that the "Alberta Forever Canada" petition has been successfully verified by Elections Alberta

Conservatives are so totally chuffed about Pierre's new-found affability and eye for comedic stylings at this weekend's Press Dinner. It's like that scene from the movie, when Pinocchio finally becomes a real boy.

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

I made a little cow! #crafts #needlefelting

“Hey Ontario folks: remember that the money you give to the LCBO goes back into our provincial taxes. Money you give to the grocery store goes to Galen Weston.”

This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec. You can find my full statement below.

I remember back when I was an M.A. student I read a book about the history of medicine. I thought it was horrible, and remember telling myself "holy shit what a terrible field, i never want to do that" So now I'm a historian of medicine, which seems fair

"Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience." .. (Howard Zinn)

Apropos of nothing, it's kind of funny how stuff like this just gets completely erased from political memory. calgaryherald.com/business/ene...

Fair

Mark Kelly was a really bad choice to target. Comey and Tish James were bad choices. The astronaut whose wife was shot by a right wing lunatic is very much even worse.

🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert

This might be the single funniest thing that has happened during this incredibly cursed year

Fuck you, Chuck.

Smith 2.0, Authoritarian Libertarianism, and Breaking Bad in Alberta Henry Ford: "You can have your car in any colour you want as long as it's black." Danielle Smith: "You can have as much freedom as you want as long as I approve." #ableg #abpoli markhamhislop.substack.com/p/smith-20-a...

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

The dumbest country in the fucking world.

Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.

News: I was accepted into Harvard’s Global Public Health Leadership Program. (A remote program, while still working here in Canada). In the context of decreased vaccination rates globally, misinformation, and the loss of science literacy, family docs are needed to lead in public health. Let’s go!

Transgender Awareness Week with Jessica Kellgren-Fozard [TikTok @jessicaoutofthecloset ]

It’s incredibly sad, but I’m well into “sending people to Health Canada’s site for advice” mode. Public health has saved more lives worldwide than probably any other intervention. Humble stuff like toilets and clean water and hand washing.

ABSOLUTE QUEEN!

I AM NOW A MASSIVE FAN OF THIS BABY JOHN PRINE!

Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.

If Donald Trump can dismiss the murder and dismemberment of an American journalist by saying "things happen. that guy was very controversial and a lot of people didn't like him." Then I should be able to say the same thing about that piece of shit Charlie Kirk.

For the love of all that is holy stop using AI to produce slop making fun of Trump. It’s lame as shit and only normalized a technology that’s economically, environmentally, and intellectually destructive. It’s using fascist tools and thinking you’re fighting fascism. Stop.

Texas' abortion ban has killed yet another woman. Here's exactly what the anti-abortion response will be: They’ll claim doctors were legally allowed to “intervene” or “treat” Tierra Walker with "care." They won't say she could have had an abortion because they don’t believe in life-saving abortions

The narrative that we are being sold that our children's safety is somehow threatened by trans people participating in all aspects of public life as their authentic selves is the exact same bullshit that was peddled about queer folks 30 years ago. It was a lie then and it's a lie now.