I don’t like telling this story because it was honestly traumatic but when I after I got hit by a car the driver tried to give me a hug. She was like “I’m just glad you’re okay” (I wasn’t)

something that really gets me about the american and english left and liberal segment of politics is the fact that we have people basically too afraid of taking their own side in the fight

crypto is socialism now, I learn so much on this blue sky

This got into the weeds and this person eventually blocked me but lol.

The answer is Herbert Hoover. Trump is Hoover 2.

Kill the damn ostriches already Jesus Christ

Workers are calling it "quiet doing what my boss insisted against my advice."

I’ve been reading tech industry posts about the H-1B thing on LinkedIn and one thing that’s a through line is that a significant number of Americans believe in the superiority of American workers. They believe American workers are both better at and more deserving of tech jobs than the rest of us.

There are a whole bunch of takes from tech people right now who are saying the H1B program was "abused" and I really, really want them to sit me down and explain what exactly they mean without saying something racist.

chat i don't think we've discovered what philosophy is yet

Statement from MP Jenny Kwan, said that none of NDP’s MPs participated in the standing ovation. Kwan denounces political violence, but “anyone with a platform should always be mindful that political rhetoric that is incendiary, racist and dehumanizing is unacceptable.” thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

This is true and an extremely valid criticism. It’s actually pretty tough to know what’s going on with tbt NDP. I’ll get emails about the things they’re doing legislatively but they’re buried in a massive number of fundraising emails.

As someone who sometimes used Facebook events to promote protests back when people used those, the percentage of people who RSVP to a protest who will actually show up is quite low.

no choice is just not true. people who support proud boys get in all the time.

You probably can't come up with a more sterling example of the absurdity of the terrorist entity list. These guys are providing no material support, there's no evidence they're recruiting or financing Hamas. They are making a purely political statement. Criminalizing that is bad!

It is very bad that the Canadian government is censoring kneecap. Still haven’t escaped the legacy of the Orangemen’s influence here.

The protest email list discourse is one of the silliest arguments I’ve ever seen on this site what the hell

Boy, these municipal public hearings are real eye-opening

coates is genuinely a generational writer

I think something we have to establish and hold firm on is that you can’t be magnanimous with other people’s lives.

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

The NIMBY lady saying it would be bad if the school wasn’t completely full sent me. Like god forbid a school have space for one additional child.

Precisely the case in the US. Young men with economic anxiety on net actually voted Dem in 2024. Young men with bad views about women, feminism, and trans people voted for the right. www.ymrp.org/polling

Definitely looking forward to folks getting labelled "far-right extremists" cuz someone dug up their old anarcho-folk-punk album from 2007.

this is a fantastic investigative piece on a blog that is doing critical, urgently necessary work. an excellent read with which to start the day today. i absolutely love the way in which the author signs off at the end of the piece, too 😁

I think it's a sign of how cowed the American media is that we're getting pieces like "you have to understand, in Korean culture, it's considered very rude for someone to lock you in a brutal prison camp for a week for no reason." Like yeah, any free people would be offended by that?

ppl will be like 'we need to keep alive car companies that create lethal vehicles that also accelerate climate change b/c uwu union workers' and then yell at tech workers for not quitting their jobs

you'd also think this would be worth writing about in the American press? i'm going insane

This is obviously worse than anything Trump has done to Canada so far but the difference between how Koreans are talking about it vs American media is really reminding me of all the 51st state stuff.

Meanwhile in Korean media there is clarity that Trump directed this raid out of spite following his Oval Office meeting with the ROK President, who pushed back aggressively on Trump's praise for the North Korean dictator. They're right. US media have no clue of what's going on.

i really don't understand the idea that "if only we were more economically progressive we would win the racists over"

I think a lot about how Biden refused to get the WTO working again

I'm seeing some people post this and not realize this is PART of the radicalization. Building an audience from reasonable sounding videos and converting them into the pipeline. Weiss is doing this now as I get The Free Press ads about things like "low tech parenting" and workout fads.

It’s galling the way centrist Atlantic writer set will tut-tut about people living in a bubble and they all just absolutely refuse to engage substantively with anyone who disagrees with them.

I’ve got to confess I genuinely didn’t know Crowder and Kirk were two different people before I saw this.

The thing about this is the US can’t really credibly promise that it won’t happen again because Americans don’t keep promises and everyone knows it.

Massive anti hate crowd in the pits. Small Canada first group is on the run.

He also wasn’t civil in that narrow sense. Every clip I’ve ever seen of him “debating” someone is him getting red in the face angry, yelling over someone.

When I was 19 I lived with 2 housemates, one of whom never did dishes, the other one would wash all of them but not rinse the soap off.

The reason you didn't see the same reaction from media and elected officials after Melissa Hortman was murdered is because she didn't have a nazi podcast

IMO the funniest way to respond to Charlie Kirk’s death is to just ignore what the guy actually stood for and and claim something else, the way the right does with left wing martyrs.

Here’s what I’ve learned about Vancouver Park Board’s approval of a Harry Potter attraction in Stanley Park: - board approved it months ago in a private meeting; I believe it was unanimous - multiple commissioners expressing regret - there was a document pushing financial opportunities like this

In February last year, BC’s Ministry of Forests wrote a letter telling CN rail it believed the company played a role in the fire that destroyed Lytton. It intended to seek costs. Six weeks later, it reversed course and closed its file. My latest for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

"Approximately 20% of drivers were engaged in distracting or impatient driving, with one in ten drivers being engaged in unlawful behaviours involving the use of handheld devices while driving. Drivers of larger vehicles also exhibited more dangerous driving." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

They had some of these pieces at the AGO when I was in Toronto last year. Sounds like from this article this exhibit is now in NY? Go if you get the chance.

Just to be clear on what happened with the EV mandate: the industry failed to prepare for it and used that failure to push it back. They refused to sell cheap, practical EVs that people actually want. apple.news/A0K6_vigiTNy...

Personally I don’t think automakers are burdened enough.

Who wrote this subhed? There's a specific human being who made the choice to insert this lie into the newspaper but readers have no idea who it is or what their motivation might've been. Instead, no choice but for it to tarnish the entire publication.

It finally happened.

I’m still waiting to see who else is running but as of right now Heather MacPherson is the only one running for NDP leadership who’s actually won an election of any kind before. apple.news/AAHX5jqetTra...