This is about Noam Chomsky but also every cursed tankie who reared their heads to lie and diminish the sufferings of entire peoples from Bosnia to Xinjiang.

The minute details are obviously significantly different but a core similarity between UKR and Palestine is that neither can actually reach a political solution because in each case their corresponding belligerent has an outwardly eliminiationist goal and has shown that it won't deviate from it.

I like it when people share my pet peeves. All the multi-million-costing new builds on Lakeshore are some variant of gray or black. I like this colour in my clothes but there is no need to cover a whole house in it.

Russia’s full-scale invasion began 4 years ago. It began in winter, and so this winter is the 5th. And, for civilians, the worst. Russia launches missiles and drones at energy infrastructure to force Ukrainians to endure the freezing cold. Here's how you can help snyder.substack.com/p/the-long-u...

I think the least we can do is demand that each Trump-supporting Conservative spells out what exactly they support: the Epstein connections? deportations of legal immigrants? babies in detention camps? bombing Venezuela? They should be made to reveal exactly what kind of freak they are.

Humans mastered the art of creating fire 400,000 years ago, almost 350,000 years earlier than previously known, according to a groundbreaking discovery in a field in Suffolk in the UK. buff.ly/1miYEUJ #ShareGoodNewsToo

Russia killed more civilians in 2025 than any year since the full-scale invasion — all under Trump's "peace process." Deaths up 31% from 2024. 147 drones per night. Both rounds of Abu Dhabi talks accompanied by massive strikes on civilian infrastructure.

"the Trump administration filed a motion last spring to overturn a decades-old legal settlement requiring basic rights for immigrant children in federal custody"

This happened near an elementary school where there used to be a speed camera. I blame the Ford government for this in addition to the driver.

Notably, in the cases listed here, the TO police officers and the RCMP officers mostly got off free.

In case you're wondering why major news channels keep booking the same (sometimes idiotic) men again and again on their 24-hour newscasts, here's some insider intel:

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

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There's an implication here that people who work from home are not really working. Also, the Ontario legislature is still on winter break until March 23. They only sat for 51 days in 2025. share.google/KlDqDismdJW8...

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Russian captivity was hell for Oleksii - painfully dark and cold. For him, Ukraine's power cuts aren't just uncomfortable, they are worsening his PTSD and triggering flashbacks from the worst days of his life.

This phrase is going to live rent-free in my head forever

Must read. Both RussiaGate and the Epstein Files involve "a sphere of elite impunity where American consultants, Russian oligarchs, Saudi princes, European politicians, Israeli intelligence figures and British ex-spies all swim in the same waters." @seva.bsky.social 1/

Why was Jeffrey Epstein allowed into Canada in 2014? Sex offender travelled to Vancouver despite inadmissibility, federal officials offer no explanation www.cbc.ca/news/world/e... #EpsteinFiles

This is so bizarre. Really wondering about the motive.

Trump says “Negotiations between russia and 🇺🇦Ukraine are going very successfully.” 🇺🇦Kyiv, right now. A residential building burning after a russian attack. This is the reality of Trump’s “success.”

Timeline cleanse. A baby giraffe was born Monday at Hogle Zoo (Salt Lake City, Utah). Photo by Kennedy Camarena of KSL News.

Haven't seen this circulating as much here as I've seen over on Twitter and Threads, but just an FYI that the "girls FTW" email is FAKE. It's not in the files. There's no time or date stamp. Someone just made it as a (really dumb and harmful) joke. leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

I am really angry about all of the scientists who cozied up to Epstein even after it was known who he was. I am nearly as angry at how many people are justifying this as "they had to, it's how academia works" NO IT FUCKING WELL ISN'T

Reading this today: “Statesmen of America! beware what you do…Nations, not less than individuals, reap as they sow. The dreadful calamities of the past few years came not by accident, nor unbidden, from the ground.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

🔴 Update: DTEK, Ukraine's biggest private energy provider, has revealed that at least 15 of its workers were killed in the attack, a large-scale operation targeting DTEK mines in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The service bus was transporting miners back home after their shift.

🧵 If Canada ever faced a serious separatist crisis with foreign interference, the real warning signs wouldn’t start with troops or tanks. They’d start with narratives. Here’s what to be on alert for... #cdnpoli

both highlight the post cold war emergence of a transnational kleptocratic class that links western oligarchs to foreign state interests, whether russian or saudi or israeli or otherwise

This is what Vladimir Putin means when he tells Trump he is agreeing to aa 5-day ceasefire.

Ukraine’s skeleton Olympian, Vladyslav Heraskevych, says the IOC warned him against protesting Russia’s aggression. 🧵 1/4 ⬇️

Cursed exchange between someone working for Epstein and Steven Pinker. Note that it happened in 2012, after Epstein's 2008 sentencing. Pinker said he'd be "delighted to meet with him." www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

It's easy to see these men as individual bad apples. But I'd argue--they were enabled by "elite" universities' look-the-other-way approach to dealing with big-name bad actors, and by the fact that, societially, we treat people associated with "elite" schools as automatically deserving of deference.

I'm really not able to process the depth of what PBPD had on him in 2005-2006, and how it all just went away. I've been a licensed attorney for 29 years. I tried more cases than I can count-- huge cases, bet the company cases. I've never read anything so airtight as this, and it's fucking shameful

Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.

Greetings from Kyiv. Saturday morning. No power. No water. No heating. I’m reading that similar problems are reported across the city. Total blackout in Kyiv.

Fucking QUEEN, fuck this noise

I just heard. RIP ♥️

For months, DOJ has been sandbagging the Epstein release claiming they were redacting sensitive information and using it as an excuse to delay other document productions, but they just released the files with apparently "thousands" of instances of victim's names and identifying details unredacted.

DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

Lol, basically the quack raw milk producer hates the Trump immigration crackdown and the newly aggressive US imperialism. People really do contain multitudes.

Ugh, this is heartbreaking.

Durham police reassign officers, ask for independent probe into lawyer’s claim they violently assaulted her inside Oshawa courthouse

A number of our students got the following comment back on a rejection for the NSF GFRP. They are in an eligible STEM field. Is this something people in other places are getting too? Is it a quirk or targeted?

Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives will not allow reporters to attend their annual gathering in Toronto this weekend, a move critics say projects an appearance of "weakness" and breaks from political norms. #Ontario Is anyone surprised by this? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A senior U.S. envoy involved in Donald Trump’s efforts to broker an end to Russia’s war against Ukraine has displayed what journalists described as a startling lack of basic knowledge about Ukraine’s political system and the war itself

They're still making Model 3s and Model Ys (in different factories, I guess). That being said, this is still a hilarious decision.

Canada needs to respond. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Clear car lanes, unusable bike lanes, two days after the blizzard (Tuesday aft). It’s a ton of snow & will take time sure, but you have mayoral candidate Brad “I sleep with a bat” Bradford trying to say it’s the other way around to gin up rage & culture war stuff.

It’s that time of year when we see that the parking authority is a bad citizen. Their lot is clear but the adjacent sidewalk has a miserly path too narrow for stroller, cart, walker or wheelchair, not even cleared down to concrete