people will be like “don’t speak ill of the dead” when you’re just quoting the dead verbatim

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

'tis the season for espresso tonics.

“Smith’s UCP did not campaign on the Free Alberta Strategy’s tenets... Smith’s UCP doesn’t, therefore, have a democratic mandate to pursue these ideas, by any standard. Yet they have implemented the components of the strategy at a ferocious pace.” #abpoli thewalrus.ca/the-blueprin...

I loathe the cult of the car.

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

also just really shitty that they couldn’t draw the line at antisemitism but it could easily be drawn for sexual violence. like both are very bad but the nazi tattoo should’ve been enough to cut any support. had that been enough, a survivor wouldn’t have had to come forward in front of the nation

"You are not stuck in traffic. You are traffic. Break free, Ride a bike!" 2011 🎨Antoine

Great moments in U.S. History.

On the 250th Anniversary of the accepted official beginning of the US, let's doff our hats to our best Founder, Thomas Paine. 1/

the Bombadil posting will continue until morale improves

Dave Ramsey has spent the last 30 years describing the failure of American consumer life and never once diagnosing the cause You Can’t personal responsibility out of exploitive systems

Pardon for sincere-posting for a sec. I live in a city where I don't speak the dominant language. I don't have the resources or life-circumstances to move. I have a problem with alcohol.

Both things are true: 1) White Dems hold Black politicians to a much higher standard than White politicians. 2) Hakeem Jeffries was slow to see this moment, is in opposition to the Democratic Socialist movement, and will not lead the type of change at the pace that DemSoc voters are looking for.

Maybe the person writing a whole article about it?

As extreme heat kills people across three continents, Canada has announced a new oil pipeline. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Sometimes you see one of these and know exactly which post they were replying to.

Still defending everything Carney does? You're on the wrong side. In fact, you're complicit. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

If you live in #montreal #mtl #yul, there's a couple entrepreneurs selling rubber ring bracelets just west of the de Rouen graffiti bridge. Go show them support!

the yard sign understander has logged on. the nicene creed understander has logged on. the combination yard sign/nicene creed understander has logged on.

There's a kid running up and down the alley trying to fly a kite on what might be the least windy day of the year.

If you mobilize harder against progressives than you did against fascism I have bad news about which side you’re on, regardless of what party you claim to be in

The Cheaps Elysee.

You may not like it, but this is what peak public transport looks like. This is the ideal interurban person-mover.

Joyeuse fête de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, @effinbirds.com

Like many people who have worked in politics for decades, I am baffled and upset to see candidates who say they are going to try to make things better defeating candidates who say they are trying to make it more or less like it was in the years before things tipped over into Oaf-Style Fascism.

This is new, usually it's amber alerts... I don't like where this is going..

this is so insane

The problem is not “work from home” as a concept — it’s managers and executives who don’t know how to build a strong team culture & enable people to build meaningful relationships (both laterally and vertically) in a remote/flexible environment.

Don’t worry, AI industry. Mark Carney is not literate to read this evidence. Full steam ahead on the AI train!

Listening to episodes of Just King Things, and every time @ckunzelman.bsky.social or @ztul.bsky.social talk about or name Misery, this is how I hear it. Specifically the very last word. youtu.be/lJDkve8Zni8?...

In Canada, scientists and others fought back against Harper gutting science and climate protections. Carney is far worse than Harper, but many folks still defend everything he does. Partisan politics melts partisan brains. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

what did dietrich bonhoeffer do that was bad, brandon

Hello 🪈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5nh...

Counting to a million, if you count one number per second nonstop, would take you just under 12 days. Counting to a billion would take you about 31 years. Counting to a trillion would take you 31,709 years. You would have had to have started counting DURING THE UPPER PALAEOLITHIC ERA.

“Fun” fact about Reese Witherspoon’s book club - in order to be a featured author, you have to sign away all the rights to adapting your book to Reese’s production company.

WE DON’T NEED A FUCKING TREATMENT WE HAVE A VACCINE THAT IS 97% EFFECTIVE AND COULD ERADICATE THE DISEASE IF WE DIDN’T HAVE ANTIVAX GRIFTERS LEADING US 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

We're so jazzed about it...

Don't look away from this. Fascists setting neighborhoods on fire. Dragging people out of their houses. We need to recognize that this isn't just something happening elsewhere, this is what the future looks like if we don't change it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wteI...

They’re doing a reading of the unproduced Slings and Arrows prequel pilot at the Stratford Festival on July 26. All my passions combined!

I could carve a better man out of a banana

AI no one wants. More fossil fuel use. Pipelines. Rolling back environmental protections. Cutting the public service. Gutting federal science agencies. Appeasing Trump at every turn. Sweeping police powers. Militarization. Deals with human rights abusers. This is Carney.

The transnational dimension of these local fascist mobilizations are important to keep track of, but without succumbing to conspiracy theories. bsky.app/profile/samf...

“Now that spirit of rejection seems to be coalescing into its own design aesthetic – a move towards the conspicuously handmade, the janky, even the primitive. Call it ‘anti-slop’”.

The Moroun family that bribed Trump to block the opening of the Gordie Howe bridge have been given provincial approval to open a highly polluting concrete facility in Windsor. Capt Canada sure loves his American business pals

Mark Carney really is a Harperite.