Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Ed tech people, uni administrators keep pushing gAI on us, and dismissing criticisms. I want them to answer this question: how do you reconcile whatever benefits you proclaim from using LLMs like this if we end up endangering our students like this? Because Adam Raine is not the only case.

Finally had a chance to read this Incredible piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social that documents Miller’s attempt to undo and reverse the 1965 immigration settlement and reveals how central this effort is to the administration’s reactionary aim to take down the New Deal and civil rights orders.

ICE agents spent Christmas Eve arresting a man in a Walmart parking lot—even taking his groceries for themselves. A bystander asked ICE if she could take down the phone number of his wife to let her know her husband had been detained. The ICE agents refused. trib.al/kF8CDpe

DHS is engaged in textbook scapegoating that mirrors Nazi Germany. There is no ambiguity here.

Anyway the single best check on your espoused prescriptions for social change is whether you yourself are doing what you say others need to do. It's extremely clarifying and usually very humbling.

A year ago, U of T’s Laura Tozer was adding climate policies to her lecture slides. This year, she’s deleting them, and asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to explain the rollbacks directly to her students. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/24/n...

WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people. Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

So Carney took an axe to one of the last remaining pieces of climate policy There is NO reason to cancel a ban on single use plastics - this shows how beholden to fossil fuel interests he is Carney is destroying climate progress faster than any Conservative government

Our very clean electricity generation is RE-carbonizing, while the rest of the world is de-carbonizing.

Since private prisons is coming up , do they give you the ick? Fun fact you might be invested in them www.forbes.com/sites/jbrewe...

BTW you can let a Paramount+ agent that you'll cancel your sub unless they air an unedited CECOT segement on 60 Minutes here help.paramountplus.com/s/contact-us

This is the kind of thing that sounds like a bit, but is actually 100% real. The horrors (gestures broadly) aren’t enough. Entertainment must also be sadistic as well. What wealth must do the brain…

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Casten is the single most informed federal elected official on the energy system. If he said this about something I penned on energy I would die of shame. Unfortunately, the neighborhood troll has none.

A warning to any automakers slowing down in the EV race: Chinese giant BYD is making the impossible possible. insideevs.com/features/782...

CBC has put together an impressive collection of clips exposing Diagolon and Second Sons in their own words. These are white nationalists and neo-Nazis who want an ethnic cleansing and believe "violence is the answer." Largest group of its kind in Canadian history. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Sounds like there will NOT be a final ruling in the Energy Transfer vs. Greenpeace case today. Sitting in on the hearing now. Read my update on where things are at here, for @drilledmedia.bsky.social and @exposedbycmd.bsky.social www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/12/17/g...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday. n.pr/44xQKdD

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This framing is dishonest. It was a bipartisan bill. Enough Republicans actually defected and voted no to kill the bill. Three Democrats crossed over to save it. They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.

There are so many reasons this is a hugely important story by @fatimabsyed.bsky.social, but right up there is that it's ultimately a debate over whether natural gas should still be considered a public good when so many alternative energy sources are now available. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enbr...

The most persistent myth of our time is that wealth is directly tied to hard work. The second most persistent myth of our time is that progressive taxation, i.e. taxing the rich, stifles the economy when the reality is that too much inequality reduces growth.

DYK Ontario municipalities have to give Enbridge Gas, a for-profit fossil fuel company company, free access to build pipelines under public land? In 2026, there will be a local fight to change this. Guelph & Waterloo Region are resisting. Toronto & Ottawa have concerns thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enbr...

Shut it down. #bospoli #ShutDownSouthBay

New billion-dollar transit lines shouldn't get stuck for *this long* waiting at red lights. That's why we're happy to see a motion coming to City Council this week to implement stronger transit signal priority and other measures to speed up LRTs - but it won't happen without your voice! 1/2

Ford closed the science centre for no reason, is shrinking it dramatically, and gov’t doesn’t want you to know the truth about this. My column: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toron...

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

This is incredible (good news too): “After a 40% fall in 2024 in battery equipment costs, it’s clear we’re on track for another major fall in 2025…The economics for batteries are unrecognizable, & the industry is only just getting to grips with this new paradigm” www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...

I wrote about how the federal government is justifying 15% cuts to the public service with AI-enabled efficiencies, and that we're still paying the last time they tried this with untested tech. It appears to be going exactly as expected. (My piece: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/24/a...)

Anyway I've been ranty on here lately (I promise I'm actually quite nice IRL), so here's a feel good recco: @dropout.tv is the best $6/month I spend. They're an indie streamer that makes really fun shows, pays performers well and even did profit share this year. Mainly their stuff is super funny.

Ending the year on a good note at @breachmedia.ca: 15 political movement victories in 2025 you may not have heard about but should definitely celebrate, by @scottneigh.bsky.social breachmedia.ca/15-movement-...

Ford's dentist appears again....(also got skills training $$)

“I hope you prove me wrong.” Those words are underlined in one of Carol Linnitt’s notebooks from 2018, quoting an influential pessimist in her life who said launching The Narwhal was a bad idea. She and co-founder Emma Gilchrist faced their share of naysayers — but much has changed since then.

Terribly stupid idea that will satisfy faux-populist urges to dunk on public servants while simultaneously making the lives of public servants and the service itself so much worse. Goofy stuff.

I've been saying this for a year now: the Democrats have missed a gigantic political opportunity--and, at this point, have failed in an ethical obligation--to create a shadow-government health department that dispenses medically accurate information, guidance, and advice.

It's all a grift....all a fucking grift.

DC Statehood on demand and without apology. Every dem trifecta that has failed to secure this has led us to this point.

Members of the public will be able to depute on my motion from the Housing Rights Advisory Committee (HRAC), which asks City Council to uphold its human rights obligations to encampment residents in consultation with HRAC's expertise. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

Carney's dismantling of climate progress came as a surprise to many @woodsideful.bsky.social explains Carney's interest in climate was always re risk/opportunity to big banks As PM "Carney is using the Trump effect as political cover to pursue the deregulatory agenda he’s long wanted"

The Pathways Alliance project would inevitably be a massive boondoggle if it ever gets built. It’s only purpose is to greenwash the oil industry and deceive Canadians into thinking we can be a clean petrostate.

Shawn is of course right. And I hate this dumbass stunt so much. Nobody is ever bringing home 40 sheets of plywood in their personal vehicle. This is a fantasy for people who have never dealt with construction. 90% of things you’d buy for a house renovation fit comfortably in that car.

On a new 🌍GREEN MAJORITY🌍 monthly best-of episode ➡️@policyalternatives.ca 's @hadrianmk.bsky.social on the federal budget's lack of a climate plan ➡️ the team unpack Ksi Lisims, the Major Projects Office and China's emissions ➡️ + more www.greenmajority.ca/the-podcast/... 🔶

He doesn't “say” clean electricity would save lives. It would. 15,300 Canadians die each year of preventable causes linked to air pollution, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels. 42 people. Every damn day. #cdnpoli #climate #Energysky

Canada’s top political leaders are climate deniers. There’s no such thing as “decarbonized” oil and no environmentally conscious way to increase fossil fuel production. Mark Carney and his government are sacrificing the climate and baking in worse natural disasters in the hope of short-term profit.

The arrogance is astounding.

The Canada-Alberta deal pushes a pipeline AND - Allows Alberta to delay cutting methane emissions - Suspends clean energy regulations in Alberta - Loosens restrictions on tax breaks for clean tech to encourage more oil drilling - Allows oil tankers on the west coast thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber...

Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.

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.