“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

My kinda LLM.

This is appalling.

The next time Jimmy Carr harps on about free speech he should never be allowed to forget that, in order to co-headline (?) with Louis CK in the big comedy wash, he had to sign a contract promising to be mega-woke for Saudi Arabia. deadline.com/2025/09/atsu...

The silver lining about the Riyadh comedy festival is that there’s really just one comic that it’s disappointing to see doing it. Coulda been worse!

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network. This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.

"Americans cannot trust the federal government’s health advice" www.statnews.com/2025/09/23/t...

A statement from Tylenol

Cosmerics company provided cream used on prisoners in Nazi concentratuon camp, study shows www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Circa 1984, I was introduced to Leni Riefenstahl through a banned German documentary, Time of Darkness and Silence (1982) by Nina Gladitz. The bootleg that I found to rewatch was dark and noisy, so I cleaned it up a bit. It makes a great companion to Andres Veiel’s doc. youtu.be/VHtI9J5fGnc?...

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Man, a lot of crazy shit has happened since Epstein’s birthday letter was released a week ago Monday.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

In his first court appearance in months this Monday, Luigi Mangione had terrorism charges against him dismissed by a judge. As the Luigi fandom celebrates, here's an unpaywalled analysis of his fans by @nicolefroio.bsky.social: the-flytrap.ghost.io/deny-defend-...

This story feels like it’s going to have huge repercussions

It is an actual fact. UHC reversed decisions in the wake of the assassination, as did other insurance companies. That it saved lives is an actual fact. You may not like that fact. You may feel that fact has no bearing on an assassination, but it is a fact. No claim it caused long term change.

If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me

this is a weird way to talk about jackboots using lrads on innocent people in an entirely different country

When oil and gas companies are unable, or unwilling, to pay rent they owe to landowners where they have wells, the Alberta government pays it for them. The tab is now nearly $150 million since 2010, Sharon J. Riley reports: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-and-gas-unpaid-rent-2024

better yet, consider unsubscribing from HBO/Max the week before her show comes out (& if you rejoin, wait until the HP season is over). it's not enough to *not* watch it – HBO needs to know it will hurt their bottom line if they continue producing it

“But becoming sane also causes a kind of narrative collapse, a confrontation with a personal history that is no longer recognizable.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

“They will hunt you, they are like a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot

A lot of my feed is acting like this is the first US President to rain down bombs on a foreign nation.

It makes me want to hire a historian to give tours of Manzanar where they tell the truth. Or hang up some pics from Dorothea Lange, who was sent there in the 30s to make propaganda but understood the assignment so well they locked away her pics until 2006.

It doesn’t *look* like a parade because some poor tv director had to make the Sophie’s Choice of showing the sparseness of the crowd vs. shots at a bad angle that are mainly pavement.

42 Years ago, Sylvester Stallone accepted $250,000 to promote B&W cigarette products in 5 of his films.

Rick Moranis is coming out of retirement to do this.

don’t forget: waymos and other robotaxis are surveillance devices on wheels that police are increasingly tapping for footage

“Between March 2024 and March 2025, the total number of international students in the United States declined 11.33%.” www.aau.edu/newsroom/lea...

the terrifying rise of secret cameras www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

sure sounds like death panels to me

Reading for pleasure has been linked to better sleep, improved mental health and even a longer life - but we're doing it less and less every year.

So, local cops conducted a warrantless search of Luigi's backpack, realized they screwed up, admitted it on camera, put the backpack in a patrol car NOT sealed in an evidence bag (an 11 minute drive with no bodycam footage available), then searched the backpack again at the station and "found" a gun

I’m been saying this is all a war of imagination and perception. He’s going after the narrative. You control imagination and you don’t even have to try anymore. That’s what this push to insert AI in creative spaces is about, too. White supremacy and American imperialism is at work. on.ft.com/4jXhppq

I absolutely believe that insurance companies like Canada Life use surveillance technology in the same way. (I never did get to the discovery part of my lawsuit…)

can I learn to do this

This is a widely inaccurate & dangerous mischaracterization. The vaccine was developed in fetal cells obtained from two elective abortions in the early 1960s. There is not abortion debris floating around in the vaccine. And the Vatican has okayed its use. RFK Jr. is again spreading disinformation.

Two or three of these kinds of guys were elected to Canadian parliament on Monday.

Not the election outcome id hoped for but at least Canadians knew enough not to elect a man with the charisma of a damp washcloth. www.politico.eu/article/pier...

A nice feature on Teen-Beat from Bandcamp:

Lots of sick people in line for the federal election. Don’t forget to bring a mask! 🇨🇦

Very disappointed in the entire cast but especially John Lithgow and Nick Frost and the agents that represent them, Brian Swardstrom, United Talent and Jane Epstein at Independent Talent.