CBS News hitches its wagon to these two duds: defector.com/cbs-news-hit...

Philip Rivers to start.

“What’s disturbing about the scandal though, is how blatant it is. Political appointees are handing out hundreds of millions of dollars from a public slush fund to organizations that are either close to the government or that hire the right political insiders.” www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.

New awareness campaign

Best sign I saw today

if you have a Christian family you’ve been wanting to wordlessly abandon tomorrow would be a great day to do it

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Anecdotally what I'm seeing a lot is patients either avoiding the emerg completely or leaving after several hrs of waiting. Then they wait days or weeks to see me in the office, which is often not appropriate or safe. Sometimes, I have to send them straight back to the emerg. This is really bad.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt admitted that the government will "redact every republican" and "leave all the liberal, democratic people” on the Epstein client list. He also said Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a minimum securithy prison as "a benefit to keep her mouth shut."

Excited to present this great essay by Ashanty Rosario, a talented young journalist who attends Newtown High School in Queens, about how she's experienced the arrival of AI in the classroom. "These programs have destroyed much of what tied us together as students."

This long weekend, consider the future of Wasaga Beach: a provincially protected environment, home to the endangered plovers, that the Doug Ford gov't wants to transfer to the town's ownership to boost tourism. It's a complicated and possibly precedent-setting tale. thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...

Hey @rayratto.bsky.social , thanks for all the @defector.com stuff, but I personally appreciate the Tokyo Ska Orchestra recommendation from a while ago. Pride of Lions is a mainstay in my playlist. Very strong song!

“Summer’s going fast, nights growing colder. Children growing up, old friends growing older.” Time Stand Still. Melancholy end of August vibes. #Rush

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

This needs all the love.

i finally realized who his ass looks like it is glass joe from punch out

Ford is corrupt to the core. I’m so tired of #CBC circulating the fake, performative Captain Canada garbage, while he devastates our public healthcare and education, and robs us blind for private profit. Ford doesn’t care about any of us. He’s a far right Con grifter www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ontario Minister of Health, SylviaJonesMPP is lying again. She’s made up her very own statistics to close supervised consumption site www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

GO Train straight up skipping a scheduled route, delaying it until the next scheduled time. Quite literally no way to run a railroad. "Equipment issue" my ass.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes? American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

The comments on Bret Stephens’ latest NYT column, “No, Israel Is Not Committing Genocide in Gaza,” are really something.

"As of this morning, Trump is still working the 'hoax' angle, even though we now have six years of hard evidence that this was, indeed, a very real thing … one that even MAGA weirdos believe in." www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

A Canadian doctor explains the difference between the universal health care system in Canada, where everyone is covered and there are no out-of-pocket costs, and the American system where people go bankrupt in order to receive cancer treatment.

I do: don’t use it

Blast them.

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

the biggest crew of goddamned idiots you ever saw

The Ontario election was one of the most egregious distortions of democracy in recent memory. The winning party got a huge majority with just 43% of the vote. The second-place party came a distant third in seats. We need proportional representation in Ontario and Canada.

It’s a crowded market out there for products that immediately mark you as a creepy dipshit

Emergency room wait times are going to get worse in Ontario. Long ER wait times and shutdowns are predictable consequences of Ontario’s chronic lack of investment in health care. It continues to rely on short-term fixes disguised as solutions. #Opinion

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Trump looking absolutely inconsolable at his fascist-themed 79th birthday party which no one turned up to other than those who had to because he's their boss.

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

Here's the thing about this: It isn't a boycott really. On one level I'm not travelling to the US because of moral objections, sure. But the really powerful factor for me is just a basic risk assessment. The American administration is clearly aggressively hostile to foreigners, and people like me.

I see some discourse about ditching the former Twitter, and so I'll remind folks that the best reason to there is that it's a fucking Nazi bar and we all deserve better. I'm on social media to enjoy conversation with cool folks. Bluesky does a bang-up job of that. The former Twitter doesn't.

Ontario has a science centre that should be open but was closed prematurely and a transit station that was named for the science centre that’s closed because it was never opened. The Ford government just isn’t good at governing.

That might’ve been the craziest period of playoff hockey I’ve seen #oilers #nhl .

@laurentheisen.bsky.social You could do a whole @defector.com article on this insane first period!

funny how this, precisely this, happens to 100% of people who do business with either of those assholes

This feels like Alien vs Sexual Predator

Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star

"Requiring that we be invited into someone's home before we can enter is kneecapping the vampire industry."

Doug Ford did this