New euphemism for corruption just dropped

Drop something BLACK & WHITE 🖤🤍

maybe i’m naive but i think it’s kinda doomerism to always be saying this is gonna take decades to undo or you’ll be old or dead when it ends. first it doesn’t matter, plant trees you won’t live to sit in the shade of. second great change is capable of happening very quickly

A former career DOJ guy told me a few weeks ago that prior to Trump, the FBI was the varsity team, DHI and ICE were junior varsity, and Border Patrol were like a drunken office softball team. And under Trump, the drunk softball guys are now in charge.

I think we have to basically consider "AI is inevitably going to result in superintelligence" to be a religious belief at this point. People are very literally expecting salvation

Why do people believe false things about the priorities, governing record, and ongoing agenda of the Democratic Party? In part because even nominal Democrats are happy to tell destructive lies about it in public.

It's actually not complicated at all! It's a different book! If something can be explained in four words it isn't complicated in the slightest!

You cannot prove to these people that you’re impartial or rigorous because they *don’t care*. They hate you, personally. They hate that their kids become your students and listen to you. They hate that people laugh at them and respect what you have to say. The only thing to do is fight.

okay so why is this post still up & account still existing? actual question. the account isn’t even verified like some of the other fed gov accounts either, but also it shouldn’t matter when they post “we will kill you” along with videos of them killing people.

New euphemism for “law-breaking” just dropped

AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist

Fed. judge holds that the Trump administration engaged in coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First and Tenth Amendments in its pretextual attacks on the University of California system. PI granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

funniest scenario averted. damn

Toronto friends: remember how we all felt when we finally saw the Rob Ford crack tape?

It’s just that one picture right? There isn’t also, like, you know?

Occasionally I still imagine David Bowie walking to the back of the tour bus, shaking Prince awake, and saying, “Hey, wake up, mate; that looked like one hell of a bad dream.”

All of a sudden I am seeing Trump’s venomousness towards Hillary Clinton in a whole new light

👀

*panicked laugh* I'm sure it's all going to be fine

It's always mordantly funny when non-USAians discover, all over again, that their country does not have a special relationship with the US and never did.

Wrong nail, wrong hammer grip, wrong angle, and for god's sake what is he even trying to accomplish here

Remember Woodward & Bernstein? Exposed a massive scandal, got a president impeached? Bernstein's kid wrote this wretched piece of shit. I don't know where you can find a better symbol of American media's decline. Just nauseating.

Once again, one very easy way for the New York Times to escape the constant criticism which it has found itself subject to these last years would be for it to stop acting in ways that completely justify all of the constant criticism which it has found itself subject to these last years.

I'd love a fourth estate that didn't think this was a fucking game

Full solarpunk world now

My international students pay three times more tuition that domestic students in Canada and universities, particularly in Ontario, were using their tuition to make up for funding shortfalls. There's a lot going on in that sentence but none of it is "taking spaces from domestic students."

It's crazy that so much of Toronto being flat or shrinking is unremarked or actively hidden. You get Cllr Mike Colle, whose ward grew only 1.7pc, saying his constituents are "threatened" by constant change. Or residents in the Annex, which has fewer people, saying there's no space for more density

Happening now: clergy protest ICE detention center in Chicago. “Why are you still here? Greg Bovino already left.” “It’s an internment camp…no medicine…toilets don’t work”

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

Trump first brought this approach to college campuses where rapists are now entitled to benefits if they’re accused of sexual assault. Things like a higher GPA and preferential treatment by professors. In my research, I heard stories of financial compensation too.

i don't often repost this trash but this is the argument the canadian liberals make in their budget btw

Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”

Someone gotta cross-reference Harper’s letter signatories with names in the Epstein files

I'm old enough to remember when "moral relativism" was an criticism rightwing people used about leftwing people

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

The persuasiveness of this argument depends entirely on people being completely ignorant of anything that has been published in the New York Times at any point in the last 20 years. Like all elites when the unwashed have the temerity to call them out, they talk to us like we’re stupid.

This is very very good

Over the past decade a third of our cultural leaders died and another third revealed themselves to be absolute garbage people. My math may not be exact here of course

Okay, good first step

Fuck it. Let’s just ban all stores everywhere. Including the Eaton Centre and Yorkdale. You need or want something? Fucking order it online. There. Is that Toronto enough for you assholes?

Good grief

it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are

I mean… we all know why he mentions beef patties specifically, right?

Narrator: “But there really was no complexity”

I'm hardly a hardcore free-market libertarian, but it does seem like the reality of market forces should be a bigger part of this debate. The basic reason you don't need to worry about a 24/7 bar/potshop/noise-making emporium setting up on a small street is basically "there's no demand for it."

Small grocery stores across the street from a university campus with 15,000 students can't be allowed because they might attract people from "the 905" (only a few km away because this is the outermost ward)

How did we get to the point of being governed by so many vacuous weirdos?

And "women ruined the workplace," per the New York Times last week.

“AI is a backlash. AI is anti-worker. I always feel the need to remind people that neither robots nor AI are coming for our jobs. But management probably is.” 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ai-grief-obs...