On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote. zohranfornyc.com/register

Viva la Palestina

Actual experts who know what they’re talking about know that smart bike-lanes for people on e-bikes or any other bikes aren’t “subsidized.” They have excellent returns-on-investment, support economic development, save public money, etc. Bad news about car lanes though. HEAVILY subsidized. Facts.

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Former PBO on Canada's fiscal situation: "If you look at the numbers right now, a baseline deficit of a little over 2%, that's a third of what it is in the US and UK, and it's well below the OECD average. If you look at our debt-to-GDP ratio, it will be the lowest of the G7. ... We're sustainable."

What did Ford say about kids today? They aren’t looking hard enough to find a job? I will repeat this until I get an answer: how much shit will the Ontario voter eat until they get upset?

Portland is not war ravaged. Chicago doesn’t need to be “saved”. Undocumented immigrants do not qualify for Medicaid. People should not have to “prove they matter” to get healthcare. ICE should not be allowed to cover their faces. This shutdown is being done to save healthcare.

I think we should do Trump-is-dead speculation every time we get a clean chance, it’s clearly great for team morale. If you’re not into it, I dunno, post cat pics or something and enjoy the downstream benefits of other people being in a good mood

I mean yes flag burning is protected speech but I feel like maybe the more important thing is that the man exercising the power of the presidency doesn’t get to by fiat create an offense and a mandatory minimum sentence and seemingly no judicial participation in the process?

This is the problem with grievance culture: it can never be satisfied. It’s Cracker Barrel all the way down

That cross dangling from her neck should be red hot now, branding her as a fake Christian.

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I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

“we heard tale of expanding the tent”

New at Debating Canadian Defence: open.substack.com/pub/philippe...

A lot of tech bros who were upset about pronouns want to confer them on their computers now that they’re dating

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

chatting with mah fren @alixinmv.bsky.social & remembered @diane.dianeduane.com's Ten Things outlining structure & tomorrow will use it for my upcoming book. Basically it's: Write down 10 things you KNOW have to happen. Then write down 10 things for each of those points that will help them happen.

This almost brought a tear to my eye. A small but important victory.

So beautiful.

Finally dem communication has deteriorated to the required level

The best thing about living in Saskatchewan was that they didn't make you change your clocks twice a year. I think this is a splendid idea!

CBS News will now be a megaphone for the country's most vicious crusader against free speech, and the most relentless propagandist of far-right disinformation. Cancel Paramount Plus, call every CBS advertiser until their only remaining ads are for MyPillow and Daily Stormer.

Oscar on set (honoring Wrightson)

Update on "Who Goes Nazi" "MAGA appeals to people who need to feel special, who need enemies to blame, who need simple answers to complex problems. It attracts those who mistake confidence for competence, who confuse being loud with being right, who think that admitting uncertainty is weakness."

20-plus mayors urge Doug Ford to compromise on speed camera ban

When I was a baby and too young to be vaccinated, I caught measles from an unvaccinated teen in the neighbourhood. I was lucky and recovered completely, unlike this poor baby. When you choose not to vaccinate your children, you are putting babies and other vulnerable people at great risk.

If @netflix.com capitulates, I will absolutely cancel my subscription.

DIRECTED BY JOHN CARPENTER ⚡ Now playing on the Criterion Channel! A master at turning B-movie premises into dazzlingly artful nightmares, Carpenter mixes pulse-pounding thrills and subversive social commentary into some of the smartest, most stylish, and electrifying genre films of all time.

“...it’s not really relevant what my background is. I mean, I do have a kid but what I’ve done in the past, who I’ve been with, men, women…To me, what was important was that this felt like an opportunity to tell a story...with so much authenticity...” ~ Alexander Skarsgård, coming out as bisexual? 👍🏼

A new NDP leadership candidate is talking about workers and class politics, and drawing on his credibility as a labour leader. Have we got a live one, here? www.davidmoscrop.com/p/the-ndp-le...

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government. They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights. We must fight back.

A few thoughts on Canada’s new Defence Investment Agency:

I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.

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My piece on the exceptional legacy of Jane Goodall www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

Every story I ever heard about her, not having had the honor or privilege of meeting her myself, spoke of her kindness and overwhelming generosity of self and spirit. She was a hero to me as a little girl, and one who remained so my entire life. She made this world a better place.

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything. Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

🙏 💚

I knew the first half of this story— that Gary Larsen’s cartoon joking Dr. Goodall was sleeping with chimpanzees caused her Institute to lawyer up only for her to find the comic super amusing upon her return from the field— but I’d never heard Larsen got attacked by a chimpanzee!

New Yorker cartoon. “. . . and then Randy Quaid yells, ‘Hello, boys, I’m back!,’ and flies his jet right into the alien ship, blowing it up, and I think you all just need to be more like that.”

“God speed little doodle.”

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Pope Leo XIV denounced people who deny climate change today, arguing that they are contributing to the destruction of God's creation.

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

The vice president, who previously asserted that undocumented immigrants were eating our cats and dogs, has now settled on the lie that undocumented immigrants are eating our health care. All politicians lie, but he's really elevated it to an art form.

let the gourd times roll