NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

“So I feel like what gives it that masculine edge is that there’s really not much to it, and it’s kind of gross the longer you eat it.” 🤣 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/s...

Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

I used "smooth-brained" as a dig until a father of a boy with lissencephaly -- the medical term for the condition -- wrote me an incredibly patient note to explain what his son had to deal with. This phrase is a gratuitous insult to parents and children who are already suffering. Don't use it.

i just saw someone say "Kid Rock makes music for the people who have tattoos of their kids but not custody" and hol up i need a minute

So he didn’t watch Kid rock, huh?

this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth

On notera que le timing de cette affaire s’aligne étonnamment bien sur le congédiement de Tim Haugh, alors directeur de la NSA. On sait que Haugh a été viré sous l’influence de Laura Loomer, au prétexte de déloyauté politique, mais on a jamais bien su sur quoi ce jugement se fondait… 🤔

Those are extremely worrying red lines and mean that Canada and Europe can't just go back to treating the US as a natural ally.

Hot damn, turns out I’m not the ONLY great thing to come out of New Brunswick!

in order to save this country we are probably going to have to do things that make rich men sad 😔

Move to Canada, enjoy our four seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Road Construction!

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

Me too! But at least I can satisfy my employer’s aggressive push for us to all use AI by littering my documents with em dashes so they think I’m using it.

I’m so mad that AI made the em dash sus

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college Oh lord, in which era? I’m a lifelong learner and my post-secondary education path has gone from pre-med to compSci to j-school to economics to law & management. Plus detours to Art School and Culinary School.

It took me a second, then I guffawed. Which might have been ill advised since I’m still wearing my CPAP, so I started whistling like a tea kettle.

This gets us one step closer toward the final form of Tesla, where the only thing it sells is pieces of paper that say “we swear this isn’t a Ponzi scheme.”

One of the best pieces of life advice I ever received was to be wary of people who play the victim in problems they create.

The ICE army travels on its bellyaching

ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

In her study of the accident, sociologist Diane Vaughn coined the term “the normalization of deviance” to describe the acceptance of incremental, detrimental behaviour when it doesn’t lead to imminent catastrophe, but effectively paves the road to disaster.

Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.

"Its acronym, F.A.F.O., references a slang term for negative consequences." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

weedhead, tramp, 1944

Sample quote from an early review of MELANIA, courtesy of The Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/filmblo...

this might be on the verge of the cusp of becoming a thing

so bari definitely got the heads up that noem is being shitcanned, right?

Like I say about my own experience “Intelligent enough to get into Mensa; smart enough to get out.” My IQ has been measured on many tests through my life, but it all boils down to mathematical/spatial and reading comprehension. And it’s very culture specific.

My favourite comment, to a post saying “Look how hard I get when I think about abolishing ICE” is “LICK COCK NOT BOOT” 😋

I'm not going to post screenshots for obvious reasons but I have been alerted that a bunch of the top posts in r/MassiveCock are anti-ICE now and anyone who defends ICE in comments is getting yelled down lol

Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act

Reading the new US defence strategy and honestly, I have a feeling that this was always the plan, but they are just being more open and jerks about it.

Pay attention 🇨🇦 media.defense.gov/2026/Jan/23/...

If you’re wondering about the cultural reference spectrum in Toronto, I get at least three “Very Doctor Zhivago”s a day and I’ve had one “IKEA Monkey!”

This is what police have been doing to black Americans since forever. Enough of the "this isn't who we are." You're now noticing because it's white people.

Everyone has a part to play. Even—especially—the person who moderates the subreddit for videos of people patting their cat on the butt really rapidly.

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

don't put it in your newspaper that i got mad

the thing is that AI is very good at confident bullshit, which becomes more a part of your job toward the top of the ladder

Trump on Canada: They should be grateful also, but they’re not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn’t so grateful. But they should be grateful to us. Canada lives because of the U.S. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.

The tactical formation is mostly there to prevent him from being vacuumed into a Roomba.

When he says we get a lot of freebies from the US, is he referring to Postmedia, Andy Scheer, and the Freedom Convoy?

You joke, but I’m a software developer with a giant consulting firm, and we’re constantly being pushed to use and adopt AI in our work. I just sit there shaking my head - I’ve most stopped trying to advocate against it, so I just occasionally sneak an “—“ into my docs so they think I’m onboard.

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.