With everything going on these days, it’s easy to miss when local governments get up to some sketchy stuff. Take Vancouver, where Mayor Ken Sims is planning to eliminate the city’s sustainability and climate department!!! Yes, really. My partners at @nationalobserver.com have the scoop:

probably something an innocent man would do

1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties. 🧵👇

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES

Mamdani already lowering the crime rate in NYC lol

Trump on 60 Minutes: ICE raids "haven't gone far enough"

Apparently there was a Gatsby party at Mar a Lago, while Trump is trying to kick 42 million off SNAP

Cartoon by @rob-rogers.bsky.social.

The US Ambassador gave a keynote address to a right-wing group that was posting memes attacking public health rules in Alberta separatist FB groups during the pandemic: pressprogress.ca/group-funded...

Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.

We are live-streaming on Twitch! Twitch.tv/TheMayor_McCheese

It just got 10% dumber. Not a joke: Trump just imposed an additional 10 percent tariff on Canada because he still doesn't understand that Reagan was a vehement free trader. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson calls for a general strike, at least 300,000 people attended the protest. #3E #NoKings #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #EndAutogenocide #EpsteinFiles

[Exit pursued by a bear.]

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

I don't know much about what's going on, but I'm shocked to hear that Hasan gave birth to a dog live on stream. As a result, I will be cancelling my Disney+ subscription.

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OK, she really said that they arrested “the girlfriend of the founder of ANTIFA” The girlfriend of the FOUNDER of - anti fascism?

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

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"

The Canadian Opera Company just dropped new merch.

Tik tok videos from rightwing accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers are starting to openly call for “genocide against the left” if you are wondering how things are going in other online spaces. Screencap but not sharing the video.

lol fail

💥 Cofounder of Reddit: “the biggest sham is that we have somehow identified these types of [DEI] goals with not being meritocratic. Those of us who’ve been out here building multi billion-dollar companies with an eye towards having diversity, equity, and inclusion, we’re hiring for greatness”

Jesus Christ. A standing ovation — from Liberals too — for Charlie Kirk in the Canadian House of Commons. You can (and should) oppose political violence without doing all this, you know.

"A number of right-wing influencers and convoy personalities in Canada were also seen sharing or interacting with Williams’ fake posts before they were taken down, including a senior adviser to Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre."

The whole thing with Charlie Kirk really does confirm what I’ve long suspected about right wing assholes: They want it to be illegal not to like them. It’s the same reasoning as incels but for everyone’s attitudes towards them, not just women.

Massive anti hate crowd in the pits. Small Canada first group is on the run.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is horrific, it's likely to lead to a very dark spiral that will worsen political violence, and it is also a byproduct of a profoundly broken society awash in 400 million guns.

Anti-vaxxers aren’t questioning the science, they’re questioning who deserves to live

NDP leadership hopeful Yves Engler went on JACKSON HINKLE's podcast 🤮 Hinkle is a huge spreader of disinformation, particularly pro-Russia disinformation, has called the LGBTQ movement “pedophile ridden,” and calls himself a “MAGA communist.” This is...a choice.

Not going to stop thinking about the comment that Trump is sending Confederate armies to occupy Northern cities. How much more is there to say? That’s not a “distraction.” It’s what the white supremacists who tried to secede have wanted for over a century. It’s not a distraction to them at all.

What is it with CEO’s at public events? Tennis star Kamil Majchrzak was signing autographs yesterday when a man was caught stealing a hat from a child. He shared the video in hopes of identifying the boy & getting him a new hat. The man was quickly identified as Piotr Szczerek, CEO of Drogbruk

Fixation on the release of the "Epstein files" seems to have been a passing obsession for pro-Trump communities online. Interest, which skyrocketed in early July, has since subsided. Read more here: openmeasures.io/epstein-files/

Alberta announced today the COVID-19 vaccine this fall will cost us $100 per dose. So for my family of four, that'll be $400. Alternatively, we could spend $400 on an overnight trip to Golden or Fernie, B.C., get immunized for free, and make a little mountain vacation out of it.

Despite pressure from the American regime, over $150,000 raised, and a barrage of rage-bait misinformation, the Federal Court of Appeal has unanimously rejected Universal Ostrich Farm’s appeal. decisions.fca-caf.ca/fca-caf/deci...

Former National Guard Vice Chief Major General Randy E. Manner says deploying the Guard to D.C. will ruin how the average American views the military.

CUPE's Mark Hancock is prepared to be jailed for defying the Carney government's back-to-work order to force Air Canada to negotiate with flight attendants "If it means folks like me going to jail, so be it...Our members want a solution here, but that solution has to be found at a bargaining table"

The price of vegetables rose 38.9% in July.

The DC sandwich guy has been charged with assault for shouting at a CBP officer, throwing a sub into his chest, and then running off. "I did it. I threw the sandwich," he said while he was being processed.

More fallout from our investigation into active clubs/white nationalist fight clubs in Canada. This time, it has resulted in the suspension of of a Hamilton police officer: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall. If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is (h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)

Amongst those arrested in London for peacefully protesting the genocide in Gaza is this blind person in a wheelchair. Staggeringly embarrassing and shaming for Starmer. “Shame on you!” being shouted by the crowd. (🎥 Defend Our Juries)

getting dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory

Well here we fucking go again, @prospect.org broke this story this morning, and in bigfoots corporate media to slap an "exclusive" on it and not give us credit for doing so. Ridiculous. Read @prospect.org, get the news first. prospect.org/labor/2025-0...