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It’s hard to explain how bad you have to be acting to get all of these people on the same side.

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service. Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

it's almost like half of these dudes were explicitly funded by far-right billionaires to deny the basic principles of public health and are maybe responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths? and maybe that was the whole point?

once again trump’s great political asset is that voters literally do not believe anything he says

Criticizing the enlightened centrist isn’t kicking them out of the so-called tent, it is presenting them with an opportunity to stop eroding the integrity of the tent by tirelessly trying to find commonality with people who want to burn the tent down.

If you are new here, this is the game: I make a recipe exactly according to the recipe, except for every clove of garlic, I use an entire bulb.

"gentlemen, i've called you to an urgent meeting today to announce ..."

you won't believe what's saving rural towns HINT: IT'S SOCIALISM. SOCIALISM IS SAVING RURAL TOWNS. AND THEY LOVE IT. THEY CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THE SOCIALISM. A SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGE OF THEM VOTED FOR SOCIALISM. getpocket.com/explore/item...

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

Swalwell on Comey: "What I would just say to any prosecutor at the DOJ is that it's not going away. As a member of the Judiciary Committee, I promise you when Democrats are in the majority we will look at all of this and there will be accountability and bar licenses will be at stake."

I'm a reporter not a political strategist, but one answer to the question of "What can the opposition do?" is "Use the extraordinary investigative powers members of Congress have even when in the minority to get new information courts and journalists can't get."

Do you want to screen Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile in your town or city, unlike a cowardly major movie chain? Email us at [email protected]. We'll allow you to screen it for free. Yes, again, this is real.

it's wild how much time dems spend figuring out how to hedge all their statements to not offend anyone when voters are this dumb

supreme court please stunt on these people and allow Trump to nuke their finances

JUST IN: A new class action lawsuit challenges ICE's warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C., which they say are occuring without probable cause and based largely on perceived ethnicity. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

Anyone with a copy of that memo should definitely send it to Chris but while you’re at it would a copy to me hurt? NO

REQUEST: If anyone has the memo in question, pushing such prosecutions, apparently sent from a lawyer in Blanche's office to "U.S. attorney’s offices in California, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Detroit and Maryland, among others," please send it my way. Signal: crg.32

CHOTINER: You sent two Halflings into Mordor. GANDALF: Yes. CHOTINER: You didn’t tell them how to get into the place? GANDALF: No. Of course not. No one knew how, and we told them they’d have to figure it out. CHOTINER: But you knew about the giant killer spider?

When I say the US has bet its post-pandemic economy on AI while China has bet its on green energy, this is what I mean: Here, AI related companies account for 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT's launch. In China, green tech accounts for one quarter of GDP growth.

“Solar energy is not the boogeyman. Properly managed, these solar power projects can actually enhance and increase agricultural production and become diversification projects that can save family farms"

this is a good article, and I learned things, but the first thing I learned was that I was incorrect to be understanding it as about gangs of lobsters that shame the other lobsters for not acting right

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"The people, it turns out, are far more courageous than their leaders." This is the lesson of 2025.

This is what the next generation of Democrats does: Refuse to ask permission. Refuse to “wait your turn.” Fuck that. It’s time for change, whether the gatekeepers like it or not.

They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.

Charleston quite famously wanted to enforce it's fugitive slave laws in Boston

Look at all these stupid countries around the world holding their leaders accountable and acting like the laws apply to everyone evenly. What a bunch of suckers.

NEW! A Senate report claims that DOGE has put *every* American’s social security number at risk; that staff at GSA, OPM, and SSA wouldn’t or couldn’t say what DOGE was doing; and that agencies claimed that DOGE actually doesn’t exist at all. For @wired.com www.wired.com/story/armed-...

call the bluff

We have to keep saying it: There is "nothing* that Texas college faculty are prohibited by law from teaching. Do not believe politicians who demand restrictions they never passed. Do not obey unconstitutional college policy. Do not self-censor. Do not comply.

my bad mothers in literature course has three male students in it this semester which is more than it’s ever had & they’re all really wonderful. they’ve brought great insight to the texts & my hope is that they’ll be better husbands & fathers for reading them.

people are asking for my reading list for this class & y’all know how promiscuous I am about sharing materials, so here’s the full syllabus & reading list: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Most of my students think it's okay to use for "brainstorming" and "generating ideas." Once again: GENERATING IDEAS IS THE ENTIRE POINT OF YOU

"Good luck winning any elections" is such a funny thing to say after running the ultimate moderate-republican-targeted campaign and getting obliterated by the most disliked candidate in history. I guess I'm just not a sophisticated politics knower because it seems like you should try something else

I am not having a productive day - wordcount thus far: nil, unless you count a quote for a press release about the new book - but I have realised that every political position I hold strongly can be summarised as "how DARE you try to withhold from others what you want for yourself"

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

dude i don't answer calls from known numbers.

reminder that Dracula was a contemporary novel, i.e. set in the year it was published, which was 1897 and Coca-Cola was first commercially bottled in 1886 you can 100% depict Harker, Van Helsing, Morris, Seward and Holmwood chugging at these motherfuckers while they go huntin

So the poverty rate was lower during a period of the pandemic when the economy was in fact not great. And it's because the government showed they actually could provide a generous safety net. The Manchin and the GOP killed it. Like there is a great leftwing story here that Jacobin just misses.

if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp

I actually think it's off base for the descriptor of these angry young white men who think violence is cool and/or funny to be "non-political." They are making rape jokes and saying racist things and wanting to sow chaos. That's literally the Alex Jones, Steve Bannon playbook.

Billionaires, lawyers, college presidents you can stand up for the rest of us anytime….. I know it might be inconvenient but this guy is driving us into a ditch

If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.

Autism has gone up by a factor of five since 2000 but acetominophen use during pregnancy has been going down. Sorry but the math just ain’t mathing.

By coincidence I am teaching Civil War grand strategy today and I have never heard even the most callow disengaged undergraduate say something as fucking stupid as that below

Amid reports that MPs and an advisory taskforce will recommend scrapping the two-child limit on benefits, it's worth noting that this step would be the most targeted and cost-effective way for the Government to meet its aim of reducing child poverty ⤵️

My mom's been telling me horror stories from her work because she writes technical reports where precise word choices matter a lot actually, and has been running into the issue that those reports now keep being "enhanced" by AI that actually completely changes the meaning being conveyed.