my dad loves dusty springfield so i grew up listening to her i love dusty springfield so my kids have grown up listening to her and now they love dusty springfield and that’s what we call generational wealth

I really really struggle with this framing of young men as uniquely, particularly, and more isolated and vulnerable than young women to radicalization--it diminishes their agency and the gravity of their choices. from: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-look...

William, dear, these quaint little shops disappeared because you all kept shopping at Amazon, not because of immigration, you racist twat 🙄

Very, VERY Doug Ford’s Toronto to ensure that the bars will be open for an 8 AM hockey game but not the TTC. Get as drunk as you like but you gotta drive there first.

On this day in 2019, Jackie Shane died. Born in 1940, she was a pioneering transgender performer who helped develop R&B in Toronto in the 1960s. Her 1967 live album Jackie Shane Live was reissued in 2015 and was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize.

decades ago I had to decide what success for me looked like, and the decision I reached was a) can I pay my bills, and b) do I get to draw fun stuff. What's super important is those two points aren't related. I could work part time in a day job (I did) while drawing creator owned comics - SUCCESS.

Never been more certain that spending my 20s going to raves was actually the optimal way to prepare for the current era. Just meeting real humans and making real friends in the real world so I have a firm anchor in reality as the oligarchs spin out into hysteria and try to drag us with them

The absolute refusal to connect American history to American current events is one of the weirdest expressions of modern racism.

It was such a privilege to write this. The act of building solidarities across borders is never easy, and not always successful, but has always been deeply necessary.

Great piece from @tante.cc on trying to do the right thing when everything is owned by horrible people 💡

I was a techno-optimist but @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social shares my fury at how we allowed half a dozen rich psychopaths to buy that future out from under us 😡

So don't feel like you cannot be a luddite if you like technology, like working on it. Caring about your fellow human beings' wellbeing and not some corporations bottom line makes you one. Believing that tech needs to be evaluated on what effects it has and that we have a choice makes you one.

I don't get this analysis of Thursday's NDP leadership debate at all. At all. Of course it's about rebuilding the party. It was decimated in April. Officially unofficial status. What the fuck else were the candidates going to talk about? www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

As I said yesterday, America, your usual tourist demographic from friendly countries don't hate you. We're not holidaying in America anymore because your police keep doing this and so you are considered an unsafe state to travel to.

I don’t ask for much in this world but I would really like Howard Lutnick to go to prison 🙏🏼

“Just show up and love your friends with everything you have” 💔

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

No one has flopped harder at being a Catholic than JD Vance.

This rant is something I deeply connect with as someone who genuinely enjoy messing around with the computer. Absolutely f*** them and may everything they do crash and burn with them being trapped inside because the invisible door-handles won't show.

Or, you know, we could have Dave Filoni mashing action figures together to the delight of Disney shareholders (heavy sigh)

which is what literally everybody was telling Biden for four years when we were begging him to pack the courts, but the Dems would rather let the world burn than break from their decorum and norms. Nothing is scarier to the Democrats than strategies that might actually work. and so here we are

“We’re creating a massive AI surveillance state against you!” “Oh. Will it at least prevent crime and keep us safe?” “Oh heavens, no."

Denny here appears to be dealing with the same people who’ve condescendingly explained to me these past two decades how any attempt to prove society is too costly/risky/untested/unpopular yet now urge me to use the six-billion-dollar plagiarism machine for all my medical needs and such 😡

CTV News doing three minutes on Trump saying he’ll release UFO files. “Some say this is just an attempt to deflect attention from the Epstein files.” OH YOU THINK?? So good of you to help 🙄

"is there a technology the left are actually excited about?"

“We were stunned [about the prescience] for a while, but we’ve really gotten to the point where it’s really sad. It’s just sad how predictable and lame and obvious and wrong it all is. Fascism is just a total fail in the end.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

I’d like to make a joke about how I’m a paid agitator directed by this billionaire trans woman but all the very worst people would *believe that* so all I can say is, Jennifer, please call me 😂

"Trump is stealing your money"

Trump sitting up there in his soggy diaper rambling & ranting & trying to bomb places he can’t pronounce or find on a map got a job & hundreds & thousands of Black women worth their weight in gold to be employed aren’t! Now ain’t that a bitch.

i've got a feeling you'll be seeing a video of this at your trial

CNN doing PR for Johnson here by claiming "the general practice is for presidents, select military officials & select government officials to lie in honor" without noting exceptions. Like Billy Graham. So White preacher gets to lie in state but not Black one?

I would like to apologize for single handedly bringing fascism to the United States

The Bible doesn't condemn these things. Nowhere is abortion prohibited. Slavery is specifically endorsed. Abraham is told to sacrifice his child. Old & New Testament direct us to welcome strangers and turn the other cheek. Jesus tells us to beware those who publicly trumpet their faith. (Matthew 6)

Look, I’m not saying a public-option grocery store is the end-all, be-all but it’s an *IDEA* we could *TRY* because the current Weston-family-and-fellow-oligarchs model hasn’t been serving us all that well. Tom Mulcair is doing his best to make me regret I ever voted for his middle-chasing crap 😡

Stand back and stand by 😬

We don't get paid maternity leave because a bunch of pervert billionaires didn't like it We didn't get rape protection for the same reason Women's healthcare lags decades behind because pervert billionaires wanted to spend that money on stealing babies at the border

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

On the pod historian Nicole Hemmer nails it on Epstein and elite impunity. "Across the world, elites are going to jail or losing their positions. That’s not happening in the US. People want to understand: Why isn’t it happening here?" Hemmer is great all throughout: newrepublic.com/article/2068...

Professor of international relations and international law ⤵️

so we paid the tariffs and now the corporations that passed the costs on to me and you are the ones that are going to be reimbursed, do i have that correct

Meanwhile, NYT analysis shows that the Trump administration has established an effective blockade of Cuba and is pushing it toward a humanitarian crisis.

One obvious area is in tech regulation. Trump’s administration used the threat of tariffs to hamper, delay and dilute the EU’s enforcement of the Digital Services Act against big tech companies. And it was working. The Commission did not want a trade war.

extremely funny to see all the pundits like “SCOTUS just did Trump a favor” as if Trump will respond reasonably and rationally to this rather than just double down and cause an even bigger clusterfuck

I wrote about the internet psychosis over Dr. Robby on The Pitt and why him being a jerk this season is THE POINT www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

A phenomenal essay that also functions as an overall critique of Doctorow’s libertarian approach to tech, and its very real limitations.

However much you hate British journalists it's not enough. This is up there with the time they hounded a teacher for being trans until she killed herself.