canadian media would never have this courage

So many similarities to GOP candidate Nixon dispatching Kissinger to sabotage LBJ's Vietnam talks, initiating a horrendous Cambodian bombing campaign after winning the 1968 election - only to sign essentially the same deal in 1973 that LBJ had put together 5 years earlier. t.co/joY390u4V0

Canadian fiction/storytelling style deserves to be taught, studied and respected as its own thing that Canadians can actually be proud of (This is different than just teaching Canadian literary canon, to be clear)

The study captured an estimated 15% of all geostationary satellites, which raised the prospect that as much as 85% of the world’s satellite communications remain insecure—subject to surveillance by anyone with $800 in equipment www.wired.com/story/satell...

NEW: A stunning new study finds that satellite transmissions—from calls and texts on T-Mobile to US and Mexico military communications—were sent unencrypted for any snoop to grab. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/satell...

I continue to be angry that we all got blamed for causing coral bleaching by using sunscreen, based on a single paper that hasn't been repeatable, but the actual cause of coral bleaching keeps getting ignored by the general public even as the papers proving it keep stacking up.

Last year, we wrote about survivor Taylor Cadle. When she was 12, she told police she’d been raped. They said she was lying and charged her with false reporting. She then took the extraordinary measure of recording the next act of abuse. Now, Taylor has legal counsel and filed a lawsuit.

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

I don't know many Covid conscious people asking folks to cancel movie theatres & Thanksgiving. You can go to movies in a mask & test/ventilate before indoor gatherings. None of this is hard

Dear liberals, If you identify as a leftist who believes in intersectional justice & fighting fascism, please wear a mask in public. It’s one small act of solidarity with the millions living with long Covid - and a reminder that caring for others includes protecting their health

My teen said their history teacher told them to judge historical figures “by the standards of the time.” I said well, who gets to decide the standards of the time? The enslaved people, the children forced to have sex with older men?

The discussion… I get a couple quotes in this one. Two points to shine more attention on. 1. Recall legislation needs to happen. 2. Covid, combined with the Facebook news ban and the deregulation of social media platforms, has done huge damage to municipal democracy. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Berlusconi had exactly the same ritual of having his doctors telling the press how younger than his age his body looked after each check up. Literally the same personality cult.

GQ in 1936: Is antisemitic dictator Adolph Hitler winning over Jewish women? Our publisher would benefit immensely from fawning over the worst person in the world, so we’re going to do our job as “journalists” to help rehabilitate his image!

Nick Fuentes is a psychotic fascist who openly admires Hitler, denies the Holocaust, and says that rape is "so not a big deal." But you'd never know any of that by reading this simpering GQ profile, which treats him as a kind of edgy internet curiosity rather than a deranged Nazi.

Very jarring how the media treats some lives as inherently and others not. I am happy for hostages and their families to be reunited, but it’s shocking how little media attention is given to “how do Gazans grapple with the utter destruction of their homes, vast loss of lives, and ongoing famine.”

+ The way "hostages" is applied to Israelis hostages but not to Palestinians when the same articles admit "vast majority of Palestinian prisoners were held without charge" which reads to me like they were hostages, too.

Destroying the Voting Rights Act has been the life's work of John Roberts

"Restore the merit principle," I scream, having apparently developed selective amnesia about losing my job based on a complete and total lack of merit

Me when I see my friend @richardliu18.bsky.social (a background actor) in one of the dozens of shows filmed in Vancouver

AI chatbots that convinced people to kill themselves, convinced others that they had discovered a massive conspiracy, the ones that regularly lie and are unreliable? those chatbots?

What if Skynet, but stupid.

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

Happy Columbo’s Day

In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.

I wrote software that used superscript and some printer hacks to print my phone list in tiny font to a dot matrix printer, folded it using a "zine" template, and carried it in my wallet

underrated part of this is that stoller very clearly has no idea what "the passive voice" is

Found out that Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads, if you need another reason to quit using it.

i'm sure duffy is just lying here but also i'll say again that they hard time conceptualizing relations between people that aren't strictly hierarchical.

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country. I will be there on October 18th, and I hope you will be too. #NoKings snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings-f...

A few weeks ago there was a #Covid19 outbreak on my Mom’s memory care wing. The whole section was quarantined. Family could still visit but before entering a resident’s room, they were req’d to put on full gowns & gloves. They were even told to remove their shoes. But masks were optional.😡

A Secret Weapon for Improving Student Outcomes: Better Air Quality. Research shows that test scores and attendance improve when schools install air filters and upgrade ventilation. Thanks to @davidcarel.bsky.social for this reminder. www.the74million.org/article/a-se...

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This is such a thorough take down of Bari Weiss and the vapid shill she is for oligarch billionaires. He especially shreds the Free Press over it's coverage of trans issues and the so called whistleblower Jamie Reed. youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

LA Times: Helicopter pilot who crashed in Huntington Beach was known for dramatic maneuvers https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-11/five-hospitalized-after-helicopter-crash-in-huntington-beach #aviation #helo #accident

As we start blowing past the tipping points, I'd just like to say that any politician who's still pushing for more fossil fuel extraction is an evil person. A degenerate who should be shunned from the society they're happy to destroy for their own political career. A piece of selfish, depraved shit.

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy ordered to go to jail next week

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Any police officer who vows to quit depending on the results of an election is openly admitting that they are partisan, that they swore an oath but it was conditional, and that they believe the work they do as law enforcement is tied to a particular political party. All of these are damning.

It's also gone totally unreported and under-appreciated even in liberal spaces the degree to which the police are a rogue political actor, they do not appear to be under the command of the government. At least, liberal governors and mayors seemingly have very little control over them

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

I am once again wishing that the left were as organized and well-funded as the right makes out.

Both Windows and Mac computers include a free way to encrypt your entire storage drive. You should turn it on, if you haven't already. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...