I think the US now has the most corrupt government in the world.

Some brilliant work here by Pro Publica - this is the heart of why the US is failing. And really, why all the western countries are struggling to fund programs that were easy to fund a few decades ago. The ultra-wealthy have captured the tax systems: www.propublica.org/article/the-...

The biggest comprehensive literature review to date has confirmed that Indigenous stewardship bolsters conservation goals.

‘For AI companies and builders of the data centers that serve them, AI rejectionism is creating an acute crisis. All over the country, community-level organizations have been succeeding in blocking data-center projects.’ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

Perhaps this is the end of anything usable on Meta platforms.

“liz you can just use AI as a research tool, don’t be such a Luddite” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

This is very interesting.

Fascinating.

Alberta premier Danielle Smith plans to let doctors give priority to higher-paying patients, while other Albertans wait. This seems to be a clear violation of law, and a threat to Canadian medicare, but Smith isn't stopping Our latest @breachmedia.ca breachmedia.ca/danielle-smi...

There are so many Black self-liberation stories like this - just the coolest shit anyone’s done & I truly believe that if America liked stories of revolutionaries or rebels defeating elites as much as we used to act like we do we would have mined these types of stories more for film & television.

If US wealth were spread equally over all households, the poorest 50% of households today would get *$1.2 million* richer on average. The next-poorest 40% of households would get $300k richer on average. Only the richest 10% of Americans would lose any wealth, at all. Calculations and data source:

It's interesting to see how AI is being used to scam news publications. Because honestly, getting assigned an article, and then using AI to write it, is simply scamming the publication.

fascinating

"It gives you the illusion of productivity and expertise but at the end of the day you are more divorced from the output you submit than before.” www.404media.co/software-dev...

Majority of Ontario hospitals have been operating in the red over the last three years, new report shows cupe.ca/news/majorit...

Breaking: Families are owed $2.1 billion in overdue child and spousal support from Ontario’s Family Responsibility Office, a new auditor general’s report has found. #onpoli Just in from @robferguson1.bsky.social:

Some very important work being done here:

A lot of attention has been paid to the collapse of traffic to The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel. But other ragebait sites are also seeing huge drops in audience. According to The Righting, Outkick, The Federalist and The Blaze are down at least 48%. therighting.com/traffic-repo...

This is rather lovely

"It just feels like the government is pushing hard to expand Billy Bishop Airport to bail out American bankers at the expense of what people love about Billy Bishop Airport, the Toronto waterfront and all the housing that can be built,” @mikeschreiner.bsky.social said. For @nationalobserver.com

An interesting read.

Interesting: "As for whom Americans ages 18-29 blame for the state of the economy, Trump and “corporate greed/large companies” were the most common answers." thehill.com/business/586...

This looks like a fabulous series! Yes, let's talk about who owns our data and about stacking the deck for multinationals. Let's see some fresh ideas about how to actual make our online spaces work for people, not corporations.

We could definitely use some of this kind of accountability in Hamilton.

NEW: An open letter from Alberta scholars of politics, law, public administration, and democratic governance regarding the potential misuse of the province's voters list.

I am seriously considering getting this book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

FT asked me to weigh in on the debates around paid UGC campaigns, so I tried to emphasize what I think is important, which is calling out unlabeled advertising in its many forms -- and that the agencies themselves might be using these narratives to overhype their services www.ft.com/content/9c26...

The alleged misuse and online exposure of millions of Albertans’ personal information spans well beyond normal politics or campaign trickery. They go to the heart of our privacy as individuals and the foundations of our democracy, writes @jaredwesley.ca. #abpoli

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has said that she wants to wait until the results of the investigations by the RCMP and Elections Alberta are complete before “commenting further,” but that isn’t nearly good enough, @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes — we need a public inquiry into the voter data scandal.

A good choice.

NEW: DHS subpoenaed Google for a Canadian man's location and account activity after he criticized ICE. The man hasn't been in the US in 10+ years, and DHS used an import law from the 1930s to try to get his data. ACLU is fighting it. @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/dhs-de...

NEW: Less than 72 hours before Weber State University in Utah was scheduled to host a conference on censorship, presenters were told not to discuss identity politics, or be removed from the official program agenda. www.404media.co/how-a-univer...

Today's lunch read - I particularly like this quote from the ed board of the University of Pennsylvania's Student Newspaper's criticism of the administration going all in on AI: “AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it." www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

An interesting approach.

This is not justice. You never have to listen to an Ontario Progressive Conservative talk about law & order again. Put this back in their face. Every minister, every back bencher. They all voted for secret govt.

Research shows Indigenous Guardians are good for the environment, and the economy. But despite a recent $230 million announcement by the federal government, funding gaps risk undermining their work. Check out the latest in our Who Pays? series: thenarwhal.ca/indigenous-g...

Today's lunch read: "In short, we are ruled by a class of people who seem either to believe or presume that war, disease, and apocalyptic destruction are things that will only ever happen to poorer and browner people." www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

“We need cultural and artistic sovereignty not just economic sovereignty,” Mayor Olivia Chow #toronto #arts #canada #torontoartsawards

A great lunch read, and rant, from George Monbiot.

Wait, what?

Liberal leadership candidates should be promising to restore all of this NOW. This is how you can keep an opposition going without a real leader. The NDP, IMHO, are doing a good job on this and other things - at least in the IG and such videos they're putting out.

Today the Doug Ford government passed its 2026 budget bill, which includes changes to Ontario's transparency law. To learn more about how it will impact freedom of information requests (FOIs) and your right to know, watch this video with @elaineanselmi.bsky.social.

Some fascinating and disturbing numbers. Also, Bezos looks so much like Lex Luther in this illustration.

"Last year, xAI was operating 35 gas-burning turbines without a permit to power its Colossus 1 site, which is located in Boxtown, a historic Black neighborhood in Memphis that already faces extremely high rates of cancer and respiratory illness from decades of industrial pollution."

Now I'm going back and following up on the coverage of the Amazon price fixing case in the Guardian. Some great reporting here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Very interesting! I'll be following this carefully.

Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers. The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits." My story:

I hope people write in with questions about how the consistent underfunding of schools causes kids to opt out. They've cut budgets to the bones, teachers are burning out and kids are sicker than ever and we're surprised that teens don't want to be there?

A somewhat disturbing look into AI in publishing: zonamotel.substack.com/p/essay-the-...

Some very good reporting from the Tyee and the Investigative Journalism Foundation.