1/ In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made an extraordinary request to President Trump’s ambassador, Ronald Johnson. A previously undisclosed report tells what happened next, according to a new ProPublica investigation. 🧵 ⬇️

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

This is good —the Mayor of Yellowknife NWT in Canada’s far north weighs in on “Car Bloat” (truck bloat actually) and its many big costs & consequences (thanks @davidzipper.bsky.social for heads-up). And like most who dare tell the truth about that, he’s taking flack. www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/...

Listen, there are a lot of influencers who get their content from legacy media and investigative journalism and then tell you not to support legacy media or investigative journalism. That’s grifting.

Surprised to learn there is no such thing as Alberta oil and that it is actually Canada's oil. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The LA Public Library research librarian explaining what is going on with Charli and Taylor is outstanding work www.instagram.com/reel/DPXZIUa...

I hope smart people are quietly brainstorming how to continue this country if/when the GOP is voted out of power because there's no going back. The destruction is already too overwhelming. It's going to take some very creative thinking and a lot of nerve to do it. Is there an FDR in the house?

An arrest of a person due entirely to the person having dark skin color is now known across the country as a "Kavanaugh stop," based on Justice Kavanaugh's justification of the practice. slate.com/news-and-pol...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Lindsey Halligan, the attorney selected by Donald Trump to bring criminal charges against James Comey, has never prosecuted a case. But, like Trump, she did get her start in reality TV — with a brief cameo on South Beach Tow. Here is Halligan’s newly resurfaced TV moment:

Listening to New Country music as a masochistic sociology project and noticing a whole genre of “I’m really poor but that’s ok”. When massive wealth disparity hits white pop culture.

A claim circulated online that one of the people killed in recent U.S. strikes on alleged Venezuelan "drug boats" was actually a fisherman and father of four. Here's what we know so far: www.snopes.com/news/2025/09...

Imagine you're an air group commander who left your aircraft carrier in the West Pacific and flew across the world and filed into a Quantico auditorium to sit there listening to this

One of my favourite odd jobs as an independent journalist has been interviewing comedians & reviewing comedy shows Some of whom are heading to Riyadh to cash in on giving Prince Chop-Chop a PR makeover I will never interview them or review their shows ever again Total boycott. You should too.

www.canada.ca/en/canadian-... “Each year, September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation “The day honours the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities.”🪶

@ottawahumane.bsky.social for the love all that is decent please close your account on X. It’s bad for your brand. You can build up a real following here.

When math is hard.

Read a book, anti-vax folks. Or at least the excellent thread.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

Nice airport ya got there, be a shame if anything happened to it.https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/us-ambassador-airport-pre-clearance-1.7644088

For anyone not in Alberta or not paying attention, girls playing sports in school now have to prove they were born female to play sports. And can be challenged by anyone at anytime and must prove they are female to keep playing. This doesn’t apply to boys. What a dystopian hellscape

“Male loneliness” is a vague, empirically unfalsifiable Potemkin village of an argument meant to smuggle yet more anti feminism into popular consensus.

I think it rocks that we get to relitigate Basic Historical Facts like once a week on here

I will sit with you here. And listen not only to your words. But your heart. And when you feel that You cannot find the words, I will have already known your pulse. And I will commiserate with you Until you are ready to go on.

Nice interview @clareblackwood.bsky.social 👏 www.cbc.ca/news/world/j...

Herewith, I would like to congratulate Canada on becoming the IT superpower since all these H1B folks will now come to you.

BREAKING: Canada, the U.K. and Australia recognize a Palestinian state despite opposition from the U.S. and Israel.

This is worth your time haha youtu.be/7vRX-BQAjeE

MSNBC has zero moral authority to talk about cowardice of Disney, ABC, or Republicans for bending the knee to MAGA when they did exact thing in their termination of me and others. They are doing the exact thing they complain about others doing.

Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least

It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious. @mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

Internet brain rot overheard in public today: Jeffrey Epstein is the grandson of Walt Disney, which helps explain the bad things Mickey Mouse sometimes did to Minnie. No lie.

Yeah, we can: We can learn not to engage in such stupid, vain, cowardly, selfish, self-absorbed, narcissistic, world-damaging bullshit. What a selfish chickenshit he is.

The disconnect when affluent boomers wring their hands about the climate crisis while the highlight of their lives is taking and then bragging about trips is terribly depressing.

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*. There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

That’s it. No more podcasts or videos for me until vocal fry is a thing of the past. Reading is fine.

We always get asked, "What can I *personally* do to help address climate change?" Sadly, there hasn't been a very good answer to this question. Previous guides often treated people as monoliths, giving them a one-size-fits-all answer. But that's changed now. Enter SHIFT. jointheshift.earth

Canadian media reporting on his murder without portraying him as a saint. www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...

Here’s the thing: if you believe people like Charlie Kirk are just sharing “opinions,” you can’t, on the other hand, blame left wing rhetoric for his death. Either opinions are powerful and capable of fomenting hatred and violence, or they aren’t.

I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration

This is vexatious, vindictive, and a waste of public funds. Phillips should apologize to Ménard, and be penalized www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is a really important read. macleans.ca/longforms/co...

“Secure the royal puppies, and the funds” as you command, your majesty www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...