[sombrely, with tears in eyes] "truly the people of Iran embody the great spirit of Flumpo The Fart Wizard" - author of Flumpo The Fart Wizard

During an actual crisis (like Uvalde or 9/11) residents actually want law enforcement help. That no one wants these ICE goons around anywhere they show up is evidence there’s no crisis of any kind besides their presence.

"“Forget about any sunlight getting to your neighbour. Forget about growing anything in your backyard." FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE RIGHT TO YOUR OWN SUNLIGHT IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD vancouversun.com/business/dou...

Shorter JD Vance: Good job on the murder, we will help you get away with it

Trump also says Renee Good “behaved horribly” and insists she *ran over* an ICE agent Questioned on that claim, Trump beckons an assistant to play the video on a laptop When the video doesn’t show an ICE agent was run over, Trump starts stammering and trails off www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

The article itself is is a good overview from Dan Fumano, and but this, from Steven Johnston, should be up at the top instead of down at the bottom: “Policing is part of the solution. … But it can’t just be that. We can’t police our way to prosperity.” vancouversun.com/news/london-...

Good. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

and economic inequality.

For Jesse, no joke, the problem is that divorced non-binary lesbians are protesting ICE, not that ICE is murdering them, and actually the former justifies the latter.

“Trump has a childlike fascination with the great power politics that predated the current world order, and his foreign policy is broadly centering on organizing the globe into three spheres of influence - American, Russian, and Chinese - in which the leading powers largely have free rein.”

“The tendency of many to look away and pass into the ultimately interstitial, liminal moment of Joe Biden’s presidency was exacerbated by the fact there was a full-on campaign dedicated to rewriting and reversing the basic facts of what happened.” Essential reading from @hunterw.bsky.social re: J6.

“We think that having good media literacy skills is a very big civic skill,” Kiia Hakkala, a pedagogical specialist for the City of Helsinki, told The Associated Press. “It’s very important to the nation’s safety and to the safety of our democracy.”

You won't win fights you don't fight. And if there's someplace we all need to go, and you are elected as a leader, but you won't lead people there, then you're not a leader. www.the-reframe.com/being-more-l...

Not impeaching this president is an impeachable offense. Blocking articles of impeachment for this president is an impeachable offense. Not voting to remove this president is an impeachable offense. Ruling in favor of or voting for this president's policies is an impeachable offense.

RIP Béla Tarr. @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social, as always, rises to the occasion:

fuck outta here

The thing about having pedophile rapists run the country is they don’t know what consent looks like much less how to manufacture it

Finding out that RFK Jr was enthralled by TH White's The Once and Future King when he was a child, especially the chapter about the hawks. It's heartbreaking. In the story, the boy who'll eventually become King Arthur is basically being taught psychology, political science, and governance by Merlin

i think that people really underestimate reality that 1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man 2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually 3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas

Yes, what @davidjroth.bsky.social calls “grim and shameful … content creation [in] the absence of governance”.

As always, this John Bolton apologizes about that John Bolton.

What the fuck is this headline

LOL

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

these fucking people. they pass laws to make sure every person with a screw loose who wants an Armalite can show up to the day care armed & ready to kill, then complain that the day cares are locked to protect the children inside

Unofficial Christmas Spotify Wrapped #4 (a song that only gets greater every year that goes by) (I WAS SICK OF AMERICA AND HER SCREAMING DECAY) open.spotify.com/track/00MdC9...

“She is 100% right that public trust in mainstream media has vanished, but she will only ever reproduce the failures of credulous, lazy and ignorant elite journalism / Nor will she identify the role of right-wing media and its oligarch patrons in discrediting journalism / That’s why she has her job”

"They believed Ukraine was on the verge of failing. The fact that empirical evidence indicated the opposite didn’t bother them; if anything, they seemed to think they should help Ukraine fail faster to get it over with.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/30/world/europe/ukraine-war-us-russia.html

Long overdue and but better late than never!

The plan here seems pretty clear: Deputize the right and turn right-wing cultural warriors into an occupying army.

Once again, I'd like to say that Jim O'Neill (the guy speaking at the beginning of this clip) is a weird freak.

In the final ORR REPORT of 2025, City Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social looks back on an eventful year and looks ahead to the fight to evict Ken Sim in 2026. www.votecope.ca/news/the-orr... #vanpoli #FightForVancouver

For both Cuban and Musk, my emotions waver between revulsion and pity. They have all material things a person could want. They influence policy, culture, and how information is distributed. But their wealth literally precludes them from understanding the human condition. I think I would rather die

Say what you will about the Cowichan decision but the economic damage is mostly going to be from the telephone tag version that business people are hearing about rather than any actual implication of the ruling or any of the principles invoked

Top 1 Underrated “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch” lyrics: 1) You're a crooked jerky jockey / And you drive a crooked hoss

Calling out a fascist for taking a hypocritical position is easy. It's also a complete waste of time. Fascist rhetoric is aesthetics— pathos, never logos. You'll never get anywhere pointing out a fascist's hypocrisy. Fascism is not to be debated, it's to be smashed. Get comfortable using power.

“Growth is inevitable, and growth can be good! Let’s focus on consistent growth all the way up to two stories. We can even expand the idea of a city, and by expand, I mean twist and choke the idea of a city until it’s a suburb.”

Unofficial Christmas Spotify Wrapped #1 open.spotify.com/track/7rgnER...

Unofficial Christmas Spotify Wrapped #2 open.spotify.com/track/15PcHE...

Unofficial Christmas Spotify Wrapped #3 @raffic.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/7dGet7...

“The bullishness of the tech fraternity is a heady mix of old-fashioned hucksterism, plutocratic megalomania and utopian ideology.”

“what’s most depressing is the missed opportunity. It’s clear that Cameron has met Indigenous peoples and attended ceremonies and witnessed traditions. Instead of looking closely, asking questions and learning something, he has been far more interested in copying and pasting”

The one-two punch of totally reasonable and scientifically backed pandemic mitigation policies AND pressure to actually consider that black lives matter was a psychic breaking point for a certain subsection of upper middle class "respectable liberals".

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

This is a hugely upsetting story, and as a lifelong fan and supporter of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, I am hugely disappointed. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b79b4d4...

This statement is a sick joke. US foreign policy is a sick joke, being implemented by enemies of truth, freedom & democracy - people driven by personal greed & the opportunity to exploit the suffering of others by trading US power and prestige for death & business opportunities.

I have a band-aid on my toe and my toddler keeps saying "just like Santa Claus" when he notices it, and he also keeps talking about "the menorah in the monster truck", and I have no idea what's going on, but I am henceforth considering these expressions as official holiday sayings, feel feel to use.