Any form of media that involves an angry man telling an audience what to be angry about for several hours a day is probably not good for the human brain

If Lekkerimaki keeps this up some sushi joint in Vancouver should come up with a "Lekkeri Maki" and I want the credit. #Canucks

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

"i just use it to generate ideas"

Aesthetically, I am more convinced than ever that Ted Talks were fascist and conditioned people across the political spectrum to become submissive in the presence of secular, snake oil selling preachers

“Holy shit, I remember the backlash I got for appearing in Alvin and the Chipmunks! You would’ve thought that I had taken money from a bunch of people responsible for funding Al Qaeda!”

The film's as damning and epic and funny and unforgettable as everyone says it is, and but among many things I could say about it, at the end of the 1st act, there's what's already probably my 2nd fave chaconne from an original motion picture soundtrack: open.spotify.com/track/4BVZa3...

Absolutely beyond parody that Dave Chappelle is headlining a comedy show for Saudi royalty after what, a decade of whining about cancel culture

attacking communists helps fascists stop being a fucking idiot please

“An independent analysis of 45 right-wing groups advocating against trans rights found that 80% have received donations from fossil fuel companies or billionaires.”

I mean, when McSweeney’s throws in the towel of even trying to parody you …

“The entire program is lavishly and howlingly fascist, of course, but it is also so preposterous and so small … In the absence of governance, or just in its place, the state has taken up a grim and shameful kind of content creation.“ No one does it better than @davidjroth.bsky.social.

It's funny that Ta-Nehisi Coates actually pulled off the "retreat into the fortress of solitude so every time you emerge to say something it feels like a big deal" thing that Barack Obama tried but failed to pull off in his post-Presidency

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

Ben Shapiro and I talk de-escalation and I throw him the idol and he throws me the whip

The standing ovation in Parliament today to honour Charlie Kirk was one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever ... read about (Bruce, I'm sorry you had to see it, and but I'm happy I didn't have to see it).

"What our screens and online worlds deny us is the ability to contemplate one another as full people, as fellow humans, and - crucially, for a liberal democratic society - as fellow citizens."

The Washington Post’s decision to fire a Black opinion journalist for accurately quoting Charlie Kirke’s racism is a fitting tribute to “free speech” as Kirke and his hagiographers practiced it: whites only, flattering to the powerful, and in furtherance of a fascist agenda.

When you’re the paper of record and have definitely understood the franchise up until this point

“He was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct … It is rude of me to say all of this, because we live in a culture where manners are often valued more than truth.”

fbi puts another one in the books. closing the case the way most crime is solved: someone calls and tells them who did it.

“Stochastic violence born of narcissistic motives is an absolute gift to authoritarians in general and fascists in particular.”

“Like most good right-wing origin stories, Charlie’s began in resentment and ended in affirmative action for white people.”

Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.

Very, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers

The best 5 words about the USA ever

“I regret not knowing more," said commissioner Scott Jensen, who said the vote predated his knowledge that Rowling had funded legal cases challenging the definition of gender in Scotland. How on earth could any politician anywhere not know about this ?!?

Keep all commercial entertainment out of Stanley Park / X̱wáýx̱way, and but especially anything to do with JKR.

HOW DID PEOPLE KNOW WHERE TO GET A COKE BEFORE OPTIMUS

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

What happens when cruelty isn’t a byproduct of politics but the point itself? Enter Trump’s sadopopulism. Check out Jay Kuo's breakdown of this terrible ideology.

I saw both Hard Core Logo and Project Grizzly a few weeks apart in 1996 I when was 20.

They both taught me: 1) There’s no real line between comedy and pathos; 2) There’s no real line between fiction and non-fiction; 3) Great characters doing great things in great locations *are* your production value;

4) Failure is a more interesting subject than success (related: Canadian inferiority complexes are more interesting than American superiority complexes; and 5) Canadians can make fucking cool films. I was like: making movies like this is what I’m gonna try to do with my life. And fuck, I’ve tried!

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<stretches> <yawns> <reaches for phone> uh oh www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

But it's not a war, Konrad. It's an unjust invasion and occupation. Russia's military is unjustly targeting civilians. The Ukrainians are justly defending themselves by targeting Russia's military. Biden understood this. Trump doesn't understand anything. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Or maybe you could teach your kids to treat all people as deserving of respect and dignity. And maybe you could talk to your kids about homelessness, the unaffordability of housing and healthcare, the stigma around mental illness, and why it's not okay to call people crazy.

"People often wonder why Gen X in particular is so enamored of Trump. Well, could it be that they evince the same delayed development that always brings them back to their glory days."

Sure looks like the VPD purposefully and illegally ignored FOI requests, withheld data, and stoked fear around violent crime during an election year to help the mayoral candidate they endorsed win. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Air Canada's CEO admitting to the media that their entire plan for the flight attendants' strike was "have the government say they're not allowed" and that they have no other ideas about how to deal with the strike is really a "yeah this is how Canada REALLY works" moment if ever there was one

Trump's BLS pick EJ Antoni has said that Social Security, America's greatest anti-poverty program, is a "Ponzi scheme" that needs to be sunset. Reminder that BLS data is what determines annual cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security benefits. This is a five-alarm fire.

As it turns out, turning home ownership into the engine of middle class wealth has some pretty significant downsides in the long run

I am beginning to think that Republican transphobia does not, in fact, have fuck all to do with supporting the athletic endeavors of women

the dangerous pipeline of “the system has problems” -> “don’t trust the system” -> “what if we created our own system?”

You ability to "not talk about politics" is based entirely on your ability to be privileged enough to be unaffected by politics.