Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Collins First Nation can’t be assured of federal help because Canada systematically discriminates against Indigenous people in too many ways to name. This time, Minister of Indigenous Services says the community “exists in a policy gap”. JFC. www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/2026/...

Condolences to his wife and two children. Rest in peace, Nicholas Dale. Thank you for your service. “He was a very caring, experienced man who loved the job he was in. It says a lot about the man that he was over there, in another country” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Listen I will just say to any American politicians who are just watchimg their colleagues issue veiled threats at Canada for having wildfires in one of the largest boreal forests in the world you better not issue any "please buy or wine and visit our casino" notices

My favorite way to put this, as someone who studied Classical History in actual college (not just on Twitter): If you told an ancient Roman or Athenian that his culture had "more in common" with a German or Briton than with an Egyptian or Ethiopian, he'd punch you in the throat.

short version: the best version of Robin Hood ever put on screen is effectively a gay shakesperean proto-furry. oo-de-lally!

"what radicalized you?" "when i was 7 i watched a chicken sing a sad protest song in jail, a mother rabbit sacrifice her own food to feed her children, and a badger cleric get arrested for standing up to injustice."

The fires in Ontario - like so many others - demonstrating viscerally how climate change perpetuates the displacement and dispossession of Indigenous peoples, who have least contributed to emissions and over and over again put their bodies on the line to prevent fossil fuel development.

For folks struggling to figure out how to deal with wildfire smoke, I put together some information a few years ago: apihtawikosisan.com/2023/09/miti...

Louis XIV would approve. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_...

Heat got you down? Try some light climate reading! Here's a snippet from Very Serious Mark Carney's book Value(s). "Actions speak louder than words. Credible climate policies should cut emissions from day one to reduce the end point in carbon concentrations." (p.296).

Same experience today, but now because of the smoke. Apologies for mentioning this, though, since worrying about climate change is a Trudeau-era fad that we’re supposed to have moved on from.

Um, Mark, honey…

The Canadian media has mainly been reporting the government-speak, without getting into details or implications. The US reporting is offering more details, including what Trump has been able to extract from us ($) by holding the #GordieHowe bridge opening hostage:

I do like the idea of becoming a climate critic * Last Glacial Maximum: cold, liked the furry animals, too dusty. 3 stars * Holocene: 5 stars, great while it lasted * +2C: went in with low expectations and was still disappointed, one star

MAINE CHARACTER SYNDROME

He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...

FIFA headquarters are in Switzerland the Swiss FA have come out against FIFA's decision.

I'm not sure I've ever seen a less likeable underdog than Paraguay

Ever hear this saying? "It's not the fire that damages the house, it's the fire department putting it out." Simply, if the fire is small enough, the fire department will put so much water on it that the water damage will exceed the damage caused by the fire up until the point it was extinguished.

Remember why we fight.

Okay but what’s in it for Substack aside from wanting to platform the widest variety of cranks possible, oh I see, that is the point, I figured it out while typing this

Today is Moving Day in Quebec. Every year on this day, thousands of Quebec residents load up trucks and vans to move residences. The origin of Moving Date dates back centuries to the era of New France. This is the story. 📸 Montreal Gazette Archives 🧵 1/7

Zlatan so mad at the Dutch for being cowardly, he called them the most offensive thing he could think of, “Italians”.

Throw like a girl 🦾🥳

You’ve bared your last naked ladies. Wait.

I'm so fucking tired of hearing that trans kids need to eat shit. That we need to let lawless bygones be bygones. That data centers get all our water and we just need to adjust to the future. That the Supreme Court is static and we just need to sit there and not have rights.

it's always cute when Americans are like "LOL. Europe. we put aircon in ancient buildings ALL THE TIME it's easy." then you look and they mean sticking window units in some wooden buildings younger than my wardrobe.

I am counting on Seattle to be the gayest city ever during this match. I want to see rainbows for miles.

The Court's GOP justices love to talk a big game about defending people's religious rights but they really only care about *some people & *some religions A Black man in a Louisiana jail is not one of those people and Rastafarianism is not one of those religions ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/lando...

Egypt and Iran have requested that Pride events in Seattle during their World Cup match be canceled and… no. Welcome to Seattle. This might be the most patriotic I’ve felt in my life. Pride isn’t happening during your game; you’re here during Pride. Suck a rainbow. apnews.com/article/worl...

In this star-studded ad, Haaland is one of the standouts. youtu.be/IyZ1WIua_1s?...

turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart

Right now, the US Govt can’t get algae out of a pond, don’t let’s trust anyone on planetary geoengineering.

NYT: Can you now say whether you will hold anyone in your administration accountable for the strike on a school that killed more than 100 children? TRUMP: No. It's such a strange question to be asked. It's a long time ago. Mistakes are made. I would ask Pete Hegseth that question.

He said: "I will defend my title against all comers, none barred. By this I mean white, black, Mexican, Indian, or any other nationality....If I am not the best man in the heavyweight division, I don't want the title." 📸 Library of Congress 🧵 5/10

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-fascist German Lutheran pastor who opposed Hitler and the Nazi Party so effectively that they murdered him in 1945. He is only a bad guy if you literally spend all your time on far-right, neo-Nazi websites and have pickled your brain in fascist group chats.

For a second I read this as Mississauga and felt how the tenor of the horror changed, from stupefaction to despair.

2) How do you track and manage children online? The only way to do it, such that it works, is very invasive and privacy controlling. Which means tracking and managing adults as well. Tracking and managing everyone at all times to verify the content is appropriate to the age.

It is Pride Month. Throughout this month, I will be sharing the stories of how Canadians fought for equality. Today it is the story of The 1977 Halifax Protest.

"Canada, come get your people" It's not just that wealthy countries are promoting companies that violate human rights It's also that I can't see how this helps Canadian economic growth. Companies extract wealth from Africa, and send it to shareholders www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/c...

CMOT Dibbler…?

"Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 billion in new apartments in places nobody wants them...."

Canada just got lectured on forced labour by a country with 12-cent prison wages.

"trans kids and immigrants aren't bankrupting farms" "trans kids and immigrants didn't blow up the middle east" make republicans go into detail as to why it matters! It's only going to make them sound insane.