A lot of folks, especially in publishing, think contrarianism is a sign of intellectual rigour & independence, but more often than not, especially as its used as a content mill, it’s a condition of those lacking enough imagination and empathy to imagine life as anyone other than themselves right now

Fuck the fascist Israeli government and every war criminal involved in this genocide.

Once Frank dies, people are going to insist that you can't say bad things about him, which is why it's more important than ever that you say all the bad things about him right now. Time's running out!

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

May 5 is Red Dress Day, the national day of awareness and remembrance for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQ+ people. Today is about honouring those taken and recognizing the ongoing impact on families and communities.

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

Anyone who thinks the Catholic Church is friendly to trans people now should listen to this podcast.

In today’s video, I’m going to show you a clip. In it, Israel’s national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir can be seen toasting champagne to celebrate a apartheid law enacting a death penalty for Palestinians. I reached out to our foreign affairs minister to ask about it. Here’s what happened:

petrol is a death cult

Force of nature 🥲

Every year, January to April, people accuse me of fearmongering in my reporting. Every year around this time, bills pass. And without fail, every year, the ratchet tightens. And now Idaho just passed a bill that could put me in prison for years—for washing my hands in a bathroom.

Exciting news—We've finally found a way to do a paid indie media bundle so you don't have to separately subscribe to so many newsletters. Now you can get a 30-day trial of @katelynburns.com @kattenbarge.bsky.social and my publications in your inbox for one [heavily discounted] price! Sign up now:

Woman in Cambridge, MD hired some contractors and then called ICE on them just before they finished so she wouldn't have to pay them the $10k she owes them. She even provides ICE a ladder to help them get the contractors.

This was the neoliberal idea behind free trade. Divert the gains into training and education to shift workers into new trades. It failed miserably. The backlash to that helped bring about Trump. This backlash will be an order of magnitude worse.

BrightDrop electric delivery vans should've been a Canadian success story.  Instead, after $500M in federal investments, GM abandoned the 1000+ @unifor.org Local 88 workers at the plant. I was in Ingersoll recently hearing about how we can save these good, union jobs and Canada's EV future.

1/ We're in yet another oil shock. It will produce yet another inflation crisis. Another recession is likely. It's a great time to remember that actually...the future is electric! We need to invest in Canadian security, stability, and energy independence. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

⭕️ New: Ben-Gvir shares execution platform footage as death penalty push escalates Quds News Network shares Israeli Nat'l Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s latest video showing a physical execution platform for Palestinians, as his bill to implement the death penalty against detainees advances...

Dude... I try not to give Ben Ryan the attention he seems to want so badly, but it is really disturbing the way he posts obsessively about Alejandra and Erin and a few other prominent trans women on Twitter all day.

Look, again, as I've said over and over and over, it would be one thing if the people obsessing over trans people in sports were interested in some sort of compromise. But they're just... not. www.readtpa.com/p/fine-lets-...

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

And again I ask, why the fuck are people still on the Nazi child sex abuse app?

Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night. This is a press freedom issue. Here’s what happened:

i have been to the emergency room for a dental abscess. it is a uniquely excruciating kind of pain. this man was tortured to death via medical neglect.

1/ This is utterly incoherent. What Canadians need to hear from our Prime Minister right now is simple: call for a ceasefire and immediately withdraw your misguided support for Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal war. www.instagram.com/reel/DVcJjIP...

I know it's not a popular opinion, but why do we have any exchange program with a hostile foreign power that has commented on its desire to annex us? I'm not sure even NORAD is worth it at this point.

Carney could've just fucking said this

Repeat after me: being bombed to hell is not liberation or democracy. It is imperialism.

"Contrary to media caricatures, most working-class people are not in fact knuckle-dragging racists."

The kerfluffle over the hockey teams does make one wonder if the rightwing cares quite as much about women's sports as it's been insisting...

...today we get Jesse Singal in the New York Times with the "gender-affirming care is new & experimental" – here's a short 🧵 about Jesse's biases & history: bsky.app/profile/juli...

The great trans migration

Bookmarking this so the next time some cultist tells me this asshole is our only hope in 2028 I can reply with this clip of Newsom calling gay marriage "abnormal" and "not a tabletop issue" Gay people have tables too, Gavin

Hoocoodanode the giant environment destroying rape culture theft machine would do rape culture shit?!

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

Pretty amazing considering how much hate is being thrown at the LGBTQ+ community.

This whole fight over transgender stuff happening on X is so weird to me. The most notable thing about trans issues in the last 5 years has been the enormous, coordinated anti-trans activism campaign across the right, aided by moral cowards in the center. But that campaign is *never mentioned*.

One thing that may dramatically shake up our political life on this planet is the advent of a strong new El Niño. (Also our, you know, life life) billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...

This is so predictable and gross.

If you want to understand why the BBC's stance on trans rights - only platforming cis people (and only those with a sceptical perspective) - is so outrageous imagine if it only platformed men talking about women's rights (and only those with a sceptical perspective).

another guy who never protested before radicalized to the point of tears by watching masked ICE agents terrify children in his neighborhood the Republicans are not ready or mentally capable of comprehending the backlash they have generated

#Canada should do a similar inquiry.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

I joined the Times Tech Report to talk about how AI data centers are the next financial crisis. Their massive up-front costs and burdensome debt require perfection - constant tenancy and no missed payments - and capacity is being built for demand that doesn't exist. youtu.be/iG8kjXN550o?...

A police corruption scandal in Toronto once again raises the concern of cops’ access to our personal information. From street checks to stalking, @desmondcole.bsky.social Cole looks back on how personal data in police hands is ripe for abuse. youtu.be/gJ2gbh3IUkE

Thanks to the good folks at @thetyee.ca for republishing my piece from today

No I'm not a defense expert that has been snuggling up to the US military and defense contractors. The threat posed by climate change greatly exceeds all threats from Russia except nuclear but the F35 do nothing about that. Beside vague comments what do you believe is the actual threat?