I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

For decades the Right has daydreamed about saving their country from monsters, they finally got the chance and it turns out they love the monsters. The monsters are even monstrous in the exact ways they fantasized about! You never have to listen to these guys about anything again

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scully: but why would the government lie about something thats clearly and easily proven false? mulder: *throws her a file* Scully are you fucking serious?

Important perspective from Greenland.

And if they want to be cowards that’s fine, just don’t collect the paycheck. Get a different job. Give it to one of those freezing Minnesotans they seem up to it.

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

I'd like to make an oblique Cassini map projection as I *think* it has properties I'd like for movement modeling. I've found 3 sources that intimate it can be done, but mostly note it replaced by the oblique Mercator. Anyone happen to have any suggestions for a place to look? #gischat

Canadian faculty & students are prevented from accessing their own work at Canadian universities… by U.S. trade policy. This scandalous extraterritoriality is just the tip of the iceberg of Canada's vulnerability to U.S. tech aggression. I explain in @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/business/opi....

They like Trump and didn't like Biden

“Why are Europeans and Canadians so mean?” Because our country threatened a war of aggression. “Why aren’t Americans doing anything?” 1500 US Army arctic warfare specialists are literally incapable of deploying to Greenland due to domestic protests over dissidents being publicly murdered.

Literally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!

It’s important to understand we need to have this as our Government or taxes could be raised on the 500 wealthiest people by 6%

I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

It is time to eradicate AI from all educational environments. Find another way. Maybe teach kids about AI like when we learned about drugs in middle school. “The risks of AI outweigh the benefits” - new report about AI in elementary schools.

no one: the president of the united states: they wont stop checking me for brain damage

This is one of the prongs of the multi-pronged Trumpist attack on Canadian sovereignty: the right wing commentariat in Canada will pave the way for normalizing American aggression IN THE NAME OF PROTECTING CANADA It's topsy turvy logic, but this is the world we live in.

you could see the panic; it was like when a new worker shows up at a job and starts actually doing it, exposing everyone who had just been sitting around

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

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you’re already ahead. stay with it. minneapolis stripped these forces of legitimacy (a battle other cities won’t have to repeat). remember they are completely outmanned. their only real advantage is their organizational capacity. out-organize them & the illusion of control will collapse.

a blue whale’s anus can stretch up to over 3 feet making it the 2nd largest asshole in the world behind jd vance

The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished. I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy. Time to melt ICE.

the thing about that “first they came for” poem is that we’re at least halfway through it, and it’s not a very long poem

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

I’m an American and I hate all of this evil shit. All of it. Fuck you if you don’t.

@theonion.com doesn’t miss.

Apple Photos Reminds Man He Was Nude In Capitol Building 5 Years Ago

I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.

"It turns out that mostly when people say ‘New York is noisy’ they really mean 'cars are noisy.'"

Being profoundly upset about the 51st state stuff was not an unreasonable reaction.

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

it is a little disconcerting that none of the people in charge of anything right now seem to know how to do it. like, if you were on a bus and the driver started whipping around all crazy and yelling about how buses don’t need wheels you’d probably be like, hey. this guy shouldn’t be driving the bus

The moderate position is indeed The Hague

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There are multiple national political commentators who earnestly predicted that Eric Adams would be a legitimate presidential candidate and a national figurehead of the Democratic party by now and those commentators still have careers somehow.

It’s too late, I have already portrayed myself as Chortling Bernie and you as Seething Eric Adams