Alberta is rich by any standards. Yet still the populists are in the ascendancy as elsewhere. Global progressives with their typical pained desire to help the left behind are the useful idiots in this story. Social media the prime obvious culprit. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Hal Ashby's HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971). ❤️ Equal parts gallows humor and romantic innocence, Ashby's film dissolves the line between darkness and light along with the ones that separate people by class, gender, and age

Farage complaining that info on his five million pound bribe was leaked by Russian hackers is like complaining that your child sex dungeon was discovered by burglars.

Here's this week's "Give me a ballroom" fake assassination attempt

Oh, I see, so *now* everyone in Sunderland is happy to be in Europe.

Steve Baker is concerned a future Rejoin campaign might be dishonest and be about vibes. Baker also says how voters are bothered about dishonesty in public life. Yes really. Some things he says are right (IMO) but he is saying them. A pointer that we have to get past the Brexit generation of MPs.

🗣️ MASSIE: The ballroom is such an egregious waste of money… I like to joke that Miriam Adelson spent so much money in my race that they have to ask for taxpayer money now. Trump was bragging on the Roman architecture when in fact we're operating like a Roman Empire.”

in a just world, the LIFE columnist who wrote this in April 1970 should've been forced to wear a dunce cap and clown nose under pain of death for the remainder of his years

❗️Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Orban has condemned the massive Russian strike on Kyiv, stating that civilians should not wake up to rockets and explosions.

Lewis Hamilton, there. Channeling the ghosts of Prince and 1970’s television reception.

i think some pro-AI people are also taken aback by what feels like the sudden implication that they’re not cool when they’ve been told the last couple of years how they’re on the cutting edge and anyone who didn’t get on board would end up looking like a loser when maybe it’s the other way around

one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)

Amazing stuff.

Musk admitted DOGE cut Ebola prevention then lied about restoring it. Trump cut USAID to DRC from $715 million to $67 million. RFK Jr shut down NIH Ebola research and fired the scientists. Three men. Three documented failures. Outbreak undetected for 6 weeks. Every single one of these was a choice

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Well played to West Ham. I always feel for any team who is relegated. Related to this, can cameras stop focusing on crying children? I hate it. Those kids are distressed and it isn’t entertainment.

The media has done as much to aid and abet Trump's crime spree as his accomplices.

Good morning! ☕️🌧️☔️🌸🎶☮️💗

My local Tesco supermarket is now about a week into a complete breakdown of all its fridges and freezers. And what strikes me most is the almost complete disregard being shown to customers. A few printed A4 notes of apology. I suspect staff are being treated equally badly.

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

This looks like bullshit stenography to me. Glen Owen also ‘reported’ Farage’s lies about French police & a monoglot mechanic ‘telling him’ his car had been ‘tampered with’ in an ‘assassination attempt’ when he was trying to distract attention from something else. Also, Putin *wants* him to be PM!

As per usual. He released information about the suspected shooter. Way before law enforcement had properly begun investigating the incident. Like he had information on the 'suspect' already.

The more we learn about data centers, the less we find to love: www.techradar.com/pro/arizona-...

Too many people have accepted Donald Trump’s presidency as "normal." Too many believe there is nothing we can do, and that we simply need to outlast his term. We cannot endure 29 more months with this mendacious, narcissistic, rapist, wannabe dictator who is selling us out to the highest bidder.

Most Caribbean countries have restrictions on entry. Bahamas will only allow felons who have *completed* their sentences. A total of 38 countries will not allow felons to enter. #ProudBlue

“One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

A total U.S. surrender.

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” apnews.com/article/just...

This headline is hilarious when you learn that the rocket toppled over in a fiery explosion on landing

Did it happen at the corner of Epstein Ct. & Distraction Ln.?

This is what the antivax movement does to kids. You are under no obligation to kowtow to these people when they try to impose their delusionals on your school districts or anywhere else.

Offline is the new luxury Art by Juan Brufal

www.newsweek.com/secret-servi... Reichstag Fires and their patsies lose impact quickly after the first three or four.

The fake assassination attempts will continue until the poll numbers improve, huh? 🤣

One thing I love about "ET" is how it time-freezes the last gasp of subdivisions in LA's hills & Valley. I related to riding bikes with friends over graded terraces for homes, making jumps out of plywood. This intersection is at Beaufait & Darby in Porter Ranch (1982 vs. 2022).

Plus - Harborne makes millions from his investments in pro Russian Rumble. As for his brother…

When the next outage occurs, I'm sure no one will put two and two together Mainly because they've already been laid off

Human safari goes on: Russian operators deliberately wound pensioners aged 83, 80, and 69, who can’t escape their FPVs in Kherson Oblast Ukraine's Prosecutor General documented 5,303 drone-attack proceedings in Kherson Oblast alone the previous day euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/23/r...

I’d like to add something else to this convo: many of people who qualify for permanent residency in the United States would no longer qualify if they went home — because their existing visa is on the basis of refugee status (fear of home) or a job they’d lose. Like it’s absurd at every level.

While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Congratulations on your wedding Don Jr. Sorry for distracting your Dad with this important work.

⚠️ Lindsey Graham is upset, so the US might be getting closer to a deal with Iran:

I love how he must have been told "go like that with your fingers" and he didn't realise he was meant to be holding the nail, not just making a strange sign for good luck or something. It's like a human form of AI, being shown something and not quite understanding what or why you are being shown

With Trump‘s corrupt slush fund dominating the news, he needs a new distraction.

Trump’s DOJ is brazenly deleting history from its website, removing information about the indictments and sentences of Jan. 6 Capitol rioters who attacked police.

Thank Farage www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

In new episode of #SistersInLaw, we discussed Trump’s $1.7B slush fund. As you can see, I am not letting this go. It is an outrage, and we can’t let the next outrage overshadow it. We do have some ideas—a bill to refund its funding. www.politicon.com/podcast-epis...