I’d like to think this is some Jonathan Swift level satire, but satire is dead

Trust the cops to bring guns to a snowball fight.

under no circumstances should anyone yell anything as universally popular as "release ALL the epstein files, you pedophile protector" while Trump is speaking, that would be a breach of decorum and will only result in good things for you

Alan Cumming explains why trans people are like superheroes

Grew up in the 60s/70s, hate that this word is in my brain. (Along with many other slurs that were common currency at the time.)

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

We make the countries we move to better, anyway. Our mother countries may be the less for our departure.

Carney tried to bury an undemocratic power grab in a 600-page omnibus budget bill. It’s not too late to stop this egregious legislation – if we act now. share.nwmd.social/s/AhjaNlc9

a trans woman i know is being deported back to the USA due to the Home Office messing up paperwork. her wife is desperately trying to raise the funds to prevent this. they have 48 hours before she’s put on a plane and might never be able to return. please, help if you can. they’re both terrified.

Rare opportunity to catch a streaming viewing of Gary Hustwit’s ENO documentary. Five screenings over four days, each one different due to the generative nature of the film. Various times to accommodate multiple timelines. www.chanceoperations.com/events

"That’s why it’s important that Minnesota be not just a shining example of what can be done. It needs to be a harbinger of what’s going to be done. It needs to be a model not just admired but emulated. We should all be Minnesotans now." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

ICE is detaining LGBT+ asylum seekers with no criminal record and separating same-sex families, even when people are following the law. This is happening right now. I just signed this petition – can you add your name too? a.allout.org/s/O53MQ/

#cdnpoli #CanadaSky

Part of my theory of change is to share the words white men need to hear, spoken by white men. This is because creating defections is crucial to stopping authoritarianism and democratic backsliding. This is because almost everyone else is already off the Trump train.

/me points and laughs GenAI is contemporary snake oil. LLMs have value and valid uses, but the GenAI fantasy promoted by OpenAI et al is going to cost us.

✨ WHAT ELEGANT STARS is now funding ✨ satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

If you still have a Ring camera, you may want to think about replacing it with something a little less Continental Panopticon. www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

Guess Viagra should be regarded the save way, then

Pass this on to anyone who has Ring, and hates ICE

@hootsuite.com have a contract with for use of their social media management tools. Call on them to cancel it: Sign here: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ho... you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ho...

They shouldn’t have given that contract to Ea-Nāsir

404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts www.404media.co/watch-404-me...

“One Nation Under A Groove”, indeed.

I bought my first new electric guitar at Steve’s on Queen West in Toronto some ::checks notes:: 45 years ago? No, that can’t be right. Still have the guitar.

America take note: “Without a deliberate effort to rebuild democratic culture, post-authoritarian societies risk becoming democracies in name only. Elections return, but fear and distrust remain. Free speech exists on paper, but silence persists in practice.” truthout.org/articles/the...

Yep. There’s no going back to normal. Normal is what led you here.

Hey Canada, please support petition e-7133 calling for a parliamentary investigation into foreign (American) interference in our country. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Probably too close to the truth to actually be funny

"The Stranger's Case," William Shakespeare Sir Thomas Moore: Act II Scene 4 ___ Imagine that you see the wretched strangers, Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage, Plodding to the ports and costs for transportation ...

The sandwich of solidarity

Authorship debated, performance unparalleled.

The shell game continues

This is the correct way to police ICE. And it drives the far right nuts. Good.

They learned this from Canada. Starlight Tours, Saskatoon Freezing Deaths. They are still happening in Canada and expanded to the US, where it was used on Indigenous people, then ICE started doing it to people they took.

Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.

C’mon, Maine, step up and show these farging ICE-holes they aren’t wanted.

When’s the trial begin?

We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org. www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...

Child in Texas:

They certainly should be

"The Founding Fathers wept. Somewhere, a federal HR manager clutched their chest and whispered, 'No. Not like this.' "We proved that you can bring a trillion-dollar security apparatus to its knees with one well-aimed rubber cock." www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-... #Delightful

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

In his most direct protest song in a long career of activism, Bruce Springsteen is singing about the ICE occupation in an incendiary new tune “Streets of Minneapolis."

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

Hey, Toronto. An awesome local bookstore needs your help to create their new event space!

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

Pathetic little men.