An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car. Our car culture summed up in one video.

🤤 (shocked, shocked I tell you)

Listen, normally I'm mostly a "I hope both teams have fun" kinda gal, but I need the Blue Jays to crush the Trump-hand-shaking Yankees in a way that will make them fear the call of that goddamn bird outside their windows for the rest of their careers

No reason for this to be happening in 2025. In my view, those who have helped promote vaccine hesitancy shoulder part of the blame. Measles is not safe for mothers or their babies. The vaccine is safe and it works. Fact.

existential crisis at the drive-thru

Covid is a social justice issue. Mitigations like masks, anti virals, air purifiers and tests cost money. We should have free respirators in public places. Mandatory masking in hospitals. Clean air benchmarks. Paid time off. Those steps would drastically reduce spread.

Got my COVID booster today! Don't let the 'guidelines' lie to you, the vaccines are not limited to 65+ or immunocompromised people. Go get your shot, and help reduce spread for those vulnerable folks.

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

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I think in the long run, the really big story of this era is that about a dozen absolutely massive corporations took control of unprecedented swaths of the economy, human attention, and the flow of information. I think many of our problems are downstream from that.

RIP to Jane Goodall, who opened the world's eyes to our closest relatives. (Photo by NatGeo's Hugo Van Lawick)

How, exactly, do the Canadian Armed Forces deploy on operations with an ally who doesn't respect ROEs?

Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Vaccines need to roll out before the start of the school year. Because I’m starting to see a pattern emerge of “summer flu”* hitting people at the end of August / beginning of September. Why? Because people catch it on vacation and spread it in school. *COVID

PSA: Ontario #Covid vaccines available for high risk/priority individuals starting w/o Sept 22 (now) (Flu shots Oct 14). Free flu and covid shots will be available to the general public Oct 27. More in link, including pharmacy locations. *Website may change over time* www.ontario.ca/vaccine-loca...

Not just David!

Carney’s closing rural post offices and end door to door delivery. Building Canada, eh

Canada nation built (and built and built and built) until the 1970s, then began the great dismantling. I'd pin it to Mulroney era when rails were ripped out across country & Chretien/Harris pulling out of housing funding/backstopping. Canada Post stuff is just another dismantling moment.

“it is neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say we knew how to protect you and we just didn’t do it.”

French President Emmanuel #Macron: "All lives are equally valuable. And the duty that we all have is to protect one another – a duty that is indivisible, just like our humanity.." "I declare that, today, France recognizes the State of Palestine."

Exactly!

"Tylenol is dangerous for women and children," say men who have spent the last eight years making life more dangerous for women and children

“Extracurricular” is doing a lot of work there - seems more like shovelling money into his pockets is his main activity, and any actual “journalism” is purely coincidental. Thanks @lukelebrun.ca for reporting on this!

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Networks—especially ABC, Disney, Hulu, and CBS—need to hear this: you’re standing on the wrong side of history, bending the knee to authoritarianism before the fight even begins, even though the law’s on your side. You’re losing viewers. We’re not going to stand w/you when you’re not standing w/us!

Proud that we’ve finally done this, sad that it took this long.

You don't have to go 40k km to find the Canadian anti-vaxxers who lowered the drawbridge to let measles back in. This whole story is about finding foreigners to blame for the results of Canadians refusing to get vaccinated. It's a breathtakingly xenophobic angle to take on a domestic health issue.

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

The problem is not the kids. It’s cuts to funding to support the needs of the kids. Community mental health. EAs. Special education and ESL teachers. OT. PT. CYW. Classroom teachers are not therapists or specialists. Inclusion without support is abandonment. #OntEd

Lavrov: The Russian army never strikes at civil society and the civilian population. Liar. Warmonger. Criminal.

Good. This province is in *desperate* need of an alternative to Doug Ford, and she wasn't it. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Charlie Kirk in 2023: "It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment." He was wrong. No child, no moviegoer and no conservative commentator should have to die to maintain this perverted notion of the 2nd Amendment.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

At least 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish air space last night. This was not an accidental breach or a mistake.

Area man who dropped out of college and worked at his dad’s business before becoming premier and only showing up for work 50% of the time stands on the lawn of the home he inherited from his mom to tell young people that if they can’t find a job it’s because they’re not looking hard enough.

These motherfuckers are so racist and so don't care.

Opinion: PM after PM and Premier after Premier have done nothing to fix one of the most overloaded traffic and transit networks in the world in and around our largest city, Toronto. If Canada is serious about being more productive, encourage remote work while fixing the commuting nightmare.

I wonder if some politicians support harmful antivax policies just to put another nail in the coffin of expertise? If experts are ‘another opinion’ then governments can do whatever and are the only authority. Also true: those who support democracy, support expertise. #Antivaxxer #Science

Toronto Liberal MP calls for sanctions on Israel. He will sure catch hell for this, as anybody in Canada's establishment who speaks up does, but good for him.

Youth unemployment rates are high. The Canada Summer Jobs wage subsidy could be beefed up to support small businesses and organizations in hiring youth, and to help youth get valuable job experience. globalnews.ca/news/1139118...

Mark Carney's Parliamentary Secretary Explains Why That Project 2025 Guy Totally Ghosted Him youtu.be/MV0-SXL6zi4?...

Amen to all of this www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social