The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could

“…and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and oppression.”

“All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times…”

”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders. Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.

Feds now personalist and extortionate all the way down: FDA suggests “Moderna might have more luck with a second, narrower request for approval if the company showed some ‘humility’ when it made the submission.”

This is so absurd I have to think it’s divine vengeance for the Greenland stuff www.sportingnews.com/ca/olympics/...

Under pressure from Ontario, Diageo has agreed to what the government calls "$23 million in new investments" in ON, about half of which is just a commodity purchase of industrial alcohol for blending and not an investment as the word is commonly used. news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

wonder if Germans have some subject matter expertise in this or something

greatest headline of my adult life

well that hit me in the solar plexus

New from me at TVO: the allegations in Project South call for a root-and-branch effort to reform policing in Ontario. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

my t-shirt is raising many questions etc etc

This episode has been a nightmare for my city and state, but I hope people realize it’s also a profound defeat and political catastrophe for Trump and DHS, who are slinking away having accomplished nothing. Minneapolis simply wouldn’t bend to them and they lost

I’ve nodded to this when talking or writing about nimbys but ultimately many will say shut doors if cornered rhetorically. And I don’t think they have to be far right either. Or regular right.

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

In Sept. 2023, Gov't of Ontario made this chart, showing the province's housing starts target, and the private sector forecasts at the time. Sept. '23 forecast was 86K for each of 2025 and 2026. In reality, Ontario hit 65K last year; CMHC forecasts a further drop in 2026.

A fact that sounds like bullshit but is actually true: There is more square footage of parking *per car* in the US than there is square footage of housing *per person.*

Genuinely pretty sad about James Van der Beek.

Remarkable: Trump's deranged threat to block the bridge connecting Detroit to Canada is backfiring, giving Dems a big issue in 2026 races in Michigan, which could help decide control of Congress. Michigan Dems tell me they'll use this against Republicans big time: newrepublic.com/article/2064...

Obviously a very small thing, but I found Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-François Blanchet departing from French just now to speak in English to the families in Tumbler Ridge quite touching.

Oh hey how time flies. Five years since my 15 minutes of fame during COVID. www.youtube.com/live/JSs91J1...

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

As with QC, I find it very amusing that these people think they get to unilaterally re-draw Canada's borders but *their* borders will of course be sacrosanct.

"But the people from whom Carney would be seeking advice if he was really planning on an election tell me he is not talking to them about it, and the key constituency — small-c conservatives who reluctantly approve of Carney — would be alienated if he looks opportunistic, as he would."

"Was health care cheaper in the 1950s? Yes, though for many diseases, including heart conditions and cancer, treatment then consisted of asking whether you wished to see a priest, a minister, or a rabbi to send you off to the next world." www.grumpy-economist.com/p/misplaced-...

Gerard K. O'Neill spinning in his grave fast enough to create a pseudogravity of 1g.

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

Turns out the persecution of Christians is coming from inside the Trump White House

“It’s bullshit.”: Former Ontario finance minister @dwightduncan.bsky.social on Donald Trump’s claims about the Gordie Howe International Bridge. Full interview: youtu.be/6R-Up6_uk0k

BAAAAAAABE BABE BABE BABE WAKE UP THEY’RE RECREATING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES

CALLED IT www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...

Ring pissed off the WeRateDogs guy, almost gotta admire the level of malice that requires

Relevant to my neighbourhood (I swim at the current community centre pool or use the fitness room nearly every day, dark and early.) Current CC was built in the 70s IIRC and it uh definitely feels its age most days.

Ontario reporting an interim estimated deficit for 2025-26 of $13.4 billion, an incremental improvement from the $13.5 billion reported in the Fall Economic Statement. news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

New from me at TVO: Okay, I had to write about the bridge thing. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

Canada agreed to pay for the full cost of construction, land acquisition on the US side, and connecting Interstate highway links, AND also isn't charging tolls on the US side of the bridge. This amounts to saying America should be allowed to steal Canadian money.

sorry bud for this to work you gotta win silver or better

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"I didn't leave even a single one of my children on Epstein's island" uh whatchu want, a cookie? speaking as a Canadian I will just say Lutnick deserves every second of this

Chunyun for Chinese New Year is the world's largest annual human migration event. Guangzhou South Railway Station is loading and sending off as much as 17 high speed trains every 20 mins yesterday. It was doing the same today. It will do the same tomorrow.

Huh, the Maroun family donations to Trump have paid off

Yes, Europe will take the currency differential that boosted the US automakers bottom line since the 1960s until Pres Trump went out of his way to nuke our relationship with Ottawa.

Tesla isn't going to build EVs, it's going to build humanoid robots. SpaceX isn't going to Mars, it's going to the Moon. X was going to be where you did all your banking. Forget we ever said that. This is what bullshit looks like when it starts to unravel.

Every once in a while I remember that Liz Truss was the UK PM for like 90 minutes but it just happened to be the 90 minutes when Queen Elizabeth II died and I shake my head all over again.

I'm still waiting for someone to elaborate the actual argument Carney would make for a snap election beyond "I want a majority and we've tapped out all the floor-crossers", because success in the ensuing contest rests on that argument a) existing and b) being communicated well.