What is in the air in San Diego tonight? The pitchers are just walking everyone

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PLAKATA! VLADDY IS BACK-ATA!

Vlad crushed that one! looked like 2025 Vlad

One more from the NYT, for which a team of 14 journalists gathered & analyzed new video evidence in the ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, which makes it yet more likely to be a case of murder. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

It can be instructive to imagine the reaction if Justin Trudeau (or most PMs before him) were announcing huge spending commitments with as little explanation and as much just-trust-me attitude as Mark Carney is doing. My weekend column: www.thestar.com/business/hey...

Another ICE shooting by @deAdder Substack: open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

Blazers, City of Kamloops planning public event for Stankoven’s day with Stanley Cup #Kamloops

Someone said it looks like a suburban Thai restaurant lol

If this is accurate it is hugely disappointing and a bad sign for CUSMA/USMCA. It is also another reason why Canadians will not be able to fully trust any American administration in the future. Awful.

there’s no way this is the same brain i used to remember phone numbers with

He has a Bachelor of Arts in political science and philosophy...

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

Merritt emergency room to shutter as city hosts music festival, wildfire crews, evacuees #Merritt

Where is George going with the Dragon 🤣🐉

The Padres got to Varland to make it really close, but the Bluejays win! Everyone in PetCo was on their feet for that last pitch.

2026 Blue Jays game-by-game record: 🅆🅆WLWLLLLLLWWLLWLLLLWWWLLWWLWWLWWLLLLWWLLL🅆LWWLLWWWWLLWWWWLLLLWLWWL🅆LWLLWWWLWWLLLLLLWLWWLLLWWW

This is the reverse of Paris, Texas

Sorry Bluejays, I just don’t believe there is a real guy named Chad Dallas

Bluejays take the lead on an Okamoto 3-run homer! Luck of the Dragon!

Naylor stole his 19th base tonight! 🇨🇦

You can find Makayla Brosius on her bike, whether at the Juan de Fuca BMX track in Colwood, at Langford’s Jordie Lunn Bike Park, or on elite level tracks around the world. https://cheknews.ca/shes-amazing-young-vancouver-island-bmx-rider-competing-at-world-championships-1335304/

Every full professor needs a tweed blazer, right? I just scored this one at Value Village for only $12!

Sounds like Carney got Trumped

Detroit News says US is getting half the toll revenue, that wasn't supposed to happen until after Canada's costs were repaid www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...

Oh so we CAVED caved www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It starts with fun. A laugh. A few steps into the water. A choice that seems harmless. 👉 The Thompson River can change everything in seconds.

Rumours that @kateheartfield.com has been consulted on how to best protect the tapestry from marauding Nazi psychics are not being confirmed at this time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Dr. Phillip Chandler, St. Elsewhere.

I want to be high brow and say something like Philidelphia or The Hurricane (both tremendous films where he turns in an amazing performance). But, if I'm honest... The Equalizer.

Regret the impact on California wine growers but CA is part of a country that has made devastating choices internationally and former allies must react accordingly. Not Canada’s business to distinguish between Kentucky and California. The tariff policy is the same. Sorry.

Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing.

Honestly, I loved him in Gladiator 2. He just absolutely embodied that role. I found myself watching his character more than the others.

Devil in a Blue Dress

Question for Bluesky: What is your favourite Denzel Washington role? For me it is John Creasy. I haven’t watched Man on Fire in 20 years, but his performance stuck with me.

So the Wine Institute, which is very mad about tariff consequences, backed pro-Trump candidates 8-7, counting the two Newhouse donations. Thune, who has a big hammer as Senate majority leader, has said some tariff-critical things, but when the chips are down: thehill.com/homenews/sen...

In sum:

Vancouver approved $4.75 million to make five blocks of Granville Street car free for seven more weeks. But the organizations they gave the money to — the VPD and BIA — can't say what that money will be spent on. Here's our story on a plan being made up on the fly. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The cost should just be the barriers

If the Vancouver police can’t explain why they need an extra $200,000 a week on top of their $497 million budget to police five blocks of car free activities, then I can make videos pointing out how much that works out to every hour for every block. We’ll update if they provide more information.

very few things have challenged my libertarianism like legalized sports betting smartphone apps

I truly don’t see how this country can go on if we don’t ban online sports betting. This story is stomach-turning.

Today’s Tour de France stage goes up Col du Tourmalet from the La Mongie side, but they don’t finish at Luz-Ardiden like one might expect. But we get to see Cirque de Gavarnie, part of a UNESCO World Heritage site. 👀

Looking for economists on BlueSky? Here are about 1500, also organized by field, country and region. ideas.repec.org/i/ebluesky.h... #RePEc #EconSky

Solid story questioning Elections Alberta's math when it threw out the Water Not Coal petition -- www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

one side's voters care about sexual assault and one side's voters don't and while I understand that "impossible to say whether this is good or bad" is the standard for the paper of record I think it's clear which side has the moral high ground here

I have only been to two MLB ballparks (Toronto and Seattle), but I think the San Fran park might be on the top of my list to visit. Just a gorgeous park

I am pro-batflip 99.8% of the time, but I think the 0.2% I'm against it is when you break up a no-hitter with a single in the 9th inning when you're down 10-0.

dave stieb lives another day