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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

Teams that Trey Yesavage has beaten in professional baseball this year: - Fort Myers Mighty Mussels - Clearwater Threshers - Tri-City Dust Devils - Hartford Yard Goats - the New York Yankees in the MLB Postseason

Bluesky engineers when their website is successful

They say the Mary Brown’s Batter’s Box serves three, but it lasted me four whole innings before I finished it.

If Vladdy is the one to turn on the afterburners this October, we’re gonna take the whole thing. Crazy spark to start off game one. #jays #mlbplayoffs

Wow, the new Stittsville train station looks gorgeous!

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

ICE is one of the most well funded military force on the planet, entirely used internally on it’s own citizens, and completely loyal to a far right fascist dictator. if democratic politicians are not on board with abolishing ICE, they must be replaced

lol if this is going to be your response to canceling on the Riyadh Comedy Festival, you may as well just have gone through with it

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

Insanely bogus research, and it doesn’t even centre the more important headline: 20/year right-wing attacks vs 3/year left-wing attacks.

one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life

Millennials are behind the inflation of marathon race medal sizes

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides

This couldn’t be appealing to any more of my interests if it interviewed my friends and family to design it.

Here's a post from an Air Canada flight attendant. - $35k salary - Averages 35 hours/month UNPAID LABOUR. 5 entire workdays. Imagine if one week of your 9-5 job every month was unpaid. - While in a very stressful and physical job "Grotesquely overpaid"? Motherfucker. This is a poverty salary.

you rarely encounter a perfect intro..........but when you do

I want so much more of this kind of thing, so core to the potential virtue of sport

When my father died I wrote his obituary, the idea of letting ChatGPT take care of that for me would have been an insult to him and the life he lived

Midseason trade deadline idea: trading a fan gimmick night to another team

Thanks to the Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres for synthesizing exactly why the Hockey Canada trial set EM up to fail.

Fascinating survey data on the missing Biden voters by Lake Research. The voters who sat out in '24 weren't looking for a centrist or turned off by trans rights. They want a genuine economic populist agenda: take on corporate greed, lower costs, and make the wealthy pay their fair share.

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

Carney is defunding trains and public broadcasting, what on earth makes you think that he is going to fund the creation of public digital tools? Go build the MVPs now and try and get ready in time for the next government, it won’t be this one that turns the corner.

This is so goddamn stupid. At least with Poilievre there would have been resistance from the Liberals on shit like this.

Is this surprising? Eric Adams also runs his mayorship as a criminal enterprise, & while the NYTimes breathlessly worries about free buses, New Yorkers have to pay $200-$300M each year to settle lawsuits against NYPD, which are almost all for police brutality, on top of their $11 billion/year budget

if being part of the union does not entitle you to any of the benefits of the union, we do not, in any real sense, have a union

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

We used to live in a real country.

🧵 I might have found Ottawa's own "Taco John's" example from @strongtowns.org Both highlighted areas have: ✅ Similar size ✅ Same zoning (TM - Traditional Mainstreet) ✅ Same tax classification (C8 - Small Business) Bonus, it includes a taco joint 🌮. @strongtownsottawa.ca #dothemath

David Hogg is cooking lately

Part of Kent Street is up for renewal, and the City of Ottawa is refusing to bury the power lines, saying it’s too expensive. Just Kent Street brings in as much property taxes as the entire West Carleton-March Ward. Our city needs to do a better job of rewarding financially productive communities.

Today it took 20 minutes to get down Elgin and another 50 to get to Bells Corners by car. A balanced approach to our transportation network gets us all nowhere fast. We need to shift our investments to give people who want to get out of cars a real choice. Show me who is happy moving around Ottawa.

You know what this shows me? That ‘back in the day’, people didn’t bother with feasibility studies and analysis. They said “if we build it, they will come”, and they TRIED things.

Canada is shooting itself in the foot because of racism and the refusal to build massive amounts of public housing instead of trying to develop a magical subsidy and regulatory regime that will finally prompt the private market to provide properly affordable housing.

A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it. Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT FROG.” He has already made at least one run on the stove. A man stirs the pot with a large stick. “It’s a metaphor,” he says.

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

One of the most “real American dream” stories I’ve ever seen

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It’s gonna be so crazy when Zohran wins the primary, but then all the billionaires come out for either confirmed desperate crook Eric Adams or Republican vigilante Curtis Sliwa and we have a genuine race until November…

Feckless neoliberalism only sets up stronger fascism. Carney might have delayed the right-wing wave, but he’s going to make it worse by ceding every inch of ground to them along the way to becoming a one-term PM.

Serious question: How can the Canadian Press continue allowing Postmedia to use its wire stories after making unauthorized changes to stories that run under its journalists bylines like this?

i’m turning off replies and quotes to this post out of a firm belief that no one should ever say or do anything except for me

Getting unnecessarily invested in the NYC mayoral race instead of thinking too hard about the border-security/fascist power grab in my own backyard ~*~just~Canada~things~*~