"It's gauche and uncivil to accurately describe me" is a core view of today's fascists

Mainstream political media is not equipped to communicate the basic realities of life to people whatsoever because it prioritizes power's interpretations of reality over verifiable facts.

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I mean I guess there’d be a sort of poetic justice to it if Trump’s grip upon the consciousness of Americans was broken by a television host.

Represent!

To be clear the part of this strategy that really backfired was not throwing the book at Trump after he tried to overturn the election

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Bluejay Blue.

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

idk if this will be useful to anyone at this moment, but just fyi: "lonely tylenol" is a palindrome

Steve Silberman is not here to shout it — so it’s up to all of us. Vaccines don’t cause autism. Neither does Tylenol. (I mean seriously WTF?!?!) The “epidemic” of autism is the result of increased testing, broader definitions, and raised awareness. LOUDER.

Guess how old these MAGA men are?

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

cartoonists handing the same 5 dollar bill around the Small Press Expo but it's the entire economy somehow

"We're going to destroy access to useful, factual information and use a water-destroying electricity hog that screws up all the time." people: that sounds bad. why? "It'll make a ton of money for my underground bunker once I've drained all you rubes dry" people: oh. can I write a novel with it?

This. Vaccines and paracetamol do not cause autism, but also autism is not something that should be eliminated, any more than queerness or lefthandedness or any other harmless minority characteristic.

Miller needs to get sent to The Hague

Look, if the targets for EVs made in Canada need to be scrapped, the least we can do is allow EVs from foreign manufacturers into the country. Isn't that how the market is meant to stimulate competition and innovation?

It's me again with another update 😜 #Ontario #wastewater graph updated with September 7 data - Kingston, London, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario - Also updated: BC, MB, NB, NS, QC, SK, YT wwater.ca Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/

So grateful for what Andrew does!!

Very good piece by @semajmaharg.bsky.social on why centrism is inimical to liberalism.

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When I already took the trash out and did the grocery shopping and my wife asks me to go back out because we're out of dog food

I mean, honestly, all of the anti-corruption examples cited are part of the left/progressive agenda but if the reframe is what it takes, I’m all for it.

Yesterday I took a fantastic architecture boat tour organized by Toronto Society of Architects. More to come - see their listings & sign up. torontosocietyofarchitects.ca/events/

Both-sidesism consistently confuses having a comeback with having an answer

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

Look at that, the pervert who made his fortune by stealing and being a pervert continues being a pervert.

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

this exists it is called thinking

Hey, but you'll be able to get a swab at your local Shoppers Drug Mart! #firedoug #intothemoon #onpoli

Seeing a lot of takes on par with "Was the Death Star such a bad thing, at least all those people had jobs"

To laugh or to cry?

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great thread and great use of 'coagulate' which is such a wonderful oozy word

kind of incredible...what masks, distancing and school closures did to influenza activity early in the pandemic. Dashed line is pandemic onset in Ontario. Red=flu B, blue = flu A. Masking and closures are not sustainable population level strategies, but cleaning indoor air (same result) is.

Mask mandates had an incredible impact on covid transmission too. Inconvenient narrative, I know, but facts are stubborn things. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

data from FluWatch. health-infobase.canada.ca/respiratory-...

Oh!

There was no vote on this, what are we doing here

FUCK. YES. #cdnpoli

Co-sign!

There is not a shred of evidence that vaccines are harmful for children, but I’m relatively sure the science is settled about measles.

Well, they sometimes get it right. #onpoli

Eavesdropping on a woman rn who’s complaining that she wants to cancel Disney+ but her kids will go apeshit without Bluey and it’s taking every fiber of my being not to interrupt and ask if she’s heard the good news about our lord and savior Blu-Ray

From Feb 4th 1939

Friend texted me this. Anonymous sources, etc. But, if true, this is your reminder that the politics of civility have failed. You need to be a screaming asshole. Being a screaming asshole isn't violence. It is the only language these Fascism Babies understand

A cybertruck for your face