The reflecting pool is actually a great metaphor for tough civic problems that evade easy fixes, the risks of ignoring experts, and the allure and hazards of contracting out a fix and calling it a day.

If he were a Columbia student and said this his citizenship would be revoked

Canada lets rapists and reality tv stars with massive legal issues and links to radicals who try to overthrow democracy enter our country. (All of that is just Donald Trump) But a soccer player is too dangerous. Ivory Coast’s Elye Wahi denied entry to Canada - www.cp24.com/news/sports/...

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Every privacy professional in Canada right now:

If you have the time I would like to hear your thoughts on this issue: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Much of it jives with what I've read. But I might include two major sections/groupings. 1. Men suck 2. ⁠capitalism My bigger issue is that people who are concerned about this issue are...

Mamdani: "Solidarity with a government that is committing genocide is a very different thing than a question of solidarity with people of a specific faith. I'm proud to be a mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in this country."

I had missed that Jared Polis vetoed Colorado legislation that would have created a state civil cause of action against federal immigration enforcement coloradonewsline.com/2026/06/04/p...

Did anyone bother to ask a follow up? Like, um, what specifically he thinks was ‘worth it’? Ask for specifics. Journalism has many reasons for its decline, but not being able to ask follow ups to brazen/stupid statements like this is right up there.

What a craven embarrassment. Unforgivable.

america is an ideal worth fighting for

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-fascist German Lutheran pastor who opposed Hitler and the Nazi Party so effectively that they murdered him in 1945. He is only a bad guy if you literally spend all your time on far-right, neo-Nazi websites and have pickled your brain in fascist group chats.

And if these actors are located outside of Canada, this would potentially be among the most significant instances of foreign interference to date

Uh, yes, because it's literally in The Emoluments Clause of the Constitution of the United States of America.

SNAP helped 42 million people afford groceries each month in 2024. They each got about $6 a day. Take a look at this economy. Does it really make sense that we just took $6 a day away from 3.5 million people to give billionaires more tax breaks?

“Brad Paisley, a Grammy Award-winning American country music singer and songwriter, urged his followers to sign a petition to stop the construction of a 69,000-square-foot data center that would be 50 yards from the Nashville Zoo, which he called “an absolute nightmare scenario”

no big deal, just elon musk saying he would've killed journalists at @theverge.com if he was, in fact, a killer

I know the focus in Maine has been on Other Things but let us all remind ourselves that Susan Collins is awful and needs to go

People laughed when Trump said the war would only end with unconditional surrender but he's a man of his word and he has now surrendered unconditionally

What’s wrong with the local comprehensive? If state schools are good enough for everyone else, why not the future king? Meanwhile, we’re expected to keep footing the bill. One rule for them. Another for us. Abolish the monarchy.

truly in awe of israeli political leadership that killed the JCPOA for this. fucking played yourself hall of fame shit.

My take away might be a bit different. I see this as a sign of how Canada can’t make policy right now and have to be concerned what an evil, deranged man will do if we take action to conduct our affairs for our own benefit. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Maybe Ds need to enact a ‘Billionaire Fee’ instead of a Wealth Tax?

anyway, you should read this important piece about how elon is, in fact, a killer:

@paulisci.bsky.social Headline of the year candidate for June when you do the end of the year survey:

The era of American handshake dominance is over

Anti abortion activists said “leaving abortion to the states” would alleviate partisan rancor and get the justices out of the “abortion umpire business.” Now they’re demanding the courts force pro choice states to help enforce abortion bans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Every so often, some washed up sitcom dude do this sort of thing where they pretend that they made some truly edgy and controversial comedy that couldn't be made today, and it's just like... you're saying this about THE OFFICE?

Mitch McConnell will receive a level of medical care he has spent his entire career preventing other Americans from having

joe rogan is what happens when you tell a sausage it can grow up to be anything it wants and give it a microphone

I could find a woman or two or three in this crowd shot

go ahead, keep posting the photo. his tie will only get shorter

It sucks for any player on any team to go out of their way to spit on a whole group of people but to do it in San Francisco of all places. Shame the Giants are a rudderless ship because all of those pitchers should be reprimanded and sent for a reeducation

Last time the Knicks were NBA champions was the year the DOJ charged Fred & Donald Trump with housing discrimination based on race.

Air conditioning is also a help in the fight against mosquito-borne diseases, which I never see discussed outside of Florida where it's considered one of the factors that's keeping dengue from becoming endemic.

Fun fact: for the 1994 tournament the US wanted FIFA to change football into a game of 4 quarters. Right now Germany and Curacao is being played in Houston in a closed dome and the temperature is 20. Yet still: hydration breaks. Infantino has caved, as they will be needed for the next 2

Older, low-education, white voters. That’s the source of the problem. Not Muslims. Not immigrants. Old, bigoted, ignorant, white people. My suggestion is the UK should deport that group. Things might actually get better.

daaaamn london

THANK you, KTLA

Remembering a multi-day conservative freakout because Lizzo briefly played a founding father’s flute

Congratulations to Stephen Maher on his silver win in the prestigious Online Media category for his Michener Foundation-supported election series on separatist movements in Canada, illustrated by Konnor Killoran’s amazing photos. Ricochet’s second win of the evening!

Watching everything be better without you from Albania:

HISTORY.

The only game the Knicks lost in the playoffs was the one Donald Trump forced himself on at MSG.

"Just miles from your doorstep, hundreds of men are given weapons and trained to kill. The government calls it the Army, but a more alarmist name would be...The Killbot Factory" Kent B.

"Girls will grow up thinking that they can never be anything more than vacuous ninnies, whose only goal is to look pretty, land a rich husband, and spend all day on the phone with their equally vacuous friends, talking about how damn terrific it is to look pretty and have a rich husband!" -- Lisa S.

America is broken.

Kevin can get on rolls. And he’s on one now. Worth checking the thread.

MAID announcements are coming up. I was searching for an article and came across this NANOS survey. Focus seems to be on the support at 57%. Maybe the 37% is a better place to focus. About 40% of Canadians want to see people suffer. Perhaps to suffer for the rest of their lives.

So is everybody else! They ain’t special!