i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff

Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.

This is almost unreal incompetence. Here's how this area of inquiry was discussed in Monday's opinion. In short, this is the afterthought, the ~it couldn't be this, could it?~ moment in the opinion: "If this procedure did not take place, then the Court is in uncharted legal territory ..."

Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office. He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people. Release the transcript.

"misleading" it literally doesn't produce fentanyl! it's not misleading, it's a lie!

This has got a good beat to it.

🎵markwayne markwayne markwayne markwayyyyyne i'm begging of you please just use your brain🎵

Welcome to the loophole.

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

Sobering thread. LLMs are helping deluded people organize, expand, and spread their delusions. These are monstrously destructive products that no healthy society should condone, much less enable, subsidize, and partner with.

an easily-overlooked detail in this piece: Musk appears to be living out of a hotel suite these days, which strikes me as a subtle but important indicator of where he is in his personal Howard Hughes arc www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

Even states that aren’t in major crisis, such as the UK, just aren’t set up for dealing with this level of international chaos. It’s unprecedented in the modern era.

The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years. canceledpeople.org

This is when I truly appreciate humans. Human connections have the most profound impact on us.

“Quiet, Piggy” would be fitting for his tombstone.

And somehow Congress is okay with it.

"If we become inured to abuse of the notwithstanding clause, the rights of all Canadians will be at risk. ...It remains up to all of us to push back and make our voices heard—just as Albertans were brave enough to do 25 years ago": @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social. albertaviews.ca/stripping-aw...

Remember Bonnie Critchley? She ran against Pierre Poilievre in the federal election and now she says she is making the switch to provincial politics to the Alberta Party, citing Smith’s power grab and removal of rights from albertans. (Her video is too long to post here). vt.tiktok.com/ZSfLrHtut/

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I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.

Does he even own a suit?

Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...

More questions that reporters should ask UCP politicians: "Did you get into politics specifically to legislate children's genitals or is it a bonus?" "Do you think about children's genitals a lot when you're not at work, or do you only let yourself do it at the office?" "Can I see your hard drive?"

Any reporter who doesn't start every interview with any UCP politician with the question "why do you spend so much time obsessing about children's genitals?" is bad at their job.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: normal adults (who aren't pediatric medical professionals) don't spend ANY amount of time thinking about the genitals of children. They certainly don't bend over backwards to make policing children's genitals part of their job. This obsession is creepy.

“The president of the United States gave a speech yesterday...I’m going to quote a few sections of his remarks at great length, because if you have not listened to Trump speaking recently, the decline in his cognitive abilities is a bit shocking.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-n...

The UCP: the NOT WORTH STANDING government. Call the Premier’s office: 780-427-2251 (Edmonton) Toll free: 310-0000 (in Alberta)

Trump commuted the sentence of convicted scammer Eliyahi Weinstein in 2021. He's now going back to federal prison for 37 years after being convicted of a committing a new Ponzi scheme involving fraudulent promises of aid to war-torn Ukraine.

I knew that this day was coming. The UCP had been warning for months that they were going to take away the rights of transgender people (not just children but adults too). I thought I was prepared. But I am still very angry that it has happened.

Three recent national polls now have Trump in the 30s, and his disapproval in the 60s.... Reuters/Ipsos 38%-60% (-22) CNN/SRSS 37%-63% (-26) AP/NORC 36%-62% (-26) The thrill is gone, baby.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

"things happen"

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

Black people everywhere:

Clay Higgins, who pals around with a man guilty of incest, was the only member of the House to vote against releasing the Epstein files.

“Pierre Poilievre benefits immensely from establishment media’s inability to challenge conservative bullies. The man is an empty suit, devoid of meaningful ideas for the future of this country.”

Chat, is this good

When this happened in Trump’s first administration, Senate Republicans like Lindsay Graham rebuked him and threatened to hold up legislation. Senator Marco Rubio, now the nation’s top diplomat, called for severing US ties with Saudi Arabia over human rights. Press should ask them about it too.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

Eleventh Circuit throws out Trump's suit against CNN in a per curiam unpublished ruling. Meaning Trump's arguments were totally meritless, not even worthy of a published opinion. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Really ties all the threads together, this one

I keep saying this. . . amzn.to/4i8Q5Vt

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

This is the kind of political theatre Canadians are having to deal with. 😡

Why do journalists have no apparent solidarity whatsoever? This rancid POS jabs his finger in a woman reporter's face and calls her "piggy" and none of the other journalists there says a word?

OK, this made me laugh. Olivia, take some writing tips from your ex.

oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...

"By its own definition, the alt-right is no more. Because it’s no longer an alternative to the right. It is the right." From the archives:

I just feel like people should know about this as we move into some of the busiest travel weekends of the year, no reason. www.reuters.com/world/us-dro...