wonderful piece from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social that, among other things, makes abundantly clear that pete hegseth and the trump administration are engaged in a racist purge of black officers under the belief that being black and having "merit" are mutually exclusive.

The most expensive taxpayer funded nap #NBAFinals

I wrote about Trump being very old for my newsletter

one thing these exchanges capture perfectly is that the people in charge have absolutely no idea the type of people that top-tier investigative journalists are

"Unlike Mark Carney, I support Carneyism. Carneyism promises protection for Canadians, from monopolists and mad emperors, petty thieves and potholes. But Carney himself ardently opposes these policies" - @doctorow.pluralistic.net #Canada #economy pluralistic.net/2026/05/30/r...

"Only a small percentage of strong-mayor actions are directly aimed at housing creation, the (Toronto) Star found. Mayors, in interviews, differed sharply on the powers’ effectiveness when it comes to that goal" #Ontario #development www.thestar.com/news/gta/som...

"(The Ford gov't) has not bothered to offer up any kind of economic analysis, a business case, projections about potential benefits or ideas about how transit agencies should respond to operational edicts from the minister’s desk." - John Lorinc #toronto www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Silly, narcissistic men being stupendously, uh, arrogant. #Life #reality #thegiven https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob-magazine/article-live-long-and-prosper-behind-a-group-of-bay-street-titans-plus-one/

Commuting: Jam and harvest #algorithms #traffic #AI @CoryDoctorow www.changinglanesnewsletter.com?utm_source=n...

Is everything Trump undertakes simply another distraction from the horrific Epstein sex assault depravity show? Feels like it. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

Great piece by Matt Elliott. Speaking of Doug Ford, in 2014, as a city councillor, his attendance record was abysmal, missing 53% of the votes at council (in total, 2,319 votes out of 7,813). He claimed he was working 18-hour days. Sound familiar? 🤔 www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Hegseth is a war criminal, whose foolishness and arrogance killed 110 kids at a primary school in Minab plus countless non-combatant fishermen, all innocent until proven guilty. The Trump-Epstein Admin is a murderous, depraved abomination. 😀 #America #murder #IranWar ‌#cancerous

Choose memory muscle over dreaded nostalgia every time.

Don't miss @nicollewallace.bsky.social @ianbassin.bsky.social and @radiofreetom.bsky.social reacting to Trump's obsession with his $400 million ballroom from today's show! WATCH NOW ON YOUTUBE:

"Yesterday on Will Cain’s Fox News show, the VP delivered something that might be entirely new: a confirmation-denial. Vance called The Atlantic’s reporting false and then pivoted instantly to verifying that it was true." @dgraham.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

you could rip this thing down to the studs and still not be sure you got every recording device out of it and they're keeping the overstuffed couches lol

Firing Tulsi Gabbard would almost certainly be a net positive for U.S. national security. But her invisibility during America’s biggest war in 20 years raises another question: Does the United States even need a director of national intelligence? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"And Just Like That," Mark Carney's honeymoon came to a screeching halt. Free read. @althiaraj.bsky.social in @thestar.com #women #healthcare #Canada #socialservices #workingpeople www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

“In the coming AI future, Britain must not end up at the mercy of US tech giants Trump is volatile, capricious & unreasonable but he belongs to the old world of analogue power. What comes next will be harder to manage” #NoToPalantir Link to EU alternatives follows www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

France plans to ditch all fossil fuels by 2050. “France announced a ‘first of its kind’ plan to phase out coal by 2030, oil by 2045 & gas by 2050…The roadmap was published as dozens of nations gather for the first-ever international talks on how to transition away from planet-heating fossil fuels.”

Australia is proposing to tax Meta, Google and TikTok a proportion of their revenue to pay for news reporters. The government intends to introduce the draft legislation to Parliament by July. n.pr/4eOMTi3

Oh, I completely agree. American lawmakers total regulatory inaction on big tech surveillance has played a key role in bringing us to this depressing place of learned helplessness about privacy.

Something shocking and out of the ordinary is happening in the UK. While in most comparable countries, healthy life expectancy is rising, here it is plunging steeply. Q. So what marks us out? A. 47 years of extreme neoliberalism, culminating in austerity. www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

Some Republicans are rallying behind laws that would mandate posting the Ten Commandments in public-school classrooms and common areas, but doing so would be both unconstitutional and counterproductive, Elizabeth Bruenig argues:

Thought for this last Sunday in April: Today, if you had a dollar for every person in the world who thought, "Oh, they missed, again," well, you'd be the wealthiest person in the world. 😉 #sundayvibes

Do the world - and democracy - a favour tonight and tomorrow: Don't post or share anything about Trump. Thank you for your attention. #TrumpEpstein #Butler #MAGAMorons #Canada #cdnmedia

"Trump is relying on the wonky moral arithmetic that produces the gamer’s dilemma, plus the racial supremacy that drives all Western foreign policy: the suspicion that he abused a white girl is a threat to his legitimacy in a way that the documented obliteration of a school of brown girls is not."

"Despite the new home industry seeing a boost in sales compared to last year, last month was the second worst March on record for sales of new homes in the GTA" - @clarriefeinstein.bsky.social in @thestar.com Star #Canada #newcomers #realestate #Toronto www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Harassing journalists is a Ford Family & Friends specialty. When did you first realize that Doug Ford and the MPPs of the @ontariopcparty.bsky.social are essentially bad people? #Ontario #journalists @ddale8.bsky.social #corruption #secrets #lies #skillsdevelopment x.com/ColinDMello/...

Interesting piece by Joshua Gonzales on how to spot lazy, talentless writers who resort to "slanguage," or as it's more commonly known, AI slop. If you can't think, don't write. You're cheating yourself and readers. #AIscams #writers #journalism theconversation.com/slanguage-wh...

The @theatlantic.com's Kash Patel story reads like an "inside job." The Trump Admin wants Patel gone, and this lawsuit ain't going to save him from being "kashiered." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

So often, a "brand" is a scheme, a false construction, an illusion, a manipulation, a masquerade. Many Ontarians (particularly Torontonians) and journalists know what the "real" Doug Ford is and yet they're seduced by the "brand." Why? #gravyplane www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

"Mayday! Mayday! The Doug Ford Gravy Plane is coming in hard, coming in hard!" #DougFord #Ontario #embarrassing www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

"I’m open to having a conversation with anybody, but it’s a conversation. It’s what does the opportunity look like? I never say never" - Chris Pronger to The Globe's Paul Attfield #MapleLeafs #NHL #StanleyCup www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hocke...

Doug Ford, defender of the Rich and Powerful, always reveals himself. You just have to listen and observe. #gougers #grifters #greedy #screwtheneedy #Ontario

"Having bolstered the Liberals’ ranks with defectors from rival parties, (Carney has) given Canada something it could really use right now: a cross-partisan amalgam of politicians who want to get big things done" - Justin Ling www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

"The Iranian regime is indeed deplorable, but its brutality is not an excuse for the U.S. to commit war crimes against an already oppressed population" - Stephen Bede Scharper #PapaLeone #MAGADepravity #TrumpEpstein www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Seriously? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/s...

No. 42: "When Adam Jones called baseball a “white man’s sport” in 2016, he was called a racist. But he wasn’t talking about who can play it, but about who the system is built to include, support, and sustain" #BlueJays #Toronto #MLB www.theroot.com/jackie-robin...

"Orban’s populist, polarizing politics also paved the way for Doug Ford’s rise to power as premier in 2018, and his brother Rob’s ascent to the mayoralty in 2010" - @reggcohn.bsky.social in @thestar.com #Ontario #corruption #antidemocratic #waterfront #education www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

"While recent population decreases, record-high apartment completions and an oversupply of condos in certain markets has contributed to this trend, economic stress is also emerging as a key factor" #renting #canada #newcomers #economy #carney rentals.ca/blog/economi...

Explain to me how this will improve under a Mark Carney Liberal majority government? 🤔 #canada #inequity #income #jobs #wages www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Oh.

Pierre Poilievre’s Personal Assistant Explains Why Everyone Is Leaving Him youtu.be/PhpH36ZZX1I

Fuuuuuuck me, they're bringing up Epstein so that the news will talk about something other than Trump's insane war. And that thing is: the Epstein Files!

The fuck is this shit? What is she getting out ahead of?

The Trump administration is aiming its counterterrorism machine at far-left groups like antifa, pushing allies to recognize their “political terrorism,” despite offering little evidence that the groups present a dire threat to U.S. citizens. nyti.ms/4snvwYQ

Genuinely mystified why Melania would be trying to drag the nation's attention back to the Epstein files and the rumor that he introduced Trump to her... but the war in Iran *is* going really bad!

Small point, but if you’re going to give a brief statement about the “trivial” nature of your correspondence with the orchestrator of a notorious pedophile ring, you might want to practice how to pronounce the word “trivial.”