Most women would’ve guessed immediately. We may not have known the details, but “sexual misconduct of some kind” and “exploitation of women/girls” would’ve been my first answers. Nothing will really change until men recognize the darker predilections of other men as swiftly as their intended prey do

The time travelers knew, which is why they didn't show up at Hawking's party.

Ten years ago, If someone had asked me what Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Peter Attia, Donald Trump, Stephen Hawking, Larry Summers, and Bill Gates all have in common, I would not, in a million years, have guessed.

NEWS: Judge Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos. A thunderous rebuke against ICE’s violent campaign in Minnesota. Read the order below. Link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

something the research on genocide, ethnic cleansing, & communal violence shows us is that the processes tend to stop where local officials & local people refuse to participate in them. there may be obstacles to refusal—being threatened, being overpowered—but violence isn’t inevitable once it starts

when we say complex processes of repression & violence are highly contingent & dynamic, we mean they depend on active choices people make—nothing is inevitable. we know from lots of research that people can interrupt violent processes by making choices that reflect their values. this is an example.

Tesla's PE ratio is now sitting at 400.

Breaking - Jim Pattison Developments say the sale of their warehouse for use as a proposed ICE facility will not be proceeding

There will be two protests today against B.C.-based companies who are doing business with ICE. The first at Hootsuite's HQ in Mount Pleasant starting at 3:00; the second in front of the Pattison Group's office downtown.

Breaking on MS NOW: Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved in charging Don Lemon and the other journalists who covered the Minneapolis church protests. The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges, per @carolleonnig.bsky.social.

Incidentally this is how you can tell that the church protest was effective.

Plus récente folle trouvaille de Trump: si le Canada signe une entente avec la Chine, nous pourrions ne plus pouvoir jouer au hockey. 🇨🇦 Je vous laisse dormir là-dessus. 🥅

"It has also been established that Mr. Mann has a liberal/pro-sun centered solar system bias, which is further cause to disqualify him from contributing to manual texts that are expected to be unbiased when it comes to matters of sun position."

Polytechnique Montreal has removed beef from its cafeteria menus, and the right-wing influencers are having a cow. (sorry, had to) "War on meat" "woke" "virtue signaling" "they'll be eating crickets next" Boorish.

i continue to ask what people are still doing on the fascist white supremacy platform that generates child pornography

For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.

Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.  
That’s what we have to change.

I've been thinking about virtue ethics lately. Blaming immigrants (or queer, trans people, etc) is ignorant, hateful, and fails to take self-responsibility. Maybe I'm getting old and conservative. I just don't see how we fix a system without curiosity, care and agency.

1/27/2026 - Minneapolis ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone They did not have a warrant

Let's be clear about what he's actually saying: "We're going to dox American citizens who have not committed any actual crimes because they got in our way."

Oh, so the feds won't let local authorities investigate, and there's a real possibility this was a targeted hit.

Oh wow: AFGE (federal govt employee union) calls for the ouster of Noem and Miller. www.afge.org/publication/...

"You know Bovino leaving won't st..." Yes I fucking know. I shipped 800 whistles across the country today. I'll ship another 500 tomorrow. I will not stop until they are stopped and also I will take the fucking W when one of their top fash fucks gets the boot.

Carney's speech did NOT play well with PQ members, or separatists. Instead of emphasizing their differences with Carney's Liberals, the PQ has chosen to open the door to pipelines. That's a red line for me. Not just that I won't vote for you, but I'll fight you. No more pipelines!

I'll probably never convince my MAGA cousins to support a left-leaning agenda. The most plausible outcome is them no longer supporting their party - not giving money, not sharing talking points, not voting. It's not emotionally satisfying, but it may be politically sufficient to win.*

Tesla's share price is based on promises they can't ever deliver. Here's yet another example: "self-driving" cars that are each followed by a human.

One problem with advocating for censoring unwanted political content on TikTok is that you might get your way

So many conspiracy-addled Québécois.es are all so happy about Trump. Many got there because of Covid conspiracies, and are now fan of RFK's anti-vax agenda. An in-law was especially happy last fall about banning artificial food dyes. These people are marginal, but in the circles of power.

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

This morning was probably the biggest peak of electricity consumption in Québec for this winter. Comments on that publication on FB include a lot of hate for people who voluntarily reduced their peak draw, either heating before or after the record. Apparently saving money is for sheep?

That statement relies heavily on an implicit definition of "you."

They know each other because they're fucking neighbors. If they don't know you can get breathing protection at a hardware store, one of their neighbors knows it because their neighbor does woodworking or welding or shit like that, and their neighbor is like "oh yeah let's go to Lowes."

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

I said what I said

German soccer federation official says it’s time to consider World Cup boycott because US President Trump’s actions. “What were the justifications for the boycotts of the Olympic Games in the 1980s? By my reckoning the potential threat is greater now than it was then.” apnews.com/article/germ...

You know what robots most pet owners would want? A self-cleaning litter. Musk is talking his book, selling the bipedal robots he wants to build. It's also true in business. Most factories should invest in pumps or other cheap, low-level automation, not expensive and dangerous robots.

Minnesota is indistinguishable from Canada – Minnesotans speak the same language, share the same cultural traditions, endure the same weather as Canadians Canada could invite Minnesota to join us and become our 11th province, and enjoy NATO protection against foreign soldiers occupying its cities

“We have a nice little database, & now you’re considered domestic terrorists” says an ICE agent after photographing a civilian who was videotaping them. Posted today by Brian Allen on X. h/t @allenanalysis.bsky.social

You read things like this and you can only hope that when the time comes, if it comes, when it is your community's turn to be tested, that you acquit yourselves half as well.

We are now a shithole country. Do it, Europe

Belgium, Belarus, Tomato, Tomato

"Marketplace found property controls that indicate a radius of up to five kilometres within which no retailer is allowed to sell fresh food on the land"

Conning a 90 year old in assisted care is odious. Buying their house for ~10 cents on the dollar should be punished by more than $50,000 in fines. Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" is the claimed inspiration for the "Wealthy Firefighter" mentioned in this story. It's so fitting.

Whether kids these days are less susceptible to measles or polio is something that can be figured out without running a population-level experiment. That ethical atrocity is hiding an even worse truth: eugenics.

is it a good sign that 2 people you've invited to be on your "Board of Peace" can't join you in Switzerland because they would be arrested for war crimes?

P/E ratio is still ~300. A lot of people are deluded.

Why do Canadian politicians, agencies and the CBC/Radio Canada continue to post on that nazi sexploitation site? Grok AI generated about 3m sexualised images in 11 days, study finds www.theguardian.com/technology/2...